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Tag: Wake Up
This year, the South Georgia Film Festival has put together a set of 24 trading cards featuring films from this and previous year’s festival.
This year’s set includes posters from all five of our feature films (Cruel Hearts, Down and Yonder, Wake Up, How They Got Over, My Life With Rosie), 5 films from previous years (19 Years, DayDreamer,The Butcher, Rodents of Unusual Size, and All Skate, Everybody Skate), two checklist cards with our sponsors, and 11 posters of this year’s festival (Space Girls, Magic Play, Peggy, AV Club, An Island, Shifted, Singing Out, Patrick, A Son Inherit, and Portrait of a Superhero).
Random cards will be given out at the Georgia Beer Company event to those in attendance. To get the complete set, you’ll have to get them here or at the festival.
February 22, 2019 February 23, 2019 19 Years, A Son Inherit, All Skate Everybody Skate, An Island, AV Club, Butcher, Cruel Hearts, Daydreamer, Down and Yonder, How They Got Over, Magic Play, My Life With Rosie, Patrick, Peggy, Portrait of a Superhero, Rodents of Unusual Size, SHIFTED, Singing Out, Space Girls, Wake UpLeave a comment
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MUBI Sponsors Filmmaker Panel at
VALDOSTA – Movie streaming service MUBI is sponsoring a panel of visiting filmmakers at this year’s South Georgia Film Festival. Supporting visiting filmmakers to attend this year, MUBI will also be providing prizes for winning filmmakers all the categories – including Google Chromecasts. The filmmaker panel will take place Saturday March 2 at 5:30 pm in the Valdosta State University Student Union Conference Rooms.
Screening over 100 films this year, the South Georgia Film Festival has attracted numerous filmmakers to Valdosta. The festival includes the Georgia premiere of “My Life With Rosie,” about the preservation of Rosie Park’s legacy, with filmmaker Dr. Angela Williamson. Expanding to include more feature films, all of whom will have someone in attendance. Features films this year include “Cruel Hearts,” a thriller starring Melora Hardin of “The Office;” “How They Got Over,” a documentary about blues musicians in the South; “Wake Up,” a horror film by Tallahassee filmmaker Joe Nowland, and “Down and Yonder,” a coming-of-age film by Georgia filmmaker Christopher Flippo.
MUBI, auteur film streaming services, hosts a new film every day which expires within thirty days. The service, partially funded by subscriptions and the European Union, is available on computers, smart TV’s and gaming systems.
Along with Nowland and Flippo, the panel is expected to include visiting filmmakers Patrick Peacock with “Forever” and Savannah Treena with “The Colored Girls’ Restroom.” Depending time and availability, the panel could include others of the more than 40 visiting filmmakers expected at this year’s festival.
The South Georgia Film Festival kicks off Friday March 1, with a day full of screenings and panels, and concludes with opening night Kickoff at Georgia Beer Company. The festival continues with short and features films on Saturday and Sunday, along with panels with visiting filmmakers and media professionals. Sunday concludes with an awards ceremony at 1 pm and the Georgia premiere of WAKE UP at 3:30 pm in the Valdosta State University Student Union Theater. For more information on tickets, visit SouthGeorgiaFilm.com
The movie streaming service MUBI uses a curation model, limiting their selection at any one time to thirty films. Unlike the algorithms of other platforms, MUBI presents a collection of arthouse and independent films choosing specifically for its community. Over the past ten years, the service has developed a series of licensing deals from major Hollywood studios and independent filmmakers. For $8.99 a month, MUBI provides the cinema from around the world without all the clutter.
The South Georgia Film Festival received over 450 submissions worldwide in 2018. This year’s festival will include feature and short films over three days at two campus locations. Along with screenings from national and international filmmakers, the festival again will be having high school and college filmmakers competing for scholarships to Valdosta State University, thanks to the support of the University Admissions Office.
Joe Nowland, Director of WAKE UP
Pat Peacock, director of FOREVER
Savannah Treena, director of The Colored Girls Bathroom
Christopher Flippo, director of DOWN & YONDER
February 19, 2019 February 18, 2019 Christopher Flippo, Down & Yonder, Forever, Joe Nowland, panel, Pat Peacock, Savannah Treena, South Georgia Film Festival, The Colored Girls Bathroom, Wake UpLeave a comment
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Lorelei Linklater | Biography
Posted On: 05 Jul, 2014
$3 Million dollar
5 ft 4 inch (163 cm)
To conform to the mode of life of her gifted and great father named Richard Linklater. She opened her beautiful, innocent and creative eyes as a daughter in the Linklater family on 29 may 1994 in San Miguel De Allende, Guanajuato Mexico. She is hundred percent going to her father. She is only one daughter of Richard Linklater and her good name is Lorelei Linklater. She is a talented actress as She has been entertaining her fans by appearing in various movies, She appeared as young girl playing paper game in 2001 in’ walking life’, played as Jane in ‘The substitute’ and appeared in ‘Boyhood’, where she played as Samantha. Beautiful, Lorelei is rapidly becoming one of the most viewed young actresses in the Hollywood.
Boyhood is the big project, it runs from 2002 to 2014 where she has played since 2002 and still it is being run. She used to be a very creative kid in her small days. You cannot believe that, she held her own created language during the day and she has proved this by speaking it in Boyhood, where she speaks the fictional language to annoy her brother in episode two.
Here are so many interesting things about her! Her age is given as 20 years old. Her height is 163 cm, which is about 5 feet and 4 inches tall. Multi-colored hair, Lorelei has distinctive feature than other celebrities. Her lips are one of the good side of her as it helps her to look more beautiful, hot and sexy. She has perfect body measurements, which are 34-26-32. Whereas, her horoscope is Gemini and feet size is 8. Not merely this, She has admirable knowledge in painting as she is a very talented painter. Hazel eyes color, Lorelei weight is about 49.9 kg. Her full name is Lorelei Grace Linklater. She is called by many names. Her calling names are Lola Daydream, Jane Wells, Sam Evans, Lola Death Wish and Tourmaline Weird. As she is an actress, she obviously likes movies. Her one of the best movie name is Synecdoche, New York and favorite band is Bright eyes.
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Gabrielle Revlock presents
Show No Show
$20* General Admission Tickets & $100* VIP Tickets
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Dancer/Choreographer Gabrielle Revlock and Russia-based Aleksandr Frolov present the New York City premiere of their acclaimed 2016 work, Show No Show.
Described by Frolov as “a truth or dare using a peach, a megaphone, two chairs, and a tablecloth,” Show No Show charts the process of two people getting to know each other for the first time. Unpredictable and entrancing, they use each other and the space to mine the complexities of opening oneself up to another, laying bare the hilarious, maddening, and heartbreaking feelings that come with it.
Lighting Design: Jonathan Cottle
Music: Morris Albert “Feelings”; Sigur Ros “Fjogur piano”
*Does not include $2 Theater Restoration Fee.
*VIP tickets include reserved seating (your name on the chair!) and unlimited drinks.
Revlock and Frolov met during a three-week residency at Omi International Arts Center in August of 2014 where they began developing this work. With additional residency support from Culture Mill and American Dance Festival it premiered in 2016 at FringeArts in Philadelphia, PA to sold out audiences and positive press. “Watching Show No Show at FringeArts is a pleasure,” wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer. ThinkingDance noted, “This final scene is all the more haunting because we want to see these two dancers on stage together.” A follow up performance occurred in April 2016 at Omi International Arts Center, as part of the center’s 25th anniversary celebration. In Russia the work was presented at Na Grani Festival of Contemporary Dance and Small Format Contemporary Dance Festival.
The title, Show No Show, came from Frolov and as Revlock puts it, “gets at the question ‘are we performing or are we not performing? If we are performing is it for the audience or for each other?” It also points to the disparate perspectives the two performers have within the piece, Revlock possessing a more outward focus, even checking in with the audience at points, and Frolov displaying little awareness of his performer status. As Revlock describes it, the audience will be flies on the wall, in close proximity but non-intrusive.
Revlock is a 2018-19 Anchor Partner with The Flea. Anchor Partners are a select group of seven emerging companies who receive subsidized rental rates, consistent access to one or more of The Flea’s spaces, plus tech, marketing, and producing support.
ABOUT GABRIELLE REVLOCK
Gabrielle Revlock is a dance-maker working out of Philadelphia and New York. She is known for her work with the hoop and her “inventive,” “rambunctious,” and “mesmerizing” choreography. Presenters include American Dance Festival, JACK, Gibney Dance Center, FringeArts, Joyce SoHo, and Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Internationally she has performed in Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Hungary and Russia. Her work has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Independence Foundation, a LAB Fellowship through FringeArts, PA Council on the Arts, SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance, Puffin Foundation and the US Department of State. In 2011 she won a finalist prize at The A.W.A.R.D. Show. Choreographic residencies include Chez Bushwick, Elizabeth Streb’s GO!, LiftOff, Dance Omi, Culture Mill in cooperation with American Dance Festival and New York Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks. As a dancer, she has performed for Lucinda Childs, Leah Stein, Jumatatu Poe, Susan Rethorst, Christopher Williams, Bill Young, Jody Oberfelder, and is a company member with Jane Comfort and Company. Revlock has taught at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, American Dance Festival, Barnes Foundation, Abrons Arts Center, and The Philadelphia School among others. Interested in bridging experimentation and populism, she created the online video “So You Think You Can’t Understand Contemporary Dance?,” a two-minute conversation with her favorite five-year-old. Gabrielle holds a BA in Art History from Vassar College. GabrielleRevlock.com
ABOUT ALEKSANDR FROLOV
Aleksandr Frolov is a contemporary dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Yekaterinburg, Russia. His 20+ works have been presented throughout Russia and he is frequently commissioned to create dances for other companies including the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre. For the 2017-18 season he is the resident choreographer at the Chamber Theater in Yekaterinburg. His work has been presented in Russia at festivals including Tsekh (Moscow), Open Look (St. Petersburg), Art Forum (Krasnoyarsk),and Diversia (Kostroma). Internationally he has toured to France, Taiwan, Finland, and the USA. Residencies include Omi International Arts Center and the International Choreographers Residency at American Dance Festival. His work has received numerous prizes including Winner of IX All-Russia Festival of Modern Dance, Grand Prix winner at the VIII All-Russia Festival of Modern Dance, and a special jury prize from the regional theatrical award “Bravo” in 2011 for his work Chocolate. In 2013 he was a finalist in the program “Workshop of Modern Choreography” for the Platform Project in Moscow. In 2015 and 2016 he was nominated for a “Bravo” in the category Contemporary Dance / The Best Performance. Since 2016 his work has been nominated for a Golden Mask, the most prestigious award for performance in Russia. In 2016 for My love / My Life and in 2017 for Essence. For the 2017 season the Golden Mask has also honored him with a nomination for Best Male Dancer. www.dancezonka.com
Thursday, May 24 – Post Performance activity with writer, performer, Russian translator, and clown Alexandra Tatarsky.
Friday, May 25 – The New York City Russian Language Meetup Group
Click Here to read an interview with Gabrielle and Sasha.
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McDonald’s tax relocation: Brexit Britain must not become an offshore tax haven, warn Labour MEPs
December 9, 2016 TheresaEPLP, Press releases, updates
McDonalds yesterday announced plans to switch its non-US tax base to the UK in a move that could become an early warning sign of the UK becoming an offshore tax haven from the EU post-Brexit, Labour MEPs have warned.
The European Commission is currently investigating the tax practices of McDonalds in Luxembourg after it was alleged they avoided more than €1 billion in tax between 2009 and 2013, while the UK government has recently pledged to have the lowest corporate tax rate in the G20, meaning the rate could drop as low as 15 per cent if President-elect Donald Trump fulfils his own pledge to lower the US tax rate to 15%.
Anneliese Dodds MEP, Labour’s European Parliament spokesperson on taxation, said:
“If McDonalds are relocating their tax base to the UK in order to comply fully with the UK’s 20 per cent corporation tax rate, then we fully welcome their positive move. However, if this is speculation on the UK becoming a tax haven after Brexit, then we must ensure the government publishes any sweetheart tax deal agreed now or in the future.
“We have already seen the UK government continue its drive to levy the lowest possible corporation tax rate in a race to the bottom that shifts the tax burden onto those who can least afford it.
“We should be forcing companies like McDonalds to pay the full and fair tax rate, not legitimising their tax avoidance by lowering the rate to near 0%.
“This is at the same time as the government has failed to tackle burdens like high business rates, which are threatening many businesses’ very viability – unlike corporation tax which applies only to profits.”
Ms Dodds added:
“Average corporation tax rates in Europe have halved since the 1980s and that trend is continuing with no sign of stopping. The UK government must reaffirm its commitment to its European partners that it will continue to work with them on fighting tax evasion and avoidance after Brexit.
“Tax avoidance has no border and it is impossible for the UK to tackle it alone.”
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Federer, Thiem to Practice Together in Preparation for Monte Carlo
Just a quick update about something interesting that has nothing to do with Miami. As you can see Roger invited Dominic Thiem, who I have raved about and called the real ‘baby Fed’ of late, for a practice camp on clay leading up to Monte Carlo. I also posted a video of them practicing at Wimbledon a couple of posts ago so this won’t be the first time. It seems Roger has taken a liking to the kid which is not surprising to me. He is very respectful and hard working like Roger himself. They both have great attitudes toward the game. Thiem is also a player who hits with loads of top spin which makes him a good player to train with on clay for Roger who have historically struggled with Nadal’s huge topspin.
From Thiem’s viewpoint he is skipping the tournament he would have played in Casablanca to train with the GOAT. That shows you he has his priorities right. Even though there is points and prize money available in Casablanca it is clearly better in the long run to go on a training camp with the GOAT. The experience and advice Thiem will get from the training camp is invaluable. Who knows when Roger retires he may even coach Thiem. I wonder how Dimitrov feels about this development. He would probably give up Sharapova to have a one week training camp with the GOAT, which in itself would be the greatest thing he could do for his tennis. But Thiem is showing more promise and like I said his top spin shots makes him a better candidate for the clay.
The three(sportsmanship) musketeers
I am already looking very much forward to see how Roger and Dominic both fare in Monte Carlo, but of course today is the final in Miami. And as expected it will be another Djokoray final. It is not the most exciting match up in the world but I enjoyed the Australian Open final and I’m looking forward to the Miami final too. Djokovic has won their last six meetings so of course he is the favorite, but you can’t underestimate Murray who has beaten Djokovic in two slam finals. But first back to the semis where Djokovic schooled Isner 7-6(3), 6-2. The first set was close as the scoreline suggests but then Djokovic was basically toying with Isner in the second set. Isner was playing at a very high level in the first set but once Djokovic weathered the storm Isner couldn’t keep that level up.
Djokovic is still the best player in the world by quite a margin and should he win the title today against Murray he will have reached another big milestone by winning a record third Indian Wells/Miami double. He is already the best slow hard court player in history as far as I’m concerned but that would really lock it up. This week he has once again shown how unplayable he is on slow hard with the victories over Klizan, Dolgopolov, and Isner. Isner himself defeated a whole generation of top players in Dimitrov, Raonic, and Nishikori, but couldn’t take a set off Djokovic. Murray is a better player than anyone Djokovic faced so far but the level Dolgopolov and Isner showed may be better than anything Murray is capable of.
Ps. I forgot to mention that Djokovic out aced Isner 10-9 which is extraordinary in itself. Djokovic’s serve is much improved and is now a serious weapon. As if he wasn’t already good enough.
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Federer has invited Krygios before. Goffin as well. And he has hit quite a few times with Dimitrov. Looks like he wants to be a mentor to all the young guns out there !!
Ru-an Reply:
April 5th, 2015 at 12:05 pm
Right but Dimugtrov is beyond mentoring it seems. As far as becoming a really top player. So is Goffin.
Charlie Reply:
Yeah the most important thing for any young player is mentality. Federer had it, taking out Sampras at WB in 2001 at just 19, Rafa had it taking out Fed in Miami in 2004, and Novak had it winning the 2008 AO beating Fed. Even Murray, beating Fed in Cincy (2006?). Anyone who can score a big win in a significant tournament at a young age, without succumbing to the pressure has a bright future.
Dimitrov seems to be another of these young players who has let a few early successes get to his head, and is now enjoying the life of the rich and famous but is doing very little to improve his tennis. I mean when Fedalovicray were his age, they were training hard, practicing with top players whenever possible, working on their fitness and always recognising that there is room for improvement. Dimitrov on the other hand seems to be satisfied with a top 10/20 career, but doesn’t have the drive required to be a great champion.
Haha Fedalovicray. I like that one and it is also in order of best to worst. For now anyway. Thiem hasn’t scored a win over a big 4 yet but hasn’t played vs Fedal. He already showed he is pretty close to Murray though with two three set losses, and he put in a solid showing vs Djokovic in Shanghai. It’s just a question of time before he becomes a serious threat to the big 4, given his attitude.
Florian Reply:
Hey Ru-an!
I also think that Thiem has a bright future ahead.
Federer is the only big one he hasn’t played before. He lost to Nadal last year at Roland Garros. But he beat Wawrinka in Madrid right after his win over Fed in the MC final. Stan was number 3 then and although Wawrinka is known for his ups and downs I would rate this win as big one.
Ah so he did play Nadal before. Glad you corrected me. And as expected soundly beaten at the event Nadal has only ever lost at once before.
Ajay Reply:
Dimitrov at some point definitely will come good. Right now it doesn’t seem like happening though. Goffin is too small and short to make really big I think. Thiem has got everything to make it big but he really needs a consistent backhand to take down the big guys. Lets see how it goes !!
What do you mean by come good though? As for Thiem his bh is just fine.
Come through meaning once the Big 4 fade I think Dimitrov will be ready to take up the mantle. I know right now it doesn’t look likely but he is by far the most talented of the lot and it might just take something as simple as a change of coach to get him to his best.
That’s a pretty optimistic view about someone who will soon be caught by the generation behind him. He could become another Verdasco too. At the moment his heart is not in it. Guys like Kyrgios, Coric, and Thiem will soon catch up with him and start beating his ass if he doesn’t become more committed. All these guys have great attitudes and have the talent to take up the mantle from the big four. Include Zverev or Rublev and you are already looking at a big four to take up the mantle from the current big four. How does one guy take up the mantle from the big four anyway? I think that is disrespectful toward the current big four. Not to mention that Dimugtrov is the last young guy who currently looks like doing it.
Yeah its true I phrased my sentence badly. But let me put it this way. By around 2018 I think all of Big 4 would have passed their peak. Raonic, Dimitrov and Nishikori will actually be the guys at the prime age, around 26-27. I think among those three if each of them were to hypothetically work their asses off, Dimitrov is the one most likely to win more Slams. As for the next generation of Krygios, Kokanaikis, Zverev, Thiem and Coric I think we are underestimating the role of their age. Being in the quarters of a Slam and winning it are two completely different things. I doubt they are going to be winning Slams before they turn 25-26 meaning there is good window of about 2-3 years for atleast one of Raonic, Dimitrov and Nishikori (or all three) to seriously dominate. Once again I know it looks unlikely now but stranger things have happened.
Well there is no reason for me to take Dimugtrov seriously at present, so I won’t. I will only change my mind once he does something of note in my opinion. Until then Kei, Raonic, Kyrgios, Coric, and Thiem are all more promising. Talent doesn’t mean shit if your attitude is shit. I think Fedal is on their way out. They are past peak anyway. Djokovic and Murray can be at the top for some time still. Raonic and Kei are starting to knock hard on the door already. Kyrgios already has a win over Nadal at a slam. His ascent to the top won’t take long and he will probably be #1 at some point. Coric is not wasting much time either. Already he has wins over Nadal and Murray. And Thiem is primed to make another big move this year too. That doesn’t leave Dimugtrov with much time, and he is losing to mugs left and right at this stage. I can actually see him falling out of the top 20 soon.
I totally get what you are saying but I just think all he needs is a change of coach right now. Bring in someone who preaches tennis not just fitness. Someone like Annacone. And he should be fine. I am going to go with Dimitrov. What I want to point it which is 100% true is that it is taking players much longer to mature nowadays. Tomic reached the Wimbledon quarters in 2011 has done nothing much since then. Janowicz reached the Wimbledon semis in 2013 and he has been woeful since then. And I think with Krygios’s hit and miss game its easy to see him not doing much until his game becomes a lot more steady. Coric though is one who I would keep an eye on. These days clearly the more defensive players have an advantage and among those we mentioned above Coric has easily the most steady game.
This is a more balanced comment I thought. I agree that Dimitrov should change coaching staff(did you hear that from me?). But I’m not sure Annacone is the way to go. He has already copied Fed in every way imaginable. He needs to become his own man if he wants to really make progress. And ditch Sharapova while he is at it. Then there is a chance.
Hi Ru-an! Like your new post, excellent…good news about Roger inviting the youngster, Dominic Thiem, to visit his camp in Zuerich for practice sessions. Exiting times in tennis are ahead, looking forward to Monaco.
Love the picture of “The three (sportsmanship) musketeers” you posted on your blog.
Hi Dolores. Always nice to hear from you. I hope you are well. Yes exciting times ahead!
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Hey guys, what’s up?? Happy Easter. Finally, today Miami will be over. And that is not a “dig” because Roger is not in it, but because…. I don’t know….. not many good matches to see. Not even with the girls. I am very surprised that Mannarino is doing so good. Did not know that of him. Kudos to Novak for winning the matches against Ferrer and Isner. He really was playing great. Kudos to Isner for beating Nishikori. He totally outplayed Nishi, but when Isner walked to the net to shake hands with Nishi, I just knew he couldn’t keep THIS level up against Novak. And he didn’t, but ofcourse, credit where credit is due, Novak played amazing.
The reason I say that finally Miami will be over is that…… it seems to take so long?? I mean, do you guys remember that Delpo played?? Do you even remember that Stan also played?? And why does it seem so long that Rafa is out??
Indian Wells was more excited somehow. NOT because of Roger !!!, but the matches were more exciting. My God, even the one of the girls !!!
I think today Andy will either push Novak to the limit, or he will lose even more badly than in IW.
I read a great comment: “If Novak is tired, Andy will lose, if Novak is not tired, Novak will win”
And Ru-an, I agree with you on Thiem, but…. I haven’t given up on Nishi or Goffin yet. And Raonic really impressed me at IW.
But isn’t Thiem’s playing style more like Stan the Man??
Oh and Ru-an and guys, some of you left really sweet comments for me. Thank you for that. I am just so busy with learning, but I am trying to keep up. Although Ru-an is not making it easy with what seems like a new post every day So I am still reading all and will comment later. Next week Goat time
Thiem is an interesting prospect, would be good to see him go far in the next few years.
Meanwhile, Djokovic plays arguably the worst set of tennis he’s played all week in Miami, yet still wins it 7-6. Murray may have developed a bit of a mental block I suppose.
Murray has lost a bagel set in each of his last three matches against Djokovic and Federer. These days whenever the match crosses the 150 minute mark his legs seem to get really heavy. Really sad to see someone like Murray struggle so much for fitness which was once his forte !!
Yeah well he does weigh 84 kg which is not exactly light for a tennis player. He plays too defensively for a player of his weight and ability. He needs to be more aggressive and shorten points.
I think he is trying to be more aggressive but his biggest problem vs someone like Djokovic is just that he is not as consistent. Where Novak will back his defense to hold him steady at any point of time Murray always presses the panic button faster. And his serve lets him down big time at all the important point. Murray just needs to toughen up both mentally and physically soon if he is to beat Novak anytime soon. Andy vs Roger in clay would be a pretty interesting match though as believe it or not they have never played on clay before !!
Right now in both the men’s and women’s game there is absolute domination at the top. Novak has won the last three Masters Tournaments as well as the last Grand Slam and the last WTF. And Serena. Well Serena has just continued to be Serena. What do you think, is this good or bad for tennis ?
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Federer Tells Fan to ‘Go Away’
Anyone in particular?
Novak Djokovic for example. I’m a big fan of his game but I also found out he’s a really nice guy. I remember the first time I saw Djokovic, I was with my coach from the ITF Touring Team, and I just stood in my place, completely star-struck. And she was like ‘you have to get used to this, they are all over the place’.
I was in a queue to get food and Tomas Berdych came to get some pasta and the cook told him he had to go stand in the queue. And I couldn’t believe it, that’s Tomas Berdych and the guy won’t give him food because he’s not in the queue. I didn’t have the best experience with Roger Federer, in the players’ lounge, I asked him for a photo and he told me ‘no, sorry, go away’. I was a bit shocked. Maybe I caught him at a bad time. Djokovic however, was so nice when we took a picture and he asked me if I was playing and he wished me luck.
Hi, folks. I hope everyone has by now recovered from grand slam withdrawal and gotten back to their normal sleeping routines.
I don’t have any tour news for you yet because the current events don’t quite fall under ‘cutting edge men’s tennis’ but I have something else more interesting for you.
And let me just make it clear from the outset that this post is not made with the chief aim of criticizing Federer. I’d like to think I am now above that kind of tennis fan pettiness.
I make this post to emphasize a difference between Federer and Djokovic which could be detrimental in their ultimate destinies in the sport.
There is a huge difference between telling a young admirer to ‘go away’ and taking a picture with him while wishing him good luck. It’s perhaps a small thing for the player but for the fan it is a huge thing.
And it tells you a fair amount about the characters of Federer and Djokovic. It’s easy to be classy and nice when you are winning and the top dog. The true test is when things are not going your way.
And we all know that for Federer things have no exactly gone his way of late. He is not the chased one anymore. That honor now belongs to Djokovic. This is not the first time we have seen this kind of thing from Federer in recent times.
In the semi-final against Djokovic in Melbourne, he told a cameraman who was filming him during a changeover to ‘Get out of my face, please‘. There is a certain arrogance/aggression to what he says.
Now, I understand that he doesn’t like losing and that he is used to being the top dog, but as a public figure who is very famous I don’t think that sets a good example.
It comes back to that whole Federer cult thing where Federer is lifted up to a divine status which means he can do anything without having to be held accountable. My hope is to expose the establishment and give Djokovic his due credit.
I don’t like this idea that Federer is the candidate of the establishment and that he is therefore beyond reproach. That’s a lot like Hillary Clinton who is the candidate of the democratic establishment despite taking vast amounts of money from corrupt Wall Street in campaign donations.
That kind of blind fanaticism is very dangerous and destructive in my view and it is something I am working to expose and eradicate.
To get back to the tennis, Djokovic is viewed as the outsider because of where he comes from and for what he is doing to the establishment. And because of coming from a tough background where everything wasn’t handed on a platter to him, he is very appreciative and down to earth.
He takes nothing for granted in tennis or as a person. This bodes well for him in his quest to become the greatest of all time. He is always looking to grow and improve which means there is no danger of becoming complacent like Federer did.
Is Federer as classy and nice as the establishment wants us to believe?
Ps. I started writing my book yesterday
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Hi Ru-an,
No offence, what is your point?
Obviously Federer is not just a sports Star but a celebrity too. It was well reported Federer mingled with the who’s who in the celebrity cycles and they come and see his matches in likes of Wimbledon, USO etc.
Morever, he is a Swiss that comes from a country blessed with the milk & honey. People associate Federer more to a fine wine or luxury watch; and this is how the media play with his character whereas Djokovic more a villain that is tough and up there to steal the show from Federer.
Obviously he is not as nice as people perceive him to be as a real person when you reach the celebrity status.
people around th world still adore him because he is truly exceptional with his all court skills and there is something magical about his playing style that even attracts the casual fans to watch him. Moreover, he is in his twilight in terms of tennis career hence fans appreciate more of him even so, and rooting for him to win at least one more slam.
Djokovic has his fans base too so I don’t think he is unloved by what the media widely reported him to be. However, I read a U.S. Report Djokovic does not get a high TV rating when he is playing anyone other than Federer in the U.S. Open so he still has work to do. So long as Federer is still playing and still making deep to tournaments, Djokovic is always going to be at the sideline when it comes to the popularity contest. However, I think it helps him because he has less pressure to measure up whereas Federer because of his celebrity status the pressure has got to him. How many times we watch when Federer is playing against anyone he is ten times more confident than playing a Nadal or Djokovic and that shows in his face. It almost like he knew he can’t win unless he is prepared to slog all day at the court and sweating it all. Though he doesn’t show it but experienced players can tell he is struggling physically just as much as his opponent. Whereas Djokovic is more a ‘in your face’ type of player not afraid to show his personality and fist pumping which unfortunately didn’t go well with fans. Whereas Federer is always perceived as classy, cool and elegant. What do you think?
February 6th, 2016 at 11:31 pm
I think you made another good comment, IWC. I like your objectivity as a Fedfan and don’t take any offense from your comments. It is like you say. Being famous gets to everyone, and changes everyone. I hope you didn’t take offense to my post.
It really wasn’t about criticizing Federer. I am fully aware of what he has meant to tennis and I certainly don’t think he is a bad person.
I was simply drawing a comparison between the two players and stating why I thought Djokovic might well surpass Federer. I hope people can look past their personal bias and take the post for what it is rather than thinking I am out to get Federer.
The focus is here on Djokovic and why I think he has the right character for becoming the GOAT. Federer is just there for comparison.
universal123 Reply:
February 7th, 2016 at 2:50 am
I really do understand why tennis players sometimes say something they don’t mean sometimes. To put it another way, imagine doing a normal job, or in education, and you get fired or fail an exam, and you’re in a really bad mood. Imagine then having to speak to a team of reporters monitoring every word you say so they can spin it and take it out of context. Probably caught Federer at a bad time, and I understand the point of your post. The thing about Djokovic is that whether he deserves it or not, the vast majority of the media will never accept him as GOAT, because he’s not from a “conventional” country: namely the North American countries or the Western European countries. Sadly, there is still a lot of racism in the West. In the last year the UK agreed to accept just 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years when far smaller and poorer countries have accepted millions. There was even a recent poll and most of the British public said the UK should accept even less. It just disgusts me the more I read about it. It’s why Agassi v Sampras and Nadal v Federer were considered big rivalries more than Federer v Djokovic which is of about equal quality, perhaps even better. Agassi and Sampras are both American, Nadal and Federer are both from Western Europe, whereas Djokovic is from Eastern Europe and so will never be regarded the same. Sometimes I wonder whether the West really has the right to claim a moral high ground over anyone.
I also understand that you are sometimes just in a bad mood and don’t feel like talking to people. I just found Federer a lot more disagreeable and grumpy of late. He’s not the player I knew. He is on the edge and seems bitter. It’s like he can’t accept that Djokovic is better now.
Like he has the right to better and Djokovic has no business spoiling it for him. He changed or something. When I look at the 2011 AO SF between him and Djoker, for instance, I see him accepting the loss with much more grace, whereas Djokovic is the bratty and insecure one.
Now the roles are reversed. Djokovic seems to have grown into his skin while Federer seems like the immature and awkward one.
About the media not accepting Djokovic as the GOAT I don’t know about that. If he has the numbers on his side the experts will proclaim him as the GOAT and the rest will follow.
February 8th, 2016 at 8:12 pm
Yeah it’s not great publicity for someone who is arguably still GOAT for now (not gonna say anything more than that as I don’t want to start that debate again) and whether he is or not he is still one of the all time great players, so it’s not great. However, I do have some sympathy. Picture it from Federer’s position as well. For about seven straight years he was in the top two players in the world, winning major title after major title. When someone else came up and took his place at the top (first Nadal, then Djokovic) that was always going to be difficult. To be a fair comparison I think we would have to wait and see how Djokovic reacts when the next up-and-coming player starts beating him consistently. Not suggesting at all he would react the same as Federer, just saying we don’t really know. But it’s an interesting point you have raised nonetheless, and I never bought this idea of Federer (or any other player for that matter) being perfect and incapable of doing anything wrong. The fact is these people are great tennis players with really good media training and years of experience of dealing with people when they have had a bad day, and they still get it wrong sometimes.
TL;DR: I basically agree with you, it took me a massive long paragraph just to say that lol.
Djokovic will never become complacent, though. He doesn’t have that streak of arrogance in him. And besides, he is already portrayed as the bad guy so if he acts badly that would only be according to his nature as far as the media is concerned. He doesn’t have this fake image to uphold so in that sense he is unburdened.
The establishment doesn’t realize it but all their worship of Federer is what made him complacent and brought him down. And portraying Djokovic as the villain is achieving the opposite. It is making Djokovic more motivated to prove them wrong and takes pressure off him.
He will always be portrayed as the outsider so no danger of taking himself too seriously. It must be immensely frustrating for Federer that he stuck around long enough for Nadal to decline only for Djokovic to spoil it for him.
You never know, he might somehow outlast Djokovic as well, given the up and coming players at the moment he could wait until he is 40 and then start winning slams again lol. I’m actually only half joking, it’s a combination of the old guard still being good players and that the young players are just nowhere in comparison.
Yeah, that’s a little unrealistic, to say the least. Especially after Federer just had surgery. It is more likely that Djokovic will be dominating at 40 the Federer with his thin frame, meditation(slows down aging in case you didn’t know), and elasticity.
I don’t know how many more big losses Federer can stand mentally and physically against Djokovic. He can just keep being in denial about it telling himself he is finding a solution but as you see the problem can manifest in a physical way. In one way or the other, it is going to take its toll.
I am amazed that Federer up until this point just kept coming back for more beatings without showing signs of backing off. So I’m not surprised about this injury.
Federer Surprises Djokovic to Win 7th Cincinnati Title
Congrats to Federer on a much deserved seventh title in Cincinnati yesterday. I can easily say I told you so, that Federer had it coming after losing three big finals to Djokovic, or that it was inevitable with the Cincinnati court speed. I mean let’s face it, Federer keeps winning the matches on faster courts over the best of three sets. But I’d rather focus on the fact that Federer surprised Djokovic in my opinion.
Federer tried the surprise tactic of taking the second serve on the rise early on and it was a big flop. It actually had me laughing. Taking the second serve of the likes of Anderson, Lopez, and Murray on the rise is one thing, but not only does Djokovic have a good second serve, he also has great passing shots. So when Federer tried the tactic again and actually won the point, it surprised me.
It also surprised Djokovic because he missed a straightforward passing shot into the net. Federer was the one applying all the pressure to Djokovic’s serve and had him 15-40 early on but couldn’t convert. He had him at 30-40 in another game as well. As the set progressed Djokovic started holding serve more comfortably and I figured those early missed chances by Federer would come back to haunt him. But when the set came down to a tie-break Federer had the audacity to take Djokovic’s second serve on the rise again. It paid off again and that seemed to be the straw that broke the camel’s back because Djokovic only managed to win one point in the tie-break. Advantage Federer.
Second Set
How would Djokovic respond to these audacious tactics from Federer? Not well. He got broken in his opening service game and quickly found himself 0-3 down. After that he still kind of hung in there but never looked very interested in fighting back. Whether it was just tiredness or the fact that Federer’s tactics took him totally by surprise I’ll leave to you to decide. It was probably a bit of both.
I think he was caught off guard and then he pretty much decided to throw in the towel. He’d already had four very tough three setters in the last couple of weeks and he probably just figured he will conserve some energy for once. As usual he was very sporting at the handshake, though. No bitterness like we have seen plenty of times from Fedal.
So it was a well-deserved first Masters title of the year for Federer and he played very well all week. I liked the fact that he tried something new with taking the second serve on the rise. Of course, it didn’t hurt that the surface was fast and it would be very hard to do the same thing at the US Open without getting passed, but it was something fresh and only Federer is talented enough to pull off something crazy like that. I also think Federer has been playing too well this year not to win something above ATP 500 level. The level he showed at Wimbledon was as good as anything he has ever played. He’s been consistent all year but falling over the final hurdle in the big events, very much like last year. I think if Djokovic defeated him in Cincy it would have really hurt. It would also have been the first time either of them had won four matches in a row in this tremendous rivalry which Federer leads by one again. It’s really so much better than the overrated Fedal rivalry as well as the Djokoray rivalry because the matchup is perfect. A great server against a great returner. A great offensive player against a great defensive player. With this title, Federer is also back on equal terms with Djokovic in terms of Masters titles with 24. Nadal is still leading with 27 Masters titles, but he will easily be surpassed by Djokovic.
Djokovic also loses for the fifth time in the Cincy finals and misses out on the career Masters again, but I’m sure he’ll get it eventually. For now this loss may have been a blessing in disguise. Someone told me on Twitter that Djokovic became cocky and expected to win. I actually think that may be true. And you can hardly blame him after the way he won all the important titles against Federer this year. Nonetheless, losing now and then, even when you are dominating is a good way to stay humble and motivated. I think with the eye on the one that really matters in New York, it may have been better for Djokovic to lose this one than to win it. He will still have many chances to complete the career Masters, but for now winning the US Open is huge. One US Open title is not good enough for a player of his qualities and winning his tenth slam in New York will put him right on track to get into the GOAT debate. It sure as hell won’t be easy, but I think it is better for his chances to taste defeat now and stay hungry and motivated. Now he has something to prove, as opposed to having won Cincy and everyone just expecting him to collect the US Open trophy. He has been so dominant this year that he is still easily the favorite for the title, but now at least he will feel like he has something to prove again. Two Masters final losses would be a good exchange for another US Open title. Edit: Federer won the first four matches in the rivalry, but I think you catch my drift.
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Nice balanced article. I think like Federer, Ruan is back to his best as well
Ru-an Reply: August 24th, 2015 at 10:12 pm Just telling the truth, no?
Charlie Reply: August 24th, 2015 at 11:55 pm Obviously this depends on the draw but my thoughts on the USO: Murray in Fed’s half: Djokovic win over Murray/Federer Murray in Djoker’s half: Federer win over Murray/Djokovic Obviously you can’t completely count out a random upset or Murray pulling an incredible run beating both Novak and Roger, but I think it is pretty unlikely. Yeah and I am glad Ru-an that you are back to talking about and analysing the tennis because although I enjoyed the put-downs of some of the less positive comments on your blog, but it’s like different surfaces: you are probably no.1 in tennis analysis, but you don’t have the week-to-week consistency in your put-downs to be no.1, because it tires you out.
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 12:21 am Haha! We are on the same page. I enjoy some of the put-downs myself, but that’s not what this blog is supposed to be about. It’s supposed to be about intelligent analysis and interesting discussion. It’s a two-way street and if I just put negative or biased comments down all the time it’s too much of a one-way street. Interesting that you think Federer would win if Djokoray is in the same half. You think he’s gonna pull it off at 34 after 7 years?
Charlie Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 11:24 am The reason I think that is because there is less pressure on him at the USO. Last year he got unlucky (as did everyone else) because of god-mode Monfils, Cilic and Nishikori. Probably unlikely to happen two years in a row. Remember what he was saying before the Wimbledon final ‘I want this one on Sunday’, and I thought that perhaps he was feeling the pressure which is why I wasn’t too optimistic. But he hasn’t really been saying that before the USO this year from what I can remember. He seems to do better when no one is considering him as a contender more recently, like RG 2011 when everyone was talking about Djokovic-Nadal, or Wimbledon 2012 when he had that close match against Benneteau and everyone thought he would be too tired/ not good enough to beat Novak and Andy in back-to-back matches. So I’m glad he goes into the USO being underrated. Commentators and bookies can underrate him as much as they like, but there’s a reasonable chance it could come back to haunt them. There’s an interesting argument as well about who Djokovic would rather face if it’s a Federer-Murray semifinal, it’s a tough one because Murray can’t attack as well but would be better if it went to five sets, but Djokovic is likely to win eventually, but if he plays Federer there is a chance of a Federer god-mode day where he is just unstoppable, but then if Djokovic were to get it to a 5th set he would likely win. It’s an interesting discussion but until the draw comes out we can only speculate. And as for the age thing and the 7 years since he last won, I think that it’s a little different with him because of his game-style. I can’t remember what the article was called, but it talked about the two stages of decline. There is the first part where you can make adjustments to your game and remain at the top of the sport, but the second part is irreversible. Federer managed to turn his stage one decline around in 2013, it remains to be seen if Nadal can do the same. I accept Federer is not the favourite, but I think he has at least a 25% chance (Djokovic 50%, Federer 25%, Murray 20%, The Field 5% IMO).
Ru-an Reply: August 26th, 2015 at 5:37 pm Well, the odds are against him to win another slam as far as age goes. And he is already in stage three of decline. I think the last two Wimbies were his last best chances and that he wasn’t at all unlucky with the draw last year. Everyone thought he was lucky in fact until Cilic showed up. He should have lost to Monfils probably but fought through and was flat vs Cilic. I think there are many players who can make life difficult for him and get him into a long match. But of course, there is always a chance.
Charlie Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 5:52 pm Yeah with Federer these days it’s all about getting through the early rounds without tiring too much. If he can get to the semis without having to play any five-setters he has a chance.
Ru-an Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 6:27 pm Right. Last year he was tired from the Cincy/Montreal double too. This year he could possibly to do that. But he’s got a pretty tough draw.
Nakul
Nice post Ru-an. It’s quite telling that Fed can beat Djokovic in a big final at this point in his career, especially when the stakes were so high for Djokovic. Once he wins Cincy, which I’m sure Djoker will eventually do, that’s an unprecedented record in tennis, and it does bode very well for his inclusion in the GOAT debate. Especially so if he wins all 4 GS and all 9 MS, which basically means he’s won all the big events out there. As far as this final was concerned, this is my perspective about it- Djoker knew he had a good chance to win, since Fed hadn’t beaten him in a big final since Cincy 2012. In the first set, he looked focused and determined, showing a lot of clutch play to stay ahead in the scoreboard. What he( and many spectators) probably expected was that Fed succumbs to pressure at the end of the set, or maybe in the TB. Djoker knew winning the first set would be very vital for his prospects of winning, since in the last 2 matches on similar surfaces, he failed to win even a set against Fed. Credits to Fed for showing no signs of nerves whatsoever. The TB might be one of the best he has played ever, or atleast against Djoker. The BH return on the rise at 3-1 in the TB was like a final knockout blow for Djoker. His reaction after that point, where he almost smashed his racquet again, proves it. Once the first set was done, he knew he had no chance anymore. If the surface had been slower, it would still be 50-50, since there have been a lot of times when Djoker came back from a set down to beat Fed. It was quite strange actually to see him check out mentally in the 2nd set though. Especially conceding 3 DF in a game to get broken. So long story short, Djoker was hoping to end the losing streak against Fed on fast hard courts, and tried his best in the first set, and once he lost it, he knew he couldn’t win it anymore. On the other hand, Fed was quite smart himself. He said in the interview to SKY sports after his SF win, when asked about the significance of the match for his no. 2 seeding at USO, that the focus should be on Djoker and the career golden slam. He was cautiously optimistic about his chances, while at the same time preferring to stay out of the spotlight. P.S. One more thing I realised while watch the Djoker vs Dolgo SF was that Djoker might actually use the rope-a-dope tactic most of the times when he seems injured. I know it’s hard to determine what actually transpires with him, but there is a slight possibility that he was faking injury that day. I’m not being judgmental when I say this, but for a while, this behavior reminded me about dull and his antics. That made me doubt for a while whether I should like Djoker as much as I do now. I’m still ready to give him the benefit of doubt though, and he’s still my second favorite player.
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 12:40 pm
Charlie Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 2:36 pm Haha, just trolling everyone by losing in Montreal and Cincy to sweep the USO without dropping a set or something, right?
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 5:44 pm
Nakul Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 7:03 pm https://twitter.com/CaroGrgicevic/status/636245588187684864 Guess who this is
Nakul Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 7:03 pm
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 7:27 pm Come on man this is not a blog for gay dudes. Gross.
Joe Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 8:47 pm Masterly put-down – as usual.
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 8:52 pm Well, it’s Nadull after all. I can’t think that Fedfans would find that very interesting, especially if the idea arises that he is getting ready to ‘bang’ Federer again.
Joe Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 9:04 pm eww Ru-an. Sounds like I’m lucky I didn’t read the article! And just for the record, I never actually called him KnobDull; I just asked if you would object if I did call him that…
Good stuff, Ru-an. Great match, from the Fed perspective. I didn’t think it was close. Body language, ball striking, dictating points, the much discussed strategy of Rog. . . it was embarrassing, actually, but in the bigger picture we know this does not mean Novak is doomed lol. Hoisting the goods in NYC will cure all. But seriously, Djokovic looked like he was barely alive, a couple of brilliant passes to keep the monster from tearing him to shreds in the first set. How about that nod of assurance he gave his box after DF x3 to lose his serve early in the 2nd. Damn. Beatdown.
Charlie Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 11:30 am Several players have been interviewed over the years about this (why beating Federer is so hard): 1. He is one of the greatest frontrunners of all time, meaning if you are having a bad day you can never get settled because he is pressuring you on every point. 2. He is also one of the best comeback players, so if you are having a good day and get well in front, there is no guarantee you will win easily, Shanghai 2014 and the 2nd set TB in the Wimbledon final are probably the best example. 3. He is an attacking player, meaning either his pressure makes people go for too much and commit a lot of UE’s, or they start playing too defensively allowing him to move the ball all over the court.
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 1:18 pm Thanks, Matt. Yeah, who cares about losing in Cincy when you win IW, Rome, and Wimby? I mean if Djoker won Cincy too, the dominance would be almost boring. Federer needs to stay in it to make it a little interesting at least. The Cincy final may have been a beatdown for Djokovic, but the last three years have been a beatdown for Federer.
Matt Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 7:56 pm Rog is six years his senior. Either way (and of course the series has been even), Roger’s current form is ridiculous. USO should be interesting. The big three are all in the mix with question marks alongside each one.
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 8:13 pm Yes, Federer’s current form is exceptional at his age. It is a surprise that he won Cincy? No.
Matt Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 8:25 pm Agree. What would you say is Rog’s weakest surface? Clay? He’s been to 5 FO finals, kinda ran into the clay GOAT. Tough to make any kind of GOAT claims if your weak surface is Cincy/US Open type hc, no? I stand by the Djoker potential, but it’s tough to see him struggle like that (and fatigue is not an excuse, of course) on a very legit surface. Many greats have excelled on that surface.
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 8:31 pm Nah I don’t agree. Djokovic is probably better on the USO-type surface than Federer is on clay. Already one USO title and three finals. If he wins it this year there would be no question. He’s still got time to win more titles and make more finals after this year too.
Matt Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 8:38 pm Well, nothing definitive there (Rog has a title and four finals at FO, again with the most prolific winner ever in the field). Perhaps we can agree on this: Djoker needs this USO to keep his conversation going.
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 8:42 pm Yes, we can agree on that. But like I just corrected myself, it’s 4 finals, not 3. They are equal in the numbers now. Just a question of time before Djokovic passes him.
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 8:39 pm Actually four finals so he is already equal with Federer. Anyway, he is long overdue a USO title. I didn’t watch the final with Murray but I heard the wind didn’t help him, and in 2013 he came off that FO loss to Nadal. That doesn’t mean he will win the USO this year, but it seems overdue.
Matt Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 8:56 pm I think any reasonable tennis fan could appreciate Djokovic certifying his ATP dominance with a 2015 USO title. Hopefully Murrederer can make him earn it in dramatic fashion.
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 11:00 pm Fedfanatics are not reasonable tennis fans so they won’t appreciate it. That’s one of the reasons I hope it happens. But mostly just because I am a reasonable tennis fan. It would clearly make the GOAT debate and tennis, in general, more interesting. I think he deserves another USO title, but like we saw at the FO deserve has nothing to do with it.
Matt Reply: August 26th, 2015 at 2:56 am Right you are. Are you continuing the prediction contest for the USO? Speaking of predictions, who are real contenders in NYC? Something tells me Stan, if healthy of course, could make a run. Seems to still be quite a gap between the contenders and pretenders. The more I think about 2014 USO, the more nauseous I become. Pour me whatever Cilic was drinking then. Unreal.
Ru-an Reply: August 26th, 2015 at 10:48 am I don’t know we will see. I have less time for these things now. The USO seems quite open at this point. Djokovic has not been himself in Montreal and Cincy. Federer can be a real contender, but the problem for him is his stamina over five sets. He hasn’t made a HC slam final in almost 6 years.
Hari Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 1:46 pm If by chance Federer makes the final, he wont be the favourite unless the opponent is not Djokovic. Firstly he cant have his own way there as the court is slower than Cincinatti for sure. Secondly, his body doesn’t seem to recover the wear and tear of a 5 setter these days. He can play 4 sets for sure but if he is stretched to a 5th set, he is bound to lose the next round even if he closes out the 5th set that particular match. Thirdly and basically, I have not seen a totally in-prime player losing to a 34 year old legendary champion. You may say he is ranked no.2 and all but I just can’t see Djokovic losing to Federer unless the courts are fast and Federer is serving like he did against Murray in Wimbledon which in my opinion is just a 5% probability. On the whole, Federer is surely playing really well and clearly still has it in him but to expect a Grand Slam from him I believe is too much.
Ru-an Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 3:19 pm Good, balanced comment Hari. It is difficult to see Federer win seven BO5 set matches. At Wimby, he comes close because the surface suits him better and he can win basically everything in straight sets. The USO is a different story. Many players can draw the match out against him. His stamina is very poor. One five-set match and he is pretty much finished.
The second serve attack is one he can use more on the quicker courts like Shanghai, Paris and Cincy. I don’t think Federer will use this tactic at the US Open unless he’s some way ahead in the scoreline – most likely in the first 2 rounds when he’s already 2 sets up or something like that. I have to say, it’s worked well over the past week – the matches he played against Anderson and Djokovic were particularly good to watch. Novak will look to win the US Open to cap off another great season, but I could see Murray really pushing for this one. Best scenario for Murray is to draw Federer in his half, hope he (Fed) crashes out before the semis and have a lot left in the tank for a potential final against Djokovic.
Charlie Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 2:37 pm I disagree Krish, the best time to use it is on break point.
Krish Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 6:14 pm I agree with that Charlie, I said I don’t believe that he will actually use it on those kinds of points.
Charlie Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 9:20 pm I don’t understand why he wouldn’t use it at the USO on key points, the surface is slower but it’s still a good surprise to catch someone out, particularly if it is 15-40 or 0-40 and you still have another chance to break if it fails. If you mean that it’s confidence based, he had the confidence to use it against Djokovic and Murray so I think he should be fine. Perhaps you are right though, given his record on the biggest stages recently he may not have the confidence to do it in say the US Open final, but I hope he does. At the very least it gives the opponent something else to think about.
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 10:08 pm Right, Charlie. He could use it at the USO. But I don’t think Djokovic would be surprised next time. He will be mentally prepared for it and pass Federer. The downside of having used it to win Cincy is that Djokovic now knows about his secret weapon. It won’t be a surprise anymore. And it will be less effective on slower courts.
Charlie Reply: August 26th, 2015 at 2:43 pm Even though if it fails, it’s still something for Djokovic to have to think about (‘what if he takes my second serve on the rise and rushes the net?’) so he may overhit and give away a double fault. Anything Federer can get Djokovic to think about on the crucial points in a match is a useful advantage. As I said particularly if you have two or three consecutive break points, it makes sense to try it on at least one of those perhaps.
Ru-an Reply: August 26th, 2015 at 5:45 pm Right, it could theoretically work. I just think Djokovic has a good record vs Federer in NY in recent times and that over BO5 Federer would have to pull that play off several times which is difficult. In Cincy Federer can kind of rush Djokovic and bully him, but with the slightly slower courts in NY it is that much more difficult. Djokovic’s consistency and depth from the baseline are very difficult for Federer to overcome unless the courts are super fast. His returns are more effective too.
Charlie Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 5:55 pm I think the key with Djokovic is that you have to really smash him off the court. Most of his losses this year have been in straight sets IIRC, where the opponent has just been having a very good day, aiming for the lines and everything is going in. That would be Federer’s best play against Djokovic. Just go all out for the straight set or four set win, because Novak will likely win in 5 otherwise.
Ru-an Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 6:31 pm It’s hard to see that happen. Fed smashing Djo off the court in straights? Ain’t happening. More likely to be the other way around.
Charlie Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 9:27 pm Yes it is unlikely, but at the moment it is one of the few ways it is possible to beat Djokovic. He is the best baseline player at the moment by some distance, and possibly one of the greatest baseliners in history up there with people like Lendl, Connors and Agassi so I think relentless attacking would be the way to go.
Ru-an Reply: August 28th, 2015 at 1:15 am He is probably a better baseliner than those guys. All out attack would be the way to go but Djokovic’s returns and defense makes that a risky tactic.
Joe Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 2:42 pm Yes Krish, but who cares about the best-case scenario for Murray?
Hey Ru-an, you Blasphemer! How are your classes going?
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 6:04 pm Hi, Joe. I’m not going to class. I study at home. It’s going ok thanks.
Ru-an
“I could have done some things better, but I lost to a better player, no question about it. I have to deal with it.” http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/cincinnati-2015-sunday-djokovic-reaction Always gracious in defeat.
Charlie Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 9:24 pm Yeah you really have to give the Djoker credit for that, when he loses there is no crap injury excuses. He may occasionally pull out some objectionable stuff during matches (like so-called ‘strategic’ MTOs), but after the match he never tries to take credit away from the other player. Obviously as the last player out of the Big Three to arrive on the scene he had to deal with a lot of tough losses before he became world no.1, but he never gave up or sounded bitter about it.
Ru-an Reply: August 25th, 2015 at 9:52 pm Yeah, I suppose that is the good side of being a late bloomer and having had to deal with the Fedal era. He took many tough losses and didn’t have it all his own way. That made him more humble and more hungry while Fedal had it all their own way. Federer especially became arrogant and complacent, and he paid the price in the form of Nadal who made a big dent in his GOAT claim.
Charlie Reply: August 26th, 2015 at 2:46 pm Yeah that is the only thing I can see (personality-wise), why someone wouldn’t particularly like Federer. I sort of say well he’s won enough so he’s allowed to brag a bit, because he is fairly upfront about it. The thing I don’t like is Nadal’s fake humbleness. But I can see how some people would be OK with Nadal’s fake humbleness and dislike Federer’s ‘air of superiority’, or dislike both. Fair point Ru-an.
Ru-an Reply: August 26th, 2015 at 5:53 pm Since I’ve become less biased I have also noticed Federer’s arrogance and Nadal’s humbleness more. I think they are equally guilty. I prefer Djokovic now because he is very gracious in defeat, but he doesn’t mind celebrating and getting in the face of someone like Nadal which you have to do to beat him. He is not fake arrogant like Federer who crumbles under Nadal’s onslaught. He is truly arrogant and isn’t scared of anyone. It’s a good balance.
Charlie Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 6:06 pm I agree, thanks Ru-an for making good well-thought out points as usual. Definitely beats reading Talk Tennis, one of the first threads I saw was one suggesting that Federer rushing towards the service line on a second serve is cheating/unsportsmanlike. WTF? You also hear bitter fans from all sides complaining about ‘rigged draws’, ‘unfair scheduling’ etc. I was just thinking to myself whilst reading it, IT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE, GET OVER IT. You don’t hear reasonable fans bitching about this kind of crap every time their player loses. Sometimes the other player is just better, like Djokovic at Wimbledon and Federer in Cincy. Nothing to complain about, the other player was better, period. Again thanks for making this blog what it is, you have somehow managed to set aside any personal biases and to come up with objective posts time and time again. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to deal with some of the ridiculous comments you occasionally get, and well done on being able to accept criticism as well, as on many sites if you speak out against a particular player you are just insulted, rather than someone giving an intelligent response. I hope this blog can continue to be a place for all reasonable tennis fans to debate and discuss tennis, without having to deal with extreme and unreasonable viewpoints. Charlie
Ru-an Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 6:46 pm Thank you very much for your comment, Charlie. As a relatively unbiased(I admit to a certain amount of bias because I do have favorites) analyst of the game, I don’t get that much praise. People like to compliment you when you praise the player you like, but that is empty praise. What you just gave me is true praise which is something that I really appreciate. I do have to deal with bias and annoying people so it always helps when someone like you comes along and shows true appreciation because you are a true tennis fan yourself. The average tennis fan is a pretty ignorant, annoying, and selfish. They just want the player they are a fan of to do well and when they don’t they come up will all kinds of dumb and ridiculous excuses. I know there are only a few of us, so it’s always nice when someone like you who knows and appreciates the game comments here.
Charlie Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 8:33 pm With people like that the issue is they are closed minded. People choose to discard facts and well researched evidence in favour of their own, usually flawed analysis of a situation to decide their opinion. A common example is people who praise a tennis commentator if they say something complimentary about their favourite player, e.g. Federer fans when JMac initially said Federer was GOAT. Then when he changed to say Nadal he is ‘biased’ and ‘doesn’t understand tennis’ and when he reversed his decision again this Wimbledon he is back in the good books of the average Federer fan. Of course no one can claim to be perfectly unbiased as you quite rightly said in your previous comment, but the types of bias seen on most forums is pretty ridiculous towards one player or another. There are certain people who are biased but open-minded, and it is worth debating with them. But some people are so completely closed-minded that you may as well not even bother. The best thing to say to these people as you have been doing recently is to tell them to take their extreme views, closed-mindedness and bias elsewhere. There’s no shortage of fan blogs where you can praise your favourite player as much as you want with no fear of being challenged, and if people choose to live their lives without facing people with different viewpoints that is their decision. And as for the last bit of your comment about excuses, the thing you notice about tennis players and fans is that the better they get the less excuses they make. Less biased fans understand that losing is a part of being a fan, just as a good player understands it. Do you ever hear Federer or Djokovic or Nadal openly say (for example): “I played badly and lost but I was tired/injured)? That is what biased fans are like. Just takes all credit away from the other player, his team and his fans for supporting him. Very bad sportsmanship, so it is good that your blog does not allow it.
Ru-an Reply: August 28th, 2015 at 1:12 am Well said.
Nadal and Djoker in the same quarter; Nadal to play Coric first round. It should be interesting!
Bharata Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 7:14 pm Yes, I was wrong because I earlier predicted the draws are ‘partially’ rigged to ensure a dramatic Federer-Nadal quarter to get the US viewer interested. Actually Djokovic has a simpler half I think, he avoided Murray and Wawrinka. His biggest seed is Nishikori who probably will twist his ankle or something before the tournament starts Also he avoided Berdych, who is in Fed’s quarter. We all remember 2012. Interestingly Murray has Kygrios in his opener. That should be a lesson in manners..
Joe Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 7:57 pm I would have lost money betting as you said, that Roger and Nadal would be in the same quarter…
Krish Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 7:27 pm Wow, Nadal might even lose 1st Round if he’s not careful. The insurance will certainly be a spanking in the Quarterfinals. I’m not overly excited by Murray’s section – aside from Kyrgios, he may have to go through Wawrinka/Federer/Djokovic to win the thing, but I really doubt all the seedings will hold.
Joe Reply: August 27th, 2015 at 7:58 pm Good point Krish, it’s hard not to see the draw opening up.
Darrell Robbins
Hi Ruan, well obviously I want My boy Roger to win like I always do, but I’m interested and a lot of other things too, Djokovic having a chance to pull closer to evening his head to head with Nadal, hoping Donald Young does well. (He grew up in my city and was a big influence for us and I hate seeing him under perform), and this is kind of the last stand for the year for the less talked about top players (Gasquet, Dimitrov, Thiem, Kyrigos). But anyway, I’m curious, who would you say is Djokovics biggest rival. I thought about that today watching Pre US Open tennis highlights on YouTube
Darrell Robbins Reply: August 29th, 2015 at 8:06 pm And I mean right now and over the big picture of his entire career
Ru-an Reply: August 29th, 2015 at 9:51 pm Right now probably Stan, Murray, and Fed. Over his career Fedal.
Federer’s Shanghai 2013 Attire
Hi folks. I hope you all had a relaxing weekend. What do you think about the outfit? I’m not particularly impressed simply because of the color. I don’t have a problem with the design. I bet you guys are really starting to miss Roger by now. Just one more week now but check out my new blog The Tennis Analyst if you are missing tennis too much. I have covered Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur and will cover Beijing and Tokyo in the coming week as well. Djokovic and Nadal are back in Beijing and it will be interesting to see how Djokovic responds after another tough loss to Nadal in the US Open final. Can he fight back or has Nadal broken him mentally? I think he may struggle to beat Nadal again at least until the end of the year. We will see. Nadal said today it will be very hard to overtake Djokovic in the rankings which is of course nonsense.
I’m pretty sure Nadal will end the year ranked #1. With Murray out for the rest of the year as well it is hard to see anyone beat him if he keeps playing the way he has of late. Berdych goes back to #5 in the rankings tomorrow which means of course that Roger is back to #6. I would have liked to see Roger play Beijing or Tokyo as well as Stockholm or Paris given how little he has played this year. But of course we don’t know what his situation is. The fact that Murray is out for the rest of the season is definitely helping him. Did Murray not pull out Roger would have been in a battle with Stan and Gasquet to qualify for the Masters Cup and he would probably have been forced to play Beijing or Tokyo. Roger has played so little this year it is almost like he is semi-retired. But it means he doesn’t have many points to defend next year and I’m sure he is just resting up for another big onslaught in 2014.
With Tsonga back Roger may have to add Stockholm or Paris to his schedule if he wants to be sure to qualify for London. I guess he is waiting to see what happens in Shanghai where he has a semi to defend. The fact that he is back to #6 in the rankings means he won’t be seeded in the top 4 in Shanghai and can play Nadal or Djokovic in the quarters. He also has a final to defend in Basel. We will see how things pan out. I’d like to see him add one event just so he can get some more confidence going in the indoor season which has always been a good hunting ground for him. He needs some kind of platform he can launch another big season in 2014 from. It would be nice if he can end the year ranked in the top 5 too. Well that’s a wrap from me. Like I said keep an eye on my other blog(s) in the right sidebar if you’re gonna follow tennis in the next week or have an interest in spirituality.
Let me know your thoughts.
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I love the new color and I can’t wait to see Roger back on the courts. I haven’t been watching any tennis since the US Open. I also have been reading your other blog “The Tennis Analyst” which is quite enjoyable.
Thanks Chris! You should drop me a comment over there.
“With Tsonga back Roger may have to add Stockholm or Paris to his schedule if he wants to be sure to qualify for London.” According to his website, Paris is already in his schedule.
He just added it then. Good to see and expected.
Not sure if he added it or if it was there before. Different people telling me different things now.
Jiten Reply:
October 1st, 2013 at 2:14 am
He did not (have to) add that. It has been there before in his web-site right from the beginning of the season.
Yeah I figured that out. I got confused because he left out Basel at the start but then added it later. Good to see he is playing Basel and Paris. Looking forward to the indoor season for Fed!
I like the outfit. Something different than the usual one color shirt.
But somehow…. the shirt reminds me of Delpo or Hewitt……
I might get criticized for saying this but I feel that glamour and fashion have been an unnecessary distraction in the second half of his career.
He could still have had an excellent endorsement portfolio without being as fashion savvy as he is. It’s of course fine to be actively involved with one’s endorsements and dressing but Fed is so interested in fashion that the attention and limelight took his focus away from Fed the player. Ruan genuinely understands Fed’s game and career but there are many fans out there who just cheer him for the glamour aspect.
One aspect of Nadal that I appreciate although I just don’t trust him and his persona is that his entire focus has always been on one thing: winning the biggest tournaments. In the prime of his career, he never let any other concern such as fashion, image, the vagaries of media attention, sometimes even ATP rankings get in the way of his # 1 priority: Winning the biggest tournaments. It’s a different matter that he doesn’t also let fairplay, rules, sporting ethics or sportsmanship get in the way of his goals. For example, with all the talk about the possibility of his doping he comes back from whatever 7 month break it was, keeps a low profile and thereby keeps the media attention away from him and wins RG and USO. Whether or not he is doping, it would have been all too easy to get dragged into that talk and draw unnecessary attention toward himself. If Nadal knows one thing it is that at the end if you win the biggest tournaments your image takes care of itself. In modern sport, there is only one rule: the winner is the hero in every sense of the word. Look at how they gave him the stefan edberg sportsmanship award in 2008. I mean it’s a joke but you have to give credit to Nadal that for understanding that what matters is winning and he never gets carried away into anything else. He deliberately downplays his chances relentlessly. He rarely underestimates his opponents and is always on guard.
Fed deserves every bit of his stature as the embodiment and epitome of what a great tennis can be. But if he really and deeply wanted to consistently attain the heights he was capable of even in the second half of his career, he would have been better off without the cardigans, jackets, red shoes, Ann Wintnour and whatever else. IMO, all that added to his hubris and hurt his legacy in the end. Again, I repeat that it is his absolute prerogative and who am I to judge him anyway? But IF we are talking about the ‘Art of War’, on court fireworks on the biggest stages speak a lot louder than offcourt ones. He himself once said in 2006 in an interview explaining his success by something like ‘if you want to chase the money and celebrity you can forget about it’.
Dolores Reply:
October 1st, 2013 at 8:47 pm
Lob, your comment is well voiced, I liked what you say, much of it I agree with you. You are correct, Roger loves fashion, no doubt. You bring in the difference between Roger and Nadal’s success. There is another thought that I would like to add to your comment. To compare the two one needs to also keep in mind that Roger is a husband and father of two children. Nadal is free of any of these responsibilities, he is fancyfree, Roger not so anymore. Even though he has said that he keeps tennis and family separete. But how can he? Not possible. Whenever he has been travelling without his family, he has said he misses his family. This, in my mind separetes the two, Roger and Nadal. Will be anxious what Ru-an’s comment might be to your thoughts, Lob.
Ru-an knows who I am, a Grandma.
Whether my thoughts play a role in all this, I don’t know.
October 2nd, 2013 at 10:38 am
Of course your thoughts play a role Dolores! I just replied to lob.
Well first of all I don’t think Roger was necessarily chasing celebrity but you make some good points. The fashion stuff is just part of who he is. He is a stylish guy and looking good is important to him. You may as well say the same thing about Nadal who has made a music video with Shakira and had something to do with Rihanna as well if I remember correctly. Then that underwear collection and I’m sure many other things. Also it is clear that he has been chasing after the appearance fees, putting money in front of his physical well-being and scheduling badly.
Roger on the other hand turned down vast appearance fees on countless occasions because he values his health more than money. It’s easy now that he is past prime and not winning everything anymore to find fault with his approach, just as it is easy to praise Nadal because he is on a high. In the end I don’t find much merit in what you are saying. Roger is Roger and Nadal is Nadal. No need to make any judgments.
Katyani Reply:
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:57 pm
Hey Ru-an, I just have to comment on this. First of all I agree with all three of you. Roger is first tennis, but he also likes to look good and stylish.
But I don’t agree (with anybody for that matter) when they say Rafa was or is chasing money. I don’t know him personally of course, but from what I have seen and know about him, he really does not care about money. For him it is one thing only: winning. Way after that comes love for the sport. And somewhere at the end comes money.
Lets be honest, he does (from far) look better and more handsome than Roger.
(Trust me, NOT to me, but to most fans or female fans). If Rafa would care about money, he would have taken advantage of his body, his looks, his tan a long time ago. He would have those sponsor contracts that Roger has.
Rafa really does not care about his appearance. Otherwise he would have found a way to stop picking his b..tt.
Roger conducts himself like a gentleman off the court but also on the court. Rafa does not. He does not care that much about looking good or looking like a gentleman and stylish to land sponsor contracts. He is all in for the win.
Roger is different. He loves the game, but he also loves to dress nice and stylish and gentlemanlike.
For Rafa it is one thing and one thing only: winning. Atleast that is my opinion.
As much as I don’t like Rafa (and I don’t), I have to admit, he could have done more to become a “gentleman” like Roger and to make far more money.
Speaking of Roger… man, is it still not time for him to play???
The wait seems like forever. I miss seeing him smile and play tennis !!!
Hi Ru-an, just a quick note to respond to your blog on Roger’s Shanghai outfit. I do like it, how it will look on Roger we shall find out soon. All of us, Fedfans in particular, are excited about his first appearance in a long while, so it seems. From what I have read, he is in Shanghai already. Your blog is great, particularly like the picture of Roger and his girls that goes with it. Thank You! Also, have visited your other site and like it, too. Keep up the good work, Ru-an.
Thanks Dolores I appreciate it.
MJ-Ruban
can’t help sharing the goat comment by Jondos in response to the article named “Tennis ‘likely’ to change anti-doping rules after Viktor Troicki case” on CNN : “This is GREAT news! Why don’t we weaken the doping rules because the players don’t like them? They are so burdensome and intrusive and inconvenient. Forget that the rules are put in place to protect the FANS from players who might cheat with steroids and the like! Here is a STUPENDOUS idea! Let us forget about anti-doping altogether. Who needs a clean sport, legitimacy, credibility? Let the other sports fight over that. Tennis can be the sport that actually PROMOTES steroid use and HGH and PEDs. Nadal and Williams and Troicki and Cilic, and Odesink, wouldn’t have to deal with those ugly RUMORS any more. Tennis could even go one step further. Oh, they could have displays at the tournaments. Educational ones, of course! There could be one tent for adults and one tent to teach children. One tent where you can buy the designer PEDs that Nadal uses or Federer or Djokovic or Serena! Imagine buying the sneakers AND THE DOPE that your favorite star uses! They could allow the people to take the steroids and show them how their new serve or forehand will look. The children could be given literature about incremental usage and adapting to how their game and size could dramatically change. They could be wrapped in bright colors like candy and gum. We don’t want to tell anyone about the possible side effects though. THAT would be counter productive! Oh, I long for the day where the tennis court might be adorned with signs and endorsements from our favorite, currently banned, drugs. Nikethamide, Testostorone, Adrafinil, Ephedrine, oh and imagine the money that could be made from all of this, yes the money, I said the money, that is right, MONEY!”
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/02/sport/tennis/tennis-doping-troicki-itf/index.html?hpt=isp_c2
Federer Spotted at Dubai Players Party Sporting New Hairstyle and Doing Diaper Duty….
I found some pictures at Mens Tennis Forum for you where Roger made a quick appearance at the players party, and he had a haircut as well. It’s quite short, which makes him look younger. Seems like the birds were also flocking to the man I’m not so sure about those big nosed portraits, but it looks pretty funny 😆 At the bottom you will see a pic of Roger on diaper duty
Ps. Roger updated his Facebook profile http://www.facebook.com/Federer?ref=ts
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aarrghhh cute thanks for the pix!
Dippy
Cool, gosh the wait painfulllll!!!!!!!!!
I like Roger´s hair short.Nice to see him in the party Infection is not contagious? What a terrifying portrait.Funny to see Roger´s face, he´s polite, but thinking”it´s awful”.
simple_mee
Wow! So sweet! Thank u so much for the pics. Roger looks so handsome in this new hair-do….
tanx, man. that’s cute… See? there is loads of stuff to post about, even if he isn’t playing haha…
Ru-an Reply: February 25th, 2010 at 4:57 pm Lol yeah we’ll see
Ru-an Reply: February 26th, 2010 at 1:12 am Btw Tristan i see you havnt signed up for the newsletter which you requested. Can you see it in the right side bar?
Federer Scores 200th Clay Win Over Nieminen in Istanbul
Federer vs Nieminen
So Roger notched up his 200th career win on clay today with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Nieminen in the second round of the inaugural Istanbul Open. I watched and although it was not an awfully exciting match at least Roger got another win on clay under his belt after the Monte Carlo blunder. With a head-to-head of 14-0 between the two Nieminen was never gonna trouble Roger, but at least he put up better resistance in the second set and made Roger work a little harder.
Nieminen has about as many weapons as Wozniacki which means he provides Roger with a good practice hit basically. As far as Roger’s game goes he served well with 63% first serves and 9 aces, but he made too many unforced errors off the ground. Fortunately for him it was just Nieminen so he didn’t pay for it. Roger will play Gimeno-Traver in the quarterfinals who he has never played before and who is just about your standard Spanish dirt baller.
The Spaniard has never won an ATP title in his life and sits at #62 in the rankings. Roger’s draw is now even easier on paper than it was at the outset because Gimeno-Traver defeated the 6th seed Kukushkin with ease. It looks like Roger will stroll to the title here which he should do if he wants to become a factor in the clay court season. The most difficult opponent he can face is Dimitrov who has had a pretty pathetic season so far. I won’t even be surprised if he loses before the final.
The Young Guns
As far as the youngsters go this week Alexander Zverev had a first round win over Becker but then lost to Kohschreiber. Kyrgios also won his first round in Estoril in the third set tie-break and just defeated his second round opponent too. Coric also won his first round in Estoril against 6th seed Chardy but plays his second round tomorrow. Finally, Thiem survived his first round in Munich by the skin of his teeth as he defeated Pospisil 9-7 in the third set tie-break. He plays Fognini tomorrow which should be very interesting.
The youngsters are coming!
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Gargantouas
Great post Ru-an. Judging by the highlights, the court seems to play fast. Do you reckon too?
April 30th, 2015 at 10:16 am
Thank you Gargantouas. Yes, the clay doesn’t look very slow or anything.
Good morning, Ru-an! Now that is what I call a PROPER pic, Ru-an! Yeah, you’re right, I can’t deal with another Serbian fist pump in my face, especially in the morning, Ru-an! hehehe! Thank you! Couldn’t watch the match but so glad Roger won. About Madrid over Rome, what I meant was that Roger is confirmed to play Madrid but he is not sure about Rome. My observation is that Rome plays more similar to RG and therefore better prep for RG. And Dolores, I totally agree, it is a SIN to cut his locks! He hasn’t won significant titles since losing his locks!! His locks are his trademark and his lucky charm!! Can’t even recognise him sometimes with his combed up hair, ugh!
Good morning, Veronica. I’m glad you like the pic but it won’t stay that way so enjoy it while it lasts! I think Roger should play both Madrid and Rome but that’s just me.
Veronica Reply:
April 30th, 2015 at 12:31 pm
Yeah I think he should play both; especially if he doesn’t go deep. He said he wasn’t sure about Rome. Im thinking if he had to choose between Madrid and Rome, the latter would be a better choice as it’s more similar to RG. Many people have commented about the fast Istanbul courts, that it is not quite playing like clay. If that is true, Roger would not be getting much clay practice, (as he specifically said he is not comfortable and need to play more on clay) because Istanbul and Madrid may not be the best prep for RG.
Well, three weeks in a row is quite a lot but then it depends on how deep he goes in Madrid. This is the reason he plays Madrid, because he’d like to play both Madrid and Rome but if he goes all the way in Madrid then he may feel the need to skip Rome. Anyway, if Roger doesn’t play Rome he will still have like two weeks to prepare in Paris so he should be fine.
A much less straightforward match today for Federer. He returned poorly and shanked on a lot of key points. Somehow he lost the second set despite winning eight more points than Gimeno-Traver, but he regrouped for the third and finished strong, showing considerable mental toughness. He needs these kinds of matches to get rhythm on the clay. Hopefully, he’ll be able to clean it up for the next couple matches.
Wouldn’t count out Dimitrov. He got his first win over Djokovic on clay (after being a set and 5-2 down!), so he can play very well on the surface. If he’s in the final, it won’t be easy for Federer (although of course Federer has to win one more match to make the final as well).
Bharata
I didn’t see the match today, any comments on it? Was Traver playing nothing to lose tennis, or was Federer a bit sloppy? The danger of course is getting too tired after a 2 hour match.
The blog looks great !! Btw Federer got the most difficult draw I have ever seen for a Masters 1000. Krygios, Isner, Berdych, Nadal, Nishikori/Raonic/Monfils/Murray. The only saving grace is that Djokovic is not gonna be in a final if it comes to that.
Federer’s Back Problem
I’m back guys. I missed a post this week when Roger played against De Bakker so I owe you one. But since I have some time and the subject of this post is an important one, I probably would have made this post regardless. Roger’s back. That’s right. Roger’s back is something that has bothered him for a long time now. In fact it may have always bothered him. I read somewhere that it has been a problem for him since he was a kid. That makes sense because it definitely is not an injury. It’s not an injury that he picked up somewhere that can be treated and healed. It is similar to Nadal’s knee issue. It’s a chronic problem. I used to have lower back problems when I was playing tennis too. It wasn’t something that I could ever get rid of. It was just something I had to live with and manage as well as I could.
I think this is the case for Roger too. I am not speaking from an expert point of view and I don’t have all the facts about Roger’s back, just for the record. But this is what seems to be the case judging from what I have seen from Roger over the years and from my own experience with back problems too. I don’t think this is something he will ever get rid of completely. He will just have to manage it as well as he can. Give it adequate rest and treatment and try to make the muscles stronger where there is a weakness. The back muscles is very important for a tennis player. There is a lot of twisting and turning and stretching going on. It is also important on the serve where Roger’s problem seems to be. This goes back to my last post where I just could not explain Roger’s performance against Benneteau until one of my readers left a comment.
The comment said that Annacone mentioned Roger had been struggling with his back throughout the week in Rotterdam. Also I read somewhere that Roger had not practiced for Rotterdam until last Sunday. On top of that he was playing with two shirts in Melbourne in his last two matches as far as I can remember. So I think it’s pretty safe to say he was having problems with his back against Benneteau. So yes my post was off base to a certain extent. But if you have been following my blog for a long time you will know that I am similar to Roger in many ways. First of all I am very honest, and like Roger I don’t ever look for excuses. Roger never mentioned anything about his back in his presser. I have a lot of respect for that. He was rather looking at where he went wrong and crediting his opponent, rather than blaming his back. This is the attitude of a true champion.
But there is no doubt in my mind now that his injury caused him to lose. When you are injured you can’t give 100%, and that would perfectly explain why Roger looked like he was lacking his usual passion. That injury is always in the back of your mind because you don’t want to make it worse. That would also explain Roger’s body language. He looked kind of nonchalant, like he was almost in exho mode. Come to think of it, my last post wasn’t really of base. Like Roger, my approach has always been to criticize myself first and then look for excuses. It may seem like I am being too harsh on myself or on Roger, but that is just the way I do things. Now that I know about the back problem it is obvious to me the fault is not with Roger, I am going to say it. I have total faith in Roger 3.0 and I know he is not going to put in a performance like this if there wasn’t a serious problem.
Roger with some fans in Rotterdam. Funny look on his face.
On the one side I am happy to have found an explanation for his loss against Benneteau, but on the other hand his back worries me somewhat. If he didn’t practice until Sunday it means he had two weeks rest after Melbourne where he could have gotten treatment for his back. Yet it still bothered him all week according to Annacone. I thought Roger made a great start to the season in Melbourne and he was primed to win Rotterdam. So his back is certainly not helping his momentum at the start of the season. Rotterdam is one of the few indoor events and those are the ones Roger really needs to cash in on. Also, the excuses about his family and not caring about smaller events really need to stop. I think Roger has proven that his family is not an obstacle in his tennis career. If anything it makes him better.
Also he clearly cares about the smaller events. Why else would he have won 5 of them last year? They are important to help him keep his ranking and to give him an unbeatable aura, so that when he goes into the slams it makes things easier for him. I said in my last post that he may have to play Miami, but now that I heard about his back that will probably not be a good idea. With his back problems a limited schedule is even more important. Next up for him is Dubai in about a week where he is defending another title, and then a week later he is also defending his title in Indian Wells. I hear Murray won’t be in Dubai so I hope Roger can make at least the final there so that we can have a Djokerer final. I really hope his back will be better for Dubai, but I guess there are no guarantees. I suppose as Roger gets older his back is becoming more of an issue too.
But it doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. We will just have to wait and see. Maybe it will bother him more from now on. Maybe it won’t. We can just hope for the best. As for the Rotterdam final Del Potro beat Benneteau 7-6(2), 6-3. I wasn’t interested in watching. I was more interested in the Sao Paolo final where Nadal was facing Nalbandian. I thought Nalbandian had a good chance winning this after an impressive win over Almagro in the quarters. But he got hammered 6-2, 6-3 by Nadal in the final. It was disappointing and I guess Nadal is not doing badly on his comeback, although he has been looking vulnerable. He lost against Zeballos in the Vina del Mar final and have been dropping sets all over the place. He was also doing his usual ‘I’m not the favorite’ thing before the Sao Paolo final and then goes on to destroy his opponent.
Also he complained about the surface speed before the final, saying Sao Paolo is faster than the US Open. So his downplaying his own chances combined with excuses seemed to work to the tee for him as he scooped up another clay title and $2 mil in appearance fees. I guess it’s really tough being Nadal with all the injury problems he has had and the ATP conspiring against him by making all the courts slower these days. Well it hasn’t exactly been the weekend of tennis I’ve been hoping for but at least we know Roger had a good reason for losing now. Lets hope his back is ready for Dubai!
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The back should be better in Dubai since it’s very hot there. It seems to act up more in colder weather (it was cool at the AO I think).
Yes it was. Good point.
Vily
Hey Guys. I am a bit more skeptical than you. It may be that Roger is really coming of that 3.0 status. One of the main characteristics of Roger 3.0 was that he was winning those close matches, following up with easy wins afterwards and getting his hands on those titles.
I read that he is going to South Africa for a few days to support his organization. To me, it shows that he is not 100% commited and that his mind is occupied with something else. He’s no longer interested in going back to Number 1 and to him it doesn’t matter if he is ranked 2,3 or 4 in the world.
I hope I am wrong but I started seeing this towards the end of last year when he lost to Murray in Shanghai, then lost to Del Potro both in Basel and in London.
Now he lost to Benneteau. Who knows what might happen in Dubai.
In any case, he is just cruising right now and there is no urgency and passion in his play. In AO 2013 it was different and after the loss to Murray I predicted that this would happen. He really wanted to win that title and now thar he didn’t there is a low point which I expected.
It may last until Madrid.
Kyle Reply:
The motivation is still there I’m sure. He lost to Haas last year in Halle in similar fashion and we all know what happened after that. If he did indeed have trouble with his back, then it will get better for Dubai and he’ll give it his all to win there, and at IW. Those are the only tournaments he’ll play until Madrid which is over a month away after IW so he’ll have plenty of time to practice.
Fedfan Reply:
Hey Vily,
as a Federer fan, first thing is do not doubt the master! until the day he leaves the game, I’ve learnt my lesson too many times, be a bit more optimistic, Roger knows what he is doing, he’s got the best judgement of any athlete so don’t be too worried!
Well I certainly do NOT believe Roger 3.0 has abandoned him and us. Roger 3.0 was playing the first four rounds of the AO against some tough opponents, pretty impressive for the start of the season. It’s all about WHEN AND WHERE Roger 3.0 shows up. 3.0 has to make an appearance at latter stages of tournaments and slams in particular consecutively. Will it be tough? Yep but is it possible? Of course. Roger is pretty good in playing his best in the bigger moments so I’m sure Roger 3.0 is still there waiting to come out when the time is right (I personally believe this Roger will be making a full appearance it at the US Open but we shall see). Dw dude, he can’t always be that Roger and 2.0 is even pretty good, he just can’t win everything so need to take that perspective.
South Africa is a good thing for a number of reasons:
1) Helps his image as an ambassador which is really important as just being a tennis player, he hasn’t had time to go out for his foundation so I think this will be great. Roger is South African remember so maybe he has family over there and has a tonne of fans to meet, what’s not to love.
2) Wants to take his mind off the loss and his BACK issues. This will help him regroup, refocus for Dubai and give him the extra motivation needed if so.
Roger is very committed but he is also committed to the philanthropic side as well, gotta balance the two out in a way. Roger will be back in time to get ready for Dubai, we don’t know what the whole story is with his back so he may need to rest up…
Vily we cannot expect Roger to win everything he enters anymore. Roger was mentally drained at the end of last season and was very very close against Djokovic in London, that match was on his racquet for sure. The Australian Open was a positive tournament for him despite the loss to Murray. Yes you could see how badly he wanted to win in Australia but that just proves that he is more motivated than ever at the tournaments that mean the most to him now! At 31 to play back to back five setters and show the fight left, we are being too greedy of Roger.
“It may last until Madrid”
Not at all. Roger’s grit in Australia proved how hungry he still is. Just because he lost early in Rotterdam we cannot base his whole season on this one loss, it’s just not right by any means. If he plays his best (injury barring) and gives it everything he has in Dubai and Indian Wells there’s no reason to feel disappointed. I think Roger will be ok for Dubai and if gets the rest he needs for his back and the weather and a good draw is going his way well then could be just what he needs!
Hope this helped to give you a new perspective
Fedfan.
Vily Reply:
Thank you for the replies and your comments. When I said that it may last until Madrid, I was referring to the low point.
I believe that after IW and a month of rest and proper practice, Roger will come back stronger and be ready for Roland Garros and Wimbledon.
What I am trying to say is that last year, which was special, and even before that, post US Open 2011, Roger was on fire. He was closing matches and was winning matches that perhaps he should have lost.
I don’t want to jump the gun and I will be proven wrong if Roger manages to win Dubai, but last year I was confident and rooting for him.
This year is slightly different.
I think that Roger felt the same. He wanted the culmination of his efforts to be that Australian Open Title. But a combination of factors – tough draw, slight lack of confidence, combined with the brutal wear and tear of the consecutive 5 setters in AO left him with empty handed. Yes, he played amazingly and should be proud of his achievements, but looking forward, he only managed to defend his SF appearance.
He already felt like that if he won the AO he can crash afterwards until Madrid. Now that he didn’t win, he just doesn’t feel like going the extra mile just to defend his titles in Rotterdam, Dubai and IW.
I thought that if he somehow pushed himself to lift that Rotterdam title, the hunger might come back and he might defend the DUBAI title also but now I feel that is less likely.
To me, that shows that Roger is just not at that 3.0 level.
He’ll still play amazingly in the slams, but in those lesser events he might not give the extra effort.
I really hope I’ll be wrong but I just have this feeling. It will change when April and May come around.
Until then we have to hope that he manages to make those finals and SF appearances in Dubai and SF so that he doesn’t lose it all very quickly.
Maybe, just maybe if he does get there he might have something extra.
The next couple of weeks will tell us a lot about the state of Roger’s game. I feel that he is sitting way to comfortable for my liking and that he’ll slip to Number 3 very soon unless he changes something.
Nadal is on the come back and Roger has to watch out.
But nonetheless, when the Slams come around, I expect Roger to be at his best.
I feel however, that his best will probably come around in the summer and maybe at the US Open. We’ll see.
ruan and fellow fed-fans,
i’m from california, and indian wells at night can be quite chilly. like ruan, i too suffer from lower back pain (but unlike him, i’m a mere 4.5 recreational player), and do manage to still play quite a lot by resting, stretching etc–i imagine roger is getting the best care possible and that he will play well the next time around. the challenge now in my view is for him to keep up great form over the course of two long weeks of a major. that’s where i see the difference. my dream is that he beat nadal again at a major to quell all the rumors of him not being able to win his nemesis. and if it’s on clay that would be even sweeter. given that nadal is slipping in the rankings rapidly, my sense is that this year’s french open may see a completely different set of players in the final.
i meant “win against his nemesis” above. and to clarify, nadal’s lower rankings means that he may run into federer, murray and/or djokovic well before the semi-finals, which will only make things interesting. if it’s the two young turks, we can predict a tedious slugfest that will last five hours and leave the winner too depleted for the next match!!
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Federer is plenty motivated. His game is lacking at the moment, and if his game is lacking, motivation alone won’t do the job.
Who can say what really happened in Rotterdam? Fast indoor courts make it easy for a very aggressive player to blow away the opponent. In a best-of-three format, five bad minutes can decide a match. And Benneteau is a player with a great all-court game, lots of variety and a great serve. If he had better mental strength, he’d be top twenty at least.
For these reasons, and because Federer only played six matches going into Rotterdam (as opposed to nine last year), I don’t think we can draw any definitive conclusions. There are just too many unknowns involved. It could just be a freak loss, which did happen to him a couple times even in 2004-05.
Perhaps if Federer had drawn Benneteau instead of Davydenko last year in Rotterdam, he wouldn’t have made it back from a set and a break down, and he wouldn’t have had the confidence to go on that winning run that allowed him to reclaim #1 last year.
Conversely, if Federer had snuck past Benneteau this year, maybe his back would have gotten better by the semis and he’d have left Rotterdam with the trophy–assuming his back is the issue, and not something else. Who knows?
He’s got the right attitude, just taking some time off to deal with his other commitments before he goes to prepare for Dubai. He trains in Dubai so he doesn’t really have to acclimate himself too much.
I’ve said before I’m hoping for Federer to make a great clay-court run and then take that momentum onto the grass. All the talk is about how he can only win on the fast courts in his “old age”, so I want him to win on slow courts to prove that he is still the master of all surfaces.
He may defend one of his spring hard-court titles, or he may not. He may even lose Madrid and win Rome. Any combination is possible.
As for Nadal, if you want me to believe the Beast is dead, show me the body. He just crushed Nalbandian for his first title since coming back, so he looks pretty spry to me. Being counted out is just what he and Uncle Toni want, so he can slip into Roland Garros as the underdog (as if a 7-time champ could EVER go into a tournament as the underdog). Far as I’m concerned he will be back to full strength by RG.
So I remain quite optimistic. It would be hard to replicate his winning run of last spring, but he need not do so to have a successful year. As long as he can get to the semis of most tournaments, he should be in good shape for when his game comes together. And I have no doubt that it will by late spring.
February 19th, 2013 at 1:52 am
Steve I choose to believe that this was purely a back issue. The person who first left a comment about this issue on my blog said Annacone said Roger was struggling with his back all week. I could not confirm that but if it is true then the answer is obvious. But there is other proof like the fact that he didn’t train until last Sunday, the fact that he was wearing two shirts at the AO, the fact that Rotterdam had cold weather, and even just the fact that he has had back problems before. Having seen Roger at the AO I can’t accept that he lost to Benneteau without a physical problem. He is still too motivated and he badly wanted to win Rotterdam. I am surprised when I read comments on my blog that says otherwise. Disappointed in fact. You and me know how motivated and professional Roger 3.0 is. I refuse to believe any of the excuses that he was not motivated or that Roger 3.0 left us etc. Utter nonsense.
Bharata Reply:
I also tried to find some report of what Amacone said about an injury but failed. At any rate I watched the match . Federer (as pointed out before here) was grunting on his 2nd serves, which he rarely does. Since the 2nd serves have a lot of twisting to get that extra bit of top/side spin, it suggests he was in pain. He also grabbed his back a few times, even after winning a point.
I am worried this could be a serious back problem, but hopefully he can manage it. I am looking forward to him defending in Dubai or at least pushing Djokovic.
As for Nadal the above poster is 100% right. Uncle Toni and the rest will be claiming he’s the underdog now for the rest of the year. It will be tough to stomach listening to that act of pressure-deflection. I just hope Ferrer can hang on to 4. THen Nadal might land in another quarter than Fed’s and have to deal with one of the other top 3.
Great blog and excellent analysis as usual.
Ru-an, hope you are doing well and have a bit of time to watch Federer over the weekend.
It was mildly frightening that Federer lost a set in the first round, but he came good in the end. Jaziri never really looked like he had enough to beat Federer (he’d been off the tour with injury for the last six months) so ultimately it might have been a good thing for Federer to be forced to play that extra set. It looked like a pretty routine match against Granollers.
Tomic and Tsonga are out, so Davydenko and Berdych are the only obstacles to an eighth Dubai final and a shot at his sixth title. Davydenko could be dangerous in best-of-three, if he’s playing well, and Berdych is always tough for Federer. Not easy for Federer even to get to the title fight. Hope he can go all the way, though!
Yes Steve I will have some time to watch this weekend. So hopefully Roger makes the final this time. That way I can at least see two matches. Shame the final has to be on Saturday.
Federer Says Visit to Ethiopia was ‘Cleansing Experience’ and Thinks that He’ll be Back in Indian Wells
http://www.rogerfederer.com/en/fanzone/forum/topicview.cfm?uNC=36334092&uPage=107&uTopicID=30251
Above is a link to two articles which I will post below. The article about Roger’s visit to Ethiopia does not have a link with it, and the link to the article where he says he should be ready for Indian Wells does not work. It’s at the RF.com so if you are not a member I will spare you the trouble of creating an account. Thanks to lovely and mustaq for posting this:
Roger Federer: “I just enjoy doing what I can to help.”
By Daniel Huber, Credit Suisse eMagazine
The Roger Federer Foundation has been supporting school projects in Africa since 2003. In mid-February, Federer personally visited one of these schools in Ethiopia. In this interview, he explains why even as a 22-year-old he always wanted to set up his own foundation. He also tells us what affected him the most on this visit to one of the world’s poorest countries.
Daniel Huber: You set up the Roger Federer Foundation back in 2003. How does a young professional who is only 22 years of age at the time manage to achieve something like that?
Roger Federer: I knew from very early on that I wanted to be actively involved along these lines. At the same time, I was often being asked to give various kinds of support even then. So I began to wonder: Where do I want to be five or ten years from now? I realized that I’d rather support projects that are designed in accordance with my own ideals than simply doing a bit here and a bit there. Basically, it was also important for me to start on something small-scale that could grow in tandem with my sporting success. So, the more success I achieved the more money I could generate for the foundation. But our main objective isn’t to raise as much money as possible in as short a time as possible and then spend it again; instead, we’re actually pursuing a long-term approach with the foundation. I know a lot of people who are frightened off by the idea of organizing a foundation such as this. For me, it’s become an important sideline in my life – one I really enjoy.
And how much money does the foundation spend each year?
We’ve now reached around 650,000 Swiss francs.
Is it just you supporting the foundation in financial terms?
No, it’s not just me. We also get support from private donors and generate additional money from the sale of calendars and other Roger Federer Foundation items. Recently, we’ve also been getting a substantial contribution from Credit Suisse, our new partner.
How do you go about choosing projects?
We always have a number of requests to discuss at our meetings. We then examine them based on clear guidelines before coming to a decision. To put it very simply, we want to do something to improve education for children in the poorest countries of Africa. As far as we’re concerned, it’s especially important to educate girls because they’re still particularly disadvantaged in these countries. It’s also important for us to be helping people to help themselves. If a project is almost entirely dependent on funds from donors, there’s always a risk of excessive concentration. We generally support projects lasting three to eight years.
And why are all your projects in Africa?
You can’t be everywhere at once. As with life in general, you need to make decisions about these things. For me, it was important we send out a clear message with the foundation and that we move systematically in a specific direction. Clearly, my personal closeness to South Africa – the country my mother comes from – played a role at the outset. That’s why our first project was also in South Africa. But we’ve now extended our commitments right across the continent, supporting projects in six countries there (Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe).
Critics will say there are also many poor children and a lot of hardship in Switzerland too, so why isn’t Roger Federer helping out the needy in Switzerland?
The question obviously boils down to what you mean by poor. For me, someone is poor if they never or hardly ever get the chance to attend school and are only just managing to get by. We don’t have problems like that in Switzerland. On the other hand, I do play a fairly active role in young people’s sport in Switzerland. Through the foundation, I support the Swiss Sport Aid Foundation’s sponsorship program, which gives a financial helping hand to talented youngsters in sports like karate, badminton, fencing, and mountain biking.
How much work do you put in for the foundation?
In terms of time, my involvement is pretty minimal right now and confined to a few meetings a year, as I need to be relatively careful about conserving my energy. But after – or perhaps even toward the end – of my professional tennis career, I can easily imagine playing a much more active role in the foundation. But in principle there’s more to the foundation than just me as the chairman – we’ve got a whole team, most importantly my parents and our CEO Christoph Schmocker. They currently do the bulk of the work. What I do a lot, obviously, is talk with people that I meet about the foundation and try to get them to support us. I also had the idea of this special calendar: In the end we managed to sell 19,000 copies of it, generating revenues of around 250,000 Swiss francs. We also auction special items of mine on the website. Last year this raised almost 200,000 Swiss francs in total.
For your one-day visit, you left glamorous Dubai to travel to one of the world’s poorest countries. How do you deal personally with the enormous chasm between these two worlds?
Seeing things like that always has a very big emotional impact on me. Something happens to me. I get quite upset about it. On the other hand, the visit proved to be a cleansing experience for me. Somehow I felt much lighter afterward. But the main thing wasn’t the fact that I helped with this project; it was more about getting confirmation that it was the right project. Obviously, I have these charitable commitments because I feel a need to give some of my success back to the poor people of this world. But basically I also really enjoy doing it. I don’t want to exaggerate things. I just enjoy doing what I can to help. Not just me, the whole team. For example, my parents spend around 50 percent of their time doing charitable work.
What did you take home with you from this visit?
First and foremost, it was about doing an official check on the status of the project on behalf of the foundation. But the visit also gave me as an individual an opportunity to gain an impression of a very fascinating country. The scenery is incredibly beautiful, you know. I’d already read some things about the country prior to the trip, but I was actually bowled over by it. I never expected it to be so green. I had an image of an austere, desert-like landscape. But in such a gigantic country you realize that there are also very different climate zones. Also, I wasn’t fully aware beforehand that we would constantly be above 2,300 meters. This altitude is somehow special and you can really feel it. I was also very impressed by the people, who gave us such a warm, heartfelt welcome and are also very proud.
And what’s your impression of the school?
I got a very good impression there too. The teachers and local project managers seem to be doing good work. At any rate, it seems to be going well for the children. Even when the T-shirts were being distributed and things got slightly boisterous, the people in charge calmly kept everything under control. Similar situations have gotten ugly, in my experience. I also really liked the fact that the children are clearly into sport in a big way. Throughout our visit children were always playing football, table tennis or volleyball – simply out of love for the game.
Federer looking for full fitness by Indian Wells
Roger Federer, speaking to Swiss tabloid Blick, says he is optimistic that he will be fully fit by Indian Wells after missing Dubai with a lung infection.
“This is not like the mononucleosis two years ago, where there was a lot of uncertainty. I think I’ll start back in Indian Wells, and when I start, I will be healthy and fit,” he said. “But as I said, it’s only possible if I get the green light physically [from the doctors]. The worst cases prognosis is a break of six weeks.”
Federer said he first felt ill last Tuesday. “After the Australian Open I took it fairly easy… so there’s no question of it being from strain. Last Tuesday, I practiced and it quickly went downhill. I felt chills, fever, a lot of pain in my ribs and couldn’t breather normally.
“The fatigue is still there, though it’s slowly getting better.”
The world No. 1 is scheduled to play a ‘Hit for Haiti’ exhibition match at Indian Wells on March 12, along with Rafael Nadal, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. Federer said he “will do everything” to try to play the event. “The people of Haiti need our help urgently,” he said.
Some interesting things here. It looks like Roger could well have picked up his lung infection in Ethiopia, because it started after he was there. But after having read the article about Ethiopia, I was glad that he went nonetheless. For someone like Roger who lives a charmed life, it can be easy to get caught up in a fantasy world which is removed from some of the harsh realities of life, so all credit to him for doing these kind of trips. Not surprising then that he felt it was a cleansing trip, because he will feel more in touch with reality now. I think many rich people are tempted to just ignore these kind of realities, and therefore they live in a kind of denial. Also it’s great to see that Roger thinks he will be back in Indian Wells. It’s a bit unfortunate that he missed Dubai, but these kind of experiences is important to be a balanced person. and will help his career in the long run.
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Congratulations for changing your tune.
February 27th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
steve Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 8:02 pm
I think his philantropic work is great but the truth about Ethiopia and his infection is the truth, I bought
the calendar for the 2° year to contribute.
Nice to hear he will be in IW.,I´ve read that Roddick was going to replace him at he Hit for Haiti event.Hope
he makes a completely and fast recovery.
February 28th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Ever humble Roger, though he fell sick I think its a worthwhile trip for him
Hows it going Ruan? Not been on much recently, real life is taking over just now but I will have a few months off in June/July to enjoy Wimby and the French.
I stumbled across a post on menstennisforum recently which has someone Im sure is you, calling someone called habiko a racist.
Just wondering what the story is there?
Hey Paul, long time no see. Been wondering where you were.
Why would you think its me and yeah its possible. There are many racists in MTF.
Glenda Ollero
I appreciate the change of heart.
Federer’s 10 Best Matches of the Decade
I’ve already done Roger’s 5 best matches of 2009, but now it’s time to look back at the whole decade as the end of it is fast approaching. Starting with that breakthrough win against Sampras at Wimbledon in 2001, which has since been called ‘The Changing of the Guard’, Roger has played some awe inspiring matches throughout this decade. There are so many matches to choose from that this is not an easy list to compile. I have to take many things into account, including the significance of the match in terms of Roger’s career, how well he played on the day, and the heart he showed in a match. I have compiled a list of ten matches, in no particular order, and in the end I will let you vote on it.
Wimbledon 2009 Final vs Roddick 5-7, 7-6(6), 7-6(5), 3-6, 16-14 (The Fairytale)
I have already written about this match in my top 5 matches of 2009. Roger was not at his best during this match, but the way he hung in there and came up with the goods when it mattered most was extraordinary. He made great escapes in both the second and fifth set, and in the process fulfilled his destiny by winning the most grand slam titles in history. Together with the 2008 Wimbledon final, this was one for the ages. Just a titanic struggle with a fairytale ending. Roger’s serve was what kept him in this match while the rest of his game was sub par. He ended with a peRFect 50 aces, out acing maybe the biggest server in tennis by 23 aces.
Wimbledon 2008 Final vs Nadal 4-6, 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(8), 7-9 (The GOAT Match)
This match is many people’s pick for best match of all time, therefor I have no choice but to put it on the list. The problem for me is not only that Roger lost, but for me he just wasn’t at his best. The first two sets from Roger was sub par. Roger was still suffering the after effects of a bout of monocluosis that got him off to a poor start in 2008. I don’t know how long it takes to recover from mono, but even if he was 100% recovered, it was the loss of confidence that was the problem. Roger was not himself throughout the 2008 season, with the exception of the US Open where he made short work of Andy Murray in the final. Before the Wimbledon final against Rafa, Roger had also suffered his worst loss yet to Rafa in the French Open final, 1-6, 3-6, 0-6.
That definitely did not help his confidence either going into Wimbledon. Therefor I can’t say with 100% certainty that this was the best match off all time. It never looked to me like Roger was going to win. That is not necessarily the reason that it can’t be the best match of all time, but you would hope that the best match ever was not decided by the loss of form from a certain player. Roger did very well to fight back after losing the first two sets, and the match had almost everything in it. It was definitely one of the best matches of all time.
French Open 2009 Fourth Round vs Haas 6-7(4), 5-7, 6-4, 6-0, 6-2 (The Great Escape)
This match I also talked about before. It was definitely not pretty in the first two sets from Roger, but as you can see I have now called this match The Great Escape. Once again I’d have to say that Roger had a lot in common with another legend during this match. His name was Harry Houdini, the escape artist. This guy could apparently escape from anything, some people say he even escaped his own death. On this day Roger reminded me a lot of Houdini, especially when he was a virtual match point down in the third set. The inside out forehand winner he hit on that point is one of Roger’s signature shots, and that particular shot will be edged in our memories forever. It basically won him that match and the French Open. You won’t find Roger hitting a more important winner in his career than that.
This match showed the heart and determination of Roger more than any other. It also showed his guile and escape artistry more than any other. Therefor it is not always playing well or playing beautifully that matters, but showing grit and determination when things are not going your way.
Madrid 2009 Final vs Nadal 6-4, 6-4 (The Rebirth)
A clinical, clean performance if there ever was one. I call this match The Rebirth because Roger rose from the ashes through this performance. It was his rebirth after being in a slump since the start of 2008. Many thought he would never come out of that slump, never mind doing the French Open/Wimbledon double this year. This win came at exactly the right time for Roger. He had peaked at just the right time, while Rafa and Djokovic was dominating the clay season up until that point. When the French Open came around, both Rafa and Djokovic was upset early on, while Roger snatched up the title. It all seemed to be part of this master plan, or as though the universe was conspiring for Roger to finally lift the French Open trophy. Whatever you want to call it, this match is where Roger emerged from the shadows and stepped out into the light.
It was a huge turning point in Roger’s career which allowed him to fulfill his destiny as a tennis player. But not only that, it was a beautiful performance, against his main rival, in front of a fanatical home crowd, and on the Spaniards favorite surface. If ever Roger played a cool match, this was it. He even threw in a second serve ace when down a break point in the final game of the match for good measure. And when the match was done, Roger acted as if it was just another day at the office. Yet it was a very significant match.
Wimbledon 2001 Fourth Round vs Sampras 7-6(7), 5-7, 6-4, 6-7(2), 7-5 (Changing of the Guard)
Up until this match in Roger’s career he had always been a very promising young talent. I for one was very impressed by this kid from Switzerland, by his shots anyway. As far as his results go I wasn’t that impressed. I thought he was a waste of talent, and wondered if he would ever live up to his potential. I even saw him play live at Wimbledon this very year, against Xavier Malisse in the second round. It was a high quality match between two of the biggest upcoming talents in men’s tennis. Roger looked like he was cruising when he went up two sets to love, but Malisse hit back with impressive tennis of his own to take the match into a deciding fifth set. He even went a break up in the decider, and I thought this would be the end for the talented Swiss.
The mental case that Malisse is though, he managed to let this match get away from him. In a sense Roger was lucky to still be in the tournament, and he took full advantage of that luck by beating the king of Wimbledon himself, Pete Sampras, in the fourth round. This was Roger Federer’s coming of age. He had just beaten the player who up until that point at Wimbledon was pretty much unbeatable. In 8 years Sampras had lost only once at SW19. So this win from Roger definitely made the world take notice. It was a vintage display of classic serve-and-volley, grass court tennis. The young Federer at times made the experienced Sampras look like the novice, and when the moment of truth arrived, Roger moved in for the kill with a calm that was well beyond his years.
Sampras knew he was beaten by the superior player on the day, as he was almost lost for words in the post match interview. A new age of Federer dominance had dawned upon SW19, one that is still in full swing as we head into the next decade 9 years later.
Rome 2006 Final vs Nadal 7-6, 6-7(5), 4-6, 6-2, 6-7(5) (The Heart Breaker)
Even though Roger ended up losing this match, I think it was one of his best ever matches on clay. He lead 4-1* in the third set and had two match points at 6-5* and 40-15, but made unforced errors on the forehand side on both points. This match is a tribute to Roger’s main rival’s clay court genius and fighting abilities. With this match Rafa also equalled Vilas’ 53 consecutive match wins on clay, so it was a big win for him.
Masters Cup 2003 Final vs Agassi 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 (The Zone)
I still remember this Masters Cup very well. Back then I was still a big Agassi fan, and when him and Roger faced off in the first round robin match, I was still shouting for Agassi. That was another amazing match, with Roger winning it 6-7(3), 6-3, 7-6(7). With this close win I think something clicked in Roger, because from there on he completely dominated the opposition. In the next match he beat Nalbandian 6-3, 6-0, then Ferrero 6-3, 6-1, and in the semi’s he beat Roddick 7-6(2), 6-2. And in the final rematch with Agassi he blasted the most talented base liner in history off the court. This was simply scary tennis from Roger, and after he won his first Wimbledon title that year, this was yet another clear message to the tennis world that Roger Federer had arrived.
If Roger was ever in the zone in a match, this would be it. He could do no wrong, and Agassi was merely a spectator for most of the match. I think it was also after this match that Agassi said that Roger is a better player than Sampras. He couldn’t believe just how complete a player Roger was, and it was the best player he ever played against. I can imagine what it must feel like to face Roger in that form. I don’t think Agassi felt bad about losing, I think he knew he just lost to the best player in history and he knew there was nothing he could do about it but admire. US Open 2004 Final vs Hewitt 6-0, 7-6(3), 6-0 (The Demolition) Another demolition job from Roger and in a grand slam final. In the early days Roger could really make his opponents look bad out there, no matter who they were. A double bagel in a grand slam final is not something you see often, and against a quality opponent like Hewitt no less. You wonder how Roger would have done against other US Open greats like Sampras and Connors in this form, and I can’t help but feel he would have schooled them as well. Roger in this form was unbeatable. Simple as that. Wimbledon 2007 Final vs Nadal 7-6(7), 4-6, 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-2 (The Feel-Good Match) This match was almost an exact reversal of this year’s Australian Open final. Rafa was faring better than he did the previous year in the Wimbledon final, and when he won the fourth set it looked like an upset was on the cards. Especially when Rafa was up 40-15 on Roger’s serve twice in the fifth set. However, at 3-2* and Rafa serving, Roger blasted three forehand winners in a row to go up 40-0, and he broke to go ahead 4-2. He held serve and broke again to win his fifth straight Wimbledon title, and equalled Borg’s record of five consecutive Wimbledon titles. This was also the first time Roger was taken to five sets at Wimbledon since his fourth round win over Sampras in 2001. French Open 2009 vs Del Potro 3-6, 7-6(2), 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 (Rumble in the Jungle) This is definitely one of my favorite matches from Roger ever. I already wrote about this match, but I will do so again for completeness sake. I just love how he found a way to win this match after Del Potro was really overpowering him at the start. Del Potro’s serve and ground strokes was too heavy for Roger, so he just took the blows until Del Potro tired. The genius of Roger really came through in this match, because for anyone watching this match it looked like Roger was playing a losing game. That is why I have compared this match with the Rumble in the Jungle between Ali and Foreman. In that boxing match Ali really looked in trouble early on, and no one could understand what he was up to. But he, like Roger, knew exactly what he was doing. When Foreman finally tired in the latter rounds, Ali saw his opening and knocked Foreman out. Until the forth set against Del Potro Roger really looked in trouble, but Del Potro tired at this point and Roger delivered the knockout blow. Legendary stuff. That’s it, my Christmas present to you my readers. Thanks for being such great, loyal readers, and I look forwards to keep writing for you in the new year. May the new year bring you all that’s good and bring us all many more beautiful Fed moments. Your present to me will be voting and deciding on Roger’s best match of the decade! Merry Fedmas all!
What is Roger's best match of the decade?
Wimbledon 09 Final (The Fairytale)
Wmbledon 08 Final (The GOAT Match)
French Open 09 Fourth Round (The Great Escape)
Madrid 09 Final (The Rebirth)
Wimbledon 2001 Fourth Round (Changing of the Guard)
Rome 2006 Final (The Heart Breaker)
Masters Cup 2003 Final (The Zone)
US Open 2004 Final (The Demolition)
Wimbledon 2007 Final (The Feel-Good Match)
French Open 2009 Semi-final (Rumble in the Jungle)
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Derren Roberts
very nice post, by far the best and p.s The rebirth and rumble in the jungle are the best
vote guys
JDub
I love the “Changing of the Guard” because it was so funny how Pete looked pissed that Roger was playing so amazing and beating him! lol And because Rog was just absolutely zoned in. Such incredible play. Merry Christmas to you, Ru-an! Thanks for blogging, and we look forward to reading for another year! =)
Nice listing, but the Agassi match does not merit status. You should have considered his first Wimbledon final, the Hamburg 2007 final, and, even in a losing effort, the 2005 Australian Open semifinals.
Ru-an Reply: December 26th, 2009 at 10:21 am The only thing worth considering what you said is the AO 2005 match, where Roger played a silly trick shot on MP. The rest is just wrong.
knubbyah
The Fairytale Changing of the guard was definitely the most important and historic but the way Fairytale unfolded was gettin on the nerves and the fact that Roger showed outstanding nerves throughout was remarkable too.
Excellent post. I am having trouble deciding who to vote for, I’m not sure what his ‘best’ match is but the match that gave me the most happiness, nervousness and all emotions you can think of was the Del Potro FO SF. You could feel Soderling was a walk in the park should Fed reach the final but this big lanky Argentine was taking Roger to pieces. It was a fine win for sure. Although I doubt that is the best match Roger played in this decade, just the best match I watched him play in (I only started watching Tennis proper about 2006)
Ru-an Reply: December 26th, 2009 at 7:05 pm Thanks Paul. That match isnt getting many votes so far but like i said its one of my favorites as well. As far as teh most emotional go for me it was the Haas match. That third set was incredibly tense.
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You missed the 2007 Australian Open Semi – Finals vs Roddick (6-4, 6-0, 6-2). If ever there was a Zone or a Demolition, this was it.
Ru-an Reply: January 14th, 2010 at 1:46 pm You are right, i did miss out on that one. Maybe because i didnt see it.
The best match of Roger’s career is in the 2007 australian open in the semis when he destroyed Roddick by 6-4 6-0 6-2…The 04 us open final against Hewitt pales in comparison about the Roddick match..from the 2nd set until the end, Federer wasn’t missing anything..he won more winners than Roddick’s points!!! Roddick had Connors in his box and had match points againt Roger at Shanghai 2006…people thought that he would upset Roger at Melbourne..for me this is the match i prefer the most…the 2007 AO is the only slam, Roger won without dropping a set….
there’s also the AO2009 complete demolition against del Potro 6-3 6-0 6-0
2 Best matches where his brilliance was at his peak — when he beat Pete 2001 in the Championships and the other when he lost to Safin in AO 2005 SF … great guy .. loads of char a true legend …
agassifan
What do you think about the Tipsarevic match? No disrespect to him but Roger was almost like fighting against himself at that time.
I can’t believe this list didn’t include Roger/Safin from 2005 AO — that is not only my favorite Roger match but also probably my favorite match of all-time. Rome 2006 and Sampras 2001 would be my next picks. Wimbledon 2008, although a bit overrated, still deserves a spot simply for being the “event” that it was. The demolitions of Roddick/Hewitt/etc are too many to count and would probably fill an entire list of his best performances!
Federer Reverses US Open Result Against Robredo at Wimbledon
I’m gonna try to make this brief as I want to go catch some of the Nadal/Kyrgios match, even though I’m convinced Nadal will win in straight sets. This match captured my imagination a bit more than the Giraldo match as Roger had some unfinished business with Robredo from the US Open last year. That was maybe his worst result from last year and was a turning point as well. Roger has come a long way since that match and today he routined Robredo 6-1, 6-4, 6-4, reversing that US Open result in the process and getting his revenge. I predicted Roger would destroy Robredo if he played anywhere near his best, and he did play near his best. It was not absolute vintage Roger but still more than good enough to take care of Robredo. Roger cruised through the first set and delivered the bread stick.
That said he was poor on break point conversion from the start, ending the first set with 2/6 break points converted. In the second set Roger should have broken again at 3-1 but missed an easy lob long with Robredo right on top of the net. But Roger held on to his one break to win the second set. In the third set Robredo was looking more threatening and Roger was missing some forehands. Robredo was getting closer to Roger as the match progressed but Roger made up for his missed break in the second set by breaking Robredo at 3-3. At 5-4 Roger struggled to serve out the match as Robredo actually had a break point and threatened to be the first player to break Roger’s serve in the tournament, but fortunately Roger held on and avoided any more drama. And avoiding drama is exactly what Roger has been able to do this year compared to last year.
The winner to unforced error ratio has been exceptional at Wimbledon
I was somewhat disappointed that Roger did not break in the second set when he should have, and that his break point conversion ratio was poor. But like I said he made up for it when he broke Robredo again in the third set when Robredo was starting to look much more threatening. So in the end I would say it was a very satisfactory performance after what happened last year at the US Open. I knew Roger should straight set Robredo if he played like he did throughout this tournament, but you never know when a slump could occur, and it still had to be done. I don’t think Roger will slump during this Wimbledon. I don’t want to jinx him or anything but he has looked very solid and at home at Wimbledon this year, which is why I said in my last post that he is turning back the clock.
It is looking like the old days where Roger dominated at Wimbledon and it’s a great sight to behold. Even with Roger at age 32 we Fedfans are getting treated royally. What a privilege it is to be a Fedfan! The match stats for Roger was not as good as in his last two matches but still very respectable. The break point conversion rate was the only thing that was poor, but the thing that I was most happy about in this match was Roger’s intent to approach the net again. I had some strong words to say about it in my last post and it feels like Roger listened. I felt it was crucial that he controlled the net against Robredo at least and he did just that. 41 net approaches is a lot over three sets on this grass, and Roger had a good success rate too. I didn’t feel like Roger was necessarily at his best, but I was delighted to see that he showed real urgency to approach the net.
Back to yesterday’s action and both Murray and Djokovic had straight set wins, all be it not having it all their own way. I have not always had the most positive things to say about my countryman Anderson as a tennis player, but I think he can feel very proud about being at a career high #18, making his deepest run at Wimbledon yet this year, and putting up a brave performance against home favorite Murray on center court. Tsonga managed almost exactly the same score line against Djokovic and Djokovic hit a ridiculous return winner on match point. Ring a bell? Djokovic may have the best return of serve in history, but I didn’t particularly appreciate his reaction after he hit that staggering return. Tsonga also challenged the call, which made Djokovic look stupid for the way he reacted.
That didn’t stop him from going over the top again after it was called good. It’s more easy to understand Roger’s dislike of him when he does things like that. But it was an impressive way to end the match and he will now face Cilic who has been a different player since hiring Ivanisevic as his coach. He straight setted Chardy and I can see him take a set again against Djokovic like at the French Open. Then we also have the blockbuster quarter final between Murray and Dimitrov which I hoped for, after Dimtrov continued to impress with a straight set win over Mayer. Roger now plays Stan who had an impressive straight set win over Lopez. Sadly Stan has to play for a third day in a row now after being screwed over by Wimbledon and it will probably cost him the match. Now we are just waiting to see who will fills up the final two quarter final spots…
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I haven’t see much of Raonic apart from the fact that he has a monster serve and when he gets a first serve in play, he’s pretty much winning the point. For the most part, Roger is as well. However, will we see another if those performances like at the AO 2013 or another one like the in Madrid 2012 or Halle 2013?! Roger will need to bring his A game again to beat him. I am not worried too much about holding serve but the tie-breakers. They are truly a test of one’s mentality. If Roger is ready to win this title, his focus needs to be SHARP. Today and yesterday against Robredo, a Roger was shaky serving the matches out, obviously because of the pressure and expectations and also because he knows that he’ll be close. I would much rather see another clinic however. I just don’t want my heart to go up again like that, LOL!!! ;-))
July 3rd, 2014 at 5:25 am
Yes, Vily, I don’t think my heart can take anymore tiebreaks! What a nerve-wracking match. I actually couldn’t bear to watch towards the end of 2nd set! Ha! But Roger did so well weathering the storm and taking his chances. And getting back to winning tb mode should bode well going into Raonic match. I would like to think that Roger has too much game for Raonic and it will be on his racket. If he can play his game and move Raonic around, keep the ball low and take care of his own service, he should win it. Don’t wanna get too much into tb’s as then it becomes a lottery. And I’ve had enough of lottery for now! Ha! I also think Roger has come too far and worked too hard to let this go. But then so is Raonic. He would be spilling blood for this. Hope Roger is sharply aware that Raonic isn’t the same player he played a year ago. But I’m bracing myself for another round of nail biting lotteries! Ugh!! As for the other semi, I think it is really a 50/50. Djoker is uncomfortable playing Grigor. Not surprising coz Grigor is similar to Roger. In fact Djoker does have a bit of problem with shbh – Roger, Stan, Grigor. If Roger wins, I would rather he meet Grigor than Djoker in the final; mainly because Djoker maybe more of a challenge to Roger being a better returner and defender; whereas Roger is still Big Daddy as far as Grigor is concerned! But if Djoker wins Wimby I wouldn’t mind too much as he totally earned it. Just look at the number of quality players he had to play in every one of his matches! I’m not ready for a Grigor maiden slam title; much as I would be excited about it too. Too soon. So hopefully Djoker/Roger would do their job and shut up all the “changing of the guard” murmurings! Sorry Eric!
Agree and disagree Veronica. Sorry about your player losing btw. I wasn’t very nervous for Roger’s match vs Stan. It was only quarters. Roger was quite in control of the TB and when serving for the match things got slightly tense, but I would have been very surprised if he dropped serve there. You are right about tie breaks vs Raonic could be a toss up, but he has done well in breakers of late and I’m not too worried. He can also be sure to play at least one or two breakers vs Emperor Rao. As for Djokovic I was very happy to see him win. All the big four losing other than Roger would have been too much. It would have been a bad omen for Roger too. I still want to see a Djokerer final too. I don’t want Dimitrov to come through yet, and if he does there could be a feeling that a changing of the guard can occur. I think Djokovic is the favorite anyway, all be it a slight one. He is more experienced, and he did well to come from 2-1 down vs Cilic.
You are certainly a much calmer spectator, Ru-an, than I ever shall be! What got me nervous was how strong Stan was in the first set. Roger himself admitted that he was able to take his chances after Stan’s level went down because Stan wasn’t feeling well physically. So it was a close shave for Roger. I suppose that Murray send off sort of set a somber tone on centre court and when Stan came out blazing, it did look like he was gonna do what Grigor just did! It didn’t help to know too that Roger often struggles in his next match after Nadal loses. And I think you should be worried about tb’s with Emperor Rao! (haha! Good one!!) Raonic has the bigger and more consistent serve. He leads in the most ace dept in the tournament. I would like to see Roger do his darnest to break, take his chances at all second serves and not even think about “resorting” to tb’s going into the match. Must have a good mind set and not let these serve bots get away with tb’s all the time. Yeah, sorry Kyrgios lost but he didn’t go meekly and can only keep his head high. If Roger doesn’t get his 18, at least the sweet memory of Kyrgios whipping Nadal is there for consolation! Ha! Allez!
elizabeth Reply:
July 3rd, 2014 at 10:55 am
Haha,yes Kyrgios beating Nadal will forever be good! I thought Stan played really good at the start but I was sure that Roger would find his game and win…thankfully he did. As for Raonic I hope Fed wins, he knows how to handle big serves as Roddick knows but we know that our man will have to be on his toes. I find that as a tennis fan
Raonic just doesn’t do it for me, Raonic
says he won’t be playing a 17 GS winner,
Father of twins he’ll just be playing the man who stands between him and what he wants most! Of course he missed the
really important bit about Fed his CURLS so C’MON ROGER x
July 3rd, 2014 at 12:11 pm
Haha, good one, Elizabeth! He forgot the curls! The power is in the hair, didn’t Raonic know already?!! The curls will get it done tomorrow! Raonic doesn’t do it at all for me too, Elizabeth. That includes his countrywoman, Bouchard. So up herself. I hope Halep shuts her up tonight and Roger does the same to her countryman tomorrow. Btw, aren’t those curls just gorgeous falling over his head band??!!!!!
Helloooooooooooo!!!! Yo what’s up friends. I cannot believe what has happened the last couple of days. I think Joe might be right about me and RF being connected on this one. Crazy days at Wimby and crazy for me too. My whole plans got turned upside down at the last minute. Guess where I am and where I watched the last 2 sets of Fed vs Stan? Switzerland!!! Wow crazy. I cannot wait to go back and read all your comments on these days. But I have to say this 2 things several of you said I was crazy for believing 2 weeks ago. Grigor has a legitimate shot at winning and this is the beginning of a new generation coming in. I’m loving it!! I only saw 2 sets but did not seem like fantastic tennis from either of our Swiss boys. Am I wrong?? I really hope roger can keep the mental strength together. He will need it to go all the way. ALLEZ!! Long live the GOAT!!!
Hey! From China to Switzerland?!! Ok! Where would you likely be next? Timbuktu?!! Haha! Careful what you wish for, Eric! We are very happy with our present tennis generation. Don’t need a new generation coming in just yet! Could you just tell your man to lay off Djoker tomorrow?!
I’m with you Veronica. The new generation has done enough. I’d like to see order restored tomorrow.
Sup Eric! Good to know that you can watch some of the tennis now. Yes Grigor has a legitimate shot at winning but as I said in my latest post I’d prefer Djokovic comes through. Grigor too much of an unknown factor.
Eric Reply:
I see what you’re saying about the unknown factor. I missed you guys!! Am thrilled I will be able to watch, thrilled!!
We are happy that you can watch too Eric and look forward to your participation in the comments!
Sorry Veronica, no can do. I like Djoko very much but I want Roger to win number 18 and he’s got a much better chance of beating Dimitrov than Dloko. So of course may the best man win, but I’d rather see Grigor take just one more step at Wimby.
Yes my trip got delayed. Maybe by weeks maybe more. I have zero control over it. So I was able to join my wife for her grandmothers 95th birthday in Bern. Gonna stay here for a while until I find out what’s up with the work trip.
Eric, many people were thinking about you when Dimitrov won. He definately played a blinder, as they say ‘the boy done good’. Who knows who you might
run into Switzerland!!!
Well… Apparently the Swiss open is in a small village not to far from here and starts soon. I heard it’s a tiny stadium on a outdoor ice skating rink and the cheap seats are very reasonable. So, you never know. Fed won’t be there but Stan the man will be )))))
Ru-an,
When are you going to preview the semis:
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The Yeoman Farmer
Some time back, I was getting caught up with a friend from college. We'd both left Northwestern in 1991 with Masters degrees in political science, and hadn't spoken to each other since.
I explained that I'd gone to work for a political polling firm, conducting survey and focus group research for Republican candidates and conservative causes. I'd enjoyed that work very much, and the firm kept me on part time as a telecommuter when I'd decided to go back to school and finish my doctorate at UCLA. Along the way, I'd gotten married and had a couple of children---and then, with the dissertation in its final stages, moved from Los Angeles to a five acre farm in rural downstate Illinois.
"You did what?" he asked.
"You know," I replied. "Moved to the country. Bought a hundred-year-old farm house. Started raising our own food. Homeschooling our kids. Started my own public opinion consulting practice. Trying to be as self-sufficient as possible, all the while working as a pollster and trying to get my candidates elected."
After a pause, I added: "We've basically become Thomas Jefferson's 'yeoman farmer'."
He burst into laughter and replied, "I was just thinking, 'Jefferson would be very pleased.'"
Jefferson romanticized the small agrarian freeholders of his day as being the country's "most valuable citizens," but becoming "tied to our country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds" was far from my mind (and my wife's mind) in 1999. We were living in a small house on a small subdivision lot in the High Desert of Southern California. I was telecommuting with a political polling firm based in Detroit as I worked on finishing my doctoral dissertation at UCLA.
Y2K was closing in, and speculation was rife as to what kinds of disruptions we'd be facing when the new year rolled over. We didn't think the world would end, but my wife and I found ourselves thinking and talking a lot about the aspects of daily life we took for granted. Somewhere along the way, we asked ourselves, "Where does our food come from, anyway?"
It was a fateful question, because it led us to study the whole industry of modern food production. And the more we learned about how livestock are factory farmed in confinement, how fruits and vegetables have been bred for shelf life and shipping rather than flavor or nutritional content, and how commodity grains are processed to death after leaving the field, the more troubled we became.
1999 rolled over to 2000 without incident, but we were facing a different set of problems: everything our three year old son was eating seemed to be giving him rashes and making him break out in hives. We tried switching to outragously expensive organic produce, meats, and eggs, and that seemed to help. My wife was soon on a first name basis with the staff of the local organic grocery store, but something still seemed to be making our son sick. Only by eliminating all gluten from his diet did we finally fix it. We began buying rice and quinoa (the only grains we could find without gluten) in bulk, and grinding our own flour by hand for his meals.
As our daughter got older and began eating solid foods, we discovered she had the same food alergies. Puzzled, we kept reading about food and where it comes from. We also spent hours reading Carla Emery's book, The Encyclopedia of Country Living. Sometime in early 2001, both of us --- but especially my wife --- had had enough of trying to survive at the margins of Big Food. We'd also had enough of being thousands of miles from family, and living in a subdivision surrounded by neighbors who played stereos at all hours of the day and night. We longed for independence, privacy, and community. As I was in the final stages of my dissertation, and my boss had long grown comfortable with my telecommuting, it no longer mattered where we lived. So we asked ourselves, "If we could live anywhere, where would it be?"
For a variety of reasons, we settled on rural downstate Illinois. It was reasonably close to family, a reasonable drive to Chicago and a short distance from Champaign-Urbana (where we already had friends), and Illinois has among the least restrictive homeschooling laws in the nation. We found an excellent real estate agent in the general location where we wanted to be, and began working with him long distance. He found several promising listings, and we flew out for a weekend in the spring of 2001.
After a day of driving around, we decided to make an offer on a 1600sf, two-story, hundred year old farmhouse with five acres and a few outbuildings. We flew back to Los Angeles, put our house on the market, and by late July I was driving a Ryder truck across the country with all of our worldly possessions. We didn't know it at the time, but we were becoming what author Rod Dreher would term "Crunchy Cons."
The house was far from perfect, but seemed like paradise after the High Desert. We started out knowing nothing---absolutely nothing--- about gardening, raising livestock, building fences, planting trees, or anything else, when we first arrived. And, apart from the buildings, there was nothing on the property but a lawn. Over the last 5+ years, we've slowly shaped the property (and our lives) into what we dreamed of back in California.
This blog will share our experiences --- especially the learning experiences, and our reflections on them. We're still learning, and still making mistakes, but still having a lot of fun doing it. It's hard to think of a better decision we've made than to move to the country, and to become "Jefferson's Yeoman Farmer."
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Yeoman said...
Doggone. . .another Yeoman blogger. And another Catholic using the Yeoman tag too.
Good to run across you.
TYF said...
Glad you found me, and glad to hear I'm not the only one who thought of using this name!
I am glad I found your blog and I will be following it regularly. I grew up on a small farm in India, in a state where communists were elected and removed from power democratically in the 50s. My father saw the writing on the wall and educated his brothers and children... and most of us hold jobs. We realize that farming is probably the only honest profession in the world, it is n't the easiest. It is also NOT easy to break the bond with land, even though we don't depend on it anymore. While I am making a good living in the US, (not in a profession honest as a farmer) I am thinking of manning a small farm again
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Species information projects:
VultureMAP | FrogMAP | Weaver research | ADDO (African Dragonflies and Damselflies Online)
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AFRING | BIRP: Birds in Reserves | CAR: Bird Roadcounts | CWAC: Waterbirds | MyBirdPatch | rePhotoSA | SAFRING: Bird Ringing | SABAP2: Bird Atlas 2
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Bird Pictures Archive
Date started: 2012-08-08 16:17:27
BirdPix curates interesting and important photos of birds. There are no particular constraints on what can and cannot be submitted, apart from needing the locality information. It is an excellent place to deposit photos of species which are out of their normal ranges. For atlasers, it can be used to keep the photos of species for which “Out of Range Forms”? (ORFs) were generated. For bird ringers, it can be used to store photos of birds in the hand which were for some reason interesting: for example, pictures showing unusual patterns of wing moult, plumage variation with age and sex, etc. Records submitted to BirdPix will be included as incidental records for mapping bird distributions.
Birds with Odd Plumages
Birds with all sorts of unusual plumage variations are observed from time to time. Nowadays, with digital photography, pictures of these birds are frequently available. BOP (Birds with Odd Plumage) aims to provide a place where the photographs can be curated into one database. Any bird with any unusual plumage characteristic qualifies for inclusion in the virtual museum. This will provide the opportunity to look for patterns. Do certain species have abnormal plumage more frequently than others? Do unusual plumage patterns occur more in some places than in others?
Atlas of Dung Beetles in southern Africa.
The dung beetles are the family Scarabaeidae within the order Coleoptera, which contains all the beetles. DungBeetleMAP is a project which the ADU is doing in collaboration with Professor Clarke Scholtz and the Scarab Research Group at the University of Pretoria. The expert panel for DungBeetleMAP is drawn from this research group. Dung beetles play a critical roles in both natural and agricultural landscapes; they process the dung of both wild and domestic animals, consuming it and burying it. They are responsible for a key ecosystem service.
If photographs of beetles belonging to other families within the Coleoptera are uploaded to DungBeetleMAP, they will (for the time being) be identified only to family. Hopefully, some time in the future, separate projects will start for these other families.
Atlas of African Echinoderma
Echinoderms (starfish, sea-urchins, brittle-stars and their kin) are conspicuous and attractive marine animals, frequently photographed by divers. Although many can be identified from photographs, no comprehensive guide to South African species exists, making it difficult to accurately identify images. The fauna is also poorly know, making it very likely that divers will encounter species new to the region, or even to science. This site aims to collate all available images of echinoderms from South Africa, thus building up a comprehensive identification guide, as well as mapping the ranges of each species. Images of all South African echinoderms are welcomed and all contribute equally towards a better understanding of the distribution patterns of these fascinating creatures.
Atlas of freshwater fish in southern and eastern Africa.
FishMAP is a Virtual Museum project aiming to: (1) map the current distribution of the fresh water fish occurring in Africa, tentatively, the FishMAP region includes Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Namibia and the countries to the south and east of them; and (2) to serve as a repository of all existing distribution data for this group in the geographic extent of the project.
Frog Atlas of Southern Africa
Date started: 2010-09-20
Web page: http://adu.org.za/frog_atlas.php
FrogMAP is a citizen science project which aims to determine the distribution and conservation priorities of Amphibians on the African continent. FrogMAP is building the 21st century distribution maps for Africa's frogs. FrogMAP is the continuation of the Southern African Frog Atlas Project (SAFAP). It aims to build on the distribution data collected during seven years of fieldwork (1996-2003), plus earlier data compiled from museum records, private collections, the literature and conservation agencies. SAFAP data was used for the 2003 red listing of all frog species of the region, the results were published in the book Atlas and Red Data Book of the Frogs of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, published by the Smithsonian Institution, USA.
Atlas of African Neuroptera and Megaloptera
The Neuroptera and Megaloptera are collectively loosely termed the "lacewings." Hence the name LacewingMAP. This is a somewhat obscure group of insects, and this project is an ideal way to sensitize everyone to their existence. Are lacewings good or bugly? They are one of nature's best all-purpose predators. They control aphids. So when you make a list of "ecosystem services" (the stuff we get for free from the planet) don't leave off the lacewings. We are doing this project in collaboration with Dr Mervyn Mansel, University of Pretoria, and a world leader in lacewing research.
Atlas of African Lepidoptera
Date started: May 2007
Web page: http://lepimap.adu.org.za
Lepimap is a citizen science project which aims to determine the distribution and conservation priorities of butterflies and moths on the African continent. LepiMAP is building the 21st century distribution maps for Africa's butterflies and moths.
LepiMAP is a joint project of the Animal Demography Unit (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town) and Lepsoc, The Lepidopterists' Society of Africa. It is the continuation of SABCA, the Southern African Butterfly Conservation Assessment.
Virtual Museum of African Mammals
Date started: July 2010
Web page: http://mammalmap.adu.org.za/
MammalMAP The Animal Demography Unit at UCT and the Mammal Research Institute at the University of Pretoria are collaborating to develop the MammalMAP, the Mammal Atlas of Africa. The Cape Leopard Trust was a key catalyst in initiating this project. The objective of MammalMAP is to generate 21st century distribution maps for all of Africa’s mammals.
MammalMAP consists of digital photographic records of mammals along with accurate geographical coordinates of where the pictures were taken. MammalMAP is limited to wild (or feral) mammals. So domestic animals are excluded, and so is Homo sapiens. But the golden rule that applies is: If in doubt, submit.
Atlas of South African Mushrooms
Interest in mushrooms is mushrooming. Mushrooms are somehow mysterious, appearing and disappearing. MushroomMAP aims to help solve one of the big mushroom mysteries: "How are they distributed?" Even within South Africa this information is remarkably incomplete. This Virtual Museum project focuses on the "macrofungi", the mushrooms (and other fungi) that are more than about 5 mm in size. This is the same cut-off as used by Marieka Gryzenhout in her guidebook "Mushrooms of South Africa" published by Struik Nature. In her book, she describes the distribution of many species "widespread." So MushroomMAP provides the opportunity to make a real contribution to our understanding of the distribution of this fascinating component of biodiversity.
Odonata Atlas of Africa
Date started: 22-Sep-2010
OdonataMAP is a Virtual Museum project aiming to: (1) map the current distribution of the insect Order Odonata, i. e. Dragonflies and Damselflies, occurring in Africa; and (2) to serve as a repository of all existing distribution data for this group in the geographic extent of the project.
To participate in the Odonata VM you need to be a registered ADU observer. Close-up photographs of dragonflies or damselflies, along with date and locality information, including geographic coordinates are submited to the VM in the data upload section (available to logged users). The Virtual Museum allows you to upload a maximum of three images per record.
Please take the GPS coordinates as accurately as possible; alternatively you can also find your position on the Google Map available in the upload page, but this may be difficult if you are away from good landmarks.
Atlas of African Orchids
Web page: http://orchidmap.adu.org.za
Orchids are a charismatic and diverse family of flowering plants. With over 470 species in South Africa alone and more than 3300 species throughout Africa and Madagascar, we have a rich orchid flora. However, in recent years the collection of traditional herbarium specimens has been declining and our understating of where orchids are found is becoming ever more outdated. OrchidMap aims to reverse this trend with the help of orchid lovers. By submitting photos of orchid along with details of where and when the photo was taken, you can help us to improve our understanding of the distribution of South African and African orchids. OrchidMap is interested in distributions and flowering times of all orchids in Africa, Madgascar and the Western Indian Ocean Islands including naturalised or wild growing exotic species.
Photos of Weaver Nests
Web page: http://weavers.adu.org.za/
PHOWN (Photos of Weaver Nests) is a conservation project aimed at determining the distribution of colonies or nests of all weaver species globally. Counting weaver nests and taking photos allows monitoring of changes in weaver breeding effort. Many weavers are common while some weaver species are threatened; this project provides an easy way of monitoring them.
PHOWN is a project of the Animal Demography Unit (Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town).
Reptile Atlas of Southern Africa
Date started: 10 May 2005
Web page: http://sarca.adu.org.za
ReptileMAP is the continuation of the Southern African Reptile Conservation Assessment (SARCA). It aims to improve our understanding of the diversity and distribution of reptiles in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, and thereby make possible an improvement in the conservation status of these animals.
ReptileMAP also aims to improve public awareness of the value and plight of reptiles and also provide goverment agencies with a clear definition of conservation priorities that will help them to plan their activities.
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Atlas of African Scorpions
Scorpions are conspicuous and attractive terrestrial animals, and are frequently photographed. Images of all African Scorpions are welcomed and all contribute equally towards a better understanding of the distribution patterns of these fascinating creatures.
Scorpions have captivated much interest by scolars by their great antiquity and the amazing suite of biochemical, physiological, behavioral, and ecological adaptations that have combined to ensure their continued success over the past 450 million years.
Scorpions have a wide geographical distribution and live on all major land masses except Antarctica. Although some species are quite specific in (micro)habitat requirements, many exhibit a high degree of plasticity in habitat use. However, the distribution of most species is poorly known and in most cases it is based on a handful of museum records.
Atlas of African Spiders
SpiderMap is an online repository for photographic species distribution records for this important group of arthropods. Spiders make up the largest proportion of terrestrial invertebrate diversity after the insects and the mites, and they play a significant role as predators in ecosystems. Several initiatives are currently under-way to map spider distributions, and SpiderMap aims to complement these by encouraging submissions from the ADU Citizen Scientist community. Records will be directed to the South African National Survey of Arachnida once identified.
Regarding identification of spiders, particularly the Aranaemorph, which in most cases are impossible to identify beyond family level from photographs. More precise identifications will be provided when the relevant experts are able to look at the submissions, however, there is a lack of experts to fulfill this difficult task.
Virtual Tree Herbarium (TreeMAP)
Instructions for the Virtual Tree Herbarium:
Most trees can be identified with photographs of their bark, their leaves and their flowers and/or fruit. Try to take pictures of all of these, from the same tree. The Virtual Museum allows you to upload a maximum of three images per record. If you are a tree expert, and you know that a photograph of a particular feature provides certain identification, then you can upload just that picture into TreeMAP.
Please take the GPS coordinates, as accurately as you are able, as close to the tree as feasible. You can enter these into TreeMAP in three formats (decimal degrees DD.DDDDD, degrees and decimal minutes DD MM.MMM, and degree minutes and decimal seconds DD MM SS.S). You can also find your position on the Google Map, but this may be difficult if you are away from good landmarks.
If you are walking a transect, the strategy we would suggest you adopt is to take a set of photographs of each species you encounter. Feel free to repeat a species if about a kilometre has passed since last you photographed it.
VultureMAP
VultureMAP .. etc. Records submitted to BirdPix/VultureMAP will be included as incidental records for mapping bird distributions in SABAP2.
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Bogdanovich shocked as artiste booked to perform at Sumfest killed
Published:Monday | June 24, 2019 | 12:25 AM
Bahamian artiste Mdeez.
Joe Bogdanovich, owner and producer of the Reggae Sumfest festival, has expressed shock and sadness at the death of Bahamian musician Mdeez, who was booked to perform on Festival Night One at Catherine Hall, Montego Bay.
“We were informed last night that Mdeez was killed in The Bahamas after an altercation, following on a traffic accident, took a violent turn. I am extremely saddened by the loss of a talented musician in such a senseless act of violence. The Sumfest family wishes to let Mdeez’s family and other loved ones know that we share in their grief and deeply regret that he will not be performing at the festival,” a release from Reggae Sumfest stated.
Bogdanovich noted that Mdeez had been brought to his attention by Patrick Williams, chairman of MORE FM, who said he was one of the best emerging dancehall/rap artistes in The Bahamas. “I followed up on his recommendation and looked at one of Mdeez’s videos. Impressed by his performance, I invited him to join the line-up for Festival Night One. I was particularly happy to provide an opportunity for a Bahamian artiste with Jamaican roots, as it is my philosophy that it is our music that is the unifying element in our region.”
A report online at The Nassau Guardian stated that a man identified as Bahamian artiste Devon ‘Mdeez’ Knight, was stabbed multiple times and succumbed to his injuries.
Police said things turned violent after the victim and another man were involved in a traffic collision at the junction of Prince Charles Drive and Fox Hill Road.
“As a result, the male drivers became involved in an altercation, resulting in one of them being stabbed multiple times about the body,” a police statement said.
Knight was transported to hospital where he died a short time later. Police have a 32-year-old in custody in connection with the stabbing. In another three weeks, , the Reggae Sumfest festival will unfold at several venues across the city of Montego Bay – Mawning Medz at Tropical Bliss Beach, Street Dance at Old Hospital Park, All White at Pier One, Blitz at the Hard Rock Café, and Festival Nights One and Two at Catherine Hall – from Sunday, July 14 to Saturday, July 20, under the theme ‘Our Music, Our Festival’.
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Vic Bonke was succeeded in 1991 by Job Cohen. Cohen served two terms as rector until 1998, interrupted by his appointment as state secretary for Education and Science between 1993 and 1995. It was Maastricht University’s first rector, the educationalist Wynand Wijnen, who brought Cohen into contact with UM. At the time Cohen was working at Leiden’s educational research centre and found his interest piqued by Problem-Based Learning (PBL). One thing led to another and, in 1981, Cohen moved to Maastricht to establish the law faculty.
A Place Called Home (video)
PhD dissertation Katja Sillen
This dissertation describes the cognitive process of identification with place brands and its effects on behaviour. More and more places are engaging in branding efforts in order to attract prospectiveresidents but struggle when it comes to the application of product and services marketingtools to the context of place branding and the role of residents in the branding process.
Doctor-student interaction during clerkships (video)
PhD dissertation Jonne van der Zwet
Today, medical students spend a substantive amount of their time in clinical learning environments, where they are known as med students, apprentices, interns, or clerks. In such a way, they can develop into doctors of medicine. However,the extent to which these settings offer them learning experiences varies widely. This PhD dissertation explains by two different clerkships how both the learning process and supervision of students are embedded in social interaction.
Working on activation (video)
In today’s welfare state, labour participation is viewed as the ideal tool for gauging a person’s social participation and a way to promote individual and social prosperity. This, however, has proven extremely difficult to implement in practice, particularly for people with disabilities. This dissertation reveals how the specific design of activation in vocational rehabilitation programmes unintentionally achieves opposite results. It also reveals how professionals are hampered in supporting the most vulnerable individuals due to the framework within which they operate. At the same time, this analysis demonstrates how (professional) creativity and more discretionary space can reverse processes of exclusion. These analyses are based on stories about disabilities, vocational rehabilitation and (labour) participation told by clients and professionals.
Informal patient payments in Central and Eastern European countries (video)
PhD dissertation Tetiana Stepurko
Gifts, tips and bribes to health care providers are common in many countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This thesis studies these informal patient payments in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Ukraine. It appears that “gifts and bribes” continue to exist in these countries despite reforms of the health care sector. The extent of the payment differs: they are more widespread in Romania and Ukraine than in Bulgaria and Poland.
Traditional tort law insufficient for ecological damage (video)
In Globalisation
PhD dissertation Jing Liu
Environmental pollution and devastation accompanying rapid economic development have created not only alarming losses to human beings and property but also astonishing damage to the environment itself. The difficulties in assessment and the special legal status of natural resources make traditional tort law an insufficient solution for the protection and compensation of this so called ecological damage.
Recording and Listening in the Biology of Bird Song from 1880 to 1980 (video)
In Culture
PhD dissertation Joeri Bruyninckx
In general, science is regarded as a predominantly visual practice in which other senses are deemed less important. However, some parts of scientific processes actually do require specific sensory skills, such as listening. This historical research therefore examined how scientists, more specifically ornithologists and biologists in the study of bird sounds, have used and still use listening techniques in their process.
The ageing consumer (video)
PhD dissertation Jessica Hohenschon
In ageing Western societies older people become increasingly important for companies’ sustained success, because older people form a big and attractive market segment. This PhD research shows that the prevailing stigma of older people being poor, frail and old-fashioned, is often incorrect – many 50plus consumers are healthy, wealthy, active and curious.
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Starting with the dual injuries suffered on the same day by Chad and his father, Rod, "AMERICAN GHOST HUNTER: THE DEVIL IN THE DETAILS" covers the entire Calek family haunting between 1986 to 1994, in which you'll discover countless aspects of the case which were never revealed in the AMERICAN GHOST HUNTER documentary, from the deaths that took place in the Calek's house in Persia, IA, the initial contact with Ed and Lorraine Warren, the fact that Chad has a sister who was intentionally not included in the documentary, the mysterious hidden spaces in the walls of the Calek home and countless other details that Chad shares with the public for the first time.
Told in the same storyteller's format as Calek's IN A CROWDED ROOM PODCAST, each 2-hour episode is completely uncensored.
PLEASE NOTE: ONCE YOU PURCHASE "AMERICAN GHOST HUNTER: THE DEVIL IN THE DETAILS", YOU WILL BE EMAILED THE EPISODE 1: THE BURN AND THE BREAK PRIVATE LINK AND PASSWORD WITHIN MINUTES, FOLLOWED BY A NEW EPISODE EMAILED TO YOU EVERY SEVEN DAYS AFTER FOR THE FOLLOWING 9 WEEKS!
WATCH THE "PHANTOM RIDER: PRELUDE TO PALE FACE" TRAILER AND PRE-ORDER IT NOW ON DVD AND DIGITAL!
WATCH THE "PHANTOM RIDER: THE PRELUDE TO PALEFACE" TRAILER
BELOW AND PRE-ORDER NOW ON DVD AND DIGITAL!
PLEASE NOTE: THE DIGITAL RELEASE DATE HAS BEEN PUSHED BACK
TO MATCH THE DVD RELEASE DATE, WHICH IS JULY 28TH!
A MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR CHAD CALEK ABOUT "PHANTOM RIDER: THE PRELUDE TO PALEFACE"
Hello, my friends. For those who have already watched the trailer to PHANTOM RIDER: THE PRELUDE TO PALEFACE (posted below), and for those who are planning to watch it when you have time... I thank you.
For those of you who are just now hearing about PHANTOM RIDER: THE PRELUDE TO PALEFACE, it's not only the follow up documentary to TWO FACE: THE GREY, but it also sets the stage for the forthcoming PALEFACE documentary, which with your support, our goal is to film PALEFACE entirely in Australia this September.
The most important thing to note right now is that what started out as a documentary that I believed would be a "one-off" with SIR NOFACE, has now officially become a docu-series due to the incredible nature of ongoing and unfolding events associated with Craig Powell and Nicky Myers Australian Government-sanctioned paranormal investigation of Cockatoo Island.
As a documentary filmmaker, whenever I decide to make a film, what I pray for the most is that I will have no idea what tomorrow will bring, as above all else, it's unpredictability that truly captivates not only the audience... but myself as a storyteller.
But having said that, not in a million years could I have predicted the route that I now find myself traveling with Craig and Nicky, as I've never before experienced the high strangeness that has become my current daily routine.
Each day that I wake up, I do my best to pretend that none of this is happening. I try to convince myself that it's all over-hyped paranoia and go on about my day as though all is "normal". But at this point, we've documented enough to know that isn't the case.
And that is exactly how PHATOM RIDER: THE PRELUDE TO PALEFACE came to exist, as I don't control how quickly "life" unfolds... I merely document it.
And with so much happening since the release of TWO FACE: THE GREY, the birth of PHANTOM RIDER: THE PRELUDE TO PALEFACE became necessary to not only tell Craig and Nicky's story, but as a safety measure, I feel it's extremely important to ensure that the public knows exactly what has occurred since the release of TWO FACE: THE GREY, as I believe you'll find the events that we've captured on film and audio to be as shocking as they are disturbing, as there's only so many times I can say to myself, "This can't be real"... only to be proven wrong.
But what I do want to drive home is that we need your support in finishing this project, which I want you all to know that each PRE-ORDER of PHANTOM RIDER: THE PRELUDE TO PALEFACE is going towards the production budget of the forthcoming PALEFACE documentary.
As I mentioned above, our plans are to film for at least 30 days in Australia, starting on Sept. 1st, as the leads and interviews that we will be pursuing are absolutely necessary to uncover the truth as to what Craig, Nickey and WSPR filmed on Cockatoo Island, and furthermore, if the members of WSPR were in fact recruited as unknowing assets to a larger plan, potentially involving the Australian Government (and "others") attempting to stage a fake alien invasion.
If this sounds crazy as shit to you... it should. It did to us too.
But facts are immovable and the more we learn, experience, discover and uncover, there are very real reasons to believe this may be possible.
So when it comes to filming, although we're able to lower production costs due to the gear that we own and the personal relationships we have with film crew in Australia, we can't get around the fact that film production in Australia is extremely expensive. So our options are to invest everything that we can personally invest, while also engaging in crowd sourcing to bridge the financial gaps that we need to complete production of PALEFACE.
This can be done by not only offering you great product to pre-order and purchase when they are released, but this can also be accomplished via donations.
So if you are interested and able to support us in this way, below you will see the following:
• THE DVD PRE-ORDER: If you are interested in owning a DVD of PHANTOM RIDER: THE PRELUDE TO PALEFACE, we are only offering 100 DVD copies on a "first come, first served" basis.
• THE VIMEO ON DEMAND PRE-ORDER: If you are interested in watching PHANTOM RIDER: THE PRELUDE TO PALEFACE on VIMEO ON DEMAND, by PRE-ORDERING your digital copy from us, you will save $7 on the June 28th release day price. Please note that once you PRE-ORDER your digital copy of PHANTOM RIDER: THE PRELUDE TO PALEFACE, you will receive your lifetime ownership password via email on June 28th, 2019.
• THE PALEFACE DONATION TAB: If you wish to make a donation to the PALEFACE production budget, you can do so by clicking the PALEFACE DONATION GRAPHIC BELOW, in which you can choose level of donation that you make.
With that being said, I can't begin to thank you all for your support, as it's not only heartwarming... it's necessary if we are to reach our goals. This is a very serious project for all of us, as we all have found ourselves in a situation unlike anything we have ever experienced.
I set out to become a filmmaker 18 years ago. And when I made that choice, I did it because I wanted to take the camera where it's never been and share the hidden truths of the world.
This is the path I find myself on today, which moving forward is the only choice to make. And if we are to completely unveil the hidden truth that now lies before us... it will only be through your support, as well as through the support of our friends, family and loved ones, which I truly believe that if we all work together... we will succeed.
Much love and all the best.
DIRECTOR: SIR NOFACE, TWO FACE: THE GREY
and PHANTOM RIDER: THE PRELUDE TO PALEFACE
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THE FIRST LIMITED RUN "IN A CROWDED ROOM" PODCAST BLACK T-SHIRT IS NOW AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE!
THE FIRST LIMITED RUN "IN A CROWDED ROOM" PODCAST T-SHIRT IS NOW ON SALE!
ALL ORDERS WILL SHIP ON MAY 18TH, 2019!
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TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT TO OUR OCT. 26TH YORKTOWN ASYLUM GHOST HUNTING EVENT!
CHAD CALEK RETURNS TO THE YORKTOWN ASYLUM ON OCT. 26TH!
TICKET UPDATE: THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT!
EVENT INFO, TICKET PACKAGE AND LINKS POSTED BELOW!
It's official, my friends.
On Saturday, Oct. 26th, for one night only, Award-Winning Filmmaker and Paranormal Investigator Chad Calek, along with ONLY 25 ATTENDEES, will be returning to the historically haunted Yorktown Asylum just outside of San Antonio to welcome in the Halloween season with a MASSIVE ghost hunt from 8pm-2am!
PLEASE NOTE: As of today (April 18th), ONLY FOUR (4) TOTAL TICKETS ARE LEFT to this event. In addition, only GOLD and PLATINUM ticket package are now available, as the
TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS NOW, PLEASE SEE THE AVAILABLE TICKET PACKAGES BELOW:
1.) THE GOLD TICKET ($160) includes the following:
• Time for free pictures and autographs with Chad Calek at the Yorktown Asylum.
• A 45-minute long ghost hunting seminar by Chad Calek at the Yorktown Asylum.
• Ghost hunt the Yorktown Asylum between 9pm until 2am with host investigator Chad Calek.
2.) THE PLATINUM TICKET ($200) includes the following:
• An Autographed Mini-Event Poster to commemorate the Oct. 26th Yorktown Asylum ghost hunt.
• A 3pm "Meet and Greet" session at a private location along the San Antonio Riverwalk (you will be emailed the location in advance of the event).
• A 4pm two-hour long private dinner and Q&A Session with Chad Calek at a restaurant along the San Antonio Riverwalk (you will be emailed the location in advance of the event).
3.) THE PRIVATE GHOST HUNT VIP TICKET ($250) SOLD OUT!
• Time for free pictures and autographs with Chad Calek at the Yorktown Asylum
• After the normal ghost hunt concludes, you will take part in a one-hour long 2am to 3am private ghost hunt of the Yorktown Asylum with Chad Calek
• PLEASE NOTE: ALL FIVE OF THESE TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!
A MESSAGE FROM CHAD CALEK:
"This is only the second ghost hunting event that I'm doing this year, which I can't think of a better way to celebrate Halloween, as Yorktown truly is one of the most haunted (and visually chilling) locations in all of Texas!
With that being said, I hope to see you all there for what promises to be a truly awesome night of investigating. Much love and all the best!"
- Chad
WATCH THE NEW "74 MINUTES" TEASER TRAILER AND PRE-ORDER "74 MINUTES" TODAY TO RECEIVE CHAD CALEK'S ENTIRE EVIDENCE CATALOG!
74 MINUTES (SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH THE OFFICIAL TEASER TRAILER!)
A PARANORMAL DOCUMENTARY BY CHAD CALEK
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY THOMAS LEE BOTTOM
After spending over 25 years of his life investigating paranormal claims throughout the world, of the 3,624 hours of footage recorded during his 524-case investigative career, Award-Winning Documentarian and renowned paranormal investigator Chad Calek was left with a total of 74 minutes of footage that he and his investigative team could not explain.
74 minutes of footage that defies scientific explanation.
74 minutes of footage that can only be described as paranormal.
And now, as the final thesis to his body of investigative work, on August 18th, 2019, Calek is releasing his findings, his theories and all 74 minutes of that footage... to the world.
Chad Calek's forthcoming 74 MINUTES paranormal documentary features the most paranormal evidence ever released in a single paranormal documentary, including the following:
• Over 30 of the most compelling, intense and terrifying pieces of paranormal evidence ever captured on film by Chad Calek and his investigative team between 1988 and 2015.
• Paranormal Evidence captured at The Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Alcatraz, Chillingham Castle, The Stanley Hotel, The Queen Mary, The Villisca Axe Murder House, Gettysburg, The St. Augustine Lighthouse, Farrar Schoohouse, The Queen Anne Hotel, The U.S.S. Hornet, The Queen Mary, and countless other historically haunted locations.
• Never before seen evidence captured during Calek's five-year run as a cast member and the director of Paranormal State and The Ghost Prophecies.
• Never before seen evidence captured during private investigations.
• Full context and explanation of each clip.
• Countless new paranormal theories based on the evidence presented within the documentary.
COMMENT FROM 74 MINUTES DIRECTOR CHAD CALEK:
I'm not the only one with hard drives filled with evidence that I've captured throughout my career. But for some reason, nobody wants to release their footage to the public, which I've never understood. Since the very first investigation that I ever embarked on, I knew that once I had the answers to my questions, I was going to offer the public everything compelling that I had ever documented over the course of my career, along with the thoughts, ideas, answers and theories that I've developed due to not only an extensive amount of experience, but through studying the evidence that I've captured for years. In order for any investigator's research to be authentic "research", you have to offer the footage to the public for peer review. And I'm incredibly excited, as skeptics are going to have a damn hard time debunking over 30 pieces of evidence that an intelligent team of people were unable to find rationale explanations for. And on the filmmaking side, as someone who's not only a documentarian, but also a fan of paranormal documentaries and paranormal evidence clips, 74 MINUTES is easily the most terrifying film that I've ever made, as the history, context and details surrounding the paranormal activity featured in 74 MINUTES is nothing short of disturbing. - Chad Calek
PRE-ORDER "74 MINUTES" ON DVD OR PRE-ORDER THE ONLINE VIMEO ON DEMAND VERSION TODAY AND RECEIVE THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD CHAD CALEK'S ENTIRE 25-YEAR PARANORMAL EVIDENCE CATALOG!
BOTH PRE-ORDER LINKS ARE POSTED BELOW!
PLEASE NOTE: FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS, ALL DVD AND VIMEO ON DEMAND PRE-ORDERS WILL INCLUDE A LINK EMAILED TO YOU ON AUG. 18TH (THE RELEASE DATE) TO DOWNLOAD CHAD CALEK'S ENTIRE PARANROMAL EVIDENCE CATALOG FROM HIS 25-YEAR INVESTIGATIVE CAREER, WHICH INCLUDES COUNTLESS ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE CLIPS THAT ARE NOT IN THE "74 MINUTES" DOCUMENTARY!
Can you debunk Chad Calek's footage? Or is there something paranormal that he missed? With this .MP4 file of Chad Calek's entire evidence collection, you'll be able to not only investigate the footage for yourself on your computer, but you'll also have nearly two hours of paranormal evidence to show your friends, family and anyone else who's either interested or skeptical of the paranormal!
• THE "74 MINUTES" DVD PRE-ORDER - CURRENTLY, THERE ARE LESS THAN 10 DVDS LEFT TO PRE-ORDER, AS WE'RE ONLY RELEASING 100 TOTAL DVDS AS A LIMITED COMMEMORATIVE RUN! SO IF YOU WISH YOU OWN "74 MINUTES" ON DVD, DON'T HESITATE, AS THEY WILL BE SOLD OUT VERY SOON!
• THE "74 MINUTES" ONLINE VIMEO ON DEMAND PRE-ORDER - AFTER MAKING YOUR PURCHASE, YOU WILL RECEIVE A LEFTIME PURCHASE PASSWORD EMAILED TO YOU ON AUG. 18TH TO WATCH "74 MINUTES" ANY TIME YOU CHOOSE, AS MANY TIMES AS YOU CHOOSE, WITH AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CHOOSE VIA VIMEO ON DEMAND, WHICH WILL ALLOW YOU TO EASILY SCREEN "74 MINUTES" ON YOUR TELEVISION, LAPTOP, DESKTOP, TABLET OR SMARTPHONE FROM 150 COUNTRIED VIA IOS, ROKU, CHROMECAST AND MORE!
THE 74 MINUTES RELEASE DATE IS: AUGUST 18TH, 2019.
THE 74 MINUTES DVD PRE-ORDER SHIPPING DATE IS: AUGUST 7TH, 2019
PLEASE NOTE: To ensure the DVD shipping date will not move, the COMPLETION DATE for the 74 MINUTES documentarty is JUNE 7TH, 2019 (two months before the pre-order shipping date), in which we are currently on schedule.
PRE-ORDERS LINKS!
ALL PRE-ORDERS (DVD AND ONLINE) MADE IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS WILL INCLUDE THE ADDITIONAL LINK TO DOWNLOAD CHAD CALEK'S ENTIRE 25-YEAR PARANORMAL EVIDENCE CATALOG, WHICH WILL BE EMAILED TO YOU ON AUG. 18TH, 2019!
PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE ALSO CURRENTLY TWO (2) REMAINING CHAD CALEK LIFETIME DVD SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS AS WELL, WHICH INCLUDES AN AUTOGRAPHED DVD OF EVERY FILM EVER MADE BY CHAD CALEK THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER, A "SPECIAL THANKS" IN THE CREDITS AND TWO (2) VIP BACKSTAGE PASSES TO ANY FUTURE FILM SCREENING/TOURING EVENT OF YOUR CHOICE! TO BECOME A "CHAD CALEK LIFETIME DVD SUBSCRIBER" PLEASE CLICK HERE!
HELP SUPPORT THE MAKING OF "PALE FACE" (THE "TWO FACE: THE GREY" FOLLOW UP DOCUMENTARY) WITH THE NEW "PALE FACE SUPPORT" T-SHIRT!
***OFFICIAL AGH TELEVISION ANNOUNCEMENT!***
Hello, my friends! We're proud to make the following announcements!
• The official title of the forthcoming follow-up documentary to SIR NOFACE and TWO FACE: THE GREY has been announced, which the title is PALE FACE!
• The goal is to film in Australia throughout the month of September with a release in February of 2020.
• As of today, April 1st, 2019, our efforts to raise a portion of the production budget has officially begun with the offering of the PALE FACE SUPPORT T-SHIRT, which you can see and order below!
• 100 percent of the proceeds go towards the production of PALE FACE, as we need your support finishing this trilogy of doumentaries!
If you scroll down, you can order your PALE FACE SUPPORT T-SHIRT right now, in which SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE, XL, 2X, 3X, 4X and 5X sizes are available!
Please note that all orders will be shipped on June 5th, 2019!
For those of you who are able to support the making of PALE FACE with a PALE FACE SUPPORT T-SHIRT purchase, we sincerely thank you all in advance, as PALE FACE is definitely going to be the most intense documentary of the SIR NOFACE, TWO FACE, PALE FACE trilogy!
With that being said, thank you once again for your time, interest, consideration and support!
TO ORDER YOUR "PALE FACE SUPPORT T-SHIRT" NOW, PLEASE SCROLL DOWN!
U.S. CUSTOMERS PURCHASE HERE!
U.S. "PALE FACE" SUPORT T-SHIRT SIZES AND PRICES
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INTERNATIONAL "PALE FACE" SUPORT T-SHIRT SIZES AND PRICES
ONE HUNDRED "74 MINUTES" DVD PRE-ORDERS WITH DOWNLOAD LINK TO CHAD CALEK'S EVIDENCE COLLECTION NOW AVAILABLE!
ONLY ONE HUNDRED (100) TOTAL DVD PRE-ORDERS ARE AVAILABLE, WHICH EACH DVD PRE-ORDER INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:
• THE DVD! A 74 MINUTES DVD autographed by Director Chad Calek
• A LINK TO DOWNLOAD CHAD CALEK'S ENTIRE EVIDENCE COLLECTION IN .MP4 FORMAT! A direct link to download ALL of the evidence featured in the 74 MINUTES DVD (plus additional evidence footage) in .MP4 format, so that you my study the footage for yourself on your computer! Can you debunk the footage? Or is there something paranormal that we missed? With this .MP4 file of Chad Calek's entire evidence collection, you'll be able to not only investigate the footage for yourself, but you'll also have nearly two hours of paranormal evidence to show your friends, family and anyone else who's either interested or skeptical of the paranormal!
• YOUR NAME IN THE SPECIAL THANKS CREDITS! As one of the 100 TOTAL INDIVIDIUALS to pre-order the 74 MINUTES DVD, you will be identified and thanked in the SPECIAL THANKS credits of the 74 MINUTES documentary!
As always, THANK YOU for your interested, excitement and support. We cannot wait for your to see 74 MINUTES!
TO PRE-ORDER ONE (OR MORE) OF THE 100 TOTAL AVAILABLE 74 MINUTES DVDS, PLEASE CLICK THE UNITED STATES OR INTERNATIONAL PRE-ORDER LINKS BELOW!
THE "IN A CROWDED ROOM" PODCAST EPISODE #1 IS COMING!
EPISODE #1 OF THE IN A CROWDED ROOM PODCAST DEBUTS ON FEB. 11TH, 2019!
THE "2019 AGH BIRTHDAY BASH AT THE THOMAS HOUSE" TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! GET 'EM WHILE THEY LAST!
CLICK PLAY TO WATCH THE "ROOM 37" EPISODE OF PARANORMAL STATE AT THE THOMAS HOUSE!
BEFORE PURCHASING YOUR TICKETS BELOW, PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:
• ALL ROOMS ARE DOUBLE OCCUPANCY ROOMS PRICED AT $120 PER NIGHT, IN WHICH HOTEL ROOM BOOKING FEES ARE NOT INCLUDED WITH THE TICKET PRICE.
• DUE TO THE LIMITED NUMBER OF TOTAL ROOMS AVAILABLE TO THIS EVENT (13), ALL ROOM RENTALS MUST BE DOUBLE OCCUPANCY IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE ALL 26 INDIVIDUALS THAT WILL BE ATTENDING THIS EVENT. ONCE YOU PURCHASE YOUR EVENT TICKET, YOU WILL RECEIVE A CONFIRMATION EMAIL WITH THE THOMAS HOUSE ROOM RENTAL PHONE NUMBER AND THE AGH BIRTHDAY BASH EVENT ROOM RENTAL "PASSWORD" REQUIRED TO BOOK YOUR ROOM. IF YOU ARE A SINGLE TICKET BUYER AND NEED A ROOMMATE, AFTER PURCHASING YOUR TICKET, PLEASE INFORM US VIA EMAIL AND WE WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO OTHER SINGLE-TICKET GUESTS WHO WILL ROOM WITH YOU AND SPLIT THE ROOM BOOKING FEES.
• SINGLE OCCUPANCY IS ONLY ALLOWED IF AN INDIVIDUAL PURCHASES TWO (2) EVENT TICKETS IN ADVANCE OF BOOKING THEIR ROOM.
AS MENTIONED ABOVE, TWO "ALL YOU CAN EAT" SOUTHERN STYLE, HOME COOKED MEALS ARE INCLUDED WITH THE TICKET PRICE.
• YOUR TICKET PURCHASE CONFIRMATION EMAIL WILL INCLUDE ALL RELEVANT TRAVEL INFORMATION NEEDED TO GET TO THE THOMAS HOUSE.
• PLEASE SEE THE OFFICIAL EVENT ITINERARY BELOW!
THE 2019 AGH BIRTHDAY BASH OFFICIAL ITINERARY!
THURSDAY, MAY 30TH
• Noon to 5pm - Check in to the Thomas House.
• 6pm - Enjoy and incredible down home southern style dinner in the main hall of the Thomas House.
• 9pm - Welcome Party with Commemorative Badges given out! Time for individual photos and free autographs.
• 10pm - 2am - Ghost Hunting with Chad and Craig.
FRIDAY, MAY 31ST
• 8am - Enjoy an incredible down home southern style breakfast in the main hall of the Thomas House.
• 2pm - SIR NOFACE Q&A with Chad and Craig.
• 3pm - TWO FACE: THE GREY Q&A with presentation of NEVER BEFORE SEEN updated evidence.
• 5pm - Break for all in attendance.
• 8pm - ROOM 37 Q&A and ROOM 37 episode Walk Through.
• 9pm - ROOM 37 Recreation Ghost Hunt.
SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST
• 2pm - Evidence Review Time (check your footage to see what you may have captured).
• 3pm - Evidence Presentation Time (share your evidence with all in attendance).
• 8pm - Merch Table and Ghost Stories - Chad and Craig share some of their most intense ghost stories.
- Check out the latest AGH merchandise as well as new merchandise from Craig’s WSPR Team.
• 10pm - Midnight - Ghost Hunting in Room 37.
• Midnight - 2am - Ghost Hunting with Chad and Craig.
SUNDAY, JUNE 2ND
• 9am - Evidence Review Time (check your footage to see what you may have captured).
• 10am - Pictures and Goodbyes - We’ll see you at the next one!
• 11am - Event concludes.
THE TOTAL TICKET PRICE FOR THE ENTIRE FOUR DAY, THREE-NIGHT EVENT:
$350 (ALL MEALS INCLUDED WITH THE TICKET PRICE!)
TWO FACE: THE GREY DVDS WILL BEGIN SHIPPING THIS WEEK!
Hola, my friends!
I just took a break to let all of you (my incredibly awesome TWO FACE: THE GREY DVD customers) know that I'm working away on all of the DVD signings, in which orders will begin shipping tomorrow!
This means that throughout the week you will all begin to receive your USPS tracking number emails, which of course means that you autographed TWO FACE: THE GREY extended version DVD is on its way!
Once you receive your copy, please keep in mind that there's a special "DVD ONLY" evidence scene after the final credits, which is a serious mind-bender that effects the entire case!
I also couldn't be happier with how the final DVD product turned out, as not only does the film look beautiful on the big screen, but the packaging and final DVD printing came out awesome as well, as we switched from the big ole' clunky, plastic Amaray DVD cases (which scratched the hell out of the DVDs if they got dislodged from the circular plastic holder during shipping) to the eco-wallet packaging, which for the same production price, not only ensures the disks won't get scratched, but the final artwork is much more crisp and clean, as it's printed directed to the wallet, so you're not looking at a light-glaring matte finish through an ugly thin plastic cover holder. And I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the "flat black" print on the DVD's (which is a new option as well), as it makes the silver sharpie really stand out. In short, these are my favorite DVDs that we've ever released... and very soon, they will be in your hands!
As I also mentioned in the previous post, there's a handful of TWO FACE: THE GREY DVDs left as well (less than 40), so if you want to get your hands on one of the final DVD copies available, please feel free to CLICK THIS LINK: http://www.aghtelevision.com/dvd-s-merch/item/649-2face
And if of course, if you prefer to watch TWO FACE: THE GREY on VIMEO ON DEMAND, you can watch it by CLICKING THIS LINK: www.vimeo.com/ondemand/twoface
I'll update everyone on shipping in a few days as well, but I just wanted to share my excitement about the final product and say THANK YOU once again for your incredible support throughout this entire process. I promise the wait will be worth it, my friends!
Much love and all the best!
COAST TO COAST AM TWO-HOUR INTERVIEW WITH CHAD CALEK!
Thank you to everyone at the legendary COAST TO COAST A.M. radio show, especially host Jimmy Church, for the invite to discuss my latest documentary, TWO FACE: THE GREY, for what ended being an interview that lasted in excess of two hours!
Syndicated on 600 radio station in the United States and Canada, reaching over 2 MILLION PEOPLE, needless to say, it was an honor to appear for the second time on the show that I grew up listening to.
To all who tuned in... THANK YOU!
To the one and only Jimmy Barnes... your support is truly appreciated, my friend.
And if you haven't yet seen TWO FACE: THE GREY, please CLICK HERE to watch it exclusively on VIMEO ON DEMAND!
Much love and all the best, everyone.
"TWO FACE: THE GREY" IS NOW AVAILABLE ON VIMEO ON DEMAND!
"TWO FACE THE GREY" IS NOW AVAILABLE TO WATCH EXCLUSIVELY ON VIMEO ON DEMAND!
CLICK HERE TO WATCH IT NOW!
CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO BELOW TO WATCH THE OFFICIAL EXTENDED TRAILER TO "TWO FACE THE GREY"
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR INTEREST, SUPPORT AND EXCITEMENT!
- AGH TELEVISION
"SIR NOFACE" TO BE RELEASED ONLINE EXCLUSIVELY BY VIMEO ON DEMAND! PRE-ORDER NOW AND SAVE!
THIS FRIDAY, NOV. 24TH, YOU CAN PRE-ORDER THE SIR NOFACE "SPECIAL EDITION" DOUBLE-DISC DVD! ONLY 1,000 WILL BE MADE!
CHAD CALEK'S "SIR NOFACE LIVES" TOUR IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND!
CHAD CALEK'S "A BLOOD RED SKY" TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON iTUNES ON AMAZON!
CHAD CALEK RELEASES HIS "TELL SOMEONE" PROMO VIDEO FOR PARAMERICAN RADIO! WATCH IT BELOW!
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A — Our programmable wet cleaning equipment uses far less water than the home washing machine. In fact, we process fifty pounds of clothing using less water than a standard thirteen pound cycle in the average home washer. In the three years Hangers has been in operation in Albuquerque, we have used less water monthly than the residential average.
Q — Lots of cleaners claim to be green. What’s so special about Hangers solvents and processes, and why are they better for my clothes and I?
A — Big question.
Hangers uses naturally occurring solvents — Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O). In fact, you can actually drink our solvents since the two combined form carbonated water, i.e. the green bottle of water at upscale restaurants. All other solvents are man-manufactured, primarily from petroleum stocks or silicone based compounds requiring increased energy and resource requirements, i.e. a larger carbon footprint. Drinking any of them would definitely not be advisable. For more information, including potential health and environmental effects for all solvents, check out the COOP America Real Money article under the In The News portion of this website.
Dry cleaning with CO2 is gentler on your clothes for several reasons, but the most important is that there is no heat involved in the process. All other dry cleaning solvents are liquids at room temperature and require a drying cycle at elevated temperatures (typically 160—180 degrees Fahrenheit) to remove these liquids from your clothing after cleaning. To economically remove these liquids, the drying cycle is conducted at relatively high heats and this heating step destroys and damages the fibers in your clothing and dulls the dyes. Because CO2 is a gas at room temperatures, there is no drying cycle, per se. After removing the majority of the liquid CO2, the cleaning wheel is depressurized and all remaining CO2 turns to a gas and leaves the clothing. Therefore your clothes are never above room temperature in our cleaning cycle.
Wet cleaning, which is the processing of dry cleanable clothing in water is the other process we use at Hangers. Wet cleaning is accomplished in special programmable machines with special detergents and conditioners used to protect fine fabrics and clothing. The machines vary temperature, agitation, extract speed and processing time to suit the particular fabric and manufacture of a garment. Drying cycles, similarly, are programmed to the particular fabric and garment type to minimize fiber damage. While we could use the process for all of the clothes processed at Hangers (in fact, there are many cleaners in the country who are successful utilizing only wet cleaning), we typically use it for stains that are water based, or hydrophilic stains. These stains would include tannin based stains like coffee or wine and other soiling such as extreme perspiration odor or urine stains. Dry cleaning primarily is effective on lipophilic (oil based) stains, and while it is marginally effective on hydrophilic soiling, wet cleaning produces far better results. Coupling the wet cleaning process to CO2 dry cleaning gives Hangers substantially enhanced cleaning capabilities over traditional dry clean only operations resulting in better stain removal and greater customer satisfaction.
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Testing & Coaching
Algarve Pro Racing: 24 Hours of Le Mans six-hour update
Algarve Pro Racing Team surged from the tail end of the LMP2 field to the top eight by deploying Andrea Pizzitola’s raw speed and a clever strategy during the first quarter of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
On Wednesday (12 June), a mix of bright sunshine and heavy rainfall made for an unpredictable FP1 session, which was truncated further by a lengthy red-flag stoppage;
Algarve Pro cycled through all three of its drivers during the four-hour session, providing each with useful experience in changeable conditions before entering the first part of Qualifying-Practice, held as the sun set over Circuit de la Sarthe;
The core objective was for Andrea Pizzitola, John Falb and David Zollinger to complete their five mandatory night laps;
A 3m29.126s set by Pizzitola was ultimately good enough for tenth in the LMP2 classification, but it was a momentous session for Falb, as the Las Vegas racer successfully completed his first night drive at Le Mans;
In Qualifying-Practice 2 on Thursday (13 June), Pizzitola dipped into the 3m28s and that was enough for ninth in the definitive classification;
France’s David Zollinger had his stint interrupted by a Full Course Yellow (FCY) but grew in confidence and continually improved his lap times, comfortable with the balance of the #25 ORECA;
It was felt the fastest times that would ultimately determine the starting order for the race would come in the cooler evening temperatures of Qualifying-Practice 3;
There was a raft of improvements up and down the field and, with Pizzitola managing a 3m28.803s, Algarve Pro Racing would start its fourth Le Mans from 16th in class;
The 87th 24 Hours of Le Mans got underway at the traditional 15:00 start time on warm and sunny Saturday (15 June) afternoon;
Reigning European Le Mans Series (ELMS) Champion Pizzitola kept his nose clean and maintained 16th on the opening lap, but was soon past Cetilar Villorba Corse’s Giorgio Sernagiotto for 15th;
Algarve Pro Racing pulled the #25 ORECA in for an early fuel refill at the end of lap six, taking it out of sync with its LMP2 rivals’ pit stops;
An empty pit lane and placing Pizzitola in clean air resulted in a net gain to 14th position, within reach of the top ten;
Treating his opening quadruple stint like a sprint, Pizzitola cleared Panis Barthez Competition’s Will Stevens, High Class Racing’s Anders Fjordbach and United Autosports’ Filipe Albuquerque to break into the top ten before the end of the first hour;
Pizzitola benefited from fresh tyres mid-way through his run and climbed to eighth before losing out to ex-Formula 1 driver Paul di Resta in the #22 United Autosports entry;
The final stages of Pizzitola’s stint were spent under the rear wing of Matias Beche’s High Class Racing ORECA as part of a four-car train led by Jackie Chan DC Racing’s Jordan King;
Falb picked up the baton on lap 37 and spent much of his run in 14th, building his speed over the course of his stint;
The American was one of the quickest Am drivers in the field during the latter phase of his run and was catching the 13th-placed runner at a rate of knots;
During the fifth hour, Zollinger made his first race appearance for Algarve Pro Racing, picking up from where Falb left off by continuing to reduce the gap to those ahead of him;
A Safety Car deployment prompted Algarve Pro Racing to carry out a tyre-change, minimising the time-loss and keeping the team one stop ahead of most of its LMP2 rivals.
Andrea Pizzitola (#25 Algarve Pro Racing ORECA 07 LMP2): “I’m really happy with how my stint went. I wasn’t really running it like an endurance race, but more like a sprint, but the Algarve Pro Racing ORECA 07 allowed me to do that. The car was very good and my job will always be to push really hard and gain track position to try to get to the front of LMP2.”
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The network of the diplomats for culture and education
The Network of Joint Institutes
Főoldal / International Relations
The main scope of activities and object of the institutes as a state allocated responsibility in line with Hungary’s long -term goals:
• to preserve and promote extensively national cultural heritage
• to foster and maintain relationships in cultural diplomacy with the recipient country
• to further international cultural and scientific cooperation
• Hungarian language teaching
• to demonstrate the diversity of Hungarian culture and society by ways of providing information and event organising
The first Hungarian institutes abroad, the so-called Collegium Hungaricum, were established by Kunó Klebelsberg (minister of culture at the time) in the 1920s in order to build relations with the international scientific community (in Vienna and Berlin in 1924, in Rome and Paris in 1927). Organising scientific life and education make up a fundamental part of the institutes’ activity even today. Apart from differences shaped by history, there are also variations in the scope of activities, services and equipment of the institutes. Some of them maintain libraries, Hungarian language teaching centers and galleries in addition to their primary work in culture, education and organising science.
The network of Hungarian institutes in the world today represents Hungarian interests in the field of education and culture in 21 countries with 23 institutes, reaching back to more than 80 years.
Hungarian institutes in the world:
Vienna, Austria | Belgrade, Serbia | Berlin, Germany | Brussels, Belgium | Bucarest, Romania | Delhi, India | Helsinki, Finland | Cairo, Egypt
Istambul, Turkey | London, United Kingdom | Moscow, Russia | New York, USA | Paris, France | Beijing, China | Bratislava, Slovakia | Prague, Czech Republic
Rome, Italy | Sepsiszentgyörgy (Sfantu Gheorghe), Romania | Stuttgart, Germany | Sofia, Bulgaria | Tallinn, Estonia
Warsaw, Poland | Zagreb, Croatia
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Genuine Cummins PartsBlogCummins engineTest Drive: Cummins X12 Diesel Engine Version 2.0
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Test Drive: Cummins X12 Diesel Engine Version 2.0
Cummins’ new X12 engine is slated to hit the street sometime early this year, probably shortly after its formal launch in February or March. The engine was introduced in August 2016, and I had a short drive with it then around the 7-mile loop track at the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty, Ohio. It wasn’t much of an opportunity to get to know the engine, but it whet my appetite. Cummins invited me to drive the new X12 this past November on a longer real-world route, starting from the plant in Jamestown, New York, where the X12 is to be built.
The X12 has a displacement of 11.4 liters, which, according to conventional mathematical rounding principles, should have caused the engine to be named X11. However, the engine punches above its weight, and to call it X11 would have diminished some of its brightest attributes. Tipping the scales at just 2,050 pounds, it has the highest power-to-weight ratio of any heavy-duty engine from 10 liters to 16 liters in size. It’s lighter than any 11-liter block on the market (albeit subject to interpretation on how “dry weight” is determined). And its published ratings put it squarely in 13-liter to 15-liter territory for torque and horsepower.
Development on the X12 began in 2013 in close collaboration China’s Beiqi Foton Motor Co. There it was known as the ISG. The version of the engine we’ll see here in the next month or so has been almost completely re-engineered. Cummins tells me that close to 90% of the engine saw some re-engineering to ready it for North America.
For this test drive in a van trailer grossing 61,100 pounds, I ran about 90 miles on a nice mix of Interstate and flat and hilly two-lane roads. I headed west on I-86 from the plant in Lakewood to Northeast Pennsylvania, where I flipped back eastward on I-90. I got onto New York State Route 5 at Ripley, headed east to Westfield, and then back south to the plant on S.R. 394 and 430. It’s a great route to test an engine like this, because it’s exactly the kind of terrain on which it will operate in real life.
The engine was installed in a Freightliner Cascadia daycab with a manual transmission. I opted for the manual because it gave me a better feel for what the engine could do, unaffected by an automated transmission with ideas of its own. It was a 10-speed Eaton manual with a 0.78:1 OD ratio, 3.58:1 rears and 11R22.5 tires — a typical spec for a regional/P&D operation where the X12 might find itself.
We’ll learn more about it when it’s formally introduced, but based on what we know about the ISG, the X12 has about half the number of parts found on other diesel engines. It uses a sculpted block design for greater rigidity and less resonant noise. The block was engineered to remove as much metal as possible to reduce weight without sacrificing structural integrity. Several composite components, such as the rocker cover and oil pan, also help reduce overall weight. It features optimized intake and exhaust ports for easier breathing, and coolant and oil galleries were engineered for easier flow with less pumping effort. It uses the XPI high-pressure injection system and a Cummins-designed integrated engine brake that delivers up to 50% more engine braking horsepower than traditional engine brakes, the company says.
I have also been told that the X12 will be available with Cummins’ full suite of electronic fuel efficiency and operational enhancements, such as Adept (SmartTorque2, SmartCoast, predictive cruise), Load Based Speed Control, and Connected Diagnostics. It will also use Cummins’ Single Module aftertreatment system.
This engine was rated at 455 hp/1,700 lb-ft. The power curves indicate peak torque extends from 1,000 rpm all the way up to 1,400, while the peak horsepower of 455 is available from 1,400 to 1,900 rpm, which is a dream configuration. You have a 400-rpm range for peak torque, which gave me a 15 mph range on the Interstate in top gear where I was cruising at peak torque, from 50 to 65 mph. At 65, I was running 1,400 rpm. I was down to 1,000 at 50 mph, which is a bit low for a hilly road, but okay on flat ground. At 55 mph, the engine was rolling along happily at 1,200 rpm, which gave me a 200-rpm margin before I’d have to think about downshifting.
I can’t say how an automated transmission would have handled it, but my inclination is to run the engine down as low as possible before downshifting without trapping myself at too low an engine speed. I suspect an Eaton automated would have opted for higher shift points, and so might have spent more time in 9th gear on the two-lane sections than I did.
I did cruise along in 9th for a while on a hilly section of S.R. 394 and was quite pleased with the very spry performance of the engine between 1,500 and 1,700 rpm. Ninth gear gave me a speed range from 45-65 mph at a usable engine speed, so I could have happily left it in that gear the whole time I was in the hills.
The engine responds very nicely to low-rpm operation in the bottom five gears, when I usually shift between 800 and 1,000 rpm. Startability is great with that gear combination. In the higher gears, shifts were comfortably made at 1,200-1,400 rpm.
The engine brake was fantastic for such a small-displacement engine, and when the revs get up to 2,100 or so, you can really feel it digging in. With today’s low-rpm operation, it’s easy to forget about the top 500 rpm in the engine range, but that’s where the engine brake works best.
On a less technical level, I found the engine to be very quiet, and it has a very pleasant low growling sound. It won’t bother anybody. Because the engine is so light, I’m sure it will be a hit in weight-sensitive applications. The variety of ratings is astounding; they go up in roughly 25-rpm increments from 325 to 500. The 500-rpm rating is vocational only; on-highway goes as high as 475. Torque ratings run from 1,350 to 1,700, and there are several multi-torque ratings in there as well, 1,550/1,700 and 1,450/1,650.
I think the X12 is exactly the right engine for the emerging regional haul market, and Cummins has nailed the performance curves. There’s nothing missing on this engine except a few hundred surplus pounds of engine block.
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GUWAHATI, Sept 5 - Along with the rest of the nation, the 55th Teachers’ Day was celebrated all over the State today. Reports filed by our correspondents are still trickling in.
In Tinsukia: The district administration here organised a central Teachers’ Day function at the District Library auditorium. The function has presided over by Abdul Rauf, educationist and former Headmaster of Bipin Bora High School.
The inaugural speech was delivered by Dr Pitambar Deva Goswami, Satradhikar of Auniati Satra, who attended the function as the chief guest.
He opined that education was the most important ingredient for the overall development of a nation and teachers take the role of a rudder. Their dedication and sincerity is reflected in future development of the society, he added.
A total of 22 teachers of the district, out of which 5 teachers were from lower primary school, 4 from higher primary school and 13 teachers from high and higher secondary schools were felicitated for their distinguished services.
Further, another 12 teachers of the district, nominated by the State Government, were also felicitated.
In the function which was conducted by Inspector of Schools Abdul Jalil, three retired teachers, namely, Barun Bora of Margherita Public Higher Secondary School, Jagyaswer Chetia of Baruahola MV School and Atul Chandra Bora of Gyanoudoy ME School were feted and awarded with ‘Guru Mahiaan’ awards.
Principals of two schools, namely Doomdooma Bangiya Vidyalaya and St. Stephen School of Tinsukia were also felicitated in the function for their exemplary service.
In Barpeta: The birth anniversary of noted philosopher, academician and former President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was celebrated as Teachers’ Day here today.
A district-level committee organised the 55th Teachers’ Day function at the Barpeta District Library auditorium.
Hiran Saikia Lahkar, retired teacher of the Government Higher Secondary School unfurled the Teachers’ Day flag which was preceded by a procession. The Deputy Commissioner of Barpeta Thaneswar Malakar lit the ceremonial lamp and also presided over a meeting held on the occasion.
Addressing the meeting as the chief guest, Hrishikesh Goswami, Media Adviser to theChief Minister insisted upon ethical
education which the forefathers of the nation like Mahatma Gandhi, Bibekananda and Radhakrishnan dreamt of.
He urged the teachers’ fraternity to dedicate their service from the core of their heart as the future of the nation largely depends upon them. Goswami subsequently released the souvenir published on the occasion which was edited by award-winning teacher Somnath Talukdar, who is the Headmaster of Suha ME School.
Speaking on the occasion, Barpeta MLA Gunindra Nath Das laid emphasis on maintaining cordial relationship among teachers, students and the guardians. Shankar Das, retired Professor of Barnagar College at Sarbhog also spoke a few words.
In all, 36 teachers were awarded certificates by the State Government for their meritorious service and felicitated at the function. On the other hand, 40 teachers were awarded by the district administration for their distinguished service.
The education committee of Srimanta Shankar Sangha organised the third State-level Teachers’ Day function at Fehurakhowa in association with the Barpeta district committee of the Sangha.
A meeting held on the occasion was presided over by Dr Pradip Hazarika, president of the education committee and Head of the Assamese Department of Srimanta Sankardev University. Speaker of the State Assembly Ranjeet Kumar Dass attended the meeting as the chief guest. A souvenir published on the ocassion was formally released by Dr Mukunda Sarma, Principal of Bhabanipur Anchalik College.
Teachers’ Day was also celebrated in all the educational institutions of the district. Seminars, essay writing and other creative activities marked the functions in the schools. Students offered their respect to their teachers and participated in the programmes.
In Goalpara: A central function was organised by the district administration to commemorate Teachers’ Day in association with the State Department of Education at Gandhi Bhavan today amidst a large gathering of guests, teachers and students.
The chief guest on the ocasion, i.e., former Principal of Goalpara College Dr Abul Masoom said that teachers are the backbone of the society as they play a stellar role in the intellectual development of the students, who also help them to prepare for life.
He urged all the teachers to be pragmatic so that values and moral-based education.is inculcated among the students.
Addressing the function as the appointed speaker, the Principal of Bikali College Dr Malina Rabha acknowledged the immense contributions made by the teachers in the field of education and said that they must work whole-heartedly to raise the level of education in order to build a peaceful and progressive society.
District Development Commissioner Farouk Alam, who presided over the meeting, highlighted the role of a teacher while giving a power-point presentation.
Partha Protim Das, Sozimuddin Ahmed and Ritashree Das from PR Govt HS & MP School, and Sanjay Pathak from the Central Girls’ School were among 23 teachers who were felicitated with a citation and a sorai each for their outstanding contribution in the field of education.
In Nalbari: Teachers’ Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm today.The Nalbari district administration in association with teachers’ bodies organised a programme at Nalbari Natya Mandir with a day-long programme.
On the occasion, 36 committed teachers from primary to college level of the district were felicitated.
Addressing the function as chief guest, Dr Sikhar Kumar Sarma, Registrar of Cotton College State University called upon the teachers’ fraternity to be ‘teachers of the society in order to show the right path’.
The meeting, presided over by Ananta Lal Gyani, Deputy Commissioner of Nalbari was addressed among others by Ashok Sarma, MLA of Nalbari LAC. The Nalbari anchalik unit of AASU also celebrated Teachers’ Day along with felicitation of reputed teachers at 15 educational institutions of the town.
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Posted by Schyler Martin | Jun 19, 2015 | Reviews | 0 |
Overview: When 11-year-old Riley is uprooted from her life in Minnesota with a sudden move to San Francisco, her emotions (Joy, Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Sadness) find themselves working overtime to navigate the hardships of growing older. Disney Pixar; PG; 2015, 102 minutes.
Inside Childhood: Visually, Inside Out is dazzling and breathtakingly imaginative. To create an interesting world inside of a child’s head is one thing, but to create a world that feels true to life, that feels honest and real, well, that’s another thing entirely. I’m in awe of the things Inside Out does, and out of respect for the film, I’m not going to reveal any more about the inner workings of Riley’s mind than what I already have. Every single thing comes together for this movie. The ambitious concept is skillfully and intelligently written by co-directors Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen. The direction is sharp, the score is appropriately whimsical and sentimental, and the voice acting is as strong as any you’re going to find.
Outside Adulthood: Voice and comic actors Phyllis Smith and Amy Poehler are standouts. What Smith creates with Sadness is a character who is riotously hilarious in one moment, and harrowingly heartbreaking in the next. As Joy, Poehler radiates more than just the happiness her character is nominally known for. She captures the desperate optimism that all of us felt as children, and the shining brightness that too many of us lose sight of throughout the rest of our lives. Inside Out inspires us to find that outlook again, and to hold on to it, even as we acknowledge that life is going to get sad sometimes, and that’s all right too. Like other Pixar films, Inside Out entertains all ages, and is packed full of a mature, sombre humor that even the adults in attendance can enjoy. My personal favorite was a quick, yet clear Chinatown reference which the Hollywood audience that I was a part of found delightful.
Life Itself: Rarely have I connected with a film on such a deep, emotional level in quiet the same way that I have connected with Inside Out. I don’t know quite how Disney and Pixar does it, but Docter and Carmen have nailed the way it feels to grow up. More than that, they have captured exactly what life feels like. Inside Out doesn’t try to mask life’s hard truths. Instead, it embraces the dark times. It looks hardship right in the face, and dares to find beauty in sadness. Our memories are rarely good or bad, joyous or sad. Usually, they’re tinged with a bit of everything, because that’s the way life itself is. Inside Out is stunning, and wonderful, and frustrating, and enlightening, and terrifying, and so many more things all at once. Inside Out understands all of that, and projects it back to the viewer on the big screen.
Overall: This has been a terribly difficult review for me to write, because it’s been a long time since I loved a movie the way that I loved Inside Out, and I want so badly to do it justice. Inside Out is a clever, heartbreaking, satisfying film that’s grounded in a beautiful combination of gentle humanity and honest truths. But the most important thing I want you to take from this review is the following: Inside Out is a wonderful movie, and I sincerely hope you’ll go see it.
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Schyler is a lover of all things film, Stephen King, and Benedict Cumberbatch. She currently lives in Los Angeles, works at a talent agency, and reads more fanfiction than she should probably admit. Email her at schylermartin@audienceseverywhere.net.
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The Great Chattanooga Bicycle Race Blog Tour and $75 Amazon Giveaway with Mike Mizrahi
Take a ride through 1895 Chattanooga as it's turned upside down when a young woman has the audacity to ride a bicycle–in bloomers—in Mike H. Mizrahi's new book, The Great Chattanooga Bicycle Race! Anna Gaines, 19, struggles to conquer her insecurities after a horrible fall years ago from her beloved horse, Longstreet. On a visit to Brooklyn, she’s drawn to the new pastime of bicycling. But back at home, cycling is a scandalous sport for a proper lady. Anna has her eye on Peter Sawyer, president of the Cycling Club. As community outrage grows, an unexpected turn of events pits Anna against Peter in a race between the sexes.
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(Redemption Press, April 2017)
Chattanooga society is turned upside down as a young woman has the audacity to ride a bicycle–in bloomers!
It’s 1895. Anna Gaines, 19, struggles to conquer her insecurities after a horrible fall years ago from her beloved horse, Longstreet. On a visit with her aunt in Brooklyn, she’s drawn to the new pastime of bicycling. But back at home, cycling is a scandalous sport for a proper lady. Southern women did not engage in activities meant for men.
Anna has her eye on Peter Sawyer, president of the Cycling Club. As community outrage grows, an unexpected turn of events pits Anna against Peter in a race between the sexes.
Will Anna prove that women deserve the same right as men to ride “the wheel?” Will she choose to live a quiet, traditional life of a housewife and mother? Or will she pursue college and become one of the “new women” emerging into the twentieth century on the seat of a bicycle? What will become of the spark between Anna and Peter?
Faith, patience, and courage help Anna to become the person she was meant to be.
Learn more and purchase a copy.
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Mike Mizrahi has a master’s degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication from Boston University. After a career in corporate public affairs, he retired to pursue writing. Mike and his wife Karen live in Woodland Hills, Calif., where the couple raised their two adult children, and he enjoys reading and writing.
Find out more about Mike at www.mikehmizrahi.com.
Labels: Amazon giveaway, bicycle, fiction, giveaway, historical fiction, Mike Mizrahi, Redemption Press, The Great Chattanooga Bicycle Race
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Dacianos in Skien
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On 4 October I took my third trip this year to Skien with the Sound of Mu collective… This time it was the “finisage” of the summer-long Tempo Skien art festival. We converted an extremely commercial-looking venue into a more appealing “cabaret” with fake trees. Two of our bands played: Jae and Dacianos.
Dacianos is of course my own band. The line-up for this show was: Barry Kavanagh (voice, piano, guitar), Håkon Larsen (drums, egg), Marius Kolbensvedt (metallophones, bass, egg), Ilmar Wilbers (cello) and Anne Gunn Fossland (voice). We travelled together with the 3 members of Jae, a driver, our own soundman and two Mu people to set up the exhibition and “do art”. It was also a free food, hotel rooms kind of deal, which I always like!
We (Dacianos) changed our setlist considerably for this show, and seemingly long-term members of our audience were much more happy with it. We started with the regular “Lucette Visits Céline in Prison” which I really enjoyed playing because (a) I was playing Jessica’s electric piano with lovely weighted keys and (b) I could watch the rain fall on the greenhouse-like roof from where I was sitting. Then we played “Polyxo’s Ghosts”, which we hadn’t performed since June 2007. Next I had to negotiate my way across the small stage towards my guitar to perform “Section 20”. By the time that was finished I was bored with myself, so luckily it was time for Anne Gunn to join us to sing. “All You Can Do Is Love”, last performed in December 2006, has now been transformed into a dynamically-arranged duet. Anne Gunn also sang backing vocals on a resurrected “Come Find Me” (last performed March 2005), the synth now replaced by metallophones with an old moog effects unit. We segued then into a “power pop” instrumental, actually two segments of an unfinished song that were re-worked for the occasion.
I’ve blogged about all the Dacianos shows this year, one way or another:
23/2/2008 By;alarm
29/2/2008 supporting American Music Club
7/6/2008 Musikkfest Oslo
10/6/2008 Anne Bang’s birthday
5/8/2008 Klubbøya
Free mp3s at www.dacianos.com
Barry Kavanagh writes fiction, and has made music, formerly with Dacianos and presently with the forthcoming "voodoo project".
Contact him here.
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Norwegian invention: The Treadle Pump
Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum
Counting Down to 22 January 2013
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Walk #788: Romsey to Salisbury
P2007A089353 A stream in Tadburn Meadows Nature Reserve. P2007A089361 Romsey.
County Hampshire, Wiltshire
Start Location Home in Romsey
End Location Salisbury station
Description This was a long walk westwards to Salisbury, following parts of the Test Valley Way and Clarendon Way.
Condition I am tired yet feel otherwise fine after this walk.
Weather Today was mainly overcast, with only a few brief preiods of sunshine. Occasionally dark clouds came over that looked as though they could give rain, but fortunately there was not any.
OS map Landranger number 185 (Winchester & Basingstoke, Andover & Romsey) and Landranger number 184 (Salisbury & The Plain, Amesbury)
P2007A089364 The River Test from the A27 bridge. P2007A089367 Saddler's Mill.
P2007A089370 A footbridge over a stream on the Test floodplain. P2007A089377 The path through Squabb Wood.
P2007A089379 A curiously-deformed tree in Squabb Wood. P2007A089381 Heading through a field of corn on the way to Hilberry Farm.
P2007A089391 Following the Test Way towards Kimbridge. P2007A089395 A conveyor belt on the railway bridge.
I'd only managed to do one walk in the couple of weeks since we completed the move to Romsey, a situation that I wanted to rectify. My time had been taken up by moving and lots of trips to Cambridge, unpacking, assembling furniture, and dealing with all the minutiae of life, so it was nice to finally be able to get out and explore the area some more. I chose to head northwest from my home, doing a long walk that headed into an area that I hardly knew.
The path down into Romsey headed alongside a stream in an area of rather dishevelled parklanf, and proved easy to follow. In the Tadburn area I think I saw what could be a Kingfisher near the water, little more than a flash of blue amongst the branches. I headed towards the station in Romsey, which may be a more natural place for people to start this walk, then nipped down to buy some food from Reeve's Bakers shop in the centre of the town.
Middlebridge Street in Romsey is a pleasant place, with some pretty streets. My planned route followed the Test Way from Romsey towards Mottisfont, and this proved to be the first scenic part of the day. Initially the trail headed up towards Saddler's Mill, with the river on the right. Swans were floating in the river, and it was a pleasant spot even though the noise from the nearby A27 intruded. The mill itself appears to have been recently restored. A short stretch of footpath follows, passing a fairly dilapidated farm; the river is away, unseen to the right.
After this, the path passed through Squabb Wood; a beautiful and very pleasant walk, although slightly muddy in places. The path rose and fell as it headed through the woods; in one place there was a tree that had fallen over, the branches having twisted to grow upwards. This type of broadleaved woodland is so much more enjoyable to walk through than the common, sterile coniferous forests. The moment I emerged from the trees the sun start to beat down, so I took my fleece off to stop myself overheating. After this I saw an unusual green and yellow bird, perhaps some type of parrot, but it's call was nothing like a parrot. It was one of those situations where I did not want to get my camera out, just in case I spooked it. In the end we stared at each other for a minute, before it shuffled on its perch and flew away.
After Squabb Wood the path crossed a road and then headed across a field with head-high vegetation; halfway through the next field, thankfully easier to walk through, it turned to the right to head northeastwards towards the B3084. More paths took me onwards along a pleasant if non-spectacular stretch of countryside. Near Kimbridge the path crosses the Romsey to Salisbury railway line; part of the bridge now carries a conveyor belt that was transporting sand from a nearby quarry, an unusual and unexpected sight. A little further on the path crosses the pretty little River Dun, and then a long track took me north to Mottisfont.
I nipped into the church to have a quick look around; it is small but pretty, and is un derstandably grade-1 listed. Fortunately it was open, and I went in to have a look around. The roof is barrel-vaulted, and on the wall there was a 17th-Century clock movement, allowing you to see the mechanism. It was well worth the diversion to have a look. Mottisfont is also home to the Mottisfont Abbey, now owned by the National Trust, which has a famous rose garden.
At Mottisfont I left the Test Way behind, and started off on a westerly walk. Initially this followed a road, but this soon ended and I was forced to take footpath through some patchy woodland before ending at another road to the north of Lockerley Water Farm. I followed this road north, tahnkful of having some firm tarmac under my feet, to reach a pub near Lockerley Hall Park. Unfortunately I had called in on the one lunchtime of the week when it was closed, so I was forced to walk on. A bridleway too me northwestwards from nearly opposite the pub, skirting the northern edges of Holbury Wood and Upper Frenchmoor Copse. The track felt like it was failry ancient, and it had been badly churned up by vehicles, with some large expanses of puddles.
Some roads and footpaths took me across Tytherley Common, and then a footpath headed westwards through Bentley Wood. This was an enjoyable stroll, and the cycle routes through the woodland shows that it is fairly popular. By the time I reached Farley I was feeling fairly tired, and I stopped off on a bench near the church to eat my sandwiches. Opposite were some pretty Almshouses, and I got up to read the plaques on the exterior. The church itself is pretty, and its brickwork were smart enough to make it look much newer than it must be.
Eventually I had to set off once again, and a series of footpaths took me on westwards. It soon entered an area of woodland, leaving it to join the Clarendon Way just before the ruins of Clarendon Palace were reached. This was a royal residence used by Henry II and III, before falling into disuse. There are not many remains left, and signs forbid me from entering the field to get a better view. This was a shame, and I headed off westwards. Initially I took the wrong route, before scrambling down the hill to join a track. The Clarendon Way was easy to follow as it headed westwards towards the outskirts of Salisbury.
I was quite tired by the time I reached the city, but aside from this I did not feel too bad. For this reason I diverted off the Clarendon Way to visit the cathedral, which I never tire of seeing. It is one of the classic cathedrals in Britain, and just looks right (tm). I love it. I took a few photographs, and then headed off towards the railway station. As I waited for the train, I could look back on a lovely and memorable day's stroll.
P2007A089398 The River Dun. P2007A089407 Mottisfont church.
P2007A089408 The clock in Mottisfont church. P2007A089421 The path heading northwest past Holbury Wood.
This walk starts off at my new home on Saxon Way in Halterworth in Romsey. The first stage of this walk is a mile to Romsey station, which is an alternative start point. The route I took was to walk down Halterworth Close, and when this bends to the left go past a house and turn left to join a footpath. Follow this behind houses, and then turn right to descend to a bridge over the Tadburn Stream. On the other side of the bridge turn left to walk westwards along a track with the stream on the left. This runs through the Tadburn Meadows Nature Reserve; when this ends at a road walk alongside the stream, initially with it on the left. A couple of roads are crossed before the path crosses over so that the stream is on the right, It ends at Botley Road.
Cross Botley road and continue on along a path with the stream on the right. The path squeezes under a railway bridge and ends at a road. Turn right to cross a road bridge over a stream, and then head straight on along a path that squeezes behind houses before ending at the A3090 Winchester Road. Cross the road and turn left, and at a road junction on the left turn right along a path that squeezes to the left of a theatre. It joins a stream on the right; just before a railway bridge is reached turn left along a footpath that heads westwards, joining a minor road. A few yards along this there are some steps leading up; climb these and turn right to reach Romsey railway station.
Now the walk proper begins. Leave the station and head down the station approach to the A3057. Cross this, and head straight on down Station Road. This curves to the left and becomes Latimer Street before it ends at The Hundred. Turn left for a few yards and then right, to head along a narrow alleyway between buildings that ends at a road. Turn right past the bus station to a stream, and then turn left with the stream on the right towards a co-op. Keep the stream on the right as a path heads down some steps and ends at a road. Turn left down this road and then right to start walking down Middlebridge Street southwestwards. This ends at the A27 near a bridge; continue straight on for a few yards to a bridge over the River Test.
Just after the bridge turn left to follow a track northwards, with the river on the right. When Saddler's Mill is reached turn left and then right, to join a footpath that heads northwestwards along the floodplain of the river, heading to the east of the sewage works. A couple of small plank footbridge lead over a couple of streams, and three-quarters of a mile after the mill the path reaches Squabb Wood near Monk's Cottages.
Enter the woodland, and follow a footpath that leads northwestwards through the trees, heading to the west of Roke Manor. At SU333222 turn right down a path that heads northeastwards off the main path; this soon leaves the trees into a small clearing, before re-entering the trees for a short period. After it leaves the trees again it turns to the left, skirting the northern edge of the woods to the edge of a field, and then turning right to head northwestwards for a short distance to Old Salisbury Lane.
Cross the road and head across two fields; halfway across the second the Test Way heads off to the right to head northeastwards. Follow the path as it joins a track, passing Hilberry Farm before reaching the B3084 road. Cross the B3084, and then turn right to join another footpath that soon turns to the left to head behind some houses, before quickly ending at a road. Turn right to head eastwards down this road, and as it curves to the right turn left along a track. A short distance along this turn left, to head northwestwards along another footpath for a little over half a mile, crossing a stream and then climbing up a slight hill before the path ends at the B3084 road once more.
Turn right to follow the B3084 road northwards for about a third of a mile, then turn right along a narrow footpath that heads northwards, skirting a pond on the left before it soon ends at another road. Turn right down this road for a short distance until it approaches a level crossing over a railway line. Just before the crossing turn left along another footpath; this heads westwards, and when a crossing is reached with another footpath turn to the right. This crosses the railway line on a footbridge (with a conveyor belt beside it).
On the other side the path descends down a slight slope to a footbridge over the River Dun; cross this and then continue on northwards on the other side. This becomes a track as it continues for a little under half a mile. It curves sharply to the left and then the right to reach Mottisfont Church. Continue on past this for a few yards until the track ends at a road in Mottisfont.
Turn left to follow the road westwards; it soon curves to the right to head northwards. Take the first road off to the left, leaving the Test Way in the process. Follow this road westwards for half a mile until the B3084 road is reached. Cross this road, and then continue on westwards, initially along a track and then a footpath. After about a mile and a quarter the footpath finally ends at a road near Lockerley Water Farm at SU295270.
Turn right and follow this road northwards for 0.4 miles; just before a pub is reached turn left to join a bridleway. Follow this track as it heads northwestwards; it is muddy in places as it skirts the northern edge of Holbury Wood. After a mile another road is reached. Cross this road, and continue on along another track that skirts the northern edge of Upper Frenchmoor Copse. This track becomes a road, which soon ends at a junction at SU271289 near Tytherley Common.
Continue straight on along a road for a short distance before it ends at a T-junction with another road. Turn left down this road for a few yards, and then turn right along another footpath that heads northwestwards for 0.4 miles until it ends at another road. Turn right to head north along this road for 0.4 miles until a gateway leading into Home Farm is reached on the right.
Here turn left to follow a footpath westwards. This crosses a field before entering some woodland. After a little over half a mile a track is reached; turn left down this track and then right to start heading northwestwards along another track. After half a mile this emerges from the trees, and then climbs uphill on a more westerly course. The path then drops down to meet a road near SU240309.
Turn right along this road for a few yards, and then turn left to join a track that heads south before curving sharply to the right to head westwards towards Hound Wood. A track heads southwestwards through the wood; half a mile from the entrance to the wood a junction with another bridleway is reached at SU331304. Turn left and follow this bridleway as it heads southwards. It soon leaves the trees, and a track continues onwards. This passes Farley Farm, before finally ending at a bend in a road in Farley.
Follow this road as it heads westwards, passing Farley Church before taking another road near Parsonage Farm that heads off to the right. At SU219297 turn left along a footpath that heads westwards. After 0.6 miles a track is crossed; continue on the other side along another footpath that heads roughly westwards. After another 0.4 miles this enters more woodland, and it continues along a track for about two-thirds of a mile until the western edge of the woodland is reached. Here the footpath turns to the right, heading northwestwards along the western edge of the woods, before turning sharply to the left to head westwards for 0.7 miles until the ruins of Clarendon Palace is reached, joining the Clarendon Way in the process.
Pass the ruins, and when a track junction is reached at the western end of the ruins (SU181300) turn right down a track. This heads westwards, heading downhill. When the track curves to the right continue straight on along a footpath that crosses a field to join the same track one more. Follow this on past Ranger's Lodge Farm. Continue on past the farm as the track heads westwards before ending at a road. Turn right and follow the road as it heads westwards, immediately crossing the River Bourne before entering Milford.
When this road ends at a T-junction turn left along another road. This climbs uphill and curves sharply to the right to continue westwards, crossing a railway line in a bridge. Continue on along this road westwards; it heads under the A36(T). When Exeter Street is reached on the left turn left to head southwards down it. Pass one crossroads with Ive Street on the left, and then continue on until there is a gateway on the right. Turn tight to head westwards through this gate, and follow a path that leads towards Salisbury Cathedral.
When a grassy area starts on the left cross the grass to reach the front of the cathedral. At the main doors turn right and follow a path that heads northwards. This becomes High Street, which heads through another gateway; on the other side of the gateway, turn left down Crane Bridge Road. This crosses a stream; the road curves around and becomes Mill Road. This soon curves sharply to the right, crosses a mini-roundabout and heads up a slight hill. Here turn left to walk westwards up to Salisbury Station, where this walk ends.
P2007A089438 The path leading towards Farley. P2007A089441 Farley church.
P2007A089454 The ruins of Clarendon Palace. P2007A089461 Heading west towards Salisbury.
Home in Romsey Romsey 1.6 16 82
Romsey Mottisfont 5.8 351 295
Mottisfont Farley 8.8 604 469
Farley Salisbury station 6.9 371 436
There are regular and speedy train services from Salisbury direct to Romsey, costing about five pounds thirty pence for a single ticket.
P2007A089469 A sundial near St Anne Gate, Salisbury. P2007A089478 Salisbury Cathedral.
P2007A089483 Salisbury Cathedral. P2007A089489 A new housing development in Salisbury.
P2007A089492 Salisbury station.
308 Southampton to Fawley 16.4
787 Romsey to Eastleigh via Winchester 21.1
789 A circular walk from Mottisfont to Fullerton 21.4
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FB Roundup: Heineken, Continental, and Cargill
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Article | 8 August, 2018 10:00 AM | By Alexandra Newlove
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Degenhart said there were "huge questions marks" around the timing of a widespread move toward electric vehicles and synthetic fuels.
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Till Death Do Us Tart by Ellie Alexander: A Visual Guide
By Adam Wagner
GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format.
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Jules Capshaw has too much on her plate…
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3:00 PM Ivonne Martin Arrow, Berlantiverse, Ivonne Martin, Reviews, TV Edit
Trust is a major recurring theme in Arrow this season, as Oliver seems to be having a really hard time with the whole trust thing after Team Arrow 1.0 broke up/died/whatever. But clearly, trust isn't only an issue with Ollie. We get a lot more of John Diggle's story in this episode, and it sucks (in a I'm-sad-for-him way).
And maybe I'm reading into it too deeply, but a part of me wonders if the trust issue is maybe also an acknowledgement from the Arrow creators that they've been losing the trust of the fans after a mediocre season 3 and a trainwreck season 4.
Anyway, let's talk about trust.
(spoilers beyond the jump)
Last week, under Felicity's guidance, Oliver granted his new recruits enough trust to tell them his true identity. But apparently that trust only goes so far, because he still doesn't want them out on the field. They have to watch and analyze in a classroom style with Felicity as Oliver interrogates a low level thug. Turns out that there's a new drug being sold on the streets of Star City, called stardust (not a random name), and Oliver is trying to track down the source. It's pretty clear that Wild Dog is the wild card of this team, as he's impatient and ready to burst from the lack of action.
Meanwhile the team is still undergoing physical training in their abandoned warehouse thingie, and this is where we get the background story for Curtis' secret identity. He's modeling himself, apparently, after one of his favorite wrestlers ever, right down to wearing a leather jacket with the words "Fair Play" on the sleeves. And another nickname for this wrestler? Mr. Terrific.
What even is going on here, though?
On the "normal person" front, Oliver is being politically attacked for his "choice" in naming Quentin Lance--an alleged drunk--the Deputy Mayor. Except that, you know, Oliver didn't actually make that decision. Thea did, last week, to give Quentin a reason to clean up his act. Oliver is pretty angry and tells Thea to deal with it. And Thea, who has been phenomenal in her new role as the Mayor's Chief of Staff, makes her first critical mistake.
She approaches the Nancy Grace-wannabe reporter who first criticized Mayor Queen over the Lance decision. The minute Thea told the reporter that Oliver had had nothing to do with the hiring and it had been Thea's decision, I literally cringed. I follow politics and the media enough as an observer to know where this was going. And I was right: Nancy Graceish reports that the absentee Oliver isn't even running the city, his sister is, and that Oliver has no clue what's going on in his own office. Ouch.
Thea offers Oliver her letter of resignation for this mega screw-up. But we'll come back to the politics later.
So this happened:
Mama Felicity and Papa Ollie are going to be SOOO MAD...
Wild Dog wanted to hit the streets he knows so well to find the source of the stardust drug, but Oliver tells him to chill out. Impatient and wanting to do some good, Rene does a thing anyway, and in the process convinces Artemis to join him, "just for recon." Of course it's more than recon, as they end up getting into a fight, and Rene ends up letting Derek Sampson, a street thug played by pro wrestler Cody Rhodes (aka Stardust!), fall into a vat of chemicals.
Comic back fans know what happens when people fall into vats of chemicals...
Anyway, Wild Dog thinks he did good shutting down that particular drug production, but Oliver rips him a new one, because the new DA tells him that undercover cops were set to follow Sampson's operation to the real and larger source of the drugs and funding. Of course, with Sampson and his dudes dead, that operation is now done. Wild Dog is totally incapable of seeing the bigger picture of things, and Mama Felicity is super disappointed in him. Like Thea, Rene done screwed up, big time.
Comic books EMIRITE? Sampson wakes up during his autopsy and discovers he can't feel pain, so he proceeds to kick the crap out of everyone because now he's like a supervillain or whatever (not really, as we'll see later).
Well, this can't be good...
The freak-of-the-week storyline ends with Oliver taking his team, even Wild Dog, back to the place Sampson was dumped in a vat, because Sampson's "master" plan is to recreate the chemicals and make super soldiers (kinda?) out of other street thugs. During this fight, the team works seamlessly to deal with all the thugs, and we finally get Curtis in the prototype of his new super suit.
This may be comic-book accurate, but I personally think it looks incredibly silly on Curtis... IMHO
As Oliver demonstrates in his final fight with Sampson, the guy is still a thug that can't see the bigger picture (like someone else, I suppose?): just because he can't feel the pain is Oliver slices into him, doesn't mean he can function without ligaments. This dude was hardly a super soldier.
Oliver appears to have learned a lesson about being a leader and accountability. His response to Wild Dog's fuck-up was to go deal with the problem his underling created, and in the process he trusted his team to do what needed doing. And on the mayoral front, Oliver publicly states that Thea's decision was on him, he did not accept her resignation, and that he completely agreed with naming Quentin Lance the Deputy Mayor.
We didn't see much of Quentin in this episode... but he sure cleans up good, doesn't he?
Team Arrow 2.0 finally gets introduced to the Arrowcave, and they are properly in awe of the place. Maybe Oliver can stop treating them like his errant children that need to be properly educated, and instead can be his actual vigilante trainees. No more Momma Felicity and Papa Ollie? Please?
OoooOoooooo....
Felicity finally admits to Ragman that she was the one that made the choice to send the nuke to Havenrock instead of Monument Point, and the Bratva flashbacks this week were about trusting Ollie's Bratva brothers and also trusting Anatoly's leadership. Whatever, let's talk about John. BECAUSE OMG.
THIS GUY.
That sound you're hearing is me squeeing, because I LOVE this version of Deadshot...
John's in some serious hot water (and thusly, in federal prison), and he tries to kinda sorta explain to Lilah what the hell happened. After his visit, he is escorted back to his cell and he immediately yells that he can't be left alone with this guy. Floyd Lawton is BACK! If you recall, he done gone blowed up with a building the last time we saw the Arrow Suicide Squad in action.
But now he's randomly in prison, and he and John have a serious heart-to-heart about things, including the fate of John's brother Andy (who Lawton was supposed to have killed years ago, and that John himself killed last season).
What's goddamn creepy is that the show had me honestly believe that he was alive, even as weird as the situation was. Maybe because in my heart of hearts, I never actually believed Lawton died that day when the building exploded. There wasn't a body, after all! Kudos to the writers and directors for the way these scenes were done and shot, because I kind of think they were the best thing about this episode. There was, to me, an almost dreamlike quality to the camera here, but John's guilt over Andy seemed painfully real, and huge kudos to David Ramsey.
When Lilah comes to visit John in his cell, Lawton isn't there (much to John's confusion when he turns around to find an empty cell and all the pictures of Lawton's daughter gone). John is so consumed by his guilt over Andy, that he imagined Lawton's presence just so he would have someone to confess to. Maybe he felt Lawton was the only person out there who might possibly be able to understand him? I don't know, but it was really powerful. And it's sad to see John's shoulders bowed with so much guilt, as he tells Lilah to not fight for him, because he feels he is a murderer and he needs to pay for what he did.
But Lilah be all like, "Eff that noise!" because at the end of the episode, she shows up at the Arrowcave to ask Oliver's help in breaking John out of prison.
We didn't get anything new this week on Barry's screwed-up timeline. Maybe we'll get to meet John Diggle Jr. next week!
What did you think of "A Matter of Trust"? Sound off in the comments below!
Ivonne Martin is a writer, gamer, and avid consumer of all things geek—and is probably entirely too verbose for her own good.
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Is the NFL Hoping Vick Winds up in the UFL?
Mike Vick's path to the UFL is clear now. Very clear.
“He has paid his penalty,” (UFL Commissioner) Bill Hambrecht said, according to Bloomberg.com. “What we did is we went out to our fan base and said ‘what do you think?’ On our Web site, people want to see (Mike Vick). People believe he deserves a second chance.”
When this statement was released yesterday, I had an idea something was about to happen. There had been talk that the Atlanta Falcons might block him from playing in the UFL, in a similar fashion to how the Tennessee Titans blocked Pacman Jones from competing in TNA Wrestling. Now, the Falcons have waived those rights by cutting Vick. Mike Vick is not only free from prison (currently in home confinement), he is free to become the face of an upstart young league called the UFL. With an upcoming bankruptcy hearing, you can bet part of his plan is going to include his pay from the fledgling league, as it seems there is no timetable on a Mike Vick return to the NFL.
I asked league spokesman Greg Aiello if the events of the last 24 hours has changed the timetable on a decision from Commissioner Goodell.
"No," said Aiello."He will address it after the legal proceedings are completed."
When asked about whether or not the legal proceedings included Vick's bankruptcy proceedings, the iron curtain response came.
"We will have no further comment on this matter at this time," said Aiello.
In other words, we now have no idea if the legal proceedings that the Commissioner is waiting on includes the bankruptcy hearings, and we do know that Vick is out of prison. You would think a decision would be coming right up, wouldn't you? Do those statements sound like something is imminent from the NFL offices?
Many people have theorized that the NFL would want to squash any possible competition, but in this case I do not believe this to be the situation. I don't think the NFL feels threatened by the UFL any more than they do by the CFL, as they know they have the premier product. In fostering an atmosphere in which the UFL is seen as taking on players and coaches that are not good enough for the NFL, or that the NFL does not want, it potentially undermines any long-term feasibility they have, and leads them to a best-case scenario of possibly being a football version of what TNA is to WWE.
The NFL has been on a crusade in recent years to suspend and make examples of players who have made marks on the league with their police blotters as much as their play on the field. Chris Henry, Pacman Jones, and Brandon Marshall are among the names who have had battles with the Personal Conduct Policy, which is the way NFL has decided to police themselves and weed the bad apples out before the pie gets put in the oven. What better way to discredit a a potential competitor than to let them raid the coaches who are no longer wanted in the league and to take the players the league doesn't want anyways? Does anyone doubt Pacman will show up on a UFL roster this fall? All that negative publicity the Shield got from Pacman is now someone else's problem. How is this a bad thing for the NFL?
The UFL Salary cap is rumored to be between 12 and 20 million according to a John Clayton article from March, and Jim Fassel, who is coaching the New York squad, has said he would not be opposed to coaching Vick. It sounds like the perfect storm, a movie script, a coach looking for redemption and a player looking to reclaim his career. More importantly, it would take place outside of the NFL, who could then focus on labor talks, European games, and Super Bowl sites.
So with the legal process winding down, still now word on Vick from the NFL. He is already out of jail, how much more of the legal process needs to wind down? The theory is this. The NFL, who would never come out and say this, hopes that the UFL takes Vick off their hands. If he signs a 2 million dollar deal with the UFL, the NFL can then make a decision without taking backlash from people who didn't think he should be in the league or from the people who think the NFL should not suspend him any longer than he already has been. In this case, when the UFL thinks they are getting a coup, they are really doing the NFL a favor by taking Vick. Guys know not to date their rival's ex-girlfriend, and the UFL should know that Vick being free is not just a stroke of luck.
Info from ProFootballTalk.com, Bloomberg.com, ESPN.com, The AJC, and UFL.com were used in this report.
Labels: Mike Vick, NFL, The UFL
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Season 2007/08 saw a number of significant developments as the club continued to cement its self as the towns major community club.Our festival as usual kicked off the season, unfortunately however for the first time monsoon conditions were experienced and day 2 had to be cancelled.
Our academy once more produced another new section who for the first time sampled the SFA recommended 4s model.
The club built on the SFA Quality Mark Standard award when it was awarded the Development level the first club in the Central Region to achieve this.
Our 94s once again ventured into Europe, where they played in the Tulip Cup in Amsterdam, our 97s experienced their first trip, when they travelled south of the border to Preston taking in the Blackburn V Man Utd, Premiership game as part of the trip.
The weather that was experienced early in the season continued most of the year with a number of breaks due to unplayable pitches, our 11-a-side teams found to difficult to deal with this with only the U19s forming any meaningful challenge. Our soccer 7s sections continued to flourish with teams at all age groups.
The two most significant developments in year were the creation of a Girls Academy for Girls P2-P6 and completing the male pathway Cumbernauld Thistle Amateurs agreed to join the club as the Colts adult arm and would become Colts Amateurs next season.
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Alexa Tuzil as Nikiya in 'La Bayadère'. Photo: Sergey Pevnev.
West Australian Ballet: La Bayadère
His Majesty’s Theatre, 9 and 10 May
While staying true to Marius Petipa’s original production and concept, and set in India (as was the 1877 production), choreographer Greg Horsman’s engrossing, perceptive, re-imagined La Bayadère (The Temple Dancer) is an artistic triumph. Horsman pares back some of the plot’s intricacies, losing none of the dramatic impact nor the many exquisite pas de deux sequences, solos and fascinating variety of ensemble dances. This makes the narrative easier to follow and shapes a story-line with historical and cultural reflections, humour, pathos and a myriad of memorable, visual delights.
A co-production between West Australian Ballet, Queensland Ballet and Royal Winnipeg Ballet, with a prologue, three acts with several scenes, and an apotheosis, this production of La Bayadère takes place in 1855. The armies of the princely kingdom of Cooch Behar and the British East India Company are at war, and a treaty is negotiated to end the hostilities. This treaty includes the arranged marriage of the Maharajah’s son Prince Solor, to Edith, the daughter of the British Governor-General. (Her role is based-on Gamzatti in the original version). This artfully sets up the romantic triangle at the heart of the ballet, as Solor is passionately in love with Nikiya, a temple dancer.
For this production, the original Minkus score has been respectfully re-arranged by Nigel Gaynor drawing on Minkus’s themes, adding some original music, making minor changes to melodies to echo musical scales of the East, and incorporating traditional Indian instruments. Conducted by Judith Yan, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra produced glorious, evocative rhythms, with a rich, resonant intensity.
Adam Alzaim as the Golden Idol. Photo: Sergey Pevnev.
Gary Harris’s consummate, historically-detailed designs embellish every scene, with colour, luxurious fabrics and jewels. Tropical lush-green, leafy legs and borders surround the stage throughout, creating a picturesque frame for story-telling set in distant times, exotic settings, with redolent, red-hued skies and a magnificent full-moon all superbly lit by Jon Buswell.
The Act II entrance of the Shades (spirits of temple dancers who have died for love) is legendary for its sublime music, beautiful images and extreme difficulty, as one by one dancers (nineteen in this production) descend down a high, extremely steep ramp, in a sustained, extended fondue arabesque sequence, crossing until they reach the stage. A few minor glitches to the Shades’ entrance on opening night were remedied on Friday night as, with a steadier tempo from the pit, the Shades were as flawless as imaginable, receiving sustained, well-earned, applause and cheers.
On opening night, soloist Dayana Hardy Acuña (Nikiya) gave an outstanding performance and her sustained balances and control on pointe in fifths, and dreamy arabesques were breath-taking; principal Chihiro Nomura (Edith) demonstrated her much-admired virtuosity and a flair for comedy in revealing her character’s indulged-brattish behaviour; and Matthew Lehmann (Solor) gave a convincing, nuanced, dramatic, entertaining performance, and partnered impressively.
Polly Hilton as Edith. Photo: Sergey Pevnev.
On Friday night, corps de ballet artist Alexa Tuzil (Nikiya, pictured top) seized her opportunity in a beautifully danced performance, and demi-soloist Polly Hilton (Edith) excelled technically, and found humour in Edith’s haughty, privileged character. With a powerful and engaging stage presence, soloist Juan Carlos Osma (Solor) partnered strongly and produced some technical feats which thrilled the audience. Plaudits to Julio Blanes (Thursday) and Adam Alzaim (Friday) who both performed the challenging Golden Idol solo brilliantly; and seasoned artists Craig Lord-Sole (Governor-General) and Andries Weidemann (Maharajah) who brought maturity and experience to the stage in roles that were central to anchor the story-telling and dramatic sequences in the work.
Numerous ensemble dances in a variety of styles, blend seamlessly into the narrative in this production, and it was a joy to observe Horsman’s exceptionally musical and inventive choreography performed with vigour, commitment, vitality and poise from the whole company in this technically demanding, rewarding work. Bravo to all!
Margaret Mercer
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Dead Rock West
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LA TIMES PREMIERS NEW VIDEO
We were interviewed by LOS ANGELES TIMES’ Pop & Hiss for the premiere of the first single “I Used To Love You” off of our new album, IT’S EVERLY TIME! It's our 13-song tribute to the great Everly Brothers which is set for release Friday, July 17 via our own Angel Flight Recording Co.
And Tomorrow night (Wednesday, June 3) we continue our three date residency at Hotel Café in Hollywood, CA (tickets). with the final show of the residency on Thursday, July 16 (tickets) celebrating the release of IT’S EVERLY TIME!.
Read the interview and see the new video HERE.
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Lost Love in Times
Drama Titles:
Drunken Exquisiteness, Zui Ling Long, 醉玲珑
Female protagonist, Feng Qing Chen, is a sorceress of Mingyi Tower, the secret organisation tasked with protecting the royal family. Yuan Ling is a prince from Western Wei, a ruling kingdom during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. He is described as an “untamed wolf” who appears to be cold and calculating, yet actually cares deeply for his loved… more Female protagonist, Feng Qing Chen, is a sorceress of Mingyi Tower, the secret organisation tasked with protecting the royal family. Yuan Ling is a prince from Western Wei, a ruling kingdom during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. He is described as an “untamed wolf” who appears to be cold and calculating, yet actually cares deeply for his loved ones. After getting to know each other, Feng Qing Chen is impressed by Yuan Ling’s abilities and suppresses her feelings for the sake of seeing him ascend his rightful position. Despite Qing Chen’s contributions to the kingdom, the court is vehemently against Yuan Ling marrying a woman who dabbles in black magic. Yuan Zhan launches a coup on the day of the wedding ceremony, and Qing Chen uses her powers to reset the universe in an effort to prevent further bloodshed. Qing Chen is eventually able to heal the rift between Yuan Ling and Yuan Zhan, allowing them to join hands to overthrow the corrupt officials and return peace to the land. ~~ Drunken Exquisiteness is based on the time travel romance novel of the same name by Shi Siye, and the original premise is basically the same as Bu Bu Jing Xin. less
Category: Chinese Drama
Rating: 10 (4 Votes) Rate it!
Genres: Fantasy, Historical, Romance
Drama Stars:
Liu Shi Shi
William Chan
Han Xue
Xu Joe
Huang Maggie
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Title: Samarium Iodide
Additional Names: Diiodosamarium; samarium diiodide; samarium(II) iodide
Molecular Formula: I2Sm
Percent Composition: I 62.80%, Sm 37.20%
Line Formula: SmI2
Literature References: One-electron reducing agent. Prepn: C. Matignon, E. Cazes, Ann. Chim. Phys. 8, 417 (1906); and use in organic synthesis: J. L. Namy et al., Nouv. J. Chim. 1, 5 (1977); P. Girard et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 102, 2693 (1980). Coordination chemistry and crystal structure of adducts with THF: W. J. Evans et al., ibid. 117, 8999 (1995). Review of properties: S.-H. Wang, Rev. Inorg. Chem. 11, 1-20 (1990); of uses in organic chemistry: G. A. Molander, C. R. Harris, Chem. Rev. 96, 307-338 (1996); H. B. Kagan, Tetrahedron 59, 10351-10372 (2003).
Properties: Black to light black solid, mp 526 ±3°. Deep blue-green soln in THF. Absorption max (THF): 565, 617 nm. Sol in ether, THF. Redox potential: E0 -1.55 v. Unstable in the presence of oxygen or moisture; store under an inert atmosphere.
Melting point: mp 526 ±3°
Absorption maximum: Absorption max (THF): 565, 617 nm
Use: In organic synthesis and electron transfer reactions; in discharge lamps.
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EcoSask News, September 6, 2011
Fall Bird Count, September 10
Join the Saskatoon Nature Society as they survey the birds in the Saskatoon District for their Fall Bird Count on Saturday, September 10. Novice birders will be assigned to an experienced leader. Contact Michael Williams (242-5383) by September 8 for additional information.
Salt Cedar Surveys, September 8 & 15
Help the Saskatchewan Invasive Species Council and the Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan search for invasive salt cedar:
Findlater, SK - Thursday, September 8, 10 am to 4 pm (meet at the junction of Highway #2 and #11 just northwest of Findlater)
Cadillac, SK - Thursday, September 15, 10 am to 4 pm (meet at the junction of Highway #4 and #43 just north of Cadillac)
To register for either of these events, please contact Chet Neufeld at (306) 668-3940 or e-mail info@npss.sk.ca
Saskatoon Nature Society, September 15
The Saskatoon Nature Society’s meeting on Thursday, September 15 at 7:30 pm features a presentation by Kathleen and Michael Pitt on their 950 km. canoe journey down the Thelon River from Great Slave Lake to Hudson Bay.
All the Society’s meetings are open to the public and are held in Room 106 of the Biology Building, University of Saskatchewan.
Rio+20 Workshop
The Saskatchewan Environmental Society is hosting one of ten Rio+20 Summit Civil Society Workshops on Saturday, September 17, 2011 from 1-4 pm in Room 45, Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan.
The workshops will influence the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, which will focus on two themes: (a) a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, and (b) the institutional framework for sustainable development.
If you would like to attend, send an email to pesticidefree@environmentalsociety.ca.
Background reading:
A Green Economy for Canada: Consulting with Canadians
Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to sustainable development and poverty eradication - a synthesis for policy makers
Sustainable Development: Governance towards Rio+20: Framing the debate
Western Mining Action Network Conference, September 23-25
The Western Mining Action Network (WMAN) supports a network to protect communities, land, water, air, and wildlife by reforming mining practices and holding government and corporations accountable. Their eighth biennial gathering, Working Together as One: Sustainable Water, Culture and Healthy Communities, will be held in Prince Albert from September 23-25.
Topics will include uranium mining, protecting water resources, and indigenous/cultural issues associated with mineral resource extraction. There will be a special activities track for young people and other newcomers to mining issues. WMAN prioritizes applicants who are directly affected by mining, who live in communities dealing with mining-related issues, or who work on issues related to mining.
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The provincial Net Metering Program provides rebates of up to $35,000 to people who wish to install small wind, solar or other green power generation equipment and connect to the province’s electricity system (excess electricity is fed back into the grid, and the customer receives a credit on their power bill).
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Contact the Saskatchewan Research Council to apply.
Saskatoon Neighbourhood Carshare
If you are interested in becoming a member of the Saskatoon Neighbourhood Carshare, go to their Facebook event page and indicate that you plan to attend. The project is a joint initiative of the University of Saskatoon and We Are Many and is currently in the feasibility stage.
The Saskatoon car sharing co-op would operate as an extension of the Regina Car Share (RCS), which has successfully provided the service over the past four years. Joining with the RCS would allow Saskatoon residents to begin carsharing as soon as possible and would provide Saskatoon members with access to the vehicles in Regina.
For more information, contact Rebecca Anderson at anderson.rebecca.jane@gmail.com
Wascana Creek One of the Most Polluted in Canada
Regina’s Wascana Creek is almost entirely fed by treated sewage, and recent studies show that it is one of the most polluted creeks in the country. Personal care products have been found as far as 60 kilometres away from the city. The studies indicate that residents can help by following proper disposal methods for pharmaceuticals and personal care products, but the city needs to fully upgrade its waste water plant to remove nitrogen completely from the waste stream.
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ACMI Federation Square, Flinders Street Melbourne Australia (map)
Dir. Andreas Pichler | Germany | 2017 | 94 mins
The Milk System brings us face-to-face with farmers, dairy owners, politicians, lobbyists, NGOs and scientists the world over – all of whom have a different view about the multi-billion dollar milk industry. While profit continues to be pursued at the expense of the environment, the animals, farmers and our own health, we are asked to challenge our role as consumers and consider our ethical stance on milk.
The Milk System challenges our incessant and questionable global pursuit of growth, highlights dubious trends in industrial food production, and forces us to consider our position on the future of agriculture output – and ultimately our health.
This film will be followed by a panel discussion. The panel will include:
Sophie Lamond - Fair Food Challenge
Tammi Jonas, Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance
Dr Les Sandles - How Now Dairy
Vicki Jones - Tarago Valley Organics
The Milk System will screen with Australian/USA short film Bee-Sharp Honeybee (19 mins) by director Deacon Warner.
EFFA Community Storytelling Project short film by Young Storytellers Lucy Skelton and Seb Montemurro will also premiere at this screening.
Tammi Jonas
Jonai Farms & Meatsmiths
Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance
Former vegetarian academic Tammi Jonas is now the meatsmith at Jonai Farms, where she and her family raise pastured rare-breed pigs and cattle, transforming whole carcasses into a range of fresh cuts, smallgoods, charcuterie and salumi in their on-farm butcher’s shop.
Tammi is also the President of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA), working towards everyone’s right to nutritious and culturally-appropriate food grown and distributed in ethical and ecologically sound ways, and our right to collectively determine our own food and agriculture systems.
jonaifarms.com.au & tammijonas.com
Vicki Jones
Tarago Valley Organics
Vicki Jones has been involved in dairy farming for 27 years. Disillusioned with the trajectory of the industry and its practices, she transitioned to an organic certification and more ethical farming model where, among other things, all of the male calves are raised. With the help of her daughters, Vicki has developed a model of farming that makes her love her job! Tarago Valley Organics is about respect for land, animals and people; low food miles, working with small-scale producers and providing access to the Tarago Valley Farm for local schools to teach skills beyond the classroom.
Dr Les Sandles
How Now Dairy
Dr Les was the equivalent of a shock jock in the dairy industry when he arrived on the scene. After completing his PhD in Dairy Nutrition and a stint at Cornell University, he found himself in a niche market. Coming from a third generation Dairy Farming family he discovered he was a natural at communicating the often complex science of dairying to the no nonsense farmers. He introduced ideas that turned the industry on its head and spent the next 15 years traveling the world, increasing the knowledge of Dairy Farmers, always with a focus on the welfare and wellbeing of the dairy cows. When he met his partner Cathy Palmer, a passionate animal rights advocate, a conversation started that became the creation of How Now Dairy. Sept 2016 saw the birth of Ethical Dairy Company, home to the producers of How Now Milk. www.hownowdairy.com.au
Sophie Lamond
Sophie Lamond is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne where she researches university food policy and student activism. As a young academic activist Sophie runs the Fair Food Challenge. The Challenge facilitates student-led co-design of fair food policies for Australian universities, and campaigns for healthy, sustainable and equitable food environments. In 2017 Sophie was awarded the Australasia Green Gown Awards - Student Award of Excellence. Sophie has run community kitchens, mentored food projects and hosts the occasional apocalyptic dinner party. She has a keen interest in civil society advocacy and founded the Melbourne chapter of the Youth Food Movement, has been a committee member of the Australian Food Sovereignty Allianceand a member of the Right to Food Coalition. She speaks, writes and facilitates events to open up conversations about good food and to explore possible food futures/ She lectures and tutors in food politics.
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The Devil We Know
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Avaya Launches Voice Portals for Web Services
Voice-enabled applications use company's existing Web services.
By David Needle | Posted Aug 1, 2005
Communications software giant Avaya is pushing its Voice over IP software to the next level with the ability to integrate within a Service Oriented Architecture .
The company said its new Avaya Voice Portal significantly reduces the costs of deploying speech self-service by using a company's existing Web services . This integration is designed to make Avaya's software simpler to manage for customer service operations, rather than having to integrate a separate speech solution architecture for help desk functions like change of address and password reset requests.
The Avaya Voice Portal software platform, which it announced today, will be available this November. A separate development tool, Avaya Dialog Designer, is set for release this September.
Dan Miller, senior analyst at Opus Research, said more businesses are moving to a service oriented architecture that employ Web-based technologies and tools to leverage a company's existing call processing, voice response and customer support systems.
"Avaya is already a leader in contact center automation and this announcement, working with partners and open source components, gets them more hooks into the enterprise," Miller told internetnews.com.
Avaya Voice Portal supports the open standards-based Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3.0 platform. The company also announced it selected IBM's Websphere Voice Server and Websphere Application Server as the initial speech and middleware platforms for Avaya Voice Portal.
While Voice Portal works with other middleware, analyst Miller said a partner like IBM with its considerable resources provides a "security blanket" of assurance for potential customers.
"We see this as the next step to IP-based SOA architectures," said Cory Glover, Product Marketing Manager for Avaya. "The synergies between VOIP technology, SOA and speech will generate more business value for our customers." Current customers of Avaya's Interactive Voice Response software will be able to upgrade free to the Voice Portal as part of their maintenance agreement. For new customers, the cost is $900 per port.
Additionally, Avaya and IBM have been working together to provide a tighter integration of application development tools and development environments through the Eclipse 3.1 platform. Avaya's new Eclipse-based development tool, Dialog Designer, works with IBM WebSphere Eclipse-based tooling, providing commonality and skills re-use for customers and application developers.
Working together, IBM's WebSphere Voice Toolkit components and the Avaya Dialog Designer can help Avaya customers develop, debug, and deploy Voice XML applications for Avaya Self Service solutions.
This is the second time in a week Avaya and IBM have hooked up. Earlier, IBM announced an agreement to include Avaya-powered "click-to-call" functionality and web conferencing integration into IBM's Lotus Sametime, Notes, and Domino products.
The lower cost structure of using SOA has the potential to make voice applications more attractive to mid and smaller size companies. "There's a huge middle market below the Fortune 1000 who couldn't afford to invest in speech," said Tom Hanson, senior product manager of voice self-service at Avaya.
Voice-enabled applications include phone-based booking of travel, tracking packages and insurance claims. "An automated help desk can lower costs and provide better service," said Hanson. "But if it cost millions of dollars, companies weren't going to invest in it, now we're providing a more attractive return on investment."
The reliability and uptime have been improved in Voice Portal which features a license pooling system. The system recognizes a failure to process a call and move to another part of the network to handle the transaction.
"We think this is another way we reduce the total cost of ownership," said Glover. In the past, when there was a technical breakdown the caller would have to wait in a queue to be helped by a human agent.
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Introducing Sentinel-2
Changing lands
Disaster mapping
About the launch
Operations and data
Essential groundwork
ESA > Our Activities > Observing the Earth > Copernicus > Sentinel-2
Sentinel-2B launch preparations off to a flying start
Revealing Sentinel-2B
Some of us may be easing ourselves gently into the New Year, but for the team readying Sentinel-2B for liftoff on 7 March it’s full steam ahead.
On 5 January, the satellite was shipped from ESA’s site in the Netherlands – where it had been undergoing testing since June – and arrived safe and sound in French Guiana the following day.
The Sentinel-2 mission is designed as two satellites working in tandem – Sentinel-2A has been in orbit since June 2015.
Offering ‘colour vision’ for Europe’s Copernicus programme, the mission combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities.
Sentinel-2 global coverage
Josef Aschbacher, ESA’s Director for Earth Observation Programmes, said, “Since both satellites have a 290 km-wide coverage path and they orbit 180° apart, the time it takes to image the globe will be cut in half to five days once Sentinel-2B is operational.”
The mission mainly provides information for agriculture and forestry and for helping to manage food security. Satellite images are used to determine key information about plants, such as chlorophyll and water content.
This is particularly important for predicting yields effectively and applications related to Earth’s vegetation.
Agricultural fields from Sentinel-2A
As well as monitoring plant growth, the mission maps change in land cover and monitors the world’s forests. It also provides information on pollution in lakes and coastal waters.
Now in the cleanroom at Europe’s spaceport, Sentinel-2B is already on its stand for the start of a seven-week campaign to test and prepare it to be lofted into orbit on a Vega rocket.
ESA’s launch campaign manager, Paolo Laberinti, said, “It’s good to see that our delicate cargo arrived safe and well.
"We’ve already been able to set up all the technical equipment that we use to test the satellite and connect it to its electrical equipment – so that it’s ready for testing.
Sentinel-2B arrives
“We are off to a flying start and eager to get our baby into orbit so that it can join its twin and do the job of continuously delivering images to monitor our changing world.”
Concurrently, the Sentinel-2 mission control team at ESA's operations centre in Germany has already begun intensive simulation training for the critical launch and early orbit phase.
Sentinel-2B is scheduled for liftoff on 7 March at 01:49 GMT (02:49 CET; 22:49 local time on 6 March).
Farewell to Sentinel-2B15 November 2016
Farewell to Sentinel-2B15 November 2016 Just weeks before Sentinel-2B is packed up and sent to French Guiana for its launch next March, media representatives and specialists got one last look at the second satellite for Europe’s Copernicus programme.
Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B18 July 2016
Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B18 July 2016 While most of us may be looking forward to spending some time in the sunshine this summer, the Sentinel-2B satellite is being subjected to the extreme cold of space to make sure it is fit for life in orbit.
Sentinel-2 launch campaign blog
The launch campaign in pictures
Sentinel data access
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الصفحة الأولى > التقييم العالمي لحالة الموارد الحرجية > التقييم الحالي > Forest Futures
التقييم العالمي لحالة الموارد الحرجية
المعلومات الأساسية
التقييمات الماضية
Forest Futures
Forest Futures combines the projected global needs for food, feed and wood to envision their impact on forest resources and identify where competition for land will likely take place in the future. Its objective is to improve our understanding of causes of forest area change in order to provide an informed vision of the forests’ future(s) to help formulate and implement more effective strategies.
The world’s population is growing rapidly: the UN predicts a 30% population increase to 9 billion people by 20501. Per capita consumption is increasing as well, especially in fast-growing economies, resulting in an unprecedented demand for resources. FAO envisions agricultural production to increase with 60% by 20502, though most of this increased production will come from yield increases rather than arable land expansion according to FAO. In April 2013, the FRA network shared their opinions and visions concerning major trends affecting global forest resources through an online survey. Crop land expansion is most often mentioned as the largest driver of forest loss. Though the expectation of the respondents is that the drivers of deforestation in 2050 will be quite similar to those of today some interesting dynamics are expected; mostly cropland expansion and fuelwood extraction (mostly in Africa) are becoming less important while infrastructure and climate change (notably in arid zones) are expected to contribute more to forest loss in 2050.
Figure 1. Vision on the changing importance of drivers of deforestation from the FRA network of experts
FAO has a long history of future studies in forestry through its regional and global forest sector outlook studies. Forest Futures differs from these studies focusing on forest land dynamics rather than economic demand for forest products. Forest Futures builds on existing models using country reported data and authoritative spatially explicit global databases (e.g. FRA, FAOSTAT, GAEZ). The existing models project the global expansion of arable land and the economic demand for wood. The models are based on an analysis of historical trends and external projections on GDP, population, technological changes and energy.
Future is referred to as a plural in Forest Futures since we explore different scenarios or storylines on how the future might unfold. Scenarios are plausible stories, based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about key relationships and driving forces. Forest Futures will explore a range of scenarios for global forest resources to help identify emerging opportunities and challenges for sustainable forest management.
For further information please contact: fra@fao.org
1. United Nations (2011), World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision
2. Alexandratos N and J Bruinsma (2012) World agriculture towards 2030/2050: the 2012 revision. ESA Working paper 12-03. Rome, FAO.
A full description of the Forest Futures methodology can be accessed here:
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FEW Academy
Female Entrepreneurs Day 2019
Members' corner
Hong Kong-based Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide aims to empower
Sometimes inspirational soundbites aren't enough; a new non-profit group aims to provide a place where would-be woman entrepreneurs can network, writes Kylie Knott
"Look far and wide for opportunity," says Jack Ma Yun, the Chinese businessman who turned a small website into a multibillion-dollar empire, Alibaba. "Fight your fears," urges Arianna Huffington, the American founder of online news site The Huffington Post. "Be bold and daring," advises Sean Parker, who co-founded file-sharing service Napster.
Sometimes, though, inspirational sound-bites aren't enough: particularly for women in the male-dominated tech and finance sectors.
Enter Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide (Few). Founded in May, by Hongkonger Anna Wong and Ines Gafsi of France (they met last year at a TEDxHongKong talk), the platform aims to provide a networking forum in the city.
A Few event held earlier this month.
According to a recent global survey by French bank BNP Paribas, 45 per cent of entrepreneurs in Hong Kong are women, a percentage that is higher than everywhere else in the world except India (49 per cent). The report, however, concluded that many "women still often lack the confidence to start a business. They need to believe in themselves more."
Gafsi agrees, and says one of the main objectives of Few is to empower women.
"There are incredible women in Hong Kong - you just need to network and meet them," says the digital marketing specialist, who has worked with multinational corporations and start-ups.
Few is also in talks with female entrepreneur groups in California to organise a conference in Hong Kong that will bring together entrepreneurs, students, start-ups and investors to empower and inspire the next generation of female leaders.
For more information and upcoming Few events, visit femaleentrepreneurshk.com
Source: http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1840119/hong-kong-based-female-entrepreneurs-worldwide-aims-empower
Tagged: Post Magazine, Hong Kong, Media
Newer PostA few good women: group targets female Hong Kong entrepreneurs as tech sector diversity suffers
Older PostIntroducing Anna Wong and Ines Gafsi, founders of Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide
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Isn’t she lovely…
Posted on July 22, 2014 by Rebecca@florencefinds
Beatrice Evelyn Norris arrived yesterday at 11.14am and weighed 6lbs 5oz!
She is super cute, feeding like a pro and we are all totally blissed out. And I’m doing fine post c-section.
We will be spending some time as a family this week but look out for some sporadic posts from next Monday and an update if you’re lucky. 😉 Oh and keep an eye on my Instagram for lots of updates!
Rebecca, Pete & Bea
Building over the Monster Pipe…
Bea at Two
How to Breastfeed…
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66 thoughts on “Isn’t she lovely…”
Janie on July 22, 2014 at 09:56 said:
Regular reader de-lurking to say congratulations to you and Pete on the safe arrival of your daughter! Beautiful Bea. Enjoy this special time as a new little family xx
Sian on July 22, 2014 at 10:00 said:
Completely beautiful! And that name is just perfect. I have a Tilly and want two more girls so I can have Tilly, Bobby (Roberta) and Bea.
Enjoy every incredible second xx
mysparethoughts on July 22, 2014 at 10:10 said:
So lovely, Congratulations!
Katie on July 22, 2014 at 10:13 said:
Amazing – well done x
Hannah on July 22, 2014 at 10:17 said:
Congratulations! Enjoy this very special time xx
Victoria on July 22, 2014 at 10:23 said:
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE <3
that. is. all.
Gaynor {Our Day by Design} on July 22, 2014 at 10:24 said:
Massive congratulations, she is gorgeous. x
Frankie on July 22, 2014 at 10:26 said:
Huge congratulations! Well done! She is beautiful. Love her name xx
Annabel - Love My Dress on July 22, 2014 at 10:26 said:
So unbelievably happy for you Rebecca, Pete and little Beatrice – may your world be filled with joy and happiness now that you are three 🙂
With all our love,
Annabel, Phil, Eska and Leanora xXxXx
Jess on July 22, 2014 at 10:29 said:
Amazing! She is beautiful congratulations! Xx
Amy on July 22, 2014 at 10:33 said:
Ah good name! My 2 cousins (flower girls) are Beatrice and Evelyn!!! Congratulations Rebecca and Pete. xxx
Fabulous! She is a darling! Congratulations!! X
Gemma R on July 22, 2014 at 10:44 said:
Gorgeous! Congratulations to all three of you (and super lovely name – Bea is top of the list if we have another girl)
Gemma on July 22, 2014 at 10:54 said:
Congratulations! Gorgeous girl, gorgeous name. Such a special time for you all x
Helen on July 22, 2014 at 10:56 said:
What a beautiful girl! Welcome baby Bea xx
Kelly @ A Boho Life on July 22, 2014 at 11:01 said:
Hige congartulations to you all, she is gorgeous xxx
Martha on July 22, 2014 at 11:01 said:
Congratulations! She’s gorgeous and I’m glad to hear you are recovering well 🙂
Anita on July 22, 2014 at 11:07 said:
Eeek!! What lovely news. Congratulations to you all. Anita xx
rachel on July 22, 2014 at 11:32 said:
Gorgeous & congratulations to you all xxx
Sharon on July 22, 2014 at 11:38 said:
Congratulations- she’s beautiful and such a gorgeous name xxxxx
Liz on July 22, 2014 at 11:40 said:
Beautiful! A big congratulations to all three of you! X
LottieS on July 22, 2014 at 11:40 said:
Gorgeous name for a gorgeous girl. Congratulations and well done!
A million congratulations! So happy to see this pop up on my feed reader 🙂
Caroline on July 22, 2014 at 11:53 said:
Wonderful news! Many congrats. Gorgeous name btw!
jennycake on July 22, 2014 at 11:57 said:
Gorgeous – congratulations!
Sarah on July 22, 2014 at 11:58 said:
Congratulations! She is very lovely indeed 🙂 xx
Jen G on July 22, 2014 at 12:00 said:
She’s absolutely beautiful – congratulations!! Good luck for the next few weeks; they may be the toughest ever, but also some of the most amazing!
Esme on July 22, 2014 at 12:02 said:
Congratulations to you and your little family. So glad to hear you’re doing well. Her name is so beautiful!
Esme, Tom & Freddie
Niki on July 22, 2014 at 12:38 said:
Ah such wonderful news. She is beautiful. Congratulations to you and Pete. Beautiful name too xxx
Anna A on July 22, 2014 at 12:54 said:
Congratulations Rebecca, she’s a cutie!x
Jills on July 22, 2014 at 13:32 said:
Congratulations to you and Pete xxx
What a beautiful baby, and equally beautiful name.
M-J on July 22, 2014 at 13:37 said:
Gorgeous! Congratulations
Marlene M on July 22, 2014 at 14:14 said:
Congratulations, she is adorable and what a beautiful name x
Frances on July 22, 2014 at 14:21 said:
Adorable, and such a lovely name. Congratulations!
Bex @ OliveDragonfly on July 22, 2014 at 14:23 said:
Oooooh amazing news! 🙂 Congratulations!!! Love the name and she’s adorable 🙂 xxx
Cathryn on July 22, 2014 at 14:27 said:
Such lovely news. A massive congratulations to you all! 🙂
Betta on July 22, 2014 at 14:34 said:
Beatrice Evelyn, welcome! Big hug to you, and to your mummy and daddy who’ve done so well! <3 xx
Becca on July 22, 2014 at 14:45 said:
Just to repeat again, how delighted I am for you and Pete and for the wider famille too who I know are going to be equally delighted and spoil little Bea as much as she deserves.
So pleased you’re doing so well in yourself – enjoy every perfect blissed out second. May they be full of rainbows, sunshine (but not TOO much sunshine) and snuggles. And may there be many.
Lots of warm fuzzies and cannot wait for a cuddle
Becca, Rob & Bump x x x
Penny on July 22, 2014 at 14:47 said:
Oh hi BEATRICE! Sobbing at my desk here guys. She is so perfect Rebecca and I LOVE the name. Congratulations newly-extended Team Norris. You’re all amazing.
Me on July 22, 2014 at 15:17 said:
Amazing news! Many congratulations on the arrival of your beautiful baby girl. Love the name you have chosen too.
Emma R on July 22, 2014 at 15:31 said:
Congratulations! She is so beautiful and her name is lovely! Glad to hear you are doing well after the caesarean too!
Amanda on July 22, 2014 at 15:33 said:
Oh Congratulations! She is indeed lovely, and I love her classic name. I wish you all the happiness and a smooth recovery.
Congratulations! Lovely indeed! What a beautiful little one and a lovely name!
CP on July 22, 2014 at 17:41 said:
CONGRATULATIONS!! So pleased for you both. She is just perfect!
Lexie on July 22, 2014 at 19:00 said:
Congratulations!! X
Natalie on July 22, 2014 at 19:07 said:
She is beautiful, congratulations. x
Stef on July 22, 2014 at 19:31 said:
Eeeeeeeee! So exciting!!! Congratulations! Enjoy your new family and we will be waiting for your return 😀
Alex H on July 22, 2014 at 19:52 said:
Massive congratulations to you both!! She is so cute! Love the name as well, can’t wait to see more pictures. Hope you continue to recover well and enjoy your beautiful new addition. Xx
Peabody_bites on July 22, 2014 at 20:34 said:
She is utterly gorgeous – so many congratulations to you and Pete. Beatrice and Evelyn are my two favourite names! Enjoy the extraordinary next few weeks with your little family.
Ruth on July 22, 2014 at 21:48 said:
Congratulations. She’s beautiful
Fiona on July 22, 2014 at 22:23 said:
Congratulations!!! What a beautiful baby & such a lovely name too
Inga on July 22, 2014 at 22:25 said:
Congratulations to you both, she is gorgeous! Enjoy this magical time & hope you have a speedy recovery xx
Carly on July 22, 2014 at 22:34 said:
Congratulations – a beautiful name for a beautiful little girl.
Another Sarah on July 22, 2014 at 23:36 said:
Yay! Congratulations! Such wonderful news x
Clare on July 23, 2014 at 00:17 said:
Wonderful news and huge congratulations! Enjoy all the precious moments as a new family. Big love from NZ! xox
Romina on July 23, 2014 at 07:20 said:
Beautiful! Congratulations to you and your family x
JoW on July 23, 2014 at 07:58 said:
Congrats! She’s beautiful.
Becks on July 23, 2014 at 08:17 said:
Beautiful! And a lovely name : ) best wishes for a speedy c section recovery and many happy times ahead!
Kathryn on July 23, 2014 at 10:30 said:
Congratulations, she is beautiful! Enjoy this special time as a family x
Sarah L on July 24, 2014 at 09:32 said:
Congratulations Rebecca! Beautiful!!
Mary Rabey on July 25, 2014 at 11:16 said:
Congratulations to you both,hope you are recovering well Rebecca. Beatrice is gorgeous, with a lovely name. Your blog is great too.
Charlotte on July 25, 2014 at 17:28 said:
Congratulations! She is so beautiful, and what a great name. Enjoy getting to know each other xx
Anna W on July 26, 2014 at 14:36 said:
Congratulations to you both. She is precious!
Lindsey on July 26, 2014 at 22:15 said:
She’s just beautiful. Congratulations xx
Cesca on July 28, 2014 at 19:37 said:
Belated MASSIVE congratulations! Little Beatrice looks perfect. I hope you’re all doing well xx
Patchwork harmony on July 30, 2014 at 13:05 said:
Aah! Just seen this Rebecca! Congrats!! Glad to hear you are doing well & impressed you are still blogging!! I haven’t had a chance for anything but feeding & sleeping since Ruby arrived! Hope u and hubby are enjoying these early days! X x
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February 6, 2013 | Frey Vineyards
Frey 2010 Cabernet Wins Gold at the Millésime Bio, France!
On January 28-30 Katrina and Jonathan Frey attended the Millésime Bio, the largest organic wine trade show in the world, held in Montpellier, France. The festival was particularly special this year, not only because of its 20-year anniversary, but also because Frey won a gold medal for our 2010 Organic Cabernet Sauvignon! To be chosen out of nearly 700 exhibitors from 11 countries in Europe, South America, and South Africa was quite an honor (we likened it to the organic wine version of the “Judgment of Paris” in 1976!) and we were proud to be the only medal winner from the U.S. In addition to the annual wine competition, the 3-day trade conference holds seminars on organic winemaking, wine tourism, resistant grape varieties, and the new European winemaking regulations.
Established in 1993 by a group of winemakers in Languedoc-Rousillon, the Millésime Bio continues to be the gold standard for international organic wine. This is Frey’s fourth year participating in the event, and it’s always a great venue for catching up with some of our organic pals. “It’s a great exchange of knowledge,” says Katrina Frey. “We’re very excited to see more European interest in non-sulfited winemaking.”
Jonathan and Kartrina Frey accept the Gold Medal for the 2010 Frey Organic Cabernet Sauvignon at Millésime Bio, France, 2013.
Meeting our UK distributors John and Jane Lang from GoodWineOnLine. Interest in Biodynamic wine is huge in the UK.
Jonathan discusses additive-free winemaking with Rodrigo Filipe from Portugal, who just made his first non-sulfite wine, Humus.
Eve Cartier from the Provence winery Mas de Gourgonnier worked with us 7 years ago. They produce beautiful organic olive oil and wines, and now a sulfite-free wine.
New friends Karl and Eva Schnabe, from Weingut in Austria. The Schnabels make natural wines and pasture cows in their vineyards.
February 5, 2013 | Eliza Frey
Spontaneous Fermentations
At Frey Vineyards, we began working with spontaneous fermentations in 1996 when we released the first certified Biodynamic wine in North America. We are now big fans of how spontaneous fermentations uniquely bring out the terroir of a site and allow the wine drinker to have a tasting experience that mirrors climate, vintage and vineyard.
Frey Biodynamic Cabernet after a light rain.
What is spontaneous fermentation? During the grape crush, yeast is usually added to the grape juice to “kick start” the fermentation. For our line of organic wines, we use certified organic yeast. For our line of Biodynamic wines we rely on spontaneous fermentation – no kick-starter yeast is added. Instead natural yeasts that already live on the grape skins get the fermenting going. Yeast ferments the grape juice by eating up the sugar, which gets converted into alcohol. Later, the yeast sinks to the bottom of the tanks.
The goal of Biodynamic winemaking standards is to promote the production of wines that are in sync with the core principles of Biodynamic farming: reliance on site available inputs, sustainability and diversity. Spontaneous fermentations are required to ensure that each wine is the result of the local yeast populations of the vineyard where the grapes are grown. This allows the wines to express the complexity of the vineyard biology and it allows the wine drinker to experience the nuances between different vineyards and vintages.
At Frey Vineyards, we are relative newcomers to this age-old practice. People have been making wine through wild fermentations for thousands of years. Grapes are one of the few fruits that have enough natural sugar to ferment spontaneously. Grape fermentations also served as the original starters for other fermentations, from sourdough bread to beer. While people knew that wine would result when grapes were crushed and left to sit, they didn’t need to understand the life cycles of yeast or the extent and complexity of their populations.
Louis Pasteur first isolated and identified yeast in the 1800’s. By that time people had already refined and industrialized the process of fermentation. The wine business was huge, with global production, trade and distribution. While Pasteur’s discovery didn’t change the way wine was produced overnight, it led the way to the standardization of wines. Once yeasts were identified, people began to study them and isolate them and eventually to control which yeasts carried out fermentations.
There are several genera of yeast in the world and spontaneous fermentations involve numerous strains of wild yeasts that are localized in the vineyard. Grapes fresh off the vine are teeming with wild yeasts. In spontaneous fermentations each of the yeasts does a little bit of the fermenting, with the more fragile, less alcohol-tolerant strains starting the fermentation and the more robust ones finishing off in higher alcohol environments. Each strain of yeast is best suited to certain conditions and each produces specific byproducts that affect the flavor and aroma of the wine. The result is a wine that is more complex and that is a unique expression of the site where it was grown.
Winemakers in the past had to get by with whatever populations of yeast were found in their vineyards and wineries. Once people understood what yeast were and how they grow and reproduce they were able to isolate and grow certain strains by taking yeast from active fermentations, isolating them and growing them on a substrate (some kind of sugar). Yeasts were selected for certain characteristics, such as flavor profile, alcohol, temperature, pH and sulfite tolerance. People could overpower native yeast populations with introduced strains. They could pasteurize juice that was rotten, then effectively ferment it. Such approaches allow more uniformity in the winemaking process. For mass produced, large-scale industrial winemaking this approach works well because the results are predictable in spite of fluctuations in climate and growing region. This advance also results in a loss of complexity and flavors because the fermentation environment is essentially a monoculture.
At Frey Vineyards, we are big fans of natural processes and diversity and it has been exciting and rewarding to produce Biodynamic wines through spontaneous fermentations. We have noticed that our wild fermented wines have an increased complexity of aroma and flavor and we love the surprises that come from each year. We hope you join us in this return to age-old methods by trying some of our Biodynamic, wild fermented wines. From the vineyard to the table, they are delicious examples of the natural chemistry of grapes and wild yeasts.
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Clara Lierman
Friday, June 16, 2017 at the Wisner Care Center.Clara Violet Lierman was born on January 20, 1943 in Modale, IA to Merrill and Lena (Brown) McDonough. She graduated from North High School in Geneva, NE. She went on to attend Kearney State College and Western Iowa Community College in Sioux City, IA. Clara worked at Sioux City Foundry.On August 10, 1979, she married Dennis Lierman in Elk Point, SD. In 1983, they moved to Beemer, NE, where Clara operated the Beemer Café for a few years.Clara was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Beemer Optimists and West Point Crime Stoppers. She enjoyed reading, word searches, knitting, and playing cards.Survivors include-Daughter- Angela (Schutt) and Bob Fundermann of Anthon, IADaughter-DeAnna Montes of Beemer, NESon-Kevin and Porsche Schutt of Powder Springs, GAGrandchildren- Sydney Fundermann, Taylor Fundermann, Ashley and BJ Richtig and children-Genesys & Nevaeh, Justice and Aleisha Lyons, Abigayle Schutt, Jake Schutt, and Danise LoydStep-Children-Allan and Sheryl Lierman of Lincoln, NERonnie and Sandy Lierman of Beemer, NEDanny and Evonne Lierman of Beemer, NESteve Lierman of Omaha, NECory and Debbie Lierman of Omaha, NETami and Larry Jones of Salt Lake City, UTLonnie and Nancy Lierman of West Point, NESeveral Step-grandchildren and step-great grandchildrenBrother-Merv and Judy McDonough of Camdenton, MOSisters- Louise and Delbert Hansen of Oakland, NEDorothy Belden of Kansas City, KSDebbie and Mike Widerstrom of Woodburn, ORShe was preceded in death by her parents, husband-Dennis, and four sisters-Winnie Ott, Marian Willmer, Caro...
KD Patitz - Lincoln Journal Star
Christine) Newton, of Omaha, Brandon (Megan) Bolin of Lincoln, Melissa (Alex) Kumm, of Gretna, Danielle (Greg) Shur, of Hershey, Jessica (Billy) Johnston, of Eaton, Colo., Michelle (Tim) Newton, of Geneva, Shannon Smith of Lincoln, great-grandchildren: Will and Aspen Johnston, Raelynn and Emily Kumm, Paxton and Natalie Suhr, Dylan Bolin, Paityn Peppie and Levi Newton, brother, Leroy (Beverly) Patitz of Hastings. K.D. was preceded in death by his parents, and daughter, Kathy Ann (David) Smith.Memorial services will be 10 a.m. Monday, June 12, at McCool United Methodist Church in McCool Jct. Cremation. No visitation. Inurnment in Greenwood Cemetery, York. His family will greet friends and neighbors from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at Metz Mortuary, York. Memorials: McCool First United Methodist Church, or American Legion Post #341 in McCool Jct. Condolences, metzmortuary.com...
Donald G. Downie - Sandusky Register
Rebecca Bartel of Mayfield Heights, Ohio, Susan Carr of Panesville, Ohio, Diane Olekshuk of Conneaut, Ohio; brothers, Joseph Downie II of Mentor on the Lake, Ohio, and David (Jodee) Downie of Geneva, Ohio; grandchildren, Amelia and Oliver Saunders and Calvin Downie.He was preceded in death by his three sisters, Sally Condra, Barbara and Katrina Downie.Don graduated from Ashtabula High School in ’76 and BGSU with a degree in information technology. He worked several years at BGSU, Intelidata, Mazada, and retired from Medical Mutual (Toledo & Cleveland). Don was an avid runner and enjoyed fishing and gardening. Don was a diehard Cleveland sports fan, especially the Cleveland Indians. Family was the most important part of Don’s life; he coached his children in cross country, soccer and wrestling. He also helped them build and construct home projects.Don graciously donated his body to the University of Toledo Medical Center for medical research. A Private Memorial Service will be held.The family would like to thank family and friends, Dr. Elmer and Kristen, The Bowling Green Care Center and St. Catherine Nursing Home in Findlay for the support and care they have shown Don and his family over the years.Arrangements have been entrusted with the Deck-Hanneman Funeral Home & Crematory, Bowling Green.In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be gifted in Don’s memory to Huntington’s Disease Society of America (Research Fund) through their website, hdsa.org.Condolences, as well as fond memories, may be sent to Don’s family by visiting hannemanfh.com.
Robert J. Snyder Obituary - WKBN.com
Survivors include two daughters, Bernadette S. Catrabone and her husband, Matt and Erica M. Snyder, all of Erie, Pennsylvania; one son, Steven P. Snyder, of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin; four grandchildren, Gabrielle, Matthew, Ava and Gian Joseph; a great-grandson, Leo and numerous nieces and nephews.In addition to his parents, Bob was preceded in death by two brothers, William and Thomas Snyder.Calling hours will be 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 in J. Bradley McGonigle Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc., 111 W. Falls St, New Castle.A procession will leave the funeral home at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, April 20 for St. Mary’s Church, Mary Mother of Hope Parish, where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. by the Rev. Frank A. Almade, pastor.Interment will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery, New Castle.Order Flowers HereShare this:Related PostsAdvertisement...
Elkins Funeral Home, with Daina Fountain McCafferty giving the eulogy.Mr. Jones was preceded in death by his father, Frank Jones and sister, Brenda Gail Jones.Mr. Jones is survived by his mother, Geneva Jones; daughter, Ashley Nicole Cecil; two granddaughters, Kylie and Kymberlyn; four sisters, Vickie James, Mary Wright (Danny), Deborah Perkins, and Wanda Black (Matt); several nieces and nephews.The family has requested no flowers.You are invited to leave condolences at www.elkinsfuneralhome.com.
Janice Scott
Janice Geneva Scott, 82, of Florence died Thursday, April 6, 2017, at her residence.Visitation will be Monday, April 10, 2017, 11 AM to 1 PM at Elkins East Chapel. Funeral services will follow at 1 PM in the Chapel with Elder Ricky Harcrow officiating. Burial will be at Butler Cemetery.Mrs. Scott was a member of Elgin Crossroads Primative Baptist Church. Mrs. Scott was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph and Jessie Johns; granddaughter, Tanya Scott; sister, Robbie Trautman; brother, Joseph Johns, Jr.Mrs. Scott is survived by two sons, Chris Scott and Ted Scott (Jennifer); sisters, Mary Neigebauer (Mike) and Joyce Chandler (Jim); grandchildren, Brandie Scott, Bradley Johnston, Jr., Becky Scott, C.J. Scott, Billy Scott, and Joey Scott; special nieces and nephew, Michele Neigebauer, David Neigebauer, Sherry Taylor, and Darlene Brown.You are invited to leave condolences at www.elkinsfuneralhome.com.
OBIT: Eleanor "Eileen" Welch - Newton Press Mentor
Ingraham Christian Church in Ingraham, IL. To this union two sons and one daughter were born.She leaves to mourn her passing, sons, Darrell (Dana) Welch of St. Helen's, OR, Norman (Penny) Welch of Geneva, FL; grandchildren, Bret (Sheri) Goebel of Houston, TX; granddaughter-in-law, Lis Goebel of Tampa, FL, Philip (Susan) Goebel of Cleveland, TN, Jeff (Theresa) Goebel of Houston, TX, Sandra Welch of Sacramento, CA, Eric (Jen) Welch of Sacramento, CA, Amy Welch, Indianapolis, IN and Anna Welch of Indianapolis, IN; 12 great-grandchildren and 5 great, great-grandchildren.Eileen is preceded in death by her husband Dallas Welch, daughter Rita Goebel, brother Lowell Galloway, sisters Mabel Rude, Anna Shaner and grandson Gary Goebel.
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Katie Young has been one of the facilitators for the Future Link seminar since spring 2014. She enjoys getting to know each student and wants him or her to succeed – sometimes more than they do! Katie’s strengths are building relationships with the students and creating a space for these young adults to flourish and learn. Katie is excited for the opportunity, as Student Outreach Coordinator, to follow up with the alumni, connecting them to one another through networking and encouraging them along their educational and career journeys. A native of Montgomery County, Katie graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase high school and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ithaca College. She can personally appreciate what these young adults have to overcome to reach their goals and looks forward to guiding them along the way.
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Student engagement associate
Cathy Galasso-Schwartz initially connected with Future Link as a mentor in 2017, and joined the staff part-time in 2018 after a 16+ year career at Montgomery College as Assistant to the Deans. Her position at MC encompassed a variety of duties, including office management, project coordination, event planning, and participation in numerous collegewide committees. Previously, she worked in human resources management in the manufacturing sector, and before that she provided direct patient care in a psychiatric hospital. She is an MCPS graduate and holds a bachelors degree in psychology from Loyola University, Baltimore. Cathy's focus is on outreach to Future Link seminar graduates and connecting them with the support they need to move forward with their educational and career goals.
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Allison Reznick currently serves as a Future Link mentor and previously as a member of the Future Link Board. With nearly 20 years of experience in association management, Allison has as a proven ability to develop and launch new programs, cultivate and motivate qualified volunteers, educate teams on project management and train staff on volunteer engagement techniques. In collaboration with executive staff, committees, and subject matter experts, Allison has led dozens of committees from inception to developing and executing highly-regarded and impactful programs. Allison joined the Future Link staff in April 2018. Previously, Allison founded Advanced Interactions LLC with a mission to connect associations and their communities and served as Director, Corporate Relations for The Optical Society. Allison is active in her community and regularly volunteers at Candlewood Elementary School in Derwood, MD and, since 2013, holds the position of Girl Scout Troop Leader.
Email: areznick@futurelinkmd.org
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Mindi Jacobson
Mindi Jacobson has a master’s degree in Public Health from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in Health Services Management with a minor in business and personnel management from the University of Rochester. Mindi’s area of expertise is grant writing, building and developing programs, and developing relationships with other organizations and community professionals. She is the founding Executive Director of Future Link and has been in nonprofit management for 10 years. Prior to this, Mindi spent 10 years in academic administration and health services management. Mindi devotes her time to capacity building activities, developing relationships and building infrastructure and resources for Future Link, Inc. She also handles the program management working very closely with our youth and seminar facilitators. Mindi is passionate about education and assisting at-risk youth succeed!
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Erin Michelle (Malone) Oliphant (Obituary ~ 07/10/07)
Erin Michelle (Malone) Oliphant, 36, of Bloomfield, passed away Monday, July 9, 2007 at 7:44 p.m. at Bloomington Hospital. Born April 8, 1971 in Washington, she was the daughter of Bill and Nancy (Trueblood) Malone. She was a medical lab technician for Dunn Memorial Hospital in Bedford...
Maxine Morgan (Obituary ~ 07/10/07)
Maxine Morgan, 90, formerly of Linton, passed away at 11:59 p.m. Monday, July 9, 2007 at Brownsburg Health Care Center in Brownsburg. Born Oct. 25., 1916 in Dugger, she was the daughter of Fred and Edna Meadows Martin. She was employed for 20 years at Gossard's Garment Factory in Sullivan and was a member of the Bible Baptist Church in Dugger...
Hurston Helms (Obituary ~ 07/10/07)
Hurston Helms, 99, of Greenwood passed away Saturday, July 7, 2007 at Community Hospital South. He was Dec. 22, 1907 in Solsberry. He was employed at Indianapolis Power and Light for 35 years until his retirement in 1971. A member of the Suburban Baptist Church, he was a White River Township Fire Department volunteer for several years...
Donna Sue Dennis (Obituary ~ 07/10/07)
Donna Sue Dennis Donna Sue Dennis, 64, of Jasonville passed away at 6:46 a.m. Tuesday July 10, 2007 at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. Born July 3, 1943 in Indianapolis, she was the daughter of James Fred and Hazel E. Sinders Dennis. She was a homemaker and worked at the Greene County Auditor's office, was a licensed Prudential Insurance agent, taught Headstart classes in Linton and worked for Columbia Records...
Community Notes (Community News ~ 07/10/07)
VBS at Bloomfield Mt. Zion Wesleyan Church Bloomfield Mt. Zion Wesleyan Church will host Vacation Bible School themed -- Celebrate the Son Harvest County Fair -- from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on July 16-19. Children from toddler to grade six are invited to attend. For a ride, call 384-8886...
Greene County Jail Log (Police Reports ~ 07/10/07)
* July 9 -- Tyler J. Cliver, 17, Linton, was arrested on three counts of burglary and one count of theft by Linton Police Department Det. Duane Collenbaugh. Clifford, a juvenile, was waived to adult court. He's being held on $42,000 bond.
Linton Police Department Actvity Log (Police Reports ~ 07/10/07)
The Linton Police Department responded Monday to one information only request, two property damage accidents, one lost and found, two medical/illness runs, one alarm, one animal complaint, one fireworks and one theft-other. They also provided four extra patrols...
Army change of command Thursday at NSA Crane (Local News ~ 07/10/07)
CRANE - U.S. Army Colonel Charles W. Kibben will become the 14th Commander of Crane Army Ammunition Activity in a 11 a.m. (local time) ceremony at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Crane. Colonel Kibben will relieve Colonel Todd R. Smith, who will depart for Rock Island, IL to become the Chief of Staff at Joint Munitions Command...
Eastern administrators get contract extensions (Local News ~ 07/10/07)
Several housekeeping items as well as administration contract extensions were approved during the Eastern Greene School Board of Trustees meeting on Monday. In a 4-2 vote, the board approved the one-year contract extensions of Jeff Bond, Lori Richmond, Sharon Abts, Doug Lewis and Kevin Frank, explained Kim Waldridge, board president...
Lyons approves water project conteact (Local News ~ 07/10/07)
LYONS -- Richard Burch from Midwestern Engineers gave an update on the projected water project to the Lyons Town Council Tuesday evening. Burch reported that seven contractors submitted bids for the water distribution system and two submitted bids for the water storage tank...
Bryant Meng enjoying his last county fair as a 4-Her (Local News ~ 07/10/07)
SWITZ CITY-- One 10-year 4-H member is currently enjoying his last go round at the Greene County Fair. Bryant Meng, of Linton, explained that being in 4-H has taught him a lot. Prior to Tuesday's beef and dairy show he explained, "There's a lot of responsibility for the cattle such as washing them and making sure they have their shots..."...
Little Miss and Mister Greene County crowned (Local News ~ 07/10/07)
SWITZ CITY-- The 2007 Greene County Little Miss and Mister Contest packed the 4-H commercial building with friends and family who turned out to watch the show on Tuesday. During the show, each contestant answered fun questions on-stage during a brief interview given by Jungle John of Silly Safari...
Young 4-Hers test their tractor skills (Local News ~ 07/10/07)
SWITZ CITY -- Young tractor drivers tested their skills on Tuesday morning in the annual 4-H Tractor and Garden Tractor Driving competition as part of the Greene County Fair. Kenny Hinkle won the senior division Agriculture Tractor Division with 240 points. In this competition, the 4-H are graded on knowledge of parts, written test scores and actual driving proficiency. The lowest score wins...
Greene county court news (Police Reports ~ 07/10/07)
greene circuit criminal cases State v. Joshua Bolin, burglary, theft, resisting law enforcement, criminal mischief State v. Tyler Cliver, three counts of burglary, three counts of theft greene circuit civil cases National City Real Estate Services LLC successor by Merger to National City Mortgage Inc. FKA National City Mortgage Co. v. Michael L. Lebeque, mortgage foreclosure...
Bobbi Sue and Buck: Undaunted by handicap or age (Local News ~ 07/10/07)
SWITZ CITY -- At age 42, Buck, a swayed-back gelding enjoys most of his summer time days grazing, sleeping and trying to keep cool on his home farm located near the Greene-Sullivan county line close to the small community of Gilmore. In early July, things change for Buck as well as his caretaker, rider and beloved buddy, Bobbi Sue Hayden...
Linton teen waived to adult court in string of burglaries and thefts (Local News ~ 07/10/07)
A 17-year-old Linton teen, believed to be involved in a rash of burglaries and thefts in the community, has been waived from juvenile court to adult court. Tyler J. Cliver was arrested Monday by LPD Det. Duane Collenbaugh and preliminarily charged with three counts of burglary and three counts of theft...
Baby contest winners announced (Local News ~ 07/10/07)
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learn yoruba, speak yoruba, yoruba102
Flyer for the just-concluded event
On Saturday May 4, 2019, we had the first public showcase of the upcoming conversational app on Yoruba and Igbo. This though was to a Yoruba-focused audience given the support of Mr Kolade Ogunbayode, a renowned Yoruba-language tutor in the UK. Our relationship with Mr. Kola has come a long way so much that our Yoruba101 apps have been the recommended complementary tools for his students who range from children to adult learners of Yoruba language. Our current work has been in progress for some months now though much of it has been restricted to the core team so this was a chance to break from that isolation and get useful feedback from its prospective users.
We started out by sharing our motivation for the new app (the need to go beyond the basics already covered by Yoruba101) and then played all 13 topics for the audience. Next, the audience shared their feedback as follows:
The inclusion of a glossary of words
With respect to the voiceover, someone mentioned the need for more options.
Given the formal approach to our lessons, another mentioned she would love the option of an alternative style that directly corresponds to everyday pronunciations. A case in point is, “Kini oruko re?” versus “Kiloruko re?” The former is our preferred approach given it’s the accurate breakdown of the latter (what you’ll often here in everyday conversations).
We got positive feedback on the 2 central characters though there was a brilliant suggestion for us to have users design their own avatar.
We were encouraged to continue including songs in our apps. One member mentioned how the Yoruba101Ikini songs help reinforce his learning.
There was positive feedback regarding the pace of the voiceover. For beginners, we were told its pace was much better.
One of the experienced member of the audience, a Yoruba tutor herself mentioned the need to make a clear distinction between urban (slang) Yoruba and the traditional terms for certain subjects.
We were also encouraged to include push notifications as a way of reminding and encouraging users on their learning path.
There was a lot more shared and learned from over 3 hours of engagement. As a team, we’ll be incorporating as many of these feedback into our current development pipeline.
In all, it was an exciting experience given many of these brilliant feedback that can only come from such an event. We’re back to wrapping things up for our launch in a few months. We also look forward to more planned engagements with work already in progress for the next one.
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Scott Hutchison: A personal reflection
By Howard Doupe on 16th May 2018 Opinion
Scott Hutchison ( from artist’s Facebook page)
As the music world slowly gets to grips with the death of Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison, Getintothis’ Howard Doupé shares his own tribute.
It’s been many, many years since I’ve felt this way towards a tragedy of this nature. There’s this hole you see, one that’s been a part of me for as long as I can remember. There must have been a time, when it existed as a mere small crack, just a seamless line in its origin. A slither so fine that it’s beginnings seem unfathomable to pinpoint, futile to even attempt to define.
I can all too well recall the feelings of loss and grief, welcomed in at all too young an age. Intertwined with personal experiences, the death of Kurt Cobain exasperated the emotions, only serving to maintain the sense of grief by giving form to a wider understanding of a personal struggle.
And now these feelings emerge once more. The ugliness of it’s mental form- the burrowing nature of it’s reach never fail to extract the gut that resides in us all. It’s there, festering, waiting patiently for it’s chance to exercise it’s right to wreak havoc on our consciousness.
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— Frightened Rabbit (@FRabbits) May 11, 2018
But why now? Why this musician? Yes, Frightened Rabbit are surely just another guitar band? Some may have even glossed over them, dismissed them as just one in a saturated musical landscape. Those who didn’t know what Scott Hutchison’s contributions to their lives meant. Why this band unlike many before them, manage to resonate so much deeper than most. Here, let me try and explain: simply, these sort of bands don’t come around that often.
This is one of those times. I’ll never forget my first encounter with Frightened Rabbit. As it so frequently happened a CD was burnt around 2008- recommendation from a mutually enthusiastic musical friend. Initial thoughts, naff name, let’s see if they actually sound as bad. What I failed to foresee was its depth.
My Backwards Walk was my gateway track, and still one of my favourites. It grabbed me instantly. Lyrically, absolute genius. As a songwriter, it’s the kind of song I was envious of the ability to create. Its sheer brilliance is in the narrative. There’s no usual verse, chorus, verse. Instead traditional formats give way to an outpouring of emotion. It’s a story, a journey. It’s a conversation with an old friend, as one tries to understand and process the difficult time he’s gone through, going through and can’t get out of.
As the song builds you can hear the emotional wreckage creak and groan under the pressure of heartache. Are we listening to a three minute ‘doom and gloom’ ditty? Is this really something meant for public consumption? Surely, this can’t be based on real experience? It’s one of those rare songs that stops you in your tracks. The weight of emotion is overwhelming.
As a listener, I remember being instinctively filled with a sense of frustration. That through this one way conversion I was robbed of that opportunity to help as you may someone you actually know. To respond, to offer advice, comfort, reassurance. Not even the most simplistic of supportive gestures ‘let’s get a beer mate…’ This is what any decent human being does when those they love are hurting. The secondary emotion: a sense of guilt that our gain was at the cost of another’s pain. But as we all know, art and depression often have this dangerous relationship.
The level of masculine fragility on display, through the whole of The Midnight Organ Fight is extremely rare to find in the modern consumerable musical landscape. Yes, there are plenty of examples down the years. The artistic landscape is littered with troubled souls. However, the music industry in the modern age does so well in shielding vulnerabilities, on the whole from public sight. The real reason is less cloak and dagger and all too clear to now see- so few have the depth of perception and humility required not only to dig so deep, but the unimaginable courage and bravery it demands to share it with the outside world.
Scott Hutchison was that hugely courageous soul. Here was a man who created his art as it should be- an extension of himself. Always a significant element through every release put out are the life experiences and the real feelings and emotions that blessed and cursed him. Re-reading the track list of that said album it’s just so unbelievable to recall Floating In The Forth was a concept devastatingly wrestled with for so many years. The chilling self-premonition of suicide-found not just here but on later albums- is just too heartbreaking to listen to and may forever more be.
This is why so many are resonating with the feelings of grief for the loss. Everyone who found a common thread in the issues Scott explored is hurting at the moment. There’s a huge amount of sadness, but maybe guilt lies there too. Guilt that somehow the ultimate price was paid for the validation that came with our shared experiences. That the all encompassing issues that proved too strong to live with any more always were far too much for a perceptive and sensitive soul to endure. We all took solace in our collective hearts in the artistic output, but the price was so unfairly set.
My one brief encounter with Scott, only mere weeks ago left an impression echoed repeatedly in online testimonies over the last two days- a kind, generous and humble human being. Scott Hutchison lost his battle with life long before he should have. What he has left is music drenched in human spirit; five studio albums, one solo as Owl John and another under side project Mastersystem released only last month.
If we are to take any comfort, may it be from his final one way conversation tweeted last Tuesday, ‘be good to everyone you love’, not forgetting that in that ‘everyone’ includes ourselves.
No one should ever feel they have to suffer alone. There’s always someone who can help, here’s a few suggestions:
C.A.L.M – 0800 585858
Samaritans – 116 123
Hopeline – 0800 068 4141
Staying Alive App from Prevent Suicide
NSPA – National Suicide Prevention Alliance
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Igor Djordjevic
Études anglaises
York Hall C212
idjordjevic@glendon.yorku.ca
Littérature britannique
Pensée politique et sociale
• King John (Mis)Remembered: The Dunmow Chronicle, the Lord Admiral’s Men, and the Formation of Cultural Memory. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.
• Holinshed's Nation: Ideals, Memory, and Practical Policy in the Chronicles. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
• “‘A Picture of my Mind, my Sentiments all laid open to their View’: Lady Chudleigh’s Printed Verse, the Coterie Reader, and the Modern Editor.” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 24 (2019): 3-31.
• " 'No chronicle records his fellow': Reading Perkin Warbeck in the Early Seventeenth Century." Renaissance and Reformation 40.2 (2017): 63-102.
• “W.P.: The Case for William Patten’s Contribution to Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587).” Notes and Queries 53.1 (2006): 40-43.
• “Cadenus and Vanessa: A Rhetoric of Courtship.” Swift Studies 18 (2003): 104-118.
• “Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet): From Shakespearean Tragedy to Postmodern Satyr Play.” Comparative Drama 37 (2003): 89-115.
• “The (In)Complete Quest of Sir Yorick, the Knight of Charity: A Sentimental Journey as a ‘Cervantic’ Romance.” The Shandean 14 (2003): 79-97.
• “‘The breath of kings’ and ‘the pleasure of dying’: Political ‘Sin’ and Theatrical Redemption in Eikon Basilike.” Sin’s Multfaceted Aspects in Literary Texts. Ed. Paola Partenza. [In the series: Passages – Transitions - Intersections, Vol. 5]. Göttingen, Germany: V&R Unipress, 2018. 15-35.
• "Shakespeare and Medieval History." The Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles. Ed. Paulina Kewes, Ian Archer, and Felicity Heal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 515-30.
• “Schools of Criticism (II).” Trans. Igor Djordjevic. Interviews with Northrop Frye. Ed. Jean O'Grady. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 1079-88. Originally appeared in Republika 46.11-12 (Nov.-Dec. 1990): 48-54.
• Review of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays (2002). Essays in Theatre 20 (2002): 173-76.
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Blue Devils with All-ACC honoree Kylie Jordan
Jordan Leads Blue Devils on Night Three at #ACCSD
Prelims Results
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Junior Kylie Jordan secured Duke’s second podium finish in as many evenings, leading the Blue Devils on a record-breaking day at the ACC Championships.
Behind Jordan’s third-place performance in the 100-yard butterfly and six top-five finishes by swimmers and divers, the Duke women sit in fifth place with 570.5 points entering the final day of competition in Greensboro.
“Tonight was just another special night,” said head coach Dan Colella. “Starting with the 100 flys – Kylie getting up on the podium was awesome. Alyssa Marsh finishing fifth – for Alyssa, just a big night of swimming. Coming back and getting fourth in the 100 backstroke and then turning around and having a really great leadoff leg on that 400 medley relay … Mackenzie [Willborn] finaling and finishing fifth tonight topped off another great evening. We’re going to see if we can make some moves tomorrow morning. Tomorrow is a big day for everybody but it should be a good one for us.”
After taking fourth in the 100 butterfly in 2018, Jordan broke into the top three Friday night, garnering her first career podium finish in third. She dropped time from her morning swim, closing with speed for a 51.46 clocking in finals. Junior Alyssa Marsh joined Jordan in the event championship final, helping the Blue Devils pick up major points with a fifth-place finish (52.06).
Freshman Cabell Ann Whitlow was back in a consolation final for the second straight evening, swimming strong wire-to-wire to win the heat in the 400 individual medley. The Roanoke, Va., native shaved over five seconds off of her preliminaries performance to tap the wall at 4:11.00 for ninth overall and third on Duke’s all-time top 10. Two more Blue Devil rookies, Easop Lee (4:14.17) and Zoe Lusk (4:20.25), competed in the bonus final, placing 18th and 24th, respectively.
Freshman Melissa Pish kept the momentum rolling in the 200 freestyle, cruising to a first-place showing in the consolation final. She took down her own school record in the process, stopping the clock at 1:45.08. Sophomore Carly Perri was sixth in the bonus final (1:48.54) after moving up to sixth on the program’s all-time performance list during preliminaries with a 1:48.32 swim.
“Our freshmen again were really on fire tonight,” Colella said. “Easop having a nice drop from this morning in that 400 IM and then Cabell turning around and having a huge drop – going 4:11 flat. For her coming in as a freshman this year, she was 4:21. To drop to 4:11 is just unbelievable and a testament to the great work she did this year … Melissa Pish in that 200 free just took control from the start and never looked back.”
Swimming a double for the Blue Devils Friday evening, Marsh returned to the water in the 100 backstroke championship final, where she was joined by senior Maddie Hess. Marsh surpassed her own program record for the second time on the day, going 52.18 for fourth. Hess followed suit in fifth, with her mark of 52.27 good for a career best and second all-time at Duke. Freshman Shayna Hollander added a 15th-place finish (55.49) in the event consolation final after moving up to fourth on the all-time top 10 during preliminaries (53.45).
Friday’s events saw the women’s divers head to the platform and senior Mackenzie Willborn qualify for her second championship final of the meet. Willborn matched her fifth-place finish on the three-meter springboard with a second fifth-place showing, scoring 231.50 points in the final. Her total award of 267.30 in the preliminary round marked a career best, moving the Flower Mound, Texas native up to fourth in the program record books.
In the platform preliminaries, freshman Maddi Pullinger was 12th (203.45) and sophomore Ellie Winslow was 13th (203.10) to also score for the Blue Devils.
Duke rounded out the evening’s events with its third school record in four relay swims at the conference championship. Marsh, sophomore Halle Morris, Jordan and Pish combined for a time of 3:34.95 to break the previous record of 3:35.64 set at last year’s ACC meet. That performance was good for fifth overall and an NCAA provisional cut.
Morris also represented Duke in the 100 breaststroke, coming in 25th in preliminaries with a best time of 1:02.32.
The Women’s ACC Championships wrap up Saturday at Greensboro Aquatic Center. Swimming preliminaries begin at 10 a.m., diving preliminaries at 11 a.m., heats of the mile at 4 p.m. and finals at 6 p.m. Saturday’s evening finals session will be broadcast on ACC Network Extra.
Team Scores:
1) NC State 886 2) Virginia 867 3) Louisville 766 4) Notre Dame 624.5 5) Duke 570.5 6) Florida State 490 7) North Carolina 487.5 8) Virginia Tech 333 9) Pitt 237 10) Georgia Tech 209 11) Miami 184.5 12) Boston College 124
Top Duke Finishers by Event:
Women’s 100-Yard Butterfly: Kylie Jordan (3rd), 51.46
Women’s 400-Yard Individual Medley: Cabell Ann Whitlow (9th), 4:11.00
Women’s 200-Yard Freestyle: Melissa Pish (9th), 1:45.08
Women’s 100-Yard Breaststroke: Halle Morris (25th), 1:02.32
Women’s 100-Yard Backstroke: Alyssa Marsh (4th), 52.18
Women’s Platform Diving: Mackenzie Willborn (5th), 231.50
Women’s 400-Yard Medley Relay: Alyssa Marsh, Halle Morris, Kylie Jordan, Melissa Pish (5th), 3:34.95
#GoDuke
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FC153- Hippies in Horror
by Mardarrell | May 5, 2019 | Featured, Fright Club, Podcast | 0 comments
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Horror has a love/hate relationship with hippies. I suppose most of us do. And while some of the greatest films in the genre were made by Sixties freaks George Romero, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper and the like, most of the time hippies’ onscreen representation got wrapped up in Manson hysteria.
Daniel Baldwin from Bloody Disgusting joins us to count down the best horror movies involving hippies. George’s participation is, in some instances, under duress. Poor George.
5. Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972)
Full disclosure: George objects to including this film on the list. It’s not good.
But it’s not good in such a good way! Director Bob Clark (Black Christmas, A Christmas Story) and writer/co-star Alan Ormsby seem basically to be taking out their frustrations at being part of the theatrical community.
Ormsby’s Alan is a director, and he drags his troupe of hippie thespians to a lonely island once used to bury the criminally insane. He then insists—if they ever want to work with him again—that his merry band dig up a body and perform a ritual to bring him back to life.
It’s basically theater kids making fun of theater kids. Watching a group of actors being literally eaten alive by their audience is its own stoke of genius, even if the film itself is not.
4. Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
In this Age of Aquarius riff on J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampire novel Carmilla, the unfortunately titled Let’s Scare Jessica to Death follows a somewhat delicate woman through what amounts to either a nervous breakdown or the seduction of a female vampire.
A married couple and their organic farmer friend move into an old, abandoned house on a New England island. They find a vagrant—long haired, pretty, can play an acoustic guitar, natch—and they ask her to stay. Why not?
Deliberately paced and boasting a genuine and sympathetic performance by lead Zohra Lampert, the film’s a slow burn, a hallucinogenic smalltown horror. The creepy townies, the spooky cemetery girl, and the moody cinematography blend with Lampert’s committed performance to make this one a dusty little gem.
3. I Drink Your Blood (1970)
David Durston’s grindhouse classic (in which no one drinks anyone’s blood, regardless of what this lying trailer tells you) marks that great divide in hippie horror: those made by and about hippies and those made by opportunists seizing upon a population’s terrified fascination with the Manson Family murders.
I Drink Your Blood is the latter. We open on a group of hippie Satan worshippers who turn out to be gang rapists. They descend on a little town almost empty of inhabitants—the menfolk all having moved to live and work in the nearby mining camp. That leaves just that scrappy family working in the bakery.
But once young, vindictive Pete injects the baker’s meat pies with rabid dog blood, them no goodnicks might learn some manners.
Actually, that’s the last thing they’ll do.
This is an extremely violent film, not very well made and certainly not well acted. It has a punch, though, and several scenes are provocative enough to warrant its inclusion on this list.
2. Mandy (2018)
A hallucinogenic fever dream of social, political and pop-culture subtexts layered with good old, blood-soaked revenge, Mandy throws enough visionary strangeness on the screen to dwarf even Nicolas Cage in full freakout mode.
Red (Cage) and Mandy (Andrea Riseborough) live a secluded, lazily contented life somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.
That contentment is shattered by a radical religious sect under the spell of Jeremiah (Linus Roache), who takes a liking to Mandy when the group’s van (of course it’s a van!) passes her walking on a country road.
Horror of the late 60s and early 70s saw hippies terrorizing good, upright citizens, perpetrating cult-like nastiness. Thanks to Charles Manson, society at large saw the counterculture as an evil presence determined to befoul conventional, Christian wholesomeness.
With Mandy, it’s as if the 70s and 80s have collided, mixing and matching horror tropes and upending all conceivable suppositions. In this case, zealots consumed with only the entitlement of their white, male leader wreak havoc on good, quiet, earth-loving people. The Seventies gave us some amount of progress, civil justice and peace that the Eighties took back under the guise of decency.
1.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Hippie pals pile into a van and head to Texas to double check that Grammy and Gamps still rest in peace, what with these rumors of grave robbing. Along the way they talk astrology, smoke some weed, pick up a hitchhiker–it’s all in a day’s journey for a hippie.
That hitchhiker thing goes sideways. In fact, the whole trip feels like a bad idea by the time pretty Sally Hardesty and her friends make a second trip to the cemetery. Well, what’s left of them.
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Baroque Trios for Strings
These 20 arrangements will provide you and your fans with many hours of musical adventure and pleasure. The word “baroque” comes from the Italian word “barocco”, which means “bizarre”, and was originally used to describe the ornate architecture of the time.
Much of this music was composed for specific occasions, so you will have the opportunity to match these pieces with your own celebratory needs.
This assemblage of tunes is a part of a series of Trios for Strings collections organized according to the periods of musical development from the 15th thru the 19th centuries... Renaissance Trios for Strings (15th and 16th centuries), Baroque Trios for Strings (1600 - 1750), Classical Trios for Strings (1750 - 1820), and Romantic Trios for Strings (1820 - 1910).
Each of the collections in the Trios for Strings series consists of nine individual part books. Each of the three trio parts (A, B, and C) are available for violins, violas, and cellos.
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Tunes in this Collection...
Albinoni, T. “Concerto for Strings”
Bach, C.P.E., “Trio in Bb Major”
Bach, J.C., “Trio”
Buxtehude, D., “Canzonetta”
Corelli, A. “Sonata in D Major”
Couperin, F., “La Fleurie”
Fischer, J.C.F., “Calliope Suite”
Frescobaldi, “Canzon Prima”
Gabrielli, G., “Balletto Primo”
Handel, G.F., “Trumpet Suite in D”
Lully, J., “Chaconne”
Monteverdi, C., “Canzonetta Sopra Chlome D’oro”
Pachelbel, J., “Ciacona in F Minor”
Pepusch, J.C., “Overture to Beggar’s Opera”
Purcell, H., “King Arthur, Air”
Quantz, J.J., “Trio in G Major”
Rameau, J., “Danza”
Roman, J.H., “Menuett”
Scarlatti, A., “Tempo di Ballo”
Scheidt, S., “Symphonia in E Minor”
Reviews...
“The immensely talented and indefatigable Deborah Greenblatt regales us here with her latest offerings--Baroque Trios for Strings containing 20 arrangements that will provide hours of playing and listening pleasure. Choose from nine individual parts of violins, violas, cellos A, B and C, depending on the clefs you prefer to read or to form a larger group. The handy spiral-bound publication includes Albinoni's effervescent Concerto in G for strings, exuberant pieces by CPE Bach, Corelli, Couperin, Handel, Purcell, Quantz and many more.”
...Stringendo, Journal of the Australian Strings Association , April 2013
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Home / Housing / Council tenants and leaseholders / Flexible Tenancies
Priority neighbourhoods and flexible tenancies
We have leased various properties in the city from private owners, that were not in occupation. The properties have been leased for a 10 to 15 year period. These properties have been renovated and brought up to a lettable standard and then let out to customers on the housing list.
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For the period of the flexible tenancy, you would pay your rent to the council, the council would carry out any necessary repairs to the property and you would have some of the same rights as council tenants.
At the end of the flexible tenancy period, you may have the option to remain in the property and become the tenant of the private owner (with the agreement of both parties) or the council will decide whether a tenancy or another property will be offered, in accordance with our Tenancy Policy.
Length of a Flexible tenancy
The flexible tenancies will vary in length but will be never less than two years.
If a property is to be offered on a flexible tenancy, the advert will state this and will also say how long the tenancy will be there for. The tenancy will only become a flexible secure tenancy upon the successful completion of the introductory tenancy period.
At the end of a flexible tenancy
Our tenancy policy sets out the review criteria at the end of a flexible secure tenancy. To request a copy of the Tenancy Policy please telephone 01482 300 300.
Well in advance of the end of the tenancy the council will conduct a review of the tenancy and look at how the tenancy has been maintained. Where the tenancy has been maintained well the council may consider offering an alternative council property should a suitable property be available at that time.
For Priority Neighbourhoods flexible secure tenancies it will not be possible to make an offer of another flexible secure tenant or a secure lifetime tenancy at the same property because the council does not own the property. The owner of the property may wish to offer an assured shorthold tenancy to you at the end of the lease term.
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However, because the council does not own the houses with the Scheme it would not be able to offer any tenant coming into the property anything other than a secure flexible tenancy. In additions, the council will be unable to agree and exchange into a scheme property where the council has less than three years left on its lease of that property.
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POSTER 25 - CHARACTERIZATION OF HOLOPROSENCEPHALY IN THE ZIC2KU/KU MUTANT
Warr N, Elms P, Willoughby C, Bogani D, Arkell R
MGU MRC Harwell, Didcot, United Kingdom
Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is a relatively common disorder involving the incomplete development and septation of midline structures in the central nervous system. It has an incidence as high as 1:250 in embryogenesis but only 1:16,000 of live births due to intrauterine lethality. Clinical features vary widely, in the more extreme cases, these may include a single brain ventricle and severe facial anomalies such as cyclopia with a proboscis, a single-nostril nose and cleft lip and in less severe cases mild facial dysmorphia may be observed such as a single front incisor and/or narrowly spaced eyes. A number of genes have been linked to HPE in humans and several are members of the Sonic hedgehog (SHH) and BMP signaling pathways including Sonic hedgehog, Hedgehog-interacting protein, Patched, Smoothened, Gli, Wnt, BMP, Nodal, Smads, One-eyed pinhead, and TG-interacting factor. In addition, mutations in ZIC2, a mammalian gene homologous to the Drosophila pair-rule gene odd-paired, can also give rise to HPE in humans. We have previously isolated and partially characterized a murine Zic2 mutant called kumba (Zic2ku) which has a point mutation in the fourth C2H2 zinc finger domain. Zic2ku/ku homozygotes exhibit holoprosencephaly as well as other developmental defects (heart looping, neural tube closure, hindbrain segmentation and neural crest migration). We have initiated a study into the embryological cause of holoprosencephaly in the Zic2ku/ku mutant using in situ hybridization with probes for midline markers. The preliminary results are presented and the potential interactions between Zic2 and the SHH and/or BMP pathways during forebrain development are discussed.
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Two Dizzying, Sizzling July Events - Vertiginous, Friday 13 July, & The Sizzling Shuffle, Saturday 28 July 2018
July 12, 2018 Isobel Dixon
‘This is a strange mood love story,
about Madeleine and Judy,
painted ladies, murder, and a fall
or three…’
From Vertiginous, premiering at the BFI Southbank, London, Friday 13 July 2018
You don’t have to have seen Hitchcock’s Vertigo to come and see six poets responding to Hitchcock’s powerful, haunting film. In fact, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the iconic film’s release, the British Film Institute are not only hosting the premiere of our show Vertiginous on Friday 13 July, there’s also a special ticket offer to see the poetry performance, and catch the film afterwards.
Or you can just come see the show between 7 and 8 p.m., then hang out with the poets in the BFI bar till late… It would be lovely to see you!
Vertiginous was devised by Simon Barraclough and the show features original Vertigo-inspired work by Mona Arshi, Dzifa Benson, Chris McCabe, Chrissy Williams, Simon Barraclough and myself, all in live performance with accompanying visuals and music. The original music was composed by Oli Barrett and Simon Barraclough.
And if you can’t make that, there’s ‘The Sizzling Shuffle’ on Saturday 28 July at the Poetry Café in Covent Garden, part of the regular Shuffle series. This night is hosted by Chris Beckett and Lynne Hjelmgaard, and I’m delighted to be reading alongside Chrissy Williams for the second time this month, along with Mark Waldron, Anne Berkeley, Declan Ryan, Selina Rodriguez and Adil Hussain.
I’m also over the moon that Nine Arches, UK publisher of my most recent collection Bearings, will be re-issuing my two earlier collections A Fold in the Map and The Tempest Prognosticator – very soon. Just as soon as I get those proofs back to them… ! [On it this weekend, honest, Ed. … !] News will be updated on the Nine Arches website in due course.
Vertiginous, Friday 13 July at the BFI Southbank:
To mark the 60th anniversary of Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock’s intense and disturbing masterpiece of obsession, manipulation and loss, 6 cinephile poets reinterpret the film in performance, with original music, and images.
Vertiginous was devised by Simon Barraclough and the show features Mona Arshi, Dzifa Benson, Isobel Dixon, Chris McCabe, Chrissy Williams and Simon Barraclough in live performance with visuals and music.
Original music by Oli Barrett and Simon Barraclough.
Friday 13 July, 19:00-20:00
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT
Blue Room, Upstairs from Ticket Office
How to get to the BFI Southbank.
Tickets available from the BFI Box Office or online here.
£8 for the Vertiginous show alone, or you can buy a joint ticket with the later screening of Vertigo on Fri 13 July (Film starts 20:30 in NFT1 £15, Concessions £12; BFI Members pay £2 less)
With the kind support of the BFI and The Poetry Society and ably assisted by John Canfield.
The Sizzling Shuffle, Saturday 28 July, The Poetry Cafe
Come along to a summer night of poetry in the Shuffle series – hosted by Chris Beckett and Lynne Hjelmgaard, with Isobel Dixon, Chrissy Williams, Mark Waldron and Anne Berkeley, Declan Ryan, Selina Rodriguez and Adil Hussain.
Saturday 29 July, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
The Poetry Café
22 Betterton Street
London WC2H 9BX
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Enteric fistulous communication with an aortobifemoral graft permitting for Eggerthella lenta colonization
Waqas Jehangir1, Federico Sanabria2, Zorawar Singh2, Souad Enakuaa1, Kebir Hammed Bedran1, Nazar Raoof1, Abdalla Yousif1
1 Department of Internal Medicine, Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
2 Ross University School of Medicine, Portsmouth, Dominica, USA
Date of Web Publication 25-Nov-2015
The presence of an aortoenteric fistula following aortobifemoral graft repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is associated with a high probability of infection leading to clinically significant bacteremia. We report a case of an aortoenteric fistula that developed two years after initial aortic grafting resulting in colonization with the anaerobe, Eggerthella lenta. This dangerous bacterium is difficult to culture, associated with high mortality and the patient may have mild symptoms on presentation.
Keywords: Aortic graft infection, Aortobifemoral graft, Aortoenteric fistula, Eggerthella lenta
Jehangir W, Sanabria F, Singh Z, Enakuaa S, Bedran KH, Raoof N, Yousif A. Enteric fistulous communication with an aortobifemoral graft permitting for Eggerthella lenta colonization. J Global Infect Dis 2015;7:170-2
Jehangir W, Sanabria F, Singh Z, Enakuaa S, Bedran KH, Raoof N, Yousif A. Enteric fistulous communication with an aortobifemoral graft permitting for Eggerthella lenta colonization. J Global Infect Dis [serial online] 2015 [cited 2019 Jul 16];7:170-2. Available from: http://www.jgid.org/text.asp?2015/7/4/170/170506
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) can be repaired with an aortic bifemoral bypass graft, which is considered an ideal procedure for aortic aneurysms, aorto-iliac disease or aortic atherosclerosis. [1] Though rare, infections involving the graft can happen, typically,two to five years following implantation. [2] Anaerobic, non-sporulating, Gram-positive bacilli from the normal human gut flora can occasionally be implicated in invasive diseases. Notably, Eggerthella lenta, formerly known as Eubacterium lentum, often causes clinically significant bacteremia with a significant mortality rate. [3],[4] Herein we report a case of an aortobifemoral bypass graft with an aortoenteric fistula, giving rise to a very rare bacteremia caused by the species Eggerthella lenta.
A 75-year-old male with a past medical history significant for Type 2diabetes mellitus, hypertension, chronic thrombocytopenia and chronic kidney injury underwent resection of a ruptured AAA and placement of an aortobifemoral bypass graft. His postoperative course was eventful for renal failure, which required four cycles of dialysis with improvement.
Twenty-nine months later, the patient was seen in the emergency department with a two-day history of rigors, dysuria, polyuria and burning micturition complicated by fever, weakness and lethargy observed by his family on the day of admission. He denied cough, chest pain, palpitations, nausea, vomiting or constipation. Blood pressure upon examination was 70/35 mmHg, rising to 90/48 mmHg after a fluid bolus; temperature was 101 degrees Fahrenheit; heart rate 90/min; and respiratory rate was 20/min. Blood work was significant for a white blood cell count of 18,000; lactic acid of 4.1, 20 percent bands and platelet count of 20,000.Urinalysis was remarkable for white blood cells, red blood cells and moderate leukocyte esterase. Physical examination revealed diffuse abdominal tenderness, and peri-umbilical tenderness with deep palpation without peritoneal signs.The patient was admitted to the intensive care unit with a diagnosis of severe sepsis secondary to urinary tract infection with high anion gap metabolic acidosis secondary to lactic acidosis. Blood cultures and urine cultures were drawn, which demonstrated Eggerthella lenta septicemia and Escherichia coli Extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-positive urinary tract infection. The patient was started on IV antibiotics with etrapenem after infectious diseases consult. A subsequent abdominal computed tomography (CT) with contrast demonstrated induration with inflammatory changes around the aortobifemoral bypass graft. Furthermore, the graft showed stranding around the aorta near the iliac components with presence of an air bubble between these components [Figure 1]. This finding raised the possibility of gas producing infection or an aortoenteric fistula communicating with an adjacent loop of bowel, either of which could have feasibly contributed to the aortic graft harboring Eggerthella lenta. The patient was recommended to have graft replacement surgery with repair of the fistula in order to remove the source of infection; however, he refused, preferring to be treated with IV antibiotics instead, despite the considerable risk. Repeated blood cultures after treatment with antibiotics were negative and the patient was discharged home on antibiotics as an outpatient with the possibility of requiring chronic suppression with antibiotics.
Figure 1: CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis showing an induration with inflammatory changes around the aorto-iliac graft and an small air bubble (yellow arrow) between the two legs of the graft, possibly caused by a fistulous communication with the bowel
Aortoenteric fistulas can involve any part of the small or large bowel, but it is more common to find them in the third and fourth portions of the duodenum. Mucosal bleeding can be one of the signs as erosions of the graft into the intestines can precede massive gastrointestinal bleeding from an established aortoenteric fistula. Staphylococcus aureus and Gram-negative bacilli, accompanied by fever, signs of infection and leukocytosis, typically cause early infections (less than four months after repair). The presentation of late-onset infections can be subtle without any specific signs or symptoms with an absence of fever being common. In fact, in few studies, the absence of fever and stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), was associated with an increased risk of mortality. [5],[6] They can also present with complications of the graft infection, such as a pseudoaneursym, sepsis or bleeding. [7] Our patient did have fever, leukocytosis and hypotension, but thiscould have been caused by his concurrent urinary tract infection with E. coli. It is possible that had this patient not had symptoms from his urinary tract infection, his bacteremia may have been missed.
The use of graft devices for repair of an AAAmay require a complex, open-air procedure with exposure of the compromised vessel. This, of course, increases the risk of an infectionfrom the device as well as the wound. The incidence of AAA graft infection is low (0.4% to 3%), [8] with one-third of those infections manifesting as aortoenteric erosions/fistula. [9] The management of an aortoenteric fistula has typically required replacement of the affected graft and repair of the fistulae, a surgery with a mortality risk of 20 to 30 percent. [5] Bacteremia associated with the aortoenteric fistula has also been reported to have a high mortality risk. [3],[10] In our case, the CT scan of the patient raised the possibility of an aortoenteric fistula that was likely to be the source of the patient's infection with Eggerthella lenta. After being explained the risk of the surgery, as well as the possibility of not being able to resolve the infection without surgery, the patient declined to move forward with the procedure.
Anaerobic bacteria are the predominant normal flora of the mucous membranes. [11],[12],[13] Although Lactobacillus, Clostridium and Propionibacterium species are more commonly encountered, many other lesser known anaerobic Gram-positive bacilli can be involved in clinical infections as well. Eggerthella is a bacterial genus of Actinobacteria, in the family Coriobacteriaceae. Members of this genus are anaerobic, non-sporulating, non-motile, Gram-positive bacilli that grow singly, as pairs or in short chains. [10] Classification and identification of this bacterium is reliably achieved through specialized cultured blood samples identifying the Gram-positive bacilli as Eggerthella lenta with 94% and 99% probability and confirmed by 16sRNA PCR gene sequencing. Eggerthella lenta can be found in many different parts of the body, most commonly in the colon and feces. Bacteremia associated with this bacterium carries a high mortality rate (20-40%) especially if it is found to be the only pathogen in the blood. It is thereforecritical to locate the source of the bacteremia and initiate antibiotic treatment. [3],[4],[14] Eggerthella lenta has been linked with many conditions such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, sinusitis, abscesses, pelvic inflammatory disease, malignancy and pancreatic abscesses among others. [14],[15] Nearly all infections with anaerobic bacteria originate from the patient's own microflora; therefore, we can conclude that this patient's bacteremia was from his own flora, with the likely source to be the aortoenteric fistula. [11] Due to the fastidious nature of these organisms, it can be exceedingly difficult to isolate these anaerobes from the site of an infection and easy to miss. Isolating them requires the appropriate method of collection, transportation and cultivation of specimens, which requires a laboratory capable of performing 16S rRNA gene analysis. At times it can take two to six weeks for identification. [9],[16] For our patient, it took three days in order to get a positive blood culture and another three days to identify the organism and get antibiotic susceptibility. Treatment with etrapenem proved to be successful as repeat cultures were negative.
Though bacteremia caused by Eggerthella lenta is rare, if it is present, it is almost always clinically significant and requires prompt diagnosis and treatment. We believe that patients, who have had repair of an AAA and present with abdominal pain with or without fever, should have their blood appropriately cultured for anaerobic bacteria. It should be noted that patients who undergo this procedure are recommended to have yearly CT scans performedto rule out infections or fistulas that can lead to dangerous bacteremia.
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LauSK, WooPC, WooGK, Fung AM, Wong MK, Chan KM, et al. Eggerthella hongkongensis sp. nov. and eggerthella sinensis sp. nov., two novel Eggerthella species, account for half of the cases of Eggerthella bacteremia. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2004;49:255-63.
Hentges DJ. The anaerobic microflora of the human body. Clin Infect Dis1993;16:S175-80.
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Brook, Frazier EH. Significant recovery of nonsporulating anaerobic rods from clinical specimens. Clin Infect Dis 1993;16:476-80.
Thota VR, Dacha S, Natarajan A, Nerad J. Eggerthella lenta bacteremia in a Crohns disease patient after ileocecal resection. Future Microbiol 2011;6:595-7.
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Woo PC, Lau SK, Teng JL, Tse H, Yuen KY. Then and now: Use of 16S rDNA gene sequencing for bacterial identification and discovery of novel bacteria in clinical microbiology laboratories. Clin Microbiol Infect 2008;14:908-34.
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About Kharar
Kharar is a city and a municipal council in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district in the state of Punjab. It is near Chandigarh and is often referred to as “Greater Mohali” due to its close proximity to Mohali.
Kharar is known as the education hub of Punjab since it has many engineering colleges and a medical college.
Kharar is a block situated in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar in Punjab. Positioned in the urban region of Punjab, it is among the 4 blocks of Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar. As per the government records, the block code of Kharar is 129. This block has 150 villages and there are a total of 44,620 families.
The Kharar city is divided into 15 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. The Kharar Municipal Council has population of 74,460 of which 39,218 are males while 35,242 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.
Population of Children with age of 0-6 is 8026 which is 10.78 % of total population of Kharar. In Kharar Municipal Council, Female Sex Ratio is of 899 against state average of 895. Moreover Child Sex Ratio in Kharar is around 865 compared to Punjab state average of 846. Literacy rate of Kharar city is 87.85 % higher than state average of 75.84 %. In Kharar, Male literacy is around 90.57 % while female literacy rate is 84.83 %.
Kharar Religion Data (2011)
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Kharar 74,460 39.07% 1.53% 1.14% 57.87% 0.00% 0.13% 0.00% 0.25%
Derivation of Name “Kharar”
Perhaps, the name of Kharar is derived from “Khirni” tree which were abundant in this area. Presently, only two trees alive in Ambika Devi Mandir, Kharar.
Historical Places of Kharar
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Shiv Narayan Temple
Bhagwan Valmiki Temple
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Written on February 21, 2012 by InternalGardens in Tai Chi History & Your Tai Chi Lineage (Master Jou Tsung Hwa)
In the year of 1917, China was going through a tumultuous transition. With the last emperor of the Manchu Dynasty ousted 6 years prior, China saw the end of its 2000 year old imperial system. In the following years, Japan would make demands for special privileges in a long term plan to gain influence in, and eventually take control of China. It was during this volatile time that Jou, Tsung Hwa was born. A weak, malnourished child, Jou was born in the rural town of Zhuji, in Zhejiang Province, China. His mother was in her 40’s when she gave birth, which was considered rare in that era. In spite of this, Jou, as he grew older, demonstrated a superior intellect. Because his father was a government official, Jou had access to the best institutions of learning, usually reserved for the “upper class” in China. Jou was able to nurture his natural talent in mathematics through his early childhood, leveraging his superior education. Soon after Jou graduated, he married and had children. With WWII on the horizon and China becoming more and more unstable, Jou was forced to uproot and move his family to Taiwan.
Jou escaped China with his family, moving to Kaoshiung, Taiwan. There he began work as a professor of mathematics. He wrote over 30 math textbooks and was revered for his forward thinking and teaching abilities. His mathematical talents also became his recreational escape. He became addicted to gambling. While he worked very hard as a professor, he also stayed out late nights with his new friends, smoking and gambling the night away. His lifestyle caught up with him at the age of 47, when he was diagnosed with an enlarged heart and prolapsed stomach. He visited the best doctors in the country, all to no avail. He’d require surgery; but even with surgery he could only hope to prevent a little further damage. He could not undo the damage that he’d done over 20 years. The prognosis was gloomy.
Enter Louzifeng. A friend of Jou, Louzifeng would convince Jou to try to heal himself through what could be considered Chinese holistic therapy – the art of taijiquan (tai chi chuan). Louzifeng had studied taiji for several years and convinced Jou to be introduced to his teacher, Master Yuandao. At his first lesson, Jou was stunned that Yuandao, in his 60s, was in far better shape than him, and displayed a greater level of energy. Being only in his 40’s and in a worsening condition, Jou decided to follow Yuandao’s teachings. Jou quit smoking, regulated his eating habits, and began to live a healthier lifestyle while practicing taijiquan under Master Yuandao. Jou soon began to see results, as early as 2 weeks after starting practice. Jou continued on with his practice. Though he could only do a little at a time, he kept persistent and his energy increased, thereby allowing him to increase the duration and intensity of his regular practice. WIthin 3 years, the medical doctors reported that not only was Jou’s stomach condition no longer worsening, but it appeared to have completely reversed! After 5 years of regular taiji (tai chi) practice, his heart also “shrank” back to normal. Jou received a clean bill of health. The doctors, having given Jou a very poor prognosis, did not understand what had happened. Jou attributed his recovery to taijiquan and developed an intense passion to continue researching taijiquan.
1971 found Jou pursuing an American degree in mathematics at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ). While at school, Jou maintained his regimen of taiji practice, drawing the attention of other college students. In 1977, he organized the first “Zhang San Feng Festival” in New York City to commemorate the legendary founder of taijiquan – Zhang San Feng. Soon he began teaching taijiquan outside of Rutgers University. And soon thereafter he was teaching taiji as an accredited course at the university. But the university changed its mind in 1975, claiming that taiji was “nothing but exercise” and therefore did not deserve to be an accredited course. The school based their decision on a review of the currently available books on the topic of taiji. Jou reluctantly agreed to their viewpoint: the books did not offer a decent education in the history and traditional principles of taijiquan. In an attempt to change this situation, Jou took action. He began to write his own taiji book, with help from his students.
No mainstream publisher accepted Jou’s well-written taiji book despite his past success as an author of over 30 textbooks. Nonetheless, Jou did not give up. He self-published — which was quite a difficult task at that time — and managed to get a distributor. With absolutely no marketing efforts, his book became a bestseller in the tai chi niche. Using funds from the sale of his book, Jou decided to sever ties from the bureaucracy of the university and open up his own center of taiji studies. In 1984 he purchased a former farmland property in Orange County, New York and opened his taiji school and retreat center there, the famous, but now defunct, “Tai Chi Farm.” He moved the Zhang San Feng Festival to Tai Chi Farm. People learned of Jou and his center only by word of mouth. Students and teachers visited from far and wide.
The reason Jou became such a famous grandmaster of taiijquan is because he questioned everything he learned, and refused to conform to the status quo of taijiquan education during this era. After visiting and studying with a wide variety of teachers in China and Taiwan, Jou drew the conclusion that the art of taijiquan was becoming lost. Too much focus was put on the physical forms and too little focus on the founding principles of taijiquan, as elucidated in the Taiji Classics. This disconnect seemed to be the missing piece of the puzzle as to why so few modern day masters lacked the skills, stamina, health and martial abilities of the masters of old. At that moment of inspiration, he abandoned all teachers and took the Taiji Classics as his only teacher. He restructured everything that he had previously learned and practiced in taiji. He started all over again, focusing on what he believed to be the missing foundation of taijiquan. This was a lonely path with no support an little encouragement. Many scoffed at his decision. But Jou’s dedication led him to personal success and global fame for taking this step; for being the voice of taiji education that led people back to the deepest and most original of its principles. And as such, his growing abilities and deep thoughts garnered the attention of taiji masters and enthusiasts, who too, wanted “something more” than what was currently available to them in the tai chi community.
Sadly, after many years of remarkable success, a changing culture desirous of instant gratification was growing tired of Jou’s teachings of “back to the basics.” Many students could not maintain patience or persistence. They left, having never realized their full potential, not understanding the value of the initial hard work that was required to attain serious progress in tai chi. Many of his former longtime students did not want to make the changes for the improvements that he suggested, and they continued on in their familiar and comfortable way.
In 1990, Loretta Wollering joined Jou’s class. A young college woman – ironically from Rutgers University just 3 years after Jou left – heard of Jou after beginning taiji under another teacher in an attempt to heal a painful martial arts injury of her left knee. Wollering possessed an unparalleled dedication and demonstrated a natural inclination to the art of taiji, along with the required skills and experience of teaching. Jou had found his successor. Wollering became Jou’s only formal apprentice, having undergone a small ceremony of baishi, in which she vowed to continue his work in agreement to study taijiquan and the Taoist philosophy with him. Jou gave his last ounce of inherited 24K gold to her in the shape of a taiji diagram pendant in commemoration of this covenant.
Continuously changing his practice to better fit the Taiji Classics and Taoist practices, Jou actually became stronger everyday, hoping to live to 100 or beyond. He planned to open a taiji university with branches in America, China and Taiwan. Unfortunately, his plans were cut short. He died in a fatal car accident in New York in 1998, just after having taught the first day of his annual Taoist meditation workshop.
Jou, having been something of a living legend, was now a true legend. He was touted as one of the masters of authentic, classic taiji. Others appreciated him for his intense persistence and nonconformity in pursuit of reviving classical taijiquan, which was fast becoming lost. He became an icon. Stories of his dedication, mastery, and the problems he surmounted spread far and wide. Jou was a man fully deserving of the title “Grandmaster”. The greatest lesson Jou ever taught was that of persistence and unwavering belief in yourself against all odds. With the whole world watching, he demonstrated that truly anything is possible. May his joyful persistence positively influence you.
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This is the third post featuring the work of artist Alexis Iammarino: dancer, teacher, and Fotoplay artist extraordinaire. Alexis sent me these pages with a note that reads, “Let the coloring begin…” And even though I know she means that she’s about to take her own work to the next level by adding color (as she did HERE), I’m tempted to color these black and white pages myself. Which opens the door into the world of collaborative Fotoplay page completion, an idea which I love, which I wrote about HERE.
After posting hundreds of Fotoplay pages (nearly all completed by children) in the Made-by-You Gallery and the Early Stage Poland Gallery of This Playground, it’s particularly interesting to look at Alexis’ work. It’s the work of an adult artist, someone who has been drawing in journals since she was six. She draws so freely, but maybe more importantly, when you look at her work, you can feel the sense of freedom in the way that she thinks, invents, and composes. (Keep an eye out for an origami starfish, an internal coffee-making machine, a slick card shark, a human that morphs into a sculpture, and King Kong. 🙂 )
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Lone Star Quarter Midgets is a non-profit organization sanctioned by USAC with drivers of all skill levels ranging between ages 5-16. Nationwide, there are approximately 22 quarter midget clubs within our organization, more are being added all the time. This sport is definitely the 'best kept secret" you'll ever come across.
LSQMA hosts 8 to 10 local races every year. We have in state shoot out race with River City Quarter Midgets in San Antonio and various national events at other QM tracks throughout the US.
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USAC .25 Midget Racing is a family oriented sport that involves racing in special prepared cars. The cars, rules and safety procedures are designed specifically for kids. They race on oval tracks approximately 1/20 of a mile. Children ages 5 to 16 years can race. Safety features include full roll cages, multi-point seat harnesses, full face helmets, and other gear. Surprisingly, this sport has fewer injuries than little-league football.
USAC is constantly reviewing and evaluating safety rules to ensure that quarter midget racing remains a safe competitive sport. The racing environment is about children and family. Not only do kids learn valuable skills and sportsmanship, but they also make new friends. Mom and Dad will make new friends too.
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Extensive extras explore the universe’s most powerful hero and future Avenger, Nick Fury’s influence on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fan-favorite Goose the Cat, deleted scenes, gag reel, commentary and much more! At the May 9 th espnW Summit NYC, Marvel Studios hosted a “Captain Marvel” panel and revealed an all-new trailer and in-home release dates for its first female-led franchise film, centered on Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel. The spectacular, 1990s-era Super Hero adventure, which electrified and inspired audiences worldwide and surpassed $1 billion in ticket sales, is available on Digital in HD and 4K Ultra HD™ and Movies Anywhere May 28, and lands on Blu-ray™ and Blu-ray 4K Ultra HD™ June 11. This highly anticipated addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), “Captain Marvel” includes Featurettes that highlight the transformative journey of Brie Larson (Captain Marvel) and her character’s impact on audiences around the globe; the influence of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) on significant events within the MCU; the perfect pairing of directors Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck; the ongoing conflict between the Skrulls and the Kree; and the raw talent behind the fetching feline named Goose. Viewers also gain access to six deleted scenes, director commentary, a gag reel loaded with funnies, flubs and Flerkens, and never-before-seen concept art and production photography.
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Markets Remain on Edge
Investors remain off balance. The Greek financial crisis, and the future of the irrevocable monetary union will take a few more days to play out. The Chinese stock market's dramatic fall after an incredible bull move continues, and nearly half of the stocks have been suspended. China's woes, plus some of their own developments has kept the downward pressure on key industrial commodities, including oil, copper and iron ore.
The dollar itself is mixed. The yen's ability to weather volatility in the financial markets continues to b demonstrated. It is up around 0.8% against the dollar after the Nikkei plunged 3.4%. It is the stock market's biggest decline of the year, and US Treasury yields fall. The 10-year yield was below 2.2% after peaking near 2.45% last week. The 100-day average is near 2.13%. The Nikkei is now at two-month lows and just above the 100-day moving average (~19694), which it has remained above since the last October's surprise decision to accelerate QE. The dollar is also at its lowest level against the yen since late-May. The 100-day moving average is found just above JPY121.00.
The euro is enjoying a little reprieve. After nearing $1.09 yesterday, it has tested the $1.1050 area today. The steadier tone seems to be a function of short-term tactics as previously sold positions are covered with an eye toward reselling at better levels. There are contradictory signals of what to expect in the coming days, but trying to make sense of it suggests the following timetable:
1. Today Greece submits a formal request for a two-year aid program (reports suggest that this has been delivered)
2. Tomorrow Greece provides the list of reforms it proposes in greater detail
3. Friday, if the Greek proposals pass the official creditors muster, Merkel will seek parliamentary approval to begin negotiations
4. Saturday Eurogroup of finance ministers meet
5. Sunday, the heads of state of all 28 EU countries meet to discuss Greece, short-term funding and humanitarian aid.
In the meantime, the ECB meets today to review Greece's ELA. Draghi reportedly informed the Eurogroup that Greek banks have sufficient funds to last until the end of the week, but not much longer. Recall that this past Monday, the ECB kept the ELA cap the same but raised the discount applied to the collateral used for the borrowings. However, some in the media misunderstand this. It is not, for example, as Bloomberg says to "protect its balance sheet".
To the contrary, the risks of ELA lending is totally borne by the national central bank, not the ECB or the Eurosystem. At best, the ECB's objection is either central bank funding of the Greek government indirectly, or that Greek banks are insolvent. This latter judgment would require an end to ELA completely. In any event, the timetable roughly sketched out above means that the ECB will not move to the latter step yet. However, it means that the bank holiday is likely to continue through at least the end of the week,
Meanwhile, Chinese stocks continue to sell-off. Shanghai lost nearly 6%, and Shenzhen fell 2.5%. An increasing number of companies are suspending the trading in their shares. Margin calls are exacerbating the slump. Many see the sharp decline in iron ore and copper prices to be related through the use of commodities as collateral for equity purchases had been reduced. Retail investors dominate trading Chinese shares, and the adverse wealth effect is likely to be a new weight on the economy. It is in this context that some will see the first decline in vehicle sales in China in two years (-3.2% year-over-year in June).
The weakness in commodities, soft domestic data, concerns about the broader knock-on effect from China, and RBA persistent jawboning keeps the Australian dollar under pressure. It has recorded six consecutive sessions of lower lows. Today it was pushed through $0.7400 before some profit-taking kicked in to lift it back toward $0.7430. It looks capped near $0.7450. Tomorrow Australia reports its monthly jobs data. A constructive report will likely lend support to the Aussie.
Sterling too has not seen the reprieve that the euro has. It too has recorded lower lows for six sessions. Today it is probing below $1.54 after have been near $1.58 at the end of last month. It has been pushed below its 200-day moving average (~$1.5440). The 100-day average is near $1.5275. A restrictive budget could push out BOE tightening expectations. The June 2016 short-sterling futures contract continues to rally. Today the implied yield is 89 bp. Last Tuesday it was 108 bp. Sterling's underperformance appears to be, at least in part, payback from the market getting ahead of itself in terms its expectations for BOE aggressiveness.
The Federal Reserve's minutes from last month's meeting will be released today. Remember the dot plots showed more than half of the Fed still saw two rate hikes as appropriate this year and nearly all saw at least one hike. The FOMC statement was not as dovish as the market read the dot plots. The Fed has said nothing to rule out a September hike.
Before the FOMC minutes, the Department of Energy will report the latest production and inventory figures for oil and products. Industry figures suggest US output this year will be greater than previously anticipated. US companies continue to pursue technological improvements that lower the cost of production. Re fracking (fracking old wells) is apparently among the latest developments. Meanwhile, the talks that could lead to more Iranian output in the world markets were extended (again) at least through the end of the week.
Markets Remain on Edge Reviewed by Marc Chandler on July 08, 2015 Rating: 5
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I am currently a software engineer at Leap Motion. I have a Master's in Human Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Robotics from Olin College of Engineering. Previously, I've been a roboticist, a dance instructor, a front-end developer and an IP litigation consultant.
» Résumé
Velocimeter
Ground-truth velocity sensor.
SolidWorks 3D Printing Circuit Design Matlab Simulink PIC
Much robotics research in recent years has been devoted to the subject of odometry. Knowing a robot’s precise location in the world is key for navigation and obstacle detection and avoidance. Currently a number of methods are used, including wheel odometry, GPS, and SLAM systems, but each of these has flaws in its current implementation. Because wheel odometry is inherently an indirect measurement, it is only valid for short periods of time and fails completely if the vehicle is running on sand or another similarly deformable material. GPS is prone to outages and failures in canyons and under bridges and has an exponential price-accuracy relationship. SLAM performed on external landmarks is processing-intensive because of the feature-recognition and matching necessary.
By using an optical mouse chip to track the ground directly beneath the vehicle, we can overcome these obstacles. Since we are measuring ground-truth, wheel slip does not create any errors so we can theoretically track on sand or track the velocity of a vehicle that is drifting around a corner. Since there are no satellites involved, outages will only be caused by optical obstructions of the ground and monolithic optical mouse IC’s are remarkably inexpensive for their capabilities. Though optical flow is a subset of SLAM, the processing is done in hardware in the optical mouse IC, so performance is unrelated to the interfacing microprocessor.
This is not to say, though, that using an optical mouse IC does not come with its own problems. A standard optical mouse is designed to work in contact with the surface it is measuring and can only read up to 40in/s, making it worthless for all but the simplest of robots. I have overcome both of these obstacles and created a simple and compact packaging for the optical mouse IC that makes it extremely useful to large mobile robots as a ground-truth velocimeter.
The hardware design for this system focused on the requirements of being securely mounted on the underbelly of a car. To function underneath a car, the system must be able to attach to the curvy stamped sheet-metal forms and be water and dirt resistant enough to avoid damage due to the dirt and rocks kicked up by the wheels. This necessitated an enclosed design to protect the electronics and a shield for the lens to avoid scratching and other damage.
To attach to the car, I decided to use four 5862K65 (Ultra-High-Pull Neodymium Disc Magnet 3/8" Dia, 1/4" Thick, 4.7 Pull lbs, Nickel Plated) magnets from McMaster-Carr, one in each corner. This allows the system to be attached anywhere underneath the car without having to worry about mounting bolts or fasteners.
The power for the system comes from an integral 9V battery that externally plugs into the board for easy connection/disconnection. The battery is included inside the case to provide shielding for it, as well.
The optics are very important as they scale the velocity and surface features so that the optical mouse can function. The system uses an Edmund Optics NT46-660 aspherical condenser lens (15mm x 12mm) in addition to the standard optical mouse lens included with the ADNS-3080.
We can calculate the magnification of the system so that we can convert the velocity measured by the ADNS-3080 into the real velocity of the road:
$$M = {d_{image}}/{d_{object}} = h_{image}/h_{object}$$
The size of one count of the ADNS-3080 on the optical plane is .0025in. Converting this to the road plane:
$${1.2cm}/h_{road} = {1ct @ pf}/{1ct @ rd}$$ $$1ct @ rd = h_{road}/1.2 * 1ct @ pf$$
This equation gives us a factor by which to scale the ‘counts’ per second coming out of the system to a ‘road cm’ per second which gives us the absolute velocity of the vehicle in both X and Y.
This system is based around the Avago ADNS-3080 High-performance Optical Mouse Sensor. It is Avago’s highest performance model, designed for high-end gaming mice, and can detect motion up to 40in/s and 15g acceleration at 6400 frames per second at 400cpi resolution. It has a non-standard 20-pin offset DIP which makes it difficult to prototype with as a custom breakout board is required in all cases. It communicates over a 3-line (MISO, MOSI, SCLK) SPI serial port that is easily accessible through an interfacing microcontroller and supports simple registry read/write operations and a burst mode that is useful for streaming large amounts of data quickly.
A Microchip PIC18F2221 microcontroller acts as the interface between the computer and the ADNS-3080. The PIC family of microcontrollers is a standard low-cost embedded option for simplistic applications. They include hardware modules for various standard functions such as timing, serial communication, digital input and output, and D/A conversion.
The final IC in the system is the MAXIM MAX232, a TTL to RS-232 level shifter. The TTL signals output by the PIC’s USART range from +5V to 0V, whereas the RS-232 standard requires signals of +12V to -12V. The MAX232 uses charge pumps to make up this gap and requires several large external capacitors.
I custom-designed the PCB you see in the picture above and sent it out to have it built. I did all the assembly myself.
There are three main components to the software architecture used in the system.
The ADNS-3080 has a very low level interface using a synchronous serial port and direct registry reading and writing. It also supports a special ‘streaming’ mode of communication for transmitting or receiving large amounts of specially-formatted data. For more information on the communication protocol used by the ADNS-3080, please reference the ADNS-3080 datasheet online.
The PIC18f2221 is from a standard family of microcontrollers (PIC18) produced by Microchip. It is programmed in-circuit in C using a special IDE and compiler distributed free to students. It is equipped with many digital I/O ports, a hardware EUSART (asynchronous to communicate over RS-232), and a hardware MSSP (synchronous to communicate via SPI). All of these ports are easily set up and accessed via function calls in the code.
The program I wrote for the PIC is designed to serve as a direct pass-through connection to the ADNS-3080, with a few exceptions. This means that if you send ‘0x00 0xFF’ (read from register zero and return the result) over the serial port, you get back ‘0x00 0x17’, which is the product ID, the default value of that registry (and a good way to check if communication is working all up and down the line). The cases where this breaks down are for the streaming modes. The PIC intercepts a write to either 0x40 or 0x50 and takes control of the process:
To grab a frame, the PIC needs to download 900 uint8’s from the ADNS-3080. Unfortunately, the PIC doesn’t have enough room in its onboard memory to accommodate all that data, so it returns 9 strings of 100 uint8’s each. When using this mode, set up the a binary read to take in 100 uint8’s 9 times so your serial connection doesn’t time out. You should only really use this to adjust the focus and make sure there’s proper illumination because the frame rate is only around 1hz.
Instead of grabbing the motion data as is, the PIC erases the motion data, waits a variable amount of time, and then returns the amount of time it waited and the x and y motion data, effectively giving a very precise and scalable velocity reading. It returns exactly those 3 uint8’s, so you should configure your serial read command appropriately.
The host PC, in this case the computer in the back of the vehicle, runs some version of Matlab to work with the computer’s serial port. To interface the ADNS-3080 breakout with XPC, I created a mask in Simulink that handles all the serial communication and just spits out the time-compensated x and y velocities, updating at 15hz. This greatly simplifies interaction with the ADNS-3080 breakout for most users. Any users wishing to use the pass-through functionality described above are advised to use a custom m-script run through regular Matlab.
© Paul Mandel
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Mothballs
This disc is included in the progressive rock section because of it being Steve Howe – not because the music fits that category. This is a collection of songs from Howe’s various musical endeavors before Yes. As such it runs the gamut from rockabilly, rock and roll and psychedelia, with only a few hints of progressive rock along the way. It’s certainly for the completists out there as much of this is sort of mediocre. Still, the Tomorrow and Bodast songs are quite good. Although, there’s a DJ talking at the start of most of the Tomorrow tracks.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2009 Volume 6 at lulu.com/strangesound.
Track by Track Review
Maybellene – Syndicats
This is a classic 1960s sounding interpretation of a Chuck Berry standard. The harmonica lends a cool texture to this. There is nothing Earth-shattering about this, but it's a fun rocker.
True To Me – Syndicats
A mellower old school rock and roll song, this one doesn’t do a lot for me. It’s never really been my kind of music and there’s no guitar solo or anything like that to save it.
Howlin' For My Baby – Syndicats
There’s more energy to this and I’d put it at about the same level as the disc’s opener.
What To Do – Syndicats
With some retro keyboards, there’s a lot more psychedelic texture to this song. We get some tasty guitar soloing and in some ways this reminds me of The Animals.
Leave My Kitten Alone – Syndicats
A bouncy little number, this is old school rock and roll – no question about it. It’s got more soloing by Mr. Howe than some of the other tracks by the Syndicats.
Don't Know What To Do – Syndicats
I really don’t like the vocals on this track at all. Beyond that it’s a pretty standard old school rocker, much like the previous pieces here. It serves as an example of how a lot of punk rock was very retro – because this could have passed as a late 1970’s punk tune. I will say that Howe gives us some tasty guitar soloing.
On The Horizon – Syndicats
A folky sort of number, this has a definite 1960’s hippie sort of texture. It’s also the coolest cut we’ve heard to this point. I like it a lot. We get some trademark Howe here, too – the first on the set.
Stop Wait A Minute – In Crowd
A old school rocker, this is good, but not very special. It has a lot of energy, though.
You're On Your Own Dream – In Crowd
Here’s a less energized old school rocker. I’m again reminded of The Animals.
Why Must They Criticise – In Crowd
This one’s not that different from the two that preceded it. It’s OK, but that’s about it.
I Don't Mind – In Crowd
Now, this is more like it. It’s a slow grind with a lot of character. The vocal performance is very much in keeping with something from the Animals, but this has such a powerful texture that it works better than most. Howe gets in some extremely tasty (if not overly trademark) guitar soloing.
Finger Poppin' – In Crowd
More old school bluesy rock and roll, this is a step down from the last track, but a step up from the ones that directly preceded it.
So Bad - Steve Howe
This instrumental has a definite 1960’s texture to it. One can just picture a lot of beautiful people grooving and dancing to it with flowers in their hair. It’s a tasty (if dated) piece of music.
Your Never Can Stay In One Place - Steve Howe
There’s a killer jazzy sort of upbeat texture to this track and it’s one that actually isn’t that far removed, in some ways, from some of the music of Yes. An instrumental, it’s a highlight of the set.
Real Life Permanent Dream - Tomorrow
Feeling a little like early Who, this is a tasty cut. That said, it’s definitely dated in its textures and sounds. Still, I like it a lot and always have. There are a few proggy changes and Howe really shows off quite a bit on the track.
Am I Glad To See You – Tomorrow
Combining an old rock and roll element with some more psychedelic sounds, this is bouncy and rather tasty. It calls to mind early Rolling Stones a little. Howe provides some tasty psychedelic interludes.
Blow Up – Tomorrow
Rockabilly meets The Who on this little rocker. It’s not great, but it’s also not bad.
Three Jolly Little Dwarfs – Tomorrow
The intro on this really feels like something from early Yes. They fire out from there into a bouncy little piece of psychedelia. Howe puts a lot of his flair into it.
Revolution – Tomorrow
The opening on this is pretty weird, but the chorus is quite catchy and the track definitely has its moments. There’s some trademark Howe guitar work on this.
The Kid Was A Killer – Keith West
The booklet has this song and the one that follows it reversed, but this is the order they actually run on my CD. This is a track that reminds me a lot of early Who. It’s high energy and quite creative and tasty.
My White Bicycle – Tomorrow
With a lot of backwards masking, this is a classic piece of psychedelia and a great piece of music.
Come Over Stranger – Canto
Here’s a bouncy bit of psychedelia. The track is somewhat mediocre, but the guitar solo segment is quite strong.
Beyond Winter – Bodast
This is fairly prog like and quite psychedelic at the same time. It’s a good piece of music with a number of interesting changes and alterations. Howe really shines on the cut.
Nothing To Cry For – Bodast
A trademark Howe acoustic guitar solo opens this up. Then they fire out into a killer piece of psychedelia that has some tasty guitar work and intriguing twists and turns. It even gets a bit classical at times and there are sections that feel quite a bit like Yes.
Nether Street – Bodast
Yes fans will recognize this as the introduction section (along with some other parts) was reworked and used in “Starship Trooper”. It’s another cool song, even if it feels a bit dated. It’s got some of the most potent Steve Howe guitar soloing of the whole set.
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Mythica Foundation
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Dante and The Soul's Journey
The Divine Comedy through Art, Music and Storytelling
Part One: The Inferno
Three Wednesdays, February 10, 17, 24
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Dante's Divine Comedy has been called the most beautiful poem ever written- but it is much more than that: it is a brilliant work of imagination that weaves together Greek and Roman myth, European history and a pathway of universal spiritual development with deep cross cultural resonances. Written during the "dark woods" of Dante's midlife, amid a series of catastrophes, it is an epic achievement that saved the author's own life- and can immeasurably enrich our own. In this three week seminar (that will also be archived as an online webinar), we will explore the historical and religious background of the Comedy, and dive into this fascinating journey of the soul through art, poetry and myth. Each class will feature a live performance by violinist Julija Zibrat of music found in or inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy . We'll end each class with questions for journaling or shared reflection so that you can discover how Dante's story can be a map of the development for your own inner transformation.
The Places Where We Get Stuck
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Dante's Divine Comedy has inspired some of the most famous artworks throughout history, though few people actually know the origins of their inspiration. Rodin's lifelong love affair with Dante's work resulted in some of his most passionate and moving statues, including (from bottom left) " "The Kiss", depicting the infernal lovers Paolo and Francesca, and "The Thinker"- a portrait in stone of Dante which was originally titled "The Poet." Dr. Asbo leads seasonal tours on Rodin and Dante at the Cantor Collection at Stanford University and at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Check back soon!
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Led by 26 points from tournament MVP Kyrie Irving (Cleveland Cavaliers) and 23 points from James Harden (Houston Rockets), the USA (9-0) saved its best performance of the World Cup for the gold medal clash as the Americans captured a second-consecutive
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Cup gold medal with a blistering 129-92 win over Serbia (5-4) at the Palacio de os Deportes de la Comunidad arena on Sunday night in Madrid, Spain. The USA, which distanced itself from Serbia early in the game with a 28-6 run to close the first quarter, became just the third country in FIBA World Cup history to capture consecutive titles, and more crucial, the championship earned the USA an automatic bid into the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
USA FIRES ITS WAY TO WORLD CUP GOLD
Cup gold medal with a blistering 129-92 win over Serbia (5-4) at the Palacio de os Deportes de la Comunidad arena on Sunday night in Madrid, Spain.
The USA, which distanced itself from Serbia early in the game with a 28-6 run to close the first quarter, became just the third country in FIBA World Cup history to capture consecutive titles, and more crucial, the championship earned the USA an automatic bid into the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
The USA, which distanced itself from Serbia early in the game with a 28-6 run to close the first quarter, became just the third country in FIBA World Cup
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The Past Is Right At Home
Here in Catawba County, the past is something we cherish and celebrate. First settled by the Catawba Indians in 1747, the Catawba Valley is overflowing with history and tradition. Follow the footsteps of our forefathers on an invigorating walking tour. Step back in time in one of our fascinating museums. Get an impromptu history lesson from one of our friendly locals. Whatever you’re looking to explore, the spirit of the past has never been more alive. Come discover our hometown traditions.
Historic Sites and Museums
Balls Creek Campground
Buffalo Shoals Road in Catawba. The tradition of annual religious revivals started at Grassy Branch (now Terrell) by Methodists during the late 1790's. This tradition continued when the present Ball Creek Campground was constructed in 1853 as a central location to all the Methodist congregations in eastern Catawba County. The yearly two-week revivals at the Balls Creek Campground continue to the present day. These revivals have only been interrupted on two occasions, one was for rowdiness, the other during wartime. The campground and its several hundreds of tents are listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Bunker Hill Covered Bridge
14 miles east of Hickory off Hwy. 70, Claremont. The 1895 historic Bunker Hill Covered Bridge is one of only two covered bridges remaining in North Carolina. It also remains as the lone example of the use of the "haupt" truss design named for Civil War engineer / bridge builder Herman Haupt. The bridge's 85 foot span crosses Lyles Creek.
See http://www.catawbahistory.org
Catawba County Museum of History
Catawba County's history is exhibited at the 1924 Catawba County Courthouse. The extensive collection includes a rare British Revolution era red coat, a 1930's racing car and a fine collection of locally crafted furniture. The Catawba County Historical Association's valuable collection is housed in the greater part of the courthouse building with eight major galleries, museum store and reception area. The lower level features a law and government gallery, which includes an old jail cell. Closed Mondays.
See http://www.catawbahistory.org/museum.htm
Catawba Valley Furniture Museum
Hickory Furniture Mart, 2220 Hwy. 70 E. Trace the roots of the furniture industry in Catawba Valley. Tour the authentic reproduction of an early Catawba woodworking shop and see the collection of vintage tools and furnishings.
Monday - Saturday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
See http://www.hickoryfurniture.com
Firefighters Museum of Catawba County
3957 Herman Sipe Rd., Conover. Equipment and photos dating back to the early 1900's are on display in this museum, which includes a 40' x 100' exhibit hall. Among the items on display are six fire trucks, the oldest of which is a 1936 American LaFrance pumper. Dedicated in May of 1994, this museum is geared toward educating visitors about fire safety and the fire service. Admission is free (donations accepted). Open to the public Saturdays 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Sundays 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Monday-Friday by appointment only for school and community groups.
Hwy. 268, Lenoir (off Hwy. 321). Historic restoration of the 18th-century home of General William Lenoir. Tours and group picnics available. Open April through October. Call for hours.
"From This Day Forward"
401 Church St. NW, Valdese. Explore the history of the Waldensians, a religious sect dating back to the Reformation. The historic drama depicts the plight of the Waldensians in the Alps of Italy and their eventual arrival in Valdese in 1893. Performances Friday-Sunday, at 8:15 p.m, mid-July through mid-August.
Historic Newton Walking Tour
Take a tour through the Newton North Main Avenue historic district. You will find 100 historically significant buildings including two churches and one school adaptively reused as an administrative building and a civic performance place. The 1924 Courthouse is the home of the Catawba County Museum of History.
The Ivey Arboretum in Carolina Park
Located adjacent to downtown Hickory on NC Hwy. 127 North. Hickory is the home of the Ivey Arboretum, a collection of over 400 labeled species of native and rare trees and shrubs within a three-acre park. The Arboretum was founded by local industrialist and tree enthusiast George Ivey in 1936 in historic Carolina Park (1904). The Arboretum was recently restored with the replacement of many of the unusual plant specimens. Guided tours are available.
See www.ci.hickory.nc.us/publicsvcs/iveyarboretum.htm
542 2nd St. NE, Hwy. 127 North, Hickory. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, Maple Grove is a restored Italianate-style house built in 1883. Experience Maple Grove’s tranquility featuring authentic Victorian furnishings. Self-guided tour. Guided tour by appointment. Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
See www.ci.hickory.nc.us/history/maple_grove.htm
Murray’s Mill Historic Site
NC Hwy. 10, near the town of Catawba. I-40, exit 138. One of the few agriculturally related North Carolina historic sites, the Murray’s Mill complex is nestled in the rolling hills along Balls Creek in rural Catawba County. This restored complex consists of a grist mill (first built in the 1880's and later restored in 1913) powered by a huge overshot waterwheel, an 1890's country store, an 1880's wheat house, and the miller’s residence, first built in 1913 and later restored in 1935. See www.catawbahistory.org
Old Hickory Brewery
The only micro-brewery in the Unifour, offers not only unique beer but a very unique atmosphere as well. The eight handcrafted beers available on tape are accented by a dining room furnished with booths made from 1000-gallon wine casks from the Old Bernard Winery of Valdese. The beers themselves keep with the "local" theme by having such names as Brown Mountain Light and Table Rock Pale Ale after local western North Carolina sites and Crawdad Red after the local minor league team. Monday - Thursday 11:00 am - 11:00 pm; Friday - Saturday 11:00 am - 12:00 midnight. See www.oldhickorybrewery.com
Old St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
St. Paul's Church Rd., Newton. Old St. Paul’s Lutheran Church is a two-story log weather-boarded church, featuring an impressive federal-style interior including intricately carved sounding board and moldings and a slave balcony. Built in 1818, it remains the oldest existing church in North Carolina west of the Catawba River. Graveyard headstones date to the late 1700s.
Propst House
547 6th St. NW in the Shuford Memorial Gardens, Hickory. A Second Empire-style cottage built in 1883, the Propst House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. House Beautiful magazine referred to this home of a master craftsman as a "Victorian gem." Thursdays and Sundays 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. and other times by appointment.
See www.ci.hickory.nc.us/history/propsthouse.htm
Terrell Country Store
Corner of Hwy. 150 and Sherrills Ford Rd. Built in 1891, this country store was the focal point of Terrell for trade and commerce in southeastern Catawba County. The post office was housed in this building from 1893 to 1997. See www.catawbahistory.org
Waldensian Heritage Wines
4940 Villar Lane NE, Valdese. Open for tours and tasting every Friday through Sunday, 1 p.m.-6 p.m., the winery offers the same variety of wines made by original Waldensian winemakers.
Waldensian Museum
208 Rodoret St. SE, Valdese. Explore the history of the Waldenses, a religious sect dating back to the Reformation. Housed in a building that matches the architecture of the historic Waldensian Presbyterian Church. Call to arrange a guided tour. See http://www.waldensianpresbyterian.com/museum.htm
Waldensian Trail Of Faith
401 Church St. NW, Valdese. Explore a stone fortress and secret cave as the pages of Waldensian history unfold. The tour also includes a medieval church and other historical structures. Open Saturday-Sunday, 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Guided tours available.
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Animate nature
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Velebit NP
NP Sjeverni Velebit > Management > Publications
Since its establishment, the Public Institution Northern Velebit National Park has published numerous informative and educational materials on the Park. Our publications include informative brochures and posters, two natural science guidebooks and a multimedia DVD about the Park entitled „Wilderness, Diversity, Beauty, Freedom“. Brochures and flyers are available free of charge to all visitors and other interested parties as a source of general information about the Park. All publications can be obtained from the Park info-centres and through our e-giftshop (available to residents of Croatia only).
Brochures and flyers
Northern Velebit National Park, brochure
[PDF 4,9 MB]
Velebit Botanical Garden, flyer
Premužić Trail, flyer
Zavižan Weather Station, brochure
(in Croatian)
237 Million Years Long Walk – stone inscriptions (geology), flyer
[PDF 681 kb]
The Secrets of Velebit’s Bedrock – Northern Velebit Caves flyer
The temper of Zavižan weather, brochure
[PDF 3.9 MB]
Map of cycling trails
Parks of Croatia
Symbol of Survival (rainwater cisterns)
Currently in preparation is a tree and shrub guide of the Northern Velebit National Park.
Velebit Botanical Garden – Oasis at 1500 m
The Velebit Botanical Garden guidebook is a jubilee publication marking the 40th anniversary of the Velebit Botanical Garden. The first part of the guide describes the history of the garden from its establishment to the present day. The second part provides a detailed description and illustration of 120 of the most prevalent, interesting and significant plant species in the Garden. Fifty more plant species are presented with photographs. The guide also includes illustrations for easier identification of individual plant parts and a glossary of terms, a list of botanical names and a map of the Velebit Botanical Garden. This 364 page publication has texts in Croatian with translations in English, German and Italian.
Authors of text are: Vlatko Skorup, Sanja Kovačić, Dario Kremer and Darko Mihelj.
From Sea shoals to a Mountain – a geology guide of the Northern Velebit National Park (only in Croatian)
In eight chapters, the geology guide From Sea shoals to a Mountain provides a comprehensive outline of geological research projects conducted in the Park and presents the geological features of the National Park and the geological history of the whole of the Velebit range, and describes the geology of seven selected hiking trails within the Park in a highly interesting popular scientific style.
The guide contains 85 photographs (of which 25 photographs of microfossils), two geological maps – a 1:50 000 scale geological map of the Park and a detailed geological map of Velebit, geological time charts, three geological profiles, two geological columns, sketches of the Velebit movement from the carboniferous era to the present day, images of the layout of land and sea etc.
It is a little known fact among the general population that Velebit, like all Dinaric mountains, is composed of rocks formed in shallows seas. The authors explain in an easy to understand and interesting way how the Velebit range was created from sediments deposited in sea shoals. This guide is also valuable as a source of information about the formation of all Dinaric range mountains.
The special importance of the guide lies in the fact that this is the first geology book in Croatia of its kind.
Authors of the geology guide are: Ivo Velić, Dr. Sc. and Professor Josipa Velić, Dr. Sc.
Multimedia DVD
The multimedia DVD titled “Wilderness, Diversity, Beauty, Freedom” consists of an interactive part „About the Park“, which introduces the natural assets and the cultural heritage of the region, a „virtual tour” of the Premužić Trail and the Velebit Botanical Garden, and a quiz called „Who Am I?“ in which viewers are asked to guess the animal from the sound, trace or a detail in a photograph. The DVD also contains a 20-minute promotional film, without narration, which presents the Northern Velebit in a very attractive way through the change of the four seasons. The promotional DVD is bilingual (Croatian and English) and was supported by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and the Croatian Tourism Board.
[PDF 1 MB]
Picture book „Ana i vila s Velebita“ (only in Croatian)
Through the story about Ana, a little girl from the city, and her grandmother who has spent her childhood on Velebit, we get to know Northern Velebit National park. This beautifully illustrated picture book with fantasy elements was made as a contribution to the 10th anniversary of the Northern Velebit National Park proclamation.
Author of text and illustration is Tomica Bajsić.
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How To Make Money With Your Junk Mail
The term "junk mail" is a well-known term. To the common guy or gal on the street, "junk mail" to them is advertising flyers from the local grocery store and pizza shop that arrive in their mail every day. To the mail order dealer, it means something totally opposite because a mail order dealer in St Paul MN is not going to get a pizza ad for a shop in Jackson MS.
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People may always exist that will respond to this type of "junk mail." But you can use the same marketing concept to provide the people with something REAL. This way, they won't feel cheated, stupid and taken advantage of. This is where the "junk mail" authors who wrote this stuff in the first place overlook the true marketing potential.
More money could be made if the person buying something is satisfied and makes a repeat purchase. In fact, newcomers are eager to learn and will buy anything to get started learning. By taking advantage of them only means that you will make one sale in that person's lifetime. But if the product is good and worthwhile -- they will order from you again and again. Many newcomers today will be big businesses tomorrow. And I'm sure if a newcomer found a honest company that really helped them break into the mail order field they would continue to do business with them when they really did make millions of dollars. See what I mean? The back-end sales for a lifetime would be worth the investment.
I'm not saying that you can take a piece of "junk mail" claiming to make the person $1 million in 30 days or less and turn it into a valuable and worthwhile product. Since this is a downright lie, there is no way to market this honestly. However -- you can study the piece of "junk mail" to determine what words and phrases were used and how the ad is written so you can understand how to present a REAL product that people will be eager to buy.
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Millions displaced in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, with Assam and Bihar among the worst-hit regions
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In the Indian state of Assam, among the worst hit areas, agencies were working on a war footing to deal with the situation, the chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, said.
Evelyn Beatriz Hernández was jailed for murder after she was ruled to have induced abortion
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$800,000 spent at jeweller in one day on Najib Razak's credit cards, court hears
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Photographs by Cole Burston
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UK wage growth hits 11-year high as self-employment total surges - business live
British worker are getting the biggest pay rises in a decade, as jobless rate remains at 44-year low. But the market may be cooling....
Self-employment rises as gig economy booms
Basic pay growth jumps to 3.6%, highest since 2008
Wages rising faster than inflation amid skills shortages
Minister: Labour market is resilient
Introduction: Why UK jobs report matters
11.24am BST
New @ONS stats show that:
- the employment level is at a record high
- there are 3.7m more people in work than in 2010
- wages have grown faster than inflation for almost a year
- female unemployment has fallen to a new record low of 3.6% pic.twitter.com/V9C5NMXW9l
Andy Bruce of Reuters has also spotted that rising self-employment is making up for a drop in the number of employed workers.
Cause for concern?
That there was any employment growth at all in 3 months to May is down to a hefty increase in self-employment.
Employee jobs declined at fastest rate since 2011. pic.twitter.com/cg05f02Az2
Along these lines, looks clear that vacancies have peaked already. pic.twitter.com/t06diHVMRn
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Used 1951 Studebaker Champion
Stock Number:17140
Exterior Color:Rio Green
Interior Color:Light Grey
VIN:G893023
Engine:Gas 170ci I-6
Body Type:2-Door Coupe
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The 1950 Studebaker Champion Starlight coupe attracted motorists with its ultramodern styling -- the aerospace industry was a fascination for the country during the space race and influenced automotive design heavily during that time. Its center "nose" called to mind an airplane, and its wraparound rear window and long, horizontal rear deck were radically different from "teardrop" cars of the 1930s and 1940s. The 1950 and 1951 Studebakers marked the beginning of flamboyant, futuristic styling. Studebaker led the way in this styling and marketing change, and was one of the first manufacturers to completely restyle its line. Robert E. Bourke, an automotive stylist who worked for the renowned industrial designer Raymond Loewy, was largely responsible for the 1950 Studebaker's styling, now considered a classic of its time.
With fighter-plane styling in the front and streamlined-railway-car "Vista Dome" treatment in the back, there've been few cars as stunning before or since. The design leadership was matched with comparatively up-to-the-minute engineering to make it more than worthy of contemporary consideration. Was there anything more modern on the road back then? Not really.
The Virgil Exner-penned Studebaker line was sleek and instantly dated everything else on Detroit's showroom floors. The car's unique profile provided the Studebaker marque with an easily recognized body shape copied as soon as possible by the other US manufacturers in their 1949 models. For 1950 and 1951, all Studebakers received a freshening of the 1947 design with the addition of the "bullet nose" (sometimes referred to as the "spinner" front) front sheet metal; when combined with the Starlight body style, Studebakers looked comparatively futuristic at the time. This version of the Starlight body style continued until the end of the 1952 model year.
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MAJURO IN HIGH GEAR FOR TAIWAN ALLIES SUMMIT
By Giff Johnson
MAJURO, Marshall Islands (Marianas Variety, Sept. 25) – The paint may barely be dry on a US$5 million, Taiwan-funded convention center when Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and six island heads of state meet in Majuro for the second Taiwan Pacific Allies Summit in three weeks.
But Majuro hotels and government leaders are hoping that Chen and the island leaders’ visit will offer memorable activities as well as the formal policy meetings.
To make for a unique visit, outrigger canoe captains are preparing to sail Chen and the other heads of state in a flotilla across Majuro’s lagoon to give the visitors a memorable visit.
"We’re going to put each leader on a different canoe," said Alson Kelen, who runs the Waan Aelon in Majel cano building and sailing training program for young people. "They’ll have a blast and it’ll be a great photo op."
When Chen visited Majuro in 2005, he was supposed to take a 10-minute ride on an outrigger canoe to satisfy the crowd of TV cameras and newspaper photographers in his entourage, but extended the sail around Majuro’s lagoon with President Kessai Note to more than half an hour. He specifically requested that another sail be laid on by the Marshall Islands hosts, Kelen said.
Construction crews have been working until late at night six days a week to finish the two-story convention center in time for the Oct. 12-14 summit. Construction work wasn’t started until March this year, forcing Pacific International Inc. to put double shifts to fast track the work. But PII construction manager David Kramer said recently that the convention center will be ready for the meetings by Oct. 12, though some landscaping and outside work will remain to be completed.
Chen is expected to bring about 100 Taiwanese with him, including a large media contingent, when he arrives on October 12, said Taiwan Ambassador Bruce J.D. Linghu.
Heads of state from the islands that recognize Taiwan in the Pacific — the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Nauru and Palau — will join with President Note for the two days of meetings.
The summit will provide a welcome financial boost to Majuro hotels, whose modest room supply of about 200 is completely booked out for the visit. The largest hotel, Marshall Islands Resort, is sprucing up for the visit, with a fresh coat of paint applied to the outside of the hotel this past week, and new linens, bedspreads and towels being flown in from Hawaii this week in time for the summit, said hotel rooms manager Hirobo Obeketang.
"We’re doing major work at the hotel to get ready," Obeketang said. "Last week, everyone (staff) was outside working. This week they’ll be inside fixing things."
The summit is still a couple of weeks away, but already dozens of Taiwan government officials — including security teams charged with protecting Chen on his visit — have been flying into Majuro to support preparatory work and planning for the summit.
Although the People’s Republic of China accuses Taiwan of checkbook diplomacy, the summit is not expected to produce announcements of big money projects, according to officials in Majuro. That’s because Taiwan already has significant ongoing aid programs with each of its six allies.
In the Marshall Islands, Taiwan’s annual aid program is estimated at more than $14 million annually, with $10 million in direct funding, a $2.5 million contribution to the government’s national trust fund, financing of a small scale micro loan program that since it was launched last September has issued out more than $300,000 to farmers, fishermen and craft makers, and an active farming and aquaculture program. Taiwan has similar aid arrangements with each of its allies.
Last year’s first Taiwan summit in Palau promoted increased medical cooperation with the six island allies through expanding mobile medical visits, providing training opportunities in Taiwan for health professionals and offering medical referral hospital services to island patients.
But aside from an opportunity to sit face-to-face with the president of one of the larger aid donor nations in the region, two islands — the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu — have major fisheries concerns that they hope can get some help from Chen’s visit. Both islands have joint ventures with major Taiwan fishing companies to put Taiwanese-built tuna boats under their domestic flags. But Taiwan has blocked the vessels from being released from shipyards in Taiwan because other countries have objected to the increased numbers of vessels fishing at a time when scientists are expressing heightened concern about possible over-fishing in the region. The islands say getting the vessels into the fleets of Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands is an essential part of developing the local economies.
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3D Studio Max Plug-In in Beta
Thread: 3D Studio Max Plug-In in Beta
As a result of a lot of hard work by our DMM Plug-In team, we have now released a beta version of the DMM Plug-In for 3D Studio Max. A new area in the forum has been created specifically for this product. You can download the beta from here. Updated versions will be posted to the support area as we fix bugs and refine operation. We expect the beta period to last approximately 2 months. After that, a final build will be posted and the beta builds will no longer work.
The DMM Max plug-in will work for 3DS Max 2008, 2009 and 2010 under both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Compatibility with the Design version of Max is also included (the installer will automatically detect which version of Max is available on the target computer and will install the plug-in for all of them, including the Design version).
Some simple test movies of the plug-in in action have been posted in the Gallery section of the new Max forum.
Please not that as this is a beta, there are some features missing from this version that are in the Maya version. Specifically:
- Max Forces
- Mesh Verify
- 2D Splinter Generation
We will be adding these features to the latest build that will be posted in the support section. Please check this section for updates often.
The Pixelux Team
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beta 0.6 activation problem
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DMM Plug-In for Maya now available in Beta for 64-bit Linux.
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DMM Plugin for Maya goes public beta
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Android Nougat Leaps Ahead of iOS 10
Android 7.0 Nougat Limited to Nexus Users
With the arrival of the smartphone, several development of unique operating system has come up making it user friendly. From the amount of developers working all over the world it is undoubtedly Google that had stood out of this pack with their Android OS. From the start, Android had gone ahead with a lot of innovative features which have provided the users with plenty of features they desired. With the release of Android 7.0 Nougat, only the owners of recent Nexus devices like the Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and Nexus 5 X, Pixel C or Nexus 9 tablet will presently benefit from this release.
Though the lately released Nougat is said to be limited to users of Nexus devices it would be made available to a larger audiences very soon. Invariably Nougat users would be in for a treat with the exceptional features of the most recent Android OS.
There are certain characteristics in it that even the high-end iPhone users do not seem to enjoy which makes it the most wanted device after OS. Nougat seems to comprise of some nice features which iOS users would desire to see in the iPhone and iPad out of which three of them seems to be noticeable.
The capability of running two apps side-by-side
Improved Doze Mode – The handset is adequately smart to know when it is being stored in a pocket or bag and will automatically go in low power mode, enabling improved battery life
Customizable Quick Settings – Though Apple tends to accept the fact that the iOS 0 Control Centre seems to be lacking and is making attempts to tweak it in iOS 10, it still seems to be in disorder. The answer of Google is to enable Android users to opt for Quick Settings tray so that they have near instant access to the needed settings.
Focus on Usability & Battery Efficiency
It is clear that Google has its focus on usability and battery efficiency, with these new features of Nougat, which seems to be the things that users are in need of. The top features in Nougat are that it enables two apps to run simultaneously which is not what an iOS user has in their high-end devices.
An unusual upgraded Doze mode in Nougat has enabled the phone to recognize if the phone has been placed in a pocket or a bag which will assist the phone to intuitively to go into a low power consumption mode thus saves on battery power with the provision of a longer battery life.
Android, Nougat enables the user to access a quick setting mode which permits a considerably higher level of customization for users. The obvious fat is that Android developers tend to have a clear understanding of what the customers’ need which have been the things which the customers have expressed their desire, with the release of Nougat.
Android seems to be making it obtainable for them with dedicated efficiency. Nougat being made available only to high-end Nexus devices means that a larger section of Android users would not be able to develop the improved Nougat experience for some time.
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Across the RASC
RASC Member Honoured by Geological Association of Canada
On 15 May, 2013 By RRosenfeld
Simon Hanmer, a long-time member of the RASC (Ottawa Centre), is this year's recipient of the J. Willis Ambrose Medal of the Geological Association of Canada, awarded for "sustained dedicated service to the Canadian earth science community". Dr. Hanmer spent most of his professional career in the Geological Survey of Canada.
Helen Sawyer Hogg Lecture 2013 - Tuesday, 2013 May 28 - 7:30 p.m. - University of British Columbia
On 15 May, 2013 By admin
Cosmology - its tortuous history, glorious present and bright future
RASC member wins Griffith Observer Award
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Astronomy Day in Windsor - Sunday, April 28th - 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
On 24 Apr, 2013 By admin
The RASC: Windsor Centre will be participating in Astronomy Day on Sunday, April 28, from 10AM to 3PM.
The location is in Malden Park, at 4200 Malden Road in Windsor, ON.
Victoria Centre Hosts Astronomy Day on 2013 Apr 27
On 19 Apr, 2013 By DGrey
International Astronomy Day: A Celebration of Astronomy
Saturday April 27 10am - 4pm and 7pm - 11pm
Have you ever wondered about planets around other stars? The physics of Angry Birds? How to make a telescope? Taking pictures of the night sky? We have the answers! Please join the Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada on Saturday April 27 at UVic's Bob Wright Building from 10am to 4pm, and 7pm to 11pm. Experience these topics and more!
Astronomy Day 2013
On 19 Apr, 2013 By User12
Toronto, Canada (April 15, 2013) – Members of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) and its 29 local RASC Centres will celebrate International Astronomy Day this Saturday, April 20, 2013. Be on the lookout for telescopes and astronomers to pop up unexpectedly on street corners, in shopping malls and other public places, ready and eager to bring the universe down to Earth for everyone!
RASC Vancouver Hosts Astronomy Day at Simon Fraser University - 2013 Apr 27
The RASC Vancouver Centre is hosting a spectacular Astronomy Day event on Saturday, April 27th.
Hosted at the Burnaby Campus of Simon Fraser University
Academic Quadrangle, South Concourse (see map)
Free admission (university parking fees in effect)
From 11 am to 4 pm to include:
Astronomy Day 2013 – Get out under the stars across Canada!
Astronomy Day is an international science education and outreach event head annually in April of each year. Many RASC Centres will be celebrating the day with special activities and events that you are welcome to come out to!
Highlights this year are an impressive waxing Moon, the planet Jupiter and the amazing planet Saturn.
Here are just some of the Astronomy Day events on offer from East to West across the country:
RASD Inducts New Member on CBC Radio
Two members of the RASD (the Royal Astronomical Society of Daves) were recently interviewed on CBC radio in Nova Scotia.
https://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?clipid=2369043234&position=268893&s...
The RASD inducted Dave XXX into the Society during the interview - a 1st for the RASD!
Charlottetown Centre Observes an Elusive Comet, Major Anniversary
Photo special to The Guardian by Clair Perry and Brian Gorveatt
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PTAB Joinder Practice Update: Board Interprets 35 U.S.C. § 315(c) to Require Party Joinder
Posted on September 30, 2014 by Tim Bianchi
In at least two decisions last week, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) interpreted the IPR joinder provision, 35 U.S.C. § 315(c), to preclude a joinder request by an existing party to the proceeding. The Board had allowed this practice in the past, for example, when a party timely filed its request for joinder with a petition that asserted new grounds of challenging one or more claims of the patent under IPR. In these most recent decisions, the Board seems to have decided that § 315(c) requires “party joinder.”
In two IPRs styled Target Corp. v. Destination Maternity Corp. (IPR2014-00508 and -00509) the Board provided its rationale for why subsequent IPR petitions by Target could not be joined to the instituted IPR proceedings (IPR2013-00531 and -00533, respectively). The Decision Denying Motion for Joinder for the -00508 IPR provides this reason (which is referenced by the parallel Decision Denying Motion for Joinder in the -00509 IPR):
The statute does not refer to the joining of a petition. Rather, it refers to the joining of a petitioner (i.e., “any person who properly files a petition . . .”). Id. Further, it refers to the joining of that petitioner “as a party to [the instituted] inter partes review.” Id. Because Target is already a party to the proceeding in IPR2013-00531, Target cannot be joined to IPR2013-00531.
The -00508 IPR Decision included a dissent which summarized prior cases allowing such joinder:
The majority opinion chooses not to address the issues as presented by the parties. Instead, the majority bases its decision to deny the motion entirely on a construction of 35 U.S.C. § 315(c), concluding that the statute enabling joinder does not apply here because it allows only joinder of parties, not joinder of issues. According to the majority, the language in § 315(c) addresses only joinder of a “party” to a proceeding, and does not permit joinder in the situation present in this case, where Petitioner seeks the “joinder” of additional grounds by the same party. The majority opinion acknowledges, however, the Board has consistently allowed joinder of additional grounds by the same party See, e.g., Ariosa Diagnostics v. Isis Innovation Ltd., Case IPR2012-00022 (PTAB Sept. 2, 2014) (Paper 66)(“Ariosa”); Samsung Elecs. Co. v. Virginia Innovation Scis., Inc., Case IPR2014-00557, (PTAB June 13, 2014) (Paper 10); Microsoft Corp. v. Proxyconn, Inc., Case IPR2013-00109 (PTAB Feb. 25, 2013) (Paper 15); ABB Inc. v. Roy-G-Biv Corp.,Case IPR2013-00282 (PTAB Aug. 9, 2013) (Paper 15).
As the majority opinion observes, the Board in Ariosa concluded that the language in § 315(c) that allows joinder of “any person who properly joins a petition under section 311” should be construed as not prohibiting the joinder of inter partes review proceedings involving the same party. Here, however, the majority opinion concludes that “the relief described in § 315(c) is something an existing party already has, namely, party status in the instituted inter partes review.” The majority opinion states further in a footnote that
solely focusing upon “any person” does not give full effect to the other words in the statute that limit who “any person” may be. Other language in § 315(c) excludes from “any person” at least two persons from among those who may be joined to a proceeding. More specifically, the phrase “who properly files a petition under section 311” excludes the patent owner, and “as a party,” excludes persons who are already a party.
We note initially that as this issue of statutory construction was not addressed, and thus not briefed, by the parties, the majority should not have denied joinder solely on statutory construction grounds. Apart from and independent of this failure to address the issues presented by the parties, however, we disagree with the majority’s construction of § 315(c), for the reasons discussed below.
Joinder is of particular importance to PTAB practitioners because the AIA imposes strict rules on the timing and content of IPR petition filings to challenge patentability. It is especially important in IPRs, because a petitioner is barred from filing another petition over a year after service of a complaint alleging infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b). Before the decisions of the past week, a petitioner had one more chance to argue a different ground of challenge in an IPR using § 315(c) joinder. Although not guaranteed, on occasion the Board had allowed joinder of a later-filed petition by the same petitioner to an instituted proceeding when the later-filed petition met certain conditions of timeliness and where the later-filed petition will not pose an undue delay or burden on the existing proceeding. This afforded the petitioner one more opportunity to “tune” challenges when the Board granted partial institution of the claims challenged in the instituted IPR after the one-year bar. It also afforded the petitioner another chance to challenge claims newly added in a parallel litigation after the one-year IPR bar. Essentially, the former practice gave the petitioner one more opportunity to consolidate challenges in one proceeding.
If the Board follows the recent decisions precluding joinder requests by a party to the proceeding, petitioners will have to be more diligent to challenge every claim that could be possibly asserted in the parallel litigation. Petitioners will have to continue to be thorough in exploring the best prior art challenges in the original petition and to assert robust grounds of unpatentability that will withstand the Board’s institution decision. Accordingly, time will tell if last week’s ruling will be the rule for joinder and whether it will result in more IPR petitions to meet these challenges. After all, in post-grant practice, that which you do not successfully challenge is likely to be harder to challenge later.
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View Full Version : Shocking news.... Mark Mockovak Released from NASCAR
I just learned that Mark Mockovak has been terminated as Media Coordinator of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. No replacement has been named at this time. After 14 years on the job, Mark and all the help he has been to us all will surely be missed.
LongIslandJam
I wish the best to Mark. In my opinion he did an awesome job. Best wishes him and his future endeavors!
gomodsgo
WOW.... that sucks. Mark is a great guy. WMT / Nascar really made a bad choice on this one.
Teds Race Tours
Wow. That disgusts me. Mark Bleeds Modifieds as do many of us. I can't even begins to imagine what they are thinking!!!!:mad: I'd love to hear Mark's side of it. Suggestion for next Monday's Gary Danko Guest!!!!
Sorry to hear about Mark. It wouldn't surprise me if the position is not filled. :disgusted
Mike Fields
Just think, he must have breathing real easy after the off-season purge that he survived. When people like Al Robinson were axed, it was amazing that anyone made it through.
Mark will be very much missed in the press box at tracks up and down the east coast.
Tooner
Wow, That's a big loss to the teams and competitors, Mark worked his tail off.
Big loss NASCAR, don't know what you were thinking..
Shawn has an excellent blog on this subject today. As usual, interesting reading. The blog can be found here (http://blogs.courant.com/autoracing/2007/07/another-good-gu.html#more)
RGeeProductions
This is sad news about Mark. I have never met Mark but he tops all people/venues who send me PR stories. They were always sent within 1 hour of a race ending and that is extremely fast!!!! He was very dedicated to his work and will be missed.
Photog1
I think I can speak for Dave as well as myself in saying that Mark was the best! He's always been helpful to both of us, as well as an all-around nice guy! Best wishes to you, Mark, in your future endeavors. Another big loss for NASCAR.
Hazel Meredith
NASCAR's loss maybe a huge gain for a local track. Any track looking to upgrade their PR dept may have received their Christmas gift early.
CynthiaTork
First Al Robinson then Mark Mockovak........
Glad to see NASCAR holds loyalty to the people who have more passion and respect for the sport, then they do.
I'm surprised to hear this.....although I guess I should not be. NASCAR has let go many good people in the last six months. You just wish you could understand the thought process.
Mark you were always there for us. Thanks for all you've done.
Cynthia, it's not just Mark and Al. Don't forget people like Jeremy Davidson, and about six others that didn't survive the off-season NASCAR masacre.
CTScribe
:mad: It is a dark day in New England Auto Racing. A staunch supporter and ally of the Whelen Modified Tour (Featherlite Series), Mark Mockovac, was let go by NASCAR. It is very disappointing to me that every time “middle management” changes in the NASCAR Touring division, a person or two gets the straw end of the broom.
Hazel and I were welcomed with open arms by Mark. We were new to covering the Tour, but Mark didn’t care -- we were part of the family. Besides the racing itself, that kept us wanting to cover the Modified Tour.
Let me see the next PR person appointed run up and down the stairs from any press box, pick up the Bud Pole Award and the other awards, distribute hats, and arrange autograph sessions. Mark worked with every media type that came through the door and took time to make sure you were set before heading off to get copies or driver info. I surely doubt if you’ll find anyone with as much knowledge and understanding of WMT racing. No one will fill Mark Mockovac’s shoes as far as the Tour information and history.
From the first time we covered a tour race at Stafford Motor Speedway, Mark made us feel like an important part of the team. He was “almost” always friendly (hey, we all have our moments!). If you needed something right away he’d go out to the car or hauler to get it for you, no questions asked.
Mark spent plenty of time getting things done behind the scenes and never asked for credit or bragged about what he had done. Maybe we’ll see Mark, Audrey and the boys at a local track watching racing with the rest of the fans.
Maybe they should hire Brian Danko since he’s retiring from writing! Like Shawn, I too considered Mark a friend of mine. When you left the track you knew you’d have the agate and the story when you arrived home just about every time.
Knowing Mark, I know he’ll miss all the people who made up the WMT family -- drivers, crews, media, track personnel and the NASCAR WMT officials and friends. I’m sure he won’t be stranger (well, except during UCONN Football season when Shawn and Mark can commiserate about racing).
Best of luck to you luck to you, Mark. It will not be the same without you.
Dave & Hazel Meredith
You are correct, I was not intending on slighting Jeremy at all. It was a complete oversight on my part. I had met Jeremy at Riverside Park , many years ago.
hollywoodmic
I'd just like to hear NASCAR's reason. I announced at Riverhead, and Richmond the first guy to ever come see me at the races I was announcing was Mark. We would get as announcers so much stuff from Mark about the tour, it's drivers, press releases, sponsor info everything. We never ran out of things to say. You remember the Richmond race with the sun delay?? Mark called up to the press box to make sure I had enough to talk about during the delay. He cared, it's hard to find people in NASCAR that care the way Mark Macovak did, and probably always will. If NASCAR was smart they would promote Mark, not let him go, they could really use people with the passion that this guy has.
Good luck to you Mark in all you do.
Steve Halpin
Interesting that with 4 days left till Riverhead, there has been no NASCAR PR put out for this race as with previous races this season.
Only PR so far are the 2 from Riverhead Raceway!!!!!!
OOPS!!! Someone is dropping the ball here!!!!
was there an announcement of who took his place? or is it still vacant? or maybe they are not planning on filling it??
As per other post, I just recieved NASCAR WMT for Riverhead. Seems they will be from Jason Christley and with a new format, starting with Riverhead's PR, in a Word Document style, with multiple PR's and color. This may be a difficult PR to put together as it's many stories. I will sort out and have up on main page of TCH about 10pm tonight.
NASCAR's new Public Relations story for Riverhead's Miller Lite 140 is up.
NASCAR is now using a new multimedia, multi story format. I have posted them as an Adobe [Acrobat] .PDF, which leaves the original format as sent. Most people have the reader installed so it should open right up, if not, the link to the Reader is on the front page of The Chrome Horn.
Thats an interesting PR release. I liked the Info on Mike Ewanitsko. It was a nice little piece on Mike. I wonder who his Crazy fans in Turn 2 are. I sit there all the time and don't see any crazy people.:)
That's quite a work of art for a press release. Alot of work went into it.
Although I'll always be partial to Mark M and all he did for the tour through the years. I have spoken to Jason Christley on the phone about the Whelen All American Division info in the past, and he seems like a very nice, intelligent guy.
Mark will still be missed, but maybe Jason should get a chance to show what he can do.
Ok, are you asking for pictures???? LOL
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PHOTOS: Thousands turn up for annual 20th Street Block Party in SF
20th Street Block Party, Empress Of, FAN, Jeff Rosenstock, Meric Long, Noise Pop, The Dodos
SAN FRANCISCO — Several thousand people from San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area filled into a two-square-block stretch of the Mission to see free music, shop, eat and participate in craft workshops during the…
CORRECTION: Jeff Rosenstock addresses sexual assault at concerts during 20th Street Block Party performance
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CORRECTION: Jeff Rosenstock has clarified that his statement were general in nature and that the event he was speaking out against did, in fact, not happen, at 20th Street Block Party. This article has been…
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Electronic synth-pop artist Empress Of, punk rocker Jeff Rosenstock, psychedelic soul band The Marías, San Francisco’s The She’s and The Dodos’ Meric Long (FAN) will perform at the the sixth annual 20th Street Block Party. The one-day community festival…
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Annual San Francisco street fair and music festival 20th Street Block Party will return to the Mission on Aug. 18, producers announced Thursday. The sixth annual event, organized by Noise Pop, will again benefit the…
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SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands packed into the Mission Saturday to see live music, purchase arts and crafts from local vendors and eat at numerous local food vendors during the fifth annual 20th Street Block Party.…
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The Mission District will once again see some noise this August, during the 5th annual 20th Street Block Party. The one-day community festival will be held Aug. 19 between Harrison and Bryant streets on 20th street. Neon…
Noise Pop, the promoter of 20th Street Block Party, has announced the return of the annual San Francisco street fair and music festival. The event will return to the Mission on Aug. 19 and proceeds…
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SAN FRANCISCO — Australian synthpop group Miami Horror brought a showy finish Saturday to the 20th Street Block Party in San Francisco. In a day that brought many subdued or introspective performances, Miami Horror stood…
Preview: 20th Street Block Party expands in fourth year
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When Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party fills the streets of the Mission District with live music, food and local art on Aug. 20, the fourth-annual event will do so with a clear goal: demonstrate…
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While private investigator (P. I.) Morgana (Morg) Mahoney carries a Colt .38 revolver in her purse, her sharp tongue and quick wit are just as lethal weapons. She and her filthy rich, drop-dead gorgeous friend, Heather, leave sunny Southern California for a manor house in northern England to celebrate Christmas.
What begins as a vacation, or holiday as they say in the British Isles, soon becomes a murder mystery laced with threads of local history, race horses, the IRA, family secrets, a touch of romance and, of course, pure greed.
In the land of Sherlock Holmes, Morg finds herself using some of the methods as that first consulting detective to solve the case. There is murder afoot and Morg is assisted by her Watson, her host, the venerable Lord Weston, and his trusty, rusty Land Rover as she tracks down her quarry. Although along the way she finds what it’s like to be a “stranger in a strange land” as she copes with a different culture and language quirks, she still is quite taken with the English and Irish people she encounters. At least most of them. After all, murder is murder, no matter what the accent.
Excerpt from Christmas Cracker
I. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Exercising is a pain in the ass. Any woman who says she likes it is crazy, lying, masochistic or some combination of the three. I do it, work out that is, but I hate it. I could claim that I exercise to keep in shape in case I ever have to kick some bad guy’s butt. After all, it does take more than just putting “Private Investigator” on the door to be good at my job. And since private investigators are normally men, a woman in the field needs every edge she can get. Read More…
Morg, prides herself on being tough. But she finds that her hard shell is vulnerable if she cares for someone too much. However, she also realizes she can’t live her life as a stoic. There is a time to love. And a time to mourn. It’s 1999 and Morg Mahoney has just graduated from college with a degree in Classics, which she feels qualifies her for jobs like a bank teller or a gas station cashier. When Joe Spector, a retired detective who’d been on the job with her now-deceased father that Morg calls Papa Joe, offers her a job as a private investigator, she jumps at it. Soon they become embroiled in a case that lands them smack dab in the middle of a scheme by the Mexican Mafia, La Eme. She gains a few friends and more enemies as she solves the case, while suffering a tragic loss. Fifteen years later, Morg gets an early-morning call from her filthy-rich best friend, Heather Pierce. Heather’s sorority sister’s fiancé has disappeared on the night before their wedding. Morg drives up to Lake Tahoe to help, only to become the target of a sociopathic murderer. With a tip of the fedora to Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, the story even includes a Sam Spade who helps Morg at key moments.
Excerpt from It’s Bad Business
I. A Reasonable Amount of Trouble
I was putting Madame Bovary on a sagging, pine shelf in the “Classics” section of Penny’s Pre-owned Publications in sunny San Berdoo when I sensed him behind me. I knew he was close because I could smell his garlicky breath. Even the moldy works of Molière on the shelf at my nose level, a sanctuary for a horde of dust mites, could not mask his approach. I’d seen him devour two Big Macs and fries for lunch not long before that didn’t have any garlic, so the odor was probably because he hadn’t brushed his teeth in a while. Read more . . .
Chicago Police detective Vince Bonelli’s life had been organized and comfortable when sexy Gina Gallo blew into it. Like a whirlwind, she changed everything, destroying parts of Vince’s life as she drew him close to her. Yet, while physical intimacy was not a problem for her, she would not let Vince past her mental and emotional barricades. The question is will they survive the devils of Gina’s past and of Vince’s present? While Vince was a cop, it is not a cop story. While there is mystery, it is not a mystery. While there is romance, it is not a romance. Part suspense and part drama, Foul Shot describes how Vince found that, while his life after meeting Gina was never dull, it was often traumatic and sometimes deadly.
Excerpt from Foul Shot
I. PASSION
As Chicago Police detective Vince Bonelli picked up his gun and his star from the dresser, his girlfriend Gina came up behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist. She rested her head against his shoulder. “Maybe you should cancel.”
He stopped and turned to her, breaking her embrace. “Why?”
Gina brushed her short, black hair from around her face. “I don’t know. I don’t trust Frank Calmonico.” Read more…
For the ancient Celts, the cauldron of society was supported by the three legs of truth, honor and duty. If any of them collapsed, the cauldron would lose all that it held.
Fergus, the aging chief of his clan in late 6th century Ireland, has three sons: the manipulative Ciaran, the bold warrior Cathal, and the impetuous Connaire. When Ciaran tries to separate Cathal from his beloved woman-warrior Aislinn, Cathal turns to Connaire for help in thwarting Ciarin’s plan, while not betraying any of the three foundations of their society, the three legs of the cauldron. It is an epic tale that spans the Irish Sea and encompasses the turbulent times in ancient Dal Riata, the kingdom that had holdings in the north of Ireland and the rugged western coast of Scotland. Saint Columba as well as Conall and Aeden, two kings of Dal Riata in that era, are only three of the historical figures who play strong roles in Three Legs of the Cauldron.
Travel back in time to an era when truth was more important than fame, when honor outranked money and when duty mattered more than life itself.
Excerpt from Three Legs of the Cauldron
I. FROM EIREANN TO ALBA
With no moon penetrating the storm clouds, Ronan steered the currach across the sea by instinct alone, heading to where he felt the sun would rise. The rowers determinedly plied their oars to keep the craft steadily moving toward their goal, the land of Alba. Cathal, the man they had all followed on this journey across the sea, came to him, doubt in his voice.
“With no stars, how do you know we are on the right course?”
“I just know,” Ronan said with more confidence than he felt. Read more . . .
The quaint Gold Rush town of Buggy Springs was a wild and woolly city in the mid-1800’s, but had become an eclectic and easy‑going place by the 21st century. At least that’s what Father Robert Bruce of St. Nicholas of Myrna Episcopal Church thought. Then a mysterious, anonymous caller who claims to want to make a confession quotes Scripture and gives a riddle. Father Robert soon realizes it’s about a murder. As he starts to investigate, he soon finds that there is far more dirt than gold in them thar hills. He discovers a hard‑drinking, drug‑using, wild‑living side of his town he never knew. Being a young, handsome and single male, he finds some of the women to be more than friendly, but strives to keep his them at arm’s length. Literally. He is warned that some secrets are best left alone, but he can’t. Buggy Springs is his home and he can’t let any murder go unsolved, especially when the victim is from his parish. With the help of the local chief of police, the Chief, and P.I. Morg Mahoney from Southern California, he digs deep into the past of the citizens of Buggy Springs and finds more than a few surprises.
Excerpt from The St. Nicholas Murders
Sometimes little things we do, or don’t do, lead to events in our lives that can have grave consequences for others. When I answered the phone on that November Saturday, I had no idea of the twisted tale that would follow.
“St. Nicholas of Myra Church, Father Bruce speaking. How may I help you?”
A low, throaty voice whispered, “Bless me, for I have sinned.” Read more
Meet Morg
“My father cursed me with the name Morgana, but my friends call me Morg. So do my enemies. You can call me Morg and we’ll decide which of the two you are later.” More…
“People always underestimate me. Heather Pierce, the woman who has everything, but is nothing but a simple-minded, beautiful society chick, Just because I’m wealthy and attractive, they assume I am just a “dumb blond.” Blond, yes. Dumb, no.” More…
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High-Tech Mirror: Touch-Screen Panel MP3 Player & Radio
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Like to sing in the shower? Hate it when the mirror gets fogged? Prefer to get your daily weather forecast up front before you even leave the bathroom? This interactive, all-in-one, fog-free panel design might just make your morning a bit brighter.
First the music: we are getting used to touch-screen solutions in cars, computer monitors and cell phones, but the bathroom is a new frontier – the mirror comes with a built-in FM tuner as well as flash drive and iPod-compatible ports to plug and play your own choice of tunes. Light-up LED controls in the lower corner let a user punch in commands before brushing or while shaving in the otherwise mirrored, modern, open-frame surface.
Meanwhile, a built-in light along the top lets you see what you are doing without bothering to add an additional water-resistant fixture – and, of course, there are the hidden electronics for defogging so you can see what you are doing as well as the control buttons. So you know how to dress and won’t be late for work, a mini time and temperature display are also present. Futuristic navigation for a bathroom mirror? Sure. But already being built by Roca.
Origami Style: Paper-Thin, Patio-Ready White Folding Chairs
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From a first look it is hard to picture such a thin-structured piece of seating furniture standing up to much weight, let alone wind, rain and other outdoor elements you encounter when you camp, go to the beach or sometimes find when simply sitting on the lawn. Using tough, rigid and lightweight polypropylene lets each chair retain its paper-thin character while making it more durable than typical wood, plastic or even metal (which can rust) alternatives which require covers or indoor storage when not in use.
Cut, scored and folded to work much like real traditional paper origami, the pieces and parts of this chair show their origins clearly – you can almost unfold it in your mind to see that flat sheet from which they came, just as intended by designer Stefan Schoenig. At the same time, the curves within the legs and back serve as arch-style support to make them capable of holding up higher loads than one would expect.
Some iterations of this work were made with luxury audiences in mind, intended to be covered in leather and naturally only viable for indoor use. Taking the ‘folding’ aesthetic beyond merely the superficial, however, the versions crafted from more versatile synthetics instead seem somehow more convincing as both art (visually) and furniture (able to fold up as needed).
All-in-One, Compact, Black & White Kitchen-in-a-Box Design
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Black, white, ultra-modern and minimalist, this elegantly simple design features an amazing array of capabilities hidden inside for cooking, cleaning, cooling and disposing of food. At just over a foot and a half wide by about a foot long, it may the most compact all-in-one, complete-kitchen furniture/fixture object even proposed – it has everything but the kitchen sink.
Like a portable cooking island, the entire system was designed by He Ruimin to move in any direction on wheels, with burner spots on the top for a chef on the go. This hot spot is covered by food cutting surfaces and preparation areas that can be pulled back to reveal the heating zone.
Fold-out kitchenware storage, a refrigerator door and disposal area all sit flush against the smooth curved side surfaces until needed. How does this design in particular manage to pack so much into such a small area? The main space-saving concept that works throughout the piece is quite simple: let no area go to waste in any of the three dimensions – such as the space typically lost beneath the open surface of a traditional table.
Sit on It! 15 (More!) Marvelously Modern Chair Designs
Sit on It! 15 (More!) Marvelously Modern Chair Designs: [ By Delana in Architecture & Design, Furniture & Interiors. ]
In the modern home, chairs are more than just a place to plant your seat. They’re part of an overall design scheme, statements about your personal style and a way to complement your other furniture and art pieces. From ghosts and monsters to teddy bears and musical instruments, these modern chair designs are all about the unusual, the quirky and the totally unforgettable.
Seating Spectres
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It’s not easy to design a chair that both grabs attention and looks like it isn’t there at all. Design Drift presented their “Ghost Chair” collection in 2008: the furniture is made of clear plexiglass with laser-formed ghostly shapes inside each piece. In the right lighting, the plexiglass forms are invisible, and all one can see is the organic shapes inside which appear to be made of motionless smoke.
The Nesting Phase
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If you’re looking for a space-saving chair that doesn’t economize on style, the Nesting Chair from Dripta Roy is just the thing. The solid wooden chair slides into several hollow chairs (and one solid center) when more seating is needed, then smoothly slides back together when the party is over and the house needs to get back to normal.
Furniture That Makes a Splash
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Designer Michael Wendel was inspired by macro photographs of liquid droplets that looked comfortable enough to nestle into. He took this kernel of an idea and turned it into a human-sized liquid droplet lounge chair. The painstaking process of making a scale model, plotting the full-size version, and building the chair layer by layer was obviously worth it, because the finished product is a stunning and impressive work of modern furniture art.
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Furniture that seems to defy gravity is always amazing, and this transforming chair from Uros Vitas is no exception. The wooden slats are held together with bands of metal that allow the chair to be rolled up when not in use. When the chair is in its fully extended position, it seems to magically hold itself there with no support other than the thin metal strips.
Duck! It’s a Lounge Chair!
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For people with exceptionally long legs, or for those who just like to stretch out, the Ducking Lounge Chair has more than enough room. Resembling both a duck’s open bill and a swimming pool’s diving board, this unique chair provides just enough “give” to be comfortable without toppling over.
(image via: Joon&Jung)
They may look like musical instruments, but these chairs are more an exercise in relaxation. They’re designed to be filled with sand which shifts and sways with every rock of the chair, making a beautifully organic beach-like sound. Meant to be both urban and natural, these beach sounds chairs allow a leisurely nature experience in the comfort of one’s home.
No Ordinary Origami
If origami is the art of folding paper, and modern furniture design is the pursuit of creating bold new pieces for the home, this chair is the perfect marriage of the two. The clever folding mechanism uses thin, movable plastic to collapse the full-size chair into a far more compact size, leaving you with some extra storage room and bedecking your home with a truly unique and sophisticated dining chair.
Bowing to Clever Design
(images via: Jennifer Heier)
Designer Jennifer Heier wanted to shift the subject/object roles of humans and their furniture, so she created, among other unusual furniture items, the ReLegs Chair. It functions just like a normal chair, but it features “knees” that allow its legs to function in a way similar to human legs. The designer says that the upright position is for regular sitting, and while the reclined position is more comfortable for the sitter, it is not so for the chair, which has to prostrate itself for human use. Whether or not the chair knows it’s kneeling is not up for debate; all that matters here is this incredibly unusual design.
(image via: Ruby Rocking Chair)
Designed to both resemble and pamper the human body, the Ruby Rocking Chair includes water-filled “smart pillows” to cushion the back and bottom. The cushions are available in different sizes to fit every body type, and they help keep the skin cool in warmer environments. The chair’s designer, Pouyan Mokhtarani, wanted to create a piece of furniture that would offer unparalleled comfort, and he claims that sitting in it once will make you feel like you can rule the world.
Scrub-a-Dub-Dub, Relax in the Tub
(images via: The Baek)
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Cuddly Seat
(images via: Matti Klenell)
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Chairchitecture
(image via: Klick_It)
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Monster Chair Hacks
(images via: Tricky)
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Tanks for the Seat!
American recording artist Pharrell Williams designed this eye-catching chair, which consists of a leather seat and plexiglass base. Williams wanted to create a design that would address the theme of war; indeed, the base of his “Tank” chair is reminiscent of tank treads. According to Williams, he thought about the reasons behind young people serving in the military and pictured what it must be like “to sit in the seats of [their] youth.”
No Use For a Chair
This chair concept is so modern and forward-thinking that it doesn’t even require a seat at all. The clever invention is little more than a strap that you wrap around your legs and body, holding your legs up into a natural folded sitting position. As long as you don’t mind perching on a floor or sidewalk wherever you happen to be, this has to be the most compact seat design ever.
Amazing Living Art: 18 Giant Rice Murals [PICS]
Amazing Living Art: 18 Giant Rice Murals [PICS]: [ By Angie in Art & Design, Geography & Travel, Home & Garden. ]
Imagine having a gigantic canvas the size of 15,000 square meters and your mural design will be living art. In Japan, rice field art is intricate, beautiful and bizarre. Cooler than crop circles, rice paddy art is becoming a big business that attracts crowds. The agricultural artistry is incredibly inventive which gives rise to marketing creativity. Here are 18 amazing and artistic rice murals.
Rice Field Art Rumored As A Hoax
(image credits: hemmy)
Crop circles are argued to be produced by aliens or drunken pranksters, but folks shouted, “Hoax!” and “Shopped!” when this picture of Mona Lisa circulated on the interwebs. Stunning and intricate rice field art is real. When a paddy is used as a canvas to create giant pictures in the rice fields, it is called Tanbo art. It was the Japanese who grew Mona Lisa grew in 2003. This was the first extremely intricate motif.
Canvas Size = 15,000 sq Meters of Land
(image credits: weirdasianews)
Even if a person is blessed enough to be born with artistic ability, most artists do not start with a canvas that is 15,000 square meters. The patterns are decided upon in April. The fields are planted in May and the bizarre agricultural murals are at full splendor in September. It’s not photoshopped, but computers do play a part in developing the designs. Farmers first sketch out their patterns, since each of the four different colored rice varieties have to be planted with precision.
Visualize the Patience, the Process
The tradition of artistic rice fields was started in 1993 in Japan. The above field is located in the village of Inakadate, located 600 miles north of Toyko. For the first nine years, a simple mountain pattern was grown. The rice paddy mural motif for 2007 was Hokusai – from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” and “South Wind, Clear Sky.”
Artistic Rice Fields
Century-old farming tradition met creative artistry out of a desire for Inakadate to revitalize their village. By 2005, the rice field art was so popular that the artwork designs took on much more intricate patterns. By 2006, over 200,000 people traveled to Inakadate to see the living rice mural. In order to see the entire field, a 22 meter mock castle was constructed for appreciative and awed viewers.
(image credits: amazingphotos4all,tywkiwdbi,damncoolpics)
These giant living works of Japanese art are relatively new, but rice has been grown in most of these same areas for over 2,000 years.
Although the fields now appear painted, local green-leafed tsugaru roman variety rice is planted along with purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice.
Giant to Smaller Crop Murals
Yonezawa, Japan, followed suit and designed a field with fictional warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife Osen. From village to village, different patterns are grown. Some include the genre ukiyo-e like the Japanese woodblock prints or paintings which were produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries. Common ukiyo-e motifs are historic tales, landscapes, theater, and “pleasure quarters.” On the bottom is the 2005 agricultural artistry featuring Sharaku – “Otani Oniji” and Utamaro – “Anthology of Poems: The Love Section.”
This agricultural artistry of Ebisu and Daikoku was used in 2008. This is Ebisu, god of fishers and merchants. He is one of the Seven Gods of Fortune.
Smaller works of crop art sprung up in other rice-farming areas of Japan like these murals of Doraemon and deer dancers.
(image credits: weirdasianews,askanet,Japan Times)
In 2006, Inakadate fields featured Fujin and Raijin. Fujin is the god of the wind and located on the right side of the field. Raijin is the god of thunder and lightning.
Inakadate Rice Murals
Naoe Kanetsugu, a commander from the Sengoku period, in on the left side of the rice mural. Napoleon is on the right side of the 2009 Inakadate field.
Upon closer inspection, the rows and thousands of rice plants become visible. It’s somewhat mind-boggling to imagine hand-planting each of the plants in the precise spots to create rice paddy art.
Closer still, it is easier to see the mingling of the different rice varieties. Planting the “Paddy Art” takes hundreds of villagers and volunteers. The village population is only about 8,700.
(image credits: kellyvbrown,hoax-slayer)
Inakadate is the undisputed leader in cultivating intricate and fantastic living works of art. The 2009 theme was Warlords and Napoleon.
Rice Murals – Paddy Art & Drama
Rice field art is incredibly inventive, but marketing the living mural is even more creative. The 2008 rice mural caused drama since an ad was carefully placed to grow within it. This 3.7-acre rice mural in Inakadate features Daikoku, the god of wealth. Daikoku is holding the “magic money mallet.” Japan Airlines has a crop-based advertisement under Daikoku. The incorporated advertising met with disapproval from the former mayor, Ryuji Sato. He also happens to own the field. After a week of heated debates, town hall employees were dispatched to uproot the rice plants that formed the JAL logo.
(image credits: telegraph)
The above animal and historic scenes were drama and ad free.
In this stop-motion video of the 2008 Inakadate rice crop art, daily images from June 1 to July 8 were captured from a roof webcam. On July 4, the webcam was shutdown when workers were sent to remove the cultivated JAL ad from the crop. We can’t wait to see what new yet spectacular giant crop murals will cover the rice fields in Japan . . . . also if ads designs will be growing in the rice paddy art venues.
Prefab Home Office Interior-plus-Furniture Pod Design Idea
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Prefab Home Office Interior-plus-Furniture Pod Design Idea: [ Filed under Offices & Studies or in the Interiors category ]
We get the point: modular, convertible, transforming, hideaway, space-saving furniture is the way of the future, so what is there left to do? Prototypes for compact kitchens, combined living-and-dining rooms and home-office pods abound, but the next step is to create designs that do even more by truly sectioning off functional spaces from one another and becoming as mobile as possible.
Though still unbuilt, the LoftBox by Atelier Graff seems like a good candidate for this second-generation approach to versatile interior and furniture design. More than just another multi-functional home furnishing, this piece uses minimal materials to create a separate-feeling spatial zone – an area one can use for small meetings, a phone call, personal workspace or other ’space within a space’ needs.
When folded back up, it is as minimalist as can be – an unobtrusive-looking object that could be used as an ottoman or coffee table, left right out in the middle of a room without causing any visual or physical disturbances. In short: this idea appears to be on the right track, combining elements of creative modern functionality, basic luxury and the best space-saving office-in-a-box-concepts.
Kickin’ Ash: 10 Amazing Active Volcanoes
Kickin’ Ash: 10 Amazing Active Volcanoes: [ By Steve in 7 Wonders Series, Geography & Travel, Nature & Ecosystems. ]
Volcanoes are in the news and not in a good way, but Iceland’s tongue-twistingly named, travel-disrupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano is just doing what volcanoes do: erupt. It’s not alone, either. Around the world at any given moment, dozens of volcanoes are smoking, shaking and stirring up their neighborhoods. Here are 10 of the most active.
Kilauea, Hawaii, USA
(images via: Plan59, SlowTrav and WillGoTo)
Kilauea Volcano on the island of Hawaii (the Big Island) is widely considered to be the most active volcano on Earth. Over the course of its most recent eruption which began in January of 1983, the volcano has expelled enough lava to pave a road around the planet three times over.
(image via: NaturalPhotos)
If not for its brilliant orange lava fountains and slow-flowing rivers of molten rock, Kilauea wouldn’t be much to look at: though the summit is 4,091 feet (1,247m) above sea level, the gently sloping shield volcano is dwarfed by neighboring 13,677 ft (4,169m) high Mauna Loa… for the present, at least.
(image via: Kilauea Adventure)
Kilauea’s name means “spewing” in the Hawaiian language; an indication that the volcano has been erupting long before England’s Captain Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands in the late 18th century. One relic of those days are the “1790 Footprints” preserved in hardened lava from an explosive eruption of Kilauea. The footprints are said to have been left by up to 80 warriors from a dissident Hawaiian faction who died in a pyroclastic flow from Kilauea.
Etna, Italy
(images via: TripAdvisor, Discovery and Wikimedia)
Mount Etna, on the Italian island of Sicily, has been erupting more or less continuously for the past 2,000 years though its overall history stretches back approximately 300,000 years. Though somewhat less famous (or infamous) than neighboring Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna greatly outclasses the latter peak as it rises 2.5 times its height. In addition, most of Etna’s more spectacular eruptions and associated geological events occurred in prehistory. The volcano erupted in every year from 200 through 2008 and its recent eruption occurred in April of 2010.
(images via: Wohba)
Volcanoes occasionally belch giant smoke rings into the sky, a rare and curious phenomenon that can last up to 15 minutes and range in size up to 600 feet across! Mount Etna has blown volcanic smoke rings on a number of occasions; some of those that occurred during the 2000 eruption have been documented photographically.
Nyamuragira, Democratic Republic of Congo
(images via: VolcanoDiscovery, PHSchool, WorldPOI and FreeRepublic)
Mount Nyamuragira is an active volcano located in the Virunga Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Although it has erupted more than 30 times since explorers of European origin began documenting the mountain in the 1880s, recent eruptions have caused ever greater concern as the surrounding area has become heavily populated. As well, the Virunga range is one of the last remaining sanctuaries for threatened great apes including majestic Mountain Gorillas.
(image via: My Joy Online)
Mount Nyamuragira brought in the new year with an eruption: On January 2, 2010, lava began to flow from the main crater eventually reaching a distance of 1,640 feet (500m) downslope to the south and southwest. Mount Nyamuragira often exudes a particularly thin and fast-moving type of lava that makes any necessary evacuations hurried and often disorganized affairs.
(images via: Tags-Search, Geology-SDSU and The Land of Fire, Satsuma)
The Sakurajima volcano is located on what was formerly an island in southern Japan’s Kagoshima Bay. The island is now connected to the mainland via a low-lying peninsula created by lava flows during the mountain’s immense eruption of 1914. Sakurajima stands 3,665 feet (1,117m) above sea level and has been erupting more or less continuously since 1955.
(image via: Pink Tentacle)
Sakurajima is a successor volcano that exudes and erupts magma from the huge subterranean chamber beneath the Aira Caldera. This 12 mile (20 km) wide caldera was created approximately 22,000 years ago in a massive eruption that sent ash and tephra hundreds of miles in every direction. Should Sakurajima follow the same path to destruction, millions of people will find themselves at extreme risk.
Erebus, Antarctica
(images via: James Caird Society and Rutgers)
The world’s most southerly active volcano, Mount Erebus has been erupting since 1972 though the eruptions have varied greatly in intensity. The 12,448 ft (3,794m) snow-covered stratovolcano is covered with snow but harbors in its crater a red hot, long-lasting lava lake that can be seen from space.
(image via: Neatorama)
Mount Erebus regularly subjects its frigid environs to a blast of geothermal activity, resulting in ethereal ice caves and horn-like fumaroles carved out of its icy coat by scalding steam. Though considered to be in a state of eruption, Mount Erebus behaves rather calmly (as volcanoes go) and has been extensively studied by volcanologists based at nearby McMurdo Station (USA) and Scott Base (NZ).
Chaitén, Chile
(images via: UPI, Xinhuanet and FEWW)
The Chaitén volcano in southern Chile began erupting on May 2 of 2008, an event that caught scientists by surprise as the mountain’s last eruption was estimated to have occurred about 9,500 years ago. Though the mountain is still in an eruptive state, the initial stages were marked by the expulsion of voluminous ash clouds shot through by incandescent bolts of lightning.
(image via: Brisbane Times)
Within 24 hours of the eruption’s inception, a huge plume of ash had risen tens of thousands of feet into the sky, there to be blown to the southeast by upper level winds. The ash plume was photographed from orbiting satellites and can be seen above, stretching completely across the width of Argentina and far into the South Atlantic Ocean.
Anak Krakatau, Indonesia
(images via: Kaskus, Jorge Santos and Joe Meintjes Travel)
Anak Krakatau (“child of Krakatoa”) may not be especially large but note the name – it carries within it the seeds of future disaster. Though the famed 1883 explosive eruption of its parent peak (Krakatoa, east of Java) caused the deaths of roughly 36,000 people, a similar event today would be unfathomably worse due to exceptional population growth over the past century.
(image via: Mornby)
As Anak Krakatau grows larger – it’s been adding approximately 5 inches (13cm) per week to its height since 1955 – it also grows more dangerous. The volcano’s current eruptive phase began in April of 2008 and is ongoing.
(image via: Dennis Dimick)
Anak Krakatau first poked its summit above the surface of the Sunda Strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra in August of 1930 and by 2005 had reached a height of 985 feet (300m)… when Krakatoa exploded with the force of a 200 megaton atomic bomb in 1883 it was 2,667 ft (813m) high.
Tungurahua, Ecuador
(images via: ScienceBlogs and Essential Amazon Adventure)
Tungurahua is one of the world’s tallest volcanoes, soaring 16,480 ft (5,023 m) into the thin Andean air above the South American nation of Ecuador. Those figures will likely need to be revised… Tungurahua has been actively erupting since 1999 with major eruptions occurring in 2006 and 2008.
(image via: NASA)
As with most high volcanoes in the Andes, Tungurahua’s upper slopes are snow-covered and the summit is capped by a small glacier… well, they were until 1999 when the volcano’s eruption quickly melted them away. The greatest danger from such volcanoes is not so much the ash, lava and superheated pyroclastic flows, but flooding and mudslides sweeping into populated areas on the volcano’s lower slopes. The evacuation of 25,000 people from the hot springs resort town of Banos was mainly to safeguard them from that possibility.
Yasur, Vanuatu
(images via: RedBubble, VivaProject and TravelPod)
Mount Yasur, on Tanna Island in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, not only has been erupting for many centuries, but perks up several times per hour! Though just 1,184 feet (361m) in height, Mount Yasur is crowned by an almost perfectly circular summit crater over 1,300 feet (400m) wide.
(image via: Volcano Discovery)
Much like Hawaii’s Kilauea, Mount Yasur erupts in a very predictable manner and at a steady level of activity, allowing tourists to approach to very close distances. An example of this was seen during the broadcast of “Survivor: Vanuatu – Islands of Fire”, when players who won a reward challenge enjoyed a picnic of hotdogs and beer while Mount Yasur’s lava fountains provided a unique sound and light show.
Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland
(images via: Stromboli Online)
Last but not least, the noisy newsmaker itself – Eyjafjallajökull. The volcano’s current eruptive phase may have only just begun: its previous eruption which began in December of 1821 lasted well into 1823. Volcanologists have determined that Eyjafjallajökull also erupted in the year 1612, and before that in 920.
(images via: Stromboli Online and The Great Beyond)
Ominously, each of the three previous eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull were followed by the eruption of Katla, a much larger subglacial volcano just 15 miles (25km) away. In a BBC interview broadcast on April 20, Icelandic President Ólafur Grímsson described the current chaos caused by Eyjafjallajökull as “a small rehearsal”, and warned that “the time for Katla to erupt is coming close… we [Iceland] have prepared… it is high time for European governments and airline authorities all over the world to start planning for the eventual Katla eruption.” C’mon Ólafur, don’t sugarcoat it, give it to us straight, OK?
Just to show that Ólafur isn’t kidding, here’s a video showing what active Icelandic volcanoes like Eyjafjallajökull are all about:
Volcano Eyjafjallajoekull at Iceland, via Marcszeglat
(images via: PC WIN and Daily Mail UK)
Some wonder as to the reasons for the increasing appearances of volcanic eruptions in the news media (global warming? The End Times?), but in actuality it’s WE who are appearing more – in closer proximity to active volcanoes than ever before. Population pressure will do that and there’s nothing like an infusion of volcanic ash and minerals to boost the fertility of soil and attract opportunistic farmers. One might say, don’t blame science fiction, instead blame human friction.
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A Love Song for the Miserable--Manga
Hooray, another yaoi involving a bakery and older characters! Although, I'm not sure this angsty-yearn-fest is Ms. Shakespeare's cup of tea (too much tension and tortured emotion), it is CERTAINLY mine.
Yukimura's A Love Song for the Miserable has a great title, doesn't it. And it's pretty appropos of what to expect from the single volume work. The main character, Itsuki Asada, is a miserable guy who hates his job, his life and...well, he's a little bitter. The story starts with Asada drunkenly ranting about his position at a Tokyo department store to a co-worker. The co-worker, annoyed by his pity-party, leaves him half-passed out in some shrubbery (I love the word shrubbery) where a runner by the name of Iwasaki Nao runs, quite literally, across him.
Nao has a dilemma of his own. His father owns a bakery and wants Nao to take over, but Nao is unsure of himself and his abilities. He is an avid runner (with a very poor sense of direction), who uses running to sort out his problems and lost in thought finds himself in an unfamiliar area. They "rescue" one another: Nao pulls the drunken, sobbing Asada from the bushes and Asada gives Nao directions home. The ever-exhuberant Nao scribbles his own directions on a scrap of paper. The directions are to Nao's bakery "The Star," where he asks Asada to come by for a pastry as thanks. Uncharacteristically, Asada does come by and discovers that Nao is a very talented, yet untrained pastry chef. Nao discovers that Asada may be helpful in developing his skills, as a critic and a taster. The two form a quick friendship which temporarily lifts Asada from his slump. He finds himself feeling useful and relied upon for once and relishes the opportunity to be a part of something successful.
It is not until Nao decides to begin training in France that Asada realizes that his friendly feelings for Nao might be something more. Rather than confess his feelings to his friend Asada does the exact opposite, he snaps at Nao, plays down the importance of their friendship and snubs Nao's ambitions. The two part on terrible terms and Asada once again falls into his misery.
Asada is miserable. He's pretty much always miserable. Look at that anguish!
Three years later the two are thrust into a business situation and hurt feelings on both sides cause even more tension between the two. Finally the stand-off breaks, but unfortunately Asada realizes that not only is he still the same miserable person in an unsatisfying career that he was three years ago, he's also still in love with Nao who is now a world-reknowned patissier. As Asada himself says, he loves Nao but hates him at the same time. Nao, who is open and honest and almost puppy-ish in his devotion, has things that Asada wants (not just his body). Asada is jealous, bitter and heartbroken when he's around Nao, but he longs for Nao when they are parted. Asada is one tortured soul...and kind of a puss. Finally Nao reveals that he thinks he has figured out Asada, and that he wants to make him happy because "No one wants to see such a (sad) face on the person they love." Despite the love confession, Asada bolts just after this painful scene:
Seriously, Asada, you have got to quit beating yourself up...it really isn't that bad.
All in all, this is the kind of crappy manga I adore. It has long-standing secretive emotions, defensiveness to conceal heartbreak and some awesome looking desserts. It doesn't hurt that Yukimura, whom I have grumbled about before, seems to have solved some of her problems with foreshortening and perspective in the artwork. I really love the sort of stark anguish on Asada's face, and the way his posture and body language conveys his mood. She's improved by leaps and bounds over the years.
A Love Song for the Miserable may not be for everyone. It is (I keep saying it) a fairly miserable story. Thankfully it all turns around (a bit) in the end. Maybe nothing will put a smile on the beautiful Asada's face? Maybe some people wear tragic quite well?
NC-17 or whatever, not a lot of graphic sex in this book. What's there is sweet and fairly modest, but I warn you anyway.
Posted by Dr. M
Labels: angst, boys love, business, cake, characters, Existentialism, food, love, Manga, not love but delicious foods make me happy, sex, Squee, Taboo, yaoi
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Why we must protect Beddington Farmlands Part 3
#3 OTHER WILDLIFE
Work is currently under way to complete a full species inventory of all biodiversity at Beddington Farmlands.
So far over 300 species of plant (not including the many fungi and lichens also present), 9 species of bats, 256 species of birds, 476 species of moth, 29 species of butterfly , 46 species of bugs, over 300 species of beetle, 358 species of flies, 99 species of bees, wasps and ants and many more grasshoppers, earwings, lacwings, caddis flies and spiders. Despite these numbers we have only scratched the surface and many many more species await discovery.
A healthy population of Red Foxes are on site
A Common Lizard population has been recently discovered
A Red Underwing Moth. 476 species of moth have been recorded including possibly the only breeding population of the Dewick’s Plusia. Over 60 species occurring are of national conservation concern/interest.
Elephant Hawk Moth- up to 12 were caught in one trap in August 2013
Broad-bodied Chaser- one of several species of dragonfly which thrive on site
Red Admiral- one of 25 regularly occurring butterfly species including Purple Hairstreak and Marbled White.
A hoverfly- Flies are an often un-appreciated important pollinators (much more important than bees). Over 350 species have been recorded at Beddington Farmlands including 41 species of conservation concern. One of those species, Litophasia hyalipennis was discovered which was previously considered extinct from the planet!
The South London Incinerator proposal includes the over-riding of Metropolitan Open Land (equivalent to Green Belt in an urban area) status, over-riding of SINC (Site of Importance for Nature Conservation) status and over-riding of planning condiitons to restore the proposed Incinerator site to Biodiversity Action Plan Habitat. A chilling precedent will be set which could threaten the whole protected network of conservation habitat not only locally but the whole of the UK.
Category: Beddington Farmlands
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Nike Air Max Stefan Janoski Kopen
Born in Somalia, Farah moved to London aged eight and now resides in Oregon. His first major medal was the 5,000m silver at the 2006 European Athletics Championships. He has since been crowned 5,000 and 10,000m champion at European, World and Olympic level.
He does know what he talking about. Terry Stotts knew little about Jeffries before training camp, only that he and the big man hailed from the same Bloomington North High School and former coaches revered him. But in their first season together, Stotts has learned that there is a sharp basketball mind behind that smile..
LICHTMAN: Then they use a tongue, apparently, which is weird. But so these moths use a proboscis. And Ty Hedrick, who’s the researcher who studies them, say they approach and they have to kind of hover in front of the flower. Mentored students are also 55 percent more likely to enroll in college and 81 percent more likely to participate in sports or extracurricular activities. Mentoring can also improve a child’s health, literally. University of Georgia researchers found African American kids who have the emotional support of mentors did not share the same elevated risk factors as their peers for a range of chronic illnesses.The advice and help from a mentor can make all the difference and help kids succeed in school and in life.For the mentors it’s a way to pay it forward! Be a listener, a guide, a friend because every child should have someone to turn to.Helping children succeed in school, develop healthy relationships, avoid negative behaviors that lead to substance abuse, delinquency, and worse that is the true power of mentoring.Mentoring not only impacts children’s lives, but those of everyone connected to that child the child’s family, the child’s classmates, the mentor, the mentor’s family, the future employer and family of the child and the ripple effect can go on and on.Here a list of mentoring organizations for more information and to become a mentor today.Most ViewedMysterious Liquids Make TSA Officers Ill At Orlando International Airport Officials at Orlando International Airport say four security officers fell ill after checking the contents of oversized containers holding unknown liquids.Report: Man Who Followed Teen Into Restroom Beaten, Killed By Girl FatherAccording to police, the man tried to enter the girl bathroom stall at a Phoenix area gas station and was confronted and killed by her father.Miami Dade Police Lieutenant Arrested For Grand Theft, Insurance FraudThe Miami Dade Police Department announced Tuesday one of their own has betrayed the badge.Florida Governor Declares Emergency Over Red Tide For 7 CountiesAn ongoing environmental issue is getting the attention from Florida’s top elected official.Ex Miami Beach Cop, Cleared in Shooting, Arrested AgainFormer Miami Beach police officer Adam Tavss, cleared 2 months ago in the 2009 shooting of tourist Husien Shehada, is back behind bars for allegedly attacking his former girlfriend, and violating probation on a marijuana charge..
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News 4 New York at 11
News 4 New York at 11 : WNBC : April 15, 2016 11:00pm-11:34pm EDT
on how much pain he is on saturday. >> jock ki robinson. all around the game today wore the number 42. one of the best traditions that the game has developed. the bronx here for the first tonight in the first homer of the year, but tied at one, the yankees would waet a 2 on, 4th out in the last inning. cope to left for two-run homer and a that 3-pun, mariners lead. in the sixth, mark is up and the yankees left the runners in scoring position. former yankee robinson cano, three for 30 points are with runners in the fast four hits. >> they cut a bull pen session today. he'll try again on sunday. meanwhile he got a rally support in cleveland and right now, we can concert them. making a case to stay there too. and then in the fifth. mets' homer three times. his oirs as a met -- mets discover their bat is alive and well in cleveland and it's a good thing because it got a little dicey in the night. all right. good to see everybody wearing >> thanks a lot, john. fight back and rebuild an economy. so does she. we need jobs that provide dignity and a bright future. new penalties to stop com
on how much pain he is on saturday. >> jock ki robinson. all around the game today wore the number 42. one of the best traditions that the game has developed. the bronx here for the first tonight in the first homer of the year, but tied at one, the yankees would waet a 2 on, 4th out in the last inning. cope to left for two-run homer and a that 3-pun, mariners lead. in the sixth, mark is up and the yankees left the runners in scoring position. former yankee robinson cano, three for 30...
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Dan Bejar dreams of the 80s and still sounds cranky
No one sounds quite like Dan Bejar. To say he's an original is an understatement, even as the music he's conjured as Destroyer over the past two decades never hides its undeniable influences, which include David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Van Dyke Parks, and Leonard Cohen, among others. Collaborations with The New Pornographers, Frog Eyes, and indie supergroup Swan Lake have further added to his mystique as one of the most mercurial of singer-songwriters. His last record, 2015's Poison Season, was a surprisingly accessible mixture of Easy Listening pop which channeled both Hunky Dory-phase Bowie as well as Frank Sinatra. At the time, the album felt like a direct response to the critical success of 2011's 80s-influenced jazz rock opus Kaputt; this time using piano, bongos, lush strings, and Bejar's hippie musings to showcase a more relaxed side of the enigmatic frontman. The results were predictably expansive, but also intimate; coming off like the sound of a man reaching for empathy existing just outside his grasp.
With Ken, Bejar goes back to the sounds of the late 1980's British music scene and creates something which initially feels like Kaputt Pt.2, but in actuality, is going more for a New Order/The Jesus & the Mary Chain/ The Cure type of vibe. If anything, Ken is aimed squarely at the converted. Since Bejar comes across as downtrodden as ever, those who may have found his odd vocal delivery off-putting in the past will find little to latch onto here. There's theatricality, excess, and even musical adventurousness all over Ken, but the man creates the sensation of someone looking back on a lost time with ironic distance. Opener "Sky's Grey", for example, links the sociopolitical tensions of the Thatcher era with lines like Bombs in the city/Plays in the sticks and I've been working on the new Oliver Twist over soothing piano, digital blips, and melancholy synth washes. It feels like a distillation of everything Destroyer has done creatively up until this point; a collision of intellectual concerns wrapped in a sad/pretty sonic package. Is Bejar really the alienated poet, too disinterested to muster up answers for the horrors of our times, or is he still just playing the part of cranky uncle?
Whatever the case, Ken isn't all doom and gloom. Though initially a track like "In The Morning" seems like a straightforward homage to Robert Smith; complete with thumping drums, Disintegration-esque guitar leads, and airy synths, it transforms via Bejar's playful vocals. Somehow, he even manages lines like A death star in bloom/ Another thought in the incinerator/ You wanted it to be cool/ Oh you thought it would be alright/ In the morning without coming across overly twee. Meanwhile, the electro-pop of "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood" has the veneer of a New Order cut, but Bejar shrugs off the will to dance by lamenting I couldn’t see, I was blind/ Off in the corner, doing poet’s work. Certainly, part of Bejar's appeal is his sleazy, faux-romanticism. The constant use of wandering saxophones points to this near-camp aesthetic, as does visual representations of smoking under foggy lampposts, cool black trench coats, and tales of lonely poets. However, though Ken certainly tilts toward corniness, Bejar's strengths as a songwriter gives everything a neurotic energy.
To say Ken is far from Destroyer's best work is damning with faint praise, since Bejar's output has been consistently sublime. The poignant wordplay is on display, as is the flowery prose, and there's gothic new wave style here too, but overall, the album is less than the sum of its parts. Truthfully, the recurring motifs; both lyrically and musically, seem to indicate a sense of catharsis found in cycles. Much like Bejar's exploration of different sounds and textures throughout his extraordinary career, these cycles hint at something darker and more oppressive at the edges of his music. Of course, he may simply be winking from behind rambling non-sequiturs and jangly production. The failure of Ken is that the line between irony and self-importance feels unresolved at best, while the album's strength lies in the mystery surrounding that very thing. Ultimately, Bejar would rather strike an empty pose, since as he puts it in his uniquely Dan Bejar way, A pose is always empty.
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Sith Observer
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"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Review and Discussion
After more than 3 years of anticipation, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has finally arrived in theaters worldwide. It's the biggest movie of the year, and possibly the biggest movie of all time, so I'm appropriately giving it a lengthy synopsis and discussion. Since I'm about to go over the movie's entire plot in great detail, I'm issuing a *SPOILER ALERT*. You have been warned!
The film begins with the classic opening crawl, reading as follows:
Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed.
With the support of the REPUBLIC, General Leia Organa leads a brave RESISTANCE. She is desperate to find her brother Luke and gain his help in restoring peace and justice to the galaxy.
Leia has sent her most daring pilot on a secret mission to Jakku, where an old ally has discovered a clue to Luke’s whereabouts…
The first scene is of a Star Destroyer (the Finalizer) looming over Jakku, and landing craft depart. In a village, BB-8 notices their approach, and informs Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), his master. Lor San Tekka (Max von Sydow) gives Poe a flashdrive-like device containing the map, and urges him to leave at once. The First Order lands, and stormtroopers rush out of the craft, exchanging fire with the armed villagers. Trooper FN-2187, later known as Finn (John Boyega), watches as his friend dies, leaving bloody streaks on his helmet.
Poe enters his X-Wing, but it's damaged by stormtroopers. He gives BB-8 the map and tells him to run and wait for him. As the villagers are defeated, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) arrives in his personal shuttle, and confronts San Tekka. The elder refuses to reveal the map's location, and Kylo decapitates him. Poe shoots at him, but Kylo freezes the laser mid-air using the Force. Poe is captured, and Kylo orders the destruction of the village and all of its inhabitants. The innocents are executed, but Finn cannot bring himself to kill them.
The First Order return to the Finalizer. Finn removes his helmet in a state of shock, and he's reprimanded by his commanding officer, the chrome-clad Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie). Poe is tortured, and Kylo Ren uses the Force to painfully probe his mind and retrieve the necessary information. He informs General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson) that they're looking for a BB unit.
In need of a pilot to escape the First Order, Finn frees Poe. They pilot a TIE fighter and manage to destroy the Finalizer's laser turrets, thanks to Poe's flying and Finn's gunning. Finn wants to get as far away as possible, but Poe needs to return to Jakku. Hux orders the use of the ventral cannons, and Poe and Finn crash on the planet below.
Meanwhile, scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley) searches through an ancient Star Destroyer for spare parts. Finding little of value, she rides her pod-like speeder to the nearest trading post, where she sells them for rations from junkboss Unkar Plutt (Simon Pegg). She returns to her home, built in a lopsided AT-AT, and eats alone. Suddenly, she hears a commotion, and runs over to see BB-8 caught by fellow scavenger Teedo. Rey frees him and points him in the direction of the trading post, but BB-8 convinces her to let him stay the night. She reluctantly agrees.
The next day, the two go to the trading post to sell more parts. Rey tells him that she's been waiting for her family since they left her on Jakku as a child. She's offered an unsatisfactory amount of rations for her spare parts, and Plutt makes another deal: 60 rations for BB-8. Rey is tempted, but refuses. Plutt sends his henchmen to grab the droid.
Finn wakes up. He searches for Poe and manages to grab his jacket, before the damaged fighter sinks into the ground and explodes. Assuming that Poe is dead, Finn trudges along the desert until he finds the trading post. Dehydrated, he drinks some water from a dirty trough, and notices Rey and BB-8 being assaulted by Plutt's thugs.
Finn runs over to help, but Rey successfully defends herself and knocks out the thugs with her staff. BB-8 sees Finn wearing his master's jacket, and alerts Rey. She chases Finn and easily defeats him. He tells them that he's a Resistance agent who rescued Poe, before his unfortunate demise. They're chased by stormtroopers and TIE fighters, and seek a quick escape on the nearest piece of junk: the Millennium Falcon.
Rey takes the pilot's seat, while Finn takes the gunner's position. They both demonstrate impressive skills as they evade TIEs over the sandy dunes and around the crashed Star Destroyer, before entering the belly of the beast and destroying the fighters. They take off into space, but the ship malfunctions. While Rey fixes a deadly gas leak, they're pulled into a freighter.
Finn assumes that they've been captured by the First Order, and they hide in the crawlspace under the ship's floor. The door to the Falcon opens, and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) enter.
Han finds Rey and Finn, and explains that the Falcon ended up in Plutt's hands through a series of thefts. Rey and Finn tell him that BB-8 has a map to find Luke Skywalker, and they're on a mission to take him to the Resistance base. A Guavian Death Gang and Kanjiklub appear, seeking revenge on Solo for various swindles. Rey and Finn hide in the crawlspace once again, and she accidentally releases the freighter's cargo: tentacle-y monsters known as Rathtars.
The creatures create a diversion, and Chewie gets a minor wound as the heroes escape. One of the gang leaders reports Solo's involvement to the First Order. Rey shows off her mechanical knowledge as she helps Han get the ship to hyperspace in one piece. BB-8 reveals his map, but it's incomplete. Han recalls that Luke disappeared after his apprentice, Kylo Ren, turned to the Dark Side and he felt responsible. It's rumored that Luke went to find the first Jedi temple. Rey is amazed when Han confirms the myths of the Jedi and the Dark Side.
They arrive on Takodana to ask Han's old acquaintance, Maz Kanata (Lupita Nyong'o), for help with bringing BB-8 back to the Resistance. Rey is awed by the lush environment, after living on a desert for most of her life. Han gives her a blaster for protection and begrudgingly offers her a job as a co-pilot on the Falcon, but Rey refuses; her family must still be coming for her, and she's already been gone too long. They enter Maz's watering hole, full of exotic and dangerous droids, aliens, bounty hunters, and other thugs. Spies alert both the Resistance and the First Order of Solo's arrival.
At Starkiller Base, an icy planet converted into the First Order's superweapon, Hux and Kylo Ren confer with Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis) via hologram. He commands them to continue their search for the map, and instructs Kylo to overcome the call to the Light Side of the Force by killing his father: Han Solo. Kylo later privately speaks to the charred helmet of Darth Vader and asks for guidance. "Show me again, the power of the darkness, and I'll let nothing stand in our way. Show me, grandfather, and I will finish what you started."
Han wants Maz to send BB-8 to the Resistance, but she suggests that he face his former lover in order to unite and save the galaxy from the Dark Side. She identifies Finn as someone who wants to run, and he insists that there's no hope to stop the First Order. "We all need to run." Maz points him in the direction of two thugs who will give him a ride off-world in exchange for work. Rey begs him to stay, but he confesses to being a stormtrooper and refuses.
Rey is then drawn to a vault downstairs, where she finds Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber. She touches it, and experiences a vision including a hooded Luke touching R2-D2, the Knights of Ren standing in a thunderstorm with dead bodies littering the ground, her own childhood abandonment on Jakku, Kylo Ren chasing her in a snowy forest, and Obi-Wan Kenobi's voice (a mix of Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor) whispering "Rey, these are your first steps". Maz tells Rey that the lightsaber is her destiny, but Rey is disturbed and runs off into the jungle.
On Starkiller Base, Hux addresses the First Order's army before a demonstration of the superweapon. A laser emits from the center of the planet, which expands into five separate beams as it obliterates the Hosnian system, the capital of the Republic. The inhabitants of Maz's castle watch with horror.
Rey is followed into the jungle by BB-8 and refuses to return, until the First Order arrives and attacks the castle. She runs back as the castle collapses, and uses her blaster to take out several stormtroopers. Kylo Ren lands and follows her into the jungle, where he defeats her with ease. He captures her after briefly probing her mind and discovering that she's seen the map.
In the remnants of the castle, Han and Chewie blast stormtroopers. Maz gives Finn the lightsaber, and he accepts it with disbelief. He uses it against his former companions until he's defeated by a trooper wielding an electric staff. Han saves him, but they're surrounded by stormtroopers. Poe Dameron arrives with a squadron of X-Wings, turning the tide in their favor. Finn helplessly watches as Rey is taken by Kylo.
A Resistance craft lands, and out steps C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and General Leia (Carrie Fisher). She and Han have a somewhat awkward reunion, and the Resistance retreats to their base on D'Qar as the First Order returns to Starkiller Base. On D'Qar, Poe explains that he survived the TIE crash and thanks Finn for taking care of BB-8. C-3PO reveals that R2-D2 has been asleep since Luke's disappearance.
With help from Finn, the Resistance devises a plan to destroy the Starkiller before it destroys D'Qar, by sucking the sun's energy to power the laser. Finn prepares to go with Han and Chewie to rescue Rey. Han and Leia embrace before he leaves, and woefully contemplate their son's turn to the Dark Side, thanks to Snoke. Leia believes that there's still hope for him, and urges Han to bring him back.
Meanwhile, Rey is held by Kylo Ren, and he takes off his helmet before performing another Force probe. But to his surprise, Rey reverses the probe and spits the truth in Kylo's face: "You're afraid you'll never be as strong as Darth Vader." Kylo leaves to discuss this turn of events with Snoke, who orders him to bring him Rey. After a few tries, Rey manages to Jedi mind trick a stormtrooper (reportedly played by Daniel Craig) into freeing her.
Han Solo avoids the Starkiller's defenses by coming out of hyperspace close to the planet's surface. He brings the Falcon to a rough landing on the snowy terrain, and he, Finn, and Chewie enter the base. They capture Captain Phasma, and she reluctantly lowers the planet's shields. Han suggests that they leave her in a trash compactor. Poe and the X-Wing squadrons arrive on the planet. Their first bombing run is successful, but a swarm of TIE fighters appears, resulting in heavy casualties for the Resistance.
After regrouping with Rey, Han and Chewie split up to place explosives. Having sensed Han's presence, Kylo Ren patrols the area. Han addresses him by his birth name, Ben, and approaches him on a walkway over a pit. Kylo removes his helmet, and Han insists that Snoke is only using him, and he can still leave the Dark Side. Kylo appears to give in to the Light side, and offers Han his lightsaber...but when the sun is finally drained, signaling the readiness of the Starkiller, Kylo tightens his grip and stabs his father through the heart. Kylo says "Thank you", and Han Solo touches the face off his son, before falling into the pit as Chewie, Rey, and Finn watch with anguish. Back on the Resistance base, Leia is stricken with grief as she senses the death of her longtime love.
Chewie shoots Kylo, wounding him, and then detonates the explosives, creating an opening for Poe and his squadrons. Poe flies into the Starkiller and shoots torpedoes, starting a chain reaction that destroys both the superweapon and the planet. Hux reports to Snoke, who orders him to evacuate and bring him Kylo to finish his training.
Rey and Finn run into the forest, and they're confronted by the wounded Kylo. He knocks out Rey with a Force push, and Finn ignites his lightsaber to face him. The two duel, but Finn's lightsaber skill has hardly improved, and he is severely injured. Kylo prepares to take the lightsaber that rightfully belongs to him, as the grandson of its original owner. Instead, the blade flies to the hand of Rey.
Ready to face her destiny, Rey duels Kylo in the forest. The planet falls apart around them, and soon they're in a lightsaber lock, with Rey's back facing a newly-formed gorge. Kylo suggests that he could teach Rey the ways of the Force, and she is reminded of her newfound power. She uses the Force to fight back and give him a nasty slice to the face. They're soon separated by the crumbling terrain, and Rey tearfully kneels over Finn's unconscious body, before being rescued by Chewie in the Falcon. Along with Poe and his remaining squadron, they fly away from Starkiller Base as it explodes violently.
Back on D'Qar, the Resistance celebrates and Rey hugs Leia. R2-D2 suddenly awakens, much to 3PO's delight, and completes BB-8's map. Rey promises a not-yet-awoken Finn that they'll meet again, and Leia says "May the Force be with you", before Rey, Chewie, and R2 depart on the Falcon to meet Luke.
They arrive on a watery planet with rocky islands. Chewie and R2 stay behind while Rey ascends a long set of stone steps, until she finally arrives at the top of a mountain where a hooded figure stands. It's Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), looking disheveled and bearing an artificial-looking robotic hand. Wordlessly, Rey holds out the lightsaber for him to take, with a pleading look in her eyes. And the credits roll.
No, this movie was not flawless. Despite having a handy opening crawl to provide some much-needed background knowledge, there were still some pretty big gaps. I mean, Return of the Jedi ended with the Empire defeated and the galaxy looking pretty A-okay, you kinda have to take more time to explain why everything's just as dismal as in A New Hope.
For the record, the story (according to the official Star Wars databank) is supposed to be that following the second Death Star's destruction, the New Republic was formed, and they made a new Senate and a peace treaty with the Empire. But Leia was no fool, and she knew that Imperial forces were still seeking power, so she founded the Resistance with the help of some old Rebel friends (including Admiral "It's a trap!" Ackbar) and the indirect support of the Republic.
But still, it did a great job of reconstructing the magic of the Original Trilogy. Between the characters, the environments, and just the general look of the film, it felt like truly authentic Star Wars. It succeeds as both a long-awaited sequel to a classic and beloved film trilogy, while promising even more in the future.
Now let's discuss each new and returning character, as well as other aspects of the film:
From the moment she was cast, we knew that this movie would turn Daisy Ridley into a star no matter what, but it doesn't hurt that she was pretty great as the female lead. Rey wasn't the stereotypical butt-kicking girl that other action movies flaunt; yeah, she was intelligent and could handle herself without the help of any man, but she was also quite flawed with her naive(?) determination to stay on Jakku and wait for her parents. You could argue that she was a classic "damsel in distress", but she freed herself completely independent of Han, Finn, and Chewie. She might not be at the level of Mad Max's Furiosa, but she's definitely one of the best action heroines of 2015.
One of the big unanswered questions of the movie is: Who are Rey's parents? It was heavily rumored that they would be Han and Leia, and several scenes supported that. She seemed to know the Falcon backwards and forwards when she entered it for the first time, and later, when she served as Han's co-pilot, their dynamic of finishing each other's sentences could be interpreted as a father-daughter relationship.
But when Han and Leia discussed their son, don't you think they would also mention their daughter? "Oh and speaking of lost children, I guess we should drop by Jakku and pick up our daughter sometime." Rey's briefly-established relationship with Leia was certainly a close one, but that doesn't mean that Leia is her mother.
There's a lot of evidence that Rey is actually the child of Luke. Her character's backstory (living on a desert planet, longing to leave it behind) is very similar to Luke's. And when Kylo tries to probe her mind, he sees Luke's watery planet, suggesting that Rey has been there before. The final shot of the film – Rey's hand outstretched towards Luke, offering his father's lightsaber – would have a lot more meaning if she was his daughter, instead of just his niece.
I suppose it's possible that her parents are complete nobodies in the Star Wars universe, but c'mon, there's gotta be someone else in the new Skywalker generation. We can only assume that she'll continue her Jedi training in Episode VIII with Luke as her teacher.
The idea of a stormtrooper who wants to quit his job sounds like something made up in a brainstorming session. But once again, Finn wasn't the stereotypical hero; he didn't free Poe because it was "the right thing to do", he freed him because he just needed a pilot to escape the Star Destroyer. (Though the movie didn't really explain how Finn was psychologically capable of quitting the job he had been raised for since birth.)
It was also nice to see that when Finn took the lightsaber, it wasn't like he immediately knew exactly how to use it. The way he clashed with the stormtrooper was completely realistic, and he appropriately lost both that duel and the one with Kylo.
And fans were correct that Finn has no Force sensitivity; the promotional campaign highlighted his use of the lightsaber just to throw everyone off the truth that Rey's the real Jedi. But Finn did have a strong connection to the blade, so will he just train with a lightsaber anyway, or give up on his dreams and just use blasters for now on? Rey seemed sure that she would meet him again, no matter what happened with Luke, so we can assume that he'll return in future installments.
Kylo Ren/Ben Solo
Many people predicted Kylo to be the son of Han and Leia, but it surprised me that this was explicitly revealed pretty early in the film. His name, Ben, is obviously a reference to Ben Kenobi, but it probably also took inspiration from the Expanded Universe character Ben Skywalker, the son of Luke and Mara Jade. However, his position on the Dark Side of the Force makes him most similar to Jacen Solo/Darth Caedus, Han and Leia's son in the EU.
And yes, Kylo was intentionally very similar to Vader, in the way that he had been corrupted by a higher power (Snoke) into joining the Dark Side. He was also just as hotheaded as Vader, but instead of just Force-choking officers to death, Kylo just cut the nearest machinery to ribbons while his subordinates awkwardly (and hilariously) stood by.
He didn't disappoint on the power scale. Force-induced torture is a somewhat familiar concept, but freezing a laser bolt mid-air? That's gotta take some serious skill. You could argue that his duel with Rey and Finn should have been more one-sided, but he was wounded and noticeably bleeding. And he lost against Rey because her connection to the Force is of near equal to his own (which would make sense if they both have a Skywalker parent). He might actually like that facial scratch Rey gave him, since it'll make a scar much like Anakin's in Revenge of the Sith.
It would have been nice to see a better look at Kylo's journey to the Dark Side at the hands of Snoke, the same way we saw Palpatine subtly manipulating Anakin throughout the Prequel Trilogy. But the fascinating thing about Kylo was that, being the son of two great heroes, we saw him admit to being seduced by the Light side, not the Dark. Somehow, he countered this by using his own grandfather's helmet to inspire the darkness within him. I guess he kinda ignored the part about Vader turning good in the end. (Or maybe he just never heard about it, since Luke and the Emperor were the only other ones there.)
We've known for months that Kylo is not a Sith, and rather a member of the Knights of Ren. Snoke confirmed that he was the leader of the group ("Even you, master of the Knights of Ren, have never faced such a test"). By the end of the film, Snoke seemed intent on finishing Kylo's training, so it looks like he'll soon graduate to full-blown Sith Lord.
Clearly, Kylo will get a Vader-esque shot at redemption eventually, but his patricide has definitely sent him further on the path to the Dark Side. We can assume that he escaped the destruction of Starkiller Base, and he and Hux and Snoke will plot their next move in Episode VIII.
Somehow, all of the hints of BB-8's cuteness and humor still didn't prepare us for his amazing cuteness and humor. The beeps he made, the way he rolled around, and the various gadgets hidden inside his spherical body (including firing cables and an R2-like zapper) were all adorable. And because most of his scenes were filmed with a real, working robot, nothing about him looked fake.
So...I think we can all forgive The Force Awakens' promotional campaign for reducing the attention on Poe in the final months before the film's release, because though he's a great character, he's not an incredibly important one. He's in the first few scenes, then he disappears for a while, then he comes back and flies around with his X-Wing squad and shoots TIE fighters and all that. I mean, I guess he has plot significance as the guy who deals the final blow to Starkiller Base, but you couldn't consider him as big a character as Rey or Finn.
His extreme piloting skills originally led some to believe that he's another Skywalker kid, but though it's never mentioned in the movie, the Star Wars: Shattered Empire comic revealed that his parents are Rebel Alliance fighters Shara Bey and Kes Dameron.
After 30 years, Han may not be as cynical about the ways of the Force, but he's just as sarcastic. His arc in The Force Awakens is a sad one: he meets some young hooligans, reluctantly reunites with his former lover, promises to bring their wayward son back home...and ends up getting stabbed through the heart by him.
His role in the movie had some similarities with Ben Kenobi's in A New Hope, but Kenobi's death was a sacrifice to let the other heroes escape, and he would grow on to mentor Luke as a Force ghost, while Solo's death was the result of trying to reach out to a long-lost son. And he probably won't be returning as a Force ghost, not just because Han isn't a Jedi, but because Harrison Ford may have only returned for this film with the promise that he would finally be free of the role that has apparently plagued his life.
Leia was never a conventional princess, ever since "Somebody has to save our skins!" in A New Hope, so it was fitting that she finally got to shed her title of Princess and become General of the Resistance.
The main disappointment with her character is that everyone was pretty much expecting for her to be a Jedi. In Return of the Jedi, Luke suggested that Leia could learn the ways of the Force in time, but it appears that her capabilities are still limited to sensing when her loved ones are in danger; in Empire Strikes Back, she used her powers to find Luke hanging off of Cloud City, and in The Force Awakens, we see her sorrow as she senses Han's death.
If you're disappointed that the film's most talked-about character, almost entirely missing from any promotional material, only showed up in the last scene of the film with 0 lines of dialogue, I wouldn't blame you. Luke may have lived in seclusion for a long time, but hopefully he'll accept Rey's offering of the lightsaber and teach his daughter/niece the ways of the Force. Will that involve a reunion with Leia and the rest? Only time will tell.
(Also, I don't think anyone wants to know how much Mark Hamill got paid for just turning around and pulling off his hood.)
Poor, poor Chewie. He'll never be as beloved as Han, but his return was just as welcome as any of the Original Trilogy characters, and he provided some of the funniest moments of the film with just a few growls. With his inseparable friend now dead, hard times are ahead for the Walking Carpet, but at least he's still got C-3PO to translate for him, and friends new and old back on the Resistance base.
Maz Kanata
Did she appear in many scenes? No. Did she disappoint? No. Maz Kanata was great as a tiny, wise, and funny alien who helped our heroes on their journey. I only wish that she had taken time to explain how that lightsaber, last seen falling into oblivion on Cloud City, ended up in her vault. She said something like "that's a story for another time", but clearly the writers just couldn't think of a quick and easy way for it to make sense.
Though Maz's animation was of high quality, she did look a little artificial when seen next to all the other bizarre creatures in her watering hole. But creds to Nyong'o for learning the motion-capture art (which must have been hard, especially since she's a fairly unexperienced actress despite her Oscar win) and providing the character with a truly great, unique voice. Maz most likely survived the destruction of her castle, and she's basically the new Yoda, so one can only assume that she'll return in future movies to continue to advise the Resistance with her eccentric charm.
3PO's role in the movie was perfectly sized. His first scene was hilarious, as he interrupted Han and Leia's dramatic reunion. He later provided some much-needed exposition into R2's comatose state, and it was super cute when the astromech woke up and their longtime dysfunctional friendship was renewed. Those who like him would be pleased with his reappearance as the same overly-polite, clueless droid that they grew to love. Those who find him annoying would be relieved to see that he doesn't have many scenes.
R2, on the other hand, deserved to do more. BB-8 stole his job as the cute droid with the vital information, and even when R2 woke up, he looked old and clunky sitting next to his spherical successor. But the information he provided was equally as important in the search for Luke. Now that his master has returned, R2 will hopefully come back to the forefront of the action.
There's not much to be said. His character wasn't much more than the average Imperial/First Order officer, except that his authority was equal to that of Kylo Ren. This sparked a rivalry between Hux and Kylo, so he must have been a little displeased with the order to save him from the destruction of the Starkiller. At least Hux can rub it in his now-unhelmeted face in the future. (Though for Hux's sake, let's hope he doesn't piss off the dark warrior too much, or not even Snoke will stop Kylo from cutting off Hux's neatly-trimmed head).
(Beware: rant alert!)
Between the cape, the shininess, and the near-perfect casting (Christie plays armored knight Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones), there was tons of anticipation for Captain Phasma. Throughout the promotional campaign, she was treated like one of the film's primary villains, and Christie was treated like part of the main cast. As a woman defined by her voice and movement, rather than her physical appearance, Phasma became something of a feminist icon for geeky girls everywhere. So it was a bit of a letdown when she barely had a role in the movie.
Yes, JJ said beforehand that she doesn't appear in many scenes, but he also said that she's his favorite character. I mean, I can list her scenes in the movie off the top of my head: at the Jakku village, she asks Kylo what to do with the remaining villagers, then she has a short scene where she rebukes Finn for chickening out, then she has a few lines with General Hux as Finn escapes, then she's visible in the background while Hux addresses the First Order, and then she gets captured by Finn, Han, and Chewie. That's all.
Pretty much every known image of Phasma shows her holding an impressive gun that matches her chrome armor, but she never got to use it in the film. We had heard that she's not always at the forefront of the action, but she should have had at least one action sequence. It didn't have to be a hand-to-hand brawl with Chewbacca, it could have just been firing her blaster during the Jakku village attack.
Her final scene in particular seemed like an insult to the character we thought we'd see. She's grabbed by Chewbacca and pretty much does what Han tells her, giving the generic "You won't get away with this!" line. She didn't need to grab her blaster and shoot them all to death, but it would have been nice if she had sounded some alarm as a final act of defiance before getting thrown in that trash compactor (which we never even saw, by the way). This scene made her seem like not just a bad villain, but a bad soldier.
To be clear, this isn't Christie's fault. She succeeded in instantaneously conveying both Phasma's femininity and her authority from the first syllable she spoke. And if she had been on-screen longer, we probably would have seen that the way she walked and moved were also performed with great care and talent. Either the character was just underwritten, or some of her scenes were cut. Fortunately, producer Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that Phasma will return (I guess she gets out of the trash compactor just fine), hopefully with a bigger part to play.
Supreme Leader Snoke
Um...okay. From Serkis' interviews, we knew that Snoke was a tall, scarred, alien character, and JJ told us that he's the "most powerful figure on the Dark Side of the Force", leading most to believe that he was Darth Plagueis, the Sith Lord of myth who achieved the ability to create and preserve life by influencing midi-chlorians.
When we first see Snoke, he's old, scarred, and his species is unclear (not appearing to be Plagueis' species, Muun)...and he's a literal giant, sitting atop a throne as he talks with Kylo and Snoke. But then we see that it's actually a hologram, meaning that Snoke could actually be that tall (which would be terrifying and ridiculous and awesome all at once), or he could be tiny (which would only be ridiculous and everyone would make Ant-Man jokes), or he could be the normal humanoid height (which would probably be best).
Regardless, this just seems like a waste of Serkis' talent. I understand that if you need a motion-captured character, he's the first guy you call (he pioneered the art by portraying Gollum, Caesar in the new Planet of the Apes movies, and many others) but at least make good use of his skill and have him crawling around or jumping or growling or something. If he's just going to be sitting on a chair and maybe leaning his head forward a few times, you might as well just use old-fashioned CGI and have Serkis record the lines in a booth.
Serkis was just playing the projection of the character, not necessarily his actual appearance, and it stands to reason that holograms can be manipulated, so another possibility is that Snoke looks completely different in person. He could even be someone familiar, like The Emperor/Darth Sidious. One thing's for sure: he'll return as the big bad in charge in Episode VIII.
Have you ever heard of up-and-coming conductor John Williams? You might know him as the composer for little-known movies like Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, E.T., Harry Potter, and both Star Wars trilogies. Anyway, he returns to orchestrate The Force Awakens, and no surprise, it's perfect. Williams creates a new, vibrant soundtrack with just enough of the classic themes interjected to bring you back to 1977. This film's Best Picture chances are debatable, but one thing's for sure, Williams will be getting his 50th Oscar nomination for Best Score. Not too bad for an 83-year-old guy.
Incidentally, the final piece of original music on the soundtrack, as Rey walks up the stone steps to meet Luke, is titled "The Jedi Steps" (my personal favorite, probably just because how the rises and falls in the music are perfect alongside Luke's dramatic reveal). The movie itself has a motif of steps in relation to Rey's Jedi destiny, but this title would confirm that Luke has indeed found the first Jedi temple. Could there be a more fitting place to train his daughter in the ways of the Force?
One truly great thing that JJ Abrams has brought to the Star Wars universe is diversity, of both race and gender. And I'm not just talking about having a girl and a black guy as the two leads. Yes, it was great to have the main character be female, and to get the first major female Jedi in a Star Wars movie, but there was so much more diversity than that.
During the first scenes of the film, the camera focuses on a female villager holding a gun and looking like she's ready to use it. Some of the First Order officers were female, and one of the regular stormtroopers (not just Phasma) had a distinctly female voice. The Resistance had a number of female members besides Leia, from Chewbacca's medic Dr. Kalonia (Harriet Walter, the late Christopher Lee's niece) to Lieutenant Connix (Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher's daughter). Additionally, X-Wing pilot Jessika Pava is played by Singaporean actress Jessica Henwick, and Admiral Statura is played by Lost star Ken Leung.
Here are some of the questions left hanging after the credits roll. Some of these will probably be answered in future films, while others may not.
How is Lor San Tekka connected to the Resistance? Is he supposed to be a familiar character?
How did he get the map to Luke?
Who are Rey's parents?
How did Maz get the lightsaber?
Who are the other Knights of Ren?
What is their relationship to the First Order?
Kylo is their master, but is Snoke also in charge?
Do they share Kylo's obsession with Darth Vader?
Does Kylo want to resurrect Vader?
What is Snoke's true agenda?
How is C-3PO still relevant and functional 60 years after being built from spare parts by a 10-year-old boy?
Does the Resistance have any other BB units?
What has Luke been doing for all these years?
Will he accept the lightsaber, or let Rey keep it as her own blade?
What did you think of the movie? Do you think you know the answer(s) to any of these questions? Tell me in the comments, and may the Force be with you all.
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In France, The Force Is Strong With Lightsaber Dueling
Julien Esprit, left, competes with Jean Baptiste Marchetti-Waternaux during a national lightsaber tournament in Beaumont-sur-Oise, north of Paris. In France, it is easier than ever now to act out “Star Wars” fantasies. The fencing federation has officially recognised lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport. Photo: Christophe Ena/AP
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(AP) Master Yoda, dust off his French, he must.
It’s now easier than ever in France to act out “Star Wars” fantasies, because its fencing federation has borrowed from a galaxy far, far away and officially recognised lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport, granting the iconic weapon from George Lucas’ saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.
Of course, the LED-lit, rigid polycarbonate lightsaber replicas can’t slice a Sith lord in half. But they look and, with the more expensive sabers equipped with a chip in their hilt that emits a throaty electric rumble, even sound remarkably like the silver screen blades that Yoda and other characters wield in the blockbuster movies.
Plenty realistic, at least, for duelists to work up an impressive sweat slashing, feinting and stabbing in organised, three-minute bouts. The physicality of lightsaber combat is part of why the French Fencing Federation threw its support behind the sport and is now equipping fencing clubs with lightsabers and training would-be lightsaber instructors. Like virtuous Jedi knights, the French federation sees itself as combatting a Dark Side: The sedentary habits of 21st-century life that are sickening ever-growing numbers of adults and kids.
“With young people today, it’s a real public health issue. They don’t do any sport and only exercise with their thumbs,” says Serge Aubailly, the federation secretary general. “It’s becoming difficult to (persuade them to) do a sport that has no connection with getting out of the sofa and playing with one’s thumbs. That is why we are trying to create a bond between our discipline and modern technologies, so participating in a sport feels natural.”
In the past, the likes of Zorro, Robin Hood and The Three Musketeers helped lure new practitioners to fencing. Now, joining and even supplanting them are Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader.
“Cape and sword movies have always had a big impact on our federation and its growth,” Aubailly says. “Lightsaber films have the same impact. Young people want to give it a try.”
And the young at heart.
Police officer Philippe Bondi, 49, practiced fencing for 20 years before switching to lightsaber. When a club started offering classes in Metz, the town in eastern France where he is stationed for the gendarmerie, Bondi says he was immediately drawn by the prospect of living out the love he’s had for the “Star Wars” universe since he saw the first film at age seven, on its release in 1977.
He fights in the same wire-mesh face mask he used for fencing. He spent about 350 euros on his protective body armor (sturdy gloves, chest, shoulder and shin pads) and on his federation-approved lightsaber, opting for luminous green “because it’s the Jedi colours, and Yoda is my master”.
“I had to be on the good side, given that my job is upholding the law,” he said.
Bondi awoke well before dawn to make the four-hour drive from Metz to a national lightsaber tournament outside Paris this month that drew 34 competitors. It showcased how far the sport has come in a couple of years but also that it’s still light years from becoming mainstream.
The crowd was small and a technical glitch prevented the duelers’ photos, combat names and scores from being displayed on a big screen, making bouts tough to follow. But the illuminated swooshes of coloured blades looked spectacular in the darkened hall. Fan cosplay as “Star Wars” characters added levity, authenticity and a tickle of bizarre to the proceedings, especially the incongruous sight of Darth Vader buying a ham sandwich and a bag of potato chips at the cafeteria during a break.
In building their sport from the ground up, French organisers produced competition rules intended to make lightsaber dueling both competitive and easy on the eyes.
“We wanted it to be safe, we wanted it to be umpired and, most of all, we wanted it to produce something visual that looks like the movies, because that is what people expect,” said Michel Ortiz, the tournament organiser.
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Mardi Gras: City crews hauling off parade-route placeholders
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — People who have put out ladders, sofas or other property on public land in New Orleans as parade-route placeholders have probably already lost them, a city official said Tuesday.
Parks and Parkways head Ann MacDonald said crews were out looking for such things during the city's annual Mardi Gras preparedness news conference.
"All items will be removed and disposed of," she said. "We will not be cataloging them."
The city's first big parade is Friday. It's illegal to put out ladders more than 24 hours before a parade, MacDonald noted, and sofas shouldn't be out at all. It's also illegal to chain ladders together. "Our crews have bolt-cutters," MacDonald said.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said about 3,000 public employees will spend the next weeks working on one aspect or another of the Carnival season and Mardi Gras, which is Feb. 13. Police will be on 12-hour shifts and aided by state troopers from around Louisiana and officers from a half-dozen neighboring jurisdictions.
Landrieu and other officials repeated that no terrorism threat is known, but that people should report anything suspicious. Another frequently repeated statement: by texting "mardigras" to 888777 residents will get updates on weather, traffic and general parade safety.
People can put up canopies to protect themselves from the sun or rain, but tents and privately rented or owned portable toilets cannot be set up in the medians because police cannot see into them, officials said. "A shooting last year was from inside a portable toilet," Landrieu noted.
The city has set up more than 650 portable toilets at various spots along the parade routes. Their approximate locations are mapped on the city's website.
The city's website also lists regulations and maps police, fire and medical stations; six recycling stations; transit routes and spots where "Blue Bikes" in the city's bikeshare program can be picked up and dropped off.
Float riders must wear safety harnesses to avoid an all-too-frequent accident, Fire Chief Jim McConnell said: "Every year, almost, someone falls off a float."
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Amazing! Meet ‘Twins’ Who Were Actually Conceived 10 Days Apart
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Kate Hill’s pregnancy was so unusual the birth of her baby girls has been hailed a miracle.
In 2006 Mrs Hill has diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome: a hormonal condition that left her unable to ovulate.
She underwent hormone treatment and fell pregnant, not once, but twice.
Kate Hill was told she may never conceive due to a condition she had known as polycystic ovary syndrome, but she defied nature and doctors predictions by conceiving twice in 10 days, making medical history.
Healthline describes Polycystic ovarian syndrome, or PCOS, is a condition in which a woman’s levels of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone are out of balance. This leads to the growth of ovarian cysts (benign masses on the ovaries). PCOS can cause problems with a women’s menstrual cycle, fertility, cardiac function, and appearance.
Kate and her husband Peter soon found out they were pregnant with two babies, conceived at different times, even though the couple say they only had unprotected sex once and Kate went under a series of hormone drugs. In an interview with Today Tonight Adeleaide Kate says:
“What makes this case even more rare, is that my husband and I only had intercourse one time – his sperm stayed alive for 10 days to fertilize the second egg released, We actually didn’t realize how special that was until they were born Usually a woman doesn’t ovulate once they’re pregnant with all the hormones, but Charlotte was coming no matter what.”Mrs Hill
Getting a double pregnancy is so rare that her OBYGN confesses that she had never encountered it before. The non-identical twins, Charlotte and Olivia, are healthy 10 month olds with different blood types and different personalities Kate shared.
It was a medical phenomenon so rare there are only 10 medically documented cases of it in the world.
Mrs Hill conceived two babies, 10 days apart. The conception is called superfetation, which essentially means she fell pregnant while already pregnant.
The rare conception started as a single pregnancy with twins, before she conceived again 10 days later to be pregnant with triplets.
Sadly the couple lost one of the babies early on in the pregnancy, and the Hills were given two due dates – December 20 and December 30 2015. Their adorable girls, Charlotte and Olivia, were born together two days before their scheduled caesarean.
The girls measured very differently in size, weight and gestational development. They are now 10 months old, and their loving parents told Today Tonight they have different blood types.
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The Nevada Film Critics Society's 2015 Awards for Achievement in Film
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"Spotlight" Tops 2015 Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
The immaculately crafted film, Spotlight, about The Boston Globe's 2001 investigation into the systematic cover up of pedophile priests within the Catholic Church was named Best Film of 2015 by The Nevada Film Critics Society. The movie also won awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Ensemble.
In other major categories, Brie Larson was chosen Best Actress for Room and Leonardo DiCaprio was chosen Best Actor for The Revenant. The Revenant won a total of four awards including Tom Hardy for Best Supporting Actor, Alejandro Iñárritu for Best Director and Emmanuel Lubezki for Best Cinematography.
Alicia Vikander was chosen Best Supporting Actress for the sci fi thriller Ex Machina. The film also won the award for Best Visual Effects.
Below is the complete list of winners in each category:
Best Film - Spotlight
Best Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio - the Revenant
Best Actress - Brie Larson - Room
Best Supporting Actor - Tom Hardy - The Revenant
Best Supporting Actress - Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
Best Youth Performance - Jacob Tremblay - Room
Best Director - Alejandro Iñárritu - The Revenant
Best Original Screenplay - Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer - Spotlight
Best Adapted Screenplay - tie - Drew Goddard for The Martian and Emma Donoghue for Room
Best Ensemble Cast - Spotlight
Best Documentary - Amy
Best Animated Movie - Inside Out
Best Production Design - Francois Séguin - Brooklyn
Best Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki - The Revenant
Best Visual Effects - Ex Machina
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Sonya was born with the rare gift to feel what those around her feel—both physically and emotionally—a gift she’s kept hidden from the empire for seventeen long years. After a reckless mistake wipes out all the other girls with similar abilities, Sonya is hauled off to the palace and forced to serve the emperor as his sovereign Auraseer.
Tasked with sensing the intentions of would-be assassins, Sonya is under constant pressure to protect the emperor. But Sonya’s power is untamed and reckless, and she can’t always decipher when other people’s impulses end and her own begin. In a palace full of warring emotions and looming darkness, Sonya fears that the biggest danger to the empire may be herself.
As she struggles to wrangle her abilities, Sonya seeks refuge in her tenuous alliances with the charming-yet-volatile Emperor Valko and his idealistic younger brother, Anton, the crown prince. But when threats of revolution pit the two brothers against each other, Sonya must choose which brother to trust—and which to betray.
Maybe I jinxed it, because I haven’t truly loved a single book on my 16 most anticipated reads of the year list so far, and I’ve read four of them. So far, my favorite is Meg Leder’s debut, the Museum of Heartbreak, my review for which will be coming out closer to the release date. The Distance from A to Z was pretty great as well.
But this one, oh, no.
I don’t even know how to begin to describe the sheer disappointment I felt as I was reading this novel. It was a rollercoaster that only went down and kept on going down until it popped out on the other side of the world.
Because I have to admit, that ending was not bad at all. I was somewhat satisfied after I read it.
It wasn’t worth going through though, to be completely honest. The first half of the book was all bad. I tried and stopped trying to sympathize with Sonya. Yeah, I get it, she has a power that makes herself difficult to control. Having a difficult power doesn’t give a person license to be carefree, and for everyone around her to be ignorant.
After Sonya manages to brilliantly kill every other person with her power, the people in charge decide to put her volatile self right next to the king of the kingdom.
There were elements to this story that I liked, but the narrative and the pacing kept on throwing me off. When the book wasn’t being boring and Sonya was laying low, there were parts that were brilliantly written in a way that would only work for this story.
For one thing, the villain.
This villain caught me completely off guard because he came out of nowhere from the blurb. Sonya’s powers make him powerful (not literally, it’s hard to describe), and enhance his ability as a villain. I loved reading about him in a literary sense, though in a personal sense I hated him.
Let’s be honest here: 99% of the plot is romance.
So without further ado, Anton. If Anton had his own book, I would be open to reading that. He was the only character I enjoyed throughout the story. He was important and shocker, he had his own life. His world doesn’t revolve around Sonya, and his opinions aren’t so drastically changed by her.
I appreciate that.
I can’t recommend this one, despite how much I enjoy Anton and how much I wanted to revisit his brother. It’s too much romance, not enough fantasy. It has a whiny, weak heroine and some of the most cliché characters I have ever read. I love Kathryn, and I would be open to seeing what she writes in the future, but this one really was not for me. If you don’t enjoy love triangles, cardboard characters and romance-dominating fantasy, then there are much better books to be read than this.
1 star.
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Tibetan delegation urges Indian lawmakers to raise the issue of Tibet
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Dharamshala — "We deem it absolute necessary to reach out to these Parliamentarians and apprise them on Tibet and the Tibetan freedom struggle," a delegation from the Tibetan Parliament in-Exile (TPiE) said, calling upon Indian lawmakers as their Winter session proceeds in the capital city of India.
While updating the members on the current dire situations in Tibet and the ongoing Tibetan struggle in exile, the delegates urged the lawmakers to raise the issue of Tibet during the Parliamentary proceedings and bolster their support for Tibet on individual capacity and through their respective Political parties, according to a statement, which is posted on the official website of the Tibetan Parliament.
"Most importantly, the delegates also requested the Indian MPs to participate in the All-India Parliamentary Forum for Tibet and help revitalize the Forum to bolster Tibet advocacy in the Indian Parliament and various international platforms," the statement said. "The delegates solicited the presence of the Indian parliamentarians on the upcoming conclave of the All Party Parliamentarian Forum for Tibet and the 7th World Parliamentarians' Convention for Tibet (WPCT)."
"During the entire campaign, the Indian leaders accorded a heart-warming reception to the Tibetan MPs. They expressed their utmost love and reverence for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and assured their strong support and solidarity for the Tibetan cause and pledge to do their utmost for Tibet,' it stated.
"They especially assured that they would discuss and deliberate on Tibet issues with their colleagues, Party leaders and the Government of India whenever opportunity arises," TPiE delegation said, adding: "The Indian lawmakers also earnestly lauded the undying spirit and commitment of the Tibetans inside Tibet and exile in carrying forward the Tibetan freedom struggle for over 60 years and admired the Tibetans for their moral values and simple dispositions."
The Indian lawmakers also urged the TPiE delegates to keep them updated of the Tibet situation and to call on at regular intervals in future. They earnestly offer their valuable guidance regarding the future course of actions for Tibet.
"We are primarily focusing on reaching out to the Indian Parliamentarians who are newly elected to the 16th Parliament. Out of 543 Indian Parliamentarians elected to the 16th Lok Sabha, 315 (or 58%) are first time MPs. This is a record number of first-time MPs in Indian Parliament history over 30 years. Therefore we deem it absolute necessary to reach out to these Parliamentarians and apprise them on Tibet and the Tibetan freedom struggle", said Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok, the TPiE Deputy Speaker.
The Tibetan delegation led by Ven Phuntsok, included Ven Lopon Thupten Gyaltsen and Lobsang Yeshi. They were accompanied by Parliamentary Speakers' Secretary Kalsang Youdon. The current Parliamentary campaign was coordinated by Tenzin Paljor of India-Tibet Coordination Office (ITCO) based in New Delhi.
The Chinese Communist regime began their invasion of Tibet in 1949 with total occupation of the country occurring in 1959. Since that time, more than 1.2 million people, 20% of the nation's population of six million, have died as a direct result of China's invasion and occupation. In addition, over 99% of Tibet's six thousand religious monasteries, temples, and shrines, have been looted or decimated resulting in the destruction of hundreds of thousands of sacred Buddhist scriptures and statues.
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LEXINGTON, Va. - VMI lacrosse head coach Jon Birsner announced the addition of Sean Doyle to his coaching staff as defensive coordinator.
Doyle comes to VMI after playing four years with Robert Morris University. While at RMU, Doyle was a four-year starter at the defensive midfield position. Name a team captain as a senior, he helped lead the Colonials to a record of 13-5 and an NEC championship for the first time in program history. They went on to obtain their first ever NCAA tournament win before falling short to No. 1 Maryland, 14-11, in the second round.
During Doyle’s senior campaign, RMU’s defense was ranked fourth in the country (8.0 goals-against average) while achieving the most wins in program history (13). Sean finished his collegiate career being selected to play in the USILA North South Senior All-Star game.
“We are very excited and lucky to have Sean joining our staff and leading our student-athlete cadets,” said VMI head coach Jon Birsner. “Sean comes from a great background of lacrosse - he is a proven leader that has achieved lots of success in this sport. I’m looking forward to our team benefiting from his experience, leadership and high work ethic.”
While a student-athlete, Doyle achieved the North East Conference’s Commissioner’s honor roll, was a four-year Dean’s list recipient and a board member of RMU’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
“I would like to thank General Peay and Dr. Diles for allowing me to be a part of Virginia Military Institute, as well as Coach Birsner for giving me this opportunity,” Doyle said. “I am looking forward to being a part of this family and am eager to support Coach Birsner by leading and developing the young men to reach their full potential.”
“I am extremely excited for Sean to begin his coaching career at VMI!” said Robert Morris head lacrosse coach Andrew McMinn. “Sean displayed leadership beyond his years in his time at RMU and I am extremely confident that he will be an invaluable addition for the Keydets. His passion, work ethic and overall character will positively impact everyone around him.”
Doyle hails from Huntingtown, Maryland, and is a 2014 graduate of DeMatha Catholic High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from Robert Morris in 2018.
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Wicked in Montreal Canada Showing at Place Des Arts – Review
Wicked Broadway musical tour is currently performing in Montreal Canada from August 01 to August 26, 2012. Here is the Wicked musical review by Anne Sutherland, The Gazette.
The strength of the musical Wicked lies in the two leads, the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good. For all the sumptuous costumes, fancy sets, dry ice, flying monkeys and production numbers, it all boils down to whether these two dames can belt it out.
To state the obvious, the two leads are wicked good.
Wicked, the touring version that just touched down at Place des Arts for almost the entire month of August, is blessed with the gifted pipes of Jeanna de Waal as the saintly sweet Glinda and the superb Christine Dwyer as the flawed but ultimately redeemed Elphaba, the witch of the title.
It’s the story that purports to tell the tale of what happened before Dorothy and her house landed on the Witch of the East in the classic children’s book and 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz.
Based on a series of books by Gregory Maguire, the musical backstory of the friendship of these two divergent characters has been a juggernaut on Broadway, London’s West End and broken all sorts of attendance and box office records since its debut in 2003. And it’s a great show, with outstanding songs culminating with the goosebump-raising vocals on Defying Gravity.
The story opens with widespread jubilation as the citizens of Oz celebrate the passing of the Wicked Witch of the West, a dastardly green creature who has been bedevilling the land. As fans of the story know, she was done in by a bucket of water tossed by Dorothy. Seems her soul was so unclean that pure water could melt her.
Elphaba is destined for great things, Morrible says, and will be introduced to the great Wizard of Oz, her lifelong dream.
The costumes are quite brilliant, particularly the numerous hues of green in the Emerald City tableaus and the candy-coloured gowns sported by the good witch.
Read the complete review {Via MontrealGazette.com}
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Health News..
Exercise Induced Collapse In Clumber Spaniels
E I C Results
The following information outlines the symptoms of the condition:This test has now been approved as an Official DNA Test for Clumber Spaniels by The Kennel Club
This means that as of 1st October 2015 the results of tests will be published by The Kennel Club; anyone who has had a dog tested prior to this date and wishes to have the result added to their dog’s records at the KC should forward a copy of the certificate to hbs@thekennelclub.org.uk
The following information outlines the symptoms of the condition:
“Affected dogs can tolerate mild to moderate exercise, but 5 to 20 minutes of strenuous exercise with extreme excitement induces weakness and then collapse. Severely affected dogs may collapse whenever they are exercised to this extent – other dogs only exhibit collapse sporadically.
The first thing noted is usually a rocking or forced gait. The rear limbs then become weak and unable to support weight. Many affected dogs will continue to run while dragging their back legs. Some of the dogs appear to be uncoordinated, especially in the rear limbs, with a wide-based, long, loose stride rather than the short, stiff strides typically associated with muscle weakness. In some dogs the rear limb collapse progresses to forelimb weakness and occasionally to a total inability to move. Muscles are relatively flaccid during collapse, although when restrained in lateral recumbency some dogs exhibit increased extensor tone in the forelimbs. Manipulation and palpation of the muscles, joints, and spine during or after an episode does not seem to cause discomfort.
Some dogs appear to have a loss of balance and may fall over, particularly as they recover from complete collapse. Most collapsed dogs are totally conscious and alert, still trying to run and retrieve during an episode but as many as 25% of affected dogs have had at least one episode where the owner reports that they appear stunned or disoriented during the episode.
It is common for the symptoms to worsen for 3 to 5 minutes even after exercise has been terminated.”
Exercise Induced Collapse follows an autosomal recessive trait of inheritance.
The inheritance factor is shown in the following table:
Clear x Clear > 100% Clear
clear x carrier > 50% Clear + 50% carriers
clear x affected > 100% carriers
carrier x Clear > 50% Clear + 50% carriers
carrier x carrier> 25% clear + 25% affected + 50% carriers
carrier x affected > 50% carriers + 50% affected
affected x Clear > 100% carriers
affected x carrier > 50% carriers + 50% affected
affected x affected > 100% affected
“Carriers” will never display any symptoms but may pass the gene to their offspring. “Affected” dogs (symptomatic for EIC) must be retired from the activities that cause them to collapse. When trigger activities are limited, dogs with EIC can live normal lives.
It is recommended that “affected” dogs are not used for breeding however “carriers” may be used in a breeding programme but should only be mated to dogs that have been tested “clear” for the condition. This will help in preventing EIC becoming more established as a breed health condition.
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It was a glorious moment for the 27-year-old debutant when he scored his maiden Test hundred in front of his home crowd, at the Basin Reserve. By doing so, he entered an elite group of wicket-keeper batsmen who’ve scored a century on debut.
Tom Blundell’s 2017 came a full circle when he was incorporated into the New Zealand Test squad for the current two-match Test series against the touring West Indies. Around eleven months back, Tom Blundell made his T20I debut when he stood in for an injured Luke Ronchi in a match against Bangladesh. It was a rather bizarre international debut as Blundell, No. 7, was denied a chance to bat and couldn’t do much behind wickets either. In under a week’s time, he was added to the ODI squad for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy.
November 2017 With Watling’s unavailability due to a hip injury, the New Zealand selectors chose to bestow a Test call-up on the wicket-keeper batsman from Wellington. Coach Mike Hesson and the selectors pressed on Blundell’s latest performances in consecutive seasons of the Plunkett Shield as the biggest reasons for his selection. They branded him as a consistent wicket-keeper and an unfailing batsman. To quote Mike Hesson, “He’s confident, but he’s quite quiet and just goes about his work. He certainly knows this week his job is to lead the fielding unit as well in terms of standards.” Quite an augmentation to Hesson’s anticipation was channeled into reality when the right-hander led the lower-order batting on his Test debut. He took New Zealand to a more towering position and set new records in the process.
Tom Blundell scored a well tailored unbeaten 107 off 180 on his debut.
December 2017 Blundell received his Test Cap on 1st December, Day 1 of the 1st Test Match between New Zealand and West Indies. He came down to bat on Day 2 when New Zealand were 281 for the loss of six wickets, leading by 147 runs. From there, he put up a stellar partnership of 148 runs with Colin de Grandhomme. The latter stole the show with his blistering 71-ball hundred, second fastest by a New Zealand batsman, and Blundell’s contribution was a more careful 83-ball fifty. The next two wickets fell quickly and Trent Boult, the last man in, came down to bat when New Zealand was ahead by a whopping 308; Blundell was on 55 off 95.
By the course of the next 23 overs and into Day 3, Blundell put effort into maneuvring his innings with some well-crafted shots with a more cautious Trent Boult backing him. Although the latter contributed only 18 runs in the 78-run partnership, he was well lauded for his hints of defense throughout the 60 deliveries that he faced. Blundell metamorphosed his fifty into a fine hundred, albeit he staggered long in his nineties, that came off Chase’s 28th over. He raised his bat after a ‘Sturm und Drang’ saga of 40 deliveries came to an end. It was the first instance of a wicket-keeper batsman from New Zealand to score a hundred on Test debut. New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson having given the debutant carte blanche to score a well-deserved ton declared the innings soon after that. The total on the board was 520 for 9, that meant a deficit of 386 runs for the West Indies.
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Scorecard (At Stumps, Day 3): West Indies 134 & 214 for 2*(Brathwaite 79*, Hetmyer 66, Hope 21*) trailing by 172 runs, and New Zealand 520 for 9(dec).
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The Vinyl Detective FLIPs BACK into action!
Posted on Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
FLIP BACK, the fourth novel in Andrew Cartmel‘s critically-acclaimed Vinyl Detective series is out today in the US and UK! Published by Titan Books, here’s the synopsis…
At the height of their success, the electric folk band Black Dog invited journalists to a desolate island for an infamous publicity stunt: the burning of a million dollars. But the stunt backfired and the band split up, increasing the value of their final album vastly. It’s this album that Tinkler’s got his eye on, and he hires none other than the Vinyl Detective and Nevada to hunt a copy down.
Narrowly avoiding a killing spree, negotiating deranged Black Dog fans, and being pursued by hack celebrity Stinky Stamner and his camera crew, the Vinyl Detective and Nevada discover that perhaps all was not as it seemed on the island—and that in the embers of that fire are clues to a motive for murder…
Titan Books has also published the first three novels in the series: WRITTEN IN DEAD WAX, THE RUN-OUT GROOVE, and VICTORY DISC.
Here’s some of that critical acclaim that the series has received so far…
‘This charming mystery feels as companionable as a leisurely afternoon trawling the vintage shops with a good friend.’ — Kirkus on WRITTEN IN DEAD WAX
‘… fast-paced, lighthearted adventure… marvelously inventive and endlessly fascinating…’ — Publishers Weekly on WRITTEN IN DEAD WAX
‘Author Cartmel has combined the tropes of the several genres into a surprising, refreshing story centered around old-fashioned records… the story delivers multiple chuckles per chapter… Based on this volume, the series will be a hit.’ — New York Journal of Books on WRITTEN IN DEAD WAX
‘THE RUN-OUT GROOVE does a fantastic job of making its fictional history of music so fascinating and authentic that you’ll forget it isn’t all true… This a follow-up every bit the equal of its highly memorable predecessor, presenting a mystery you’ll be eager to solve and characters whose company you won’t want to leave. Written with infectious charm, the Vinyl Detective has more than proven he’s no one-hit-wonder.’ (9/10) — Alternative Magazine Online
‘Polished, fast-paced and a ton of fun, this is a fantastic read that is easy to get lost in… more polished… keeps the story rolling forward at an incredible speed – and also makes it very hard to put down… Cartmel has created an intoxicating mix of adventure, humour and mystery to lose yourself in… a truly engaging and enjoyable read. THE RUN-OUT GROOVE surpasses even the opening novel in the series for polish and fun.’ — The Crime Review
‘… entertaining second record-spinning mystery… Cartmel treats music and records seriously, plays his strange characters for laughs, and provides a bit of danger and some unexpected twists in this affectionate nod to the vagaries of rock stardom.’ — Publishers Weekly on THE RUN-OUT GROOVE
‘… effectively integrates the lead’s unusual specialty of searching out rare records into an intricately constructed plot… the clever resolution of the story lines is impressive. Fair-play fans, even those without an interest in music, will be pleased.’ — Publishers Weekly on VICTORY DISC
‘VICTORY DISC works beautifully both as a sequel and as a standalone novel… The story is splendid, continuing the fine tradition of the series to date of weaving fascinating fact with thrilling fiction… Andrew Cartmel is a fine mystery (and comedy) writer, keeping his readers smiling while never letting the elements of humour obfuscate the more serious moments… if you enjoyed the first two books, you’ll undoubtedly enjoy this one too. The unsolved murder mystery is highly intriguing, the characters introduced throughout are fully formed and a delight to uncover more about, and the chemistry between the Vinyl Detective and his friends is absolutely spot on. In short, VICTORY DISC is beautifully orchestrated and well worth taking for a spin this summer.’ — Alternative Magazine Online
Andrew is also the co-author of Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London comic series, published by Titan Comics.
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Nocturnal Enuresis Due to Methylphenidate Consumption
Mahin Eslami-Shahrbabaki 1 and Mansoureh Nasirian 2 , *
1 Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IR Iran
2 Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, IR Iran
* Corresponding author: Mansoureh Nasirian, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, IR Iran. E-mail: nasirian90@gmail.com
Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences: June 28, 2015, 17 (6)
Published Online: June 27, 2015
Article Type: Letter
Received: March 10, 2014
DOI: 10.17795/zjrms1003
To Cite: Eslami-Shahrbabaki M, Nasirian M. Nocturnal Enuresis Due to Methylphenidate Consumption, Zahedan J Res Med Sci. 2015 ; 17(6):-. doi: 10.17795/zjrms1003.
Stimulant medications such as methylphenidate and dextroamphetamine are used to treat children with symptoms of hyperactivity disorder and attention deficit; these treatments have some unknown side effects such as irritability, flurry, insomnia, having nightmares, loss of appetite and weight loss [1].
Ghanizadeh reported a case of nocturnal enuresis in a 11-year-old boy that was given 20 mg of methylphenidate once daily due to hyperactivity disorder and attention deficit. This treatment resulted in nocturnal enuresis which was resolved after discontinuation of taking it. Forty five days later, after starting methylphenidate and reaching a dose of 20 mg, nocturnal enuresis appeared again. This problem was again resolved with discontinuation of taking the drug, the above procedure was repeated a third time after starting to take it [2].
The present study reports an 8-year-old child with hyperactivity disorder and attention deficit who was treated with methylphenidate at a dose of 2.5 mg twice daily. The dosage increased to 5 mg twice daily after three days. On the second visit within 2 weeks after the onset of taking the drug, the child's mother complained about nocturnal enuresis and claimed her son suffered from this problem just after starting this medication. Therefore, she stopped giving her son the drug. Automatically, the nocturnal enuresis in the child was resolved with discontinuation of the drug. The child was meticulously studied in terms of personal and family history of nocturnal enuresis. The studies focused on the other reasons of nocturnal enuresis in the child, but no positive history of such a problem was found to justify the case. To control the symptoms of hyperactivity and attention deficit, the child was again treated with methylphenidate and three days after starting the medication, the child started bedwetting which was resolved with discontinuation of taking the drug. At this time, the child was treated with dextroamphetamines. While the symptoms of hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder disappeared by the treatment, no sign of nocturnal enuresis was seen with the treatment of this drug.
How the methylphenidate could cause nocturnal enuresis in what reported requires to be more precisely investigated. However, methylphenidate may stimulate urination reflex and caused more rapid reflexes in the presence of natural arousal of the bladder. Nocturnal enuresis caused by methylphenidate treatment may have various pathogenic conditions which are different from other nocturnal enuresis such as polyuria or increased detrusor muscle activity [2, 3].
1. Kaplan HI, Sadock BJ. Synopsis of psychiatry, behavioral science and clinical psychiatry. 2010;
2. Ghanizadeh A. Methylphenidate-associated enuresis in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. J Pediatr Urol. 2008; 4(4): 306-7[DOI][PubMed]
3. Baeyens D, Roeyers H, Naert S, Hoebeke P, Vande Walle J. The impact of maturation of brainstem inhibition on enuresis: a startle eye blink modification study with 2-year followup. J Urol. 2007; 178(6): 2621-5[DOI][PubMed]
Mahin Eslami-Shahrbabaki: [PubMed] [Scholar]
Mansoureh Nasirian: [PubMed] [Scholar]
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