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L.A. joins 23 states, counties and cities opposing Trump EPA plan
Los Angeles joined a 23-member coalition of states, counties and cities in calling on acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler to withdraw his predecessor’s “harmful and deeply flawed” proposal to censor science at the agency.
The call is part of detailed legal and technical comments submitted by the coalition on former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s proposed “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” rule.
The proposed rule would exclude from EPA decision making any scientific studies, models and other important information that have been validated by peer review simply because not all underlying data are available to the public.
The coalition charges that, in addition to making “little sense as a matter of science,” the proposal is “arbitrary and capricious, violates controlling federal law and contains clear errors in reasoning.” The coalition affirms that they stand ready to pursue legal remedies should EPA persist in this misguided effort.
“This so-called ‘transparency’ rule is yet another Trump administration effort to silence voices that get in the way – this time, of the administration’s relentless attacks on environmental and public health protections,” said Mike Feuer, Los Angeles city attorney. “From catastrophic wildfires burning across California to devastating flooding on the East Coast, climate change is upon us. On this and other crucial issues, so much is riding on the EPA’s ability to use the best science and most-supported information as it makes fateful decisions affecting all of us. Future generations are counting on us to protect the world they will inherit. This proposal is a giant step backwards.”
In the comments, the coalition argues that the EPA is legally prohibited from adopting the proposed rule because it directly conflicts with statutory requirements regarding the EPA’s consideration of scientific information. No federal environmental statute directly allows or suggests that the EPA can ignore the “latest” or “best” or “appropriately designed and conducted” scientific studies whenever the underlying data are not public.
As prominent scientific organizations have noted, peer review of scientific evidence is routinely performed despite the underlying data not being publicly available, as there are often very good reasons – such as the protection of personal privacy and confidentiality, and proprietary interests and property rights – why some research data simply cannot be made fully available.
For information, visit ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/multistate_comments.pdf.
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May 31, 2018 by BloggerAdmin 2 Comments
The American Spectator on Wednesday published a scathing analysis of recent school shootings and the Left’s knee-jerk response that takes the Obama administration’s education secretary to task for his “shoot-from-the-hip” reaction to the Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas.
“Student-led’ protests and Duncan’s call for a nationwide school boycott this fall to spur legislators to pass gun control laws are disingenuous and put the cart before the horse.”
Former education chief Arne Duncan’s suggestion that no student attend school “until gun laws change to keep them safe,” says the American Spectator piece, authored by Chris Talgo and Justin Haskins, “embodies the ‘action for the sake of action’ mentality that so often follows in the wake of heartbreaking school violence.”
Talgo and Haskins are with the Heartland Institute, described by Wikipedia as “an American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank founded in 1984 and based in Arlington Heights, Illinois.”
Some of their observations could have come from P.J. O’Rourke, who is credited with this observation about liberals: “At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child—miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”
If simply passing gun-control legislation worked, then those cities and states with the strictest gun laws would be the safest, and the evidence shows they clearly aren’t. Don’t believe us? Go ask the people of Chicago’s South Side whether they think gun control has worked in their community. Or take a few minutes to examine the crime statistics in states such as Idaho or New Hampshire, where guns are readily accessible and gun-related homicides are relatively rare.”—Chris Talgo and Justin Haskins, writing in The American Spectator
Apparently, it is also a philosophy of public disarmament. Talgo and Haskins note how anti-gunners leap to exploit such tragedies as school shootings.
“Gone are the days of respecting the grieving process for victims and families,” they write. “Now, everything is said and done for political gain, and it happens almost immediately after a tragedy—especially when guns are involved.”
The American Spectator piece says something that Second Amendment activists better take to heart: “anti-gun groups will use whatever tactics necessary to ‘win.’”
Right now, for example, Florida high school student-turned-gun-control-activist David Hogg is spearheading an effort to register teens to vote this fall, according to the Associated Press. The goal is to replace politicians “beholden to the National Rifle Association” with people friendly to gun control; i.e., people “beholden to” the gun prohibition lobby exemplified by Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety and Seattle’s Alliance for Gun Responsibility.
But Talgo and Haskins are on to them.
“Student-led’ protests and Duncan’s call for a nationwide school boycott this fall to spur legislators to pass gun control laws are disingenuous and put the cart before the horse,” they write. “The student-led protests are little more than AstroTurf shenanigans perpetuated by the anti-gun lobby, which uses students as pawns to garner attention and sympathy.”
Gun control is on the front burner in Washington, Oregon, and Illinois where proponents think it will be a useful political tool in November.
If rights activists intend to protect what’s theirs this fall, they need to get busy now.
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Russell Lampe says
I am aghast at the thought of a young kid, David Hogg, with but one world experience, being able to convince anyone that preventing citizens from defending themselves and placing millions at potential risk , in an unproven attempt to make a just few safer, is a good deal.
Eric Stevenson says
I have spoken to some fathers and a mom or two about guns in school to protect the kids, and it been difficult to find any happy medium. We all agree not all teachers should be armed, Mrs. K is a great teacher, but not built to take a life while Mrs. R with an Army background is capable of suppression fire at minimum which is awesome. Our school is fully engaged by providing door locks that restrict access regardless of firepower, a layout that limits “corral” effects for hallways. But I do feel that if the state would allow a course to enhance my CCW to carry outside dropping and picking up, and with my swing shift job, I would volunteer time to walk the grounds and be at minimum a show this area is not as soft, and deter an idiot from thinking of anything. I know school shootings are rare but why make it easier for murderers to kill while good parents would help the school for free. I love my guns, train with them and really any ammo protecting kids is NEVER expensive.
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Julia Marden | May 14, 2009
Last week, the Senate passed a resolution declaring today, May 15, as Endangered Species Day. It’s a day for all of us wildlife enthusiasts (and those who are still joining the party) to learn about endangered species and their habitats.
I was talking with my colleague and fellow blogger Danielle this morning, and she brought up a great point:
“Everyone knows that panda bears and African elephants are endangered. But do we ever think enough about the Virginia big-eared bat?”
So I did some research and found more than twenty wildlife species that live in my neighborhood, all threatened with extinction.
Today, in honor of Endangered Species Day, @wildlifeaction is tweeting for the Red-cockaded woodpecker, native to the DC-area, and already extinct in nearby Maryland. #speciesday
What animal are you thinking of today?
I’m going to turn this over to Danielle (@NWF and @starfocus) now, so she can give you some more facts.
What does Endangered Species Day mean to me? Julia mentioned my pet peeve–everyone seems to know everything about endangered species that are cute, large and very often cuddly–but they also live very far away. I think it’s equally important to know about the animals in YOUR area. Yes I know, some people don’t think they have to care about endangered clams in Virginia–but the truth is–you should. These are the animals that we have an effect on and that have an effect on us.
The sad truth is that we can’t even go to America.gov and get an exclusive look at our nation’s endangered species, and believe me we have plenty of them to fill a page. But that’s ok. Now that we know there are plenty of local animals let’s work to protect them! NWF offers lots of ways.
I think that Endangered Species Day is about ALL of these animals, and that we should never underestimate the importance of protecting even animals far away.
I want to challenge our readers to learn at least ONE new species that is endangered in your area. I think just by being aware of these animals and learning how to protect them, we can be better stewards of the earth. To me, Endangered Species Day reminds me that while it’s important to save what we love it’s equally important to protect what we may not understand.
Just a heads up: “There are currently 1317 species listed in the U.S.: 746 plants and 571 animals. To find out what endangered species are near you, and how you can help, please visit www.fws.gov/endangered.”
I’ll be tweeting for the Gray Bat!
At the National Wildlife Federation–we want to know about the endangered species you care about, whether you tweet it, share it on facebook, post a blog or even a comment below! Share with us a species you learned about or want to protect and if you are on twitter, hashtag it #speciesday. We look forward to hearing about them. (Also- be sure to join the fun even if you aren’t in the US! We would love to hear from you too)
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Collaborative Networks and the P2P Model in Brazil (2): Rio’s fought-over p2p economy
November 3, 2013 No Comment Michel Bauwens read
The idea of ‘life economics’ has a growing influence in Brazil thanks to a variety of experiences. Besides the discussion of a ‘universal minimal wage’ as the horizon of new struggles for the cognitive precariat, we could point to the experience of complementary currencies, social and community currencies, and the notion of co- operatives and the economy of solidarity, among other ways of empowering the autonomy of collectives and the invention of worlds.
This is the second part of a must read essay by Ivana Bentes on the p2p economy in the favellas of Brazil:
* Article: Ivana Bentes (2013) Collaborative Networks and the Productive Precariat, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesia, 22:1, 27-40, DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2013.779234
Ivana Bentes continues:
“These changes are highly visible in a city like Rio de Janeiro, a territory in dispute. The city, which has always been a meta-narrative for Brazil, is currently undergoing profound transformations that place it at the centre of cognitive, affective and communicational Capitalism 2.0.
Rio, the ‘beta-global city’, is at the centre of a symbolic conflict – the transition from a Fordist and developmentalist place into a global periphery where the margins are advancing towards the centre, a place that needs to reinvent itself and overcome its scarcities and negative aspects (poverty, violence, metropolitan crisis). Two symbolic mega-operators are key players in this new carioca imaginary: CUFA/Central Unica das Favelas [Unified Central of Favelas ], which has a broad network in activity throughout Brazil, and the group AfroReggae.
These organisations are successful symbolic transmutations of the city, bringing to the negotiating table former drug dealers, the police, the government, bankers, the media and the university. With strategies at once intuitive and paradoxical, they represent transitional experiences that shun the ‘movement’ of drug trafficking culture in the slums and become social and cultural movements that point to a new form of ‘social corporation’ while hacking the socio-cultural discourse of big enterprises, government and media. They may occasionally be used by corporations but proceed through invention, hits and misses, creating possibilities for the appearance of new social actors and movements. Pejoratively called ‘King ONGs’ (a wordplay on the Portuguese acronym for NGOs), CUFA and AfroReggae are the most visible examples of a subjective mutation that is spreading through hundreds of collectives, cultural centres, production agencies, favela observatories, DJs, cultural agitators and many other subjects of a discourse that is now seizing the city.
In cities like Rio the favelas are emerging as ‘symbolic capital’, as ‘wealth’, as ‘commodities’. They are no longer the place of ‘excluded’ non-subjects, as in some imaginaries and discourses, but rather a cyber-periphery, a place of ‘wealth in poverty’ fought over by Nike, Globo Network Television and the State – a transformation of these interconnected urban quilombos (1) into laboratories for subjective production. The black flesh of the favelas, the potent and desiring bodies, the co-operation without hierarchy, the invention of other times and spaces (on the streets, in dancehalls, LAN centres and rooftops) are all subjected to forms of appropriation, just like anything else in capitalism. However, the favelas are no longer ‘poverty factories’ but rather a form of capital in the market of symbolic national and local values, having been able to convert the most hostile forces (poverty, violence, state of emergency) into a process of creation and cultural invention.
Rio de Janeiro is a thermometer for the difficult and paradoxical task of calibrating post-Lula euphoria. Lula (2) is the president-Macunaíma that boosted the power and potential of the peripheries and, with the insertion of Brazil into a global symbolic arena and the core of cognitive capitalism, gave rise to ‘people managers’ – the managers of subjectivity that invest and monetise the potential of the favelas and peripheries, opening them up for tourism, corporations, banks, consumption and agents of the ‘creative economy’.
The construction of this common other, the rejection of the war against the poor (evictions, criminalisation, repression) and the strength of the peripheries are all growing tendencies. Cultural phenomena emerge, such as kids from the peripheries reinventing themselves as dancers, channelling all their energy and intensity into contests held on rooftops, alleys and favela squares, creating outrageous choreographies for the ‘Battle of Passinho’(3) using steps learned on the streets or viewed in YouTube posts.
We are thus witnessing a resignification of values whenever we hear a funk song composed and sung by women that transforms the pejorative discourse of ‘bitches’ and ‘popuzudas’ (4) into a neo-feminist affirmation of body ownership and libertarian sexual behaviour. This change in sexual behaviour can also be perceived among periphery boys. The musical group Os Hawaianos, for instance, is formed by blond-black boys (5) who sway their hips all the way down to the floor, invent slangs and create a peculiar mode of being in the world – a Brazilian popular intelligence that reinvents anthropophagi, a Cannibal- Brazil version 2.0, both local and global, drafting a new ‘Brazilian atlas’: a becoming- world of Brazil and, simultaneously, a becoming-Brazil of the world.
Once we understand that favelas are part of the city, we can also understand that they are historical formations and will eventually be deemed similar to Middle Age citadels – archives and living environments of a phase of capitalism. These lives- territories are exploding beyond their boundaries and might one day overtake the entire city with their inventions: a Favela-City. As AfroReggae founder Jose ? Ju ?nior says ‘it is the elite which is living in a ghetto’.
Rio de Janeiro (as well as other major cities in Brazil) is fought over. The city is being struggled over by drug traffickers, by the State that attempts to recover territories lost to drug gangs by means of UPPs/Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora [Pacifying Police Units], by militias (paramilitary forces that ‘sell’ services and protection), and by real estate speculators bent on ‘removing’ residents from coveted tourist areas within the city. The city is also a site of struggle for a number of corporations on the eve of two gigantic world events that will take place in Rio and Brazil: the 2014 Soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. These events have been used to promote a violent redesign and re-ordering of the urban landscape, triggering real estate speculation, the removal of impoverished populations from areas within the tourist belt and a series of re-modelings of favelas and poor neighbourhoods.
* Free formation in flux
Within this context, lines of flight and resistance involve an articulation of the edges, of social and cultural movements that are linked through common causes and cultural production, struggling for a space in the media and in public opinion, constructing new narratives around territories and cities. Many of these ongoing initiatives and experiences create their own formative methodology: free media, Grioˆ pedagogy, quilombola pedagogy, processes of technological appropriation by popular and traditional cultures (native Indians, ribeirinhos, caboclos, etc.), production of knowledge born in the Brazilian ‘fringes’ and peripheries – all pointing to the emergence of a digital popular culture, part of a broader mutation where culture becomes central in the production of knowledge and in the construction of a new economy.
These formative processes result from activities and practices in a variety of fields (audio-visual media, theatre, dance, music, multimedia), connecting and inextricably linking the lives and labours of these formative agents. Such effervescence and diversity can be found in the program Cultura Viva, sponsored by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, with its pioneering approach that considers these new arrangements as part of public policy: a living culture, a living economy that offers visibility, and points to the innovative potential of these processes, broadening the very concept of culture used in public policy, stretching it beyond the so-called ‘cultural industry’, with an anthropological perspective that includes the way of being of the most diverse groups.
Among these cultural dynamics we must stress new educational processes. What is the role of education and training in a society where the technological devices for creation, production and distribution are characterised by free, open and strong collaborative dynamics based in direct action? What if they challenge the classic mediating structure of schools, universities, teachers and authorisers of knowledge?
In the transition from a Fordist to a post-Fordist capitalism (immaterial, cognitive, communicational), the processes of cultural production demand new models of knowledge production, experiences of free education, life experiences, life-languages that can explode the ‘factory’. The new cycle of production found in music and audio- visual media, the advances in free media, the crisis of recording and publishing companies, the crisis of intermediary agents and go-betweens, and the crisis of the copyright mentality, all require a new educational approach.
The factory/Matrix comes to be deregulated. The strict separation of knowledge and disciplines that reflected the industrial model of the 19th century – an assembly line with isolated and independent sectors – has become obsolete yet is still active: a fabrication by mean of discipline and control of ‘docile bodies’. Seen as spaces of ‘imprisonment’ (whether real or virtual) that exert power over life, it is hard not to place the traditional School within the same disciplinary paradigm that ruled factories- hospitals-prisons (as Michel Foucault has pointed out) or in the same model of life control, subjectification of bodies and production of desire that characterise ‘biopower’ (power over life).
* Life-work-education-expression
The contemporary issue is that the whole of society has become educational. Cities and networks are themselves the cognitive environment. The city, says Antonio Negri, is the new ‘factory’. The time of work is intermingled with the time of life. Work is no longer dead and characterised by automaticity but rather a living ‘life-work’. In this context, the School should no longer prepare for life, but become life itself. Thus, we see the booming of initiatives in non-formal education, free schools and universities, a demand for education and training in Pontos de Cultura and Pontos de M?dia, with autonomy and freedom as principles for a revolution/mutation in flux that is already under way.
The challenge is to recognise and make visible this potential, responding to the demand for education made by collectives, communities and different types of organisation, with their own dynamics and processes – experimenting with and systematising new forms of visibility, sharing and certification of knowledge.
* Cultural circuit and social movement
In this sense, one should also point to the educational experience of Circuito Fora do Eixo, which mobilises a network of collectives involving some 3000 young people all over Brazil and has created its own Universidade Fora do Eixo (UniFdE) – an open and fluid educational process that offers a sharing and systematising of its methodologies: immersion, life experiences, observatories, workshops, online programs of TV and post-TV, manuals, caravans of cars and buses that cover the country’s territory, etc. With a long experience of free media and virtual activism, Fora do Eixo has become a reference point when it comes to turning the precariousness, fragmentation and atomisation of collectives into an integrated and de-centralised circuit sustained by a cultural and economic distributive network.
It is a singular and successful proposal for simultaneity in the processes of realisation, experimentation and education, where all the actions in the circuit become potential methodologies of free education to be shared and replicated. This involves different strategies of sustainability having the assets of the circuit (free time, work force, mastery of mediatic languages and multimedia narratives) at their core. By fostering and organizing territorial and virtual circuits (of music, audiovisual arts, stage performances, networks of political formation), by creating shared life experiences and spaces of communal interaction, by creating currencies and time banks (a living economy), the experiences of Fora do Eixo move beyond the boundaries between life/education and life/work in an experimental tangent where everything is a ‘laboratory’, everything is education. The educational process, its mapping and systematisation, does not ‘prepare’ for life: it is life experimenting and empowering itself.
* Life economics
The idea of ‘life economics’ has a growing influence in Brazil thanks to a variety of experiences. Besides the discussion of a ‘universal minimal wage’ as the horizon of new struggles for the cognitive precariat, we could point to the experience of complementary currencies, social and community currencies, and the notion of co- operatives and the economy of solidarity, among other ways of empowering the autonomy of collectives and the invention of worlds. Once again we might select just one of these inspiring experiences: the Caixa Coletivo (or Banco do Comum) devised by Fora do Eixo. Here some 3000 young people from large and small cities throughout Brazil have channelled their time and lives into a common project, with a collective ‘kitty’ that pays for their food, clothing and collective lodging.
They reject the idea of an individual salary and take whatever they need from this common fund and have left their ‘slave jobs’ in traditional media, in commercial production, in publicity agencies, or other Fordist employment. Their time and life are thus freed up, produced from the standpoint of a different communal logic. New worlds are constructed. The experience of securing your basic needs changes the logic of cultural production. The time that had been stolen from us by capital, the State, by obligations and bureaucracy, is suddenly recovered and we no longer have to ‘sell’ our abilities, our communication and affect to ‘dead work’.
The experience of Caixa Coletivo points to a radicalisation of the model of sharing:
A synthesis of the aims of Caixa Coletivo can be found in the fact that every participant contributes all their available resources, both tangible and intangible, and makes them available for collective decisions. Dedication, stimulus,articulation, mobilisation, expertise, patience, agility, money, credit cards, cheques, names, cell phones, clothes, goods, products, contacts, plans, work, conflicts and dreams, under full individual management, are seen as resources of the collective fund. Everything must be put in circulation and be utilized in a shared fashion, functioning as a driving force for the sustaining of every step decided by the group.’ (Presentation of Caixa Coletivo 2013, part of an unpublished text written by Lenissa Lenza) This radical availability, this free and autonomous time invested in the Comum is at the genesis of the revolutions of the cognitive precariat. Those who have ‘lost’ everything, given up a normopathic family, a steady salary, or a university degree in order to invest their whole lives in a collective project are capable of anything. New challenges (such as security, difficulties in shared management, horizontality of relations) arise in this radical model of sharing and common funding, but having free time (collectively paid for), not having to ‘sell’ one’s time for food, clothing and lodging means having a minimal standard of sustainable life. This is not to be confused with ‘working for free’ and does not mean a minimal ‘income’ or ‘grant’. It means another kind of economy, a different horizon of collective agreements for the invention of worlds. Banco do Comum can be the basis for a new ‘life economics’.
In this context of networks and collectives we should also mention the experiences of free media (education through and for the media) that innovate by simply de-configuring the traditional spaces of speech: for example, the Escola Popular de Comunicaçãoo Crítica da Maré (ESPOCC), the Escola de Hip Hop created in Rio by the movement Enraizados, the agency Redes para a Juventude, the project Cinema Nosso, as well as different collectives and movements that convert lack/absence/precariousness into potential and power, re-signifying the vulnerable territories of favelas and peripheries, disputing narratives and inventing their own educational methodologies.
The notion that communication and media are no longer ‘tools’ but rather the very organisational mode of social and cultural movements is expressed in a transversal way in different projects and missions of collectives and Pontos, more explicitly in communication projects and media activism. The idea is directly mobilizing everyone in an intense mediatic process of political education that can activate and displace the niches of power/knowledge. A political education thus becomes the horizon and aim of many groups and the demand to deepen and develop this process is also part of the proposal of different collectives.
The idea that the production of knowledge should be open and free of charge (using flexible licences, Creative Commons, Recursos Educacionais Abertos/REA) is decisive in this new paradigm. In this sense, public policies such as free broadband, the Marco Civil for the internet or the reform of copyrights (de-criminalising the practice of sharing files, copies, exhibition of films for educational and cultural purposes) are the basis for the revolution of common shared goods, for the emergence of a mass intellectuality. Hence the decisive sponsoring of research into progress on the web, using Wiki language, the construction of a public free repository of data and content, public servers and platforms, dissemination of web TVs, and live transmission of heterogeneous audiovisual programming.
The principles behind Cultura Livre and Cultura Digital are yet another transversal platform, a condition for sustaining and empowering the field of free media – appearing occasionally or centrally as the project of different groups working with technological appropriation.
These are also some of the conditions for a wiki-school, a wiki-university, a P2P university of open education where the process of teaching/learning and the production of content involves, at different levels, every participant, and where the very formation of educators is based on the production of content for collaborative environments and free tools.
Another important aspect is the attention to language and narratives, which cease to be secondary issues and, together with technological appropriation, appear as a field of dispute and action in many collectives. Some contemporary art, performance art and political-mediatic actions regard aesthetics as something inextricable from the field of expression and political intervention, as an amplification of repertory and a means of possessing different languages in contemporary art.
* Alternative futures
In the movie Minority Report, sensitive mutants hallucinate the future. These Pre-Cogs created by Philip K. Dick, considered ‘idiotic’, ‘sick’ and ‘drugged’ by the system, have predictive powers, glimpsing scenes, indications, fragments and signs of possible crimes – a paradoxical premonition that would be utterly useless if not for the possibility of altering the future and creating alternative realities.
The idea of multiple futures has begun to take shape in Brazil with the growing articulation between social and cultural movements, collectives, networks, supporters of free media, Pontos de Cultura, minorities and majority groups in transversal movements (for example, the Marchas da Liberdade that have taken place in Sa ?o Paulo and another 70 cities throughout the country, the Marcha da Vadias, the Bicicletadas, the 2011 Marcha da Maconha, the 2012 Sa ?o Paulo Existe Amor, etc.). These connect local and global struggles, demanding freedom of expression, and free culture, fighting against prejudice and conquering the city and its public spaces. They are our Pre-Cogs, a new transversal ‘class’, the Cognitive Precariat, sensitive people with their capacity to hallucinate or create new futures. This cultural precariat encompasses street vendors, homeless people, evicted people, agents of the informal economy, freelance, middle-class unemployed youths, everyone who needs to invent their own jobs, eco-activists, militants in the struggle for the legalization of drugs, homo-affective people, black people, the peripheries, those who dwell in terreiros, quilombos and digital landscapes. They form the new ‘class’ of cognitive capitalism and represent the motive force for the reinvention of the Brazilian fold within the global context.”
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Michel Bauwens is the founder and president of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Bauwens travels extensively giving workshops and lectures on P2P and the Commons as emergent paradigms and the opportunities they present to move towards a post-capitalist world. In the first semester of 2014, Bauwens was research director of the floksociety.org which produced the first integrated Commons Transition Plan for the government of Ecuador, in order to create policies for a 'social knowledge economy'. In January 2015 CommonsTransition.org was launched. Commons Transition builds on the work of the FLOK Society and features newly revised and updated, non-region specific versions of these policy documents. Commons Transition aims toward a society of the Commons that would enable a more egalitarian, just, and environmentally stable world. He is a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group, with Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, who have organised major global conferences on the commons and economics.
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Concurrently Speaking Concurrently Speaking
A blog by Niklas Gustafsson on topics loosely related to concurrency and manycore
What About Today’s Gigacore Applications?
Garry Trinder July 10, 2008 2
As should be clear from the previus post, I'm not a big fan of the threads + locks model. An alternative approach is the one offered by message-passing, which is used every day in distributed applications and with enormous success. The world-wide web is one giant concurrent application, if you will: millions of processors are concurrently processing data all across the world, some trivial and some enormously important. The success of this unbelievably complex and humungous application lies in its simple composition model, built around the very simple message-passing protocol we all know as HTTP.
We should ask ourselves whether there are lessons to be learned from this unparalleled success story, lessons applicable to the smaller end of the concurrency scale.
Would You Pass Me the Data, Please!
Rather than mingling the data that is shared between concurrent computations and trying to protect it with locks, the idea in message-passing is to bring the shared data to a computation that needs it, which is responsible for passing it on after it's done with it. A computation may just need once piece of data, (e.g. a bank account record), or multiple pieces of data, (e.g. an account record and a credit report). Either way, the computation does not start until the necessary data is available, but once it is made available in a message, it is not accessible to any other computation.
Some systems, such as the CCR, which I mentioned earlier, take this approach: concurrency is expressed in terms of data flow (DF), where buffers transport data between tasks which are short-lived and produce their results as messages that are sent to other tasks. Each task is started only when all its data is available, which is very efficient from a runtime perspective. Consider, for example, a naively coded control-flow-based application that is waiting for data from three sources (src1, src2, src3):
int x1 = receive(src1);
(Here, 'receive' is used as a placeholder for a generic operation waiting for data to be available -- it could be something as simple as a file I/O read() call).
In the example, the thread would go to sleep during the first call, keeping a stack to retain the calling context for the return. To be fair, the code is very easy to read and understand, but it does suffer from overhead issues. If the data isn't immediately available and comes in in the order listed, the thread will block three times and unblock three times, for a total of six context switches.
On the other hand, in a DF-based system, the same code may look something like:
Join.Create(new Source [] { src1, src2, src3 },
delegate (int x, int y, int z) { ... } );
This code simply attaches a delegate to the availability of the data and then moves on without waiting for it. If there is no more work to be done before the data is available, the task containing this statement returns and is done. The continuation of the task is dependent on the data being available. This is very efficient there are only two context switches involved and since no stack is necessary while waiting (there is no calling context to retain) and stacks are typically very costly. Furthermore, the context switches themselves are far less expensive as they don't have to involve a trip into the OS kernel (this doesn't follow from anything I've said, but it's true).
On the other hand, such code is hard to construct and read unless you spend a lot of time learning it. It's a fundamentally different way of looking at the encoding of an algorithm, a pivoting of the pattern, if you will, and it may not be right for your coding style. A compromise is to wait synchronously as in the first example, but to wait for all data at once and only context switch twice (once when blocking, once when unblocking):
Join.WaitFor( new Source [] { src1, src2, src3 } );
This is less efficient than the callback method above, since it holds on to the stack, but it is still better than the three waits in sequence. If you're running on a Windows GUI thread, though, it's bad for another reason: application responsiveness suffers, which is much worse than having a few extraneous context switches.
Message-passing is per se not sufficient to replicate the WWW scalability success story -- we need a couple of other elements, too: isolation and loose coupling. More about this later.
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digitalego says:
Interesting but still, a little off. I wonder where .NET is traveling considering functional programming practices obliterate any idea of lock/unlock context switching.
However, given we are in .NET wrong with something a bit more functional like:
// *****************
MapReduce<InputT, OutputT> fx = new MapReduce(
delegate(ref InputT criteria) {
int x1 = process(criteria);
// transform result set to OutputT()
new SizePartition(100),
new ThreadDistributionSurface(minThreads, maxThreads)
OutputT results = fx.Execute();
return results;
In the above you don’t distribute each call, you distribute the package of calls across a distribution surface. Packaging by partition "page", such that:
If you process 1000 ‘items’ you get 10 functions (delegates) ready to be distributed in a multi-computer XOR multi-core XOR multi-thread manner.
Message-Passing PDC 2008 C++ Maestro Programming Languages Agents PPL PDC 2009 Axum Scheduling Shared Memory Isolation F# CCR Bugs Parallelism TPL Azure Simulation
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DAY 3 (6/6): ASAKUSA AT NIGHT (浅草), Tokyo (東京), Japan, 2017.06.16
We both felt asleep on the train back to Tokyo. The normally popular tourist district of Asakusa (浅草) was largely deserted by the time we walked out Asakusa Station at around 9pm. We didn’t want to return to our hotel yet. We decided to wander around Asakusa, from the world famous Kaminarimon (雷門) of Sensoji (金龍山浅草寺) to the inner streets of dining, shopping and entertainment district of Rokku. Most shops were closed except for some restaurants and street eateries.
The buildings and streetscape around Tobu Asakusa Station reveal the former glory of Asakusa when the district was a foremost area in Tokyo.
Tokyo Skytree and Philippe Starck’s Asahi Beer Hall stood out in the skyline beyond.
Kengo Kuma’s Asakusa Culture and Tourist Centre (淺草文化中心) took on a different appearance under the perfect illumination.
Surrounded by scaffolding, the Kaminarimon (雷門) of Sensoji (金龍山浅草寺) found a moment of peace with the absence of tourists.
The 200m Nakamise (仲見世) Shopping Street closed for the night. Security guards were checking the shopping streets to ensure no visitor stayed behind.
From Nakamise (仲見世), we entered a side street (雷門柳小路) into the grid network of small streets of restaurants, cafes, and bars.
Orange Street (オレンジ通り), a street famous for its orange paint lies at the centre of the dining and entertainment area of Asakusa.
The Rokku area of Asakusa was once the biggest entertainment district in Japan before WWII. During the Edo Period (1603-1867), Asakusa lies outside the city wall and was a red light and theatre district. During the prewar years of the 20th century, theatres and cinemas dominated the Rokku area. Much of Asakusa was destroyed during the war. Today, the entertainment district of Asakusa was only a shadow of its past.
Some restaurants in the area still maintains the atmosphere of the prewar days.
In contrast to the spirituality and history of Sensoji Temple just a few blocks away, the Rox Dome is a popular indoor batting stadium.
The atmospheric Dempoin Dori (傳法院通) offers a glimpse of the former theatre and entertainment district.
Not many pedestrians were around at Dempoin Dori. However some of the restaurants were still open. The traditional shopfronts reminded visitors the appearance of the lively high street during the prewar years.
Despite its decline in the postwar years, Asakusa remains an interesting place to stroll around and get a feel of Tokyo’s history and its vibrant dining scenes.
Today, the Rokku area is still a focus of dining and entertainment experience, with outdoor eateries here and there near the junction of Don Quijote Department Store.
Most shops were closed for the night, but the street-side eateries were still quite lively when we were there.
The junction in front of Don Quijote Department Store was brightly lit up by neon lights of theatres and shops.
Apart from the street eateries and traditional shops, there are also covered arcades in the area providing another alternative shopping experience.
After strolling for an hour or so, we headed back to Asakusa Station and took the metro back to Shibuya. Passing by the narrow alleyways near the station, the Tokyo Skytree across Sumida River could be clearly seen at the street end, revealing a new chapter of shopping and entertainment just a stone throw away from Asakusa.
August 27, 2017 | Categories: Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo 2017 | Tags: Architecture, Asakusa, オレンジ通り, Dempoin Dori, district, entertainment, 雷門柳小路, food, Japan, Kengo Kuma, night, Philippe Starck, Rokku, Skytree, Tokyo, yokocho, 傳法院通, 東京, 浅草, 淺草, 淺草文化中心, 仲見世 | Leave a comment
DAY 2 (4/4): EBISU YOKOCHO (恵比寿橫丁), Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan, 2017.06.15
Small alleyways of tiny izayaka (居酒屋) and eateries situated a block or two away from train stations, yokocho can be found in many districts in Tokyo. From 6pm to sunrise, yokochos offer a relaxing venue for drinks and snacks after work. We knew it would be chaotic, cramped, noisy, and messy, but we loved to have a yokocho (橫丁) experience during our Tokyo stay. We picked Ebisu Yokocho, a popular indoor alleyway just a block away from Ebisu Station. Since 1998, Ebisu Yokocho has successfully converted the declining Yamashita shopping centre into a popular venue for food and drinks. Just like other yokocho, eateries in Ebisu Yokocho serve different Japanese cuisine, from sashimi to yakitori. As soon as we entered the covered alleyway, we were overwhelmed by the smell of cigarette, sake and grilled meat in the air. Entering from the relatively dark and empty street, the warm and crowded yokocho felt like a completely different world. We were lucky to find a table available at one of the eateries. The food wasn’t as cheap as we thought, but the experience of enjoying beer and small dishes of Japanese food in a crowded alleyway was pretty interesting.
The main street entrance of Ebisu Yokocho is just a block away from Ebisu Station (恵比寿駅).
It was about 20:00 when we arrived at Ebisu Yokocho. It was still early in the night but the place was already quite packed.
Most visitors were locals, but there were also some foreign tourists enjoying the local cuisine and sake. There is however no English menu at the eateries and most staff don’t speak English.
Most yokochos in Tokyo are outdoor. Ebisu Yokocho on the other hand was established in the former Yamashita Shopping Centre.
Many visitors seemed to be groups of colleagues having a break after work.
The yokocho was cramped and noisy, but the atmosphere was energetic and fun.
There are two other entrances from side streets into Ebisu Yokocho.
Slot window and a wall mural illustrating the floor plan of Ebisu Yokocho.
Colourful neon signage of the eateries.
A man walked by the colourful side entrance of Ebisu Yokocho.
July 22, 2017 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Ebisu, food, izayaka, Japan, restaurant, station, Tokyo, yokocho, 居酒屋, 恵比寿, 恵比寿駅, 橫丁 | Leave a comment
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We Are His Gold
Who can remember the Summer Olympics in 2008? If you were like me, you went many nights staying up all hours of the night to watch the results. The one thing that amazed me was the dedication and discipline of athletes who had invested years into their particular sport to shave off nanoseconds from their best time or perhaps grab the gold by so close a margin that even instant replay caused a slow-motion conundrum.
This dedication challenged me to consider the modern approach to ministry in God’s church. Rather than gold medals, are we not in our very own battles for souls won to the kingdom of God for all eternity? Isn’t our main calling as ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to fight the battle of darkness which pervades this world with the sword of the spirit and the holy light of God, turning back humanity from the very gates of Hell?
When considering this, let us ask ourselves how much more that we ministers of the greatest news that history has every known should approach our ministries as a warrior prepares for battle or as the athlete trains as to get the prize. Click HERE to read the rest
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Tags: Olympic Gold Medal, Summer Olympics 2008
Ushers with stun guns stir controversy
MONTGOMERY — Ron Henning recalls the day he first "put a man down" in the center aisle just before the pastor gave the altar call.
"I thought he was reaching for a weapon in his pocket," Henning says. He rushed over, zapped the man with a church-issued stun gun and sent him to the floor for seven minutes, throwing the service into tumult. It turned out the man was heading to the altar to give his heart to Christ, but couldn't wait for the pastor to finish the altar call. The church apologized and paid the man $500, but he has not returned.
"Mix-ups happen, but we're safer as a congregation because of the stun guns," says head usher Tim O'Daley. "There are crazies out there, terrorists who might try to take out the man on the platform."
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Back blogging
Guess it's a cyclical thing. It's a beautiful, gorgeous day here. High of 82 and plenty of Sun on a Sunday after church. Lunch at Blue Goose tops an awesome weekend of worship. Worship choir sang Israel Houghton's "Say So" and the choir, band, and whole team was annointed.
Brandi and Kerry working in the Resource Center at VCC.
I love this post from Phil Cooke... It seems wrong that we have to try to hard to be authentic.
Is Authenticity As Rare As It Seems For Pastors And Non-Profit Leaders?
Whenever I work with non-profit or religious leaders in trying to brand their organizations, I usually ask the man or woman at the top, “What makes you different?” In other words, “What personal trait separates you from the pack?” The first response I invariably get is “authenticity.” I get that answer over and over. Many pastors and ministry leaders are especially proud of their authenticity, and feel like they are one of the few who have it. But that usually leaves me a bit depressed. Not because this person really is authentic, but because they consider it so special and rare. After all, shouldn’t "authenticity" be normal for pastors and ministry leaders? Shouldn’t authenticity be the baseline behavior for any spiritual or non-profit leader? Isn’t it a bit sad that we live in an era where "authenticity" is considered a rare trait for pastors and ministry leaders?
But then again, after seeing the divorces, lawsuits, legal actions, and financial questions non-profit and ministry leaders have been facing over the last number of months, perhaps being authentic is more rare that we'd like to think.
Tags: authenticity, phil cooke
It topples governments,
wrecks marriages,
ruins careers,
busts reputations,
causes heartaches,
nightmares,
indigestion,
spawns suspicion,
generates grief,
dispatches innocent people to cry in their pilows.
Even its names hisses. It's called gossip. Office gossip. Shop gossip. Party gossip.
It makes headlines and headaches.
Before you repeat a story, ask yourself:
Is it fair?
Is it necessary?
If not, shut up!
Enthusiastic charismatic man worries relatives
I found this a funny but telling article at Lark News.
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Frank Harrison, a lifelong Lutheran, began attending a charismatic church last month and now has his family worried.
"He’s scaring the wits out of us," says his mother. "All this praying he’s doing and the crazy talk about healing and spiritual warfare. He’s de-stabilizing the family."
Frank says he decided to change churches when he sat through an entire Lutheran service one Saturday evening before realizing it was a funeral service. LOL
Out of curiosity he went to the liveliest charismatic church in town "to see the other extreme," he says. He loved it and now he greets people with "Praise the Lord!" and a big hug. He’s at church three times a week.
But his relatives became concerned when he invited them to an all-night Prayer-athon, participated in a Jericho March around the city and tried to lay hands on and heal several people at a recent family picnic. The family met recently to discuss Frank’s "disturbing religious fervor" and to plan an intervention.
"One day he was normal Frank, my fishing buddy, and then, bam, he was in this nutso church, speaking in tongues, fasting all the time and reading his Bible," says a cousin. "It's unnatural."
The family intends to tell Frank they are gathering for prayer, so they know he’ll come, and then they will spring their true purpose on him. They have hired an intervention expert for the occasion.
"We want the old Frank back," says his mother. "It feels good to be rescuing him."
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
Tags: charismatic, Jericho March, Lark News, Lutheran, spiritual warfare
Understand the Power of Telling the Story
We get so wrapped up with the methods of church that we forget the most important element. We are storytellers. Our job is to tell a simple story about how God chose to become one of us and share His eternal plan with people who don't deserve it. That's it. Let's spend more time learning how to tell a story more effectively. This coming Sunday, thousands of pastors will step up to the pulpit without telling a single story. And yet, when you study the life of Jesus, that's all He ever did. He rarely lectured or preached as we conceive it; He mostly told stories that touched people and changed their lives.
The great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman said, "Facts go straight to the head, and stories go straight to the heart." Let's make a new commitment to understanding that unless we can tell a powerful story, our ability to reach an audience is terribly diminished.
paraphrased from Vision Magazine's Phil Cooke Vol 5 Issue 1
My apologies to Phil Cooke for not making a better siting reference...
You can read some incredible stuff at his site ...
www.philcooke.com
Tags: Ingmar Bergman, Phil Cooke, Storytelling, Vision Magazine
Bible Park
Developers in Tennessee are pitching a $150-300 million amusement park called "Bible Park U.S.A." to local officials. Guests will walk through the gates of Jericho, see a moat connecting the Dead Sea to the Sea of Galilee, eat authentic Middle Eastern food and experience a museum called "The Bible: The Greatest Adventure." Depictions of Moses standing before a burning bush and Noah’s Ark are envisioned as theme attractions at a “Bible Park U.S.A.” proposed for Rutherford County.
A Dome of the Light will host a museum with the exhibits such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and a recording studio where churches may record CDs to bring back to their church.
“Maybe we’ll have a battle of the choirs,” Bar-Tur said.
Tags: Bible Park, Murfreesboro Post
Pastors 24/7
LEWISTON, Maine — Recently, several hundred members of Holy Trinity Church watched pastor Jeremy Woods eat breakfast, work on his sermon and make a Starbucks run. Woods had just joined a growing group of pastors who are broadcasting their lives 24/7 on the Internet.
"When I first heard of going live I thought, 'This is the future of pastoring but I'm not sure I like it,'" Woods says. But after a month he says he "totally digs it."
"It's the next step beyond blogging or even live blogging," he says. "It's about sharing life."
The trend is believed to have started in 2004 when Rick Givens of New York's West Side Church decided to make himself "more accountable and accessible" by webcasting every waking moment live. But his pioneering effort has forced other pastors into awkward decisions. Donald Taylor, 37, of Nebraska didn't want to go live, but relented because of pressure from his board. He hated his first week. "It was like being in prison. You never have a moment to yourself," he says
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GM Denies Barra Blames UAW, Beto Stops by Union Hall
By George Nelson | March 19, 2019
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – General Motors CEO Mary Barra did not blame the United Auto Workers for the status of the now-idled Lordstown Complex, despite a claim by President Donald Trump on Twitter, a spokesman for the automaker said Monday.
The president’s tweet Sunday night asserting that Barra held the union responsible for the plant was one of a series of tweets he made since Saturday regarding the facility, which turned out its last Chevrolet Cruze two weeks ago.
“Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors about the Lordstown Ohio plant,” Trump tweeted Sunday night. “I am not happy that it is closed when everything else in our Country is BOOMING. I asked her to sell it or do something quickly. She blamed the UAW Union — I don’t care, I just want it open!”
Barra “did not blame the UAW for anything,” GM spokesman Dan Flores responded via email Monday night. The future of the Lordstown plant as well as three other U.S. plants being idled will be resolved between GM and the UAW through its national negotiations later this year.
“To be clear, under the terms of the UAW-GM National Agreement, the ultimate future of the unallocated plants will be resolved between GM and the UAW,” Flores said in a separate email.
“We remain open to talking with all affected stakeholders, but our main focus remains on our employees and offering them jobs in our plants where we have growth opportunities,” he continued. So far, GM has placed more than 1,000 employees from its unallocated plants to other GM sites, and opportunities are available “for virtually all impacted employees,” he said.
Since Saturday, Trump has commented on Lordstown four times via Twitter, his preferred means of communication. In the tweets, the president criticized GM, the UAW and, specifically, Local 1112’s president Dave Green, who he said “ought to get his act together and produce.”
Trump’s tweet targeting Green came after a discussion on Fox News suggesting that Trump’s re-election campaign could face trouble in the industrial Midwest. As part of the segment, the cable news channel, which Trump is known to watch frequently, showed clips from the president’s July 2017 rally in Youngstown during which he told those attending not to sell their houses because jobs were coming back to the area.
Against this political backdrop, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke seized an opportunity Monday evening and made a surprise, unannounced stop at the Local 1112 union hall in Lordstown. O’Rourke, who campaigned earlier in Cleveland, posted a tweet last night along with a picture of his meeting with Green.
In his tweet, O’Rourke said he is “impressed” with Green, “his leadership, the way he’s fought for employees at GM’s Lordstown plant & how he’s conducted himself while being attacked by the President. He’s fighting not just for his members but for their families, this community & all workers.”
O’Rourke also used Facebook to post a six-minute video with Green that was live-streamed.
Green detailed the job losses, not just at GM but also at its suppliers and other workplaces his union represents. And he criticized the tax reform bill passed by Republicans that enabled companies like GM to reap a huge windfall without requiring reinvestment in the United States, and tax breaks that make it cheaper to produce vehicles in foreign countries and sell them in the United States.
In his tweet Monday morning, Trump urged GM and the UAW not to wait until fall to negotiate a new agreement.
“General Motors and the UAW are going to start ‘talks’ in September/October. Why wait, start them now! I want jobs to stay in the U.S.A. and want Lordstown (Ohio), in one of the best economies in our history, opened or sold to a company who will open it up fast!” he said.
In response, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown continued his criticism of Trump and took aim at Barra as well.
“Instead of fighting to save these jobs, President Trump decided to side with corporations and give companies like GM massive tax breaks to shut down American factories and ship jobs overseas,” he said.
Trump’s comments about the UAW are “disgraceful” and Green “has done nothing but fight for workers in Lordstown, while the president has made lots of big promises and failed to stand up for workers at every turn,” he said.
As Green said, Trump should support the senator’s American Cars, American Jobs Act to keep auto jobs in Ohio, Brown continued. And Barra “owes the workers from this highly productive plant an explanation” for the comments Trump said she made.
WASHINGTON POST:
O’Rourke appears with GM union leader maligned by Trump, pledging help carrying message
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Standard
Outnumbered and outgunned, but not outmatched.
Call of Duty®: Ghosts is an extraordinary step forward for one of the largest entertainment franchises of all-time. This new chapter in the Call of Duty® franchise features a new dynamic where players are on the side of a crippled nation fighting not for freedom, or liberty, but simply to survive.
Fueling this all new Call of Duty experience, the franchise's new next-gen engine delivers stunning levels of immersion and performance, all while maintaining the speed and fluidity of 60 frames-per-second across all platforms.
Single Player Campaign
Ten years after a devastating mass event, America’s borders and the balance of global power have changed forever. As what's left of the nation's Special Operations forces, a mysterious group known only as "Ghosts" leads the fight back against a newly emerged, technologically-superior global power.
A New Call of Duty Universe: For the first time in franchise history, players will take on the underdog role with Call of Duty: Ghosts; outnumbered and outgunned, players must fight to reclaim a fallen nation in an intensely personal narrative. Gamers will get to know an entirely new cast of characters and visit locales in a changed world unlike anything seen in Call of Duty® before.
In Call of Duty: Ghosts you don't just create a class, you create a soldier, a first for the franchise. In the new Create-A-Soldier system, players can change the physical appearance of their soldier by choosing the head, body type, head-gear and equipment, and for the first time in a Call of Duty® game, the player can also choose their gender. With 20,000 possible combinations, this is the most flexible and comprehensive character customization in Call of Duty history.
New dynamic maps are the evolution of multiplayer. They include interactive elements and player triggered events that make the environment evolve as each match goes on. The entire landscape can shift and force players to change tactics and strategies.
Call of Duty: Ghosts introduces new tactical player movements. The new contextual lean system now allows players to lean around obstacles without adding button combinations or fully leaving cover. The new mantling system allows fluid movement over objects, while maintaining momentum. The knee slide allows for a natural transition from sprinting crouching to prone.
Call of Duty: Ghosts delivers over 20 NEW Kill Streaks such as Juggernaut Maniac, the Helo Scout, the Vulture and the ODIN Strike. Players can even bring in guard dog Riley, from the single-player campaign, to protect and also to attack enemies. There are also over 30 NEW weapons, including an entirely new weapon class: Marksman Rifles.
Build your team and take up to 6 of them into battle in the all new Squads mode. This mode takes the best parts of the multiplayer experience and allows you to play either solo or cooperatively with the custom soldiers created and leveled up in multiplayer.
The load-out choices you make for your Squad members will directly change the AI behavior of your squad-mates. Give your soldier a sniper rifle and he'll behave like a sniper, and an SMG guy will be more run and gun.
CPU: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHZ / AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 2.4 GHZ or better
GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTS 450 / ATI® Radeon™ HD 5870 or better
HDD: 40 GB HD space
OS: Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit
Other: DirectX®: DirectX® 11
Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Premium Edition
ARMA III
Killing Floor
Sniper Elite V2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
Red Orchestra 2 Rising Storm
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Our team of career counselors can assists students in deciding a variety educational and occupational options, as well as providing them with the tools needed for making an informed decision. These tools can include personality & career assessments, career research tools, and other resources that are useful in the decision-making process. Students can schedule an individual career counseling appointment to discuss a variety of topics, ranging from choosing a major/career path to conducting a mock interview.
The CCD also offers Walk-In Hours Monday through Friday from 12pm-1pm during while classes are in session. Feel free to contact the CCD with any questions or concerns you may have regarding a student.
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To support the needs of your students, the CCD has designated staff members who serve as liaisons to several Schools to facilitate campus-wide collaborations and information sharing. Partner with your liaison to identify CCD programs and services to support your student’s career exploration, job/internship search, and graduate success.
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Students aren’t the only one interested in their success; their accomplishments are also very important to the college. Staff members in career services, admissions, development, alumni relations, and you, the faculty, have a direct investment in their achievement. The role you play in the employment process complements the role played by career services. Occasionally, however, helping students in their job searches can result in unanticipated illegal or unethical actions.
NACE is the leading source of information on the employment of the college educated and an organization to which a great number of academic and hiring organizations belong, provides a set of ethical standards for guiding the job-search process. Titled Principles for Professional Practice for Career Services & Employment Professionals, these standards are based on notions of fairness, equal opportunity, truthfulness, non-injury, confidentiality, and lawfulness. - A Faculty Guide to Ethical and Legal Standards in Student Hiring, NACE, 2012.
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Dear [Name of Employer]:
This reference letter is provided at the written request of [name of student], who has asked me to serve as a reference on [his/her] behalf. It is my understanding that [name of student] is being considered by your organization for the position of [job title]. Please be advised that the information contained in this letter is confidential and should be treated as such. The information should not be disclosed to [name of student, if student has waived access] or anyone in your organization who would not be involved in the hiring decision regarding this individual. Additionally, the information should not be disclosed to anyone outside of your organization without the consent of the student.
I have known [name of student] for the past [number of months, semesters, years] as [he/she] has taken the following courses which I teach: [list courses, give brief description of content of course]. As [his/her] professor, I have had an opportunity to observe the student's participation and interaction in class and to evaluate the student's knowledge of the subject matter. I would rate the student's overall performance in these subjects as [below average, average, above average]. This is evidenced by [his/her] grades—[state the grades].
[One or two specific examples of the student's performance may be appropriate.] As part of [his/her] grade in [name of course], the student was required to prepare a paper. The paper was designed to measure the student's ability to research, to analyze the results of the research, and to write. [Discuss how the paper submitted by the student indicated to you the student's skills in these areas.] Based upon this, I rate the student's skills [indicate rating].
[It may be appropriate to give specific examples about the student's area of expertise.]
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If you would like to discuss this further, please feel free to contact me.
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Hybrid Moments: Independent Music in Italian America
How is it that an Italian-American grandmother’s gesture against the evil eye became the internationally recognized symbol for heavy metal music? What does the “Frank Sinatra of the punk scene” sound like? And why do so many punk musicians—the Ramones, the Rezillos, Fugazi—want to be Italian?
While the history of Italian Americans in jazz and early rock and roll is well documented, little is known about their contribution to various types of alternative, independent, and underground music. Though these terms are problematic, they remain useful for discussing less-mainstream genres—metal, punk, experimental, singer-songwriter—and their associated subcultures. Artists performing in a variety of musical styles, from Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath) to Vinnie Stigma (Agnostic Front), from Natalie Merchant to Ani Di Franco, from Joe Jack Talcum to Ted Leo, represent an Italian presence—sometimes veiled, sometimes overt—in the American music scene. Ethnic identity has not been the defining feature of alternative musicians’ creativity, yet Italian-American artists’ italianità is revealed through name change or retention, lyrics, cultivated persona, or performance style.
Panel discussions and paper presentations will explore topics including: the Italian-American influence in indie music-making; the experience of negotiating ethnic identity and subculture identity; and, the assertion, or lack thereof, of Italianness in performers’ musical personae.
In conjunction with the event, the Calandra Institute will host a film screening of the documentary Average Community (2010)film screening of the documentary Average Community (2010), directed by Fred Zara, on November 4 at 6 pm. An exhibition of photographs of the ‘80s punk scene by Lilian Caruana opens on October 27 at 6 pm.
Click here to view the program brochure.
Click here to view the program poster.
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All time angling heroes
Angling history
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Greatest angling writers
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Hugh Falkus
Bernard Venables
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Bernard Venables is most famous for 'Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing', a strip-cartoon book that he wrote and illustrated while working for the Daily Mirror.
Bernard Venables on the Avon
World’s best seller
Written in 1949, the book sold more than 2 million copies, making it the best-selling sports book of all time. A whole generation of anglers in the 1950s and 1960s grew up on Mr Crabtree, and many can still quote from it, with sayings like: "Don’t stamp your feet, Peter!” or Gosh, dad! It’s going like a train!"
Mr Crabtree goes fishing cover
In this age of hi-tech tackle, Bernard’s advice about learning to use a centrepin before you progressed to a fixed-spool, or gaffing pike, or taking away a specimen fish to have it mounted, might seem quaint. Not many youngsters are brave (or perhaps stupid) enough to wear shorts in all weathers, as Crabtree’s son Peter did. But many people fishing today owe their start to Mr Crabtree.
Artist and illustrator
Bernard, though, was not a trained writer. He was an artist and illustrator, and his first book was on tanks, written during the Second World War for the Ministry of Supply and published, incongruously, by Country Life. It’s often believed that his first fishing writing was the Mr Crabtree strip, but while he worked at the Daily Express during the 1940s, he wrote occasional fishing pieces that he illustrated with drawings.
Bernard Venables perch
Mr Crabtree. Gardener or angler?
Bernard joined the Daily Mirror in 1946 and his first job was to illustrate readers’ dreams. Bernard proposed that a gardening strip would probably work well post-war, and so it proved. Jack Hargreaves was the scriptwriter and chose the name of the gardener: Mr Crabtree.
Problems came as the winter of 1947 took its grip. "What’s Mr Crabtree to do now? Nothing’s happening in the garden," asked Philip Zec, a Mirror director.
"Well, he could go fishing," said Bernard. Those few words would change his life.
The cartoon strip was an immediate success and it expanded into a full page. There was even better news for Bernard. The editor told him: "I don’t want to see you in the office. I don’t want your copy to smell of the desk." So he wrote and illustrated from home – and went fishing.
Crabtree book but no bonus payments
Not long afterwards, it was suggested that he should produce a book of the Crabtree strips. He took the ones that had been published, added more, a few watercolours (who has read that book and not been moved by the wonderful picture of perch chasing fry?) and some text below his cartoons. Bernard described it: "I let my loving pleasure run as it would."
Jack Hargreaves saw an advance copy. He told Bernard: "This will sell a million." He was wrong. By the mid-1950s, he went past the Mirror building and saw a huge banner saying: "Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing: Now 2 Million Copies Sold."
Imagine the royalties! Alas, Bernard didn’t get a penny. He was a Mirror staffer, and had been commissioned by his employers to create the book. It was part of his job.
Angling Times launch
Bernard was tempted in the early 1950s by the offer of launching a tabloid weekly angling newspaper. Angling Times was published in July 10, 1953 with Bernard at the helm as editorial director.
He did some amazing things there. They included opening up the fishing potential of Ireland to English anglers, catching a 700-kilo six-gilled shark off Madeira (still the largest fish taken on rod and line in European waters) and setting up a publication that is still running today.
He left Angling Times, feeling he needed a new challenge, to set up Creel, a 64-page monthly magazine in full colour (a huge innovation in 1963). It was beautifully produced and all the top writers of the day contributed, from Walker to Clive Gammon.
Bernard Venables with Walker
But it proved hugely expensive to produce. Two years later, it had reduced in size, was printed on cheaper paper and had a new editor, John Nixon. It never made a profit and was absorbed into Angling magazine in 1967.
Foreign travels
Bernard then travelled extensively. At an age when most people start to think about retirement, he lived with the whalers in the Azores, going out in tiny boats and hand-held harpoons after sperm whales; he travelled 1200 miles from the source of the Zambesi downstream, writing books about both adventures ('Baleia', 1968 and 'Coming Down the Zambesi', 1974).
He fished in Mauritius, the Bahamas, the Seychelles, before they ever became popular. In his 80s, he fished for Nile perch in Uganda and tigerfish on Lake Kariba.
In 1995, he was awarded an MBE for services to angling. He was still writing, broadcasting and painting right up to his death, aged 94. He was buried, appropriately, in a wicker coffin. His influence on angling through his writing will probably never be matched, and it was delightful writing, too. He loved all forms of fishing (he wrote with equal facility on trout, tench or tarpon.)
Bernard Venables at Angling writers association
Maybe his philosophy and his writing, born of a gentler time, is out of tune with the modern angling scene, with its obsession on PBs, rod hours and competitiveness. For him, fishing was an escape.
He once said: "Urban life doesn’t help. That’s the scum on the pond of life. People can’t help it, but there’s little to remind them of what life on earth is." His best writing reminds us of that.
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Home / Inconvenient Facts / Big Pharma Made Money from Risky Drugs
Big Pharma Made Money from Risky Drugs
A settlement for death or injuries down the road is just the cost of doing business.
Have you ever noticed how warnings about dangerous prescription drugs always seem to surface after the drug is no longer marketed and its patent has run out? Whether it’s an FDA advisory or a trial lawyer solicitation about harm that may have been done to you, the warnings are always belated and useless. If a drug you took four years ago may have given you liver damage, why didn’t the FDA tell you then? Why didn’t the FDA recall the drug or better yet, not approve it in the first place?
The official answer from the FDA and Big Pharma is that problems with a drug are only seen after millions begin using it, which is why post-marketing surveillance is conducted. In other words—who knew? But in a startling number of cases revealed in court documents Pharma did “know” and clearly misled medical journals, the FDA, doctors and patients, hoping to get its patent’s worth before the true risks of a drug surfaced. In other cases, Pharma and the FDA should have known before rushing a dangerous drug to market and making money at the expense of patients.
It is the business model for new drugs that provokes Big Pharma to bury risks and exaggerate benefits. A new drug under patent has a high price and no competition, and will make millions or even billions every year it is under patent. A settlement for death or injuries down the road is a nuisance and just the cost of doing business. Needless to say, the “forgiveness is cheaper than permission” business plan breeds shameless repeat offenders since the company makes money and no officers go to jail.
Hidden and unforeseen risks in new drugs are such a danger that some medical professionals advise patients to wait up to seven years before they try a new drug. Of course, the drug is no less risky when made by a generic drugmaker except that it has been in use longer and is not accompanied by slick advertising to push demand and even “sell” the condition it treats. But generics have their downside, too. Unlike branded drug companies, a 2013 Supreme Court ruling says generic drug makers can’t be sued.
Here are some drugs whose risks did not did not keep them from getting their “patent’s worth.”
1. Vioxx: Remember the “super aspirin” Vioxx, that was heavily marketed by Merck and athletes Dorothy Hamill and Bruce Jenner 15 years ago? Vioxx was a wonder drug that treated everything from arthritis pain to menstrual cramps, its ads claimed, sparing users the gastrointestinal problems caused by older drugs like aspirin. It turned out that Vioxx was super at something else, too: it doubled the risk of cardiac events , causing 27,785 heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths according to news sources.
While Merck pleaded ignorance, the New England Journal of Medicine in 2006 accused Merck of concealing “critical data on an array of adverse cardiovascular events” caused by Vioxx. It was withdrawn in 2004. In 2007, Merck agreed to pay $4.85 billion to patients or survivors’ families which represented less than one year of Merck’s profits, computed the New York Times. Vioxx made Merck an estimated $2.5 billion a year from its 1999 launch to its 2004 withdrawal. Who says crime doesn’t pay?
2. Fosamax: Vioxx was not the only Merck drug demonstrating that forgiveness is easier and cheaper when it comes to marketing new drugs. Merck’s Fosamax, the first of an anti-osteoporosis drug class called biphosphonates that included Boniva and Actonel, was linked to heart problems, intractable pain, jawbone death, bone fractures and esophageal cancer—only after its patent ran out in 2008. Court-released documents reveal that Merck scientists knew about Fosamax’ link to jawbone death as early as the 1970s in animal studies.
There was even a subplot to Merck’s mendacity. The company installed bone density scanners in medical offices across the US to scare women into taking Fosamax if their scans revealed thinning bones, reported National Public Radio. The subterfuge of “selling” the disease of thinning bones to sell Fosamax did not make a big dent in sales when it came to light: Fosamax was already off patent.
3. Lipitor: What is the best-selling drug in the history of pharmaceuticals? What made $125 billion in 14 and a half years and as much as $11 billion in a single year? Lipitor, Pfizer’s blockbuster statin drug, owed its success to two factors. It was launched in 1997 when direct-to-consumer drug advertising was just beginning and it harnessed the growing national fear of cholesterol-linked heart attacks. Thanks to Lipitor’s “Know Your Numbers” TV ads and Pfizer reps who saturated medical offices with free samples of the white pills and sometimes lunch, more than 29 million people were prescribed Lipitor.
But in 2012—the same year Lipitor’s patent expired—those 29 million people (and millions taking other statins) got a surprise from the FDA. The agency made a label change warning that Lipitor and other statins could cause diabetes, liver injury, muscle damage and memory impairment. Who knew? The quartet of concerns “should not scare people off statins,” said Amy G. Egan, deputy director for safety in the FDA’s Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products. Right.
4. Nexium: What is the second bestselling drug, after Lipitor? The Purple Pill. Like statins, Nexium and the other Proton-Pump Inhibitors (PPI) to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), became household medications thanks to direct-to-consumer advertising. Before Proton-Pump Inhibitors, people took over-the-counter treatments like Tums or Tagamet when they had heartburn or indigestion. As the afflictions were upgraded into the “disease” of GERD, Nexium made almost $5 billion in the US in one year and the class of PPIs made $13.6 billion in one year, translating into 119 million prescriptions.
In 2012, the same year the FDA warned about statins, the FDA warned the public that Nexium and the whole class of PPIs are linked to Clostridium Difficile, a stubborn and sometimes deadly intestinal infection that is becoming increasingly drug-resistant and hard to treat. In 2013, medical literature linked PPIs to fractures, calcium and magnesium deficiencies, community-acquired pneumonia and vitamin B-12 deficiencies. Research by John P. Cooke, clinical professor at Houston Methodist Hospital, found in 2013 that PPIs might cause blood vessels to constrict and cardiovascular risks. Not a great ending for the blockbuster Nexium, whose patent runs out in 2014.
5. Adderall: It is no secret that doctors, parents and teachers are calling millions of children ADHD. Thanks to Pharma marketing, ADHD is now the second most common long-term diagnosis in children after asthma, says the New York Times, often conferred for “childhood forgetfulness and poor grades.” While some critics of the massive dosing say kids are being penalized for being kids and that “treatment” used to be recess, Big Pharma’s spin campaigns maintain that daily stimulants do not hurt children.
But in 2009, the same year Adderall XR went off patent (and two years before Concerta, a time-release version of Ritalin went off patent) a study in the American Journal of Psychiatry found the drugs were actually killing kids. There was “A significant association of stimulant use with sudden unexplained death emerged from the primary analysis,” wrote the authors who looked at 564 cases of sudden death in children 7 to 19. Pro-stimulant Pharma doctors disputed the study, saying the drugs might spare users death by improving their driving skills . Why didn’t anybody test that?
6. Paxil: Few SSRI antidepressants have the checkered safety profile of GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Paxil. In 2007 the BBC revealed that Paxil’s Study 329 showed adolescents six times more likely to become suicidal on the drug but the results were buried . (GSK settled related charges in 2012 for $3 billion.) Rumors had circulated for years about suicide and toxic withdrawal symptoms with Paxil and they were evidently true in some cases.
In 2005, the FDA revealed birth defects associated with Paxil including heart malformations. (Babies may also have “seizures, changing body temperature, feeding problems, vomiting, low blood sugar, floppiness, stiffness, tremor, shakiness, irritability or constant crying,” warned the Paxil website.) Commensurate with the “forgiveness is cheaper than permission” business model, by the time the Paxil risks surfaced, GSK had taken the money and run. In fact, Paxil made $2.12 billion for GSK in 2002, the last year it was under patent, and was the preferred method of treating returning Iraq war veterans’ PTSD.
7. Ambien: One of Big Pharma’s cash cows has been insomnia pills, because everyone watches TV when they can’t sleep—and they see sleeping pill ads. Leading the sleeping pill category was Sanofi-Aventis’ Ambien, which netted $2 billion a year before it went off patent in 2006. But even as the patent expired, stories began to circulate about deranged behavior committed in an Ambien blackout. People drove and made phone calls on the drug with no memory of it; dieters woke up amid mountains of pizza and Häagen-Dazs cartons, and one woman drank a bottle of black shoe polish in an Ambien blackout. (Sanofi-Aventis was forced to publish ads telling people if they were going to take Ambien, to get in bed and stay there.)
In 2012, the Mayo clinic in Rochester announced it was no longer prescribing Ambien to inpatients because of its fall rate—four times that of patients not on Ambien and greater than falls caused by age, mental impairment or delirium. In 2013, the FDA warned about Ambien hangovers, in which the drug has not left the body, and recommended lower doses, especially for women. The warning came too late for Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and former wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Witnesses said she had been weaving for miles when she swerved into a tractor-trailer and kept driving, during the summer of 2012. Kennedy told police she may have taken an Ambien thinking it was her daily thyroid med.
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Martha Rosenberg is an investigative health reporter and the author of “Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp the Public Health (Random House).”
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Honeywell Aerospace expands Puerto Rico operations
By Caribbean Business on April 6, 2018
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SAN JUAN — Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced Thursday that Honeywell Aerospace will expand its testing capabilities at its research and technology facilities in Moca, Puerto Rico.
As a result of the expansion, 50 people will be hired for engineering and technology positions, as well as other support areas. Honeywell Aerospace Puerto Rico has two facilities, in the municipalities of Aguadilla and Moca, and employs more than 850 professionals.
The governor emphasized that the expansion will attract new businesses in addition to creating jobs. (Courtesy photo)
“With a $2 million investment, Honeywell Aerospace will expand the capacity of its installations and its workforce in Moca, which will help bring new businesses to Puerto Rico and result in new jobs in addition to the ones announced today,” the governor said.
The Aguadilla Service Center provides support to Honeywell’s operations and clients around the world. Meanwhile, the Moca facility is a cutting-edge engineering design center and laboratory used to carry out research and development work in the field of electromagnetic interference and compatibility.
Honeywell Aerospace products and services are used by numerous commercial, defense and space aircraft, and its turbochargers are used by nearly every automaker and truck manufacturer.
According to the company, its aerospace business unit develops solutions for “more fuel-efficient automobiles and airplanes, more direct and on-time flights, safer flying and runway traffic, along with aircraft engines, cockpit and cabin electronics, wireless connectivity services, logistics, and more.”
New small businesses expected to create over 200 jobs in Puerto Rico
The announcement came about following a collaboration between Economic Development Secretary Manuel Laboy and Luis Ramos, the director of engineering for Honeywell Aerospace Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico Research & Technology Center (PRR&TC) site leader.
Rosselló added that “the service expansion of a world-renowned company such as this one proves that Puerto Rico is open for business. This government continues to fulfill its programmatic commitments focused on the development of technology and innovation, as well as job creation.”
Meanwhile, Laboy said that “the governor, as well as the Economic Development & Commerce Department, are committed to continuing to strengthen the economy by through the creation of professional jobs in businesses with great potential for expansion.”
For his part, Director Ramos said that “with today’s announcement, Honeywell Aerospace Puerto Rico reaffirms its commitment to the growth of its test engineering capabilities here on the island.”
“This announcement, together with the inauguration of an electromagnetic interference test chamber at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico and the donation of safety equipment during the Hurricane Maria recovery efforts, reaffirms Honeywell’s commitment to our employees, the communities where we live and work, and the continuous development of the best aerospace products for our global aviation customers,” Ramos added.
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Cucumber (Cucumis Linn)
This section is from "The American Cyclopaedia", by George Ripley And Charles A. Dana. Also available from Amazon: The New American Cyclopædia. 16 volumes complete..
Cucumber (Cucumis Linn), a genus of cu-curbitaceous plants, to which likewise belongs the melon, having annual fibrous roots, brittle climbing stems, rough, unequally divided leaves, and tendrils formed of the abortive stipules. The cucumber is thus a sort of gourd, represented in its real type, better perhaps, by the colocynth gourd, a bitter, powerfully purgative species, known as C. (citrul-lus) colocynthis (Persoon). These plants are to be placed between the myrtles and passion flowers; to the latter, indeed, they are so closely allied that they scarcely differ except in some particulars of structure, their habit being the same. It has been conjectured that long continued cultivation has done much toward ameliorating the bitter and dangerous properties of this group of plants; for several allied kinds in their wild state, it is known, have proved deleterious. All the numerous cultivated varieties of the melon and cucumber are delicious or wholesome fruits. The writer has raised cucumbers from seeds received from the East Indies, which looked like the common cucumber, only smaller; they were so intensely bitter as to be worthless; and the stem end of the better sorts of garden cucumber is frequently bitter.
The drastic property is strong in many of the allied genera from Brazil, and in the squirting cucumber it exists in concentrated virulence. The common cucumber (C. sativvs, Linn.) is a native of tropical Asia. In cultivation it requires a deep and rich soil, an abundance of moisture, and continued heat. If planted late enough to escape the frosts, it will grow with scarcely any care. It is subject, however, to the depredations of numerous insects. The best way to prevent these is to cover the young plants with boxes having gauze tops, until the foliage is large and abundant. The cucumber loves to support itself by its tendrils in an upright position upon pieces of brushwood, and the cleanest and best fruit is thus obtained. This will be found to be a good practice, too, where there is but little room for horizontal growth. As an early vegetable, scarcely any plant can be so successfully forced in the hot-bed; but the best sorts should be selected for the purpose. Great skill oftentimes is requisite to keep the plants vigorous and healthy, and to sustain an unchecked growth.
Besides affording a palatable and cooling salad, the cucumber has been used in medicine for pectoral complaints and as a febrifuge.
Common Cucumber (Cucumis sativus).
Squirting Cucumber (Momordica elaterium).
Its expressed juice is employed as a cosmetic; and it is said to give a pleasant suppleness to the skin. It enters into the composition of some of the French pomades. Cucumber ointment is prepared by stirring and beating successive portions of the juice of green cucumbers with melted lard and veal suet, then draining off the watery portion and melting and straining the ointment. Its action is soothing and emollient. It is often applied to sore nipples and excoriations. - The squirting cucumber (momordica elaterium, Linn.; ecbalium agreste, Pritch.) grows in waste places in S. Europe, and is cultivated in England. Its fruit, when nearly ripe, separates from the stalk and ejects its seeds and juice, from which is derived a powerful drug. (See Elaterium).
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Small Business pleased with Turnbull Govt Election Budget
Tuesday 3 May, 2016 | By: Default Admin | Tags: Federal Budget, Economy, Jobs, Innovation, Tax
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland (CCIQ) is delighted that the Federal Budget has recognised small business as the backbone of the economy.
CCIQ Director of Advocacy Nick Behrens said measures announced tonight by Treasurer Scott Morrison in his first Budget were immediately encouraging for small business.
He said the Treasurer had delivered for SMEs with company tax cuts, innovation and infrastructure measures, plus training and jobs for young people.
“The Coalition in this year’s Federal Budget 10 year enterprise tax plan has pleasingly chosen to additionally tap medium-sized businesses on the shoulder to grow and provide jobs needed for prosperity,” he said.
“This Budget is a crunch one for the Coalition Government and it has outlined a plan for growth and jobs; sustainability of the tax system and committing Australia to live within its means.”
Mr Behrens said that with an election likely on July 2, the Budget created both challenges and opportunities for the Turnbull Government.
“Realistically this will in the longer term be viewed as missed opportunity for holistic reform to the way we tax and spend,” he said.
“After all, the decisions needed are unpopular ones that unfortunately have negative implications at the polling booths across the nation – this is a budget focused on the next two months and not the next two decades.
“But, in our view, it strikes the right balance in trimming government spending, delivering tax change and in turn economic growth and job creation.
“It recognises the imperative to tackle the embedded structure deficit that exists in the Federal Budget and commence paying down debt.”
The budget deficit in 2016-17 of $37.1 billion is projected to fall to just $6 billion by 2019-20.
“CCIQ’s view is that balancing the nation’s books should hinge on reducing government spending rather than implementation of additional revenue grabs,” he said.
“However, we support revenue-raising measures such as increasing tobacco excise and cracking down on multinational tax avoidance.
“CCIQ is confident that the Federal Election will prove to be a significant opportunity to secure vitally needed infrastructure funding for Queensland.
“But it would appear that the government is choosing to keep its powder dry in terms of infrastructure commitments to the Sunshine State. Only the Ipswich Motorway ($200 million) has got a tick in its box tonight.
“Specific funding for the new tier of projects to drive Queensland’s economic future that are yet to get funding include Brisbane Cross River Rail; Port of Brisbane dedicated freight rail connection; Beerburrum to Nambour rail upgrade; Mount Isa – Townsville rail corridor upgrade; Bruce Highway and the M1 Pacific Motorway.
“The Federal Government will need to step up in this area.”
Mr Behrens said small business should be encouraged by the measures announced by the new Treasurer.
“It was almost impossible to match last year’s Budget, which was labelled as being the most small-business-friendly in over two decades. But this Budget has come extraordinarily close.
“Scott Morrison’s Budget will materially benefit the state’s 416,000 SMEs that employ close to two million Queenslanders.
“It will benefit business through boosting confidence and when coupled with the range of stimulus measures SMEs are again the big winner from a Coalition Budget.”
Small business with turnover of less than $2 million will receive an additional one per cent reduction in company tax. Incorporated businesses with a turnover between $2 and $10 million will receive a company tax cut of 2.5 per cent, with all business under $10 million now at a taxable rate of 27.5 per cent.
“This is crucially important as these medium sized businesses are equally scalable and can grow to create the activity and jobs needed by the Coalition for re-election,” Mr Behrens said.
“A 10-year glide path will inevitably see all businesses paying an internationally competitive company tax rate of just 25 per cent.
“The government has also extended the eligibility for its $20,000 instant asset write-off scheme to businesses under the $10 million turnover threshold. The instant asset write-off last year was a big deliverer of economic activity and jobs and is again on the table, but this time for businesses with a turnover up to $10 million.
“Finally, the government will increase the tax discount to 8 per cent for unincorporated businesses with annual turnover less than $5 million, capped at $1000. This discount will be further increased in phases to reach 16 per cent by 2026-27.
“Collectively these measures are anticipated to save Queensland SMEs $250 million in 2016-17 and that will dramatically rise across the next decade.”
Mr Behrens said businesses had received little insight they would have hoped for on election policy that the Coalition would likely deliver from next week in the lead-up to the July 2 poll.
“Queensland SMEs will inevitably want to see more progress on tax, federation and workplace relations reform that will ensure they have confidence to grow, invest, and create jobs,” he said.
“But it is a Budget that unmistakably provides confidence to Queensland small and medium sized businesses. The small business community will take a lot of heart from what was given to them tonight, providing the opportunity for future growth and jobs.”
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Posts tagged floods
Trees Forever grant to go toward flood recovery landscaping
July 21, 2009 · Filed under Cindy's posts · Tagged 2008, Alliance for Community Trees, Cedar Rapids, flood, floods, grant, Iowa, Marion, NeighborWoods, recovery, tree planting, Trees Forever
This just in from Trees Forever in Marion:
Trees Forever today announced that it received a $10,000 grant from the Alliance for Community Trees (ACT) and The Home Depot Foundation. This challenge grant is part of the National NeighborWoods Program, made possible through generous support of The Home Depot Foundation. NeighborWoods is a nationwide initiative that engages the public in meaningful hands-on action to produce tangible improvements to community health through tree planting and stewardship. Trees Forever is one of just eleven organizations nationwide who received a NeighborWoods award in support of partnerships between urban forestry non-profits and affordable housing providers.
Trees Forever is a regional nonprofit that plants trees and cares for the environment by empowering people, building community and promoting stewardship. Disastrous flooding in Iowa in 2008 irrepara-bly damaged 944 homes in Cedar Rapids, 75% of which were low-income housing. The city needs at least 420 new owner-occupied homes, half of which must be affordable housing. Trees Forever is partnering with Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity to help address this need and ensure green, sustain-able redevelopment in Iowa by planting approximately 40 trees at 20 new Habitat homes in the College Park Estates and Wilderness Estates neighborhoods of Cedar Rapids.
Trees Forever will also plant another 50 trees at 20-25 Habitat sites in Des Moines, in partnership with the Greater Des Moines chapter of Habitat for Humanity. These projects will revitalize devas-tated Iowa neighborhoods and benefit low-income homeowners by increasing their property values, improving air quality, reducing storm water runoff and producing energy-conserving shade. Volunteers and future Habitat homeowners will receive training on proper tree planting and maintenance to ensure survivability of the trees and maximize their long-term benefits for Iowa communities.
“The NeighborWoods grant allows Trees Forever to help Habitat for Humanity leverage their landscaping budgets on dozens of new flood-recovery homes,” commented Karen Brook, Trees Forever Program Manager. “And the new homeowners will benefit from the energy savings, aesthetics and improved home value that the trees provide over time,” Brook added.
For more information on the Trees Forever NeighborWoods project, please contact Karen Brook at (319) 373-0650 ext.20. For more information on Trees Forever and its many programs, log onto www.TreesForever.org <http://www.treesforever.org/> .
About Trees Forever
Trees Forever is a nonprofit organization based in Marion, IA committed to planting trees, encouraging community involvement and stewardship, and caring for the environment. Programs focus on improving air and water quality, increasing wildlife habitat, providing substantial energy savings and beautifying our landscape. For more information visit www.treesforever.org <http://www.treesforever.org/> or call 800-369-1269.
About Alliance for Community Trees
Alliance for Community Trees (ACT) is dedicated to improving the health and livability of cities by planting and caring for trees. With 160 grassroots affiliates in 40 states and Canada, ACT engages volunteers to take action to improve the environment where 80% of people live – in urban areas. ACT member organizations have planted and cared for 14.9 million trees in cities with help from 4.3 million volunteers. For more information, visit www.actrees.org <http://www.actrees.org/>
Looking back: flood photos from inside and outside of The Gazette
June 10, 2009 · Filed under Cindy's posts · Tagged 2008, Cedar Rapids, Cindy Hadish, Czech Village, Dan Geiser, Dave Storey, flooding, floods, Gazette, George Ford, images, Iowa, Joe Hladky, photos, pictures, reporter, Time Check
Watching rising Cedar River from 16th Avenue SW on June 10, 2008. (Cindy Hadish photo)
One year ago is when it all began. On June 10, my sons and I went to Czech Village in Cedar Rapids to see if we could offer any help in sandbagging efforts. We encountered a flurry of activity, even though no one knew exactly what was coming. Later, we offered our help to Kather Alter, a Gazette employee who was evacuating from the Time Check neighborhood.
Looking back, there was so much more I wish we had done. The historic Cedar River flood ended up affecting not only Czech Village, Time Check and other areas abutting the river, but places I never thought would be touched, including my mother’s home. The Gazette, in downtown Cedar Rapids, was also affected, even though we stayed above the floodwaters.
Here are some of the photos I captured during those days in June 2008.
Looking down Third Ave. SE toward Cedar River in downtown Cedar Rapids (Cindy Hadish photo)
Sandbagging at Fourth Avenue and Sixth Street SE (Cindy Hadish photo)
Near Boston Fish at Fifth Street SE (Cindy Hadish photo)
Hospital CEO Tim Charles inside flooded Mercy Medical Center (Cindy Hadish photo)
Dan Geiser, Joe Hladky and George Ford inside a darkened Gazette, cooled, somewhat, by fans (Cindy Hadish photo)
Stream of cars drive through the Wal-Mart parking lot to pick up bottled water (Cindy Hadish photo)
Sandbags in front of Gazette building in downtown Cedar Rapids (Cindy Hadish photo)
Gazette publisher Dave Storey probably regrets agreeing to be in this photo taken on the back dock of The Gazette. Employees had to use portable toilets for weeks because of water restrictions in Cedar Rapids. (Cindy Hadish photo)
To be fair, this is me in the same spot on the Gazette's back dock - no shower for days because of the city's water restrictions.
Homegrown Iowa band rocks! Update…
May 27, 2009 · Filed under Cindy's posts · Tagged Aeroroot, Brett Karminski, Cedar Rapids, Clint Landis, co-op, contest, flooding, floods, Floodstock, Fortune battle of corporate bands, Frontier, herbs, Hollywood, Iowa, Kennedy High School, Key Club, Mount Mercy College, natural, Norway, perform, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Steve Krusie, Tracy Tunwall
Aeroroot - Lf. to rt: Steve Krusie, Brett Karminski, Tracy Tunwall, Clint Landis
UPDATE 6/22/09: Aeroroot was one of four bands to make it from this weekend’s competition in California to the finals at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on Oct. 3.
“It was more humbling than anything else,” lead vocalist Clint Landis, Frontier’s chief marketing officer, said of the outcome.
Aeroroot performed at The Key Club on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, Calif., on Saturday, beating the NBC network’s corporate band and other well-seasoned groups to get to the finals.
“We certainly were the least slick band there,” said lead guitarist Brett Karminski, Frontier’s brand manager. “We kind of felt a little bit out of place. Our only goal was to not mess up and to play as well as we could.”
The band’s raw performance apparently struck a chord with the three judges, who announced Aeroroot as the fourth and last group to make it into the finals.
“We heard, ‘and from Norway, Iowa,’ and that’s all we remember,” Karminski said.
Aeroroot performed the weekend before at Floodstock and the Relay for Life benefit, both in Cedar Rapids. Landis said they will likely take a break, but might do a few more gigs before October’s contest.
Other Aeroroot members are drummer Steve Krusie, Frontier’s director of public relations, and Tracy Tunwall, who plays bass guitar and sings backup vocals. Formerly vice president of human resources for Frontier, Tunwall is now an assistant professor at Mount Mercy College.
Here’s the previous post, before Aeroroot’s competition in California:
Great story here out of Frontier Natural Products Co-op in Norway, Iowa. Aeroroot, a band made up of co-op employees, has made it to the regional semi-finals of the 9th Annual FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands.
Aeroroot will be playing in Cedar Rapids at Floodstock on June 13, before they leave for the competition in L.A. Drummer Steve Krusie said the band will play the same set at Floodstock as it will for the judging.
If you can’t catch them in Cedar Rapids, you can listen to the band here: http://www.aerorootband.com/listen.htm
Songs they entered in the competition were Voodoo on the Bayou, a cover of Cold Black Night and Dance with Me. Steve, who played in garage bands while a Kennedy High School student in the ’70’s, said all three songs are on the Web site.
Here is more info from Frontier:
Selected as one of 16 corporate bands to compete in regional semi-final events, Aeroroot will perform at The Key Club on Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood, Calif., on June 20. Formerly the historic Gazarri’s nightclub, the venue earned its fame as the home of future rock and roll stars, including The Doors, Tina Turner and Van Halen.
“To be honest, if we thought we really had a chance, we would have been too nervous to even record our entry,” admits Clint Landis, lead vocalist and Chief Marketing Officer for Frontier Natural Products Co-op, which is located in the rural rolling hills and farm fields of eastern Iowa.
Aeroroot submitted its CD entry to the contest in March. A panel of representatives from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum selected the final 16 bands, which include groups from such corporate giants as NBC, Symantec and Johnson & Johnson. At stake is an opportunity for the band to play in the final competition at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 3, 2009.
Other Aeroroot members include lead guitarist Brett Karminski, Frontier Brand Manager, and Steve Krusie, Director of Public Relations, who plays drums and sings back-up vocals. Tracy Tunwall, formerly Vice President of Human Resources for Frontier – who is now assistant professor at Mount Mercy College – plays bass guitar and also sings back-up vocals.
Based in Norway, Iowa, Frontier Natural Products Co-op is best known for its broad variety of natural and organic products, including culinary herbs, spices, and seasoning mixes; bulk herbs, spices and teas; and pure aromatherapy products.
The name Aeroroot comes from the name of the herb arrowroot, one of the natural products Frontier produces. The spelling was changed as a nod to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Aerosmith. “We considered using lungwort, the name of another herb, but decided the images associated with that weren’t very attractive,” quips Krusie.
Formed five years ago during a lunch break in Frontier’s on-site organic café, Aeroroot intended only to provide entertainment for the annual holiday party. The performance was an overwhelming hit and with encouragement from Frontier employees, the band decided to stay together and began playing for charity functions, including fundraisers for the American Cancer Society and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Before heading to L.A. for the 9th Annual FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands semifinals, Aeroroot is slated to play its competition music set at 1:00 p.m. on June 13 at the Floodstock Festival in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an outdoor benefit concert to assist in the recovery of the devastating eastern Iowa floods of 2008.
For more information about Frontier Natural Products Co-op, visit www.frontiercoop.com
For more on Aeroroot, see: www.aerorootband.com
The official Facebook page for the competition: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cleveland/FORTUNE-Battle-of-the-Corporate-Bands/48405335963#
City gardens ready for potato planting on Good Friday
April 9, 2009 · Filed under Cindy's posts · Tagged beetle, blue ribbon, Cedar Rapids, Chelsea, Craig Musel, E.B. Kunkle, Ellis Park, flooding, floods, gardening, Good Friday, Iowa State Fair, onions, plant, planting, potato, potatoes, soil, Squaw Creek, tilling, Tuma, when
Good news for gardeners who lease plots from the city and want to get their potatoes planted on Good Friday…
Despite some weather setbacks, Cedar Rapids parks staff finished tilling and marking all three of the city garden sites this week. Cedar Rapids leases out 150 plots at Ellis Park; 102 at Squaw Creek Park and 60 at the Tuma Soccer Complex. As of today, only 97 plots were rented at the Ellis garden, which was flooded out for the season last June. Soil tests for benzene, arsenic and other chemicals have come back at safe levels, but some of the people who gardened at Ellis may have also been flooded out of their homes and won’t be back to garden.
I spoke to E.B. Kunkle of Cedar Rapids today, who appeared to be the first gardener back at the Ellis site.
E.B. Kunkle
E.B. was planting onion sets. Last year, he was able to harvest green onions, spinach and radishes before the floods wiped out everything. Gardeners were advised against returning last year due to possible contaminants. Today’s weather was in the 50s and the soil was dry enough to get started, at least on onions. E.B. has tried growing potatoes in the past, but they were overcome by (my nemesis) the potato beetle.
Gardening lore calls for potatoes to be planted on Good Friday, which is tomorrow (April 10, 2009.) I doubt that I’ll get mine in that day, but as usual, turned to my uncle, Craig Musel, for advice. Uncle Craig gardens near Chelsea, Iowa, and always manages to win at least a few blue ribbons for his potatoes at the famous and fabulous Iowa State Fair. I talked to him Monday, and he said he started planting his potatoes about three weeks earlier, which would be mid-March. His tip? “I plant them whenever I can get them in the ground,” he said and keeps planting “until I’m done.” Those blue ribbon winners – never want to reveal their secrets.
A move for Cedar Rapids farmers market
March 26, 2009 · Filed under Farmers Markets · Tagged April, Cedar Rapids, downtown, farmers market, flooding, floods, Greene Square Park, Hiawatha, Iowa, Iowa City, May, Noelridge Park, roundhouse, schedule, Teresa White, vendors, when
Iowa City officials are handling a potential move of its farmers markets from a covered parking ramp – on an occasional basis to a busier site a few blocks away – by talking to market vendors. Cedar Rapids has a different way of changing its farmers market sites and doesn’t have to jump through the same hoops as Iowa City. A couple years ago, some vendors and customers were upset over the move from the covered Riverside Roundhouse in Cedar Rapids to an open air market at the city parking lot at Eighth Avenue and Second Street SE. Market officials say the new site is no longer an issue for customers or vendors. Nevertheless, Teresa White, the city’s farmers market supervisor, decided to move the Thursday markets from Eighth Avenue to Greene Square Park. “I just want to be different,” she said. Teresa also hopes the market will be a boost for workers in downtown Cedar Rapids, which is still recovering from last June’s flood.
Greene Square is quite a convenience for those of us who work in The Gazette, as the park is just outside our office. What do you think? Will that move be a good one? And what should become of the roundhouse? Is it just a relic that should be demolished with other flood-damaged buildings?
I will be updating the farmers market schedule for as many in Eastern Iowa as I can find and will post it here later this spring. Most markets don’t start until May, although the Hiawatha one usually gets a head start in April.
If you are a market master, have information on a farmers market or know of a new one, you can send the info to me at: cindy.hadish@gazcomm.com or leave a message below. Please include a contact name and phone number.
Here is the Cedar Rapids farmers market schedule for this season:
Eighth Avenue and Second Street SE parking lot will be May 2 through Oct. 24; Tuesdays from 4-6 p.m. and Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to noon, except when the Downtown Farmers Markets are held. Thursday markets will be 4-6 p.m. in Greene Square Park, from June 11 through Aug. 27.
Noelridge Park farmers markets, from May 1 through Oct. 23, are 4-6 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The larger Downtown Farmers Markets – with a record 160 vendors this year – are 7:30 a.m. to noon on June 6 and 20; July 18; Aug. 1 and 15; Sept. 5 and Oct. 3.
Organic oasis in Cedar Rapids
February 22, 2009 · Filed under Cindy's posts · Tagged Ausadie, Calder House, Cedar Rapids, cottage, flood, flooding, floods, fruits, Guaranty Bank, herbs, historic, Iowa, lotions, organic, peels, Sheree Ramm, Sheree's Skin Care Studio, spa, treatments, vegetables
In November 2007, I wrote a Gazette article: http://tinyurl.com/dl5seb about Sheree’s Skin Care Studio, where owner Sheree Ramm had been operating in the Guaranty Bank Building in downtown Cedar Rapids.
Sheree Ramm inside new location of Sheree's Skin Care Studio
The studio specializes in organic skin care products and treatments. Lotions, peels, makeup and other items are made with naturally grown organic fruits, herbs and vegetables and are safe for sensitive skin. Sheree notes that the products are gentler than artificial ingredients found in most products in stores. A great source for people who not only care about what they’re putting in their bodies, but on their bodies.
But like most downtown businesses, even though her studio was on the fifth floor, Sheree was affected by last June’s devastating flood. The building remained closed while Sheree scrambled to find another place to open. She found temporary quarters in the historic Ausadie building, 845 First Ave. SE, and then this winter, moved to another historic building. This weekend, Sheree had an open house at her new site, the Calder House, at 1214 Second Ave. SE.
Besides an enthusiasm for her organic products, Sheree has an appreciation for historic buildings and found the cottage house a perfect fit for her business.
Here is what she shares about the site:
Sheree's Skin Care Studio (at left)
Built in 1868, the building is a 2-story gabled cottage house similar in scale and materials, built by the same builder, Charles Calder, as its twin at 1216 2nd Ave SE. The house has a stone foundation and brick walls. This rare brick building and its twin next door are both very well-preserved and are the oldest residences in the historical district. Both are among the oldest standing houses in Cedar Rapids. The integrity of the building is in excellent condition.
Charles Calder came to Cedar Rapids in 1851 with his family from central New York state. He made his fortune in real estate and land speculation and was termed, “among the heaviest property holders” in the city at the time of his death in 1890.
Like many flood-affected business owners, Sheree could have moved out of town, but chose to stay in Cedar Rapids. As the city begins a “buy local” campaign, remember those who have been hit with the double whammy of the flood and economy.
Sheree’s Skin Care Studio is by appointment only. Hours: 10-5:30pm, Every other Sat 9-2pm
Closed Sundays and Mondays.
Contact: Sheree, who is a Licensed Esthetician, at: (319) 551-4876 or (319) 365-7000. More can be found on her Web site at: www.shereeskincarestudio.com
Disaster recovery and digging trees
February 6, 2009 · Filed under Cindy's posts · Tagged Alliant Energy, disaster, flooded, floods, Iowa, Karen Brook, Marion, Mark Signs, plantings, Recover, Replant, Restore, storms, tree, Trees Forever, We Dig Your District
Marion-based Trees Forever is accepting applications for two programs: “Recover, Replant & Restore,” which funds planting projects for flooded neighborhoods or other disaster-affected areas, and, in partnership with Alliant Energy, “We Dig Your District,” a tree-planting program.
Here are details on both programs:
Trees Forever is accepting applications for disaster recovery assistance and funding through its Recover, Replant & Restore Program. The goals of the program are to help neighborhoods and communities plan, implement and fund planting projects that will rebuild hope and community spirit in some of the most devastated areas of Iowa.
Iowa communities that were directly impacted by the storms or floods of 2008 are eligible to apply. Examples of projects that will be considered include neighborhood tree plantings, park or trail recovery or planting projects, waterway recovery or plantings, school ground plantings, downtown business district landscaping, assessing and caring for storm-damaged trees, etc.
Through the Recover, Replant & Restore program, Trees Forever staff will provide assistance with damage assessment, project planning, plant material selection, planting design, volunteer organizing, and tree care or cleanup projects. In addition, cash grants of up to $2,000 are available to help purchase trees and other plant materials.
“We recognize that many communities affected by last year’s disasters are still in the basic recovery process,” notes Karen Brook, Trees Forever program manager. “Our goal right now is to provide whatever assistance we can to communities and neighborhoods… to give them some hope for a brighter, greener future.”
Applications for the first round of assistance from the Recover, Replant & Restore program must be submitted by February 27, 2009. To apply, interested communities or groups should contact Karen Brook at 800-369-1269 ext. 14 or e-mail kbrook@treesforever.org. A Trees Forever field coordinator will be assigned to assist each applicant with completing a simple nomination form. Communities or projects accepted for the program will be announced in early March, 2009.
Trees Forever established the Campaign to Recover, Replant & Restore to raise money to assist communities that were affected by the natural disasters of 2008. Thanks to a major gift from Van Meter Industrial and others donations from across the state, Trees Forever is now able to start assisting these communities. Anyone interested in more information about the campaign, or wishing to donate to this fund, can contact Mark Signs at 800-369-1269, extension #20, or log on to www.TreesForever.org
We Dig Your District
Would you like to see more trees planted in your favorite neighborhood park? Do you know of a school playground, nursing home, non-profit, public library, sports complex, cemetery, or trail that could benefit from a few well-placed trees? If so, let your ideas be known. Site nominations for the We Dig Your District program in Cedar Rapids are due February 25, 2009.
Alliant Energy and Trees Forever are once again offering We Dig Your District, a partnership program to plant trees in each of the five Cedar Rapids City Council Districts to demonstrate how trees improve energy efficiency and contribute to a healthier and more beautiful community. And, we need your help!
Get into the energy efficiency groove and submit suggestions for the 2009 We Dig Your District tree-planting locations.
To submit a suggestion, tell us the following in 300 words or less.
1. Your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address (optional)
2. The community location where you would like to see trees planted (The location must be within Alliant Energy’s electric service territory in Cedar Rapids.)
3. Why your location should be selected; what makes it special and how trees would make a difference at this site. Suggestion(s) must be submitted by February 25, 2009 to receive consideration. Submissions can be made online at www.alliantenergy.com/wedigyourdistrict or via mail to Alliant Energy, Community Relations, Attn: We Dig Your District, 200 First Street SE, PO Box 351, Cedar Rapids, IA 52406-0351.
Suggestions will be reviewed based on their potential to improve energy efficiency, enhance the environment and meet a community need. The review committee will include representatives from Alliant Energy and Trees Forever, with input from local city council members.
Selections will include one site within each of the five Cedar Rapids City Council Districts. Planting sites will be announced in March 2009. The 2008 We Dig Your District planting sites included Arthur Elementary School, Cleveland Elementary School, Regis Middle School, Redmond Park and Wilderness Estates Park. Planting at Ushers Ferry was postponed due to the summer flooding.
For more information, contact Karen Brook, Trees Forever field coordinator at 373-0650 ext. 14 or email kbrook@treesforever.org
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April 6, 2018 by Mal and Rita
Indieterria meets Misha Dawn
Hello hello!
We are starting a brand new month with a BANG! April is going to be a very exciting month with several of our favourite bands performing far and wide, making waves on the independent music circuit and rocking huge crowds of people. Please be on the lookout for Nuns of the Tundra, Thousand Mountain (as they are releasing their debut EP shortly!!), The Americas and Junior Weeb among others. The spring belongs to them and we will be reporting extensively about their achievements. Of course, we will always find the time to look for a world-class talent and today we would like to introduce you dear readers to a truly bright star. Her name is Misha Dawn and she has charmed everyone who has ever heard her sing!
The Lady herself – Misha Dawn Patterson
Diva in the making
Misha Dawn is every record label’s dream come true. She comes with a full package: looks, voice, multiple talents and experience. With her resume the size of a telephone book and her almost effortless ability of penning perfect songs, Misha is a force to be reckoned with. Before she dethrones Leona Lewis as the next British Queen of Pop, Indieterria sat down with her to discuss being a child prodigy, growing into a confident artist and getting highest grades from the harshest judging panel on popular reality TV program, The X-Factor.
Misha Dawn Patterson
Actress, Dancer, singer, songwriter, producer – you seem to have many faces and as many occupations! Please tell us who is Misha Dawn?
Misha Dawn: I’m a Gloucester born artist. I write lyrics that will confront emotions, happiness and heart break. I am a person who strives to be the very best I can be in everything that I do! I am also a very creative and I like to have a “Plan B’ which is also the title of a song I just wrote! (laughing)
I love experiencing new things all the time along with travelling abroad and seeing/meeting different cultures. My early professional singing career has consisted of singing 50’s-80’s music in care homes.
You started your career very early, at the tender age of 7. Since then you appeared in numerous shows, musicals, radio programmes and live performances. Including appearing on live TV regarding a CD which you wrote also at the same time! Was it hard to be growing up in the spotlight?
Misha Dawn: I would have to answer that with a yes and no. As a child I was awfully shy and have had to seriously work on becoming confident which most people find hard to believe! I am not saying it wasn’t a passion of mine to be in the spotlight (I dreamt about it every day and I still do) but I had to fight against one feeling saying “YES THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT” and the other saying “RUN, EVERYONES WATCHING”. Once I got over my hurdle, I enjoyed everything so much more and I am now completely addicted to performing.
I am fortunate now that I don’t have major stage fright, for those of you who watched me on ‘Dinner Date’ TV show will know I have a bigger fear of flying bugs!
Misha Dawn with Sam and Ashley Worskett at the O2 Academy in Birmingham
It is almost hard to believe but you are also classically trained dancer! Has your comprehensive education helped you in your artistic endeavours?
Misha Dawn: That’s 100% right. Dancing since the age of 3 had helped me tremendously. From dance performances, rhythm, appreciating different styles of music such as classical, jazz, modern and much more. However, at 12 years old, my injuries put an end to a professional ballet career and my life took a new turn. When I’m on stage, you will notice that I incorporate dance into my singing performances and I love it! I couldn’t imagine singing while standing still.
We would like to ask you about two milestones in your career: appearing on the cover of national WI Life magazine (May/June 2016 edition) and taking part in the X Factor in 2017. You passed 4 rounds with flying colour. Both must have been amazing experiences.
Misha & Ashley
Misha Dawn: They were both a dream come true. Just thinking about it now, I cannot believe they happened and how lucky I am to have experienced them! I have always wondered what it would be like to have my face on the front cover of a magazine growing up and have watched X factor growing up for as long as I can remember and still doing so now! Getting 4 yes’s from the judges was amazing.
Your music blends, soul, jazz, hip-hop, pop and rock. You have been compared to Beyoncé, Sia and Jesse J. We could add Mica Paris and Mary J Blidge to the mix, especially when you are on stage rocking out with a full band. Your performance at recent Soundwave Music Competition at O2 Academy in Birmingham reminded us of Mary J Blidge singing an alternative version of “One” with U2.
Misha Dawn: Wow what can I say! For my performance at the O2 to be compared to Mary J Blidge singing with U2 is incredible. It has taken me many, many years of grafting to get where I am and with a comment like that it shows my hard work has paid off! I will continue to grow and every time I perform I make a promise to myself that I will always be better than he last time. My biggest rival is myself.
Talking about your live band, can you introduce your guitarist and drummer to our readers? You share a special bond with them, it was a pure joy watching you perform together.
Misha Dawn: Thank you very much! My guitarist is called Ashley Worskett, he is inspirational and my drummer is called Sam Worskett. Both are brilliant musicians and I am so glad I found them by taking a chance on advertising online for band members. I’m buzzing to see what the future holds performing with them at festivals, parties, events – you name it!
Ashley Worskett – Misha`s guitarist and we swear a new Bernard Butler!
Your latest single “Live It Up” is a well written and produced track that could be a launching pad to Top 20. Tell us more about it.
Misha Dawn: Thank you very much! I wrote and produced the song myself a couple of years ago and released the music video on YouTube quite recently. I really wanted a feel-good track for all ages, something you can play when you’re going out, in the car, feeling low, or whatever the reason may be. I made sure my “Live it Up” music video was ‘jammed packed’ full of fun and friends. I have put it on all major downloading sites such as Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and if it did get to the top 20…I would be utterly lost for words.
It’s only April and 2018 has already been a very busy year for you. What are your plans for the nearest months?
Misha Dawn: I really want to get out there and play for fans and supporters. For the next few months I will be working on a new single of mine which I am so excited for. It is my best song yet. I wrote and produced it and I’m planning to have it uploaded onto all major downloading sites and Youtube. Music video will soon follow, so please be on the lookout and tell me what you think! Also, I’m booking a lot shows and I would like to perform with other artists such as Ella Eyre who is an inspiration to me in the music world.
Misha at the o2 Academy in Birmingham, 24.02.2018
You can follow Misha on social media:
https://www.mishadawn.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MishaDawnOfficial
https://www.instagram.com/mishadawn
https://twitter.com/MishaDawn_
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGkad0FIbHHALgftQBJ3F2A
Additional article you may find interesting:
http://www.starnow.co.uk/Misha3star
After our meeting with Misha at the SoundWave competition in Birmingham, we are sure she will go a long, long way. Vanadian Avenue will be closely monitoring Misha’s next steps and hopefully we will be able to chronicle her journey to stardom.
Please visit us soon as our next blog will be even more esciting!
Rita and Mal
**** Update 17/04/2018****
Misha, Ashley and Samuel on stage – this was such a powerful performance!
Misha’s concert at the SoundWave Competition at the O2 Arena in Birmingham left us truly impressed. Not only we were amazed by her extraordinary performing abilities but we were equally dazzled with her backing band. To learn more about them, we spoke to guitar player Ashley Worskett (we swear he is a new Bernie Butler!) to discuss the beginnings of their successful collaboration, musical influences and recent trip to London town.
Would you like to tell us how did you and Misha meet and how long have you worked together?
Ashley Worskett: I started working with Misha after responding to her advert on a popular casting website. She gave me a call, I sent her some demo tapes and she liked them. She also needed a drummer so I suggested my brother Sam, who was 16 at the time. Sam is also a violinist and he had just returned from a music tour in Venice. He is still at school, but he agreed to do the gig to help Misha out.
We all met for the first time at a rehearsal studio. We all got on well, learnt the songs and 2 days later performed at the O2 Academy. So it was all a bit of a crazy!
Ashley and Samuel playing with Misha at o2 Academy in Birmingham
Your performance on stage during the SoundWave competition was fantastic. Please tell us more about yourself. Who is Ashley Worskett, how long have you been you playing and who inspires you?
Ashley Worskett: I am 20 years old musician that have been performing drama for several years. I attended a highly regarded drama theatre in Warwick and I am currently a student at the University of Gloucester. I’ve been playing guitar for 5 years. My main musical inspiration comes from the virtuoso heavy metal guitarists from the 80’s, people like Eddie Van Halen and Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme. I like listening to bands like Whitesnake, Mötley Crüe and Metallica. Jake E Lee and George Lynch of Dokken and Lynch Mob are also ripping guitarists that I take inspiration from!
You recently travelled to London. Did you have fun?
Ashley Worskett: Yeah! London was amazing. I had to get up at 1 am to catch the bus from where I live in Cheltenham, to get to the film studio in London for 7 am. I was taking part in a feature film, being produced by one of the major studios. It’s a biopic about a well-known rock band from the 70’s and 80’s and it’s due for release later this year. It was an exciting day, and great to be working with truly professional people in the film industry!
We are sure that Misha, Sam & Ashley Worskett are people worth watching in the nearest future. We always say that the talented kids are the future and we have enough talent in West Midlands for several decades.
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September 20, 2017 by Mal and Rita
Indieterria meets Rita Lynch
Please forgive us if we will be acting like complete fan girls. We absolutely and dearly love Rita Lynch – our next featured artist on Indieterria. We have seen her live on January 1st, 2017 in Worcester, have her records in our musical archives and can hardly wait to see her perform at Musicians Against Homelessness on 22nd September. Read on, this is one of our favorite interviews yet!
Rita Lynch performing at NYE party at Pig and Drum in Worcester , 31 December 2016 – January 1 2017
First Lady of punk
Don’t believe when they tell you that punk is dead. The genre is not only very much alive and kicking; it is going through a period of renaissance. It may be a bit older (and wiser), less drunk and more philosophical at times, yet its message against austerity, social alienation and economic devastation rings loud and clear. Political climate is certainly helping to bridge the age gap between new audiences and the underground legends and helps deliver a musical middle finger exactly where it hurts the most. Yet, looking for rebellion is not the only reason why the kids turn to punk rock. Its biggest strength definitely lies in the authenticity and originality, constant re-definition and self-discovery. We have teamed up with Rita Lynch, the first lady of punk to speak about her career, surviving the odds and her plans for her rock and roll future.
You were first introduced to music when attending a Catholic school. Apparently, a nun has taught you how to play a guitar. Were the nuns really that supportive? Catholic schools in 60’s and 70 were rather known to suppress any form of artistic creativity.
Rita Lynch: The nun who taught me guitar was one of the better ones. She obviously enjoyed playing guitar herself and, as teachers go especially all those years ago, she was slightly more interested in creativity. She had already put one of my stories in the school magazine. She also had given me the cane, a couple of times, once for laughing in church. None of the teachers back then were that interested in a shy child like me who was always getting ill. So she was a bit of a hero to me all those years ago.
Photo by Jessica Bartolini
https://www.facebook.com/jessica.bartolini.18
As soon as you graduated, you found yourself in the middle of London`s punk rock revolution. You founded one of nation`s first all-female rock bands – Rita & The Piss Artists, playing mostly squats and small venues. Can you recall some of the wild days and tell us who were in the band beside you?
Rita Lynch: With Rita and the Piss Artists we did a lot of drinking. We were a 4 piece band. I played bass and helped write the songs, but I did not sing. During our time we had 2 different singers. The first was a woman called Caspar; she had a brilliant voice but left us quite quickly. The next singer, Jo, wasn’t a good singer but had enough front to do it. The guitarist was not very good but the drummer had played before so we, the bass and drums, mostly held it all together. One squat gig, we played at the Demolition Ballroom on Stokes Croft, Bristol and somebody pulled the plug on us, we were so bad. We would all get very drunk, maybe take some speed and get up on stage. If we had taken it a bit more seriously, we could have done well, maybe. It was more of a sideline to the serious job of drinking. But we were doing it for a while when few women were.
The drummer from the Piss Artists, Justine Butler, just lives around the corner from me now. She went on to get a Master’s degree and had a child who is grown up now. She is a lovely woman. We meet up now and again and she has come to loads of my gigs over the years – she’s very supportive.
Once your band folded, you permanently moved to Bristol. At that time, the town had a vibrant scene with bands such as The Cortinas, Social Security and The Pigs. How did the mostly male scene react to outspoken female artist from the capital?
Rita Lynch: When I first started playing my own gigs as Rita Lynch, I was a solo acoustic performer. The sexism was terrible, the things men in the music world said to me were often rude, insulting and so misogynistic. Stuff like women dingers are always late for gigs, have tantrums at sound checks, and generally talked about as if they were spoilt children. Some of the graffiti in back stage rooms really shocked me. I was, at the time, going out with a woman and mostly socializing on the gay scene. It kind of removed me from the heterosexual world which really helped in those first few years. I was never late and always professional and built up a defence against this sexism by dressing outrageously and, with my height being nearly 6ft I kind of must have struck quite an intimidating figure. It put a wall around me and inside that I happily wrote my songs and tried to perfect and develop my own music.
Photo by John Morgan https://www.facebook.com/john.morgan.1485
You also made yourself a name as a performer/protest figure marching around in a mutilated wedding dress. What was the protest about?
Rita Lynch: I went on a lot of demos back then. But the wedding dress was mostly just for wearing in the day time. So, every day was a personal protest. I bought it for 50 pence in a charity shop and ripped it up, and would wear it just to get attention, like I was living art, walking down the street. But loads of people would stare and, as I was always barefoot in the summer, I must have looked very unusual. Apparently a young child saw me from a window and told her mum there was a real live fairy walking down the street. This was all in St. Paul’s. It was a vibrant place with big reputation for race riots. There was a lot of prostitution on the street corners and police would not go down the frontline. It had lots of drugs, crime as well and racism. It was a cool place to live very freely, if you had the nerve.
You joined cold wave outfit God Bless You as a bassist. At that time, the band consisted only of Simon Black and Dave Ryan. Within a year, you were not only a full time member, but also a co-vocalist. With you in the line up, God Bless You released several singles such as “Sugar” which are considered the beginning of your career as an artist and performer. How do you remember the collaboration with Simon and Dave?
Rita Lynch: God Bless You was amazing musically. Dave had a fantastic voice and Simon was genius with inventing simple but amazing tunes and riffs. I was with them as backing vocalist for nearly 2 years. I learnt a lot from watching them put songs together. They also introduced me to countless good bands and artists like Iggy Pop and Roxy Music. Dave was a poet and a great thinker, his lyrics were brilliant. He was hugely pivotal in inspiring me to sing and write songs. I loved being in God Bless You. Dave and Simon were my heroes.
In 1991 you released your first solo work “Call me your girlfriend”. The LP became very popular and music press compared you to Kirstin Hersh, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey and even Nico. Channel 4 made a documentary about you. Was it hard to copy with the attention of the media?
Rita Lynch: I loved the attention I got from the “Call me your Girlfriend” album but it was scary as I had been underground for so long and I also found it intimidating. It validated me but made me nervous as well. I had to write another album and I was unsure how to go. I personally thought that I could do so much better than this first album. The album got me a lot of attention on the gay scene but the record label I was with, Moles in Bath, did not promote it very well elsewhere. So, I became a ‘lesbian’ singer increasingly which was not what I wanted and I still had to make the cross over to the mainstream. Also, the record label did not distribute the album properly so people could not easily get hold of it. As a result, I was still ‘underground’ but big on the gay scene. Then both, me and my girlfriend, we got beaten up for being gay. These were harsh times to be ‘out’, I found all this very difficult. The music was getting lost and I felt uncomfortable with being heralded as a ‘lesbian icon’. I was a singer/songwriter but all the other identities were becoming more important. Being an artist, I was feeling misunderstood.
Cover of What am I – anther record from our sonic archives and also signed by the artist.
What am I – sleeve and inside of the record
Your background and lyrical themes also drew comparisons to Sinéad O’Connor – another female figure that could not be easily squeezed into a box. Looking back, do you think there were really similarities between you?
Rita Lynch: I saw Sinéad play at Gay Pride in London, I can’t remember the year. She blew my mind; I had never seen or heard anything like it before. It was one of the most important gigs I have ever seen in my life. Unforgettable. I was humbled by the experience. There are similarities in that we both grapple with sexuality, Catholicism and politics. She is Irish born, I am Irish born to immigrant parents in London. Being Irish/Catholic is an identity made more personal and volatile due to the racism of the English and the weight of the ongoing war and domination of Ireland by the English. Sinéad was and is one the most important musical influences of my life.
You have been a successful solo artist for the last 25 years. In that period you released thirteen albums under your own name, three with other bands, appeared on over thirty compilations and scored several productions (Vampire Diary, Channel 4`s Rosebud), you toured nationally and around Europe. That`s an incredible body of work. Were you expecting such a long run in this dog eat dog industry?
Rita Lynch: No. I never expected to do music in the first place, let alone to be doing it for so long. I love writing songs, I love singing and putting a good lyric together. But my love of these things has developed hugely with the passing of time. I don’t actually see myself as ‘successful’ artist. Over the years, with all the egos and vanities and nonsense that comprise much of the music business, I have tried to focus on the writing of songs and developing my particular style. I was heartbroken when my first album did not go as well as I wanted and as I got older tried to ‘give up’ music and get a proper job. I never did get a proper job. I am dedicated to making music. It is my job. I want to write as many songs as I can. My ambition with music has altered from wanting fame in a vanity way when I was younger to a true hard working attention to song writing. The music business or industry is vile. I don’t think about it much anymore, like it has nothing to do with me. I admire people who dedicate themselves to their art, even when they do not get success, I have aspired to this. I try to work hard at writing songs. I don’t go out much, whenever I get time, I do music. My son is severely autistic and it has been a challenging experience. My life is dedicated to the care of my son and music. I do a lot of gigs, solo and with my band. I am still hugely ambitious in that I have yet to write my best song. I need to communicate through music; it is my take on the human experience.
Cover of Good Advice record, from our own archives. Yes, it is signed and we treasure it.
In 2006 you reinvented yourself yet again by joining The Blue Aeroplanes. You recorded three albums with them (Skyscrappers, Good Luck Signs and Anti-Gravity). In return, John Langley and Mike Youe back you up on your tours. You seem more like good friends than just musical collaborators.
Rita Lynch: Being in The Blue Aeroplanes was amazing. I admire their music. Also that was how I met my drummer, John Langley. This has been the best musical collaboration since God Bless You. John is the best drummer most people will ever see. He makes every song better with his drumming. When we first teamed up, I wrote the album “Good Advice”. He is massively inspiring and also introduced me to new music. We were a 2 piece for a few years. He upped my game, I had to get better so I practiced more and more and worked harder at my guitar playing. We developed hugely as a band. We sometimes make up songs on stage – improvising with John is a dream. We understand each other musically. It’s like magic. When Mike joined us a few years ago, he fitted in easily. He is a very good musician and picks stuff up very quickly. It felt just right straight away. John and I have been good friends for years and Mike is a lovely easy going person. We have a laugh as well.
In 2016, an anthology of your music “Story to tell (1988-2011)” has been released to celebrate your career and involvement in Bristol music scene. Can you tell us more about this project?
Rita Lynch: Mike Darby used to be my manager about 25 years ago. He had the idea to put out this anthology. It is a cross section of songs spanning 3 decades. I want to bring out another anthology but will do this one myself through the record label I work with now. Also, I am currently setting up to release all my future albums with them and re-release all the previous ones.
You played Worcester on New Year`s Eve at Pig and Drum. You will return to Marrs Bar this September to take part in Musicians Against Homelessness event. Will there be a chance to hear some of your new music?
Rita Lynch: Yes, I will be playing a lot of my new songs. My new album entitled “Backwards” will be released in January 2018. You will have a chance to hear some of my new material for the first time on 22nd of September.
You can follow Rita at:
http://ritalynch.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/rita.lynch.121
Musicians Against Homelessness charity concert will take place on September 22nd 2017 at Marrs Bar
If you want to see Rita Lynch play Musicians Against Homelessness concert, tickets are a £5 and can be bought from the links below:
http://www.marrsbar.co.uk/events/musicians-against-homelessness-2/
To find out more about MAH visit Musicians Against Homelessness on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mahgigs/
Please note that due to a serious hand injury Rita will open the gig and her set will be shorter than expected. But it may be also streamlined on Facebook and it will be different than her usual sets, so you better be at Marr`s Bar 8:00 pm sharp! 😉
Mal+Rita
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Indieterria meets The Humdrum Express
We continue our series of interviews with musicians we think shape music scenes and sonic landscapes around us this year. They don`t have to be spring chickens leading revolutions and tearing roofs off the venues. They can be experienced artists, wiser in their business ways and accompanied by a trusty guitar. And they are still relevant, on point and powerful in their expression. Today, we present you Ian Passey, who is the force behind The Humdrum Express. Ian will be one of the artists that will rock Worcester for Musicians Against Homelessness. Read on, dear friends. This is as we say: banger of an interview and an artist you have to know.
Photo by Andy O`Hare
https://www.facebook.com/andy.ohare1
A thousand things to worry about
An esteemed artist, Ian Passey, has built a solid fan base in the West Midlands under his moniker, The Humdrum Express. Championed by BB6 Music and sharing stages with the rock and roll greatest, Ian is returning to his home turf this September to support Worcester Music Festival and play a charitable show for the national campaign, Musicians Against Homelessness. We have met Ian to discuss his many achievements, stardom and new music he is currently working on.
BBC describes you as “One man, a few instruments and a thousand things to worry about”. Who exactly is Ian Passey?
Ian Passey: I’m a singer/songwriter based in Kidderminster. I’ve been writing songs for as long as I can remember, firstly as a member of various bands (Smedley, Jackpot, Swagger). After a bit of a break, I decided to do my own thing, initially bedroom recordings, before taking the plunge back into gigging. Ten years later, I’m still here – writing and performing with as much enthusiasm as I’ve ever had. I suppose the “thousand things to worry about” tag came from the underdog slant of the lyrics, attempting to fear the worst in a humorous way. Either that or it’s a good guess!
The Humdrum Express is your solo project. You write your own music, produce your albums and play all instruments – you are a one man band. Do you prefer to work alone?
Ian Passey: Although that was the case a few years ago, in more recent times, I’ve really enjoyed working with other people. My last couple of albums and most recent EP has been produced by Mick Lown. Not only is he fun to work with, but also has a great knack of suggesting ideas and instrumentation to suit a particular song. It’s a refreshing way to work which helps to prevent getting stuck in a rut. As far as videos go, I’ve been teaming up with Nick J. Townsend pretty regularly. Again, he’s someone I really enjoy working with to help expand on some of my ideas. I love to get as many people involved as possible with the videos and I’m always amazed by how many love being a part of them. I’ve also got several musician friends, who have enhanced some of the recordings for which I’m extremely grateful. Long may these collaborations continue! I’m always on the lookout for new ones if anyone’s interested…
Ian Passey performing – photo by Arthur Passey
It is hard to categorize your music. Some journalists put you into spoken word or singer/songwriter category; others consider you to be a prime example of what experimental music should sound like. How do you feel about the constant need of squeezing artist into existing genres? Is there any style that could comfortably describe what you are doing or do you avoid being labelled at all?
Ian Passey: The need for genres is something that has bugged me for years! I always put lyrics ahead of any particular musical style and I’m quite happy to change it when the need arises. I love the spoken word style as much as the classic verse/chorus/middle eight structures. It all about getting the maximum impact from a phrase, I suppose.
Your lyrics, an important part of your music, are complex and straightforward. They’ve earned you a reputation of a “bespectacled observationist, casting a cynical eye over exasperating times”. Where do you look for inspiration?
Ian Passey: I don’t really look anywhere for it, but always seem to stumble across something. That being said, this is proving to be my leanest year, writing wise, for some time. Perhaps I should start looking?! Like most artists, I work better when there’s a deadline looming so maybe I should start thinking about album number six…
The Humdrum Express album “(Failed Escapes from the) Clones Town Blues” received great reviews from leading music journalists such as Steve Lamacq. Your newest release “The Day My Career Died” has been championed on BB6 Music. Has the exposure helped you to advance your career outside of West Midlands?
Ian Passey: It’s been fantastic in so many ways. Being pitched alongside artists I admire has helped improve and focus my writing. The thought of being found out as an impostor drives me on to write stuff worthy of the airplay! The knock-on effect is obviously the new people all over the world who suddenly have access to your music.
You have shared stages with many legends: performance poet John Cooper Clarke, Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü), Ian McCulloch (Echo & the Bunnymen), The Wombats, Half Man Half Biscuit, The Wedding Present, Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers) and Miles Hunt (The Wonder Stuff) to name just a few. If you could choose another person to perform with, who would that be?
Ian Passey: Tricky question! Billy Childish would be nice as it would mean he was back playing live again. I did three dates with John Cooper Clarke around 2010 and I’d love the opportunity again, although the venues he’s packing out these days are much bigger than back then. I was due to support the Sleaford Mods a couple of years ago until the promoter in Leamington opted for a more local act instead. That would have been great, but it wasn’t to be.
You are probably the only person from Kidderminster to ever play at Glastonbury festival. How do you remember this experience?
Ian Passey: Hazily! I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one from Kidderminster either! It was hardly the Pyramid stage but it was great fun. I seem to recall the act on before me end with a cover of “Take on me” by A-ha which the crowd lapped up. I’m not sure why, but I thought I’d end my own set in similar fashion… by tearing through “Gather in the mushrooms” by Benny Hill! Unless my memory is playing tricks, I received a standing ovation!
We have to ask you – was “Worcester Woman (Forgate Me Not)” written about a real person linked to the city or is it licentia poetica?
Ian Passey: I’ve always viewed that one as a bit of general daftness! It’s a fictional tale that attempts to mix romance with political terminology. It doesn’t get played too often but I’m tempted to give it an airing on 22nd September, particularly as The Marr’s Bar gets a mention.
The Humdrum Express has many faithful supporters on the local scene. You have played Worcester Music Festival several times, always coming back by popular demand. This year you will also support Crisis charity by performing at Musicians Against Homelessness event on 22nd of September. You will appear on the acoustic stage.
Photo by Nick Greenaway
https://www.facebook.com/nick.greenaway.1
Ian Passey: I’ve been lucky enough to play at every Worcester Music Festival apart from the very first one. As it happens, I’m not playing this time but will be promoting an evening as I have done for the past three years. My event will take place at The Firefly on the Sunday, featuring several of my favourite grass roots discoveries.
What are your plans for the autumn? Any upcoming tours?
Ian Passey: I’ve got some great gigs on the horizon… I’m playing my biggest headline show to date at The Rose Theatre in Kidderminster on 7th October (tickets available from their website!) It’s a near 200 capacity all seater venue and, without giving too much away, will be much more than the usual gig format. I’ve also got dates with the likes of CUD, Mark Morriss and Half Man Half Biscuit to look forward to, so it should be a fun few months. I’m releasing a brand new single early in November with an accompanying video, so I’m pretty busy until the end of the year.
You can follow Ian and The Humdrum Express
www.thehumdrumexpress.com
https://www.facebook.com/TheHumdrumExpress/
https://soundcloud.com/thehumdrumexpress
If you want to see Ian Passey play Musicians Against Homelessness concert, tickets are a £5 and can be bought from the links below:
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Indieterria meets Vinny Peculiar
This edition of Indieterria will profile an artist who is not a new starter. To be honest, he is well established and enjoys cult status among music fans. However, discovering new music doesn’t mean only cheeking out musicians on their first demo. There is a lot to learn from artists of all ages and all periods. As John Peel would say – you cannot limit yourself to one genre or one decade. It was a pleasure and privilege (to quote a classic) to sit down with Vinny Peculiar and talk about his art and music. And we will admit, we learned few things. Now, we wait in anticipation to see Vinny perform at Marr`s Bar on September 22 for Musicians Against Homelessness. Read on!
Photo by Warren Millar
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Man of many talents
Alan Wilkes, better known as Vinny Peculiar, is one of the most respected and original artists in the music business today. Splitting his time between his native Worcestershire and adopted home in Manchester, he has established himself as a poet, musician and writer. Finding a spare second in his busy schedule, Alan sat down with us to talk about receiving his own blue plague, new album inspired by growing up in West Midlands and charitable efforts to support local events.
You are a man of many talents – a performer, musician, poet, writer and educator. What is the difference between Alan Wilkes and Vinny Peculiar? Are you one and the same or is Vinny simply your artistic alter ego?
Vinny Peculiar: Thank you, I try and dabble in a few different things. Sometimes they work out but I’m most comfortable as a musician/songwriter. The Vinny Peculiar alter ego has been around for a while now but deep down, I’m one and the same person. The real difference is, I get to elaborate and take more risks as Vinny – perhaps the function of the alter ego is a permission to lose yourself. You’ve got me over thinking this one!
So far you have released 13 albums and EP’s to great critical acclaim, with genre-defying releases such as “Other people like me” or “Non Compliance” among them. If you could choose one record from your catalogue that you value the most, what would it be and why?
Vinny Peculiar: I’d go for “Ironing the Soul”. This record has got me a lot of breakthrough press and I made it with a band of mates in Liverpool, during stolen overnight studio time whilst trying to hold down a proper job! There’s certain urgency about it and some of those 4am vocal takes seem suitably desperate for the songs. Nowadays, I’m spending weeks editing acoustic guitar parts on a Mac which is not quite the same buzz. “Ironing the Soul” is kind of an oldschool.
cover of Silver Meadows
Vinny Peculiar is independent music press darling. Uncut magazine called you “an under sung national treasure” and “Tony Hancock of pop”; Q Magazine heralded you to be “a warm-hearted Morrissey” and The Irish Times convinced their readers you are the missing link between Jarvis Cocker and Roger McGough. How do you feel about those comparisons? Are they something you personally agree with?
Vinny Peculiar: Music press darling you say? Hmm, I’m not sure about that but yes; I have had some great press from the major glossy UK magazines. I think this is partly because my stuff is easy to write about. There is usually a narrative story and some quotable lyrics. UNCUT named one of my songs the fourth best song title of 2004 with “We Tried to Drown Our Music Teacher in 1974”, you can see what I mean.
Your musical style escapes every attempt at classification, forcing reviewers to come up with pretty interesting suggestions such as poetry punk, urban lyricists or even “a beautiful blend of Americana, poetry, indie-pop and busker-punk”. It must be satisfying to see them grind their teeth in frustration every time you release new material. Do you still consider yourself to be part of outside pop movement?
Vinny Peculiar: Yes, I don’t see music as a defined genre thing; often the most incongruous elements can make a song work or not. I try to be driven by what particular song needs. It doesn’t always work, mind! My Outsider status is probably always going to be a given. I’ve never been the new EMI Darling, or even the New Old Man on the Block. I was rather a late starter in the songwriter game! What I try is to follow the Ray Davies model and just “keep on working”. There comes a time when you write and perform because that’s what you do and over analysis is futile, so I tell myself…
Photo by David Bailey
Many of your songs are autobiographical. You grew up in north Worcestershire village of Cathill, in a strict Methodist home. Your childhood experiences, vocational training as a nurse and a serious illness in the family are recurring themes in your lyrics. Mental well-being and finding hope against the odds seems to be very important to you.
Vinny Peculiar: Autobiographical, yes. I think most songwriters write about themselves under some disguise; some do it better [or worse] than others. And yes again, for me personally, holding your head up is everything. We are such a marginalized society and we need hope more than ever. I have found that sharing experiences, often everyday ones, in songs and poems really helps. I try and bring this model to the workshops – people have so much to express, much more than they realise and it can aid their self-esteem and mental well-being. That’s my plug for the workshops done!
You have strong ties not only with Worcester but also with Manchester to the point of Manchester Evening News claiming you as the city’s own. For many years you have collaborated with the Mancunian finest – Andy Rourke of the Smiths, Bonehead of Oasis or the members of the punk group, The Fall. You also supported the renovation of the iconic Salford Lads Club with frequent gigs. Do you feel at home in the north?
Vinny Peculiar: It’s been fascinating to be back home and closer to family. I’ve ended up writing songs based on local events and issues. At the same time, I love The North. I’m still working on the “Silver Meadows” stage play in Liverpool. It’s taking forever to refine, get the right actors, but we are still hopeful it will come off. I was at Salford Lads Club recently and got awarded a blue plaque; other recipients included Wayne Rooney and Maxine Peake. It was a great promo idea for the club, and I was stupidly happy to receive it. I’m planning another Lads Club Fundraiser before Christmas, date to be confirmed shortly.
Your artistic escapades link you closely to the eccentric genius of Bill Drummond (KLF, SOUP ART) – master of anarchistic and thought provoking happenings and art installations. Can you tell us more about your co-operation?
Vinny Peculiar: I was the Artist in Residence [Musical] opposite Bills Artist In Residence [Visual] at The Cathedral Arts Festival In Belfast in 2005. Bill and I shared a flat for 10 days and I went on to do many house concerts with him as part of The Soup Line Project. Bill would make soup and deliver a lecture and I would play a forty minute set of songs. I still keep in touch and look forward to the all new singing, dancing and thought provoking KLF! I also have the dubious honour of being auctioned song by song by Bill in Kensington, Liverpool at the demolition of a high rise block – he managed to sell a one to one version of “Confessions of a Sperm Donor” to a local business woman for £200. It was quite a night…
Recently your album “Silver Meadows (Fables from the Institution)” has been turned into a stage play by Liverpool writer Ian Salmon. The initial reviews are fantastic. Where did the idea come from and where can we see it?
Vinny Peculiar: The Silver Meadows songs came from my time working in long stay Learning Disability and Psychiatric Hospitals. The album is set in the mid-1980s at the dawn of Community Care. The songs are character driven, they tell little stories of big changes. We’ve had an initial full run through before an invited audience and I’m still working on the fine details of the production. These things take a long time as they involve so many different people, including funder. It is never straightforward, but we are determined it should be seen…
On 22nd of September, you will return to Marrs Bar in Worcester to perform an acoustic set during Musicians Against Homelessness concert in support of Crisis, an nationwide charity helping homeless people to find a stable and permanent accommodation. Are you planning something special for the night?
Vinny Peculiar: I’ll be doing the Mars Bar show with Rob Steadman, my regular piano player. Rob was in Parlour Flames with me (the band I formed with Bonehead). We’ll be playing songs from the new locally themed album including “The Malvern Winter Gardener” and “Droitwich”. It is scandalous that we still have such a housing homeless crisis in the UK and we fully support the work of Crisis. I’m really pleased to have been asked to play this gig.
We know you are currently working on a new album inspired by Worcestershire and your childhood in Bromsgrove. Several demos have already been posted on Sound cloud website. What else is planned for the nearest future?
Vinny Peculiar: My forthcoming gig highlights include playing The 100 Club in London with Chris Difford, the date has not been confirmed yet. I’m excited about that, we recently supported him in Malvern and he is a very decent chap, too. The new album will take some time to finish, it is due early next year and we will be touring to support it. I have formed a new band with local Worcester musicians: Dan Bramhall (drums), Wes Dance (guitars) and Rooney Wooster (bass) and we are recording a new live EP soon too – I will let you know when it is ready!
You can follow Vinny at the links below:
www.vinnypeculiar.com
www.facebook.com/vinny.peculiar
https://soundcloud.com/vinnypeculiarmusic
If you want to see Vinny Peculiar play Musicians Against Homelessness concert, tickets are a £5 and can be bought from the links below:
Hoping to see you soon,
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Indieterria meets Jesse River Dylan Murray
JRDM`s heart shaped logo
Let`s take a walk on the wild side. Our next discovery is not only talented singer-songwriter, with a unique sense of fashion and penchant for poetry. They also have a list of inspirations long for a mile (William Shatner, Shrek, Ted Hughes, Stefan Raab, David Attenborough, Julian Lennon to name a few), witnessed Eurovision in Vienna and have a whole box of cds from their trip to India. They play rock but their debut EP is called “Classical Music”. Feeling confused? Good, a little vertigo won’t hurt. We have been observing Jesse River Dylan Murray for weeks at the open mic nights around town and finally had a chance to question them for this month`s edition of Indieterria. We hope you will enjoy this interview, because we surely had so much fun preparing it. Can you blame us? Jesse`s cool as few tons of Persian kittens and we can barely wait for 19th of July when the EP and the jaws will drop.
Life’s got everything to do with music
Look sharp! Jesse is a skilled photographer taking all his promotional shots. Ah those pesky kids today, daring to be creative and talented!
Meeting Jesse River Dylan Murray almost feels like stumbling upon the icons of rock and roll golden era. Soft-spoken, dressed in vividly colorful attire that places them somewhere between Marc Bolan and David Bowie, Jesse instantly becomes the center of attention. Their impromptu, refreshingly innovative sessions at the open mic nights around Worcester are like a breath of fresh air. Having heard the rave reviews, we wasted no time to see them in action for ourselves. This is what we have learnt…
Jesse River Dylan-Murray – that’s a fantastic name and a well suited one for a rock star. Please introduce yourself.
Well, it’s not a stage name in case anyone was wondering, it is my full birth name. I’m apparently named after River Phoenix & Bob Dylan. I’m a guitar-playing songwriter based in Worcester (against my will) and I inhale hope and exhale disappointment. I don’t really aim to become a rockstar – in fact the very term somewhat grates against me like splintery wood. I feel like that whole title has been & gone and comes with this set of specific ways on how to do music which I don’t want to be tied down by. I loathe describing myself almost as much as I loathe BBC Radio 2 & The X Factor.
You have studied at Nunnery Wood High School that is known for placing a great emphasis on art and music. Other graduates include Jodi Hughes, Ewan Pollock and brothers Zac and Alfie Jeavons- from Lost Tiger to the Wild. Did the artistic education help to shape you as a musician?
I always thought Nunnery Wood was a science-biased school… I had very little interest in music generally when I was there. Pretty much all I was listening to at the time was Marilyn Manson & Michael Jackson (my goth phase & my inner child viciously grinding against each other.) It wasn’t until 2010 when I started to really get into music fanatically (starting with Alice Cooper) and I didn’t get my first guitar until the middle of 2013, a year after I’d left college. My mother’s boyfriend, who had been playing since the 60s, probably, gave me a few lessons in the beginning, but the short answer is that I was never formally educated in music nor was I at all inspired by my educational background. I hated school with a near-maniacal passion and still look back on it with disdain.
Jesse as a guitar hero (self portrait)
One of your songs entitled “Smoke without fire” received a lot of airplays on social media. It is a very complex and interesting composition. Can you tell us more about its beginnings? What is the message behind it?
This song I can actually, unlike most of my songs, pinpoint to an exact moment in time. I was having a conversation with my stepdad in a pub last March and we were talking about rumours & the media, and he said something like “People say there’s no smoke without fire, but you know there absolutely is.” And that’s what the song’s really about in my mind. Spurious rumours, dirty gossip, twisted media. From the playground level to the international level. A bit of anger there in that song
Given the opportunity, we have to ask about another of your songs – “Everyone Wants To Look At Me But Nobody Wants To Look Me In The Eye”. With its poetic yet sarcastically sad lyrics and melodic riffs, it almost sounds like a track that didn’t make the cut for The Smiths’ “The Queen is dead” album.
“Classical Music” EP cover
“I live on the outside of the outside because the rebels and the punks and the freaks and the queers don’t want to know me.” It’s a fairly straightforward song I think, with its almost comically mammoth title. Not entirely sure when I conceived that song, but I had the title stuck in my head for what felt like at least a couple of years. I mean it’s obviously about being stared at and not fitting in, as so many songs are (I’m not even a Radiohead fan) but on another level it’s a lot more. It’s about not even fitting in in the usual groups of outcasts, feeling out of place literally everywhere, accepted or otherwise, but most importantly not even having any clue what you are. To paraphrase the brilliant Chicago-originated musician Ezra Furman: “People say ‘oh just be yourself’ but I don’t have any clue what that is…”.
Your debut EP entitled “Classical music” will be released on 19th of July. What can we expect? Are any of your previously released demos included or are you going to treat your fans to something completely new?
Smoke Without Fire is on there in the center of it. Everyone Wants… is currently being worked on to be released separately. The EP will contain 6 tracks – 5 original plus an instrumental bit of classical music (hey-hey did somebody say theming ho-ho) – at a rather beefy 31 minutes and will cost £3 – that’s the same as a meal deal readers, only this lunch don’t have no consume-by date! It will also contain the bouncy anti-pop protest anthem That’s Got Nothing to Do With Music, which I’ve been bombarding poor old Worcester with for a while and will most likely be released as the leading single for this by the time this issue of SLAP comes out, available for download. So get on that.
You have recorded at the famous MayB Studios in Pershore along many established acts such as jazz sensation Hot Fingers, London legendary punk rockers Bad Habits or Worcester Music Festival veterans Amorphica. How would you describe working with one of the best music producers and engineers in the county?
The studio’s owner, Peter May`s top person. He always knows exactly what he’s doing and is pretty quick to figure out what you want if you’re not sure how to describe the sound you’re looking for. He’s in the room with you through the whole process – no soundproof glass, no separate room – so you get a proper teamwork feel to it and it’s pretty easy to communicate quickly enough and make the most of your time there (which is also pretty cheap at £10 an hour.) He is, so far, my only experience of working with a producer/engineer and I feel like I’ve lucked out. You also get to work with some pretty swanky top-notch equipment, and if you’re really nice to him he’ll even make you a lovely cup of tea.
Imagine you have a chance to gather any musicians from local or international scene to create an ultimate artistic dream team. Who would share the stage with you and why?
Thinking locally, I’m a big fan of Ellie Williams and her end-of-the-world song writing and absolutely bellowing pipes. Looking forward to her EP when it comes out and I’d love to work with her. I also like Ben Dallow quite a lot – locally nicknamed “Britpop Ben” for I suppose his rather Gallagher-esque appearance and drone. He has a great non-stop style of guitar playing where he mixes rhythm and lead really well, and gives the impression of being so ice-cool you could hit him with your car and he might not even notice. There’s also Rueben Lovett, Cheltenham-based guitar player and a brilliant writer. Only ever seen him live once so far, right after I’d just left the stage at Marrs Bar’s open mic. I was so sweaty and needed to step outside to cool off, but found myself rooted to the spot by this unique charisma he has. A bit punky but largely just special. Don’t know about a bassist and drummer though… just a load of writers & mostly guitar players lacking the foundations. Chaos.
Sit down next to me (auto-portrait)
Your fashion sense is very unique and you have been compared to David Bowie’s stage persona of Ziggy Stardust and Adam Ant’s Prince Charming. What inspire you?
My sense of fashion just exploded one day in Cheltenham, when I was 15 years old. I was there seeing my very first ever gig, and my friends & I found this vintage clothes shop on a side street called Browsers. And I’m talking ridiculous vintage here: flares, tassels, glitter, shoulder-pads, zebra-print. I’d never been somewhere like there before. Prior to that I was on the tail-end of my goth phase and moving into the zone of checkered shirts (God knows why) but in that shop something in my head clicked and said “Hang on… I can wear anything!” And I went to that gig that night wearing this ridiculous heavy red velvet waistcoat with 2-foot-long tassels dangling from it (still got it too.) My sense of fashion just evolved from there and that wear-anything philosophy. I’ve since lost sight of the point of even gender-pigeonholing and mix in the make-up, heels & dresses with the suits, leather jackets & jumpsuits. I want it all. I just get bored very, very easily and don’t like to stick to one style for long.
What are your plans for the rest of the year? Where can we see you play live?
My EP launch party will be at The Chestnut on Wednesday July 19th – that’s free entry as well – and I’ll have my very first paid gig at the Brecon Fringe Festival on August 13th. Beyond that I’ll keep inflicting myself upon the open mics of Worcestershire – primarily The Marrs Bar, Firefly & Chestnut – until I move away. I’m still small time. I’ve only been performing regularly for about 14 months. You’ve caught me in what are hopefully only the very early stages. Just another noise-maker in a line of noise-makers. Though my noise is often a few decibels apart from the night’s standard – either quieter or louder, depending on my general mood and whether I want to croon about a mythical Greek monster or bellow & growl about alcohol. Do come see the noise, though. It will be – deep breaths now – FUN.
Poster for the EP launch party on July 19th 2019
You can follow Jesse at:
https://www.facebook.com/JRDMcreations/
https://soundcloud.com/jesse-river-dylan-murray
And you can buy the EP here:
https://jrdm.bandcamp.com/album/classical-music
You can find this interview in the July edition of Slap Magazine:
http://www.slapmag.co.uk/slap-issues/issue-71-july-2017.pdf
or download the file from here:
issue-71-july-2017
Nearly a centerfold! Jesse featured in SLAP Magazine July 2017
As we said, before we sat down to talk with Jesse, we seen them several times performing live and each time Jesse would blow us away. Their stage presence is immaculate and the clothes and killer shoes are just unearthly. It`s like Richey Edwards raiding Bernard Butler`s wardrobe in the 1990s. Or Freddie Mercury, or Syd Barrett or Brian Molka or Marc Bolan or Stevie Nicks…it`s like walking on set of Velvet Goldmine, Breakfast on Pluto live… we can go on until tomorrow morning.
We took some shots for you, so you can judge for yourselves.
Jesse`s amazing stage outfits.
Dressed to slay we tell you.
Classic look and killer heels
We will see you on the 19th July for the EP launch. As Jesse said – it will be FUN.
Mal+Rita D.
New Poster for the EP launch
Pushing at the boundaries – “Classical Music” EP launch
Chestnut Inn in Worcester is an unusual place. For starters it looks like it should belong in Hay On Wye. Books and antiques can be found in every corner. On second glance, the pub feels like a crossover between Leaky Cauldron and Peel Archive. Fat, red cat roams around demanding cuddles from the customers, big portraits of rock and blues stars on the walls seem alive and there are vinyl records in big piles near the bar. No wonder that Chestnut was chosen as a venue for Jesse River Dylan Murray`s EP launch on 19 July 2017.
The Chestnut Inn in Worcester
This place is like Cash in the Attic episode
Some of those records are really old and still being used!
Large portraits that give Chestnut Inn quite a character
Chestnut Inn decor is out this world, we tell you.
That is self explanatory!
A wild child of Worcester music scene, Jesse cannot be easily squeezed into a box and they have more aces in their sleeve than a skilled gambler. One moment channeling Bowie, the next singing like Tom Waits, Jesse easily changes from glam to indie to alternative with charm and buoyancy that captivates the audience. We can tell you that when we entered The Chestnut, the house was full.
Before Jesse hit the stage, we had a pleasure to listen to two support acts: Stephen L Wright (locally known as Nobby Wright) and Benjamin Dallow. Stephen L. Wright continues a proud tradition of classic blues and we are sure that sooner than later Nobby will find himself on the other side of the Pond. Ben Dallow (who filled in for Redwood as she could not perform due to conflicting schedules) on the other hand is fully immersed in British rock. There is a lot of Oasis and Paul Weller influences in Ben`s music but since when comparison to the Modfather is a bad thing? Dallows version of Jam`s That’s Entertainment was fresh and done in his own style, so no complaints from us here. It also should be noted that Ben`s performance was arranged the night before the EP launch at a last minute but it worked out perfectly. That’s the beauty of our local music scene.
Ben Dallow during his performance
Rock`n`Roll star
We think we need to introduce Ben to Mikey Johns of This Feeling.
Once Ben Dallow finished his set – it was all about Jesse and their music. With their signature guitar, full make up on and snow white shirt, Murray mirrored Richey Edwards in passion and stage persona and equaled American indie sensation Michete in outspokenness. They played the EP in full and when that was not enough, they turned to a cover (brilliant version of Heroin by Velvet Underground).
For a young performer Jesse surely has dedicated friends – some of them came as far as London for the launch and at the end of the night, Jesse was presented with a huge bouquet of summer flowers. Not Morrissey-esque flowers but equally sweet.
Bold in their performance, but there was a bit of stage fright too, we think.
Rocking to a crowded room
Jesse on stage
a view from the first row
In their element
Not everything was perfect. Jesse like many other acts has to learn on the job and perhaps the set was too longish but we did not really mind. Even if we had to buy the EP from one of Jesse`s friends and not the artist themselves.
It was a fun night – full of excellent music, chaos, silly conversations, too many pints and had all the marks of “I was there” moment. If given right amount of endurance in this dog-eat-dog industry, Jesse River Dylan Murray has all the talent and persona to become not just a local starlet – but a full grown rock and roll start in their own right.
Better than Moz.
The day after thank you note from the artist.
Jesse River Dylan Murray:
https://www.facebook.com/JRDMcreations
Stephen L Wright (also known as Nobby Wright)
https://soundcloud.com/nobby-wright
Ben Dallow
https://www.facebook.com/benjamin.dallow
The Chestnut Inn
https://www.facebook.com/TheChestnutInn/
EP launch review in SLAP Magazine, August 2017
Our review has been now published in August issue of Slap Magazine. You can read the magazine online (turn to page 43) here:
http://www.slapmag.co.uk/issue-72/august-2017/
Or download a copy from here:
issue-72-august-2017
JRDM – pink bullet logo
If you need to purchase a copy of the EP – please click on the link below. It costs just £3 and supports a very talented performer who, like many on Worcester music scene, is fully independent and DIY.
Cover of the digital single That`s got nothing to do with music that accompanied the EP launch
The EP is accompanied by a free download digital single “That`s got nothing to do with music”. Jesse decided not only to give one song completely free for their listeners, but also offered lyrics (it`s actually a very long and contemplative poem) and hi res artwork. We really believe this is a fair deal – from a very promising artist. You know what to do!
https://jrdm.bandcamp.com/track/thats-got-nothing-to-do-with-music
On 12th July, the single was debuted at BBC Introducing Hereford & Worcester to a warm welcome from listeners and the broadcaster Andrew Marston himself
That`s Got Nothing To Do With Music debuted on BBC Introducing Hereford & Worcester on July 12th 2017
And if you need any more recommendation to get yourself a copy of “Classical Music” – please have a look at the photo posted recently by Steve Lamacq (of New Musical Express, Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music fame). Jesse`s EP has landed on his desk and was scheduled for listening. We think this is uber cool and only shows what potential JRDM has!
EP has made its way to 6 Music!
Hope you enjoy the review, coming up – everybody`s fav section – images from two great local photographers!
Images by Andy O`Hare
It`s been a week since the EP launch (you can buy it HERE) and we are getting some amazing shots from the night. Please let us show you photographs done by Andy O`Hare. Andy is a journalist of local chapter of BBC (BBC Hereford and Worcester) and also a staff member at the local SLAP Magazine. He is often seen in front rows, documenting local music scene with his camera in hand– the amount of gigs he attended would make John Peel envious!
Andy was so kind to come and photograph the EP launch despite a very busy schedule. And he allowed us to republish some of his shots on our blog.
Diolch Andy!
Please visit Andy at:
Mal+ Rita
EP launch in the lens of Duncan Graves
https://www.facebook.com/duncan.graves
More coverage dear readers! Let us present you with some stunning works of Duncan Graves. Originally from Manchester, Duncan relocated to Worcester and has been one of the cornerstones of the scene for many years. He is a freelance photographer working with local bands and magazines and documenting the music community we have in town.
Duncan was so kind to come and shot the EP launch and he agreed for his images to be part of this humble blog. And thanks to him, we can finally close the gap in our coverage as we did not have any shots of Stephen L Wright performing.
Stephen L. Wright by Duncan Graves
Folk hero- Stephen L. Wright, photo by Duncan Graves
Benjamin Dallow – photo by Duncan Graves
That`s entertainment – Ben Dallow photographed by Duncan Graves
Jesse photographed by Duncan Graves
Photo by Duncan Graves
Duncan`s a top lad. You can send kudos (and your gig dates) to him here:
EP on the inside
EP back
We will round up our coverage of Jesse`s EP with this statement. Classical Music has been sitting in our stereo for good three weeks now and we just love it to bits. It is such a nice little local record and surely one of the best debts we have seen on our scene in a long while. Actually, we spoke to folks who have been attending local gigs for years and what pops up in almost every conversation is the excitement people feel. Peace and The Tights are brought up (two local bands that hit it big) and how they made the town proud. What is also being noticed is Jesse`s much more ambitious approach and his strive to forge his own stage persona. Imagine, if this kid grows to be new Bowie – mentioned one gig veteran we ran into at the Market Hall Records one Saturday morning when we were all digging through newly arrived rarities. And there was no sarcasm in his voice. That man been going to shows around West Midlands for thirty five years and seen the good, the bad and the ugly of local music. If Jesse is able to win over such hardened listeners, then what really can stop him? All the best Jesse, we have our fingers crossed!
Ps. We really think you look better with flowers than Moz. Thanks for reading this blog!
Jesse is shocked. Mission accomplished! ^-^
Indieterria crew is so so happy with how this blog tuned out – and we hope you agree with us dear readers. Weeks of following the artist, at least 11 updates and corrections and we think we nailed it. Its rock and roll and we are so excited to bring you all the details and angles to the story:)
Mal & Rita
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Pamukkale Hot Springs Turkey
The surreal, brilliant white travertine terraces and warm, limpid pools of Pamukkale hang, like the petrified cascade of a mighty waterfall, from the rim of a steep valley side in Turkey’s picturesque southwest. Truly spectacular in its own right, the geological phenomenon that is Pamukkale, literally "Cotton Castle" in Turkish, is also the site of the remarkably well-preserved ruins of the Greek-Roman city of Hierapolis. With such a unique combination of natural and man-made wonders it’s little wonder that Pamukkale-Hierapolis has been made a Unesco World Heritage site. With over two million visitors annually, it is also Turkey’s single most visited attraction.
Nowhere else in the world can visitors enjoy exploring both picturesque travertine formations, built up over the millennia from limestone deposited by the abundant hot springs, and the colonnaded streets, temples, bath houses, necropolis and theatre of the remains of an idyllically located Greek-Roman spa city, Hierapolis. You can even bathe, as the Romans once did, in a picturesque pool filled with warm (around 36C), mineral rich waters and swim amongst submerged columns of great antiquity.
Most visitors come on gruelling day trips from Aegean or Mediterranean resorts. The easiest way to visit under your own steam is to hire a car - the drive takes around three hours from Kusadasi, four from Antalya and Marmaris, five from Bodrum. Alternatively comfortable inter-city coaches run to Denizli, the nearest city to Pamukkale, from all the aforementioned places and take around the same time as driving. Frequent buses and minibuses make the 40 minute run between Denizli’s bus station and Pamukkale
How to avoid the crowds
The vast majority of day-trippers don’t arrive until the afternoon after the long drive-in from the coast. Late-afternoon/dusk are especially busy. Pamukkale is also relatively uncrowded in winter (November through to March), especially on weekdays. It can, though, be cold and even snowy. The best way to enjoy an uncrowded visit is to spend the night in Pamukkale village, then explore the formations the following morning. Photo: Turkish tourist board
Enjoying yourself
The best way to approach the ancient site is to walk up through the formations on the travertine path, starting at the south gate to the site. You are not permitted to wear shoes or even sandals to do this (to prevent eroding or staining the delicate calcite deposits) so bring your footwear (and everything else you’ll need for exploring the ancient ruins) along in a bag. Wearing swimwear allows you to splash in the warm, aquamarine pools en-route, and later swim in the antique pool at the top of the terracing. Allow the whole day to make the most of the travertines, pools and remains - bring a picnic lunch (and plenty of water/suncream etc in mid-summer).
Where to stay nearby
Recommended accommodation in pleasant Pamukkale village includes Melrose Hotel (melrosehousehotel.com) and the dearer Hotel Hal-Tur (haltur.net).
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“The Exchange is aware of various media reports stating that the postponed Airtel Africa listing on NSE is scheduled for Monday, July 8,” the NSE said in a statement at the weekend.
“Please be informed that the official date for the listing is Tuesday, July 9.”
On Friday, the NSE had postponed the listing of Airtel’s shares a few hours to the scheduled time.
According to the NSE, the postponement was done because there were processes yet to be followed by the firm.
“This postponement was necessitated by the need to ensure that the company meets all the post NSE approval pre-requisites for listing on the NSE,” it added in a statement Friday.
The facts before the listing event however held as planned on the same day.
The NSE had earlier said that it granted a waiver to the firm because it did not meet the minimum requirement of 300 shareholders as of the day the listing was approved by the National Council of the Exchange.
“This is a highly-regulated matter; there are back-end processes that need to be followed by the company,” Oscar Onyema, the NSE Chief Executive Officer, said.
The Tuesday listing is said to be a secondary listing of 3,758,151,504 ordinary shares by the telecommunication firm.
-PremiumTimes
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Funke Olakunrin’s death: Presidency warns leaders to watch their language
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All articles in transport
Your next car is likely to have AI features
While fully autonomous cars are still some way off, artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into many other aspects of vehicle tech. In a recent article for TechCrunch, Jeff…
Jaguar Land Rover developing autonomous SUVs that can handle off-road driving
Coventry-based Jaguar Land Rover is teaming up with the University of Birmingham and machine learning experts Myrtle AI to develop autonomous cars that can go off-road and drive themselves, whatever…
Robotic steering wheel helps drivers navigate safely
A new steering wheel that uses robotics to improve the wellbeing of ‘gig economy’ drivers has been developed by a team of researchers and designers at the Royal College of…
Self-driving tech helps cars find their own spaces
An autonomous Range Rover Sport that can find its own parking space has been demonstrated on public roads in Milton Keynes as part of the UK Autodrive project. The valet…
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Anniversaries, Cover Stories, Editorials,
Interviews, Lists, and Comprehensive Rankings
Foo Fighters’ Top 10 Songs
by Justin Gerber,Michael Roffman and Dan Caffrey
10. “White Limo”
Maybe it’s their Lemmy-starring, VHS-quality music video, but “White Limo” is Foo Fighters at their sleaziest, right? Indecipherable, screeching verses and a primal scream of a chorus make up the engine that revs and accelerates throughout its runtime. Hawkins’ percussion smashes through windshields while the triple-guitar attack of Grohl/Shiflett/Smear welcomingly swerves and crashes into Maiden territory. It was the first taste of Wasted Light, and despite being the shortest song on the band’s most recent effort, we think it’s the best that record has to offer now that we’re two years removed (and that’s saying something). –Justin Gerber
Download a recording of Wilco’s first-ever acoustic show
Live Review: Grateful Dead at Chicago’s Soldier Field (7/3)
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Jizz Jazz
Mac DeMarco unveils new song “All of Our Yesterdays”: Stream
The jizz jazzer’s attempt at “a gigantic rock and roll hit” in the vein of Oasis.
by Lake Schatz
Mac DeMarco performs “One Another” on Colbert: Watch
Plus, everyone’s favorite jizz jazzer hung out with Tom Hanks backstage.
on December 13, 2017, 10:15am
Mac DeMarco performs “This Old Dog” on Charlie Rose: Watch
Ahead of the jizz jazzer’s exhaustive world tour.
by Eddie Fu
on October 11, 2017, 11:15pm
Mac DeMarco jokes about Game of Thrones, Tinder, and more on @midnight: Watch
Our favorite jizz jazzer took part in the Comedy Central show’s latest episode.
by Michelle Geslani
Mac DeMarco performs “On the Level” while Nathan Fielder “plays” guitar on Conan — watch
Comedian Fielder was part of Mac’s band, only not really.
Mac DeMarco performs “One More Love Song” on Fallon — watch
He also made friends with WWE superstar John Cena, apparently.
on June 10, 2017, 2:30pm
Mac DeMarco chills with Death in video for “One Another” — watch
Jizz jazzer befriends the Grim Reaper, but their relationship is hamstrung by one fatal hangup.
Mac DeMarco announces new album, This Old Dog, shares title track and “My Old Man” — listen
Canadian jizz jazzer will support his first full-length since 2014 with a beefy summer tour.
Mac DeMarco sings “No Other Heart” on a rowboat — watch
A stripped-down, floating version of the Another One track.
on August 10, 2015, 4:55pm
Stream: Mac DeMarco’s new mini-album Another One
Plus, read a track-by-track commentary of the eight-song effort.
on July 31, 2015, 11:52am
Mac DeMarco’s new album ends with his home address and an invite for coffee
Another One gives away the jizz jazzer’s home address, and people are already ringing the bell.
Mac DeMarco wears creepy Michael Jackson mask in video for “Another One” — watch
The title track to DeMarco’s new mini-LP.
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Migration of Enterprise stent in treatment of intracranial aneurysms: a report of two cases
Goran Pavlisa, David Ozretic, Marko Rados and Gordana Pavlisa
Background. We present two patients with acutely ruptured complex aneurysms of the internal carotid artery, arising at the origin of the posterior communicating artery (PComA).
Case reports. The aneurysms in both patients had a wide neck and the closed-cell stent (Enterprise) was delivered to assist in aneurysm coiling. In both patients an inadvertent migration of stent occurred, without periprocedural complications. Aneurysms were successfully embolized by endovascular coils.
Conclusions. These cases highlight the flexibility of the stent, as well as the likelihood of stent migration in the setting of immediate coiling after the placement of stent, or in adverse anatomic relations.
In Radiology and Oncology
miR-548c-5p inhibits proliferation and migration and promotes apoptosis in CD90+ HepG2 cells
Lin Fang, Hai-Bing Zhang, Hua Li, Yong Fu and Guang-Shun Yang
Background. Since the introduction of the theory of tumour stem cells (TSCs), the liver cancer stem cell (LCSC)-like cells have become one of the focuses in the research on liver cancer.
Materials and methods. In this study, CD90+ cells were applied as the possible LCSC-like cells, and the miRNA and gene expression were analyzed in the CD90+ HepG2 cells. The pilot study showed miR-548c-5p exerted potential effect on the CD90+ HepG2 cells and was thereafter applied for the further study. CD90+ HepG2 cells were assigned to miR-548c-5p mimic transfection group and control group. MTT assay was performed to detect the proliferation of CD90+ HepG2 cells. The migration and invasion abilities were examined by wound healing assay and transwell migration assay, respectively. A detection of apoptosis was performed by fluorescence microscopy.
Results. Our results showed that caspase-3 and bcl-2 were down-regulated while caspase-8 was up-regulated in the CD90+ HepG2 cells. Moreover, the miR-548c-5p transfection could down-regulate the expression of β-catenin, Tg737, bcl-2, bcl-XL, and caspase-3, inhibit the proliferation, migration and invasion and promote the apoptosis of the CD90+ HepG2 cells.
Conclusions. Our findings indicate the imbalance between apoptosis and anti-apoptosis in the LCSC-like cells, which influence the biological features of LCSC-like cells. miRNA plays a regulatory role in the LCSC-like cells among which miR-548c-5p might be a suppressor.
Prosthetics in Paediatric Dentistry
Zoran Vulićević, Miloš Beloica, Dušan Kosanović, Ivana Radović, Jelena Juloski and Dragan Ivanović
Premature loss of teeth in children may lead to both functional and esthetic problems. Missing teeth in both anterior and posterior regions may cause malfunctions in mastication and proper pronunciation. If the missing teeth are not replaced, further complications may occur, including adjacent tooth migration, loss of alveolar bone, and irregular occlusion. Considering the sensitive nature of children, loss of teeth may cause the development of insecurities and low self esteem problems. Due to dynamic nature of growth in children and adolescents, prosthetic appliances must not hinder development of orofacial system, and must meet adequate esthetic and functional standards. Dental prosthetic appliances in paediatrics must be planned with respect to the special conditions that led to tooth loss or damage. Multi-disciplinary approach is needed, under constant supervision of paediatric dentist and orthodontist, as well as regular checkups with clinical and radiographical examinations.
In Balkan Journal of Dental Medicine
Brucellosis in the Republic of Serbia - The Epizootiological Situation
Bosiljka Djuricic
Aim. To present seroprevalence data of the brucellosis in livestock in Serbia.
Methods. The classical serological diagnostic methods were used: Rose Bengal (RB) for screening, Complement Fixation Test (CFT) and Indirect ELISA as confirmatory tests.
Results. Brucellosis in livestock is present in some regions in Serbia. During the period from 2003 to 2007, the prevalence of brucellosis in sheep was 19.5%-73% (26.8%), in goats 0%-67.1% (35%), in cattle 0%-36.1% (4.8%), and in pigs 0%-16.4% (5.8%). During 2004 new foci of brucellosis in livestock and humans were discovered in the territories of Srednjebanatski and Zapadnobacki counties. By the end of 2004, new foci were registered on the territory of 10 communities from five counties and brucellosis cases were diagnosed in 12 settlements. Actual epizootiological situation during the period from 2007 to 2009 in Serbia was additionally complicated both by the increased number of registered cases and remarcable number of newly affected areas.
Conclusion. Brucellosis in Serbia during the last decade shows some specific characteristics such as rapid spread and easy transmission, and persistence. Outbreaks in new localities and increase of human cases were observed. The increase of brucellosis in the southern part of Serbia was facilitated by the border porosity and lack of control of animal movements toward Kosovo and Metohia territories and migration of infected sheep.
In Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
Bisphosphonate - Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw – Five Years Experience
J Stilla, D Statelova, M Janickova, I Malachovsky, P Gengelova, J Jurkemik and K. Adamicova
tooth extraction socket, inhibits oral epithelial cell migration and promotes proliferation and adhesion to hydroxyapatite of oral bacteria, withou causing osteonecrosis, in mice. J Bone Miner Metab 2010 (28):165-175. 20. Hansen T, Kunkel M, Springer E, Walter C, Weber A, Siegel E, Kirkpatrick CJ. Actinomycosis of the jaws - histopathological study of 45 patients shows involvement in bisphophonate-associated osteonecrosis and infected osteoradionecrosis. Virchows Arch. 451:1009-1017, 2007 21. Gliklich R, Wilson J. Epidemiology of
In Acta Medica Martiniana
Validity of Autotaxin as a Novel Diagnostic Marker for Liver Fibrosis in Egyptian Chronic HCV Patients
Wafaa M. Ezzat, Halla M. Ragab, Nabila Abd El Maksoud, Nour A. Abdulla and Yasser A. Elhosary
B, Westermann AM, et al. Plasma lysophosphatidic acid concentration and ovarian cancer. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2002;287(23):3081-2. 31. Li H, Wang D, Zhang H, Kirmani K, Zhao Z, Steinmetz R, et al.Lysophosphatidic acid stimulates cell migration, invasion, and colony formation as well as tumorigenesis/metastasis of mouse ovarian cancer in immunocompetent mice. Molecular cancer therapeutics. 2009;8(6):1692-701. 32. Stracke ML, Clair T, Liotta LA. Autotaxin, tumor motilitystimulating
Effects of Elevated Body Temperature on Control of Breathing
I. Zila and A. Calkovska
, Mortola JP. Hering-Breuer reflex in conscious newborn rats: effect of changes in ambient temperature during hypoxia. J Appl Physiol 1999; 87(5): 1656-61. Werner MF, Fraga D, Melo MC, Souza GE, Zampronio AR. Importance of the vagus nerve for fever and neutrophil migration induced by intraperitoneal LPS injection. Inflamm Res 2003; 52: 291-6. Schoener EP, Frankel HM. Effect of hyperthermia and PaCO 2 on the slowly adapting pulmonary stretch receptor. Am J Physiol 1972; 222(1):68-72. Žila I
The Role of Genetics in Sporadic GEP-NETs: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature
George Fotopoulos, Ioannis Vathiotis, George C. Nikou and Konstantinos Syrigos
NETs and tumorigenesis is not well established but one could argue that the interaction with the homolog acting as tumor suppression is altered thus leading to tumorigenesis. In the same region lies the ZNF322A gene encoding a classical Cys2His2 zinc finger transcription factor. Although it has been associated with lung cancer formation, evidence remains controversial. ZNF322A gene upregulation boosted cell proliferation, migration and invasion. Furthermore, its knockdown diminished cell growth, invasion and also metastasis both in vitro and in vivo. Alpha
In Forum of Clinical Oncology
Targeting Bruton Tyrosine Kinase: A novel strategy in the treatment of B-cell lymphomas
R. Sklavenitis-Pistofidis, T. Koletsa, A. Lazaridou and A. Goulas
-cell migration and adhesion.[ 21 , 22 ] Figure 2 B-cell Receptor (BCR) signalling pathway. Lyn, Syk: Src-family tyrosine kinases. PI3K: Phosphoinositide 3-kinase. PIP 2 : Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-biphosphate. PIP 3 : Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-triphosphate. BLNK: B-cell linker protein. PLCγ2: Phospholipase C γ-2. DAG: Diacylglycerol. PKC: Protein kinase C. NF-κB: Nuclear factor kappa B. BCR consists of a membrane immunoglobulin (mIg), noncovalently associated with Ig-α (CD79a) and Ig-β (CD79b), which contain immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif
Metabolic syndrome and Cancer: Do they share common molecular pathways?
E. Veniou, I. Sofatzis, I. Kalantzis, M. Karakosta, M. Logothetis, E. Lianos and N. Ziras
breast and colon cancers. However, it is not clear if the antioxidant effect itself is sufficient to justify their anti-cancer properties. AGEs have a receptor (RAGE), belonging to the superfamily of immunoglobulins and can bind multiple ligands, including AGEs as well as amphoterin, an important protein involved in the regulation of inflammation, oncogenesis and cellular differentiation and migration. The receptor is expressed in many cancers such as colon, pancreatic and prostate cancer, but not in lung and esophageal cancer. Binding of AGEs causes genotoxic effect
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There are always lots of good causes and charities that ask for Neil’s help and support. However, to make a real difference he can only help a few at a time. He currently supports the following charities and organizations and should you feel you wish to join him he would be delighted. Please email Neil at neil@cornertolearn.co.uk.
Project Gambia
Click for 2017 Project Gambia Update
Project Gambia was set up by Neil Griffiths, with its aim to support and oversee the education and welfare of children in five pre-schools in the town of Gunjur in The Gambia. This West African country has few natural resources, the average life expectancy is 49 and many families survive on one meal a day!
After a visit there in 2005 Neil witnessed at first hand the difficult conditions that school children endured. Three boys sharing a pencil, sitting on a log on a muddy floor in a make-shift classroom moved him greatly. But he also couldn’t help but be touched by the staff and children’s, enthusiasm, energy, optimism and warmth.
Under the guidance of the Marlborough Brandt Group, a charity based organisation which has supported the town for over 30 years, it has been possible, so far, to fully fund one pre-school – the TARUD School and provide resources to four others.
The TARUD school has six classrooms, a hall, staff room, toilet block, play area, gardens and playground.
230 children aged from 3-7 years of age attend, all of whom are provided with a uniform.
The children are taught by qualified teachers (who have been trained in The Gambia) and work in well resourced and colourful classrooms.
The children are also given a meal at lunchtime.
The school costs £9,000 a year to run, which all comes through kind donations and fund-raising initiatives.
At a conference held four years ago in the town a working group was set up to create a Gambian based curriculum, (the first of its kind), focussing on child centred principles and African tradition. It emphasises the first language of Mandinka and the rich culture of the country. At this conference attendees drew up plans for the future of the school and it was decided to begin supporting up to four tiny neighbouring pre-schools, all with poor and limited resources. This cluster of schools now work together coopperatively sharing resources and expertise.
However, all this needs funding, so if you feel you or your establishment would like to help in any way big or small, we can guarantee that every penny raised will go to the children. The funds are taken direct to The Gambia and all expenditure is overseen and accounted for. So if you would like to help, then please contact us.
Any kind donations made by cheque, should be made payable to Project Gambia. In return we will update you regularly on progress, inform you of where and how the donation was spent and let you know how to contact the schools directly and write to the children if you would like.
£35 will pay for one child’s annual education.
£15 will pay for 150 dinners.
£5 will pay for one child’s dinners for a year.
Please do think about helping, as a little can go a long way and help change lives for the better.
Find out more: https://projectgambia200.wixsite.com/welcome
The Starfish Malaria Project
The Starfish Malaria Project was set up by Neil ten years ago in response to the devastating statistics that one child dies of Malaria in Africa every 30 seconds.
The project is centred in a small town in The Gambia and is ran by 3 Gambian health staff. Its aim is to provide nets to cover families and educate them on how to remain safe from the deadly disease. The nets are made in the village and dipped annually in insecticide.
The team run puppet shows for families, visit homes and broadcast monthly on the radio to raise awareness.
Each year the village fills in holes that may be potential breeding areas for mosquitoes and families are shown how to make a cream from local plants that acts as a repellent.
To date thousands of families have been given nets and trained on how best to use them. And it is because of this that figures suggest that the number of malaria cases are dropping.
If you wish to help with this project or support it financially then please contact Neil at neil@cornertolearn.co.uk.
Wiltshire Scrapstore and Resource Centre
Neil is proud to be the Patron of the Wiltshire Scrapstore which is an environmental charity that collects resources that would otherwise go to landfill and redistributes them for creative projects of all kinds, from arts and crafts to DIY. The Scrapstore warehouse in Lacock is open six days a week for members of the public, community groups and schools to access the materials and services which they provide. They offer free membership for life and simply ask members to make a donation each time they collect resources from the scrapstore.
Many local businesses donate their unwanted waste materials to them. If you are a business that has waste materials that could be of use to them please get in touch at create@wiltshirescrapstore.co.uk.
Their wonderful volunteers help to provide many services and if you are interested in volunteering at Wiltshire Scrapstore please check their vacancies page on their website to find out more.
www.wiltshirescrapstore.co.uk
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1. N.P. Gilbert's Medicinische Geschichte der französischen Armee zu Sanct-Domingo im Jahre zehn (1803), oder, Abhandlung über das gelbe Fieber: nebst einem Abrisse von der medicinischen Ortbeschreibung dieser Colonie
Gilbert, Nicolas Pierre, 1751-1814, author
Berlin : bei Oehmigke dem Jüngern, 1806
Disease Outbreaks
France. Armée.
2. Interesting essays, chiefly on the subject of the yellow fever: interspersed with some remarks on the progress of the preparations for a permanent bridge : and occasionally containing a few observations, relative to the great cause of general humanity
Philadelphia : Printed by Budd & Bartram ..., December, 1802
3. An essay on the analogy of the Asiatic and African plague and the American yellow fever: with a view to prove that they are the same disease varied by climate and other circumstances
Jenks, Phineas.
Philadelphia : Printed for the author by Hugh Maxwell ..., 1804
4. Report of the committee of the Medical Society of the City and County of New-York: explanatory of the causes and character of the epidemic fever, which prevailed in Bancker-Street and its vicinity, in the summer and autumn of 1820
Medical Society of the County of New York.
New-York : Published by James V. Seaman bookseller & stationer, no. 296 Pearl-St., 1820
New York City -- epidemiology
5. Report on the malignant disease, which prevailed in the city of New-York in the autumn of 1805: addressed to the Governor of the State of New-York
Miller, Edward, 1760-1812
[New-York : James Cheetham, 1806]
6. An accurate list of persons who have died of the malignant fever in this city: including those at Bellevue, &c. from July 29, to October 29, with the date of their deaths, also of the different places where the deaths occurred, and the number that died in each street
New York (N.Y.). Committee of Health.
[New York] : Printed by L. Jones, no. 55, Pine Street, [1803]
7. Medical inquiries and observations
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Philadelphia : Published by Anthony Finley ..., 1818
8. A practical narrative of the autumnal epidemic fever which prevailed in Philadelphia in the year 1803
Shaw, William.
Philadelphia : Printed for the author by A. & G. Way, 1804
9. An essay on the prevailing, or yellow-fever, of 1817: together with preliminary observations, and an enquiry into the causes which produced it : also, a brief view of the effect of certain poisons on the animal economy, compared with those of the specific gaseous poison of the yellow-fever
Shecut, John L. E. W. (John Linnaeus Edward Whitridge), 1770-1836
Charleston [S.C.] : Printed by A.E. Miller ..., Nov. 1817
10. Rapport publié au nom de la Société médicale de la Nouvelle-Orleans sur la fièvre jaune: qui y a régné épidémiquement, durant l'été et l'automne de 1819 ; lu et approuvé dans sa séance du 21 mai 1820, en présence de Mr. Roufignac, maire
Société médicale de la Nouvelle-Orléans.
Nouvelle-Orléans : Imprime par James M'Karaher, rue de Chartres no. 46, [1820]
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A brief account of the malignant fever which prevailed in Philadelphia in the year 1793: with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject, in different parts of the United States1
A practical narrative of the autumnal epidemic fever which prevailed in Philadelphia in the year 18031
A series of letters and other documents relating to the late epidemic or yellow fever: comprising : the correspondence of the mayor of the city, the board of health, the executive of the State of Maryland, and the reports of the faculty and District Medical Society of Baltimore ; also, essays of the physicians, in answer to the mayor's circular requesting information for the use of the city council in relation to the causes which gave origin to this disease ; to which is added, the late ordinance re-organising the board of health, &c. &c1
A treatise on the nature, origin and progress of the yellow fever, with observations on its treatment: comprising an account of the disease in several of the capitals of the United States ; but more particularly as it has prevailed in Boston1
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By Mitchell Zuckoff
Genre: Military
Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La.
On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on board survived, and the US military launched a daring rescue operation. But after picking up one man, the Grumman Duck amphibious plane flew into a severe storm and vanished.
Frozen in Time tells the story of these crashes and the fate of the survivors, bringing vividly to life their battle to endure 148 days of the brutal Arctic winter, until an expedition headed by famed Arctic explorer Bernt Balchen brought them to safety. Mitchell Zuckoff takes the reader deep into the most hostile environment on earth, through hurricane-force winds, vicious blizzards, and subzero temperatures.
Moving forward to today, he recounts the efforts of the Coast Guard and North South Polar Inc. – led by indefatigable dreamer Lou Sapienza – who worked for years to solve the mystery of the Duck’s last flight and recover the remains of its crew.
A breathtaking blend of mystery and adventure Mitchell Zuckoff's Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II is also a poignant reminder of the sacrifices of our military personnel and a tribute to the everyday heroism of the US Coast Guard.
By Night, night.
Excellently written book, particularly the way it goes back and forth in time. This book would make an excellent movie.
Steadfast in Duty
By Kickapoo Doc
This book contains two stories. One is the ennobling tale of death and survival in Greenland during WWII. Attempts at rescue result in deaths of some rescuers and entrapment of others in the relentless Greenland winter. No one gives up even in the face of great peril. The second is the modern story of the attempt to find one of the rescue aircraft, a Gruman Duck, and perhaps the three servicemen who died on her. This effort was confused and argumentative. I greatly enjoyed this well written book mainly because of the historical part but some of the modern story bordered on humorous. Those interested in aviation, recue missions, WWII, and Coast Guard history will find this book of interest.
By Billsing97
Very interesting story and well written.
By Kedevoid
A story I was unfamiliar with. Now, it is, as if I was there myself. Thank- you for telling this story and honoring all those involved. Who needs fiction when there are stories like this?
By ChrisD2013
Well written and researched. Anyone who enjoys factual stories of courage and heroism will enjoy this book.
More by Mitchell Zuckoff
Lost in Shangri-La
Mitchell Zuckoff
Mitchell Zuckoff & The Annex Security Team
Lost in Shangri-La (Enhanced Edition) (Enhanced Edition)
Fall and Rise
Judgment Ridge
Dick Lehr & Mitchell Zuckoff
Ponzi's Scheme
Ztraceni v Shangri-La
13 óra: Bengázi titkos katonái
Frosset i tiden
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SDCC: Superman’s Rebirth Panel
July 23, 2016 August 23, 2016 Media Release
What’s old is new again, as fans were re-introduced to the pre-New 52Superman as the one true Man of Steel in the post-Rebirth DC Universe. Butadding a new dimension to his never-ending battle is his Clark’s young son JonKent, who is now growing into his powers. Oh, and Lex Luthor is now a super manin his own right. DC Comics has brought together Gene Yang, Pat Gleason, DanJurgens, Tyler Kirkham, Peter Tomasi, and moderator Hank Kanalz at Comic-ConInternational in San Diego to discuss the goings-on around Metropolis and what’scoming next.
The panel kicked off by Gene Yang talking about "New Super-Man."Jim Lee and Dan DiDio came up with the concept, "and when they brought itto me I said, hell no, I don’t want to do that," Yang said, noting he didnot have first-hand experience of living in China. But the character"started speaking to me" and he accepted the gig.
The book was originally called "The Super-Man," but Yang noted thatthe Chinese language does not have "the."
Kenan Kong’s name comes from Chinese words for "overcome" and"south," Yang said. "Even though Shanghai is not in southernChina, people in Beijing refer to folks who live in Shanghai as‘southerners.’"
Dr. Omen is "a Chinese version of Amanda Waller," who works for theMinistry of Self Reliance that gives Kenan his powers, Yang said.
Super-Man China
"Superman is supposed to be about Truth, Justice, and the American Way— what does that mean in China?" Yang said. "That’s a culturallandmine." But Yang will be searching for ways to have Kenan experience anarc, like Clark Kent or the monkey king epic (which inspired "Dragon BallZ"), to embody Chinese-ness in the way Superman does for America.
Yang compared the Chinese versions of American superheroes to the country’s"state approved religions" in real life — "they found theycouldn’t suppress religion, so they made state-sponsored versions." Forsuperheroes, "they were really into American superheroes, and since theycouldn’t suppress them, they created state-approved versions."
"New Super-Man" #4 will see Kenan fighting an analog to the FreedomFighters, "a pro-democracy group of supervillains — yeah, we just went forit."
Since Yang will have to leave the panel early, Kanalz took fan questions forhim briefly. A woman said she enjoyed the first issue of "NewSuper-Man," but "my only criticism is the size of the dumplings, theywere a little too big."
Asked about the Great Ten characters, Yang said, "August gGeneral inIron shows up in #3."
As Yang departed the stage, attention turned to Kirkham and Jurgens’"Action Comics." Kirkham noted that, though his design for Doomsday isbased on Jurgens’ original, the character evolves, leading to a changing visualpresence.
Jurgens compared the dual artists/double shipping situation to movies notbeing shot in order. "That means that, yes, sometimes you have to go backand make corrections" if certain elements don’t line up, as Kirkhamconfessed he had to do for the plaid on Clark Kent’s shirt.
Doomsday’s ability to hone in on Kryptonians will cause trouble forSuper-family. "He’s located another Kryptonian on Earth," Jurgenssaid, "and that is actually Jon." The fight comes to the farm, placingSuperman’s wife and son in danger.
Tomasi said he looked to "what everybody loves about Superman" towrite the eponymous ongoing.
"Having Jon in the story is a great way to view Superman," Gleasonsaid. "It’s a way to have Superman come back and appear trustworthy."
"We both really love writing the character based stuff," Tomasisaid of himself and Jurgens, who set up the family dynamic in the "Lois andClark" miniseries that preceded "Rebirth."
"One of the great things about having a book coming out twice a month,you can explore corners you might not be able to in a monthly book,"Jurgens said, as having "forty pages a month to play with" allows formore detours.
A fan asked what the Time Masters have been up to since"Convergence." "It’s on my list of things to get to," hesaid. "The good thing about two books a month is you can get through a lotof material really quick."
Using Doomsday in Superman’s new circumstances "allows us to say newthings" about who Superman is today, Jurgens said, since everyone knows theoriginal story.
"There’s a lot of cool stuff coming up for Lois," Tomasi said,particularly something in "Superman" #5.
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"Without ‘Action Comics’ #1. we wouldn’t have the industry we haveindustry today," Jurgens said, "and we know that because that’s whereSuperman debuted. But that’s also where Lois debuted, and I take that veryseriously." Both "Action" and "Superman" will examinewhat it means for a character in her unique situation to be a mother.
Kirkham noted that, as Jon watches Superman fight Doomsday on TV, "Loisknows how this could end."
Tomasi said there are no plans at present to have Jon join the Teen Titans.
A fan’s perceptive questioning led the panelists to reveal that"Superwoman" #1 addresses the fates of the multiple Lois Lanes as wellas Lana Lang.
Asked about Lex’s future as a hero or villain, Jurgens noted there’s a wealthof material to work with. "What’s fun about Lex is he is so complex, and Ithink there are many more angles to be explored," Jurgens said. "Hewants to do the right thing, but when the chips are down, will he followthrough. We also know he’s a murderer, and I really feel you can’t atone forthat until you stand up and say, I am a murderer."
Asked about the complications inherent in the old-new Superman from a newreader standpoint. "You just have to let go sometimes and go along with itas a reader, get immersed in the story and trust the creators," Tomasisaid. "You can’t let it feed your reading all the time. … I’ve never beenone to get too bogged down in continuity, I just let the current creative teamstell their story."
On the topic of the restored Lois and Clark marriage, Jurgens noted that Loisand Superman had been connected since "Action" #1, but with the New52, "not only were they not married, but they didn’t even have thatconnection." When he wrote several issues early in the New 52 run, Jurgenssaid "I felt that absence, I think we all felt it."
Will the Legion be showing up? Tomasi: "No comment." Kanalz addedthat there have been hints in recent issues. by Shaun Manning
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The beginning.
Jack Tramiel was born in Poland. He survived the concentration camps of World War II. In the year 1948 he emigrated to the United States. He joined the US army and became a typewriter repair man. In 1952 Jack left the army to set up his own company. It was just a little store that would repair typewriters and he didn't make that much money.
In 1955 he got a contract to assemble typewriter for a Czechoslovakian company. In Canada he met C. Powell Morgan who wanted to put money into the new company. With this deal Jack founded the company "COMMODORE". A few years later in 1962 Commodore went public. In 1965 there was trouble. The financial company of C. Powell Morgan went bankrupt and Commodore was in financial trouble. The next year a new money man was found by the name of Irving Gould.
In the sixties Commodore starting to make mechanical calculators and later electronic calculators. The first computers came after Commodore bought the company MOS in 1976. With this deal Commodore could make it's own chips for the calculators and get in the new world of computers.
The calculators
After the typewriters came the mechanical calculators or "adders". Then Commodore started to make electronic calculators. The calculators were assembled with components from other companies. The chips that were needed came from Texas Instruments. Business was good and Commodore produced more than 25 different models. The company Texas Instruments was only making the chips so it was not a competitor for Commodore. But things changed and Texas Instruments started to produce it's own calculators. The price of the complete Texas Instruments calculator was almost the same as the price that Commodore had to pay for the chips. This put Commodore in a difficult spot. But Jack Tramiel was a very clever business man. He found out that a relative new company (MOS) also could make chips for his calculators. So he placed a large order for chips at MOS. Jack was stalling payments to MOS to get MOS into financial trouble. And after a while he took over the company MOS for a very cheap price. Jack was now owner of a chip making company and was an independent manufacturer.
On the photo the 776M electronic calculator.
The KIM-1
The KIM-1 was Commodore first real computer. But the KIM-1 was designed by the Company MOS. MOS was founded in 1974 by 8 former employees of Motorola. Two of those people were Bill Mensch and Chuck Peddle. The new company was called MOS Technology and it started development on the 6501 chip. This was a microprocessor that was pin compatible with the 6800 chip from Motorola. The internal design was different but Motorola sewed MOS for copying there design. MOS and Motorola settled this disagreement and the 6501 was dropped. MOS went on with designing there new processor. This was the 6502. The 6502 is one of the most important microprocessors ever made. The driving force behind the development of the 6502 was Chuck Peddle. Now the 6502 was born MOS designed a complete computer that used the 6502. The KIM-1 was born. But in the same year the company was taken over by Jack Tarmiel's company Commodore. There are KIM-1's with MOS on the motherboard but the later had the Commodore and the MOS name on the motherboard.
The components:
The KIM-1 is a real computer but it's nothing compared with a modern PC. The KIM has the following major parts. The 6502 microprocessor, Two 6530 I/O chips, 1 kbyte RAM, 2 kbyte ROM, a 6 digit 7-segment LED display. The rest of the component are simple logic components.
The 6502 technical specifications:
Interrupts: IRQ, NMI, RDY
Speed: 1 MHz
The 6502 is microprocessor. Inside a microprocessor all kinds of binary manipulations can be made on data. To get data in and out of the microprocessor a data bus is needed. The data bus of the 6502 is 8 bits wide that means that it has 8 pins that can connect with memory outside the 6502. The 6502 works like all other processors with the binary system. That means there are only 2 possibilities on or off. This will be shown as a 0 or a 1. This is called a bit. If you got a 8 bit wide data bus then the possibilities are 00000000 to 11111111. A value of 8 bit wide is called a byte. In the normal decimal system that is 0 to 255. All processing is limited to the numbers 0 to 255. If you need bigger numbers you will have to chop the big number into little parts.
But there is also something needed to point at the location of the data. This is called a address bus. On the 6502 the address bus of the 6502 is 16 bits wide. With 16 bits you can make numbers between 00000000 00000000 and 11111111 11111111. Or in decimals between 0 and 65536. The 6502 can address 64 kbyte of memory. Keeping in mind that the KIM-1 has only 3 kbytes of RAM / ROM memory the address bus is big enough.
Besides the Data and Address bus the 6502 has also interrupts. An interrupt is a stop-sign. The processor can be halted with an interrupt.
The system speed of the KIM-1 is 1 MHz. This means that there are 1 million actions per second that are processed. So the 6502 processor can do 1.000.000 action every second. The fasted instruction takes only 2 actions but the slowest instruction takes 7.
The 6502 has instructions. The number of instructions is 151 but there are in theory 255 instruction possible. Programmers found extra instructions by experimenting. But these are actually defects that are build into the chips and are not real instructions. There are instructions that only move data like LDA (Load the accumulator with a value) but there are also instructions that will calculate data like ADD (ADD a value to the accumulator) Also there are instructions the manipulate a value like ROR which shifts the bits a place to the right.
I/O: 2 x 8 bits (bi-directional)
Timer: programmable
RAM: 64 byte
ROM: 1 kbyte
The two 6530 are the connection with the outside world. The keyboard is read with these chips. The display is also driven by the 6530's. To save your programs there is also a connection for a cassette recorder. And even a teletype connection is available. Almost all of the IO are also available on the edge connectors.
Because the 6530 has it's own ROM there are different types of 6530. MOS have produced different 6530 for specific tasks or other companies.
RAM / ROM:
Nowadays 1 kbyte of RAM is a joke but in 1976 this was huge. RAM is used to store your own program code. RAM can be written and read. RAM stands for Random Access Memory. There is also 2 kbyte of ROM. In this ROM is a program that runs the KIM-1. It takes care of reading the keyboard does the display and the save and load commands. Also it has a machine language assembler to help you to type in your machine language program. ROM can only be read. ROM stands for Read Only Memory. The ROM keeps it's program even when the power supply is disconnected. RAM loses all it's data when this happens.
Keyboard / Display:
To make a complete computer you will need a way to interact with it. Input from the user is done via a simple keyboard with the hexadecimal numbers from 0 to F, a reset button, some keys for programming and a on/off switch.
The display is made up from six 7-segments LED displays. Because the microprocessor can access the individual segments on each display via the 6530's you can display more than 0-9.
On the photo the KIM-1. This is a revision-G from November 1978
The Chessmate
When the KIM-1 came out people started to write software for it. One of those people was Peter Peter Jennings who worked for Commodore. He wrote Microchess for the KIM-1 and later also for the C64/128. Commodore decided to make a ready to use version of Microchess. This is the Chessmate. If you look at the design it looks a lot like the KIM-1 but not everything is the same. Besides the differences on the hardware side the Chessmate was put in a nice cabinet and a (external) power supply was included.
The 6504:
The microprocessor is a 6504 instead of a 6502. The main difference is that it's only a 28 pin chip (6502 is a 40 pin chip). The 6504 can only address 8 kbyte of memory has only one interrupt but it has a build in clock. The 6504 runs on a clock frequency of 1 MHz.
Besides the microprocessor there is also a RIOT chip the 6530 which handles the keyboard and the 4 7-segments LED display.
The 6530: see also the KIM-1.
The 6530 reads the keyboard and the drives the four 7-segments LED display. It also controls four LEDs on the panel and controls a small beeper.
The Chessmate has only 256 bytes of RAM. The ROM is filled with the program Microchess 1.5 and is 4 kbyte in size. The 6530 has another 64 bytes of RAM and 1 kbyte of ROM but they are not used.
For the interaction with the user the Chessmate has a membrane style keyboard like on the MAX-machine. The main display has four 7-segments LED displays. There are 4 more LEDs that give you information on the status of the chess game.
On the photo the Chessmate.
The 2000K
Before "real" computers hit the consumer market a lot of companies sold a "pong" game console. Commodore had bought MOS Technologies and MOS also made a pong chip. In the 2000K Commodore used the 7600 (NTSC) and the 7601 (PAL) chip. The 2000K can be operated with and external power supply or on batteries. The 2000k hit the shops around 1976/77.
Most pongs were build around one chip. The 7600/1 was a simple microprocessor that could read the build in ROM to create the game. The TV display was also handled by the 7600/1. The display has four colors. The console even had sound. The beep came out of a build in speaker.
Keyboard / Controllers
The 2000K has 4 controllers that are comparable with a paddle like on the VIC-20 and the C64/128 but do not have a fire button. Two of the controllers are connected to the 2000K and two more can be connected via a connector. An optional rifle can be attach to shoot at the screen.
The machine has the following switches: On/Off, 2 or 4 players, Auto serve on/off, expert or amateur, Reset, Manual serve. The center switch controls the game: Tennis, Football, Squash and Target.
On the photo the 2000K pong. This unit is from August 1977.
The 3000H
The 3000H is very similar to the 2000K. The main difference is that the controllers use slider. One of the controllers is build into the unit. The second controller is connected to the unit via a cable. The other two connect with a connector. The connectors for the controllers are different to the 2000K.
On the photo the 3000H pong.
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Climate Change and Global Warming – wildfires and decreasing water tables – So, they’ve been seeding the clouds for Las Vegas and snow skiing and water for where?
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Cloud seeding creates rain Northern Nevada needs, Las Vegas wants
Tom Swafford, left, and Bryan Loss dismantle cloud-seeding equipment at Alpine Meadows outside Truckee, Calif. Such dismantling efforts are on hold as the Desert Research Institute, which has operated the cloud-seeding program for years, works with Washoe County to find funding and resuscitate the program.
By Stephanie Tavares (contact)
Monday, Aug. 31, 2009 | 2 a.m.
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When Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager Pat Mulroy suggested the agency fund a shuttering Desert Research Institute cloud seeding program, it turned more than a few heads.
The project is vital to a stable water supply in Northern Nevada, but what does it have to do with Southern Nevada?
Well, not much — at least not right now.
The cloud-seeding program provided precipitation to some of the rural ground water basins from which the authority wants to eventually pump water for Las Vegas.
The authority has been involved in the institute’s cloud-seeding program for years — but not in Nevada. It has paid the research institute $121,000 over the past three years to conduct cloud-seeding research and spur precipitation in the mountains between Denver and Grand Junction, Colo. The bill went to the authority’s Enterprise Fund, which gets most of its money from wholesale delivery charges to municipal water agencies.
Because 90 percent of Las Vegas’ drinking water comes from the Colorado River, and because snowmelt from the upper basin has dropped amid the drought, paying for cloud seeding there made sense. In that case, the authority was effectively trying to create its own water.
Cloud seeding means adding chemicals to clouds to induce or increase precipitation. In Nevada that most often involves pumping silver iodide particles into clouds from a remote controlled mountaintop station when the right cloud patterns are present. The silver iodide changes the composition of ultracold water in the clouds, turning the liquid into snow or ice, which then falls to the ground.
Desert Research Institute has 23 cloud-seeding stations in Nevada and six in the Sierra Nevada range along the California-Nevada border. They create about 65,000 acre-feet of precipitation each year in Nevada, mostly in the form of snow, according to institute data.
The institute is a world leader in cloud-seeding research and technology dating to the 1970s. The program developed remote-controlled mountaintop cloud seeding stations used today in Nevada and around the world.
But in this year’s legislative session, funding for the program dried up. With the economy in a shambles and not enough new income, the Legislature made deep cuts in the higher education budget. Desert Research Institute gets only about 15 percent of its budget from the state, but the cuts were felt mainly by the institute’s service-oriented divisions, such as the cloud-seeding program, which get most or all of their funding from state coffers.
The cloud-seeding program is small and appears to have been relatively efficient, with, at most, five highly trained employees with years of experience. Its budget was $550,000 to $600,000 a year, depending on how much cloud seeding took place.
The program served the community in important ways but didn’t bring in many grants or closely align with the core mission of research, institute President Stephen Wells said.
“I don’t have any sources of money to go to keep these parts of DRI functional,” Wells said. “It was a terrible choice I was forced to make.”
How Southern Nevadans might benefit from manipulating precipitation above the Sierra Nevada range and in northeastern Nevada, from which we currently get no water, isn’t as clear.
Las Vegas Valley Water District spokesman J.C. Davis says it all comes down location and timing.
The seeding program increases snowpack by 2 percent to 10 percent, the higher percentages coming in drought years, according to the institute’s figures. When that snowpack melts, some of it recharges the aquifers in the valleys below.
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The water authority owns water rights in four such aquifers between here and White Pine County. It has suspended an application for more water in the fifth, Snake Valley, a ranching community below Great Basin National Park on the Utah border.
Water authority staff members are examining whether it would be in Southern Nevada’s best interest to fund part of the core cloud-seeding program, which would make it possible for the institute to continue seeding above the Colorado River basin while supporting cloud seeding above the basins in which it owns water rights.
Keep the water coming in now, when the drought is at its height, they hypothesize, and you’ve got a better chance of pulling something out of the ground in the future.
Northern Nevada, though, is immediately dependent on that snow. It, like much of the rest of the West, has been hit hard by a multiyear drought. The additional tens of thousands of acre-feet of precipitation created each year by the seeding program has kept ski slopes open and stabilized the region’s aquifers, Washoe County Commissioner John Breternitz said.
“In Northern Nevada we’re hard pressed every winter to have enough water to get by,” he said. “The cloud seeding is an added insurance.”
That’s why Northern Nevada is trying to find ways to pay for it. Breternitz is building a coalition of business owners, politicians and residents to raise money to get the project back up and running.
The institute is preparing reports for the Truckee Meadows Water Authority, Washoe County and the Southern Nevada Water Authority on what it would take to resuscitate the program. It has also ordered its staff to stop dismantling the seeding stations.
“We’re in the ramping up mode where we’re trying to get the word out and see if we can find anyone who can fund it on the interim basis and then find a long-term funding mechanism,” Breternitz said. “The state needs to understand how important this program is to Nevada.”
The water authority’s entrance into the discussion, though, has changed the dialogue. The agency wants to pump tens of thousands of acre-feet of water each year from rural Nevada basins. Most rural Nevadans, including many in areas that depend on cloud seeding, oppose that prospect.
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The Bureau of Land Management is expecting to complete its draft environmental impact statement on the pipeline in early 2010, but construction isn’t likely to begin for several years.
The project faces mounting opposition from ranchers, farmers, environmentalists, American Indians and national parks enthusiasts who say it will suck dry some of the most beautiful country in the state and ruin the lives of local residents.
The authority has acquired water rights in four of the five basins from which it wants water. In Spring Valley, it had to purchase and operate large ranches to get the water it wanted. And it has made deals with Lincoln County to exchange 3,000 acre-feet of water each year for support for its water rights applications there. The agency recently agreed, as part of a water basin agreement between Nevada and Utah, to wait 10 years before pursuing the water rights it applied for in a final basin, Snake Valley.
Pipeline opponents see the cloud-seeding proposition as yet another way the water authority is trying to manipulate rural Nevadans into supporting the pipeline. For them and other pipeline foes, it serves as another “ah ha” moment.
“It appears that the SNWA is acknowledging that there just isn’t enough water in the basins they have targeted, at least if they are going to avoid widespread defoliation and environmental destruction,” said Launce Rake, spokesman for the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/aug/31/budget-well-dry/
Authority may invest in cloud seeding
Published: Sept. 1, 2009 at 1:54 AM
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 1 (UPI) — A state water authority manager suggests providing public funds for seeding clouds in Northern Nevada for drinking water in Las Vegas.
Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager Pat Mulroy suggested his agency provide funds to keep a Desert Research Institute cloud seeding program operating, The Las Vegas Sun reported Monday.
Water authority staff members must determine whether it would be in southern Nevada’s best interest to fund part of the cloud-seeding program, so the DRI could continue seeding above the Colorado River basin and other basins.
DRI has 23 cloud-seeding stations in Nevada and six in the Sierra Nevada range along the California border, which create an additional 65,000 acre-feet of precipitation, mostly snow. This increases the snowpack by between 2 percent in wet years and 10 percent in drought years.
When that melts some of the water recharges the aquifers in the lower valleys and provides water to Las Vegas, Las Vegas Valley Water District spokesman J.C. Davis said.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/09/01/Authority-may-invest-in-cloud-seeding/UPI-84131251784470/
The Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program
As a form of weather modification, cloud seeding is aimed at stimulating snowfall in selected mountainous regions of Nevada to increase the snowpack, resulting in more spring runoff and water supplies in the surrounding areas.
The Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program is operated by the Desert Research Institute Division of Atmospheric Sciences, located in the Northern Nevada Science Center (NNSC), Reno, Nevada. The State program originated as an outgrowth of DRI weather modification research programs funded through USBR and NOAA.
Current DRI research is focused on the quantitative evaluation of winter storm cloud seeding using trace chemistry, atmospheric model simulations of seeding plume transport, and hydrologic modeling to estimate the additional runoff due to cloud seeding.
* Western Regional Climate Center
* National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
* DRI Division of Atmospheric Sciences
http://cloudseeding.dri.edu/
To what extent has this ongoing cloud seeding program contributed to the increasing desertification of the Western and mid-Western United States?
And, why didn’t they seed the massive hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico before they wiped out populations along the coast?
When did these programs get auto-magically created despite the possible repercussions – what happened to the whole argument about cloud seeding not being viable because of the potential that it would alter the weather patterns, cause drought conditions in other areas, create flooding where it wasn’t intended, etc., etc., etc.? And who the hell decided to go ahead and to seed the clouds on a massive and regular basis without it becoming common knowledge in the news, in academic communities and around the rest of America?
And – when Hurricane Katrina was bearing down on the coast as a category 4 or 5 storm – why didn’t the experts from NOAA and Universities who appeared on cable news and discussed seeding those storm clouds say anything about the cloud seeding program that had obviously been in use over the last fifty years, certainly since the 1970’s as a common practice?
I just don’t get it . . . unless human lives mean nothing to the Republicans – is that the one defining factor that I’ve failed to recognize about them which makes the rest of it make sense?
– cricketdiane, 09-01-09
You know what it amounts to, is that the people in California are just going to have to move. Its ridiculous to have that many people and that much of our infrastructure sitting on an earthquake zone with mud slides, Santa Ana winds, wildfires, smog, pollution and rising sea water levels, yet without enough usable water for the population to actually survive. It isn’t going to work anymore – we might as well start making room for them somewhere else around the United States because they sure can’t keep living there.
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The West Wing, Crom Castle
Red Magazine, June 2008
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Emily Davenport was to the manor born after a weekend in her very own Irish castle.
“In short, it’s everything you need to join the country set”
The Earl of Erne was taking a morning constitutional on his terrace, wrapped in a dressing gown and gazing at some of the fallow deer that roam his estate. I’d popped into his line of vision with my 14 month old daughter. Anyone else might have turned tail as quickly as the deer did, but the Earl smiled at us, bid me a cheery “Good morning” and enquired how I was settling in. You’ve got to love true aristocratic politeness.
I was staying in the West Wing of Crom Castle in Northern Ireland, the Earl’s ancestral home. A group of eight of us, plus five toddlers, had booked it for a weekend of country fun. Before we arrived, we’d been worried about the children wrecking the wallpaper and smashing priceless antiques. However, when the Earl’s son redesigned the West Wing for hire, his brief was to make it super-comfortable, without losing the stately charm. This turned out to mean a relaxed mix of seagrass carpets, comfy sofas and an enormous dining table. The West Wing is separate from the rest of the castle with its own parking area, spectacular glass conservatory used to host weddings and also for us to play hide and seek in and masses of ground. There are three double bedrooms one is a four poster and three rooms with twin beds a massive kitchen with dining area, smart drawing room and small television room with widescreen TV and DVD player.
You can even engage the services of a cook for dinner, the redoubtable Cynthia who created a four-course meal that left us groaning with pleasure- the Northern Ireland approach to food is not to stint on quality or quantity.
The proportions of the early Victorian Castle, with its turrets and lead-panned windows, are huge. There’s a tennis court, and a small rowing boat fitted with an out board engine, perfect for pottering around Lough Erne, on which the castle sits. In short all you need to join the country set. Life was as serene as you’d expect within 1,900 acres of parkland run by the National Trust.
Crom in the Press:
The Guardian, December 2012
Belfast Telegraph, May 2012
Belfast Telegraph, January 2013
Impartial Reporter, March 2012
Irish Independent, March 2008
Impartial Reporter, 5th July 2007
Las Vegas Review Journal, 19 November 2006
Tatler Magazine, November 2006
Belfast Telegraph, September 8, 2006
Sunday Tribune, 27 August 2006
The Independent on Sunday, 14 May 2006
Evening Herald, 20 March 2006
CGA's Country Magazine, Oct/Nov 2005
Ulster Tatler Magazine, May 2005
Newsletter, 28 April 2005
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Only One Democrat Left In Congress Opposed To LGBTQ Equality
Last cycle progressive fighter Marie Newman narrowly lost the #IL03 seat held by homophobic, anti-woman candidate Dan Lipinski because of last-minute dirty money from "No Labels." This cycle we're going to finish him off, but we need your support to do it.
By Howie Klein on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 5:00am
Arthur Jones speaks in support of Donald Trump in Harrisburg, Penn., on Nov. 5, 2016.
It's Official: GOP To Run Nazi In IL-03
Nazi? Holocaust denier? Good enough for today's GOP.
By Scarce on Tue, 03/20/2018 - 7:00pm
CNN Airs Interview With Republican Nazi Running In IL-03
In 2018, the Republican Party will run a real, live Nazi for Congress. Let that sink in for a minute.
By Scarce on Thu, 02/08/2018 - 8:02am
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Thursday confronted the Holocaust denier running for the Republican Party in Illinois' Third Congressional District.
Image from: Mad Mike's America
Republicans Run **Actual Nazi** In IL-03
Arthur Jones is the former leader of the American Nazi Party and now heads a group called the America First Committee. He's running unopposed for the Republican nomination in the IL-03 Congressional District.
By Scarce on Mon, 02/05/2018 - 5:36am
2018's Most Important Primaries
Upgrading the Democratic Party is as essential as banishing the GOP from control of the House. It will help break a cycle where the voters go back and forth on which party is really the lesser of two evils.
A More Progressive Democratic Party In Rahm's Chicago? Why Not!
Current IL-03 Rep. Dan Lipinski is part of an antediluvian machine and seeks only to please his donors. Marie Newman comes from a very different place, and we're very glad that she's stepped up and pledges to represent actual people who live in her district.
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Chief Executives and Chairs
When CSIRO (originally known as CSIR) was formed in 1926 it was initially led by an Executive Committee of three people: a Chair, Mr GA Julius, the Chief Executive, Professor ACD Rivett and Professor AEV Richardson.
Since then the roles and responsibilities of the Chair and Chief Executive have changed many times. From 1927 to 1986 the head of CSIR (and later CSIRO) was the Chair who was responsible for the management of the Organisation supported by the CE.
During the period 1 July 1959 to 4 December 1986 CSIRO had no Chief Executive, with the Chair carrying out the functions of both positions.
In 1986 the Hawke Labor Government changed the structure of CSIRO to include a Board of non-executive members plus the Chief Executive to lead CSIRO and the roles changed. The Chief Executive was now responsible for the management of the Organisation in accordance with the strategy, plans and policies approved by the CSIRO Board. The CSIRO Board is responsible to the Australian Government for the overall strategy, governance and performance of CSIRO.
The Heads of CSIRO
1 Jan 2015 to current Dr Larry Marshall, CE
20 Nov 2014 to 31 Dec 2014 Mr Craig Roy, Acting CE
1 Jan 2009 to 19 Nov 2014 Dr Megan Clark, CE
15 Jan 2001 to 31 Dec 2008 Dr Geoff Garrett, CE
7 Feb 2000 to 14 Jan 2001 Dr Colin Adam, Acting CE
3 Jan 1996 to 7 Feb 2000 Dr Malcolm Kenneth McIntosh, AC, CE
3 Jan 1996 to 4 Feb 1996 Dr Roy Montague Green, AO, Acting CE
21 Jul 1995 to 2 Jan 1996 Dr Roy Montague Green, AO, CE
5 Mar 1995 to 20 Jul 1995 Dr Roy Montague Green, AO, Acting CE
5 Mar 1990 to 4 Mar 1995 Dr John Wilcox Stocker, AO, CE
5 Mar 1987 to 4 Mar 1990 Dr Norman Keith Boardman, AO, CE
5 Dec 1986 to 4 Mar 1987 Dr Norman Keith Boardman, AO, Acting CE
25 Sep 1985 to 4 Dec 1986 Dr Norman Keith Boardman, AO, Chair
14 Dec 1978 to 24 Sep 1985 Dr John Paul Wild, AC, CBE, Chair
25 Mar 1977 to 13 Dec 1978 Mr Victor Dudley Burgmann, CBE, Chair
26 May 1970 to 24 Mar 1977 Sir James Robert Price, KBE, Chair
1 Jul 1959 to 22 May 1970 Sir Frederick William George White Chair
19 May 1949 to 20 Jun 1959 Professor Sir Ian Clunies Ross, CMG, Chair
1 Apr 1946 to 18 May 1949 Prof Sir Albert Cherbury David Rivett, KCMG, Chair
1 Jan 1946 to 31 Mar 1946 Prof Sir Albert Cherbury David Rivett, KCMG, Acting Chair
Apr 1926 to 31 Dec 1945 Sir George Alfred Julius, Chair
Chief Executives of CSIRO during the period 1927 to 1959
1 Jan 1957 to 30 Jun 1959 Dr Stewart Henry Bastow, DSO, CE
19 May 1949 to 13 Dec 1956 Sir Frederick William George White, KBE, CE
1 Jan 1946 to 18 May 1949 Dr Arnold Edwin Victor Richardson, CMG, CE
1 Jan 1927 to 31 Dec 1945 Prof Sir Albert Cherbury David Rivett, KCMG, CE
There was no designated Chief Executive during 1 July 1959 to 4 December 1986.
Chairs of the CSIRO Board from 1986 to present
15 Oct 2015 to present Mr David Thodey
28 Jun 2010 to 14 Oct 2015 Mr Simon McKeon
28 Jun 2007 to 27 Jun 2010 Dr John Wilcox Stocker, AO, p/t Chair
1 Jan 2007 to 29 May 2007 Mr Peter Willcox, p/t Chair
6 Nov 2001 to 31 Dec 2006 Ms Catherine Livingstone, p/t Chair
5 Dec 1996 to 5 Nov 2001 Mr David Charles Allen, p/t Chair
5 Dec 1991 to 4 Dec 1996 Dr Adrienne Elizabeth Clarke, AO, p/t Chair
5 Dec 1986 to 4 Dec 1991 The Hon Neville Kenneth Wran, AC, QC, p/t Chair
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nutrient content
FoodData Central
Several USDA food composition databases, including the Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS), Standard Reference (SR) Legacy, and the USDA Branded Food Products Database, have transitioned to FoodData Central, a new and harmonized USDA food and nutrient data system. FoodData Central will also include expanded nutrient content information never before available, as well as links to diverse data sources that offer related agricultural, food, health, dietary supplement, and other information.
Data from: Starch and dextrose at 2 levels of rumen-degradable protein in iso-nitrogenous diets: Effects on lactation performance, ruminal measurements, methane emission, digestibility, and nitrogen balance of dairy cows.
This feeding trial was designed to investigate two separate questions. The first question is, “What are the effects of substituting two non-fiber carbohydrate (NFC) sources at two rumen-degradable protein (RDP) levels in the diet on apparent total-tract nutrient digestibility, manure production and nitrogen (N) excretion in dairy cows?”. This is relevant because most of the N ingested by dairy cows is excreted, resulting in negative effects on environmental quality. The second question is, “Is phenotypic residual feed intake (pRFI) correlated with feed efficiency, N use efficiency, and metabolic energy losses (via urinary N and enteric CH4) in dairy cows?”. The pRFI is the difference between what an animal is expected to eat, given its level of productivity, and what it actually eats. The goal was to determine whether production of CH4, urinary N or fecal N is a driver of pRFI.
NUOnet (Nutrient Use and Outcome Network) database
The Nutrient Uptake and Outcomes (NUOnet) database will be able to help establish baselines on nutrient use efficiencies; processes contributing to nutrient losses; and processes contributing to optimal crop yield, nutritional and organoleptic quality. This national database could be used to calculate many different environmental indicators from a comprehensive understanding of nutrient stocks and flows.
Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS)
USDA's Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) is a database that is used to convert food and beverages consumed in What We Eat In America (WWEIA), National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) into gram amounts and to determine their nutrient values.
[Note: Integrated as part of FoodData Central, April 2019.]
USDA Branded Food Products Database
The USDA Branded Food Products Database is the result of a Public-Private Partnership, whose goal is to enhance public health and the sharing of open data by complementing USDA Food Composition Databases with nutrient composition of branded foods and private label data provided by the food industry.
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USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference Dataset for What We Eat In America, NHANES (Survey-SR)
The dataset, Survey-SR, provides the nutrient data for assessing dietary intakes from the national survey What We Eat In America, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (WWEIA, NHANES). Historically, USDA databases have been used for national nutrition monitoring (1). Currently, the Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) (2), is used by Food Surveys Research Group, ARS, to process dietary intake data from WWEIA, NHANES. Nutrient values for FNDDS are based on Survey-SR. Survey-SR was referred to as the "Primary Data Set" in older publications. Early versions of the dataset were composed mainly of commodity-type items such as wheat flour, sugar, milk, etc. However, with increased consumption of commercial processed and restaurant foods and changes in how national nutrition monitoring data are used (1), many commercial processed and restaurant items have been added to Survey-SR.
USDA Table of Nutrient Retention Factors, Release 6 (2007)
Release 6, of this data set, replaces the previous release, Release 5, issued in 2003. The data set contains the factors for calculating retention of 26 vitamins, minerals and alcohol during food preparation. Factors for the other 25 food components in Release 4 are unchanged. Factors for total choline have been added to this release.
Key Foods
The Nutrient Data Laboratory is responsible for developing authoritative nutrient databases that contain a wide range of food composition values of the nation's food supply. This requires updating and revising the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR) and developing various special interest databases. Procedures using food consumption data and nutrient values for developing the Key Foods list are explained. Key Foods have been identified as those food items that contribute up to 75% of any one nutrient to the dietary intake of the US population. These Key Foods will be used to set priorities for nutrient analyses under the National Food and Nutrient Analysis Program.
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Microbial community structure is affected by cropping sequences and poultry litter under long-term no-tillage
Soil microorganisms play essential roles in soil organic matter dynamics and nutrient cycling in agroecosystems and have been used as soil quality indicators. The response of soil microbial communities to land management is complex and the long-term impacts of cropping systems on soil microbes is largely unknown. Therefore, changes in soil bacterial community composition were assessed in response to cropping sequences and bio-covers at long-term no-tillage sites.
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Tag Archives: hospital inspections
FAMILY DOCTORS ARE BACK…TO SOLVE A&E CRISIS
TRADITIONAL family doctors will to make a comeback under plans to tackle the A and E crisis.
GPs will be relieved of box-ticking chores and given more time to care for patients.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt hopes it will divert A THIRD of people away from over-stretched casualty departments.
Up to 6.5 million people go straight to hospital because they can’t see their GP, chemist or paramadic.
But Mr Hunt believes the return of old-style family practitioner responsible for their patients 24/7 will ease the pressure.
Reforms to be unveiled this week will put GPs “back in the driving seat” of health care.
From next April, old and vulnerable patients will be guaranteed a “named” GP who knows their medical history.
It is the first step towards tearing up Labour’s controversial contract which he blames for queues outside A&E units.
The right will be rolled out to other groups over the next four years.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Mr Hunt said; “Since 2004, we’ve made it easier and easier to get into A&E and harder to go and see a GP.
“The average wait in an A&E is 50 minutes. Compare that with how hard it is to get an appointment with your GP when you phone up.
“It’s not because GPs aren’t working hard, it’s just that Labour changed the nature of their job.
“Now they are only responsible for people on their list when their doors are open. Once they close up shop it’s someone else’s job.”
Mr Hunt also wants to phase out targets will force GPs to take a certain number of blood pressure readings or ask people how much many they smoke or drink – whatever their ailment.
He said: “I’m not joking. They get paid by asking people on their list a series of questions and the taxpayer pays them. This is what the contract introduced.
“You get the situation where a patient comes in with a fever and the GP says I need to ask you 16 other questions. That’s got to change. You’ve got to feel when you see your GP that the GP is there for you and is looking at the whole of you.”
He stressed: “It’s not about saying GPs must work harder, it’s about changing the structure which makes it impossible for them to be the family doctors they wanted to be when they joined the profession.
“If you go to a GPs’ surgery now, it is like a mini A&E and some feel they are fending off the hoards at the gate and the moment the phone lines open there is a whole queue of people trying to get through.”
The pressure on GPs has in turn led to people going straight to casualty for out of hours problems that could be dealt with by a family doctor.
Seven in ten unplanned admissions are over-65s. They also take up more time because some have multiple conditions which a family doctor could deal with quicker.
Hospitals also feel the pressure on bed space because consultants are less willing to release a patient unless they are sure they have got care at home.
Mr Hunt added: “There is a group of patients who most of the time probably shouldn’t be going to A&E at all and these are the people who we’d look after much better if we proactively supported them so they didn’t need to go to hospital in the first place.
“Labour’s GP contract changes in 2004 destroyed the personal link between patients and their GPs by abolishing named GPs. As a result we have too many forgotten old people being pushed from pillar to post between hospital, social care and their GP surgery.
“That is the biggest single thing we can do to make A&E sustainable going forward.”
Mr Hunt said his aim was to tackle health issues outside hospitals as well as inside.
He has introduced Ofsted-style ward inspections to prevent a repeat of the Mid-Staffs scandal.
But he added: “It is also about people being left alone who actually need our NHS to be there for them. This is what will transform the NHS in the long run and make it a sustainable organization.
“The changes I will announce next week will mean there is someone looking out for you them the whole time, someone from the NHS who is there for these people.”
But last night doctors’ leaders warned the plan would fail without extra funding.
Mike Pringle, president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said: “They are overwhelmed by the workload they are expected to deliver.
“We have got to start to build general practice, not blame it, not victimise it.
“We have to invest in it if we are going to solve these problems. And I am sure the Secretary of State recognises that.”
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The Folk, Roots, and World Music Show
Sunday 5-7PM Eastern Time
89.7 WTMD, Towson, MD
Hosted by Paul Hartman
WTMD is a 10,000 watt non-commercial radio station licensed to Towson University broadcasting from Towson City Center. The station serves the Baltimore metropolitan area and all of central Maryland with compelling contemporary music created by artists who are committed to the craft of songwriting. An NPR member, the station produces “Baltimore Hit Parade,” an hour long music and interview program focusing on the developments in the Baltimore music scene. WTMD-HD2, “The Baltimore Channel,” airs music created by Baltimore musicians and is one of the few local-music channels in the country. WTMD is listened to by 100,000 people each month and can be heard on-line at wtmd.org and on apps for the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android.
Detour has been on the air since 1982 in a variety of time slots, currently 5 to 7 PM on Sunday. The show is an eclectic blend of folk, roots, and world music.
Read about WTMD in Baltimore Magazine.
Listen to the real-time streaming broadcast, check playlists, consult the events calendar,
read the blog, and browse lots of music news and happenings at WTMD.
Tom Rhoads says:
Hi there… Tom Rhoads here from 333 Coffeehouse in Annapolis. I’m hoping that you’d be willing to list our monthly folk/acoustic shows in your concert calendar(s). Please let me know how to reach you. 333 is a program of the Annapolis Traditional Dance Society, a local nonprofit which also produces the monthly Annapolis contra dance. (FSGW hosts our website, but we’re not a part of them.)
Paul Hartman says:
To have your events listed in the Detour concert calendar, simply email them to me at paul@detourradio.com. Best to do it at least 2 weeks before the event, although earlier is never bad! Venues can send an entire list, rather than one event at a time.
You can also post events on the WTMD events calendar. Additional eyeballs may see it there.
Mitchito of Lay-Low Studios, Or-Wa says:
A bright broadcast\netcast in dark times! Thanks for celebrating Yennayer, Berber New Year by playing Thalweg, Hocine Boukella aka whacky Cheikh Sidi (that’s Seedy a la Algeria’s Amazigh Tom Waits) Bemol’s Berbero-Celtic band and the rousing “Toughach Ajejig”! Assegwas Ammegaz or Healthy & Balanced New Year 2964 to the Amazigh\Berber Diaspora and back home in Tamazgha!
Also loved hearing local Baltimore treasure Midway Fair’s “Fairest of Them All.” Found the YouTube clip of Midway Fair as a duo another cool find thanks to DETOUR. MF: Tour in 2014! Spread the Fair!
Keep on doin’ & thawin’ out
from the Berber Beaverton Bat-cave
of the Pacific NW
Mitchito
Thanks Michito! It’s great to have listeners all the way in the Pacific NW.
Andy Cooper says:
Thank you for attributing the live version sang on the show of “Freight Train,” to Libba Cotton today. As a singer of traditional songs, it’s always good to hear people recognize where the music they sing comes from (or at least try to). Please announce the BFMS Spring Faire to be held on the 27th with lots of live roots music, jamming on old-time instruments, contra and square dancing, family events, main stage and lots of participatory workshops. Free! Cromwell Valley Park. The real deal.
Andy Cooper
Dan Cullinan says:
We are having a June 21 performance of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member John Sebastian and I was wondering if we could listed with you folks or have it meantioned. Included here are two links regarding the show.
The show is June 21 @ 7 PM and is a benefit for the Lazarus Caucus, a non-profit organization that assists the homeless and formerly homeless.
Name: Woodstock Music Festival
Who: John Sebastian
When: June 21, 2104 @7 PM
Where: St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
10800 Old Court Road Woodstock, Maryland
http://lazaruscaucus.org/
http://www.johnbsebastian.com/
Thank you so much !!
I’ll add it to the concert calendar for the week of Sunday June 15th.
Rae Ann McInnis says:
Hey Paul! It’s Rae Ann, how are you doing?! So, I read about you and your efforts in The Towson Times regarding Rogers Forge’s problems with our educated young people. Well Done! You’re a big shot in the neighborhood, keeping the peace. Good man!
Rogers Forge was my first Baltimore home and it meant a great deal to an inner city Washingtonian like me. I was very happy there.
So, I not only hear you on the radio I read about you in print. You’re a media darling!!
Know I’m listening, Paul, and reading!
Rae Ann
I think my 15-minute fame clock is nearly counted down…
Can you send me the Sting cover playlist of all three songs & bands? Also what was the Eline Evers song that you played on St Patrick’s Day?
The Detour Cover Set today (all Sting songs) was:
5:51PM The Duhks “Love is the Seventh Wave” The Duhks [Sugar Hill] Canada
5:55PM Battlefield Band “We Work the Black Seam” Celtic Hotel [Temple] Scotland
5:50PM Loose Ties “Englishman in New York” Planet Bluegrass [Planet Bluegrass] Various artists CD
Complete playlist is here: https://detourradio.com/2017/5/14/playlist-for-sunday-may-14th/
I didn’t play anything by Eileen Ivers for St. Patrick’s Day this year (the March 19th show). Playlist is here: https://detourradio.com/2017/03/19/playlist-for-sunday-march-19th/
Arthur Magida says:
Hello Paul…
A consistently terrific show. A needed pause from the rest of this crazy life.
Three requests for future shows:
Thirsty Boots – Eric Anderson
Weave Me the Sunshine – Peter Yarrow
Ballad for Americans – Paul Robeson
I have the first 2 songs, don’t have anything by Paul Robeson. I’ll play at least one of them on tomorrow’s show.
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Wenberg, Vincent
Aboriginal man who was removed from his home with his siblings and raised in a number of welfare institutions.
Yarra Bay House
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Thought to have been built as a second cable station for use between 1903 and 1917, it has also been a medical ward, girls' industrial school and boys' truancy school before becoming an administrative centre for the Aboriginal land council.
Yarra Bay House, originally built at La Perouse as a cable station, served as a NSW Government children's home from around 1917 until the 1980s. Since 1984 it has been owned by the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council and has been the hub of the La Perouse Aboriginal community.
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‘Germany, sell Yemenis-killing weapons’, French, British governments say
Posted on March 9, 2019 by petrel41
This 13 August 2018 video is called Yemen: Thousands mourn children killed in Saudi air strike.
From a 6 March 2019 article from German weekly Der Spiegel (I won’t quote all of it; as it is far too sycophantic to German war profiteers, French war profiteers, British war profiteers and Saudi royal killers of Yemeni civilians; invoking ‘European militarist solidarity‘ to support that):
The French wanted to install the German company’s missile-warning system in 23 helicopters ordered by Saudi Arabia, but would now likely prefer to purchase the technology from Saab. To the French, the Swedish manufacturer seems more reliable. The result being that an eight-figure deal could fall apart for [German merchants of death; owned by United States KKR corporation] Hensoldt. …
The reason is a moral decision made by the German government this past November, when it made the decision to stop exporting all military equipment to Saudi Arabia. The move came in reaction to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist who had been critical of the Saudi government. The ban on exports recently got extended until March 9. …
In pragmatic terms, Germany is an important country for the defense sector. Based on 2014 numbers by the Wifor Institute, a German economics research institute, the industry employs 136,000 people and creates a direct gross value added (GVA) of 12.2 billion euros. …
Another realpolitik consideration is the fact that other European countries have embarked on collaborative arms projects with Germany as a partner. Now, the products of those collaborations, which were to be exported to Saudi Arabia, are on hold. Germany, which is fond of seeing itself as the motor of the European Union, is sticking to its ban, and in doing so, is showing little regard for its European partners. …
Dear Spiegel: how about people in other European countries who, not being war profiteers, don’t want to help to massacre Yemeni children?
Division Within the Government
When it comes to the arms exports, it is the Social Democrats who categorically invoke morals, at least outwardly. They know how popular their position is. Who, after all, wants to oppose calls for a cessation of the use of German weapons in wars? “Our principles are the consequence of German history and our convictions that support a pro-peace policy,” says Rolf Mützenich, the deputy head of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament.
It is a pity that Mr Mützenich’s SPD politician colleague Wolfgang Thierse has a different view on German history. Mr Thierse recently claimed that when the 1919 right-wing SPD government let extreme right paramilitarists murder their former left-wing SPD colleagues Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht and thousands of revolutionary workers, opponents of World War I, that was supposedly OK.
Mützenich is considered a moderate when it comes to foreign policy, and the only issue on which he is unwavering is the arms-export ban. He says he would prefer to completely ban the export of weapons into war zones.
‘Moderate when it comes to foreign policy’ is probably an euphemism for not really minding German neocolonial wars in Africa, United States nuclear weapons in Germany, etc.
After Merkel’s first attempt at assembling a coalition government failed in the autumn of 2017, Mützenich succeeded in pushing through an arms embargo against countries involved in the war in Yemen in preliminary talks to form a government between the CDU and the SPD. The country has become the site of one of the biggest humanitarian disasters of our time. Saudi Arabia is leading a military alliance against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and countless civilians have been killed in Saudi air raids. Riyadh’s intervention has also led to famine in the country.
In the final coalition negotiations that followed, more pragmatic members of the SPD
‘pragmatic’: euphemism for not really minding warmongering tyranny in Saudi Arabia
managed to soften the provision a bit. Some, including Manuela Schwesig, the governor of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, would have preferred to have striken the formulation entirely. The Lürssen shipyard group is manufacturing patrol boats for the Saudis in her state …
At the end of the coalition negotiations, the decision was made to “no longer approve any export sales to countries as long as they are directly involved in the war in Yemen.” Nevertheless, some exports continued to get approved until this autumn. It was only after Khashoggi’s murder that a total embargo got imposed.
A Popular Ban
On Wednesday evening, Sigmar Gabriel sat on a podium in a ballroom at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich and explained the new state of the world to a crowd of several hundred people. That evening, the former head of the SPD, ex-vice-chancellor and foreign minister played the elder statesman. But he also showed that he has retained his instinct for channeling the mood. He received the most enthusiastic response when he began speaking about the dispute over the export ban.
“If a blank check has to be signed for export opportunities all over the world, then there will be no joint arms production with France,” Gabriel said to the audience’s applause. He accused the conservative Christian Democrats of defending the interests of the German defense industry under the smokescreen of German-French collaboration. “My suspicion is that people want to seize the moment here to push through their own economic interests,” he said. He claimed not to understand why people, when asked what holds Europe together, bring up the military, and why they say things like, “Europe will fail if we as Germans are not willing to export weapons as the French want us to.”
Many within the SPD agree with Gabriel. They also know that most Germans share this view. Two-thirds of Germans reject arms exports as a matter of principle, and about 80 percent are opposed to arms exports to crisis regions. For the Social Democrats, the issue has arrived at a welcome time, since the party is still trying to redefine itself on various levels, while at the same time sharpening its appeal to the left. The party is keen to revive its old legacy of pro-peace policies to help mobilize voters in the run-up to the European and state elections.
“Saudi Arabia doesn’t need any German weapons,” argues Martin Schulz, who ran against Merkel as the SPD’s chancellor candidate in 2017. “So long as the country tramples human rights and wages war in Yemen, there is no reason to reconsider the export ban.” Schulz believes it is “nonsense” that Germany needs to loosen its rules for the sake of European cooperation. Instead, he says, Berlin should be seeking to convince partner countries to abide by the same hard rules: “No weapons to countries where there is a civil war and none to dictators.”
The Social Democrats are also pointing to a common position on military exports agreed to by EU member states in 2008. In it, EU member states agreed to take the human rights situation and security in the region into consideration before exporting military technology and equipment. Several lawmakers in the European Parliament are asking for this agreement to be made legally binding. Their hope is that this would make weapons deliveries to Saudi Arabia a moot point.
Other European countries are nonetheless continuing to deliver arms to Saudi Arabia, for both economic and political reasons. They don’t want ties to the Saudi regime to be completely severed, and they view arms exports as a way of exerting foreign-policy influence.
That helps to explain why officials in Britain and France are becoming increasingly baffled by Germany’s tough stance.
Britain? I thought there would be Brexit for Britain, so what does it matter what the British Conservative government thinks or does not think about Germany within the European Union? Oh, wait … Leading Conservative pro-Brexit politician Boris Johnson still wants European militarist coooperation (a bit difficult though as European Union members France and Italy wage a proxy war about oil in Libya).
When Angela Merkel was recently in Egypt for a summit between the EU and the Arab League and met British Prime Minister Theresa May for breakfast, they didn’t just talk about Brexit. Members of the delegation reported that May also spoke about the blockade of arms exports. When Merkel visited French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, the extension of the arms embargo was also raised. At the moment, about 50 contracts by French companies cannot be fulfilled because of the unfulfilled deliveries by German companies.
‘Common Culture of Arms Exports’
At issue are components for military equipment manufactured in Germany and delivered to Britain or France, where they are incorporated into final products destined for Saudi Arabia. There’s a lot of money at stake.
Components like the electrical switches Würth is meant to supply to France for installation in ambulances. The deal, which has been suspended by Germany’s Federal Office for Economics Affairs and Export Control, is worth only 900,000 euros. The Baden-Württemberg-based screw manufacturer has nonetheless appealed the agency’s decision.
At issue is also radio equipment supplied by Rohde & Schwarz in Munich that is to be installed in Eurofighter jets in Britain before shipment to Saudi Arabia. That deal is worth 23 million euros.
There’s also a border-security system Airbus, the aerospace and defense corporation, produces for the Saudis in a deal worth 950 million euros. Hensoldt Holding GmbH is also a partner in the deal, supplying the radar systems. It also contributes components for the Cobra weapon location radar, which is already packaged and waiting in the port for shipment. …
Angela Merkel knows the industry’s arguments, and she also plays the European card in public. In view of the Americans’ withdrawal, she says, Europe must harmonize and strengthen its security and defense policy. A “common culture of arms exports” is needed for that to happen, the chancellor said in her recent speech at the Munich Security Conference. “We cannot talk about a European army and a common arms policy or arms development if we are not prepared at the same time to pursue a common arms-export policy.”
France and Germany have taken a first step in that direction with the Aachen agreement signed last month. In a secret amendment agreement, the two partners agreed they would respect the de minimis principle. Under the provision, no party may prohibit the supply of a component in the future if its value remains “below a certain percentage” of the total transaction. It has not, however, been specified what that percentage would be.
A Party at a Crossroads
Since the approval of the agreement by the coalition government, the assumption among Merkel’s conservatives has been that the SPD would at least allow the export of the components in question that Britain and France need to finally deliver their products. But even if the SPD were to yield on this front, the underlying question still hasn’t been clarified. How does the SPD aim to position itself on the issue? As a European party that is willing to compromise or as one that wants to impose its high moral standard on the rest of Europe — and, in case of doubt, insist on a special status for itself at the national level?
“Given that the process of European integration is currently under massive attack, I find an attitude that gives European partners the cold shoulder counterproductive,” says Markus Kaim, a political scientist at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) …
Merkel’s conservatives are irritated by the SPD’s stubbornness. “If we continue to have problems with every last switch, there will be no joint defense projects with France,” says Gunther Krichbaum, the chair of the European Affairs Committee in the German parliament. “If we want a European arms and defense policy, then we have to be able to make compromises.” …
There are also rumblings in the business-friendly wing of Merkel’s conservatives. “We must end the moratorium on Saudi Arabia as soon as possible,” says Joachim Pfeiffer, the business-policy spokesman for the conservatives’ parliamentary group. Parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus says, “Europe must work together even more closely on defense policy to strengthen the European pillar in NATO.” In addition, he argues, the member states need to “work toward uniform European rules on arms exports.”
A Strong Negotiating Position
As a party, the SPD know that they’re in a strong negotiating position. Because even if Merkel’s government were to collapse, given the other option available for forming a government, the conservatives would still likely be alone in their pragmatism. The Green Party, after all, would also likely insist on strict limitations on arms exports.
During Merkel’s attempt to form a coalition government with the Greens in 2017, arms exports already emerged as a point of contention. “We had negotiated a complete stop to arms exports to Saudi Arabia,” says Agnieszka Brugger, deputy head of the Green’s parliamentary group. But the third party in the talks, the business-friendly Free Democrats, broke off negotiations before a government could be formed.
The conservatives now fear the SPD could campaign on the issue in upcoming state elections in Germany. “It would be a shame if the Social Democrats made arms-export policy a campaign issue,” says Marco Wanderwitz, a senior official in the German Interior Ministry. “If the SPD were to reposition itself at this point, it would become even more alienated from the conservatives. You have to remind your coalition partner that politics consists of compromises.”
Whether that compromise takes shape now lies in the hands of Heiko Maas of the SPD, who is likely the most conflicted over the need for a morally reconcilable but also pragmatic policy. As foreign minister, he has an interest in ensuring that Germany doesn’t take a special path in Europe without coordinating with its partners. At the same time, he also understands his party’s sensitivities.
His hope so far has been to keep his coalition partner at bay. When Maas met with representatives of the CDU-led Economics Ministry and the Chancellery in December to extend the export moratorium, he referred to the peace negotiations in the Yemen conflict, which were starting in Stockholm. He argued that if Saudi Arabia and its allies in the war were to negotiate a cease-fire with the rebels, then this could be used as a reason to at least allow the arms exports that had already been approved. He said the moratorium could be extended by two months until that time.
But the foreign minister’s calculations didn’t pan out. At the moment, a fragile cease-fire is prevailing in Yemen,
Or rather: the Saudi regime and its allies continue the slaughter.
and little progress has been made on a planned United Nations observer mission to ensure the transport of aid. Maas will likely have difficulty convincing his fellow party members to shift course.
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Woodlarks, goosanders and great grey shrike
This September 2017 video shows the nature reserves Kikkervallei and Ganzenhoek near Wassenaar in the Netherlands from the air.
Today, 9 March 2019, with special permission to the Ganzenhoek, an area usually closed to the public.
In the beginning, already song thrush, dunnock, chaffinch and great spotted woodpecker sounds.
A great cormorant flies overhead.
A greenfinch sings.
Woodlarks fly, singing.
A singing robin.
A flying grey heron.
On a lake: tufted ducks, Canada geese and a great crested grebe.
At the next lake, two male goosanders fly away.
Grey lag geese swim.
This 2015 video is about Poronia erici fungi.
We found that small species here on horse dung.
On a third lake, coots swim.
Long-tailed tits on a tree.
A bit further, a great tit.
A chiffchaff calls. Remarkably early for that species. Maybe a bird that is just back from wintering in Africa.
In the next lake, a gadwall couple.
Roe deer footprints.
We are now in the Kijfhoek and Bierlap part of the Wassenaar sand dunes.
A bit further, red fox dung, with remains of mice.
Then, one of the highlights of this morning: a great grey shrike on a treetop.
Cladonia foliacea lichen grows here.
So does heath star moss. An invasive species, originally from the southern hemisphere. Called ‘tank moss’ in Dutch, as it was probably was brought to the Netherlands by World War II tanks.
Nearly at the exit: a green woodpecker calls.
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Big Women’s March in Amsterdam today
This 9 March 2019 video from the Netherlands says about itself (translated):
Start of the Women’s March Amsterdam 2019 on the Dam square. The march to the Museumplein square is a big demonstration to get better rights for women and minorities like LGBTQ people and immigrants.
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Migrating crane flock, video
This 1 March 2018 video is about a migrating flock of common cranes, recorded in Limburg province in the Netherlands.
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Worldwide students pro-climate strike, 15 March
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— annalise davis (@annalise_davis) March 8, 2019
This tweet is about the worldwide students’ strike against global warming and politicians’ inaction about it, on 15 March.
The Dutch students’ pro-climate march will be one day earlier, on Thursday 14 March, 1pm from Dam square in Amsterdam.
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Jewish Federation of Delaware Receives Two Gold Marcom Awards
Jewish Federation of Delaware announced it is the proud recipient of two (2) MarCom Awards in their 2017 international awards competition recognizing outstanding creative achievement by marketing and communication professionals. Federation received Gold Awards for its 2016-2017 Report to the Community and special publication, Shalom Delaware.
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The former trade and tourism attache for the Embassy of Lesotho has been awarded more than €40,000 in compensation after claiming she was bullied into quitting her job. A tribunal found that Claire Corcoran was constructively dismissed after she told how she felt there was no option but to resign her €54,000-a-year post. Ms Corcoran, from Baldoyle in north Dublin, said she quit in June 2010 after she was “bullied” by the embassy’s counsellor and first secretary. Ms Corcoran told the tribunal that a year before she resigned, the then-ambassador Mannete Ramaili was under pressure from her government to find a job for the niece of Lesotho’s chief justice, who was living in Ireland. The tribunal ruled that Ms Corcoran acted reasonably by resigning. It awarded Ms Corcoran €40,495.26 in compensation as the most appropriate remedy under the Unfair Dismissals Act.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/official-bullied-at-lesotho-embassy-awarded-40000-3319265.html
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“Eveline” by James Joyce (from Dubliners): A Commentary / An Analysis of “Eveline” by James Joyce / DUBLINERS, “Eveline” by James Joyce
A commentary on “Eveline” (James Joyce)
The opening of “Eveline” (1904-1907; published in 1914), from Dubliners, by James Joyce:
She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
Notice that Eveline is not named at the beginning of the story. Her name is given in the title, it is true, but not in the first sentence of the text. She is a nameless, passive percipient, rather than an agent (an actor). She does not act; she observes. It is the evening that is performing an action; it is the evening that is acting. The evening is invading—Eveline is already paralyzed, immobile, static at the very opening of the story, as she will be at the story’s close.
Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired.
Joyce does not write, “She leaned her head against the window curtains…” He writes that her head was leaned. The head is described as an object, as the object of an action. The head was leaned—this means that Eveline was not leaning her own head; someone or something was leaning her head against the window curtains. The use of the passive voice illuminates Eveline’s own passivity and immobility.
In her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne: The odour of the heavy fabric enveloping the furniture was invading Eveline’s nostrils. Again, an image of invasion, of infiltration, of violation. She was tired: This was Kurt Vonnegut’s favorite of all sentences, presumably because the simplicity of the language is a red herring, distracting the reader from the complexities of the text-web.
Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.
The last house where? Where is the cinder path? Where are the new red houses? It is difficult to locate any of these things. Joyce is generally very good with space and with describing the placement of objects within spaces, but here, he leaves it to the reader to imagine where the last house is, where the cinder path is, and where the new red houses are.
One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people’s children. Then a man from Belfast bought the field and built houses in it—not like their little brown houses but bright brick houses with shining roofs. The children of the avenue used to play together in that field—the Devines, the Waters, the Dunns, little Keogh the cripple, she and her brothers and sisters.
Notice that Eveline places herself after the Devines, the Waters, the Dunns, and little Keogh the cripple. Eveline puts herself at the end of the line. Already we have a sense that this girl has abysmal self-esteem.
Ernest, however, never played: he was too grown up. Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick; but usually little Keogh used to keep nix and call out when he saw her father coming.
“In” and “out” are a strange coupling of prepositions. What does it mean to hunt children in out of the field? Shouldn’t the independent clause read: Her father used often to hunt them out of the field? Incidentally: “To keep nix” means “to be on the lookout.”
Still they seemed to have been rather happy then. Her father was not so bad then; and besides, her mother was alive. That was a long time ago; she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up her mother was dead. Tizzie Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England. Everything changes. Now she was going to go away like the others, to leave her home.
If Eveline’s father was not so bad then, just imagine how bad he is when the story takes place.
Home! She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from.
Eveline identifies herself as a duster-of-inanimate-objects.
Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided.
She does not distinguish herself from the static objects that surround her. At the end of the story, when she has the opportunity to realize her human freedom and spontaneity, she imitates the inertia of inactive objects.
And yet during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken harmonium beside the coloured print of the promises made to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque.
Beloved of Irish Catholics, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was a French Catholic nun who was the embodiment to pious devotion to tradition—much in the same way that Eveline is piously devoted to her family and her homeland.
He had been a school friend of her father. Whenever he showed the photograph to a visitor her father used to pass it with a casual word:
“He is in Melbourne now.”
She had consented to go away, to leave her home.
The fact that she describes her decision to escape Dublin as one of consent implies that she does not see that decision as her own, but rather as one that has been made for her and one to which she has assented.
Was that wise? She tried to weigh each side of the question.
Apparently, she assented reluctantly. Her mind has not yet been made up. The reader also is invited to weigh each side of the question: Should she leave? Should she have left? No answer is given. A literary work of art, “Eveline” provokes questions that it never answers; it never gives readers the means of answering these questions.
In her home anyway she had shelter and food; she had those whom she had known all her life about her. Of course she had to work hard, both in the house and at business. What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow? Say she was a fool, perhaps; and her place would be filled up by advertisement. Miss Gavan would be glad. She had always had an edge on her, especially whenever there were people listening.
“Miss Hill, don’t you see these ladies are waiting?”
“Look lively, Miss Hill, please.”
She would not cry many tears at leaving the Stores.
But in her new home, in a distant unknown country, it would not be like that. Then she would be married—she, Eveline. People would treat her with respect then. She would not be treated as her mother had been. Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father’s violence. She knew it was that that had given her the palpitations.
At this point, one has to wonder why any person of sense would want to stay in the Hill household. Her father is abusive; this much is clear. She is treated derogatorily by her employer, Miss Gavan. Her brother Ernest and her mother are dead. She is suffering from violent paroxysms, tremors brought on by her father’s abuse. What is there to keep her in Dublin? And trying her luck in the open air of Buenos Ayres would afford her a new possibility. Though not everything that is possible is positive, at least she would have the possibility of something positive being brought into her life.
[Frank] told [Eveline] the names of the ships he had been on and the names of the different services. He had sailed through the Straits of Magellan and he told her stories of the terrible Patagonians.
Now, the bit about the Patagonians makes me wonder if Frank is a liar. A chronicler of Magellan’s expeditions wrote that the Patagonians were a race of giants. Is Frank repeating the same myth of the “terrible Patagonians”? If Frank is telling Eveline such nonsense, this should lead us to question the integrity of his intentions.
He had fallen on his feet in Buenos Ayres, he said, and had come over to the old country just for a holiday. Of course, her father had found out the affair and had forbidden her to have anything to say to him.
“I know these sailor chaps,” he said.
Is the father necessarily incorrect? As dour as Eveline’s life is in Dublin, is it not preferable to being seduced and abandoned in South America? There is no way to know with authority whether or not Frank is a reptilian seducer. He very well might be a boa constrictor in human form. Not even Frank might know if he is a seducer, if we consider the unconscious sources of human cognition and activity. Frank is inscrutable to us, and perhaps Frank is even inscrutable to himself. The inscrutability of Frank summons forth the indeterminacy of life itself.
Sometimes [Eveline’s father] could be very nice. Not long before, when [Eveline] had been laid up for a day, he had read her out a ghost story and made toast for her at the fire. Another day, when their mother was alive, they had all gone for a picnic to the Hill of Howth. She remembered her father putting on her mother’s bonnet to make the children laugh.
The atypical tenderness of the father only serves to underline his general abusiveness.
Her time was running out but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.
The grammar changes here: Now, Eveline is playing a more active role: She was leaning her head, she was inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.
Down far in the avenue she could hear a street organ playing. She knew the air. Strange that it should come that very night to remind her of the promise to her mother, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could. She remembered the last night of her mother’s illness; she was again in the close dark room at the other side of the hall and outside she heard a melancholy air of Italy.
The song of the Italian organ player conjures the most dominant figure in Eveline’s life. Neither her father, her surviving brother Harry, nor Frank, her lover, but rather her dead-yet-deathless mother. The mother is resurrected, invoked by the organ-player’s song, and reminds Eveline of the latter’s death-bed oath to glue together the unglueable pieces of their shattered family. As if to hook and draw Eveline into the tomb. To save her from life.
The organ-player had been ordered to go away and given sixpence. She remembered her father strutting back into the sickroom saying:
“Damned Italians! coming over here!”
The father’s hatred of itinerant foreigners stands in contrast to the Wanderlust of Frank, an émigré from Ireland who travels to the “good air” of Buenos Ayres.
As she mused the pitiful vision of her mother’s life laid its spell on the very quick of her being—that life of commonplace sacrifices closing in final craziness.
Notice the use of the verb to close. Three sentences before, Joyce used close as an adjective. Here, he is using close as a verb. This is paronomasia (punning). An adjective in one sentence is used as a verb in another. The fact that Joyce is using close twice in proximity means something: Close evokes the sepulchral narrowness of the life that Eveline will choose.
She trembled as she heard again her mother’s voice saying constantly with foolish insistence:
“Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!”
This is, apparently, corrupt Gaelic for: “The end of pleasure is pain! The end of pleasure is pain!” It is as if the mother were admonishing her daughter from beyond the grave to avoid pleasure—to live in a narrow life of nunnish self-renunciation, to stay mired in the misery in Dublin, to languish in Dublin, to duplicate the self-negations of her mother and the insanities of her mother’s dying. These are irenic words, sibylline utterances. They are necrotic commandments, words spoken from the tomb, words spoken from deathness.
She stood up in a sudden impulse of terror. Escape! She must escape! Frank would save her. He would give her life, perhaps love, too. But she wanted to live. Why should she be unhappy? She had a right to happiness. Frank would take her in his arms, fold her in his arms. He would save her.
And she would not, then, save herself? This passage highlights, more than any other, why Eveline is immobilized. Rather than will to escape, she wills not to have a will. She wills to let someone else make the decisions for her. Her absence of self-determination is the reason that she is likely condemned to the self-negating boredom and insanity that marked her mother’s life.
Through the wide doors of the sheds [Eveline] caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes.
Joyce, again, is very good at describing place—particularly, at describing blockages. A less talented writer would have merely pointed to the existence of the boat. A less talented writer would have merely described the boat. Joyce describes the visual impediments, the obstructions that impede the view of the ocean liner. The black mass of the boat is seen through the wide doors of the sheds—an image of blockage, of separation. The sheds are emblematic of the self-imposed barriers that divide Eveline from freedom.
Amid the seas she sent a cry of anguish.
It is difficult to believe, but Joyce—one of the greatest literary artists who ever lived—makes a usage error in this passage. Amid, which means “in the midst of,” should only be placed before singular nouns. Seas is a plural noun and should take among.
[Eveline] set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.
Nothing has changed within Eveline since the opening of the story. She is immobile from the beginning of the story unto its end. The blankness of her eyes—their illegibility, their incomprehensible nothingness—can be interpreted to signify anything. Readers may introject their own meanings into those null eyes.
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Irish boxers in town for House of Blues bouts
By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Correspondent
Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Correspondent
Saturday is fight night at the House of Blues in Boston and a pair of Irish boxers are on the bill. Former WBO middleweight champ Spike O’Sullivan of Cork will be taking on Englishman Nick Quigley in the headliner bout, while Ray Moylette of Islandeady in Co. Mayo will square up against Puerto Rican fighter Hector Rivera.
Both boxers are being promoted by Murphys Boxing, an organization started in 2015 by Dropkick Murphys founder and lead singer Ken Casey. Casey, a lifelong boxing fan, took up promotional work as a new challenge, and is excited about bringing boxing back to Boston.
“I think boxing in America is on the cusp of a huge comeback, and it’s nice to be part of it,” said Casey. “This event is on TV Saturday night because all the promoters know there be will be a good crowd here in Boston. It will be lively, it will sound good, it will look good on TV. Much like how Dropkick Murphys was able to use Boston as a platform for music, in terms of having a great local music scene and building a fanbase that way, these fighters can do a similar thing and come here and build their following.”
O’Sullivan and Moylette said they were inspired by the amount of support they receive as Irish boxers in Boston.
“The fans over here are incredible,” said Moylette. “They really embrace Irish culture, they like to see the Irish kids coming over, and they do really rally behind us and support us all. Even though we’re a thousand miles away it feels like we’re at home.”
O’Sullivan confirmed this sentiment.
“Earlier today a chap came up and gave me a lotto ticket for tonight,” he said, brandishing the ticket with a grin. “The support is amazing, the fan base here is just unbelievable.”
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Dr. Roberta Marinelli
Director of the University of Southern California, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
Dr. Roberta Marinelli is the Director of the University of Southern California, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. Roberta studies the effects of climate change and human activities on the health of marine ecosystems.
How does citizen science support your research?
Citizen science reflects one of the core missions of our institute – to engage the public with the environment and foster an understanding of the natural world in people of all ages. By contributing to research, citizen scientists develop a personal relationship with nature while helping researchers achieve important coastal monitoring goals.
What is your favorite moment in the field?
Losing, and then finding, an expensive piece of equipment while at sea. We once put an instrument on the seafloor at 200 meters depth. But as we were bringing it back up, the cable holding the instrument broke and the instrument went tumbling into the ocean below. The water was murky and it was impossible to see much beyond 10 feet. After several moments of despair, we lowered a grappling hook into the water and moved it back and forth. Eventually it caught onto something, and when we pulled it up, our instrument was revealed! Talk about the proverbial needle in a haystack. It was a joyful moment.
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Leaders in sustainability make ninth Green Building Convention happen
Posted On Thursday, 07 July 2016 15:09 Published by eProperty News
Collaborating for a better, greener built environment, Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking (NCIB) has again joined forces with the Green Building Council South Africa (GBCSA) as the principal sponsor of the Green Building Convention 2016.
Widely known as South Africa’s ‘green bank’, NCIB has been the Green Building Convention’s principal sponsor since its launch and is one of the strongest supporters of this convention and the GBCSA itself.
Brian Wilkinson, CEO of GBCSA, commends Nedbank on the leading role it has taken as financiers in the green building space. “As the principal sponsor of the Green Building Convention for nine years, we deeply value the important contribution NCIB is making at the forefront of the green building revolution in SA.”
Wilkinson adds: “We are honoured to be associated with Nedbank, which is on its own admirable green journey. The GBCSA and the Green Building Convention stand for ‘doing well by doing good’. Not only do we know this is possible, we believe it is imperative. Climate scientists agree unanimously that we need swift action to prevent catastrophic global warming. Now is the time for bold, collaborative action.”
Like the GBCSA, and all who attend the annual Green Building Convention, Nedbank is committed to sustainability. It articulates its long-term goals and vision with Nedbank Fair Share 2030, which invests in future-proofing the environment, society and its business while targeting a better future by improving its management of lending exposure to carbon and water risk, for the bank and its clients.
Robin Lockhart-Ross, Managing Executive of Property Finance at NCIB, says: “Nedbank is indeed proud to be associated with the GBCSA. Our ongoing sponsorship of the Green Building Convention demonstrates our deep commitment to the industry as market leaders in the commercial property finance sector.”
Lockhart-Ross adds: “The convention provides a platform to drive and amplify the sustainability message for which Nedbank has become widely known as the green bank. Since being the first company in SA to build and occupy a Green Star SA building rated by the GBCSA, Nedbank continues to champion the move to sustainable workspaces and recently opened its sixth Green Star SA rated building.”
Among the GBCSA’s many leading edge collaborations is the Greenovate Awards Programme, launched in 2015 by Growthpoint Properties in partnership with GBCSA, which won this year’s South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) Excellence Award for Innovation in the Innovative Developments category. The Greenovate Awards are designed to inspire and encourage students of the built environment to discover, explore and invent ways to live more sustainably.
The Green Building Convention, which leads the sustainability journey in the South African property industry, aims to inspire professionals in the built environment and stimulate awareness, ambition and action to design, build and operate better buildings. ‘Build a better world NOW’ is the theme of the Convention set to take place from 26 to 28 July 2016 at the Sandton Convention Centre.
“There is no doubt we need to build a better world now,” says Wilkinson. “By coming together at the annual Green Building Convention, like-minded sustainability leaders form powerful partnerships for inspiring solutions that take bold action to promote a better built environment for SA.”
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Kucadikadi
(Redirected from Mono Lake Paiute)
Nellie Charlie, a member of the Kucadikadi band, early 20th century
United States ( California)
Northern Paiute language, English language
Traditional tribal religion, Christianity
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The Kucadikadi are a band of Northern Paiute people who live near Mono Lake in Mono County, California. They are the southernmost band of Northern Paiute.[2][3]
2 Culture and geography
4 Basketry
6 Notable Kucadikadi
Kucadikadi means "eaters of the brine fly pupae". They are also known as the Kutsavidökadö, Koza'bittukut'teh, Kotsa'va, Mono Lake Paiute,[4] Mono Basin Paiute,[3] and Kuzedika.[1] Lamb gives the Mono language name as kwicathyhka', "larvae eaters", or Mono Lake Paviotso.[5] The term "Mono Lake Paiute," a holdover from early anthropological literature, has proven problematic.[6]
Culture and geography[edit]
The Kucadikadi's homeland surrounds Mono Lake in eastern California, but they traditionally traveled to Walker Lake, Nevada for seasonal subsistence activities. Mono Lake is a high piedmont area of the Sierra Nevada. The average elevation of the Mono Lake basin is around 6,400 feet (2,000 m) above sea level. The surrounding mountains range from 9,000 to 13,000 ft (2,700 to 4,000 m) in elevation. Mono Lake is extremely saline and is home to several waterfowl species and the brine fly, or Ephydra hians or Hydropyrus hians,[3] from which the band takes its name.[2] Pinus monophylla or piñon pine has been an importance source of food, as were jackrabbits, deer, mountain sheep, and the coloradia Pandora moth.[1]
The extended family was the band's basic social units, which moved together as a group. They traded with Owens Valley Paiute[1] and Western Mono.
Three late 19th-century winter houses belonging to the tribe have been excavated by archaeologists. They are conical houses constructed with posts of Utah juniper or Juniperus osteosperma. Winter houses of this type, called tomogani, were built by the band up to 1920.[3]
The Kucadikadi speak the Northern Paiute language, which is in the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.[7]
Basketry[edit]
Fine coiled basket made by Carrie Bethel, 30" diameter basket, 1931–1935
The band is well known for its basketry. They wove coiled baskets as well as twined baskets.[8] Bracken fern and redbud provide color for designs on coiled baskets.[9]
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, encroachment of non-Natives in their territory disrupted traditional hunting and gathering lifestyles, so members of the tribe relied on the tourist trade. Selling elaborate baskets to non-Indian tourists became viable way of making a living.
Glass beads were introduced by non-Indians, and Kucadikadi women began incorporating the seed beads into their baskets by 1908.[9]
Today[edit]
Many members of the Kucadikadi band are enrolled in federally recognized Paiute, Washoe, Yokuts, Miwok, and Western Mono tribes. Others are seeking recognition as the Sierra Southern Miwuk[10] and the Mono Lake Indian Community, headquartered in Lee Vining, California.[11]
Notable Kucadikadi[edit]
Lucy Telles in front of her tomogani with her largest basket, Yosemite National Park, 1933
Carrie Bethel (1898–1974), basket weaver
Nellie Charlie (1867–1965), basket weaver
Tina Charlie (1869-1962), basket weaver
Lucy Telles (ca. 1870/1885–1955/6), basket weaver
^ a b c d Busby, Colin I., John M. Findlay, and James C. Bard. "A Culture Resource Overview of the Bureau of Land Management Coleville, Bodie, Benton, and Owens Valley Planning Units, California." Archived June 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Bureau of Land Management, California. (retrieved September 1, 2010)
^ a b Fowler and Liljeblad 437
^ a b c d Arkush, Brooke S. "Historic Northern Paiute Winter Houses in Mono Basin, California." Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 9 (2) 1987 (retrieved August 31, 2010)
^ Fowler and Liljeblad 464
^ Sydney M. Lamb. 1957. Mono Grammar. University of California. Berkeley PhD dissertation. pdf
^ Kelly and Fowler 394
^ Pritzker 224
^ Dalrymple 33
^ a b Dalrymple 35
^ "Brian Bibby, California Indian ethnologist, gets it right the first time about Yosemite Indians." Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine Modesto Bee: The Hive. January 18, 2008 (retrieved August 31, 2010)
^ "California Indians and Their Reservations." SDSU Library and Information Access. retrieved September 1, 2010
Fowler, Catherine S. and Sven Liljeblad. "Northern Paiute". Handbook of North American Indians: Great Basin, Volume 11. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1986. ISBN 978-0-16-004581-3.
Kelly, Isabel T. and Catherine S. Fowler. "Southern Paiute". Handbook of North American Indians: Great Basin, Volume 11. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1986: 368-397. ISBN 978-0-16-004581-3.
Pritzker, Barry M. A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-19-513877-1
"Native American Story of Mono Lake Paiute", Reznet News video
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Visit our holdings databases. Historically, the primary geographical emphasis of the Essig Museum has been on western North America and contains probably the largest collection of California insects in existence. From 1939 to 1999 the California Insect Survey (Experiment Station Project 1205) generated a large number of specimens representative of the terrestrial arthropod fauna of the state, and the collection has served as a repository for the research collections of students of systematics at UC Berkeley as well. In addition to California material, the museum houses a large collection of specimens from the northern Neotropics. Extensive fieldwork in Mexico by museum faculty and staff has enabled the assembly of a large, extremely important collection of specimens from that country. Collaborative work with INBio (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad) has provided the museum with excellent collections from Costa Rica. Recent research emphasis is being focused on the Pacific Rim and Basin, particularly the Pacific Islands and Chile.
The close association between research and acquisitions has made the Essig Museum unusually rich in biological and ecological data. It is a repository for voucher specimens from numerous studies in biological control, pollination ecology, parasitism, biogeography, genetics, and other disciplines. Many specimens, particularly Lepidoptera, have been reared from immature stages, and are therefore associated with larval host records, preserved larvae and pupal skins, as well as a wealth of phenological data. Locality data associated with specimens is generally very complete. The age of the collection is also an important asset. The Essig Museum’s holdings provide a valuable source of data for documenting changes in California’s fauna through the period of explosive human population growth during the last 70 years.
The collection was housed in approximately 8000 drawers in 400 California Academy-style insect cabinets. The pinned collection has now been moved to our new location in the Valley Life Sciences Building, and has been transferred into a state-of-the-art compacter system. Pinned specimens (over 5 million) make up the majority of the holdings, however, large microscope slide and alcohol-preserved collections are also maintained, as well as thousands of specimens in envelopes and Riker mounts. Nearly 2000 primary types have been designated from the Essig Museum specimens over the years. Approximately 1050 of these are housed at the museum and the remainder are on loan of indefinite duration to the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
The taxonomic strengths of the collection reflect its history and participants. Coleoptera (30%), with particularly large holdings of Cerambycidae (E. Gorton Linsley and John A. Chemsak) and Tenebrionidae (John T. Doyen), has the greatest number of specimens. The Lepidoptera (24%) includes the largest and most diverse collection of microlepidoptera in western North America (Jerry A. Powell). The large Hymenoptera collection (21%) is noteworthy for Apoidea (Paul D. Hurd, John McSwain, Abraham E, Michelbacher, E. Gorton Linsley, Howell V. Daly), Parasitica (Kenneth S. Hagen, Evert I. Schlinger, Robert van den Bosch), and Symphyta (Woodrow W. Middlekauff). Hemiptera (7%) has outstanding collections especially of Cimicidae (Robert L. Usinger), Aradidae, Aphididae (Edward O. Essig, Robert van den Bosch), and Psyllidae (Dilworth D. Jensen). The Diptera (11%), which was curated and contributed to by Frank Cole in his latter years, has substantial collections of Tabanidae (Woodrow W. Middlekauff, Robert Lane), Asilidae, Bombyliidae, and parasitic families (Gordon F. Ferris, John R. Anderson). Holdings of some of the smaller arthropod groups are quite diverse and noteworthy, in particular the collections of Phthiraptera (Vernon L. Kellogg, Gordon F. Ferris), Siphonaptera (Morris A. Stewart), Thysanoptera (H. Edwin Cott), Odonata (Rosser Garrison), Orthoptera: Acrididae (Woodrow W. Middlekauff) and Arachnida, especially Araneae (Evert I. Schlinger, Charles E. Griswold), Acari (A. Earl Pritchard, Deane P. Furman), particularly Ixodida (Deane P. Furman, Robert Lane), and Scorpionida.
The museum has benefited from the acquisition of several large collections from other institutions and non-UC researchers. The Vernon L. Kellogg and Gordon F. Ferris Phthiraptera collections were both acquired from Stanford University in 1961. The H. Edwin Cott Thysanoptera collection was rescued by former collection manager John Chemsak from a garage where it was discovered after Cott’s death. Other large collection acquisitions of note include the entire insect collection of the University of California, Irvine, in 1992, containing approximately 56,000 pinned insects and an additional 31,000 Lepidoptera in riker mounts and envelopes, and in 2003, the historic research collections of UC Hastings Natural History Reservation comprising 7,000 microscope slides and 1,500 vials of specimens, the majority being rodent ectoparasites.
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The first UK city to lower child obesity?
May 1, 2019 May 10, 2019 Eugene Milne1 Comment
One of the great joys of the internet age (and yes, this says much about the geek in me) is that it is now possible to pick up a news story, read the scientific paper upon which it is based and check out the original data before getting out of bed. Which I did this morning on reading about Leeds, the “first UK city to lower its childhood obesity rate” according to the Guardian and many other news outlets. It is a great story. Something we would love to have been able to claim for Newcastle, but we can’t. Sadly, neither can Leeds.
The study, published in Paediatric Obesity, is based upon data readily available in Public Health England’s Fingertips website – in the section on NCMP and Child Obesity Profile, the figures are those for “Reception: Prevalence of obesity (including severe obesity), 5-years data combined”. The study was based upon 4 data points, equivalent to 4 consecutive 5-year rolling averages. For Leeds these showed a fall from 9.42% to 8.83% over the reported period from 2009/10-2013/14 to 2012/13-2016/17.
This prompted much admiration and praise on Twitter, including a Tweet by the Secretary of State, Matt Hancock, saying “Childhood obesity rates have fallen in Leeds after bringing in parenting classes, study shows – highlighting pivotal role parents play in tackling childhood obesity. Terrific step forward we must build on if we’re to protect health of future generations”.
I twitched a little at this narrative of parental choice and responsibility, particularly coming the day after publicity for a much larger study showing a powerful relationship between breastfeeding and obesity.
But what was missing from the news coverage and responses was the fact that there is now a fifth data point in the Fingertips data – for the period 2013/14-2017/18 – and this shows the prevalence of obesity in Leeds to have risen again to 8.98%. This is because the single-year data for the city in 2017/18 showed a rise to a prevalence figure of 9.5% in the reception age group.
OK, you might say, it is still a fall, and possibly a bit more than the national change over the same period. But let’s look at Newcastle’s figures for the same periods. These show that for the time covered by the published study, obesity in Newcastle, by the same measure, fell from 12.10% to 11.25%. And its figure for 2017/18 was 11.16%.
So, between 2009/10 and 2017/18, obesity by this yardstick fell in Leeds by 4.68%, whereas in Newcastle it fell by 7.81%.
Does this make Newcastle the first UK city to lower its obesity rate? Or does it mean that the Leeds data have been misleadingly over-interpreted?
This matters, because, however worthy the parental programme (HENRY) in Leeds may be, this study is not evidence that it works. But it has fuelled the individual, behavioural choice paradigm of childhood obesity, against which there is a mass of evidence, and that strikes me as irresponsible epidemiology.
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Simon Capewell says:
Dear Eugene
Your scepticism is fully justified.
Particularly regarding the simplistic causal attribution to a single intervention delivered to a limited number of individuals.
Furthermore, the authors say they have no interests to declare.
Yet several apparently have financial or other involvement with Henry…..?
I also strongly agree with your conclusions.
We MUST rebut the victim-blaming, Individul Responsibility narrative,
and instead talk up the upstream policy interventions and comprehensive prevention strategic approach. That has been so effective in tobacco and alcohol control,
and was recently recommended by the Parliamentary Health Select Committee looking at Childhood Obesity.
The Governements Chilhood Obesity Plans 1 & 2 represent a good start,
but there is lots more to do…
Simon Capewell
Liverpool University.
(Also: Obesity Health Alliance, & Action on Sugar)
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#17 Yale Bulldogs 6-4-1 (4-2-0) T-3rd
Massachusetts Minutemen 4-7-4 (2-6-3) 9th
The two game homestand against the 1% for Massachusetts will conclude tomorrow with a game against the Yale. The Bulldogs are the only ranked team among the three consecutive ECAC opponents for the Minutemen, coming into the game ranked 17th. Both teams are eager to head into winter break on a good note. UMass has gone winless in their last 5 while Yale has lost 3 of their last 4, a stretch kicked off by giving perhaps the worst team in college hockey, neighboring Sacred Heart, their first win on the season.
Like they have in recent seasons, Yale came into the year with high expectations after winning the ECAC and falling to eventual National Champion Minnesota-Duluth in the East Regional Final last year. And to start the season Yale played about as well as you would’ve expected, going 5-1-1 with wins over RPI and Union and a loss to Cornell. But then the Sacred Heart game happened. The game was played in front of just 754 people in Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport which holds over 10 times that. And those people got their money’s worth, if you measure by offense. Yale put up an astounding 53 shots and scored six goals on the net. But the Pioneers were able to get seven goals on just 19 shots. More than one of every three shots went in. Sacred Heart only took 4 total shots in the 2nd period. Half of them went in. That game quite obviously affected the Bulldogs. It didn’t help that they had to play Boston College in the next game. While they played well, and had a lead going into the third, they still fell to the Eagles at home. Last weekend Yale split a home and home with Brown.
Yale has done a pretty good job of spreading the scoring responsibility around. The team is averaging 3.27 goals a game, not too far ahead of UMass’ 3.13, with four different players notching four or more goals through their 11 games. Senior Brian O’Neill is tops in points with 11 registering 5 goals and 6 assists. Junior Antoine Laganiere has also scored 5 goals while senior Chad Ziegler and sophomore Kenny Agostino have four apiece. After facing and doing poorly against Harvard’s top ranked power play last weekend, where the Minutemen gave up 2 goals on 6 opportunities, they now have to face the 2nd best power play in the country. The Bulldogs are converting almost 29% of their opportunities. O’Neill and Laganiere have accounted for most of the team’s power play goals.
On the other side of the ice Yale has given up 2.62 goals a game, that puts them about in the middle of the ECAC and all of college hockey. They’ve gotten good play from their goaltender, Jeff Malcolm, who has started every game for the Elis so far. While his goals against average of 2.54 isn’t outstanding, his save percentage of .924 shows that he’s been playing pretty well overall. Defenseman Tommy Fallen is doing well on both side of the ice, accumulating 7 points so far.
For UMass it’s building off of what was seen against Harvard. The top two lines accounted for seven points on the night and for the most part seem very much on the same page. I would guess that Coach Cahoon will not play Kevin Boyle and will instead give Jeff Teglia or Steve Mastalerz a chance in net. Personally I hope to see Teglia as he’s played pretty well as of late and deserves the chanced to get his long overdue first win of his career.
If UMass is going to get their power play back on track they’ll have their work cut out for them. In addition to having the second best power play in the country Yale also has the second best penalty kill at an impressive 93.3%. But the most important thing is for UMass to give good effort, execute well, and figure out a way to get a win. Obviously from standings reasons this isn’t a must win game. But a victory going into break over a ranked team would be great for the players’ and fans’ confidence alike.
Lastly, during introductions tomorrow please take a moment to cheer when former UMass assistant Red Gendron is announced as part of the Yale coaching staff. He deserves it. Cheer him for the contributions he made to UMass hockey, from his involvement in some of the fineest players to take the ice for the Minutemen to his dedication to put together events like the annual golf outing. And cheer for the fact that he’s just a good all-around guy who made sure to get to know as many people associated with the UMass hockey program as he could.
Beer The Triangle
Well, for the benefit of my readers of course, I came out to the valley a day early so I could partake in Amherst Brewing’s Rare Beer Week. Wow. For the first time in my life I was able to enjoy Dogfish Head’s 120 Minute on draft. They also had Jolly Pumpkin, which has been one of my favorite breweries ever since I was introduced to them when in Ann Arbor for last year’s UMass-Michigan game. Add in a 2010 Sierra Bigfoot Barleywine and it was a good night. And that was without being able to sample the Lost Abbey, Firestone Walker, Founders, and other amazing beers they have on draft.
Dick Baker has a preview of the game.
https://fearthetriangle.com/2011/12/05/yale-preview-3/
Polls, Awards, & Recruits
Providence’s unexpected sweep of Merrimack means an end to the Warriors’ brief run as the #1 team in the country in the USCHO poll. Notre Dame falls all the way from 2nd to 7th after being swept at home by the now surging Northeastern Huskies. Pretty much the same on the USA Hockey/USA Today poll. Boston College is the highest ranked Hockey East team at 3rd. Merrimack dropped to 5th while Boston University moved up to 11th after splitting with BC. Making their debuts on the poll this year are Lowell at #17 and Providence at #20. If this season wasn’t disappointing enough for Minuteman fans, seeing those schools ranked is a kick in the gut. Don’t get me wrong, I always like to see Hockey East get national recognition and there are a lot of good fans within those fanbases that I’m happy for. But those are the only two teams that UMass finished ahead of in Hockey East last season. Yet now, despite not being expected to do much and changing their coaches during the offseason, they’re ranked and fighting for home ice in the conference. UMass of course is three games below .500 and, with Maine’s success this past weekend, now sitting by themselves in 9th place.
Yale, Wednesday’s opponent, is ranked 17th.
With their sweeps Lowell and Providence as well as Maine and Northeastern were well represented in this week’s Hockey East awards. Maine’s Spencer Abbott had a weekend most hockey players can only dream of. Five goals, including both game-winners, four assists, and a +3 rating. Wow.
Steve Guzzo and Mike Pereira were both named Top Performers for their efforts against Harvard.
With tomorrow being a game preview day here at the Fear The Triangle offices, here is this week’s Recruit Update a day earlier than usual.
Kenny Gillespie – RW – Omaha Lancers (USHL) – 2012
14 GP / 2 G / 3 A / 5 Pts / 23 PIM / +2
According to the Lancers’ Twitter account Gillespie did not play due to injury this past weekend.
Willy Smith – LW – Springfield Pics (EJHL/EmpJHL) – 2014
EJHL: 11 GP / 1 G / 1 A / 2 Pts / 9 PIM
Empire: 14 GP / 5 G / 12 A / 17 Pts / 16 PIM
Smith played for the Pics’ Empire league team this past weekend, gaining an assists in two overtime losses. For the time being I’ll be showing his stats at both levels as he’s bouncing back and forth.
Shane Walsh – LW – Dubuque Fighting Saints (USHL) – 2012
19 GP / 5 G / 6 A / 11 Pts / 0 PIM / -6
Walsh did not register a point as the Saints swept their games this weekend.
The Daily Collegian has the game recap from Friday as well as their game notes.
And here’s the view from Harvard’s student paper.
Jon Quick was named the NHL’s third star for last week. Quick leads the league in shutouts, is second in save percentage, and 4th in goals against average.
In addition to Wednesday being triangle jersey ugly sweater night at the Mullins, it’s also Teddy Bear toss. What’s a Teddy Bear toss you ask?
So to those clowns who were enjoying throwing crap on the ice last weekend, you better be the first ones in line at Wal-Mart to buy a bear to throw on Wednesday.
https://fearthetriangle.com/2011/12/05/polls-awards-recruits/
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October 15, 2013 by SFJ
Digital technology changes journalism ethics
Kelly McBride
By Greg Braxton
2013 SFJ Diversity Fellow
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA — Ethics have always been a hallmark of journalism. But the advance of digital technology within newsroom is fueling an ethics revolution.
That was the message behind the session, “Ethics In a Digital Age,” officiated by Kelly McBride, a Poynter Institute faculty member specializing in media ethics.
“Journalism ethics will change,” McBride said during a spirited address during the Society for Features Journalism conference at the institute.
Although independence has been held as one of the pillars of journalism, readers now are valuing transparency over independence, said McBride.
“When we are transparent, then we have the trust that is crucial in a relationship with the audience,” she said. “We have to show people why they should believe, we have to communicate why we are trustworthy.”
It won’t be easy, she said. In the age of Twitter and Facebook, McBride said “it will take years to adopt this habit.”
McBride referenced a 2010 Chicago Tribune photo during a lightning storm when bolts are shown striking the Trump Tower and the Sears building simultaneously. Many who saw the picture thought it was doctored or altered. “People don’t believe stuff now unless you show them why they should believe,” she said.
In the new atmosphere, McBride stressed several principles: Like before, Journalists should seek truth and report it as fully as possible. But now, instead of acting independently, journalists should strive to show how reporting was done, and why people should believe it. She also said that journalists should acknowledge mistakes and errors quickly.
She added that journalists should engage readers in interaction and communication so that more trust is established.
Greg Braxton is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. He is one of the 2013 Penny Bender Fuchs Diversity Fellows.
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In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-04-21 to 2010-04-27.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: [[User:Yn1v | Neville A. Cross]]
Garland Binns opened this week with a suggestion for keyword optimization for our web site.<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012579.html</ref> This was warmly welcomed. From Portugal, Nelson Marques did a comparison on youtube search results for Fedora<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012596.html</ref>. Was a good reflexion on how some people do things for Fedora without even bein part of the project.
We got back to the change from LiveCD to LiveDVD with a message form Jonathan Nalley<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012597.html</ref>. He pointed out how this was seen by the news. This is actually a lack of consistency that we need to fix. News doesn't have to be dull, Mel Chua pointed the winners of the "We're Linux" video contest hosted by Linux Fundation<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012603.html</ref>.
We had plenty of sprints and content done, some of the with help from students at Allgheny. AS one example of this, Hannah Kowen gave the final touchs to the BTRFS Feature Profile<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Btrfs_in_Fedora_13</rev>. Kara Schiltz anounced that Phyton Feature Profile is ready<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012656.html</ref>.
Paul W. Frields announced that Red Hat press blog will include an entry concerning Hardware Enablements in Fedora 13<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012704.html</ref> and Robyn Bergeron make sure that the content on Fedora wiki related to Hardware Enablements were wiki friendly<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Hardware_enablements_in_Fedora_13</ref>
Mel Chua gave us an update on Allegheny Team status<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012717.html</ref> and also wrote a wiki page to keep everything ordered<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Allegheny_Activism:_Team_Assignments</ref>
Nelson Marquez started an article for Gnome Journal<ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012722.html</ref> in which he will focus the synergy among Fedora and Gnome. Nelson also started a thread very complex<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012727.html</ref> about Fedora Project in Portuguese. This is a passionate topic and passionate comments were shared, but Mario Torre<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012740.html</ref> and then Paul W. Frields<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012743.html</ref> tried to keep this as a productive debate.
Mel Chua did a lot of work for F13 spin websites<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012738.html</ref>, later on she announced that F13 spin website were ready<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012754.html</ref>
Gerard Braad is looking how to get Chinese marketing<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012634.html</ref>. He will be traveling and would like to improve the participation from the Chinese community and also see how marketing team can do better for them.
As usual Marketing meeting happened and logs are avaliable<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-05-04/fedora_marketing.2010-05-04-20.04.html</ref>
Probably the most important thing for Marketing Team was the Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier IRC Classroom. Mel Chua posted the log for this Fedora Classroom at the list<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012667.html</ref>, This is part of a effort to buid skill within the Marketing Team, and there are more classes to come.
Adam Williamson is becoming a valuable team member by helping as bridge between QA team and Marketing team. He pointed out a very confusing news<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012673.html</ref> regarding a Ubuntu memory leak issue, that may be misinterpreted as Red Hat/Fedora related. We should be informed and ready to clarify this. The other mail from Adam was asking for hel promoting Test Day<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012696.html</ref>. It is recommended that you take a look to his blog<ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/04/27/incoming-test-days-preupgrade-and-xfce/</ref>.
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Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross
Paul W. Frields announced that Red Hat press blog will include an entry concerning Hardware Enablements in Fedora 13[1] and Robyn Bergeron make sure that the content on Fedora wiki related to Hardware Enablements were wiki friendly[2]
Mel Chua gave us an update on Allegheny Team status[3] and also wrote a wiki page to keep everything ordered[4]
Nelson Marquez started an article for Gnome Journal[5] in which he will focus the synergy among Fedora and Gnome. Nelson also started a thread very complex[6] about Fedora Project in Portuguese. This is a passionate topic and passionate comments were shared, but Mario Torre[7] and then Paul W. Frields[8] tried to keep this as a productive debate.
Mel Chua did a lot of work for F13 spin websites[9], later on she announced that F13 spin website were ready[10]
As usual Marketing meeting happened and logs are avaliable[11]
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Notes on Overlord
Filed under: Talking Movies,Talking Radio — Fergal Casey @ 11:35 pm
Tags: 103.2 FM, Band of Brothers, D-Day, Day of Days, Doom, Dr Josef Mengele, Dublin City FM, Dwight D Eisenhower, Hostel, I Like Ike, Iain De Caestecker, Ike, John Magaro, Jovan Adepo, Julius Avery, Mathilde Ollivier, Operation Overlord, Overlord, Pilou Asbaek, Saving Private Ryan, Son of a Gun, Sunday Breakfast with Patrick Doyle, The Cabin in the Woods, The Matrix Reloaded, WWII, Wyatt Russell
Julius Avery’s WWII horror follow-up to Son of a Gun was the catch-up film of the week on Sunday Breakfast with Patrick Doyle last Sunday.
Watching Overlord is a time-travelling experience, and not because this WWII guys on a mission movie mash-up with a gory zombie horror begins with Ike’s reading of his celebrated D-Day missive to the troops about to undertake the deliverance of Europe from the Nazis with the logistical marvel of Operation Overlord. This feels like a film from the mid-Zeroes. Hostel is in its DNA, as is the second episode of Band of Brothers, and, via Doom, the aesthetics of a shoot ’em up video game. In a film about hideous Nazi ‘medical’ experiments on civilians, that is seemingly oblivious of the existence of Dr Josef Mengele, proceedings end with a zombie boss fight – because that’s the logic at work. Wyatt Russell is the gruff ‘the mission is all that matters’ paratrooper who takes command of the decimated forces including Jovan Adepo, John Magaro, and Iain De Caestecker. Their mission: destroy a radio tower. Their distractions: a pretty French girl (Mathilde Ollivier), an SS Captain (Pilou Asbaek), and a dark secret lurking inside the base.
If it wasn’t bad enough to be oblivious of Mengele and have a zombie boss fight in a WWII movie about Nazi experimentations, there is also, regrettably, the trope that infuriates like few others in modern Hollywood – of one life being prioritised to the point of insanity. cf Saving Private Ryan, The Matrix Reloaded, The Cabin in the Woods. Is it worth leaving Europe under Nazi occupation and letting the Holocaust continue on for the sake of saving one random French kid that the soldiers have just met? That is the choice that Jovan Adepo’s character forces on the others. Wyatt Russell’s disbelieving explosive expert tries to remind his men that they are supposed to blow up the radio tower so that D-Day can succeed, does that not strike them as slightly more important than Adepo trying to impress a girl by saving her brother? Guess what they decide…
Act of Valour
Filed under: Talking Movies (Reviews) — Fergal Casey @ 12:14 pm
Tags: 300, Act of Valour, Alex Veadov, Bill Murray, Bourne, Canon 5D, David Mamet, Doom, Jason Cottle, Kurt Johnstad, Mouse McCoy, Navy Seals, Nester Serrano, Roselyn Sanchez, Sam Worthington, Scott Waugh, Shane Hurlbut, Terminator: Salvation, The Unit, Tom Clancy
Weapons technology and American patriotism fetishist Tom Clancy presents a movie from Kurt Johnstad (co-writer of the bombastic 300) starring active duty Navy Seals. Surprisingly, it’s actually pretty damn good.
If you watched David Mamet’s The Unit you’ll recognise this world of American Special Forces popping up all over the world to orchestrate mayhem. The film opens with a truly horrific car-bombing in the Philippines, before trotting through retaliatory operations by our heroes in Costa Rica, the Horn of Africa, and Mexico, with a detour for the audience to meet the villains in Ukraine. Directors Scott Waugh (a former stuntman) & Mouse McCoy (a former motorcycle champion) developed the movie from talking to Navy Seals, and then decided to just cast them. So Lieutenant Commander Rorke and his best friend (and deputy) Special Warfare Operator Chief Dave lead Seals Ajay, Ray, Mikey, and Weimy into action. Actual actors opposite them include Roselyn Sanchez (Without a Trace), Nestor Serrano (90210), and intense Broadway star Jason Cottle as Jihadist villain Abul Shabal.
If Sam Worthington is the baseline of competency in film acting Rorke and Dave are discernibly just beneath his level, not least because of incredibly thick accents unpolished by acting school. However, bar a couple of awkward emotional scenes, it actually doesn’t matter as they really do bring it as soon as they’re required to banter and blitz. The best actor among the Seals is unsurprisingly Senior Chief Van O (a dead ringer for Bill Murray’s Steve Zissou), the eternally calm centre of this storm. Van O improvised from notes an entire interrogation scene with Alex Veadov’s opportunistic drug-smuggler Christo, thereby adlibbing the movie’s funniest line, “You’ve never seen Star Trek?! Oh, that’s just insane”, as he alternates charm and cruelty. The movie’s impressive action scenes were similarly actually choreographed by the Seals themselves from scripted notes by the directors.
The stealth attack on a Mexican village, frontal assault on a Mexican drug cartel stronghold, and a bloody subterranean battle are all incredibly authentic as a result. Canon’s ultra-light 5D digital camera is frequently mounted on helmets to provide a Doom-style immersion, with a Bourne-style fist-fight featuring a disturbing first-person POV as a heroine is thrown through a glass table and kicked in the head. A frenetic car-chase that culminates in a ‘hot extraction’ is this year’s best action sequence to date; the live fire (!) employed making it jaw-dropping. Presumably DP Shane Hurlbut wasn’t freaked because having been the victim of the Bale-out on Terminator: Salvation nothing scares him anymore. Importantly Act of Valour isn’t propaganda. It showcases a stunning act of self-sacrifice, and the presence of a wheelchair, eye-patch and coffin in the closing scenes attest to these missions’ cost.
What could have been a mere curiosity is elevated beyond its basic scripting by tactically canny action to become a good movie.
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BUSBY BERKELEY
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(1933, Lloyd Bacon) Running-on-nerves director Warner Baxter gives the pep talk to understudy Ruby Keeler after temperamental star Bebe Daniels breaks that ankle. With three of Berkeley’s most iconic numbers. 35mm print preserved by Library of Congress. Approx. 90 mins.
“Invariably entertaining! An excellent example of stagecraft! The liveliest and one of the most tuneful screen musical comedies that has come out of Hollywood […], a film which reveals the forward strides made in this particular medium since the first screen musical features came to Broadway.”
– M.H., The New York Times
“The artistry of Berkeley remains one of the wonders of the cinema. Few filmmakers have such an instantly recognizable style. […] It’s worth celebrating his work today for its manifestly ecstatic surfaces as well as for its secretly pithy substance.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“Reviving the musical's fortunes in one fell swoop, Bacon and Busby Berkeley's backstage saga set the benchmark for the putting-on-a-show subgenre not by means of plot […] but through sassy songs and dialogue and dazzling mise-en-scène….Berkeley choreographs chorines and camera with mischievous dexterity.”
– Geoff Andrew, Time Out (London)
“A GRAND AND GLORIOUS MOVIE! Berkeley also conceived the storylines that gave his numbers coherence and momentum […] shooting the numbers that would cement his reputation as an innovator. Moviegoers had never seen anything like it before.”
– Leonard Maltin, Indiewire
“The primary source of the backstage musical clichés!”
– Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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Filmi-Goris
A Bollywood Diablog
About This Diablog
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Glossary Post
May 4, 2016: SRK, Still FANtastic at 50!
Out of the drought and dearth of inspirational films coming out of Bollywood these days, Shah Rukh Khan’s FAN has stirred our sluggish viewing hearts back to our keyboards! Imagine that! It spurred many a thought and pulled a post out of fingers so stiff from boredom that I thought we’d be indulging in another multi-month of reviewing sloth. Thank you, SRK!
Jenny K: Hey there…are you going to get a chance to see SRK’s Fan? Pat, Kathy, Jayesh and I went to see it last night and it was very interesting, and not just for the surface action! He provides that, of course, but this added something different. I’m still mulling it over. Though knowing that you don’t really like Shah Rukh, maybe I shouldn’t recommend it, but I had some theories about it that I wanted to run past you, if you saw it. The house was packed (a regular multiplex, not a desi cinema) and everyone seemed to enjoy it. I liked it, but Pat and Kathy, die hard Rukhies, LOVED it. Here’s the trailer with subtitles that you can switch on.
Julie M: This one was the first film in a LOOOONG time to interest me even a little…I’m going right now!
[five hours later…]
Mind. Blown. Let’s talk tomorrow.
[Next day…]
OK—for the readers—brief plot overview, if I can do it without spoilers. Gaurav Chandna is a young man in Delhi who bears a striking physical resemblance to his hero, Aryan Khanna, an actor 30 years older; in fact, Gaurav calls himself Aryan’s “biggest fan” and has built his life around studying, admiring, and even imitating him. He calls himself “Aryan Khanna Junior” and longs to meet his hero in person, convinced that they would get along as good friends once “Senior” learns of his admiration. After Gaurav wins money in a performance contest he travels to Mumbai for Khanna’s annual birthday greeting to his fans to meet the star; but is rebuffed from getting close to him. This sets off a chain of events that both draw the pair together and separate them even further.
Reaction: Fan was SO GOOD. Plenty of “insider” SRK jokes, like the ring tone on Gaurav’s phone being the theme from DDLJ (I had to explain that to my companion, she hadn’t seen it), and how did they get him to look 30 years younger?! This is probably the best acting I’ve seen SRK do, bar none. Of course he had to try to top Aamir’s turn in Dhoom 3, but Aamir was better, I think, at doing two totally different characters.
Jenny K: I agree, though I thought Shah Rukh’s acting gave Aamir a very close run. He was using nuances of performance that I hadn’t seen for a very long time! And, it’s funny that we both thought immediately of
[spoiler alert] [spoiler alert] [spoiler alert]
the final twins scene from Dhoom 3. What is it with the falling twin thing in Bollywood films? Showing us what a “leap” they’re attempting? Sorry, couldn’t help it.
[end spoiler alert]
Still, compared to all the cop/gangster mediocrities and misbegotten attempts at superhero films that have been emerging from Mumbai lately, Fan is close to groundbreaking!
The de-aging effects were fascinating. His transformation was done for the most part with practical makeup effects, albeit done by Greg Cannom, Brad Pitt’s makeup designer from Benjamin Button.
The face I understand…latex pieces on the cheek and jaw, CGI narrowing the nose and taking out the lines and bags around the eyes, plus they spoke about a specific kind of contact lens that (I think) bulged out the eyes a bit, and a dental piece that changed and evened his teeth and added a slight lisp…plus the DDLJ era wig. What I don’t understand is how they got the doughy almost adolescent torso when he took his shirt off. Did they use a body double? Or did they just let him carb-out for a month and then CGI out any left-over body hair/extraneous texture? Final verdict, he still looks better to me as he is, at fifty, nose, wrinkles and all!
Julie M: I noticed the teeth prosthesis–that was the only unconvincing aspect of the transformation. I also noticed the body differences–I suspected a body double with a CGI-enhanced head. But I also noticed that the 50-year-old SRK—I mean Aryan—looks way better on film than in real life (SRK’s real life), which I suspect is also due to some more-careful-than-usual special effects wizardry.
Flaws: the fight scenes went on too long (as usual, Indian film never knows when to quit on fight scenes), the of-course-he-did motorcycle chase, and the lack of a strong female lead–but I can excuse that last one because that’s not where the story really is. The other two, well, they are never my favorite parts of any film, Indian or American.
Jenny K: Actually, I saw in the credits that they were using Korean fight directors in this film for the first time. I think this is why Kathy liked it as much as she did…she’s been mega-binging on Korean films these days, and they’re luring her away from Mother India!
Julie M: Yeah, I noticed that the quality of the fighting was stepped up a little. Still too much of it, though.
Jenny K: I liked the climbing out the window stunt, though. Way vertiginous!
My main complaint with it, and it’s coming to be my universal gripe, is that there aren’t enough musical numbers for my song-loving palate. With all the backstage and onstage settings, all I got was snippets! And the big number, “Jabra,” which is a nice one and a big hit, is only available online, not present in the film, even over the end credits! What a waste! Here’s one with subtitles.
Julie M: But the “meta” aspect is the mind-blowing thing: an actor of incredible fame who always says he owes it all to his fans playing an actor of incredible fame who says he owes it all to his fans–but really can’t care about his fans because he would then have no time to act, which is what the fans like. There is one little speech in the film that approaches that last bit, which I think could have been done slightly more thoughtfully and REALLY blown me away.
Jenny K: I know when I first heard about Fan, and they hadn’t mentioned that it was a duplicate role, I thought how cool it was that SRK was fostering the stardom of a new young actor as the “fan.” But then I found out he was playing opposite himself, as he has done many times before, this time with the benefit of state-of-the-art CGI, and I was mildly appalled, and disappointed at the dashing of my hopes of his generosity of spirit.
Now, after seeing the finished product, I don’t believe I’ve given Shah Rukh enough credit. It actually isn’t the vanity piece I’d feared, and I left the cinema reading all sorts of things into his performance. He hasn’t put this out there as proof of his acting chops… I already knew that (Dil Se!). It seemed to me as if, with this film, Shah Rukh, as an actor, is giving us an intellectual musing on the fight within himself about what one loses when you become a star, on what comes with public acclaim and what you have to do to keep it. The character of Aryan, and by extension SRK himself, has lost his youth, his innocence, his capacity for spontaneous behavior and self-expression without self censoring, etc. He always has to “do what’s expected” or all will be taken away. I’m not left with the sense that either the actor or the character regrets the choices he’s made, but that he is always aware of them, and the costs involved. And instead of seeing him as stealing a role from a young actor, I ended up feeling that he had no choice but to act both sides of himself for us.
Julie M: Whoah. Well said, girl.
Jenny K: Thanks, glad you agree. You see some of the same thought processes involved in his two part behind-the-scenes documentaries by Nasreen Munni Kabir, The Inner/Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan (2006). My mother loved these, and trapped my father in the living room until he watched the Inner World with her. Nice memories!
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Julie M: Final thing for now–about the end–I totally thought Aryan was going to apologize after he saw Gaurav lying dead on the sidewalk, and then when he didn’t I thought he was going to mouth an apology when he “saw” Gaurav in the birthday crowd at the very end. The fact that he didn’t meant that Aryan hasn’t grown from the experience, and in a way it means SRK is not as “humbled” by his fans as he pretends to be.
Jenny K: I didn’t think that Aryan had to apologize for anything except calling the police in on Gaurav at the beginning. That was “full-on heavy-handed star” mentality in action. But what he said was reasonable, and Gaurav would have been wiser to take what he said as a wakeup call. But he didn’t, and he actively chose to not let Aryan save him…he let go, didn’t he? At least that’s the impression I’m left with. But Gaurav was bat-shit crazy…so it probably would never have ended happily.
Julie M: Absolutely bat-shit crazy and I knew from the very moment he was introduced that he would die in the end. But I expected a bit of thaw, or at the very least some humanity, from the star…that didn’t really happen. I think SRK was taking some real risks with this, harking back to the early days when he did negative roles before he hit it big with romantic-hero stuff.
So, we’re both giving out two serious thumbs up for this unique departure for Mr. Movie Star Badshah Khan! Go out and catch this special picture, even if it doesn’t have enough music and dancing for Jenny the die-hard. Continue reading →
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Staff from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the University of Minnesota-Duluth collaborated to address the impacts of forest health and climate change on a property adjacent to a high-quality trout stream in the northern headwaters of the Knife River watershed on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. The team used the Adaptation Workbook to consider climate impacts and to develop adaptation actions appropriate to this site.
Located in the northern headwaters of the Knife River, the 358 acre project area contains the only naturalized wild steelhead trout population in Minnesota. The project parcel contains 1.5 miles of the West Branch Knife River with no natural barriers preventing fish migration. The parcel is on state-owned lands that have been set aside as Minnesota School Trust Land, where forests are managed to generate revenue for the Permanent School Fund. Forest cover on-site primarily consists of paper birch (Betula papyrifera), bigtooth aspen (Populus grandidentata), other hardwoods, and balsam fir (Abies balsamea).
Management goals are to sustainably manage timber to generate revenue for the Permanent School Fund, and to protect water quality. Stands throughout this parcel have declined in recent years largely due to age-related succession of paper birch and aspen. Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) outbreaks have occurred on balsam fir stands and other forest health issues are present. Primary project objectives in the following 5 years included responding to forest health concerns and maintaining forest cover, particularly conifer cover.
Information on the potential climate change effects and vulnerability of forests in Northern Minnesota (Handler et al, 2014) was used to identify potential climate related risks to forests on this property. The team used their knowledge of this parcel to identify how larger-scale projections may interact with on-site biophysical characteristics to aggravate existing forest health issues and accelerate water quality degradation. For example, shallow, rocky soils with relatively low soil-water field capacity are a dominant site characteristic, meaning that snow strongly influences aspects of the hydrologic regime such as soil moisture and stream temperature. The team determined changes in precipitation and snowmelt represented the greatest climate change related impacts to site hydrology.
Increased warming is projected to contract the duration of winters
Altered the frequency of winter freeze-thaw cycles
Increase frequency of rain-on-snow events
Reduced seasonal snowpack depth and retention
Changes in precipitation and snowmelt may result in more frequent overland flows
Some boreal species on-site are projected to lose suitable habitat by end of century (Handler et al. 2014)
Longer growing seasons likely to increase forest pest life-cycles and pathogen infestations were also considered long-term risks for this site
After defining important site-level impacts and vulnerabilities, the team evaluated the long-term feasibility of meeting the state mandate to manage this parcel for economic output through sustainable forestry, and the provision of clean water through the end of century. The team identified climate-related challenges and potential opportunities for the site (shown below). Overall, the team determined property-wide goals were feasible into the long-term, but would require added focus and attention in the near-term.
Overland flows can initiate or aggravate erosion and worsen water quality in the adjacent trout stream (immediate and long-term risks for this site)
Warming winters poses the largest risk to achieving goals in the short- and long-term
Past forest health issues have opened gaps in the canopy that expose the forest floor to greater wind and solar radiation, altering snowmelt timing & runoff. Managing disturbed areas to enhance productivity may maintain function as boreal species decline
The team were most concerned with projected changes in the site’s snow-driven hydrology and the associated potential for an increase in erosion (decrease in water quality), which was reflected in their choices of strategic approaches to adaptation. Project participants used the menu of Forested Watershed Strategies and Approaches to develop several adaptation actions for this project, including:
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Site-wide
3.6: Enhance species age classes and structural diversity in forests
Harvest 173 acre (scheduled for 2018) to regenerate paper birch and aspen, reserving all white pine yellow birch, cedar, tamarack, black spruce and white spruce below 9-inch diameter limits.
1.1: Maintain and enhance infiltration and water storage capacity of forest soils
Harvest and retain key species on-site to improve soil conditions, and buffer risks related to changing precipitation patterns and extreme events.
3.2: Promptly revegetate areas after disturbance
4.1: Favor or restore native species that are expected to be adapted to future conditions
5.4: Respond to or prepare for excessive overland flows (surface runoff)
Accelerate timing of plantings post-harvest (scheduled 2019). Plant a diverse mix of native species and species expected to be adapted to future conditions
Prior to seedling establishment and growth on-site, use strategically retained conifers to shade snow that may reduce the rate and timing of snowmelt
Use coarse woody debris to deflect and intercept snow melt to reduce erosion of open sites and reduce delivery of turbid waters to river
5.2: Enhance the ability of systems to retain water
Increase riparian area management areas, reserving a larger areas around wetlands and seasonal pools.
The team are collaborating with the University of Minnesota-Duluth to define a monitoring plan that measures the effectiveness of forest management actions, beginning in 2018-2019. Monitoring plans thus far include:
Observe site productivity and retention of snow over time by conducting vegetation surveys to evaluate forest regeneration post-harvest
Conduct snow cross surveys to evaluate snow depth and snow-water equivalent
Conduct water quality observations will evaluate turbidity associated with overland flows and soil loss
Observe stream discharge, peak flow and duration using existing stream gauge near site
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Now this is what modern Power/thrash should sound like! If you haven't heard the band Armor Column, do yourself a favor and have a listen. I just ordered their album and for good reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMoXmVHfsGQ
Sounds pretty cool, I think there's a bit too much repetition in the first 2 1/2 minutes or so for that style of frantic power/thrash, but toward the end they pick things up and start throwing a lot more riffs and solos at us. I'm not gonna go apeshit over them like other people here, they're not as good as comparable modern stuff like Ballistic or the newest Forte, but then Armor Column is a much greener band. I'm definitely going to be keeping an eye on them though, hopefully they won't vanish after just one album.
Holy mother of hell! Revenge, the speed metal band from Colombia, released a new album in November and they fucking slay! You guys have to listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1mgkaXGMx-M
ShadeOfDarkness
I second this! Great speed metal with occasional thrash elements at times. Loved their last album, and can't say the case is different with this new one. Oh, and Armor Column is also fucking amazing!
I am going insane on the amount of great stuff coming my way this past week. Glad you like Armor Column, great album and getting better each listen. The album as a whole reminds me of RAM's first album but far heavier. Vocalist is a dead ringer that is for sure. As for revenge, I really like the direction they are going with the darker tendencies, especially on the last two albums. The first time I heard this band was with their death Sentence album and it was way more melodic, and definitely Maiden inspired speed rarely delving into darker riffs. Now they are getting thrashier, and their songs are becoming more mature. Its criminal these guys are not more well known.
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Well, after roughly 15 years of not listening to it in any way, I just today re-discovered my joy for uplifting, euro-power metal...
So, what are the classics I need to pick up if the last album I enjoyed back then was Gamma Ray's "Land of the free"?
(not keen on shredding and speedy solo-ing stuff though, high pitched vocals are also more of a minus to me)
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Well what exactly do you mean by "high" vocals? 'Cause you mentioned Land of the Free and Kai Hansen sings quite high on that.
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Timeless Miracle are absolutely goddamn essential Euro-power metal. I don't care if barely anyone's heard of them and they've only released one album.
Sonata Arctica, on the other hand, are a huge, huge name in the industry, and their Ecliptica, Silence, and Reckoning Night albums are absolutely essential. The Days of Grays and Stones Grow Her Name are a bit more unusual and divisive, but they're damn fine albums in their own right, too. (In before Empyreal yells at you to listen to Unia, too. It's worth listening to just to say you have, and if you like it, it was that much more worthwhile!)
Edguy are a bit on the hard rock side these days, but their '95-'04 material is absolutely mandatory listening if you're looking for Euro-power metal. As for everything since Hellfire Club, it's largely inconsistent with an amazing track here and there.
Avantasia, the side project of Tobias Sammet from Edguy, is another wellspring of amazing material. I don't think they've released a single bad album, though Angel of Babylon is probably the weakest. By that, I mean it has the fewest maddeningly catchy songs.
Dreamtale are a bit more obscure, but they, too, have some phenomenal tunes that will never leave your brain. Their debut, Beyond Reality, and their newest, Epsilon, are probably their most consistent works, but I'd recommend all of their stuff.
Power Quest are wildly inconsistent, but when they're at their best (e.g. Neverworld), you'll not find anything better in the genre.
Same goes for Iron Savior and Persuader. Both are essentially Blind Guardian clones with hit-or-miss albums, but when they hit, they really fucking hit. The songs linked are perfect examples of their best work.
Kamelot may not hail from Europe, but they clearly fall in the Euro-power metal style and are one of the big names. The Black Halo is generally seen as their greatest, but I'd also recommend Epica and Ghost Opera.
Lastly for now, if you're looking for something like Gamma Ray, Seventh Avenue may be up your alley, seeing as they're obviously a Gamma Ray worship band. The albums you'll want to check out are Eternals and Terium, though Southgate and Between the Worlds have some great tunes, too.
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Been listening to shittons of Paradox, Oracle/Prodigy, Helstar (mostly Nosferatu), Steel Prophet, Omen, Blind Guardian, Dark Quarterer, Warlord Fates Warning, Manilla Road, While Heaven Wept, Mystic Force and Pagan Altar these past year, a couple of those are more doomy I know but does anyone have any recommendations like these? I cant get enough even though I haven't completely finished some of thier discographies.
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Yeah, I noticed the same thing. I discovered Revenge a couple of months ago, when Vendetta hadn't come out yet, and I noticed very clearly that it was only the newest album that seemed to be going in that certain direction. These two new ones are insane though. Really good stuff!
By the way, you Sortilege lovers should check out Zouille & Hantson if you haven't already. They're not on the archives for some reason, but I do believe it's some sort of new project. The album is self titled. I see that Chase Le Dragon has been re-recorded at least.
Just ordered the new AxeHammer album. Excellent follow-up to their Wind Rider release from 2005. Great blend of catchy US power, and speed sounding very, very 80's I can even hear some Euro power undertones here and there. I can safely say that this album would fit somewhere in my top 10 of 2012 if such a list existed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yowbf0l0ovo&playnext=1&list=PLVAQJUBQ1LyDFWobvEPGu9MrDyKoWyvVV&feature=results_video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNzD8VbBuIg
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You beat me to allot of stuff here!
I would also Recommend;
Neonfly
Battle Beast (although they are more traditional metal)
Nocturnal Rites (their newest album isn't too great though.)
Stratovarius have ALLOT of good keyboard solos and are one of the best Neoclassical metal bands out there.
DGM are a progressive/power metal blend. Saw them live supporting Symphony X and are simply amazing!
Freedom Call, not sure if they are too high pitched for you though.
Van Canto are something very different, in that they are an A Capella Power metal band. They do allot of covers and you may not like the female singer. But they are very very cheesy.
And finally;
Sabaton are one of the best Power Metal bands out there. They have allot of amazing upbeat songs and quite a few emotional ones to.
Hope you find these to your liking!
This is a good time for metal, no doubt. I wasn't a fan of Axehammer's debut but this sounds much better. Is anyone familiar with Bud Tribe? They're coming out with an album in a few weeks and I'm pretty excited about it. Their name sounds like a stoner metal band or something but actually they're a heavy/power metal band comprised of veterans of the 80s Italian scene, from bands like Sabotage and Strana Officina...now to be perfectly honest I'm not much of a fan of the 80s Italian scene, but Bud Tribe actually are very good. The singer sounds almost like Big Boss in that his range is much lower than usual and he's got a similar mercurial style, shifting from rougher melodic growls to powerful cleans at the drop of a hat. Otherwise they're not terribly flashy, at first I thought the songwriting was rather average, but their songs are very well composed and over time I was surprised to find myself coming back to the second album over and over again.
Here's one from their second album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FbrNJ8CBvM
And here's one from their upcoming album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVyhgqbvs4k
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^ That track from their second album is fucking excellent! I need to track down more of your recommendations. Can't say I'm as enthused by the track from their upcoming album; they seem far better suited for dark, intricate heavy/speed than for uplifting hard/heavy with a faint hint of speed (I hope the former dominates their output rather than the latter). That singer is awesome, and both his approach (except for the more aggressive parts) and the effects applied to his voice evoke Johan Längquist on 'Epicus Doomicus Metallicus' to me. And that track! It's right in line with stuff like Veto or early Stormwitch or good-day Pretty Maids, with just a hint of Mercyful Fate in the dramatic, mean approach to heavy metal. Between this and A Tortured Soul, which you recommended some time ago and I now truly love, I'm beginning to think you have a knack for this kind of stuff. If the comparison even makes sense and if there's more stuff in this vein coming to mind, please teach me, master!
Wait a minute... there was an Italian scene in the 80s?!
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Temple Of Blood wrote:
this is what i was looking for
Talisphere are like Oracle except the guitarist doesn't think he is better than he actually is, and I fucking love Oracle
I have heard Cauldron Born before and I will listen to the other 2 soon, but Talisphere are exactly what i was fucking looking for, scratches that itch.
Stop making stupid threads and posting in them.
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Lancer (I just found out about these guy today.)
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Is anyone familiar with Bud Tribe?
No but those links you posted sounded good, I will have to check them out.
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I love how he clearly mentions that he's not really looking for ultra-shredding and fast solos or high-pitched vocals, yet you guys go out of your way and mention dozens of bands that feature all three.
Land of the Free is pretty much what you said you're not keen on though, and high-pitched vocals / ultra fast guitars is pretty typical of euro-power, so not sure what you really want here.
Anyways, I'd recommend Saint Deamon's both albums. Straightforward and catchy, not relying on uber-fast playing or ultrasonic wails.
Also, Andromeda from Sweden is pretty cool, especially Extension of the Wish.
Try some Falconer to see if you like it. Firewind too. (I only really like Premonition out of those guys)
Armageddon (Swe) is much better as a power metal band than as a Melodic Death one. Check Embrace the Mystery.
Oh, and Powerwolf. The band's pretty ridiculous but lots of fun as well, the guy can sing too. Look for Bible of the Beast.
That's all I got for now. If you detest very high vocals, I recommend you stay away from every Italian power metal band, save for Dogma and Icy Steel (which are not representatives of the euro-power scene in the first place).
Vulvagun!
edit: wasn't meant as an additional Europower rec. Just, Vulvagun.
Bud Tribe
That first song is awesome as hell. His deeper register goes perfectly with the thrashy riffs, and the song never ceases to hold my attention. The second song didn't really have that 'punch in the face impact' like the first, but I will be keeping my eyes on the new album. Good stuff Failsafe.
I am always keeping a vigilant eye on the 'New Additions' section and I came across a new Power/speed metal (More emphasis on power this time around) band called Wülfhook from the wastes of Michigan who are giving away their demo stuff at http://www.reverbnation.com/wulfhook for free. The production is very good for a demo and these guys can really play their instruments. Vocalist is damn good too going for those falsettos with no problems. They are working on a full length, and if these songs are any indication, they are worth keeping an eye on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcI11bLyMYU
I wonder when Vulvagun will get a new album out. It's taking too long, damnit!
Great! Glad you like it man.
teh_ultra_warriorre wrote:
Especially the first version of Extension, with Lawrence Macrory on vocals.
Power/speed metal (More emphasis on power this time around) band called Wülfhook from the wastes of Michigan who are giving away their demo stuff at http://www.reverbnation.com/wulfhook for free.
That song is spine-chillingly awesome, and I'm loving that vocalist's tone! I'll check out that free demo right away. Thanks!
This new Axehammer mix sounds ultra wonky with my bookshelf speakers. Huh.
Also love Screamer, wonder if Voivod listen to them at all with the new album title haha
You know guys, I'm here, listening to Sabbath's Tyr, and I started to wonder..... Is there any band with a sound that resembles Tony Martin era Black Sabbath? And especially Tyr, which has a lot of old school heavy/power metal in it.
Between this and A Tortured Soul, which you recommended some time ago and I now truly love, I'm beginning to think you have a knack for this kind of stuff. If the comparison even makes sense and if there's more stuff in this vein coming to mind, please teach me, master!
Very generally speaking there's a lot of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond-influenced metal coming out lately, Portrait and In Solitude and such, but those are mostly in a heavy metal idiom rather than the power metal of Bud Tribe or A Tortured Soul. These days bands have access to so much metal you can usually find vague references to just about anything you want to, but to me it seems harder to find a band that sounds very similar to another. The genre as a whole is so much broader than when bands were limited to whatever they could hear on the radio, in person, or on tape and vinyl that finding two bands with the same cocktail of influences is harder than ever. Just a shot in the dark here, have you tried Onward's third album? All three are good. The first is the most traditional, sounding very USPM-y, the second is more progressive, but the third is the most experimental, incorporating even some black metal influence here and there and reminding me, generally speaking, of Bud Tribe and A Tortured Soul. Michael Grant being a baritone helps too, of course. Unfortunately the production is dogshit, but what are ya gonna do.
Just a shot in the dark here, have you tried Onward's third album?
No, but I will now. I don't even think I had heard of Onward until now. I've just given a listen to one random track off of each album on YT: their third album's title track, "The Last Sunset" from the debut, and "Where Evil Follows" from the middle album. The first thing that comes to mind is that they certainly have in common with the other two bands the fact that they're awesome! It's not quite the exact same style or spirit, but it's okay, I'm not really looking for clones anyway (would an MF clone even work?). They operate in the same realm for sure, though, and there's a common vibe that I really really like, something dramatic and melancholic, for lack of more specific terms. Onward seems to be a bit more classic power metal oriented, with a bit less of a bite and a bit more of a focus on the (not necessarily as dark) emotional side of things, if that makes sense, compared to an album like 'Lucifer's Fate'. Diverse stuff comes to mind at different times indeed, from Helstar, to Hollow, to Rhoads-era Ozzy, to MR to you name it, but the band has its own identity and sounds genuine. In any event, this is a great find for me, so thanks for that!
What you said about the variety of styles and potential influences out there nowadays makes a lot of sense, but I haven't explored enough recent stuff yet to have a good picture of the current metal scene at large. Well, I have a lot of catching up to do, as I'm only just starting to seek out recent bands again now (having essentially given up looking for them past the early 2000s), and it seems I've been missing out like crazy. Not so long ago I was still under the impression that genuine and genuinely new greatness in the heavy/power/speed field was an endangered species, if not a thing of the past, but it seems I was simply looking in the wrong places or not hard enough. Either that or I'm becoming way easier to please, but I doubt it.
Xeogred
Thunderbolt from Hell
The funny thing is I'm not super into Mercyful Fate / King Diamond, good stuff but not among my favorites... yet I really dig most of the bands that are heavily influenced by that sound.
But yeah we need a nice throwback on pure 80's USPM someday. Liege Lord, Omen, Sacred Oath, etc, the blue collar stuff especially. There's bands like Ballistic or Steel Assassin I guess, but it's still definitely not the same to me and I can't really think of any modern bands that sound like a major throwback to that stuff specifically. If people can do it with thrash and whatnot, surely it can still be done eventually...
Suddenly "Open the Gates" just blew my face off, totally in the mood for this. The production is pretty crushing in comparison to "The Deluge" even if it came out before it.. with that said can anyone remind me which Manilla Road albums have been remastered and what the preferences were? I think I remember talk of some favoring original mixes or vice versa.
Love when Mark sounds freaking pissed!
Thanks for the many recommendations to my request. I never though that I could again (after my very early metal days as a
kid many, many moons back) find myself enjoying that kind of music, haha. Honestly - voals in the higher range was something
I used to dislike for 15 years or so (save for Eric Adams!) but after re-discovering Gamma Ray myself and now listening to the
many youtube links you guys posted I must admit that this is like entering an unknown yet somehow familiar terrain.
I didn't liked all bands you posted but Power Quest, Freedom Call and Startovarius (a band I formerly thought I would hate
and never took a listen to) were totally great and I think after finishing this post I will head off to Amazon and do some buys.
Seems like after nearly two decades of Thrash, Black and Martial Industrial I somehow came back "home" to where i started
as a kid and this feels awesome. The cheese and, well, "goodness" (in a lack of a better term) just fills me, haha.
Hard to put in words, so just keep it with "Damn, I like some of this more than I had ever thought I could do again!" So, again - Thanks, guys!
(btw - Sabaton was the only one of the posted bands I really knew before and like since a few years)
So beer_snob was kind enough to introduce me to this band, Evil Invaders, in the chat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGGYscmeYRM&noredirect=1
I was pretty impressed. No doubt someone has brought them up in here already, but for those of you that missed it, they're Belgian speed metal, and from what i've heard it's some pretty aggressive, rip-roaring stuff. Hope i get to see them live in Europe this year.
Excellent speed metal! Thanks for the heads up. Check out Revenges new album if you haven't DRD. These speed heads never quit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hA3AsbYgcg
Is anyone here familiar with Amon-Ra? It seems like something you guys would like, and I came across it because it is being reissued on vinyl soon (though I wish it was on CD). I've only heard a couple of tracks so far, but it's fairly typical heavy/power metal from 1992 (with a bit more keyboards than normal).
I'm currently listening to it here: https://soundcloud.com/byronnemeth/sets but I think you can download it for free on his website.
rawsewage
Location: Shamokin, PA
I bought a copy of that amon-ra album from shadow kingdom a couple of months ago on cd for somewhere around $10. Tell you the truth the three demo songs added to the end are probably the best stuff on the album.
ChildClownOutlet
Can anyone recommend some really good power metal bands with a more of a grunt or a baritone sort of voice. Sort of like the vocalist for Pharaoh or Iron Savior? I know some like Falconer have a phenomenal vocalist or bands like Thaurorod.
I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
Aydross
ChildClownOutlet wrote:
Check out Tad Morose and Wuthering Heights.
Am I the only one who thinks: the deluge/open the gates/voyager > crystal logic?
...Don't turn out the lights
Cause there's demons in the night
And they prey on the fears in us all...
Aydross wrote:
Yes for the Deluge no for the others imo
I think Crystal Logic has a lot more layers and dimensions than people tend to give credit for. I still feel like I'm noticing new things each time I spin it. The Deluge I find to be a very immediate and rewarding album, right up front with all it's cards on the table. So for that reason I probably prefer Crystal Logic just a hair but it's hard trying to objectively compare two albums I consider perfect. And Open the Gates is most perfectest of all!
Griffin's debut finally opened up and invited me in this morning. For some reason I woke up NEEDING to hear it and was utterly satisfied when I followed through. I had been kind of wishy-washy up until this spin, I think I was trying to force the album into a box that it just won't fit. It's not a very aggressive album at all, and a lot of the riffing sounds like straight up traditional heavy metal which was exactly what I needed a dose of. Love the vocalist too. I think maybe it took hearing Protectors of the Lair a few times to put this one in perspective.
Yeah, their second album definitely lacked a lot of magic or something. The first just blows it out of the water.
Re: Manilla Road
@Xeogred: Funny thing is it's pretty much the exact opposite to my ears: 'The Deluge' sounds much sharper and more abrasive than 'Open the Gates', whose production job I'd call mellow in comparison. As for which originals to get, that'd be all of them, and none of the remasters, but "remaster" is a dirty word in my dictionary, so maybe ask for a second opinion on that one.
@Jonpo: Opposite view here as well: out of all the 80s MR classics, 'The Deluge' was the last one to fully reveal its divine awesomeness to this metalhead; I think it's the least accessible of the Crystal->Abyss golden streak. 'Crystal Logic' and 'Open the Gates' were the instantly rewarding ones in my experience; as for the latter's perfection... well: "Heavy Metal to the World", sorry dude.
As for Griffin's debut, it's a fine little album, but it suffers from a mean case of the "Dreaming in Red" Syndrome, in the sense that "Heavy Metal Attack" is so many leagues ahead of all the other tracks combined, noticing them can be a challenging task. The sophomore album lacks this "issue", but also the must-have quality that comes with it. It's probably useless as I'm sure most of you guys already worship at its altar on a daily basis, but just in case someone isn't yet, I'd recommend one album which is pretty much the answer to the question 'what if an entire album had been made on par with "Heavy Metal Attack"?': Wild Dogs' 'Reign of Terror'.
By the way, failsafe, I can't thank you enough for recommending Onward. Since my last post, I've now DL'd all three albums, looked into the band's history, and added them to the top of my "do-want" list. With all the ties they had with the Helstar realm, I feel stupid for not noticing them earlier. Also, the late and indeed great Micheal Grant used to be in that band, Legend Maker (no relation).
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Post by AnyOldName3 » 14 Jun 2018, 19:37
There's still the possibility that someone releasing malware as a mod will decide that most modders are more technically minded than your average Joe, and so may be reluctant to run CliffRacersAreVladamirPutin.exe, but would feel safe installing CliffRacersAreVladamirPutin.omwaddon, and that therefore, the malware will take longer to be noticed and hit more people if it's packaged as a real mod.
AnyOldName3, Master of Shadows
Doesn't have to be viruses, it could be a low-priority crypto-coin miner. That would fly under the radar of most, if not all, virus scanners for example.
I mean, you come off saying that it is hypothetical that there could be a virus in a mod but it hasn't happened. I point out that it isn't hypothetical, it has happened and yet you backpedal a bit and still suggest that a it won't happen. I mean, that's a _really_ shaky argument given that you didn't even know about the event that happened.
It's a valid security concern to sandbox your scripting.
If your only reason for running software, via scripting, is because the engine can't be modified to do what you need it to, you have a point. But OpenMW can be modified to expose the functionality needed which negates the whole point having to run other software.
psi29a wrote: ↑
Where did I backpedal? I literally linked to an interview where I made the exact same argument weeks ago. Here's what I said, in written form:
NullCascade wrote: So, this is a hard question, because their concerns are completely valid. The new scripting language lets you do -- you're downloading basically fully capable programs to your computer, rather than just an esp file with a couple of lines of mwscript in it. So, if someone wanted to deliver a virus via this new system, they could. But, Oblivion and Skyrim have had these features for years and years now. And I don't think I've ever heard of a Skyrim-delivered virus before. Modders need to, you know, be careful, and not download sketchy software, just like you wouldn't go to, you know, some weird site and download weird program. You shouldn't download sketchy mods from people. But I think with popular sites like the Nexus, where there's accountability and if someone tried to deliver something malicious there I think they'd get shut down pretty fast. I just don't think it's an issue worth worrying about. Sure, they're right, but we have so much history with having these features in other games and it has never been an issue. So, I'm just not really that concerned about it.
DarkElfGuy wrote: Oh yes, I can't think of really any, you know, mods pretending or well uploaded as viruses that has happened at any time in the history of our community. I seem to recall, I think, that the Nexus implemented the virus scanning software more as a response to public opinion than a specific incident, though I can't quite remember if there was something or not. I don't think there was.
NullCascade wrote: Yeah, I'm not sure. But every time you download pluggy, or Frostfall, or any of these mods that ship with a Oblivion or Skyrim DLL, that's all precompiled code and that's not limited to Morrowind's or Oblivion's or Skyrim's sandbox. So they can go, and can delete your files, or do whatever. But what they're actually doing is loading in some extra library that they need, or they're adding some functionality or some logic that isn't practical or isn't viable to write in the sandbox. And I think that offering that power to modders is more important than trying to keep security in mind for what we are. Something could again be caught pretty easily. I just don't think it's worth limiting modders in the name of security. To be clear, a lot of projects also use lua for this system. A bunch of emulators, a bunch of professional software -- I think OBS uses it. It's not an uncommon practice, and it's not really common for viruses to be delivered via plugins to these software. I mean, if you can convince a user to download your plugin or your code you've sort of already won as a malicious software writer, right? Just getting them to download something is enough. If you can convince someone to download a SKSE plugin, you can probably convince them to download an executable and run it.
Your counter-argument to this and my somehow-backpedaling comes from something entirely unrelated to the discussion at hand. Someone compromised the Nexus site. That has nothing to do with script extensions. That's like OpenMW shouldn't be executable because someone who works at GitHub got compromised. There's just no connection.
You can say it's not hypothetical all you want, but your "evidence" is tangential at best.
Yes. Because having a bunch of forks is both healthy for the community, and healthy for security. /s
OpenMW will never add the support that every modder wants, it will have to be done via engine forks. Which is terrible.
Shallow forks are great, actually. You could just make a fork that adds the very most basic bits of IPC needed to make most unsafe mods work, and modders can use that and keep it up to date with "upstream" openmw. It wouldn't be problematic at all.
There's a reason this FOSS mentality has never caught on. It's a nightmare for end users. It works for you, it works for me. It doesn't work for the guy that just wants to play Morrowind with his favorite mods and maybe an updated engine.
Isn't that the moment that modder stops being a modder and becomes a developer/programmer?
You assume a lot when you say every, so I'm going to assume that for the moment, you mean yourself. You want to be able to do anything you want, and you have with MWSE. Some modders are all over that, that's great for Morrowind because Morrowind never gave modders the ability to _ask_ for features to be implemented.
OpenMW is forked all the time. 500+ on GH alone but I doubt that is what you mean by forking, you mean something like TES3MP? Isn't TES3MP long-term goal to be included back into OpenMW? You're now calling TES3MP fork of OpenMW terrible. I think you need to hold back on the hyperbole and focus.
Say that Zini is persuaded to make Lua the defacto scripting language, deprecating mwscript in the process and meeting you half-way.
You offered to see MWSE being developed in a way that made sure mods created with MWSE would also play nice under OpenMW.
Can we play ball?
It doesn't matter that it's FOSS. Modding guides would just direct people to a specific engine. It would just happen to be a fork of openmw.
Post by Eli2 » 14 Jun 2018, 22:19
There's a reason this FOSS mentality has never caught on.
Go away troll.
plonk
This doesn't even deserve a real response.
Ball's in Zini's court. You're asking the wrong person.
And what about when there's no specific engine that is acceptable? Zini doesn't want feature X, so it never goes in. ModMW is forked. Its maintainer doesn't have the same developer base as OpenMW, and it only makes a few niche features. People may prefer it over the main branch, but now you have two different attempts at solving the same issues. This just creates more headaches for mod authors, which in turn creates more issues for mod users.
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This is not the case with OpenMW. OpenMW will continue to evolve for everyone, adding new features as people need in a way that benefits everyone, not just Windows users.
Yes, actually, it is. Competition is good. If someone falls behind on providing what people want, people won't follow them. If something proves unsafe, people have alternatives to go to. Someone may want to target a niche that the main project can't reasonably pander to. Do you know how many forks of the Doom engine there have been over the years? The Doom modding community is still going strong with one of, if not the most popular fork being extremely tight on security because it's shown to be a healthy attitude to take compared to other forks that have been more lax.
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Morningside Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
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Morningside Mennonite Church, 11 October 1959. Glen Brubacher speaking. Photo by David Hunsburger, 11 October 1959.
Source: Mennonite Archives of Ontario
Morningside Mennonite Church exterior. Photo by David Hunsburger.
The Mennonite Mission Board of Ontario in 1948 purchased a church building lot at 64 Tiago Street in the Morningside area of Toronto, Ontario that was rapidly developing in the post-World War II era. Initially there was was minimal programming in the Morningside community, though some children were bused to the Danforth Mennonite Church for Sunday school. In 1951 a Summer Bible School program was held in Morningside, and the basement for a church was finally built. Sunday school and regular preaching began at that time.
Since the main level was not completed in a timely manner, a reconstructed church building was erected in 1957. A church program continued until 1973 when the congregation closed and merged with Danforth Mennonite Church. Attendance at Morningside was never large--in the late 1950s there were an average of 60 participants in Sunday school. In 1959 the membership was 13, by 1970 the membership was 27.
Pastoral leaders who served Morningside included: Emerson McDowell (1950-1952), Cyril Gingerich (1952-1954), Merlin & Dorothy Grove (1955-1956), Glen & Elizabeth Brubacher (1956-1962), Paul Martin (1962-1970), Alfred Polzin (1970/71), and Amzie Brubacher (1971-1973).
Morningside was affiliated with the Mennonite Conference of Ontario throughout its history.
Calendar of Appointments Mennonite Church of Ontario (1946/47-1973).
Canadian Mennonite (3 May 1957): 1.
Gospel Herald (30 July 1957): 691.
Church records at Mennonite Archives of Ontario.
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Fortnite Update Version 1.83 Is Out; Here’s What It Does [Patch Notes]
Epic Games has released another new update for Fortnite today numbered Fortnite Update Version 1.83 (v6.01.1) for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC. This one is a rather minor update so don’t expect anything major to change in the game.
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The Accumulator Pattern with Strings
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Sequence Mutation and Accumulation Patterns
In week four we will present deeper knowledge on using lists, strings, and python objects in general. We will also cover how to use the accumulation pattern with lists and with strings. The final assignment will test your knowledge and skills through application, much like previous assessments and assignments did, though with a more difficult set of tasks now that you have learned the basics.
Introduction - Accumulating Lists and Strings0:48
The Accumulator Pattern with Lists4:54
The Accumulator Pattern with Strings5:01
Conclusion - Accumulating Lists and Strings1:08
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Welcome back. We can also use the accumulator pattern to accumulate strings.
In this case, you start with an empty string and keep appending to it.
But when you append, you'll have to reassign to
the accumulator variable because you can't actually change the original string.
So here's an example,
a Michigan winter example where you've got someone who's got chattery teeth,
because it's so cold outside,
all of their letters are coming out double.
So they're going to say a word like
"Hello" and because their teeth are chattering it comes
out as "Helloo". So here's how we do that.
We're going to start by asking the user to type in a value that's on line one,
they enter some text and that gets assigned to the variable s. Let's suppose that,
let's make it easier for us, they say "cat",
the accumulator variable is going to have our results so far,
teeth chattering version of that string that we've accumulated so far.
Initially, there's nothing but it's going to accumulate things,
and then we start iterating one letter at a time,
the variable c is going to be bound to the letter "c",
and then we are ready to execute the accumulation part line four for the first time.
So it's going to take our current value of ac which is an empty string,
it's going to add the current value of c which is the letter "c",
and then it's going to give us a dash and the letter "c" again and another dash,
which yields a string "c-c-",
and that becomes the new value for ac.
The old string is still there but we don't worry about it anymore
because ac has been reassigned to this new string cat cat.
We're now ready to go onto the second iteration,
where we get to line four for the second time c is now bound to the letter variable "c",
c for character is now down to the letter "a",
the second letter in our string,
and we're now going to make a,
let me write it over here,
we're going to make a string that has the old value of
ac and then we append the letter a and a dash,
and a again and another dash,
and that becomes our new value.
Similarly for "t" we're going to extend
this each time that
we do all this concatenation,
we have to re-assign to a,
because we're not actually changing the own,
we have to reassign to the variable ac I should have said
and we have to do that because ac has not been changed.
So we've made a new string and we re-assign it to ac.
So, in summary, to accumulate a string,
you start with an empty string, on each iteration,
you re-assign the accumulator variable with a concatenation of
its old value and some new stuff.
At the end, you've accumulated something like" c-c-a-a-t-t.
So let's run it, I enter cat, I get c-c-a-a-t-t,
Michigan frozen winter speaking picking cat or if I run it and ask for dog,
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Bias & discrimination stunting career progression, claim employees
If you feel like you’ve been held back from career progression because of discrimination, you are not alone according to a report from recruiting firm Hays.
The FY 2018-19 Hays Diversity & Inclusion Report suggests that as much as 63% of New Zealand professionals have felt their career progression choices have been limited due to their age, disability, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
Those who feel most discriminated against are those who have a disclosed disability (83%), women (77%), and people who identify as LGBTIQ (67%).
Additionally, 40% of all survey respondents believe they have better chances of promotion if they share a similar socio-economic background to those who manage the company.
Leaders may also be biased towards those who look, think or act like them, according to half of all respondents.
“Our survey shows that perceptions of unfair barriers to career progression persist in New Zealand workplaces,” says Hays New Zealand managing director Adam Shapley.
“Most organisations would be quick to refute any suggestion that their employees’ progression is limited due to gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability or socio-economic background. However, they should be aware that these perceptions do exist amongst the wider employee population.”
Despite feelings of bias, 51% of respondents say career development conversations with managers are open and transparent.
Shapley says employees should feel confident to express their sentiments.
“There should be a process in place for any feedback to be responded to and acted upon where appropriate.”
In order to help all employees, career progression opportunities should start at the hiring process.
“It starts with sourcing talent from the widest possible pool, acting to mitigate bias throughout the talent selection process by involving a range of diverse stakeholders when reviewing and selecting CVs, and includes diversifying your interview panel,” says Shapley.
“Data should be used to enhance career development programs. For example, demographic diversity data (baseline workforce demographics across factors such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation) can highlight if there is an issue with the promotion of employees from traditionally underrepresented groups.
“Organisations should also clearly communicate their commitment to offering career progression opportunities to all, and have clearly defined progression pathways and transparent objectives. This ensures all staff are aware that their personal career progression is tied to specific aspects of their performance, which will only be assessed on merit.
Shapley adds that bias mitigation should be an important part of managerial training.
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Mobiles Opinion
Five iOS Annoyances That iOS 8.3 Doesn't Fix
By Pranay Parab | Updated: 10 April 2015 14:09 IST
The operating system that powers Apple's mobile devices has some annoyances that haven't been fixed six months after the launch of iOS 8. As long-time users we've noticed crashes, bugs and annoyances in the few weeks after the launch of a new iteration. These are usually fixed quickly but quite a few annoyances are now becoming tiresome to deal with. Some of these issues were present in iOS 7 as well, which is baffling.
We've come across reports that claim iOS 9 will focus on bug fixes and stability over new features, but that isn't much of a consolation because that release is another six months away. While iOS 8.3 did fix a long-standing inconvenience - you can now download free apps without entering a password - there's still a lot that needs to be done. Here's hoping that Apple fixes the following annoyances in future releases.
(Also see: 25 Hidden iOS 8 Features You Probably Didn't Spot)
1. Redirects to App Store
Quite a few third-party ad networks have found ways to launch the App Store when you open a website on Safari. It's annoying when you're trying to open a news website and the App Store page of some app you don't need opens instead. This was a big problem in iOS 7 when it became almost impossible to browse on Safari, but Apple fixed the loophole in iOS 8. However, ad networks keep finding loopholes to redirect you to the App Store and we've noticed this problem occasionally on iOS 8.2.
2. Apps Hide Price of In-App Purchases
With free apps dominating top grossing charts on the App Store, there are bound to be some that aren't completely transparent about in-app purchases (IAP). We've seen some apps and games that try to trigger IAPs without showing you how much you're going to be paying. For example, music player app Equalizer+ shows premium effects on the screen. The moment you tap any of these to turn them on, it triggers the IAP and asks you to enter the password. Similarly Frederic doesn't show the price of its IAP that removes ads. You do eventually see the price in a final confirmation popup, but only after entering your password. Imagine if your kid asks you to make a purchase, and you see no price, and sign in with Touch ID. You might not even see the final confirmation, which your child will tap Okay too. The price of IAPs should be clearly marked before the purchase is triggered.
3. App Store search
If you've ever used App Store search, you've probably found most results useless. Search for Twitter on the App Store and you'll see a bunch of unrelated apps showing up. The problem exists no matter which search term you try. This has been a problem for a long time and it doesn't appear as if it's going to be fixed anytime soon. There are ways to find apps without using iTunes that give you more options to find apps (search by rating, etc.), but even their search results mirror those on the App Store.
4. Game Centre friend requests
Try sending a friend request via Game Centre and there's a good chance that it'll never reach the other person. Sometimes you'll see a friend request on your iPad but it won't show up on the iPhone. If you send a request to a friend's iPad via your iPhone, it may not reach them. Sometimes Game Centre crashes when you tap the notification for a friend request, and the request disappears when you open the app again. If you're big fans of games such as Letterpress and Crossy Road, the lack of Game Centre friends is going to be a big problem.
5. App Store reviews
When you're reviewing an app on the App Store, it still requires your Apple ID password the first time you try this. Touch ID support would be much appreciated and convenient here. Subsequent reviews don't require a password, which is great. On the iPad if you just want to rate an app and not write a review, you can do so without entering a password. We'd like to this have feature on the iPhone as well. Good reviews help apps make it to top charts, so it'd be great for developers if the process of reviewing apps was smooth.
These are the biggest annoyances we've faced on iOS 8, but there are a couple more that you may face. Sometimes when you receive a phone call, the screen becomes unresponsive. As this tweet indicates, we aren't the only ones facing this problem. The fix is to press the power button to turn off the screen and press it again. The screen becomes responsive after that.
Most iOS devices have 1GB of RAM or less, which leads to apps getting flushed out of memory pretty soon. You open a few tabs on Safari, switch to a game and return to Safari to see all your tabs reload. This leads to more data usage and battery drain simply because the iOS device didn't have enough RAM for those tabs. This is a hardware issue but has been one of iOS' major annoyances for a while now.
What are the biggest annoyances you've faced on iOS? Let us know via the comments.
Further reading: App Store, Apple, Bugs, Memory, RAM, Safari, iCloud, iOS, iOS 8, iPad, iPhone
Pranay Parab Email Pranay Pranay is in charge of podcasts and videos at Gadgets 360. Over the years, he has helped build the tutorials section of this site from the ground up, got the Guide section off the ground, started two podcasts, written several in-depth features, reviewed fitness gadgets, handled social media and most recently, taken charge of videos as well. He loves travelling, particularly to places not frequented by tourists. He keeps running half-marathons across the country and hopes to complete a full ...More
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Social networking News
Facebook's New Platform Policy Bans Incentivising Users to Like Pages
By Hitesh Arora | Updated: 8 August 2014 19:42 IST
Facebook on Thursday announced a new Platform Policy along with the release of its updated Graph API v2.1, as well as updated Android and iOS SDKs for developers. All the developers will have to make required changes to conform to the new Platform Policy by November 5.
While there are quite a few changes that have been made by Facebook, the two important changes are seen under the games and proper use categories.
Now game developers will have to mention in their app's description (on Facebook, or other platforms) if there are any mandatory or optional in-app charges associated with the game. Facebook thinks that this will give users a clear indication about if game may charge them at some point.
Next up, under the new 'proper use' policy, app developers will not be able to incentivise users for utilising social plugins or liking a Page. Facebook notes that developers can still incentivise users to log into their app, like their app's Page, enter a promotion on their app's Page, or check-in at a place.
Explaining the motivation behind the change to its 'proper use' policy, Facebook on its developer blog said, "To ensure quality connections and help businesses reach the people who matter to them, we want people to like Pages because they want to connect and hear from the business, not because of artificial incentives. We believe this update will benefit people and advertisers alike."
This is not the first time that Facebook has made moves to counter developers looking to artificially boost their Page likes or app's popularity, a trend well-characterised by the social sharing players of the tremendously popular Candy Crush Saga game are incentivised to perform.
In the meanwhile, the updated Graph API v2.1 incorporates 'several commonly requested' features for developers, with the company's stated goal being to increase consistency and simplicity. Facebook says that the new API is now available starting Thursday for all apps, and will be used as the default API for all new apps. Developers can see the full changelog for a full list of changes.
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2018: GCI’s Most Influential Year Yet
Home | Blog | 2018: GCI’s Most Influential Year Yet
In September of 2017, we had the privilege of presenting our first major charter school comprehensive study to the Editorial Board of the Arizona Republic. That led to an unsigned editorial “Our View: Charter schools can abuse public money-and it’s all legal.” Given Arizona’s track record and that the Republic’s Anne Rynam had done a series in 2012 about abuses in the charter system, they questioned if Arizona had the political will to make the change. Our Fellow, Curt Cardine, though, had developed the most comprehensive data base of charter school financials, which meant we were just getting started.
At GCI we’re committed to improving the public’s understanding of issues based on accurate research—so we didn’t let up. And as that report was the first to quantify the extent to which related-party transactions were occurring in the charter school industry (77 percent using them and not saving taxpayer dollars due to it), many others picked up on it. In March of 2018 we released a second report on charters that were losing money that coincided with GCI breaking the news—because at that time the media wasn’t yet fully covering charter board meetings—that Starshine Academy was going to be closed down—a charter that was in bankruptcy that a few years earlier the charter board had renewed their charter despite a questionable financial and academic record.
By this time the Arizona Republic was also looking at similar issues and we had also caught the attention of Craig Harris, the fine Republic’s investigative reporter and provided him some background, details, and resources to start from. Craig Harris and his colleagues did a number of exposes that drew wide attention and ire, especially as charter operators like State Representative Eddie Farnsworth and Primavera founder Damian Creamer have become multi-millionaires due to the loose funding and oversight system the state currently has in place.
A year after our meeting with the Editorial Board everything had changed. The Governor, Attorney General, and all candidates for Superintendent for Public Instruction and many legislators will all calling for charter school accountability. Meanwhile, GCI has been working with the charter board and they are in the process of adopting our recommendations from the second paper, so they can better identify schools sooner that are in financial trouble.
But our next papers in January will be most critical in reforming funding systems and improving the oversight and transparency. GCI hopes to show legislators and the charter board how they can make significant improvements in the charter industry that will help students and the schools as well.
GCI hasn’t only done charter school reform work this year.
In late April during the height of #RedforEd, GCI developed a $2 billion education investment target for birth through K-12 for the state to best position itself to meet goals like a 90 percent four-year high school graduation rate (we’re currently at 78 percent) and much higher post-secondary achievement.
Meanwhile, GCI also weighed in on many issues. GCI monitored and estimated potential revenue gains from the Wayfair v. South Dakota Supreme Court case and its potential impact on revenues for the state by capturing revenue from out of state internet retailers.
In the Fall, GCI contributed to the public debate on Prop. 305 by estimating that existing taxpayer subsidy programs (ESA vouchers and especially private school tax credits) were costing the state $10,700 for every added regular education student who would not have otherwise attended private school—almost double what public schools receive.
GCI was the chief source of research on Prop. 126 that banned new taxes on services imposed after Dec. 31, 2017. GCI submitted the first statement for against Prop. 126 in the Secretary of State’s ballot booklet and provided the key research behind the unfortunately unsuccessful “no” campaign—as it was hard to compete with the $8 million spent by the real estate lobby. Prop. 126, being so poorly drafted since it doesn’t even define what a service is, is already causing problems and GCI’s work has been important to cities that are already suing due its threat on their sales tax revenues. GCI also estimates the state could lose up to $250 million annually when the Prop. 301 education sales tax reauthorization begins in 2021.
Though it received only a small attention in the media, GCI also weighed in regarding how one might evaluate the argument and claims and issues behind Prop. 127, the renewable energy initiative. That report came out two weeks before the election and GCI hopes to build off of it next year as the Arizona Corporation Commission likely takes on this issue.
So it’s probably not surprising in retrospect that a delegation from China that was also meeting with the ASU W.P. Carey School of Business and ASU Morrison Institute also met with the Grand Canyon Institute in November. GCI has become a center for public policy analysis and policy improvements.
Overall, this has been the most successful year ever for the Grand Canyon Institute. I hope you’ll consider supporting us financially to continue this work, so that we can continue making waves in 2019 and pushing Arizona to hold itself to a higher standard when it comes to public policy.
Dave Wells, Ph.D.
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Italian farm study. One of Eardley's paintings undertaken as part of her art school travelling scholarship.
Eardley, Joan Kathleen Harding
b. 18 May 1921, Warnham, Sussexd. 16 August 1963, Killearn Hospital, nr Glasgow Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was educated at Blackheath School until 1938. She attended Goldsmith’s School of art for a few months before moving with her family to Glasgow and enrolling at Glasgow School of Art in 1940. She attended GSA until 1943, studying under (among others) Hugh Adam Crawford. The year she left she was awarded the Guthrie Prize for portraiture. After leaving GSA she enrolled in Jordan Hill college of Education, but left after the first term in order to become a carpenter’s mate. After two years Eardley returned to the formal study of art, attending Hospitalfield, Arbroath in 1947 and studying under James Cowie. She returned to GSA the following year to take up her postponed post-diploma scholarship. In 1948-9 the awarding of a travelling scholarship enabled her to travel to Paris and Italy. In 1955 Eardley was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, and was made into a full member in 1963. She was at the time the youngest female artist to achieve this. Eardley’s first one-man show was at GSA in 1949. She continued to exhibit regularly, especially at Glasgow Institute and Aberdeen Art Gallery. Today she is represented in over 20 art galleries in Scotland and across the world. In 1950 she ‘discovered’ and began to paint at Catterline, on the coast between Inverbervie and Stonehaven. She moved there in 1956, using a deserted cottage as a studio and base whilst she worked outside. The landscapes that were completed at Catterline provide an interesting contrast to her studies completed in Glasgow which often featured children living in deprived areas.
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HSC-25 evacuates Cruise Passenger, Fights Fire on Nimitz Hill
Commander, Amphibious Force 7th Fleet Public Affairs
ANDERSEN AIR BASE, Guam (March 29, 2018) – Sailors from the Guam-based “Island Knights” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 provided emergency medical lift for a cruise passenger in distress then assisted with firefighting efforts March 28.
U.S. Coast Guard Sector Guam notified HSC-25 Tuesday that a Bulgarian man aboard MV Ocean Dream had experienced a medical emergency and needed medical evacuation. The rescue was not executed until Ocean Dream steamed closer to Guam and the alert crew launched at 3:30 pm Thursday. While the rescue mission was underway, HSC-25 was called upon by Joint Region Marianas to aid firefighting efforts in vicinity of Nimitz Hill so a second aircraft was dispatched.
The HSC-25 Alert Search and Rescue led by Aircraft Commander Lt. Michael Sipah successfully retrieved the passenger in distress via airborne hoist and returned him to U.S. Naval Hospital Guam then reconfigured and launched to assist the firefighting effort with Guam Fire Rescue.
“Ocean Dream turned into the wind, making the hoisting evolution seamless,” said Sipah. “My crew worked great together, AWS2 Lee was outstanding at the hoist, AWS3 Morgan handled the rescue litter on deck of Ocean Dream, and of course HM2 Derrick and Lt. Kumetz were phenomenal at stabilizing the patient from the time of being lowered, to the transfer at Naval Hospital Guam.”
The incident was the 7th emergency call to HSC-25 by U.S. Coast Guard Sector Guam and marks 4 recoveries during search and rescue and medical evacuations in 2019 to date.
“Thursday demonstrated the excellence of the Island Knight team. Being able to safely transition from a MEDEVAC to firefighting from day into night and then to finish the evening with aerial gunnery training is a credit to the professionalism of the aircrews," said HSC-25 Commanding Officer, Cmdr. Frank Loforti. “Those homes are still standing today because of the strength of the interagency partnerships and the hard work of HSC-25's Sailors to ensure our aircraft are always ready. I couldn’t be prouder of the whole team.”
HSC-25 provides a multi-mission rotary wing capability for units in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations and maintains a Guam-based 24-hour search and rescue and medical evacuation capability, directly supporting U.S. Coast Guard and Joint Region Marianas. HSC-25 is the Navy’s only forward-deployed MH-60S expeditionary squadron.
SANTA RITA, Guam (March 28, 2019) An MH-60S helicopter, attached to the “Island Knights” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25, prepares to replenish a Bambi bucket to help extinguish a grass fire near Nimitz Hill. HSC-25 worked alongside first responders from Joint Region Marianas Fire and Emergency Services and the Guam Fire Department to extinguish a fire near Nimitz Hill. HSC-25 provides a multi-mission rotary wing capability for units in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations and maintains a Guam-based 24-hour search-and-rescue and medical evacuation capability, directly supporting U.S. Coast Guard and Joint Region Marianas.
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Infer the location of the places you visit most often, determine your frequency at these locations, and send notifications when you arrive at or leave those places;
Administer surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored by us or our partners;
Allow you to apply for a job, post a video or sign up for special offers from third parties through the Services; and Carry out other purposes that are disclosed to you and to which you consent.
4. When and Why Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. Discloses Personal Information
We may share your Personal Information as required or permitted by law as described below:
With affiliated companies (e.g., subsidiaries and other companies owned by or controlled by Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc.) who may only use the Personal Information for the purposes described in Section 3 above;
With our service providers that provide services for us to assist us in carrying out the purposes described in Section 3 above such as sending emails, push notifications, or SMS messages on our behalf and conducting surveys or sweepstakes on our behalf. Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc., for example, is a service provider that enables certain geo-location features of our mobile-device applications. Consequently, our company and its affiliates collect, store, and process, on Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. behalf, certain Location Information and related data on servers in the United States. Our service providers are bound by law or contract to protect Personal Information and are only allowed to use the Personal Information in accordance with the terms of our service agreements with them;
Merchants, but only to the extent you have redeemed a coupon offered by the merchant, or participated in an offer, contest or other activity sponsored or offered through Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. on behalf of the merchant;
Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. business partners or advertisers, as part of an offer, contest, or other activity that is provided by or in conjunction with Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. and its business partners and in which you have elected to participate. For example, if you are referred to Go2Firearm Safety, Inc. from a business partner’s website or through an invitation facilitated by or in conjunction with a Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. business partner, Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. may provide that business partner withContact Information and Transactional Information to validate the referral and to support the terms of the relationship between Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. and the business partner, which may allow such business partner to contact you directly and to advertise to you;
To effect a merger, acquisition, or otherwise; to support the sale or transfer of business assets; to enforce our rights or protect our property; to protect the rights, property or safety of others, investigate fraud, respond to a government request; or as needed to support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions. We may also disclose Personal Information to defend ourselves in litigation or a regulatory action, and when required or advised to do so by law, such as in response to a subpoena, or similar legal process, including to law enforcement agencies, regulators, and courts in the United States and other countries where we operate. If Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or prominent notice on one or more of our Services of any change in ownership or uses of your Personal Information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your Personal Information; or otherwise with your consent. We encourage Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. merchants and business partners to adopt and post privacy policies. However, the use of your Personal Information by such parties is governed by the privacy policies of such parties and is not subject to our control. When you choose to interact with a Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. merchant or business partner, we encourage you to read any privacy policy they may have posted on their website. We may also disclose information about you that is not personally identifiable. For example, we may provide our merchants, business partners, or other third parties with reports that contain aggregated and statistical data about our users.
5. Cookies and Related Technologies
When you use our Services, we collect certain information by automated or electronic means, using technologies such as cookies, flash local storage objects, pixel tags, web beacons, browser analysis tools, and webserver logs. As you use our Services, your browser and devices communicate with servers operated by us, our business partners and services providers to coordinate and record the interactivity and fill your requests for services and information.
The information from cookies and related technology is stored in web server logs and also in web cookies kept on your computers or mobile devices, which are then transmitted back to our Services by your computers or mobile devices. These servers are operated and the cookies managed by us, our business partners or our service providers.
For example, when you access our Services, Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. and our service providers may place cookies on your computers or mobile devices. These cookies may include means for tracking your Transaction Information with a Merchant and may include tracking technology from third-party affiliate-network operators like Link Share and Commission Junction. Cookies allow us to recognize you when you return, and track and target your interests in order to provide a customized experience. They also help us provide a customized experience and help us to detect certain kinds of fraud. A “cookie” is a small amount of information that a web server sends to your browser that stores information about your account, your preferences, and your use of the Services. Some cookies contain serial numbers that allow us to connect your activity with the Services with other information we store about you in your profile or as related to your other interactions with the Services.
Some cookies are temporary, whereas others may be configured to last longer. “Session” cookies are temporary cookies used for various reasons, such as to manage page views. Your browser usually erases Session cookies once you exit your browser. “Persistent” cookies are more permanent cookies that are stored on your computers or mobile devices even beyond when you exit your browser. We use Persistent cookies for a number of purposes, such as retrieving certain information you have previously provided(such as your user id if you asked to be remembered), and storing your preferences.
We also use flash local storage objects (“Flash LSOs”) to collect and store Transaction Information and Relationship Information in connection with you ruse of the Services. For example, we use Flash LSOs to store settings, preferences, and usage information which helps us personalize your visits, whether you are accessing the Services via one of our websites or one of our mobile-device applications. Flash LSOs are different from browser cookies because of the amount and type of data stored. Typically, you cannot control, delete, or disable the acceptance of Flash LSOs through your web browser. For more information on Flash LSOs, or to learn how to manage your settings for Flash LSOs, go to the Adobe Flash Player Help Page, choose “Global Storage Settings Panel” and follow the instructions. To see the Flash LSO scurrently on your computer, choose “Website Storage Settings Panel” and follow the instructions to review and, if you choose, to delete any specific Flash LSO.
Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on website pages or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed specific actions. When you access these pages or open email messages, the pixel tags and web beacons generate a notice of that action to us, or our service providers. These tools allow us to measure response to our communications and improve our web pages and promotions.
We collect many different types of information from cookies and other technologies. For example, we may collect information from the devices you use to access our Services, your operating system type or mobile device model, browser type, domain, and other system settings, as well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone of your device. Browsers routinely send these types of information to web servers. Our server logs also record the Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses of the devices you use to interact with the Services. An IP address is a unique identifier that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. We may also collect information about the website you were visiting before you came to our Services and the website you visit after you leave our Services, if this information is supplied to us by your browser.
In many cases, the information we collect using cookies and other tools is used in non-identifiable ways, without any reference to Personal Information. For example, we use information we collect about users to optimize our Services and understand its traffic and usage patterns. In other cases, we associate the information we collect using cookies and related technologies with Personal Information. In that case, this Privacy Policy governs how we use that information
Additionally, if you have visited one of our mobile websites or activate done of our mobile-device applications, and if the settings on your location-aware device allow us to receive Location Information, we will collect that automatically. If we associate Location Information with other Personal Information, this Privacy Policy governs how we would use that information too.
Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. has relationships with third party advertising technology and analytics companies, such as Google Analytics, Adobe, and Adometry, to place advertisements on our behalf onto other websites, and to perform tracking and reporting functions for our Services and our advertisements. These third parties may automatically collect information about your visit to our Services and other websites, your IP address, web log data, information about your operating system, your ISP and the browser you use to visit our Services. We may share with these third parties certain de-identified demographic or other data linked to data you have provided us, as well as your email address in hashed (non-readable) form.
The third parties collect information using cookies, clear gifs and other technologies. Information collected may be used, among other things, to deliver advertising targeted to your interests and to better understand the usage and visitation of our Services and the other websites tracked by these third parties. This Privacy Policy does not cover the collection methods or use of the information collected by these third parties, and Go2 Firearm Safety,Inc.is not responsible for cookies or clear gifs in third party ads.
6. Your Choices
We think that you benefit from a more personalized experience when we know more about you and the kinds of coupons you like. However, you can limit the information you provide to Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc., and you can limit the communications that Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. sends to you at anytime.
a) Email Options
You can manage your email preferences by opting out of our Go2Firearm Safety, Inc. in an email you have received. Please select the opt out feature located in the email if you desire to no longer receive email. You may also opt out of receiving emails by requesting to do so Here
b) How You Can Opt Out Of Tracking
The Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. services and systems do not recognize browser do-not-track signals. However, you may manage how your browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting its privacy and security settings on your computer and or device. As there are many different browsers we have provided several links that may or may not fully describe the process. We recommend you research and refer to your systems and utilized browsers instructions related to your browser to learn about privacy and security settings as well as cookie-related option your browser has available to you. Typically, browsers will utilize a toolbar or help menu that will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting to disabling cookies.
We have provided four online resources that may or may not beable to assist you with your research:
Third party advertising companies online
Third party online behavioral advertising
Live Ramp cookies
c) Social Networks and Social Media Connections
By logging in with a social network your social application maybe connected and may utilize Personal Information when you register with Go2Firearm Safety, Inc.. or one of it’s Sites through a social media platform or application. Example: Facebook Connect. By registering, subscribing, log-in, or creating and account with Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. through a social media platform, you truthfully acknowledge, accept this Privacy Policy and grant Go2Firearm Safety, Inc.. permission to access all of the elements of your social network profile information that You have made available to be shared and to use it in accordance with the social network’s terms of use and this Privacy Policy.
d) Mobile Devices That Utilize Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc.
Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. may utilize applications or website based Sites that may collect your personal information. You may, at your discretion adjust any such settings on your mobile device to allow or prevent the sharing of Location Information. For example, you can disable “Location” on your mobile device to prevent sharing of Location Information with Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. or only disable “Bluetooth” to prevent just the sharing of information collected via nearby Bluetooth® proximity beacons.
You may also choose to manage how your mobile device or mobile browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting your mobile device privacy and security settings on any and all of your devices. Please note; that if you disable the sharing of Location Information at any time, youmay be unable to access some features and benefits of our Services that are designed an or only utilized on mobile devices. If you have any such questions regarding privacy and settings of your mobile device please contact your mobile carrier or service provider for detailed instructions.
e) Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. Text-to-Phone
Coupon offers made available to subscribers, users, and or merchants on our websites, may be presented with an option to send yourself an SMS message (test message) containing a link and or sales content. Any such coupon or offer link will allow you to access a merchants website, Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc., or one of our sites, a coupon and or a product or service from your mobile device.
Please note; All message and data rates and standard text messaging fees may apply, please see your service provider for details. You truthfully represent and honestly warrant that any phone number you enter belongs to You and is associated with a mobile device, and or device that is in Your possession, owned by You. You can opt out of receiving texts from Go2Firearm Safety, Inc.at any time by Contacting Us or by utilizing the opt-out texting system from your mobile device.
7. Accessing and Correcting Personal Information
Your Personal Information is located on your dashboard and can be seen after you login. Keeping your information current helps Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. ensure that we offer you the best coupons available through our merchants and business partners. Your information can be updated, changed, altered or deleted in your profile settings area.
If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services, Contact Us. In response, we will cancel or remove your information but may retain and use copies of your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
8. The Security of Personal Information
Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information that you have provide us with, or the information we have gathered. Please note that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is one hundred percent secure at any time. For this reason, there is no guarantee that information may not be accessed, opened, disclosed, altered, hacked, or destroyed by a breach of any of our emails, websites, applications, technical, physical or managerial safeguard(s) systems. If you have any questions about our security practices, please Contact Us Here
9. Notice to Residents of Countries outside the United States of America
Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc.is operated, managed and located in the United States of America. Your personal Information may be accessed by us, or transferred to us in the United States or to our affiliates, advertisers, business partners, merchants, and or service providers within the United States of America or elsewhere in the world.
The Personal Information that has been provided to us, you consent to such access and transfers. You also acknowledge and agree that Personal Information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, law enforcement officials, and national security authorities in the United States in accordance with United States laws. We will protect the privacy and security of Personal Information according to our Privacy Policy, regardless of where it is processed or stored.
10. Privacy Practices of Third Parties
This Privacy Policy is for Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. and does not involve the Privacy Policies of others through your interaction with our Services. Our merchants, advertisers and business partners may have their own privacy statements, as well as our own. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy statements provided by these other parties prior to providing them with information or taking advantage of an offer or promotion on Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. any such Site of Ours, any Application sand or coupons associated with Us. Other websites and applications that may be accessible through links or internet usage from our Services may have their own privacy statements and personal information collection, use, and disclosure practices.
11. Online Communities and Social Media Security
Our Services may contain Social Site Communities, Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. Communities, and or Our Site Community and or other various online areas where you may be able to publicly post information, communicate with others, post on discussion boards, blog, write reviews or write content, review products and or merchants, and submit media content and or coupons.
Please be aware, prior to posting in these areas, please read our Terms of Use and or Terms of Service carefully. Please avoid publicly posting Personal Information. All of the information you post will be seen, noticed and accessible to anyone with Internet access, and any Personal Information you include in your posting may be read, copied and pasted, collected, and used by others in a manner we cannot control or keep secure. Security notice; We are not able to control, keep safe or secure the use by third parties of Personal Information you post to public areas of the Services. If you have concerns, questions, or problems that have occurred with your Personal Information thaty ou have publicly posted in our Reviews, Communities, Site, Social Media and or any online service we provide, please Contact Us.
12. Privacy Policy Updates and Changes
Please note that from time to time, at undisclosed times we may update this Privacy Policy and or our Terms of Service to clarify our practices or to reflect new or different privacy acts, practices, laws, and or regulations. We will also include any such new Features and Benefits, Products and or Services. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy page for the latest updates and new information about our privacy practices and policies.
13. Children’s Privacy
Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. does not intend, does not want anyone, or extend services or products or any portion of the Sites, Applications and or Services to be accessed or utilized by children under the age of eighteen, and such use is prohibited.
The Services are designed and intended for adults only. By using the Services of any and or all Our companies, vendors, merchants, or advertisers you represent that you are at least eighteen years old and understand that you must be at least eighteen years old in order to create an account and purchase the goods or services advertised through the Services. We will promptly delete information associated with any account for which we obtain actual knowledge that the registered user associated with the account is not at least eighteen years old.
14. California Privacy Rights
The California Civil Code, Pursuant to Section 1798.83,residents of California can obtain certain information about the types of Personal Information that companies with whom they have an established business relationship have shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. In particular, the law provides that companies must inform consumers about the categories of Personal Information that have been shared with third parties, the names and addresses of those third parties, and examples of the types of services or products marketed bythose third parties. To request a copy of the information disclosure provided by Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California CivilCode, please Contact Us, or write to us at the following address:
Please allow 30 days for a response.
If you reside in Canada, you may have the right to be provided with access to Personal Information that we have collected about you and written information about our policies and practices with respect to the transfer of your personal information to Vendors outside Canada. Contact us HERE with questions. If you are not willing to provide any information pleas eexit this site at this time. For more information please Contact Us, or write to us at the following address:
16. Privacy Policy Indemnification Hold Harmless Release
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc., Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc., Rev Marketing 2U, Inc. its subsidiaries, affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of or related to any products or services purchased by you, or any Statements submitted or posted by you, in connection with the Site or any use of the Site in violation of these Terms.
As a user, merchant or visitor on Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. you are solely responsible for your interactions with Merchants, buyers, sellers, businesses and other users of the Site. To the extent permitted under applicable laws, you hereby release Go2Firearm Safety, Inc., Rev Marketing2 U, Inc. and Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. from any and all claims or liability related to any of your personal or business information you placed on one of our Sites and or Applications, product or service of a Merchant, any action or inaction by Merchant, including Merchant’s failure to comply with applicable law and/or failure to abide by the terms of Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc., and any conduct, speech, or Statements, whether online or offline, of any other user.
17. Transmission of Information in any manner
Because we do not control the security of the Internet, emails, servers, socials sites, browsers, or other networks you use to access the Site or communicate with us, we can’t be, and are not responsible for, the security of information that you choose to communicate with Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc. and the Site while it is being transmitted. In addition, Go2 Firearm Safety, Inc.is not responsible for any data lost during transmission. With technology changing and the ability hackers, viruses that may alter, steal, or infect one of Our systems that have your personal information, business information, content, details and or other such information on Our Site or one of Our Products and or Services we cannot guarantee the security of such information 100%. You the user truthfully acknowledge and accept any and all responsibilities and accountability at will and at your own risk.
18. Collecting Call Data and Recordings
Any information, communications, or material of any type or nature that is collected or recorded on or off sites, reputable third party sites, plugins, including, but not limited to any collection and or call recording and or routing of numbers on websites or online or contained or stored securely in Drop Box, Google Drive, and other storage areas by email, posting, messaging, uploading, downloading, or otherwise (collectively, a “Submission”), is not to be shared by the client and or the clients company. Client hereby agrees not to upload, share, print, copy, paste or any other form of sharing, or making public or allow to listen, read or view to any individual(s) or others party any such recording of a recorded call or data pertaining to another.
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Facebook sues South Korea data analytics firm
Facebook suspended apps and accounts associated with Rankwave
Image Credit: Ramachandra Babu/©Gulf News
San Francisco: Facebook is suing South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave to make sure it isn't breaking the leading social network's rules, the US company said on Friday.
A lawsuit was filed against Rankwave in a California State court in Silicon Valley to enforce terms the company agreed to in order to operate apps on the social network, according to director of platform and litigation, Jessica Romero.
Facebook was investigating Rankwave data practices relating to advertising and marketing and the South Korean company didn't co-operate with efforts to confirm it was complying with policies for all developers synching to the platform, Romero said in an online post.
Facebook suspended apps and accounts associated with Rankwave, and asked the court to order Rankwave to abide by its rules for applications, according to Romero.
"By filing the lawsuit, we are sending a message to developers that Facebook is serious about enforcing our policies, including requiring developers to co-operate with us during an investigation," Romero said.
In a quarterly report last month that sent shares higher, Facebook said its profit in the recently-ended quarter took a hit from setting aside billions of dollars for an anticipated fine from US regulators.
Facebook estimated that it would be hit with a fine of $3 billion to $5 billion by the US Federal Trade Commission for "user data practices," and factored that into its earnings report.
The FTC announced last year it was reopening its investigation into Facebook for potential violations of a 2011 settlement over privacy practices.
Over the past year, the social network has come under fire following revelations of the hijacking of personal data of tens of millions of users by Cambridge Analytica, a consultancy working for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
A series of other revelations showed Facebook may have also shared more private data with business partners and advertisers than it had reported, and may have exposed some personal information that should have been secured.
At the same time, Facebook has been hiring thousands of additional employees to deal with issues such as hate speech, incitement to violence, and manipulation aimed at voters.
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The Latest: Queen sends message to World Cup finalists
National sports from the Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the Cricket World Cup final (all times local):
Buckingham Palace released a statement from Queen Elizabeth II after the final.
“Prince Philip and I send our warmest congratulations to the England men’s cricket team after such a thrilling victory in today’s World Cup Final.
“I also extend my commiserations to the runners-up New Zealand, who competed so admirably in today’s contest and throughout the tournament.”
England won the Cricket World Cup for the first time in extraordinary circumstances, beating New Zealand by a tiebreaker of boundaries scored after the match was tied after regulation play and then the first Super Over in the tournament’s history.
Martin Guptill needed to score two off the final ball of the Super Over but was run out by England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler as the New Zealand batsman scrambled back for the second.
Both teams scored 241 after the regulation 50 overs per side, with England scoring 14 off the last over — including a six made up of two runs followed by an accidental four deflected off the bat of the diving Ben Stokes — to tie New Zealand’s 241-8.
The teams then scored 15 runs each in the Super Over, but England won courtesy of scoring more boundaries in regulation play.
England and New Zealand will play a super over in the Cricket World Cup final after the scores were tied following a dramatic last over at Lord’s.
England players were run out off the final two balls as the team finished 241 all out, matching New Zealand’s total of 241-8.
Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler are keeping alive England’s hopes of winning the Cricket World Cup for the first time.
Brought together with England reeling at 86-4, Stokes (43) and Buttler (42) have produced an unbroken stand of 84 to move the team to 170-4 off 40 overs.
With 10 overs remaining, England requires 72 runs to win.
The tightest finish to a World Cup final also involved England, in 1987, when Australia won by seven runs.
New Zealand is keeping the squeeze on England after 30 overs of the reply, with a tense Cricket World Cup final potentially going to the wire.
England is stuttering along at less than four runs an over, and is on 115-4.
Ben Stokes (18) and Jos Buttler (13), two of the team’s most destructive batsmen, are trying to rebuild the innings after captain Eoin Morgan fell for 9 to a stunning catch by Lockie Ferguson at deep point. Running in from the boundary, he dived forward and took a two-handed catch just before the ball hit the ground off Jimmy Neesham’s first ball.
That left England on 86-4 at the time.
England is wobbling in its chase of 242 to win the Cricket World Cup.
One ball after charging Colin de Grandhomme and missing, Joe Root got stuck on the crease and edged a wide delivery by the New Zealand allrounder to wicketkeeper Tom Latham for 7 off 30 balls.
Jonny Bairstow then edged onto his stumps off Lockie Ferguson for a 55-ball 36.
England is 73-3 after 20 overs, with captain Eoin Morgan (8) joined in the middle by Ben Stokes (1).
De Grandhomme has figures of 1-12 off five overs and is leading the strangling of England’s batsmen at a tension-filled Lord’s.
England has emerged from a testing opening 10 overs of the reply with just Jason Roy back in the pavilion.
England is 39-1 in its chase of 242 to beat New Zealand at Lord’s, with Jonny Bairstow on 18 and Joe Root on 2.
Roy survived an lbw review off the very first ball — replays showed Trent Boult’s inswinging delivery was hitting leg stump, but umpire Marais Erasmus’ original decision was not out — and struck three fours before edging Matt Henry behind for 17.
Bairstow has struggled against Henry, beaten all ends up twice by the paceman, while an inside edge of Boult just missed the stumps.
It was England’s second-lowest score from the opening powerplay in this tournament.
England will chase 242 to win the Cricket World Cup for the first time after Liam Plunkett’s 3-40 helped to limit New Zealand to another middling total in the final at Lord’s.
Every New Zealand specialist batsman got into double figures but only opener Henry Nicholls (55) reached a half-century in the face of a disciplined bowling effort from the tournament host.
Plunkett, one of the understated members of the England team, took center stage by removing New Zealand captain Kane Williamson (30) and Nicholls in the space of 14 balls. The seamer also took the wicket of dangerous allrounder Jimmy Neesham (19).
Tom Latham plundered 46 off 57 balls as the Black Caps stumbled to 241-8 by making 62 runs off the final 10 overs.
The Black Caps, who are also seeking their first world title, have proved adept at defending relatively small totals in this tournament and Lord’s isn’t known for its heavy scoring in ODIs. In the semifinals, India failed to chase down 240 against New Zealand in Manchester.
New Zealand needs a big last 10 overs to set England a competitive target in the final after being reduced to 179-5.
Mark Wood trapped Ross Taylor lbw for 15 — though replays showed the ball would have gone over the stumps — before Liam Plunkett grabbed his third wicket of the match when Jimmy Neesham holed out to Joe Root at mid-on for 19.
It was Root’s 13th catch of the tournament, a record for an outfielder at a single World Cup.
Tom Latham was on 24 and Colin de Grandhomme on 5.
Plunkett had figures of 3-40 off his nine overs.
New Zealand successfully defended 239-8 against India in the semifinals.
England has seized the initiative in the Cricket World Cup final after Liam Plunkett took the wickets of Kane Williamson and Henry Nicholls in the space of 14 balls.
New Zealand was 126-3 after 30 overs and being pegged back by England at Lord’s.
Having removed Williamson to end a 71-run stand for the second wicket, Plunkett — the most understated player in England’s lineup — drew a drive from Nicholls off an inswinging delivery and the left-handed opener got an inside edge that clipped the bails.
Nicholls departed for 55, his highest score of the tournament and his ninth half-century in 43 innings.
Ross Taylor was on 9 and Tom Latham on 5.
England has got the big wicket of Kane Williamson.
The New Zealand captain went after a wide delivery from Liam Plunkett and edged it behind to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler for 30.
Umpire Kumar Dharmasena didn’t give it, England reviewed, and the replay showed Williamson got a nick.
New Zealand is 103-2 in the 23rd over.
The opening powerplay is over in the Cricket World Cup final, and Kane Williamson is already in the middle for New Zealand.
The Black Caps’ opening partnership again failed to survive the first 10 overs as Martin Guptill was trapped lbw by Chris Woakes for 19 after 6.2 overs.
New Zealand was 33-1, with captain Williamson on 1 and opener Henry Nicholls on 10.
Nicholls, on 0 at the time, successfully appealed an lbw decision off the bowling of Jofra Archer in the third over. Replays showed the ball was going over the stumps.
Guptill hit an uppercut for six and a straight four, both off Archer, before he burnt New Zealand’s review.
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has won the toss and chosen to bat first against England under cloudy, threatening skies at Lord’s.
England captain Eoin Morgan said it would have been a “50/50 call” and was “not at all” disappointed to be bowling first.
Both teams are unchanged from the semifinals.
New Zealand: Martin Guptill, Henry Nicholls, Kane Williamson (captain), Ross Taylor, Tom Latham, Jimmy Neesham, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Trent Boult.
The start of the final has been delayed by 15 minutes because of the early-morning rain.
Play is now scheduled to begin at 10.45 a.m. local time. The toss is at 10.15 a.m.
There will be a first-time winner of the Cricket World Cup trophy when England takes on New Zealand in the final at Lord’s on Sunday.
England is in the title match for the fourth time, and the first since 1992, while New Zealand is playing in a second final, after losing to Australia in 2015.
After some early-morning rain, the covers are off at the home of cricket, revealing a green-looking pitch. World Cup finals tend to be low-scoring matches and this is likely to be no exception, if previous matches at Lord’s are anything to go by.
England starts as the favorite, having been the top-ranked one-day side for the past year and beaten India, New Zealand and then Australia — in the semifinals — in its last three games this tournament.
New Zealand, No. 3 in the ODI rankings, defeated India in the semifinals and should be better for its experience of the final four years ago.
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Some things that I’ve heard…
North Texas head coach Grant McCasland will have an contract extension announced shortly. Last season, his first at UNT, McCasland went 20-18 (8-10 C-USA), and led the Mean Green to the CBI Championship.
I have heard that Steve Bridgeman will be named as an assistant coach on Danny Sancomb’s new staff at California University (PA). Bridgeman has worked at West Virginia Wesleyan for the past two seasons and previously served as an assistant at Goshen College. West Virginia Wesleyan now has an open spot – 10 months, $20k with benefits. Complete job posting is HERE.
It sounds like Gabe Palmquist-Clark will join the basketball staff at Howard College (TX). He has also worked at Vincennes University (IN), Kilgore College (TX), and Western Oregon.
I have heard that Bryce Carlton will become an assistant coach at Mineral Area College (MO). He spent last season as an assistant at Odessa College (TX), and before that worked for two years on Ryan Ridder’s staff at Daytona State.
Al Genz has joined the Rowan College at Gloucester County (NJ) basketball staff. He spent the past three seasons as the top assistant to new RCGC head coach Will Wareham at Cumberland CC (NJ). Also, Jared Price, who was on the RCGC staff last season, will be retained by Wareham.
DIII Nichols College has made their choice on a new head coach. More on this one shortly…
Lynn University graduate assistant Adam Kaplan has accepted a job in basketball operations/pro scouting with Maccabi Haifa in Israel. He’s one of the DirtKing’s former players (and assistant), so I have to show him some love. A hard working kid who will kill it out there!
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DIS (2017) Review
(SPOILERS) “Jigsaw” Ending Explained
The Lodgers (2017) Screamfest Review
by Michael Klug on October 28, 2017
The Lodgers
1920, rural Ireland. Anglo Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they must be in bed by midnight; they may not permit an outsider past the threshold; if one attempts to escape, the life of the other is placed in jeopardy. When troubled war veteran Sean returns to the nearby village, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious Rachel, who in turn begins to break the rules set out by The Lodgers. The consequences pull Rachel into a deadly confrontation with her brother - and with the curse that haunts them.
David Turpin
Brian O'Malley
Charlotte Vega
Bill Milner
It’s a fairy-tale of sorts.
There’s intrigue and mystery, lots of wandering through woods and even a young woman in a hooded cloak (of course, this garment is black, not red).
But The Lodgers never cashes in on that wide-open promise. The time, the proper manners of the era and the darker fantastical elements of the piece could have been mined for more call-backs to fairy tales – certainly of the Grimm Bros.-type.
The Lodgers follows Irish twins Rachel (Charlotte Vega of REC 3: Genesis) and Edward (Bill Milner) as they try to keep their lives together – just as they’ve reached their mutual 18th birthday. The ancient mansion where they live is in disrepair, their parents are dead and they’re out of money. On top of all of this, there’s a deep, dark secret about their ancestors and what’s hidden in the buckling floorboards in the rotting home’s massive foyer. There’s a set of rules to be followed by the twins – set about by their parents long ago. When Rachel meets Sean, a handsome young war veteran in the nearby village (Game of Thrones’ Eugene Simon) and begins to question hers and her brother’s solitary existence – the violent dangers of their family secrets will come to a head.
The easy comparison piece to The Lodgers would be The Others. It’s an old gothic home, strange rules which must be followed and a mystery to be unraveled. In The Others this mystery was for the characters as well as the audience. In The Lodgers, the characters know exactly what they’re up against and so it’s up to the viewers to gather clues until the final reveal.
From every technical aspect, The Lodgers rules the roost. The art direction is simply stunning. Not only is it a gorgeous location (shot in Loftus Hall – considered one of Ireland’s most haunted houses) – it’s also dressed so perfectly in period garb with the appropriate age and watery rot. You can practically smell the mold as you’re watching the film.
The score is extravagant and fits the period. And of course, the costumes all feel authentic. I can’t find one thing about the laundry list of amazing artisan work present in The Lodgers with which to take issue. In other words, **applause**
It’s beautifully shot (massive kudos to cinematographer Richard Kendrick) – with long pans of gorgeous locations and interiors. There’s so much shadow and so much depth to each shot – that you’ll want to frame certain images and hang them on your wall. Noteworthy is the conversation between Sean and Rachel as they sit beside the property’s lake (an important place in the story). As it cuts back and forth between them – the shots with Rachel have her all the way to right side of the frame – with lush trees, grasses and shadows behind her – filling out the rest of the frame. This is just one which comes to mind – but honestly, the entire film is really remarkable in it’s camerawork and composition. Delicious.
And special mention should be made about the battery of good visuals in the film’s climax – striking, fantastical and well-done.
Performances are solid across the board. But the two stand-outs for me are Vega as Rachel and Harry Potter’s David Bradley as the family’s long-standing attorney.
Vega has a wonderful “Nicole Kidman in The Others” coldness. But when she starts seeing things and begins to fall in love with Sean – she captures Rachel’s many splintering (and for her – unknown) emotions as well.
Bradley as solicitor Bermingham has little screen time, but he is certainly memorable. Bermingham’s a crotchedy and impatient old man. And the script also allows him to show off some other – even more unpleasant – sides to Bermingham. An effective supporting performance to be sure.
For fear of biggie spoilers, I’ll kind of side-skirt one of my issues. Suffice to say that the introduction of such forbidden actions and taboo subject matter – was great, but it simply didn’t go far enough. It’s all only hinted at, and never really spoken out loud. I understand that the era in which the film is set is all about proper behavior and certain politeness. But once things start to unravel for the twins, I wanted it to go deeper and certainly darker. Frankly, it felt a little too vanilla for my tastes.
And that brings me to my big problems with the film. The technical things are all lovely and wonderful, but the story seems to hit the brakes somewhere after the first act. All of the set-up and mystery and the many rules the twins must follow – garners plenty of intrigue and engagement right from the get-go. But then it slows down a bit too much – and that becomes an issue.
And that final reveal (you’ll probably see it coming as I did) wasn’t as bonkers or bananas as I would have liked. Perhaps I’m a sucker, but I was quite shocked by the ending of the aforementioned The Others (it was a more innocent time, my friends). And if that’s the film with which I’ll compare The Lodgers – well, it’s a losing battle for the latter.
It loses its pacing, and falls a bit into the argument; “should we, or shouldn’t we?” If it had gone those extra steps to a somewhat unpleasant, and deeper examination of the ideas presented – I think it would have garnered a higher grade – especially in light of all of the film’s other achievements.
Strong (to brilliant) technical aspects highlight a film with good acting work – but the overall story and pace aren’t up to par. Not a masterpiece by any stretch, but still worthy of a Saturday afternoon viewing.
And to circle back around to that unused promise of fairy-tale goodness – do they all live happily ever after? I’ll never tell…
The Lodgers held it’s US premiere at this year’s Screamfest in Los Angeles. It’s still on the festival circuit, and no wider release information is yet available.
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Veronica (2017) Review
by Michael Klug on April 1, 2018
In the latest chapter of “What could possibly go wrong?”, we’re taken into the recent creation of Spanish director Paco Plaza (the filmmaker [...]
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) Review
by Michael Klug on March 31, 2018
Right off the bat, I would say that The Killing of a Sacred Deer might be an intriguing half of a double feature with Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!. [...]
Still/Born (2018) Review
by Michael Klug on March 9, 2018
Written by Colin Minihan (the director behind It Stains the Sands Red and Extraterrestrial) and directed by Brandon Christensen – Still/Born [...]
The Ritual (2017) Review
by Michael Klug on February 13, 2018
In the latest chapter of “What could possibly go wrong?”, four close male buddies from the UK brave the dense forests of Sweden to pay tribute to [...]
Top 15 Horror Films of 2017!
by Michael Klug on December 23, 2017
Time to recap another year in horror? Seriously? Already? With well over 100 reviews completed in 2017, I still had some catch-up to do in [...]
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Home | Culture | Horror Funding | Horror Funding: SHALLOW WATER
Horror Funding: SHALLOW WATER
Adrian Halen 09/25/2015 Horror Funding
Campaign to help fund “SHALLOW WATER” – now live on Kickstarter, seeks to “break the glass ceiling” for crowd funding genre films, and calls out Hollywood for its excessive sequels and remakes of genre films
Sandy Collora is a longtime special effects artist who helped create some of the more renowned and revered creatures in modern cinema. He also produced and directed Batman Dead End – among the most downloaded short films in history. With the support of a large part of Hollywood’s practical effects community, Collora has now introduced Shallow Water – “a gritty feature film that fans of high-quality indie horror will love and respect. And it unleashes a new cinema creature unlike anything seen before.”
Shallow Water combines Collora’s three greatest loves – horror, the ocean, and the environment. “The underlying theme of Shallow Water is simple,” says Collora, “all life on Earth is part of an ecosystem containing millions of species. When one species repeatedly disturbs that ecosystem, the oceans get upset; and when the oceans get upset enough, the whole planet gets pissed off.”
A primary star of Shallow Water is not a human; it’s a creature. After a decade of fine-tuning, Collora introduces The Tiburonera – “he who hunts sharks”. Collora believes Hollywood has dropped the ball in introducing fresh new cinema creatures. While he attributes it mostly to the pressures faced by studios to prioritize safety and meet their bottom lines, he also feels that sequels and remakes have become excessive in genre films, and have compromised the art.
Says Collora: “I love genre films, especially horror. I grew up on the original Alien and Predator, and they are awesome. But where are the NEW potentially iconic creatures and characters? How long has it been since we’ve seen something truly unique and powerful in that space? Too long, and if Hollywood won’t do it, I will. I want to make a great classic genre film, with a strong story, believable characters, great performances, eerie settings, suspense, and a worsening predicament – true high-quality horror that people will love and enjoy.”
Collora was born in NY and always loved film. He moved to CA at 17 and found initial success as an artist at Stan Winston Studios, mastering the art of sculpture and character creation, first on films like “Leviathan” and “Alien Nation” then later on “Men In Black”, “Total Recall” and “The Abyss”. He became a go-to designer of action figures, had a successful stint as a commercial director, wrote and directed the cult classic Batman Dead End which set records for numbers of downloads, directed the feature film “Hunter Prey”, and published two volumes of The Art of Creature and Character Design, which he funded with the help of Kickstarter. He returns to Kickstarter for Shallow Water.
His return to Kickstarter for Shallow Water is in a big way – with a $550K raise. If it succeeds – it would be the highest ever for a genre film on Kickstarter. He is off to a solid start, having passed $100K raised with almost 30 days left in the campaign. “I know this raise would be breaking the proverbial glass ceiling on Kickstarter for horror -” says Collora. “- and I think that is needed. Kickstarter has been kind to dramas when fronted by major celebs like Spike Lee and Kristen Bell, but has not been able to draw capital sufficient to become a go-to place for top-quality indie horror. I hope to change that. You can’t possibly produce a film of quality for $100K, and if you are forced to go into the secondary market after your campaign to fund the balance, you lose your independence and you risk compromising your vision. Shallow Water is an ambitious raise, with a purpose, and the aspiration – and my guarantee – of being a great film horror fans will love and respect. I also hope this raise will open doors for others.”
Shallow Water tells the story of a seemingly innocent adventure. Six fishermen embark on a fishing trip to a remote and mythical fishing hole nestled deep in the Sea of Cortez. They scour the Baja peninsula to find this magical place, but when they do, they encounter unexpected sea life, which puts them at odds, and it becomes every man for himself. Adds Collora: “It’s Mother Nature versus Human Nature.”
“I love Sandy’s work. This is a great story, and the creature is fantastic. Of course I also love the reliance on practical effects”, adds two-time Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Howard Berger (KNB EFX Group, for The Walking Dead).
“It’s exactly what’s been missing in niche cinema, and I look forward to working with Sandy again,” adds Clark Bartram, America’s most trusted fitness professional, who also played Batman in Collora’s short.
“I spent years on this script, and have been very careful to think it through” adds Collora. “As a filmmaker whose primary hobbies are fishing and freediving, I feel blessed to be able to create a film that combines the things I love most.”
Collora launched his Kickstarter campaign in early September. He is offering Rewards from $6 on up, has created limited edition collectible resin busts, a MEGO-style action figure, and maquettes at higher Rewards levels – and – even an original film-used full-body creature suit. His kickstarter project is live at kck.st/1JyI7Po
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Lil Dicky’s “Earth” Debuts At #3 On Global YouTube Music Videos Chart
The new Lil Dicky video earns one of the top spots on this week’s chart.
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by Brian Cantor Apr 28, 2019, 1:03 pm
Featuring interesting animation and vocals from some of the biggest names in music, Lil Dicky’s new “Earth” video predictably had a big first week on YouTube.
According to the platform, the video generated 47.7 million global views during the April 21-27 tracking period. The tally slots the video at #3 on the Global YouTube Music Videos chart**.
“Earth” meanwhile ranks as the chart’s top debut**; only BTS’ previously released “Boy With Luv (featuring Halsey)” and Daddy Yankee & Snow’s previously released “Con Calma” generated more views during the tracking period.
**Editor’s Note: YouTube credits TWICE’s “Fancy” with 60.3 million views (the majority of which surely came from the new video), but the video is erroneously absent from the chart. If YouTube corrects the issue, “Fancy” may end up ahead of “Earth.”
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Becky G & Maluma’s “La Respuesta” Debuts In Top 10 On Global YouTube Music Videos Chart
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Mean Jeans
Portland based party-animals, the Mean Jeans, have recently signed onto Fat Wreck Chords and are hitting Europe riding the wave of their first major label release. Their newest album, Tight New Dimension has taken on a more mature tone, but don’t worry, they’re still the same old ‘pop punk morons.’
Unfortunately, they’re not hitting the UK or Ireland this tour, but they’d love to come, so I hope you promoters are reading this! But never fear –Heatwave’s throwing a free Mean Jeans gig July 28 at Pacific Parc in Amsterdam. Since you don’t have to pay for a concert ticket, might as well buy a train ticket instead, right?
But for those of you that still can’t make it out to catch the Mean Jeans on tour, don’t worry, we recently caught up with guitarist and vocalist, Billy Jeans, drummer and vocalist, Jeans Wilder, and bassist, Junior Jeans.
Heatwave: Tight New Dimension takes a different tone than past releases – it has a somewhat more ‘mature tone.’ How did your influences and creative processes differ on this album compared to your past releases?
Billy Jeans: I can assure you none of the band members are more mature now than when the other records were written and recorded. I think it’s natural that over time your tastes and tendencies evolve, so this record is where we’ve ended up. Our first releases were more like ‘hit record, let’s go,’ whereas with Tight New Dimension we put a little more energy into making it sound slammin’.
Heatwave: How’s the transition from Dirtnap Records to Fat Wreck Chords been for you all?
Billy Jeans: Fun! Everybody at Fat has been rad to work with.
Heatwave: How has working with them differed from working with Dirtnap?
Billy Jeans: We did a tour with NOFX, which wouldn’t have happened if we weren’t working with Fat. It’s a different scene than we’re used to and the NOFX crowd was a whole different demographic for us. It was still really fun. Certainly not all Dirtnap or Fat Wreck fans dig Mean Jeans, but we do our thing and hope some people are into it.
Junior Jeans: Working with Dirtnap was always super easy and convenient. I lived ten blocks from the headquarters, so any time we needed anything I just walked there and talked to Ken. Fat has also been super easy. All the Fat-heads have been cool to us.
Heatwave: I’ve seen you play before in bar type venues (Metro Gallery in Baltimore was the last time). You’ve have played much bigger venues since joining Fat Wreck, right? How’s that experience compare to shows you’ve played in the past?
Billy Jeans: We book our own US tours, so that’s still mostly the same kind of venues. The NOFX tour was mostly 2000+ capacity places, which was a big change for us. I thought it was a fun challenge to try to entertain 2000 NOFX fans every night, none of whom came to see our band. We’re on a plane to Europe right now, our first tour there since joining Fat. I’m curious to see what these shows will be like.
Junior Jeans: The NOFX tour was a good experience. I’d have to say that playing on big stages at concerts run by multiple different promotion companies is kind of a crapshoot for the opening band. Some nights the sound guys would forget to turn on our monitors or just generally goof the whole thing. But I guess that makes sense. No one is there to see us.
Jeans Wilder: Plus it was a fun new challenge trying to get drunk enough to play by 7pm, which is the usual time we played on the NOFX tour. We are more used to playing between like 11pm and 2am type sets.
Heatwave: I know you’re all originally from the DC area (Baltimore’s my home scene, so naturally I think it’s better than DC, sorry guys), what made you decide to drop DC for Portland? How’s the Portland scene treating you all these years later?
Billy Jeans: I prefer Baltimore to DC as well. I’ve always had more fun there. We started the band and played our first show in a basement in Baltimore with Nobunny. There were less than 15 people there, for sure. It became immediately clear that starting a band in the DC area was going to be a pain in the ass and that we’d be much better suited in a cheaper city with a better scene.
Portland was exactly that and was a great place for us to start this thing. For me it’s lost a lot of its charm, but what else is new.
Junior Jeans: I moved to Portland to get drunk with my boys. DC was such a bummer by the time I left eight years ago. The music scene was garbage, it was expensive as shit, and bands were skipping the city entirely.
Portland has changed a lot in eight years – oversaturation of people, bands, and everything now. I guess getting wasted anywhere for a decade will jade you.
Jeans Wilder: We are all gonna relocate to Sparks, Nevada based on tightness of name alone
Heatwave: I’ve noticed that quite a few Mean Jeans songs have this upbeat sound, while having slightly pessimistic lyrics – Why’s that?
Billy Jeans: The music is made for fun. We have fun writing and playing it, and hope that it’s fun to listen to and watch live. I love pop and want all of our songs to be catchy and to the point.
We have the reputation of being a party band because we’re dedicated to partying hard, but a bunch of the songs are about failure, not fitting in it, being a loser. It’s only natural!
Heatwave: Mean Jeans are known for their party attitude, which cities have shown you guys the best parties, and what happened?
Billy Jeans: I’d love to see a list of every city that we’ve completely flipped our wigs in. It would be lengthy! My favourite party cities are Stockholm, Vancouver BC, Austin and Chicago. Last time we were in Tubingen we spent most of the night diving in piles of trash.
On our first trip to Europe, we played a festival on a boat in Stockholm during the week where the sun never sets with Marked Men and Apache. That story takes four days to tell.
Jeans Wilder: There’s something about Calgary that I love.
Heatwave: What are your favourite party tunes/bands?
Billy Jeans: Speaking of Apache, I just heard their new record and it smokes! Great rock ‘n roll band out of San Francisco. Their last album Radical Sabbatical comes with instructions to a drinking game where you have to consume a substance every time the singer says ‘Yeah.’ Which he does a LOT.
Recently when I’m wasted I always want to hear Hello’s ‘New York Groove,’ to the chagrin of everyone I’m hangin’ out with.
Jeans Wilder: My recent faves are Barreracudas and Guantanamo Baywatch. I listen to the latest Carly Rae Jepsen album a lot when I am alone.
Heatwave: What made you guys decide to skip out on Ireland and the UK for this Euro tour, and can we expect to see you over here any time soon?
Billy Jeans: We’ve always been advised that we’d lose money adding the UK to our tours, is that true? As you can maybe imagine, the three pop punk morons behind the Mean Jeans don’t have or make any substantial amount of money. We’d love to go.
Jeans Wilder: Please take me, I must go.
Heatwave: What’s next for the Mean Jeans after your tour of Europe ends?
Billy Jeans: Album number four, baby!
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Remaining Tour Dates:
07/25/16 Copenhagen, Denmark Underwerket
07/26/16 Berlin, Germany Bei Ruth
07/27/16 Bremen, Germany
07/28/16 Amsterdam, HOL – Pacific Parc
07/29/16 Hasselt , Belgium De Witte Non
07/30/16 Rotterdam, Netherlands V11
07/31/16 Mannheim , Germany JUZ
08/02/16 Vienna, Austria Arena
08/03/16 Munich, Germany Kafe Kult
08/04/16 Heilbronn, GER – Bierkrug
08/05/16 Frankfurt, Germany ExZess
08/06/16 Duffel, Belgium Brakrock Ecofest
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Young Hellenic Entrepreneurs Ready to Soar Featured at THI Venture Fair in Athens
Eleven of Greece’s most promising startup firms led by dynamic young entrepreneurs across many fields were given the opportunity to make pitches to local and international investors at the 5thannual Venture Fair of The Hellenic Initiative at the Athens Hilton on July 1.
Officers and members of THI, a not-for-profit active across the Hellenic Diaspora from Australia to America to London, travelled to Athens to meet the talented youngsters and some participated as judges in the competition whose first round narrowed the group of companies to its five most impressive and finally – judges were overheard saying they were all good – to the top new firm.
Guests were greeted, organizers and cooperating groups were thanked and the entrepreneurs were praised by THI Chairman and industrialist Andrew N. Liveris in his keynote address, THI Chairman and noted attorney George P. Stamas in his closing remarks, and the organization’s Executive Director, Peter Poulos, who shared Emcee duties with Athens-based Program Director Michael Printzos.
THI is contributing to the creation of a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem in Greece. The young Hellenic entrepreneurs represented by the 60 firms that have participated in Venture Fair thus far are a mix of descendents taking family businesses to new levels and worlds and pioneers building from the ground up.
The conversations of judges and guests brimmed with enthusiasm and contrastive criticism – which the youngsters welcomed – during the event’s valuable networking receptions.
The representatives of the 11 start up firms were pleased to meet each other and and connect even if for one afternoon they were competitors at THI’s Venture Garden. (Photo by TNH/Constantine S. Sirigos)
The company that emerged as the 2019 winner is Beenova, whose “AI infused personalized platforms” for students are the leading edge of an education revolution.
The other top five firms included: Apiceuticals, whose methodology turns the output of bees into skincare products that neutralize free radicals, Centaur, whose cutting edge food monitors tackle waste in the food supply chain, and Excellon, whose products aim to disrupt the banking industry and empower consumers and businesses. Someyea seeks to help solve the world’s looming protein shortage through algae-generated animal feed supplements.
The remaining firms are also promising and have inspiring stories.
With Inomo, Vivian Parashou has taken her family-firm experience in fiberglass products and created a firm that creates high-end innovative furniture sought by architects and the hotel industry.
Deliverback, according to George Zachartzis, “will change the way lost and found is handled in hotels. Every day, 8 million people check out and 50,000 leave something behind;” he says its solutions are win/wins for hotels and guests.
Massive Grid helps protect companies’ IT infrastructures, and Xtapod assists IT firms recruit and retain top IT talent, especially in Athens, whose international reputation has grown by leaps and bounds. Quanta & Qualia seeks “to lead in the technology field by bridging the invisible and the visible through its products.”
PD Neurotechnology reflects the strong presence of Greeks in the biomedical field. Their “innovative medical device and a sophisticated expert system” that supports physicians in monitoring patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease” through lightweight monitoring devices patients wear on different parts of their bodies” have impressed investors and major medical institutions. Its ‘glove’ that tracks vital finger movement is fascinating.
Venture Garden also included an informative talk about the challenges and opportunities for Greece’s economic development led by Marcos Veremis and Nicholas Papapolitis. Kurt Heiar, the serial entrepreneur affiliated with the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, addressed the gathering and expressed his enthusiasm for the young Greek entrepreneurs he meets and works with.
All participants displayed balanced doses of optimism and realism. The most heartening message is that Greeks, especially the younger generation, are finally mastering the vital skill of collaborating and working together and appreciating the power of creating great teams. Over the years the presentation skills of participants have also improved dramatically.
Attorney Elina Paraskevopoulou, who helps Diaspora members navigate the Greek environment, spotlighted some plusses and minuses. While the long awaited “one stop shop” for startups has finally arrived, she said, the process of collecting the necessary documents before making that stop can still be a nightmare – but law firms can help.
One of the judges was Cleo Lymberis, Investor Relations Director of Mytilineos, SA. She moved to Greece in 2001 after growing up in New York and was introduced to THI by her sister Dr. Stella Lymberis. “It was very gratifying and inspiring to see the level of talent that exists here. The entrepreneurship community is thriving,” she said, adding that with help of the Diaspora, there will be many success stories.
Artemis Kohas, who works with THI and is an entrepreneur herself, in the mastiha trade, told TNH “this is my first Venture Fair and I am excited to see the teams pitch and the people who want to see them succeed and create many jobs in Greece.”
According to thehellenicinitiative.com, THI is “a global movement of the Greek Diaspora. Our Mission: Investing in the future of Greece through direct philanthropy and economic revitalization…We empower people to provide crisis relief, encourage entrepreneurs, and create jobs.” Since 2010 it has distributed or committed $8.7 for economic and entrepreneurial development.
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1. That is the best or most suitable decision, option, or method. A: "I think we need to hold a vote with the board members." B: "Yes, that's definitely the way to go." When all of your friends have traditional 9 to 5 jobs with kids and mortgages, it can be easy to feel like that's the way to go, but some people just aren't suited to that lifestyle.
2. A phrase of encouragement or praise for doing something correctly. Now just tighten the reins a bit to keep the horse steady. Yeah, that's the way to go—great job!
See also: go, way
(That’s the) way to go!
exclam. Nicely done! That’s the way to go! You did it!
See also: way
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There Is Something Special About Meghan Markle, And It’s Not Just Her Skin Colour Or Marrying Prince Harry
By zaniest On May 17, 2018
By Jean Gasho
I’ve never been a big royal wedding fan. When Meghan got engaged to Prince Harry, black people in the UK went into overdrive with excitement. Personally I could not understand the excitement because Meghan is half white and half black, her white side is not invisible, in fact she looks more white than black. And even if she was black, I could not see how that would benefit black people in Britain.
But anyway, over the past weeks, I’ve grown to really admire this woman called Meghan Markle. My admiration for her has nothing to do with her whiteness or blackness, but everything to do with the person that she is and what she has gone through.
There is something about Meghan Markle, and it’s not that she’s supposed to be ‘black’ or that she’s marrying a Prince.
For me, it’s her evil half siblings and her somewhat selfish father who has made me fall in love with her.
People want to live in a perfect world where families like Meghan’s don’t exist. For those who have families like Meghan’s, their behaviour is kept as a secret that’s brushed under the carpet never to be revealed in public in fear of being laughed at as one who comes from a ‘dysfunctional family’.
But yet there are millions of families like Meghan’s in this world, whilst the world goes on about how loyal and loving families are, those who are not so privileged to have loving and loyal family members carry the burden and suffer in silence. Just the thought of a family being unloving towards a sibling is ‘taboo’, never mind talk about it.
But thank God for Meghan Markle, she has reminded the world that hatred in some families is real, and no matter how famous and successful you are, you can still be a victim of vicious family jealousy.
Although Meghan is about to become a Princess, she has reminded a lot of people what they go through in families everyday.
Oh how I feel like I’ve read about Meghan in a book before, oh yes Cinderella.
Her two ugly siblings (Samantha and Thomas Markle), are so green with envy they can’t even control themselves.
She has endured hatred and bitterness from her own blood. But she has risen above them all, and now shes laughing all the way to the palace as they watch.
Before they showed their true colours, everyone wondered why Meghan had not invited even one of her relatives to her wedding apart from her mother and father. But now we all know why.
As I follow this inspiring story, I see people commenting, especially on Daily Mail website, calling her a disgrace with a dysfunctional family. I see people wishing for the wedding to be called off because of the embarrassment her family has supposedly caused the royal family.
She has had her own sister Samantha Markle writing a book titled ‘The diary of Princess pushy sister’ and doing TV interviews backstabbing Maghan. Two days ago she faked her own accident claiming to have been followed by paparazzi. She is estranged from her own mother, as her mother claims she called Meghan’s mother a ‘maid’ because she was black. She is also estranged from her own daughter who accuses Samantha of abusing her as a child.
Then there is Meghan’s brother Thomas, who penned a nasty shameless letter earlier in the month to Prince Harry asking him to call off the wedding calling Meghan all sorts of evil names.
Then just this week, days before her wedding it was revealed that her own father staged photos for money using her.
I believe there is no such thing as a ‘dysfunctional family’. I see it more as an unloving family. And sadly Meghan was raised in a family with unloving siblings.
She never asked to be raised in such a family, she was just born.
Her beauty may have contributed to the ‘ugly sisters’, well in this case ‘ugly brother and sister’ hating her. She may have been her father’s favourite, maybe she was more special because she was the last child and different, ‘mixed race’ .
Maybe she was too ambitious and they couldn’t handle her determination.
Sometimes your enemies, especially family members can see your star shine. Sometimes they see you are destined for greatness because you just stand out and don’t fit into their mediocrity. It will make them feel uncomfortable, so they will do everything they can to crush your star before you even touch it. It looks like that’s what happened with beautiful Meghan.
But sometimes the hatred and resentment from jealous siblings is what drives you to even fight harder for your destiny.
That is what has made Meghan into the woman she is today.
She went on to have a successful acting career and rightfully distanced herself from her poisonous toxic half siblings.
On her way to the top, she caught the eye of one of the most privileged men on earth,and he is about to put a royal crown on her head as her enemies watch.
From being spat on by her siblings, she’s about to become one of the most envied and privileged women in this world.
She has shown the world that even a ‘dysfunctional’ family can not stop you from wearing a royal robe if you are destined to wear it.
Prince Harry could have married any young damsel in this world, but he chose Meghan, a 36 year old mixed race actress, from an unloving family. Now that is destiny.
And I’m so thankful that her black mother is not the part or cause of how her half siblings are behaving. Unlike the rest of the relatives, Doria, the black Queen has remained calm and collected, carrying herself with dignity and grace in the wake of her daughter’s royal engagement.
The barbarism and insanity is coming from Meghan’s white side of the family.
That is the most refreshing part of this Cinderella story.
I can imagine if it was the black side of her family acting like lunatics, oh Daily Mail readers would have had a passport for spewing uncensored cyber racism as usual.
But now because it’s Meghan’s white relatives who are acting in such an uncivilised manner, somehow Meghan has to take the blame and be ’embarrassed’.
Oh well, against all odds, Meghan continues to shine like a diamond.
After all the drama from the ugly siblings, as they tried their best to sabotage the royal wedding over the past weeks, Meghan and her Prince are still in love and besotted.
Love always wins. In my own words I say, she has met her Boaz, and no one can separate her from her Boaz.
There is something about Meghan that he loves, even though she didn’t fit in the books of a perfect royal British bride. It does say a lot about Prince Harry, for that I have respected him.
Meghan has not brought any embarrassment into the British Royal Family, if anything she has brought reality and light, and more importantly, awareness that sibling rivalry and jealousy is real, and many out there have had to endure it and be strong.
She so reminds me of the story of Joseph.
On Saturday Maghan will become a Princess, whilst the ugly siblings eat their hearts out.
If that’s not an inspirational real life Cinderella story, I don’t know what can be.
So yes for the first time ever, I’m excited about a royal wedding. If I wasn’t heavily pregnant about to give birth, I would have probably travelled to London to watch this real life fairly tale come true. I would have loved to just stand there and watch a woman that millions of us can relate to in some way become a real life princess.
There is definitely something about Meghan Markle, and I can’t wait to see her in that royal crown.
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Scream Queens – Discontinued
I’ll miss pretty much every body part of Chad’s. Except for his stupid, stupid mouth.
Almost a year to the day, and another Ryan Murphy production bites the I Just Hate Everything dust.
Not a good sign heading into next week’s Rocky Horror Remake, hey?
Not that Foxy Horror has had positive signs at any point.
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Let’s just say it wasn’t a good year for good TV on I Just Hate Everything.
But on the plus side, my snipes and swats here will make up for my positive-only movie list.
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They must be watching Scream Queens.
I had my misgivings about this. I really did. Those first trailers looked like over-stylised, Dutch angle-fucked, substance-less trash.
But still, for some reason I can’t even pin down, I expected Scream Queens to be decent.
Didn’t I learn anything from Glee and seasons 3 and 4 of American Horror Story?
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Look at his pretty, blue eyes, though.
I watched this movie for two reasons:
1) Addison Timlin was pretty cool in Odd Thomas.
2) The original The Town That Dreaded Sundown is referenced in a line in Scream.
But then I found out that Ryan Murphy produced this, and my hate fire got stoked.
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American Horror Story Season 4 Episode 4 – TV Review
In only one year? Nice.
No, it’s actually the Elsa story.
And it involves not only S&M fantasy heaven, but also chainsaws and no anaesthesia.
What else do you expect from German pornography?
These Chanel No. 5 ads are getting weird.
I was overly presumptuous last episode: Emma Roberts still isn’t here.
So more droning from Jimmy the Whiner, then.
But is she worth the price of admission?
Sadly, the answer to that question is “Meh. I dunno, really.”
If this was season 2, it’d be more like “Of course it is, you idiot. Are you insane?”
Time makes fools of us all.
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by André-Naquian Wheeler
Apr 18 2017, 10:35pm
watch don cheadle take on kendrick lamar in 'dna' video
The rapper releases the second video for “Damn."
still from "dna"
Only four days after the release of his album Damn, Kendrick Lamar has already dropped a second music video in support of the critically praised record. After the aggressive video for "Humble," directed by the legendary Dave Meyers, Lamar continues his unapologetic, in-your-face one, two punch with "DNA."
The video comes not even 24 hours after Don Cheadle tweeted a backstage pass to Lamar's Coachella show, hinting at some kind of friendship between the two.
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle)April 17, 2017
Directed by Nabil (who's masterminded videos for Kanye West, Travis Scott, and FKA twigs), "DNA" opens up with a handcuffed Lamar being interrogated by Don Cheadle (who plays the role of a detective).
At times, it feels as if Lamar and Cheadle are having a lip-sync battle to see who can out "Kendrick Lamar" the other. Well, Kendrick ends up winning this one.
The offbeat video is doused in references to kung-fu films, Lamar wearing a black linen Xunlian Fu uniform, Mandarin words popping up on the screen, and abrupt jump-cuts to a gang of girls zooming down the street in glee. At the end, Lamar uses his fire bars to put an end to Cheadle and pimp walks down the street with his squad (Schoolboy Q making a cameo appearance).
Check out the video for yourself:
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“it’s a show about hope”: from rick to margiela, paris spring/summer 18 is all about positivity
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Home / Articles / News / Breaking News / Y block on the block
Monday, Feb. 25, 2019 12:36 pm
Y block on the block
No bids received for downtown property
How much is the Y block worth? Nothing, apparently.
The downtown Springfield property next to the governor’s mansion for which the city paid $1.5 million in 2014 appeared on the city’s list of surplus properties up for sale that was distributed last month by the purchasing department in the city’s Office of Budget and Management. As with a plethora of vacant lots scattered throughout the city, the minimum bid was $500.
No bids for the Y block were received when bidding closed last Thursday, even though state Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill, has proposed spending $50 million in state money to build a Southern Illinois University campus – think law school -- on the land that was once home to a YWCA that was demolished a few years ago.
When the city acquired the property in 2014, then Mayor Mike Houston called it “the most developable block” in the capital city. “It’s a blank canvas, an open slate for us to do something unique,” said then Ward 6 Ald. Cory Jobe. “I think it’s the most important block since the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum was built.”
The private sector, however, hasn’t jumped. After talk of open slates, there was talk of apartments. And talk of shops. And talk of a park. But no bids when the city put the land up for sale in the auction that ended last week.
Bill McCarty, city budget director, was surprised to learn that the Y block was on the auction block. “Nobody told me we were selling the Y block,” McCarty said. The property’s appearance on the list of vacant parcels up for auction was a mistake, he said. McCarty noted that the city retained the right to reject any bids, and so it’s not like someone could have bought the Y block for $500. “We had the right to reject bids, and we would have,” McCarty said.
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ILTVSW guest star (VO) : Steve Levitan co-creator of Modern Family
Steve Levitan, the co-creator and showrunner of Modern Family, gave a keynote at the MIPTV last April in Cannes.
ILTVSW was lucky enough to seat with him and talk comedy writing, team writing and Zeidgeist.
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ILTVSW. You said that you created the show at a moment of your life when you were not having a great time. Does it take that feeling to create a great show ?
Steve Levitan. I think being in that mindset maybe opens you up to break patterns and to dig a little bit deeper and being more open to taking chances. And that is a good frame of mind to be and to say at the end of the day, let’s strip down all that external stuff, what we usually do or what we think people are expecting of us or the normal way of going about things and let’s just get back down to the truth. What’s the truth of the situation and let’s just stop caring about those external factors and focus on the story, the characters and trying to say something that you perhaps want to say.
ILTVSW. Does that mean that a writer must go out of his comfort zone to find truth ?
Steve Levitan. You develop a stronger, I shouldn’t say this word but … you know, bullshit meter. Things that normally would fly, things that normally would be OK you feel that : « no that’s not exactly right, that’s not exactly what happened » and maybe by being a little bit more strip bare you can get to the truth easier and you are less afraid of digging and finding it.
Writing comedy is better with other people
ILTVSW. You talked about how hard it is to do the job on your own, does writing comedy make it even harder ?
Steve Levitan. Yeah. I believe writing comedy is better with other people. Because Modern Family would not be what it is without our amazing group of writers. We bounce idea out of each other all the time. Somebody says one thing and that sparks an idea over there and than somebody builds on it over there and suddenly you have something that no one person could have thought of but by putting those minds together you got something really amazing and different. That’s why I think comedy is best done in a group. A good group. And a cohesive group but a group. Now that’s not to say that some of my favorite things haven’t been written by Woody Allen. Sometimes it is a partnership of two people and that’s very good and there is Tootsie. Some are my favorite movies of all times. But most of my favorite TV shows, comedies, they are all mostly done by groups of writers.
ILTVSW. True Detective proved recently that excellent TV drama could be written by a single writer, is this impossible with comedy ?
Steve Levitan. Carl Reiner went away and wrote thirteen episodes of The Dick Van Dyke show back in the day now he ended up having writers at some point. But in this day and age, you know … David Kelley did it with Ally McBeal but it’s kind of a different thing. It just seems to be the best way to do it. Nobody can be that funny on their own. If you are hiring well, you find people who have strengths that you don’t have and build on it so you make sure you have people with different abilities and points of views.
ILTVSW. Could that be the reason why Louis CK only writes short seasons of his show ?
Steve Levitan. That is a good example. Even though he does write with Pam Adlon, it’s a singular vision and again he is certainly a very very funny man but he ended up getting darker, the show got darker. I have heard that this season was going to be lighter.
I’d rather fail on my on terms than on somebody else’s
ILTVSW. Do you think you get better at picking the jokes with experience ?
Steve Levitan. You just develop this radar and it is not always right. Actually there is no right and wrong. I could say : « I like it better that way, let’s go that way » and there could be three other writers in the room saying : « no, it’s that way ». If I don’t think strongly about it and they do, I’ll go with them. But over time you just develop a sense of things. So much of the tone of a show is determined that way. I’ll say : « I just don’t get it, it doesn’t feel real to me » and that comes with time and also having the confidence to listen to your own gut is important. And that comes with time as well. I have been wrong but I’d rather fail on my own terms than on somebody else’s.
ILTVSW. When did small and personal become OK on TV ? And what made it possible for you ?
Steve Levitan. I am not sure when that started happening. I mean The Office was a big part of it. I think it opened the door for our show in a lot of ways. Got people use to the smaller single camera sensibility. Cable opened that door a lot. I think that single camera makes multi camera feel more false. There can be very good multi camera but it is even harder to make it feel very real and organic in that setting than in single camera where it is sometimes harder to be really funny. The old adage, and where a lot of single cameras went wrong fifteen years ago, was that they thought that in single camera it didn’t have to be as funny and it is actually very false. The reality is in single camera you probably have to be funnier because you have to be more subtile and so the jokes have to be really there and they have to be rapid pace but you can’t land on them, you can’t hit them so hard. So I always say to actors, not that I have to say it to our actors now, but the guest actors or whatever, don’t hit that joke so hard. Pretend you are driving alone and the cops are chasing you and you just open the door and drop something out and keep going. Don’t make a big deal about it.
Steven Levitan working his actors © ABC
ILTVSW. Jokes versus emotion is a great dilemma for comedy writers … At the end of the day which one is the most important for you ?
Steve Levitan. I think you have to earn your emotional moments by balancing it with really strong comedy and that is the key. If you rely too much on one it is harder to engage an audience. So brilliant shows like Seinfeld and 30 Rock that really relied on comedy, they had to be even funnier than everybody else to make an audience stay with them. A show that is sappy and not very funny people say : « it’s fine but I am not compelled to watch it ». But you can give people both. They have a much stronger connection to the show. You are taking them on a ride and you are giving them a chance to experience a range of emotions from « I am laughing, I am laughing isn’t this great ! and then all of a sudden, wow I am tearing up and then boom you just hit me with a great joke and I am laughing again ». People feel satisfied and that is when you really make a connection with the viewer. I think it is possible to go for both at the same time but I think that you have to number one be funny and close number two to allow the viewer to feel something.
ILTVSW. Are there some mornings when you wake up and feel the fear of losing that fun of yours, your comedy talent and ask yourself will I be able to be funny today ?
Steve Levitan. This morning (laughs). I think that if you really look at comedy, it tends to be a young person’s game. Because I think comedy is a lot like fashion. The Zeidgeist you have to be growing up in that time and really out there and living and going through all these experiences that everybody else is. As you get older you get a little bit more insulated. So that concerns me that sometimes when I will reach a certain age where my comedy feels a little bit dated. I think I will always have a sense of humor but will it be of a different era ? I think about that and I do my best to stay relevant and to understand what’s going on in the world and to work with young writers so I feel that we are representing many voices and being inclusive. But there will come a day when nobody wants to talk to me (laughs) … There are amazing people like Norman Lear for inspirations, who I look at with such admiration. They found different ways to stay relevant with the years.
Titre: Modern Family (2009 – )
Creators: Steve Levitan, Christopher Lloyd II
Cast: Ed O’Neill, Sofia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, Rico Rodriguez
Networks: ABC
© 2015 ILTVSW – not to be reproduced without a prior authorization from ILTVSW
Next week in ILTVSW … Oops, not decided yet, sorry.
Étiquettes : 30 Rock, ABC, Ally McBeal, Carl Reiner, Comedy, David Kelley, Louis CK, Modern Family, Pam Adlon, Seinfeld, Steve Levitan, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Tootsie, Woody Allen
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Tokyo getting new giant Gundam robot statue this fall
Mar. 11, 2017 06:45 am JST Mar. 11, 2017 | 07:00 am JST
By Casey Baseel, RocketNews24
Fans of Japanese animation, robots, and awesome sightseeing attraction in general were saddened in December by the sudden news that the life-size statue of anime mecha Gundam would no longer be on display after March 5. Some may have been holding out hope for a last-minute change of heart, the fateful day has now come and gone, and the 18-meter recreation of the RX-78-2 Gundam, the mechanical star of the original 1979 "Mobile Suit Gundam" TV series, is no longer greeting guests to the Diver City entertainment complex in Tokyo’s Odaiba neighborhood.
What made the decision to take down the statue particularly hard for fans to stomach is that, right up until the end, it remained an extremely popular destination for domestic and overseas travelers alike. On any weekend, crowds would gather to snap photos with the iconic mecha, often buying food and drink from nearby vendors before wandering into the Diver City building to further support the local economy. With Gundam loved by visitors and businesses alike, why take it down?
Apparently to make space for a new giant robot, since it’s now been announced that this coming fall a life-size statue of the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam, the titular robot of video/TV series "Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn," will take up the RX-78-2’s position in front of Diver City.
Gundam Unicorn isn’t the absolute newest animated arm of the Gundam franchise, but it is the most recently made TV series to take place in the Universal Century timeline, of which the original 1979 series is a part. And while old-school fans will still be sad to see the RX-78-2 go, the official height of the Unicorn Gundam is 19.7 meters, meaning the new statue should be even larger than the original.
It’s unclear whether the Unicorn Gundam statue will be an entirely new piece, or whether it will make use of parts sourced from the RX-78-2. If the Unicorn is all-new, though, it also opens up the possibility of the two statues someday being displayed side-by-side, but if nothing else, the new statue’s announcement means that while Tokyo is currently without Gundam protector, it’ll have one again soon enough.
Source: Gundam Fanclub via Jin
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Poor English Speaker
Mar. 11, 2017 11:40 pm JST
Also, I want to see OO Gundam, GN-0000, which is called double-O Gundam in Japanese, the titular robot of video/TV series “Mobile Suit Gundam 00.” I recommend you watching the series as it's extremely exciting and touching. Once you finished watching it, you would eager to see the statue of OO Gundam. And I'd also like to see Gundam EXIA (GN-001), a previous model of OO Gundam, which is absolutely cool if it is exhibited there.
pacint
Mar. 12, 2017 01:27 am JST
UC will always beat AC and Gundam Unicorn has way more Fans than Gundam 00 or Gundam Seed or Turn A.
zengohan
Lol statues, such a good cover, more like they testing out how nobile suits will work in real life
Mobile suits oops
Get a free drink while you’re in Kyoto
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Filling Java's security hole
Spotlight on: Coverity, solving Java’s security headache
November 15, 2012 Chris Mayer
#apple #coverity #cross-site scripting #development #java #mac #qa #security #sql injection
We talk to Coverity co-founder Andy Chou about his companys mission of bringing security testing back into the development phase.
If you’ve cast your eye over tech sites in recent months, you’ve probably the notice the barrage of bad press that Java’s been getting for security vulnerabilities.
Granted, we’re mostly talking about the client-side, but it’s particularly toxic for the entire Java brand, especially when Apple withdrew the Java applet from Mac browsers. While the more savvy tech lead is aware of the stark difference between the Java stack and Java’s relationship to the browser, the tech-novice executive making the calls might not be.
But is there actually a problem right at the heart of the development process, with how Java developers deal with security problems? Development testing experts Coverity argue that there needs to be a rethink entirely.
Co-founder Andy Chou believes that many vulnerabilities present in the Java stack are easily avoidable, through detecting them as early as possible, rather than passing the buck down to the security auditor in QA.
“Right now, if you ask a developer to test their software before they ship it, what do they say? ‘Well, I’ve tested it.’ What does that mean exactly? It doesn’t mean much of anything really. There’s no measurement of whether that’s good enough,” Chou explains.
“What does the company say is a good enough level of testing for a new developer on the team? You don’t know. They come with their own practices, their own ideas of what testing means to them. If they’re not doing something consistent, it’s not going to be consistent across the company.”
There’s a feeling within some development environments, says Chou, that security testing is merely an afterthought, or something that the security team will deal with later on. The problem with this approach is that by the time your application reaches QA and you find a defect, the amount of work needed to solve the problem often wastes valuable time and money. It also likely makes the relationship between the two teams increasingly fractured.
Chou believes security testing ought to be baked into the development process to alleviate the problem, yet he also recognises that Java developers rightly avoid dealing with security because of its complexity.
“Our objective as a company to help organisations move detection of quality and security defects closer to the development stage. If you look at typical processes, you’ve got a security auditing team who will come in and maybe audit your application once a year or once every two years,” says Chou, deeming this as “inefficient”.
“It takes a retest of your entire software just to fix a defect. What we think is instead of that security should be baked into the development process – it should be done on a regular basis.”
To aid Java developers, Coverity’s trio of products hunt through source code and provide hints in how to patch up some of the most common vulnerabilities. Their flagship product, Quality Advisor, analyses the entire stack for potential crash-causing defects and offers guidance in solving the issue. Security Advisor is specifically tuned to finding defects such as cross-site scripting and SQL injection, and again provides remediation advice. The newest tool, Test Advisor, aims to improve unit testing efficiency by focusing on the most critical aspects of the code alone.
Chou explains that Coverity’s tools are designed to seamlessly integrate into their normal workflow, making it “easier for developers to go in and prioritise”. Yet he also believes that the fractured security testing culture is not solely down to the individual developer.
“Somebody in the organisation has to play the role of the lead or architect and decide the policy for what is important. Once they do that, they can set that up and automate that. Not necessarily individual developers making that judgement but rather the organisation as a whole.”
SQL injection and cross-site scripting remain the two most common vulnerabilities across Java web applications, which Chou puts down to two factors – developers not knowing how to deal with them correctly and also the interaction between Java and the Web.
“If you look at cross-site scripting for example, it’s partly because of the architecture of the web, in the way languages are used and the way the browser works. Rather than any particular problem with Java per se.” says Chou.
He adds: “What I’m saying is that Java treats the output of HTML just like any other data. It doesn’t really deeply understand it enough to help you. You have to know what you’re doing. Developers tend to not know what they are doing when it comes to security – that’s what it boils down to.”
Coverity are lending Java developers a hand by open sourcing a Java library of a dozen or so escaping routines. Importantly, it’s freely available without having to sign up to Coverity’s commercial products. Coverity Security Library is available to use via Github and Maven.
It’s logical to target the Java developers first and hopefully instigate a discussion between the development team and security auditors. But Coverity realise that for the approach of old to disappear entirely then the developers needs remove the “tendency to challenge” the auditor.
Chou adds: “I think that tendency rises because it’s at the wrong time. If they recognise that if we could just bake this into the process, if we could design the way in which we’re coding is done so we could avoid these vulnerabilities.
“I think that’s the wrong approach. It’s a very short-term approach. I think developers have a role to play in changing the conversation.”
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Street Fighter G.I. Joe Comic Book Crossover.
Posted: March 6, 2016 in Comic Books, Crossover Reviews
Tags: Baroness, C. Viper, Capcom, Destro, G. I. Joe, Habsro, Hadoken, Hakan, Jinx, M. Bison, M.A.R.S., Mriganka, Roadblock, Rufus, Ryu, S.I.N., Shaoaloo Crime Syndicate, Snake Eyes, Street Fighter, Street Fighter II, World Warrior Tournament
Street Fighter G.I. Joe is a crossover from the famous Capcom fighting game and the Hasbro toy property. The first issue revolves around four one on one fights between characters of each property. Those fights being C. Viper vs Snake Eyes, Rufus vs Baroness, Hakan vs Roadblock, and Ryu vs Jinx. There are some surprises as to who wins each fight, they all don’t go as expected.
As the fights go on we get some background information on the overall story. M. Bison (the evil boss of Street Fighter II) is the dictator of Mriganka, and head of the Shaoaloo Crime Syndicate. Mriganka is hosting the World Warrior Tournament, (the fighting tournament that you play through in the Street Fighter games). In this story the tournament is sponsored by M.A.R.S. industries, which is the weapons company run Cobra’s Destro. Apparently there is some yet to be revealed weapon that is fueled by one on one combat.
There are some alliances between Street Fighter and Cobra characters, along with the Baroness scheming with and possibly against Destro. The over the top nature of the Street Fighter brawls is evident with this issue, as guns and knives are used during battle, along with the Hadoken energy blasts. There’s also a reference to the S.I.N. designed battle suits.
There are so many characters in both franchises that naturally a comic about a 16 person tournament was going to leave some people out. There’s supplementary material in the back of the issue where we’re briefed on qualifying rounds. Several preliminary fights are described in one paragraph each where it is explained how various fan favorite characters did not make the cut.
Also in the back of the issue is a list of the overall bracket for the tournament. It is also illustrated which fights will be in which issue of the comic. Looking at the bracket one can probably guess what the final fight will be.
The art style and the coloring is a nice blend between the 80s style animation of G.I. Joe and the graphics of the 90s arcade. This first issue is a fun read that leaves you looking forward to more fights and more of the background story.
Age of Ultron Prelude: This Scepter’d Isle
Posted: March 24, 2015 in Comic Books, Marvel Cinematic Universe
Tags: Age of Ultron, Age of Ultron This Scepter'd Isle, Baron Strucker, Hydra, Infinity Gem, Loki Scepter, Mark Basso, Mark Smith, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Cinematic Universe Comics, Nicholas Cooper, Quicksilver, S.T.A.T.I.O.N., Scarlet Witch, SHIELD, Sokovia
At the end of Captain America: Winter Soldier, it is revealed that Hydra has possession of the scepter that Loki had during Avengers. How Hydra acquired the scepter is the focus of Age of Ultron Prelude: This Scepter’d Isle. It is a digitally exclusive comic that serves as a prelude to the upcoming Age of Ultron film.
According to this story SHIELD initially had the scepter, as they acquired a lot of the alien technology after the Battle of New York in Avengers. They are analyzing it at S.T.A.T.I.O.N. the Scientific Tactical Intelligence Operating Network. SHIELD agents are named, including Mark Smith, Nicholas Cooper, and Mark Basso. I don’t believe that these are pre-existing characters. There’s a certain SHIELD agent who is disgruntled with the agency,and gets recruited by Baron Strucker (who apparently has hair in the MCU) to join Hydra. They steal the scepter and take it to their lab in Sokovia, a fictional politically unstable European country.
There’s a Dr. List character that runs experiments on the scepter (which I suppose the audience knows contains an infinity gem) and they use its energies to experiment on people. Looking for test subjects they turn to the student demonstrators that protest against the Sokovian government. They tell the students that they need power themselves to affect change, the kind of power the Avengers have. Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, twin siblings who eventually become Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, are among the demonstrators.
It ends with a recreation of the post credit scene in Winter Soldier, where some of the human volunteers have died from the experiment, but the twins have developed powers.
This Scepter’d Isle is a nice one in done story that fills in some interesting background to the upcoming Age of Ultron film, which is what is set out to do.
The comic can be purchased here on Comixology.
Ant Man Film Comic Book Prelude
Tags: Agent Carter, Ant Man, Ant Man Film, Ant Man Film Prelude Comic, Howard Stark, HYRDRA, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Cinematic Universe Comics, SHIELD
This two issue series that ties into the Marvel Cinematic Universe takes place in the 1980s. The specific year/date is not set, but the story involves Hank Pym crossing the Berlin Wall on a secret mission. The Berlin Wall came down in 1989, so at the latest this story takes place in the 1980s.
Hank Pym is a SHIELD scientist, and has apparently discovered what will be the Pym particle, which allows him to shrink his body to be just a few inches tall. Howard Stark, Tony Stark’s/Iron Man’s father and founder of SHIELD wants a covert team to use the Pym Particles to sneak across the Berlin Wall on a mission. Pym doesn’t want to share the secrets of the Pym particle to fall into the wrong hands, and insists that if anyone should use the particle it’s him.
We get a nice surprise appearance from Agent Carter, who is still with SHIELD and obviously drawn to look older. She agrees to prep him for his solo mission and gives a nice use of the “I think it works” line from the first Captain America film. There’s also some Davis character with Pym in the lab but I don’t know who that was.
The first issue ends with a cliffhanger that to some may be reminiscent of Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. The second issue deals mainly with the mission and is filled with action beats. The mission is that some radical group SHIELD was watching got a hold of old Hydra tech and are reverse engineering it. The villains in this book are faceless/not actual characters, but while Peggy states that Hydra was cut down decades ago one of them does say Hail Hydra and they are in Hydra uniforms. The technology in question is a memory wiping device reminiscent of what was used on Winter Soldier. This group apparently kidnapped some poor victim to test it on.
The story ends with Pym realizing there’s important work out there in the field that only the Pym particle can handle, but his experiences reinforced the idea that only he should use the particle. This implies that, as Ant Man, he’ll be an active field agent for SHIELD.
The Ant Man prelude set’s the stage for the Ant Man prelude and establishes Pym as an active field agent. It would be cool to see more comics and maybe a video game about Ant Man missions for SHIELD, but for now the stage is set for the Ant Man movie.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Prequel Infinite Comic (Non Spoilers)
Posted: April 1, 2014 in Comic Books, Marvel Cinematic Universe
Tags: Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Cinematic Universe Comics, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Prequel Infinite Comic, The Collector
This digital prequel comic to the upcoming film Guardians of the Galaxy opens with a recap of the mid credit scene from Thor the Dark World. Immediately after this scene the Collector goes to Conjunction, “a dead world in the coldest regions of the galaxy,” which is also a hub for black market technology. Skrull detectors are mentioned in passing, as are Xandarians. Amusingly enough there’s also a sign in English for a Casino. We see lots of aliens in the background, none I recognize from the Marvel Universe (However Ronan is later mentioned by name). There appear to be creatures resembling encounter aliens actually. The Conjunction sequence seems to purposely resemble the Mos Eisely/Tatooine sequence from Star Wars.
Anyway the Collector recruits a particular character from Guardians of the Galaxy to recruit a particular object, and the story goes from there. It appears to be a true prequel to it’s film namesake, more so than the Captain America/Winter solider digital comic. These comics that take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe seem to more and more actually show real events taking place, as opposed to being just filler stories.
The comic can be bought here.
Team 7 Weapon X Crossover
Posted: October 28, 2013 in Comic Books, Crossover Reviews, Crossovers
Tags: Comic Book Crossovers, Marvel Image Crossover, Sabertooth, Team 7, Team 7 Weapon X., Weapon X, Wolverine
This 1996 crossover has two of comic books most popular covert teams, Marvel’s Weapon X, (whose team members include Wolverine and Sabertooth) and Image/Wildstorm’s Team 7 both engaged in separate secret missions that have them both end up at the same location. That location is some secret base in the middle east that is doing super soldier experiments. Marvel’s Russian mutant foe Omega Red is present, as is a woman named Mirelle Dupless who I presume to be a villaness from Wildstorm.
There’s some nice back and forth bits as the two teams and their backup intel realize they’re not the only ones on a mission. It’s scripted by G. I. Joe alum Larry Hama so there’s lots of military lingo and the action feels authentic even though it involves super powered characters. It’s a one and done story that ends with a twist involving Mystique. Given the concept I would have liked to have seen a longer story with even more intrigue but for what it is it was entertaining.
P.S. We also get some Dossiers in the back about the characters which was nice.
King’s Watch: A Flash Gordon, Phantom, Lothar, and Mandrake Crossover.
Posted: September 23, 2013 in Comic Books
Tags: Comic Book Crossovers, Dale Arden, Dynamite Comics, Flash Gordon, King Features, Lothar, Mandrake the Magician, Ming the Merciless, The Phantom
King’s Watch is a new comic book from Dynamite crossing the action heroes from King’s Features; Flash Gordon, the Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and Lothar.
The series opens with Earth in mass hysteria as people all over the world have nightmares about monsters and other horrific imagery. Meanwhile some strange atmospheric phenomenon is occurring and reporter Dale Arden is investigating. Mandrake the Magician has an ominous moment in his home, and there’s a few mystic characters in Africa but I’m not sure who they were.
Elsewhere in Africa, Lothar and the Phantom fight a giant monster in West Tanzania in a pretty cool action sequence. Flash Gordon here is the son of a CEO who is setting up private space exploration. Flash has met Dr. Zarkoff the issue ends with them flying off into space investigating the phenomenon.
While the source of the phenomenon appears to be from Flash Gordon mythology, it does not appear to be Ming the Merciless. So far it seems like a good concept and I’m curious to read more.
Rise of the Gaurdians
Posted: December 17, 2012 in Comic Books, Crossover Reviews, Crossovers
Tags: Boogeyman, Easter Bunny, Jack Frost, Mr. Sandman, Rise of the Gaurdians, Santa Clause, Tooth Fairy
Rise of the Gaurdians is almost like the Avengers or even the Expendables for elementary kids. It’s the story of Santa Clause, Jack Frost, the Easter Bunny, Mr. Sandman, and the Tooth Fairy teaming up to fight the boogey man.
Jack Frost is the introductory character. He gets recruited by the Man in the Moon to be the new Guardian. The conceit of this movie is that the Guardians protect children and get their strength from the beliefs of children. Apparently the Boogeyman ruled during the Dark Ages until Santa Clause and the other Guardians fought him off. Now (for some reason) he is back and wants revenge.
Santa is a sword wielding Russian tough guy, the Easter Bunny is a cynical Australian, and the Sandman doesn’t speak, but communicates through his sand. Jack Frost plays the reluctant hero. He’s encountered the group before, and doesn’t get along with the Easter Bunny. He’s upset because people don’t believe in him, and he’s spent his existence being invisible to humans. This angst leaves him vulnerable to seduction by the Boogey man, who tries to pass himself off as a sympathetic character. Jack Frost also has a secret past he’s unaware of, but that revelation is slightly underwhelming.
Rise of the Guardians is a good standard adventure for kids. I’d be curious what they would do with a sequel, specifically who they would face besides the boogeyman.
Also I must add that I saw this in 4D. Years ago I saw the third Narnia movie Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 4D, and the 4D was really stupid. The seat would vibrate a little and it was annoying. The 4D in Rise of the Guardians was great (and the 3D was actually good too for a change). The seats would move around as the characters flew through the air and sometimes it was almost like being on a roller coaster. There were other effects with the seats and lighting effects etc. At the end of the movie there is a scene where a bunch of sand is in the air and it’s kind of like fireworks. During that scene, in the actual theater bubbles shot out through the walls and filled the air. That was just magical. All in all a very worthwhile experience.
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Google Gives $100,000 To Hack Chromebook – Hacking Challenge
What ? Google Gives $100,000? Why? Read Full Hackers news and Ready to get $100,000 From google. Last Year, Google introduced a $50,000 reward for the persistent compromise of a Chromebook in guest mode. The company’s security team says it hasn’t received a single successful submission.Google Gives $100,000 To Hack Chromebook
Google has updated its bug bounty program and doubled a reward for a particular type of Chromebook exploit. According to the new terms of Google’s bug bounty program, it has doubled the reward on offer to anyone who can compromise the security of a Chromebook in guest mode from US $50,000 to US$100,000.
According to Google’s Nathan Parker and Tim Willis: “That said, great research deserves great awards, so we’re putting up a standing six-figure sum, available all year round with no quotas and no maximum reward pool,” said the pair in a blog post on Monday US time.
Google Gives $100,000 To Hack Chromebook:
Google Gives $100,000 To Hack Chromebook
Google has also added a Download Protection Bypass bounty. In short, the company is offering rewards for methods that bypass Chrome’s Safe Browsing download protection features. The qualifying reward rules are as follows:
Also Read: 8,000 Phishing Scams in UK Hit Per Month – Hacking News
Safe Browsing must be enabled on Chrome and have an up-to-date database (this may take up to a few hours after a new Chrome install).
Safe Browsing servers must be reachable on the network.
Binary must land in a location a user is likely to execute it (e.g. Downloads folder).
The user can’t be asked to change the file extension or recover it from the blocked download list.
Any gestures required must be likely and reasonable for most users. As a guide, execution with more than three reasonable user gestures (eg: click to download, open .zip, launch .exe) is unlikely to qualify, but it’ll be judged on a case-by-case basis. The user can’t be expected to bypass warnings.
The download should not send a Download Protection Ping back to Safe Browsing. Download Protection Pings can be measured by checking increments to counters at chrome://histograms/SBClientDownload.CheckDownloadStats. If a counter increments, a check was successfully sent (with exception to counter #7, which counts checks that were not sent).
The binary’s hosting domain and any signature cannot be on a whitelist. You can measure this by checking chrome://histograms/SBClientDownload.SignedOrWhitelistedDownload does not increment.
Also Read: Salt Lake City Police, Airport Websites DDoS Attack
Google typically offers between US$500 and US$15,000 for reported bugs depending on the quality of reporting. Earlier in January, Google said that it paid well over $2 million (€1.8 million) as bug bounty rewards for security experts around the globe. Ever since the program started in 2010, Google said it paid researchers more than $6 million (€5.4 million).
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France and Belgium Expressed Interest to Invest in Kazakhstan
France and Belgium have expressed interest to invest in Kazakhstan following a business meeting between Kazakh delegations and investors from the two countries.
Kazakh ambassador to France, Jean Galiev held a presentation on Kazakhstan’s investment opportunities and provided key economic data to potential French investors during the meeting.
He also stressed on the 10 reasons why the countries should invest in Kazakhstan, which includes attractive business conditions, successful examples of French companies operating in Kazakhstan, the Government’s support and certain guarantees for investors.
“President Emmanuel Macron is continuing the trend of maintaining strong relationships with your country, which was started by Francois Mitterrand and Francois Hollande. France is well represented by enterprises in Kazakhstan, which will allow us to be involved in the economic development and transfer of technologies,” Senate of France member, Helene Conway-Mouret said.
Belgian investors have also learned about the favorable business climate in Kazakhstan They opined that the standard of doing business in Kazakhstan is on par with the international best practices as the country is ranked among the top 30 countries by World Bank’s ranking.
Manager of a Belgian medical equipment manufacturer, Johan Focquet said that the company has a good presence in Kazakhstan and expansion plans are in the pipeline.
“We are participating in the oncology program that was initiated under the leadership of President Nazarbayev. We have local partners that bring our products to Kazakhstan,” he said.
Focquet added that currently the medical equipment is being used in six radiation and oncology centers in Astana, Almaty, Aktobe, Semei and Ust-Kamenogorsk and Pavlodar will be added into the list soon.
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Killswitch Engage Share Tabs for Unheard New Song, Fans Cover It
Travis Shinn
After announcing their new album, Atonement, and debuting "Unleashed," the opening track, Killswitch Engage have shared the guitar tabs for the chorus of another new song, "I Am Broken Too." While the track remains unreleased, fans have given us a glimpse of what it may sound like, uploading their cover versions to YouTube, which can be heard below.
It's all part of a contest. On Twitter, the band wrote, "Joel wrote out the tabs for the chorus of 'I Am Broken Too,' so how about we have a little contest? Grab your guitar, camera, and post your interpretations to @YouTube before you can hear how WE play it for a chance to win a prize bundle!"
As expected, there's some variation in the results. Overall, most of the covers we've gathered take the same approach with the rhythm riding a relaxed mid-tempo while the lead effuses mournful beauty.
Listen to this one and let's move on and compare.
Now, let's switch it up with a high-energy kick. This one has a bit of a pop-punk feel, anthemic and refreshing.
Look at this overachiever! He recorded both guitar parts, bass and drums. There's only one thing that matters though — how accurate is it all? We'll find out soon enough.
We finally have someone with a sense of theatricality. Unleash your inner Adam D. and let it rip!
Nice shirt, kid.
You too.
Okay and here's some more.
Atonement comes out Aug. 16 on Metal Blade. Pre-order your copy here and catch Killswitch Engage on tour with Clutch at the dates listed below.
Killswitch Engage + Clutch 2019 Tour
July 8 - Quebec City, Quebec @ Festival d'été de Québec#
July 11 - London, Ontario @ Rock the park festival
July 12 - Syracuse, N.Y. @ SI Hall
July 13 - Inwood, W.V. @ Earth Rocker Festival
July 14 - Myrtle Beach, S.C. @ House of Blues
July 16 - Fort Wayne, Ind. @ The Clyde
July 18 - Sioux City, Iowa @ Hard Rock & Casin
July 19 - Cadott, Wis. @ Cadott Rock Fest
July 20 - OshKosh, Wis. @ Rock USA Festival 2019
July 22 - Tulsa, Okla. @ The Brady Theater
July 23 - St. Louis, Mo. @ The Pageant
July 25 - Bethlehem, Pa. @ Sands Event Center
July 26 - Asbury Park, N.J. @ Stone Pony Outdoors
July 27 - Montreal, Quebec @ HEAVY MONTRÉAL
July 28 - Bangor, Maine @ Impact Festival
July 30 - Huntington, N.Y. @ The Paramount
Aug. 1 - Columbus, Ohio @ Express Live
Aug. 2 - Pittsburgh, Pa. @ Stage AE Outdoors
Aug. 3 - Port Chester, N.Y. @ Capital Theater
Aug. 4 - Worcester, Mass. @ Palladium Outdoors
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Key wins drive further team expansion
We have recently been appointed to work with Hyde New Homes for a development in Shoreham by Sea and to undertake further project work for Newby in the Yorkshire Dales, as well further campaign work for Hill in Oxford and West London.
The new appointments include, Ashleigh Wilks, and Amy Todd, as client relationship managers, Adam Willbourn and Johanna Aalto add to the advertising team and Charlotte Woodman takes a year’s internship as marketing coordinator.
Key recently picked up three accolades as well as the top Grand Prix award at the Property Marketing Awards (PMA) 2018.
Neil Armstrong, Key managing director, says: “I’m delighted to welcome so many new faces to Key. They bring with them some really impressive skills and experience which will add significantly to the team.
“It’s all about offering our clients the best possible service and deliver award-winning campaigns that generate results. These new team members are at the heart of our on-going commitment to offer insight and expertise in the property sector.”
Exciting times to say the least! Speak to the team about how we can propel your campaigns further.
Put a face to the name: Key new appointments l-r: Adam Willbourn, Amy Todd, Johanna Aalto, Ashleigh Wilks and Charlotte Woodman.
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Boy with no Legs – Never Gave Up
Naga Naresh Karutura has just passed out of IIT Madras in Computer Science and has joined Google in Bangalore. You may ask, what’s so special about this 21-year-old when there are hundreds of students passing from various IITs and joining big companies like Google?
Naresh is special. His parents are illiterate. He has no legs and moves around in his powered wheel chair.
Ever smiling, optimistic and full of spirit; that is Naresh. He says, “God has always been planning things for me. That is why I feel I am lucky.” Read why Naresh feels he is lucky.
Childhood in a village
I spent the first seven years of my life in Teeparru, a small village in Andhra Pradesh, on the banks of the river Godavari . My father Prasad was a lorry driver and my mother Kumari, a house wife. Though they were illiterate, my parents instilled in me and my elder sister (Sirisha) the importance of studying.
Looking back, one thing that surprises me now is the way my father taught me when I was in the 1st and 2nd standards. My father would ask me questions from the text book, and I would answer them. At that time, I didn’t know he could not read or write but to make me happy, he helped me in my studies!
Another memory that doesn’t go away is the floods in the village and how I was carried on top of a buffalo by my uncle. I also remember plucking fruits from a tree that was full of thorns.
I used to be very naughty, running around and playing all the time with my friends.. I used to get a lot of scolding for disturbing the elders who slept in the afternoon. The moment they started scolding, I would run away to the fields!
I also remember finishing my school work fast in class and sleeping on the teacher’s lap!
January 11, 1993, the fateful day
On the January 11, 1993 when we had the sankranti holidays, my mother took my sister and me to a nearby village for a family function. From there we were to go with our grandmother to our native place. But my grandmother did not come there. As there were no buses that day, my mother took a lift in my father’s friend’s lorry. As there were many people in the lorry, he made me sit next to him, close to the door.
It was my fault; I fiddled with the door latch and it opened wide throwing me out. As I fell, my legs got cut by the iron rods protruding from the lorry. Nothing happened to me except scratches on my legs.
The accident had happened just in front of a big private hospital but they refused to treat me saying it was an accident case. Then a police constable who was passing by took us to a government hospital.
First I underwent an operation as my small intestine got twisted. The doctors also bandaged my legs. I was there for a week. When the doctors found that gangrene had developed and it had reached up to my knees, they asked my father to take me to a district hospital. There, the doctors scolded my parents a lot for neglecting the wounds and allowing the gangrene to develop. But what could my ignorant parents do?
In no time, both my legs were amputated up to the hips.
I remember waking up and asking my mother, where are my legs? I also remember that my mother cried when I asked the question. I was in the hospital for three months.
Life without legs
I don’t think my life changed dramatically after I lost both my legs. Because all at home were doting on me, I was enjoying all the attention rather than pitying myself. I was happy that I got a lot of fruits and biscuits.
‘I never wallowed in self-pity’
The day I reached my village, my house was flooded with curious people; all of them wanted to know how a boy without legs looked. But I was not bothered; I was happy to see so many of them coming to see me, especially my friends!
All my friends saw to it that I was part of all the games they played; they carried me everywhere.
God’s hand. I believe in God. I believe in destiny. I feel he plans everything for you. If not for the accident, we would not have moved from the village to Tanuku, a town. There I joined a missionary school, and my father built a house next to the school. Till the tenth standard, I studied in that school.
If I had continued in Teeparu, I may not have studied after the 10th. I may have started working as a farmer or someone like that after my studies. I am sure God had other plans for me.
My sister, my friend
When the school was about to reopen, my parents moved from Teeparu to Tanuku, a town, and admitted both of us in a Missionary school. They decided to put my sister also in the same class though she is two years older. They thought she could take care of me if both of us were in the same class. My sister never complained.
She would be there for everything. Many of my friends used to tell me, you are so lucky to have such a loving sister. There are many who do not care for their siblings.
She carried me in the school for a few years and after a while, my friends took over the task. When I got the tricycle, my sister used to push me around in the school.
My life, I would say, was normal, as everyone treated me like a normal kid. I never wallowed in self-pity. I was a happy boy and competed with others to be on top and the others also looked at me as a competitor.
I was inspired by two people when in school; my Maths teacher Pramod Lal who encouraged me to participate in various local talent tests, and a brilliant boy called Chowdhary, who was my senior.
When I came to know that he had joined Gowtham Junior College to prepare for IIT-JEE, it became my dream too. I was school first in 10th scoring 542/600.
Because I topped in the state exams, Gowtham Junior College waived the fee for me. Pramod Sir’s recommendation also helped. The fee was around Rs 50,000 per year, which my parents could never afford.
Moving to a residential school
Living in a residential school was a big change for me because till then my life centred around home and school and I had my parents and sister to take care of all my needs. It was the first time that I was interacting with society. It took one year for me to adjust to the new life.
There, my inspiration was a boy called K K S Bhaskar who was in the top 10 in IIT-JEE exams. He used to come to our school to encourage us. Though my parents didn’t know anything about Gowtham Junior School or IIT, they always saw to it that I was encouraged in whatever I wanted to do.. If the results were good, they would praise me to the skies and if bad, they would try to see something good in that. They did not want me to feel bad. They are such wonderful supportive parents.
Life at IIT- Madras
Though my overall rank in the IIT-JEE was not that great (992), I was 4th in the physically handicapped category. So, I joined IIT, Madras to study Computer Science.
Here, my role model was Karthik who was also my senior in school. I looked up to him during my years at IIT- Madras. He had asked for attached bathrooms for those with special needs before I came here itself. So, when I came here, the room had attached bath. He used to help me and guide me a lot when I was here.
I evolved as a person in these four years, both academically and personally. It has been a great experience studying here. The people I was interacting with were so brilliant that I felt privileged to sit along with them in the class. Just by speaking to my lab mates, I gained a lot..
‘There are more good people in society than bad ones’
Words are inadequate to express my gratitude to Prof Pandurangan and all my lab mates; all were simply great. I was sent to Boston along with four others for our internship by Prof Pandurangan. It was a great experience.
Joining Google R&D
I did not want to pursue PhD as I wanted my parents to take rest now. Morgan Stanley selected me first but I preferred Google because I wanted to work in pure computer science, algorithms and game theory.
I am lucky. Do you know why I say I am lucky?
I get help from total strangers without me asking for it. Once after my second year at IIT, I with some of my friends was travelling in a train for a conference. We met a kind gentleman called Sundar in the train, and he has been taking care of my hostel fees from then on.
I have to mention about Jaipur foot. I had Jaipur foot when I was in 3rd standard. After two years, I stopped using them. As I had almost no stems on my legs, it was very tough to tie them to the body. I found walking with Jaipur foot very, very slow. Sitting also was a problem. I found my tricycle faster because I am one guy who wants to do things faster.
One great thing about the hospital is, they don’t think their role ends by just fixing the Jaipur foot; they arrange for livelihood for all. They asked me what help I needed from them. I told them at that time, if I got into an IIT, I needed financial help from them. So, from the day I joined IIT, Madras , my fees were taken care of by them. So, my education at the IIT was never a burden on my parents and they could take care of my sister’s Nursing studies.
Surprise awaited me at IIT
After my first year, when I went home, two things happened here at the Institute without my knowledge.
I got a letter from my department that they had arranged a lift and ramps at the department for me. It also said that if I came a bit early and checked whether it met with my requirements, it would be good.
Second surprise was, the Dean, Prof Idichandy and the Students General Secretary, Prasad had located a place that sold powered wheel chairs. The cost was Rs 55,000. What they did was, they did not buy the wheel chair; they gave me the money so that the wheel chair belonged to me and not the institute.
My life changed after that. I felt free and independent. That’s why I say I am lucky. God has planned things for me and takes care of me at every step.
The world is full of good people.
I also feel if you are motivated and show some initiative, people around you will always help you. I also feel there are more good people in society than bad ones. I want all those who read this to feel that if Naresh can achieve something in life, you can too.
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What Die Hard Teaches Us About How To Make A Sequel
Ria Misra
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There are a lot of different methods of putting together a sequel (or three), with results ranging from the better-than-the-original to the eye-meltingly terrible. But does Die Hard, and its seemingly unending series of sequels, have a lesson to teach us about how to plan a sequel?
In response to the news that the I Am Legend prequel was actually going to be made from an unrelated script, retro-fitted to Will Smith's lonely, vampire-filled dystopia, a discussion began about another series that took a disconnected approach to building sequels: Die Hard.
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Die Hard pulled this off successfully for a long time: Taking unrelated novels/scripts and turning them into a Die Hard sequel. The only time they actually had someone draft a full-on "DIE HARD MOVIE" from scratch? We got fucking A Good Day to Die Hard, the worst thing to happen to the whole franchise.
So this could actually be very beneficial. Sometimes it's better to translate an already-good script to a property rather than having someone craft a new story from the ground-up that's all based around the conventions and established situations of said property.
Though other commenters noted that, even if the stories shifted around a bit, there was still able to bring continuity through the characters, which the Will Smith-less Legend prequel would be without:
They pulled it off successfully by having that "Die Hard" guy in every movie. Bruce Willis tied them together, and he brought enough humour to even out the rough/unbelievable bits.
Without the lead actor, the only connection for the Legend movies will be the vampires, and they... weren't good.
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Yeah, but the Die Hard movies were all able to get Bruce Willis.
Though it's hilarious that Die Hard itself was originally pitched as a sequel to Arnold Schwarzeneggar's Commando, and was supposed to be a sequel to Frank Sinatra's The Detective before that. So I guess it worked that time, but probably turning a dubious sequel into a stand-alone film has a better success rate than turning stand-alone films into dubious sequels.
What do you look for in a sequel? Do you want the plot threads from the last movie wrapped up or is it enough just to revisit a world or its characters? Tell us about the sequels that got it right and the ones that got it wrong — and how they did it — in the comments.
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FAO targets 3 million people for emergency assistance as looming drought threatens lives in Ethiopia
Home General FAO targets 3 million people for emergency assistance as looming drought threatens lives in Ethiopia
June 26, 2019June 26, 2019By admin
Following the below-average Belg rainfall in February to May 2019 and the impact of consecutive droughts in the previous years, as well as conflict-induced internal displacements, nearly 9 million people need humanitarian and livelihood assistance in Ethiopia. The number of affected people is expected to increase as the rainfall forecast by the Ethiopian Meteorological Agency for the Meher season (June to September) is likely to be below average, particularly in south eastern parts of the country, mostly Somali region.
“Farmers and herders are most vulnerable to the drought condition,” said Fatouma Seid, FAO Representative to Ethiopia. “The humanitarian needs from the previous years have remained in 2019 due to insufficient recovery and resilience activities over the years. There is an urgent need to address the current condition and implement early action to reduce the impact of the looming drought,” she added.
Forecasts also indicated that early cessation in eastern Oromia, SNNP and Gambela regions may reduce crop performance and result in high chance of food insecurity. Depressed rainfall in most parts of Ethiopia will likely result in animal feed and water shortage, animal disease outbreaks, and unusual livestock movements in search of pasture and browse. The Regional Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) has already issued a drought alert and warned that the upcoming drought conditions in the Horn of Africa will be similar to that of the 2017 drought in terms of scale and resource requirements.
According to 2019 Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan, 3.1 million heads of households require agricultural assistance and USD 63.3 million is required for humanitarian assistance and recovery activities. However, the sector remained highly underfunded in 2018 and the number of households reached with drought recovery assistance was limited.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) plans to reach 600 000 drought affected farmers and herders (3 million people) in hot spot areas and in highest level of food insecurity to protect their livestock and strengthen their capacity in crop production using irrigation options. FAO also works with partners to strengthen coordination mechanisms and national structures on joint situation monitoring, food and nutrition assessment and analysis as well as generating data and information sharing.
FAO requires USD 36 million to implement its Emergency Livelihood Response Plan to reach its target beneficiaries through livelihood saving activities and strengthening coordination mechanisms.
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Home Analogue lifestyle Thee Concerned Citizens in Soho
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“Tough guy. Billy calling. I want you to come back from Romania. Come to Soho,” read the text. I wasn’t actually in Romania, but that didn’t seem important. “I want you to take a vintage camera photo for me (for money but very little money).” Billy Brentford is often this cryptic.
What for, I texted back? “My supergroup. Dean St Studios. B/W. Analogue photos. Wanna look like a band on Stiff in 1978.”
Soho. Stiff Records. Last gangs in town and black and white film. It was a deal. So I found myself in Soho on a cold grey October day, a pair of Pentaxes in my camera bag and a bunch of black and white film, off to meet a band who went by the name Thee Concerned Citizens.
Billy Brentford is an old mucker with a fine music biz pedigree – on both sides of the microphone. Thee Concerned Citizens is his latest musical project, a left-wing broadside from the era of Dr Feelgood and The 101ers, splicing Socialist calls to action with a Pub Rock beat. His cohorts include members of The Bluetones and Paul Weller’s band, and singer-songwriter Chris T-T.
They were in Dean Street Studios for a couple of days to race through tracks for their album, timed to hit the shops (and internet aisles) in time for the forthcoming UK general election. It would be fair to say that David Cameron is not the intended listener.
For a good 20 years I was a music journalist, including a stint working on the NME’s website during the height of Britpop. The photo files were crammed with pics from the heyday of punk; snarling, sneering packs of skinny-trousered menace taken on black and white film, pictured in front of urban squalor, graffiti and decay. Stiff Records – one of Billy’s faves – introduced the likes of Elvis Costello, Madness, The Damned and Ian Dury – a soundtrack of dead-eyed discontent in a troubled decade.
It seemed churlish not to shoot it on a camera from that era too. Billy’s favourite band is The Clash, and The Clash’s longtime collaborator Pennie Smith still shoots on the Pentax ESIIs she used to take iconic shots like the cover of the band’s album ‘London Calling‘. I have a half-dozen of them after seeing her shoot a Manic Street Preachers gig on one some years back; they’re my favourite 35mm camera. A couple of ESIIs and a bunch of lenses are my usual set-up for when I’m travelling.
The Soho of today is rapidly losing its old edge; iconic old venues that hinted at the district’s darker underbelly – like Madam Jo-Jos – are being closed down to make way for luxury flats. Chain stores squeeze out the old shops. But Soho is still Soho. The Cees Cees glowered and stared with Stiff-era menace. We decamped back into the studio – it’s amazing how black and white film and pools of corridor lamplight can create such atmosphere.
Thee Concerned Citizens album isn’t out yet, but you can follow them on Twitter. Check out a post about shooting Billy’s other band – Thee Faction – 1970s style, and a review of the excellent Pentax ESII.
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Efficacy and tolerability of lithium in treating acute mania in youth with bipolar disorder: protocol for a systematic review
A. Duffy1, 2Email authorView ORCID ID profile,
S. Patten3,
S. Goodday4,
A. Weir1, 5,
N. Heffer6 and
A. Cipriani7, 8
Epidemiological, clinical, and high-risk studies have provided evidence that the peak period for onset of diagnosable episodes of mania and hypomania starts in mid-to-late adolescence. Moreover, clinically significant manic symptoms may occur even earlier, especially in children at familial risk. Lithium is the gold standard treatment for acute mania in adults, yet to our knowledge, there is no published systematic review assessing lithium treatment of mania in children or adolescents. This is a major gap in knowledge needed to inform clinical practice.
As a working group within the ISBD Task Force on Lithium Treatment (http://www.isbd.org/active-task-forces), our aim is to complete a systematic review of the efficacy, tolerability, and acceptability of lithium compared with placebo and other active drugs in treating mania in children and adolescents diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
We will include double- or single-blind randomized controlled trials in patients aged less than 18 years. No restrictions will be made by study publication date or language. Several electronic databases will be searched along with secondary sources such as bibliographies and trial registry websites for published and unpublished studies. Response rates to lithium compared with placebo or other active drugs will be the primary efficacy outcome. Primary tolerability and acceptability outcomes will be rates of serious adverse events and dropouts, respectively. Secondary outcomes will include rates of remission, severity of manic symptoms at different time points, and incidence of specific adverse events.
Findings from this systematic review are critically needed to inform clinical practice. We should not generalize findings from adult studies, as children and adolescents are undergoing accelerated physiological and brain development. Therefore, efficacy, tolerability, and acceptability of lithium treatment of acute mania in children compared to adults may be very different. This systematic review has been registered in PROSPERO (CRD42017055675).
Acute treatment
Bipolar disorder (BD) describes a group of heterogeneous mood disorders (Angst et al. 2004). More than 2% of the world’s population is affected with the most severe forms identified by a manic, mixed or hypomanic episode; while an estimated 5% of the population is affected with milder spectrum conditions (McDonald et al. 2015; Merikangas et al. 2007). In addition, relatively high rates of manic symptoms are reported in child and adolescent non-clinical populations, which can represent normative variants rather than precursors to BD unless combined with other risk factors such as family history (Tijssen et al. 2010a, b). Bipolar disorder runs in families with an estimated heritability of up to 80% (Bienvenu et al. 2011; Smoller and Finn 2003). High-risk, clinical, and population studies estimate that the peak period for onset of BD is adolescence and early adulthood (Duffy et al. 2014; Mesman et al. 2013; Leboyer et al. 2005; Angst et al. 2005a, b). Yet, it is estimated to take over a decade to accurately diagnose BD and this delay is associated with devastating consequences including school drop-out, economic, occupational, and interpersonal problems, inappropriate treatment, substance abuse and chronicity (Ghaemi et al. 2002; Judd et al. 2005). Given that the onset occurs during a critical developmental period, taken together with the lag in diagnosis and severity of acute episodes early in the course, it is not surprising that BD is among the leading causes of years lived with disability worldwide (Whiteford et al. 2013). Further, there is a significant reduction in life expectancy evident already early in the illness course in adolescent patients attributable to medical illness, accidents, and suicide (Baethge and Cassidy 2013; Kessing et al. 2015a; b).
Lithium is the first line or gold standard treatment for acute mania and prophylaxis of recurrent BD episodes (both manic and depressive) in adults (Yatham et al. 2013; Grof and Muller-Oerlinghausen 2009). Moreover, substantial evidence supports that lithium has a specific anti-suicidal effect with the potential to normalize the morbidity rate in BD patients (Muller-Oerlinghausen et al. 1992; Cipriani et al. 2013; Baldessarini and Tondo 2008). Despite the widespread use of lithium in treating BD for over 50 years, we still know little about the specific therapeutic mechanisms of action (Malhi and Outhred 2016). Importantly here, lithium started earlier in the course of BD may have a higher likelihood of treatment response (Kessing et al. 2014) and preliminary findings suggest that lithium may have neuroprotective effects (Malhi and Outhred 2016; Hajek et al. 2013; Pfennig et al. 2014). Yet, the effectiveness, tolerability, and acceptability of lithium treatment in children and adolescents diagnosed with BD is even less well understood and understudied. As a result, most guidelines focus on adult patients with established illness (Yatham et al. 2013; Fountoulakis et al. 2016). Therefore, as part of the ISBD Task Force on Lithium Treatment (http://www.isbd.org/active-task-forces), our working group is embarking on a systematic review of studies to inform efficacy, tolerability, and acceptability of lithium treatment for acute mania in children and adolescents diagnosed with BD.
Criteria for considering studies
We will include double- or single-blind randomized controlled trials where lithium is used in the treatment of acute manic episodes in comparison with other active drugs or placebo. In view of the important role for randomization as a methodological protection against selection bias and confounding, we will exclude all quasi-randomized studies. Studies that report randomization but do not report a procedure for random assignment will be included, as adequacy of randomization will be quantified in our risk of bias assessment. For trials that have a cross-over design, we will only consider results from the first period prior to cross-over.
We will consider all studies including males and females less than 18 years of age with a primary diagnosis of BD and experiencing a manic episode, according to standard diagnostic criteria such as DSM or equivalent. Studies that defined mania only as scoring above a certain cut-off on a screening questionnaire will be excluded, as will studies that defined a manic equivalent as part of a primary mood dysregulation disorder. We will not apply any restrictions by treatment setting. We will not consider concurrent secondary diagnosis of another psychiatric disorder an exclusion criterion. However, we will exclude studies recruiting participants with a serious concomitant medical illness, neurological disorder, diagnosed intellectual disability, or brain injury.
Lithium any dose within the therapeutic range (between 0.4 and 1.2 mmol/l) and any method of administration (i.e. tablet or syrup).
Placebo.
Any other active drugs tested for acute mania (including atypical and typical antipsychotics and anticonvulsants).
All interventions could be monotherapy or combined with other treatments. We will include trials that allow for rescue medications (as required, short-term, infrequent use aimed at emergent symptom relief only) as long as these medications were equally applied among the randomized arms.
We will include studies that meet the above inclusion criteria regardless of whether they reported on the outcomes under study.
Primary outcomes
Efficacy: Difference in response (as defined by a decrease in score on any validated mania rating scale of ≥50% from baseline) between lithium and comparatively treated patients (placebo or other anti-manic agent) at designated time points
Tolerability: Difference in serious adverse events (e.g. death, renal failure, diabetes insipidus, clinically significant ECG changes, toxic rash) between lithium and comparatively treated patients
Acceptability: Differences in discontinuation rates for any reason between lithium and comparatively treated patients
Secondary outcomes
Efficacy: Difference in remission (YMRS (Young et al. 1978) score of ≤12 or equivalent) between lithium and comparatively treated patients at designated time points
Efficacy: Difference in mean endpoint scores and change in scores of manic symptoms (as measured by the YMRS or equivalent)
Tolerability: Differences in specific side effects including but not limited to cognitive impairment, diarrhoea, gastric irritation, nausea, haematological abnormalities, hypothyroidism, hyperparathyroidism, polyuria, non-toxic rash, somnolence, lethargy, thirst, tremor, weight gain
To avoid missing any rare or unexpected side effects, in the data-extraction phase, we will collect information on all side effects reported in the included studies and discuss ways to summarize them post hoc.
Outcomes will be recorded at the following time points, if reported by individual studies:
At 4 days (if not available less than 1 week)
At 1 week (or between 1 and 2 weeks)
At 3 weeks (or more than 2 and up to 4 weeks)
At 12 weeks (or more than 8 and up to 16 weeks)
Search methods for identification of studies
We will search EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), the trial databases of regulatory agencies and the websites of pharmacological industries for published, unpublished and ongoing randomized controlled trials. No language or study publication date restrictions will be applied. See PROSPERO (CRD42017055675) for full details about the search strategy, including the text words and keywords that will be used and the list of websites.
Data extraction and analysis
Two authors (AW and NH) will independently screen titles and abstracts to identify potentially relevant studies retrieved by the search strategy. The full text of the screened studies will be reviewed for inclusion. Agreement rates on the initial assessments will be reported using the kappa coefficient. All reasons for excluding the ineligible studies will be recorded. Any disagreement will be resolved through discussion or, if required, by consulting other authors of the review team (AD, SP, AC). The frequency and nature of all such disagreements will be recorded in a study log. We will identify and remove duplicate records and collate multiple reports that relate to the same study so that each study, rather than each report, is the unit of interest in the review. We will record the selection process in sufficient detail to complete a PRISMA (Moher et al. 2009) flow diagram and a characteristics of excluded studies table.
Assessment of risk of bias in included studies
Pairs of review authors (AD, AW, SP, SG) will independently assess the risks of bias for each study using the criteria outlined in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (Higgins et al. 2011; Higgins and Green 2011). Any disagreements will be resolved by discussion with another member of the review team (AC) and the results of these discussions will be logged. We will assess the risk of bias according to the following domains: random sequence generation, allocation concealment, blinding of participants and personnel, blinding of outcome assessment, incomplete outcome data, and selective outcome reporting. We will judge each potential source of bias as high, low, or unclear. Intra-class correlation coefficients will be used to quantify the risk of bias assignments by different reviewers.
Measures of treatment effect
Continuous data
We will calculate the mean difference (MD) or standardized mean difference (SMD) along with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI) for continuous outcomes. We will use the MD where the same scale is used to measure an outcome. We will employ the SMD where different scales were used to measure the same underlying construct.
Dichotomous data
We will calculate the relative risk (RR) with corresponding 95% CI for dichotomous outcomes. We will calculate response rates out of the total number of randomized participants. For statistically significant results, we will calculate the number needed to treat for an additional beneficial outcome (NNTB) and the number needed to treat for an additional harmful outcome (NNTH).
For both continuous and dichotomous data, we will only conduct a meta-analysis if pooling is appropriate; that is, if the treatments, participants, and the underlying clinical question are homogenous enough. We will narratively describe skewed data reported as medians and interquartile ranges. If meta-analysis is pursued, log transformation of relative risks will be used to enhance normality of the estimates. Standard errors will be estimated from the reported confidence intervals.
We will contact the original study authors for missing data when these are inadequately described in the study publications.
Missing dichotomous data
We will calculate responders to treatment and remitters on a strict intention-to-treat (ITT) basis and we will include dropouts in this analysis. Where participants were excluded from a trial before the endpoint, we will assume that they experienced a negative outcome by the end of the trial (failure to respond to treatment). We will examine the validity of this decision in sensitivity analyses.
Missing continuous data
When there are missing data and the method of ‘last observation carried forward’ (LOCF) is used to perform an ITT analysis, we will use the LOCF data. When only the standard error or t statistics or p values are reported, we will calculate standard deviations (SD) according to Altman and Bland (1996). Where SDs are not reported, we will contact the authors for these data but, in the absence of data from the authors, we will borrow SD from other studies in the review (Furukawa et al. 2006). We will examine the validity of this imputation by sensitivity analyses.
Assessment of heterogeneity
We will first investigate heterogeneity between studies by visual inspection of all forest plots. If the 95% CI’s of the RR’s for each study in the pooled analysis does not include means of other included studies, we will investigate potential sources of heterogeneity. We will also calculate the I 2 statistic and will interpret the level of heterogeneity according to the criteria outlined by the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (2011). We will consider if the importance of the observed value of I 2 depends on (i) the magnitude and direction of effects and (ii) the strength of evidence for heterogeneity.
Assessment of reporting biases
We will assess publication bias and small-study effects using a funnel plot. We plan to use the test for funnel plot asymmetry only when at least 10 studies are included in the meta-analysis. In the event of using a funnel plot, we will interpret results cautiously using visual inspection. If we identify evidence of small-study effects, we will investigate possible reasons for funnel plot asymmetry including publication bias (Egger et al. 1997).
Data synthesis
We will calculate the pooled RR with corresponding 95% CIs for dichotomous outcomes. We will calculate the pooled MD or SMD as appropriate with corresponding 95% CIs for continuous outcomes. Statistical significance will be defined as a p value of less than 0.05 and a 95% CI that does not cross the line of no effect. In forest plots with two or more studies, we will use a random-effects model for both dichotomous and continuous variables. We will adopt the random effects model under these circumstances because it has the highest generalizability for empirical examination of summary effect measures in meta-analyses (Furukawa et al. 2002).
Subgroup analysis
As multiple analyses can lead to false-positive and false-negative conclusions, subgroup analyses should be performed and interpreted with caution. We will conduct subgroup analyses for primary outcomes comparing children (up to 12 years) to adolescents (between 13 and 18 years).
Sensitivity analysis
We will conduct the following sensitivity analyses for primary outcomes:
Excluding trials with unclear allocation concealment or unclear double-blinding
Excluding studies that recruited participants with rapid-cycling
Excluding trials with a dropout rate greater than 20%
Excluding trials for which the SD had to be borrowed from other trials
Excluding trials where lithium was the comparator drug
Excluding trials with high-risk of bias from any source
Excluding cross-over trials where only first period data are available
We will explore sensitivity analyses for missing data by applying worst and best case scenarios (that is, missing data are assumed either as responder or non-responder in the corresponding sensitivity analysis). Finally, we will explore potential additional sensitivity analyses and will report these post hoc.
Summary of findings table
We will construct a ‘Summary of findings’ table for each comparison and use GRADE proGDT software and the principles of the GRADE approach (Atkins et al. 2004) to assess the quality of a body of evidence based on the extent to which there can be confidence that the obtained effect estimate reflects the true underlying effect.
There is a major evidence gap needed to inform clinicians faced with treating seriously ill youth diagnosed with BD. Over the past decade, there have been a number of individual acute mania treatment studies published that should be systematically reviewed and if possible findings combined into a meta-analysis. While more, well-designed, treatment trials are needed in larger numbers of BD youth during various phases of the illness, this systematic review represents an important next step; summarizing the available data to provide evidence about the efficacy, tolerability, and acceptability of lithium treatment of acute mania in youth with a primary diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
All the authors have contributed to the study design and writing of this manuscript. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Mood Disorders Centre of Ottawa, University of Ottawa Health Services, 100 Marie Curie Private, Suite 300, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada
Department of Psychiatry, Hotel Dieu Hospital, Queen’s University, 166 Brock Street, Kingston, ON, K7L 5G2, Canada
Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Department of Epidemiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Department of Epidemiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK
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Dynamic tilt illusion induced by continuous contextual orientation alternations
Xiangyong Yuan; Xilei Zhang; Yi Jiang
Xiangyong Yuan
State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
yuanxy@psych.ac.cn
Xilei Zhang
zhangxilei@psych.ac.cn
yijiang@psych.ac.cn
http://vision.psych.ac.cn/
Journal of Vision November 2017, Vol.17, 1. doi:10.1167/17.13.1
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Xiangyong Yuan, Xilei Zhang, Yi Jiang; Dynamic tilt illusion induced by continuous contextual orientation alternations. Journal of Vision 2017;17(13):1. doi: 10.1167/17.13.1.
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In the classic tilt illusion, the perceived orientation of a center patch is shifted away from its oriented context. Additionally, a stronger illusion effect is yielded when the center patch is simultaneously rather than asynchronously presented with a constant context for a shorter duration. However, little is known about the temporal characteristic of the tilt illusion in a reverse situation in which a constant center patch is presented throughout while the contexts change. Therefore, we continuously alternated two opposite-oriented contexts and manipulated alternate speeds to examine how the tilt illusion would build up as a function of dynamic contextual alternation. Our results revealed that dynamic alternations between leftward- and rightward-oriented contexts caused a static vertical grating at the center to apparently sway from side to side. More importantly, the apparent sway illusion was modulated by the alternate speed of the oriented contexts (up to 8–10 Hz); the quicker the alternation is, the faster and weaker the apparent sway is. Intriguingly, the temporal characteristic of the “dynamic tilt illusion” suggests that, under a varying environment, the suppressions from temporally adjacent surrounds would be chunked into discrete epochs before affecting our percept.
Objects are rarely seen in isolation. The visual perception of an object can be significantly modulated by the context in which it is embedded. Of significant relevance is the direct tilt effect, a well-known illusion with which the presence of an oriented surround stimulus (e.g., 15° tilted from the vertical orientation) biases the perceived orientation of a concurrently presented center patch in the opposite way (Clifford, 2014; Gibson, 1937). Several models have been proposed to explain the tilt illusion (Clifford, 2014; Schwartz, Hsu, & Dayan, 2007). For example, it has been suggested that, due to lateral inhibition, the responses of the orientation-selective neurons whose classical receptive field (CRF) covers the center are more strongly inhibited if their preferred orientation is closer to the surround orientation. In contrast, these orientation-selective neurons are almost unaffected if their preferred orientation is far away from the surround orientation. It manifested as if the hill activity of the neuron population shifted away from the surround orientation.
The temporal aspect of the tilt illusion has also been investigated for decades to fully elucidate its characteristics. Early psychophysiological studies have shown that a stronger illusion is yielded by shorter exposure of the context and center. Usually, a briefly flashed context and center (10–30 ms) induces the greatest illusionary shift, which gradually decreases to an asymptotic value as the display duration is lengthened to 100–300 ms (Wenderoth & Johnstone, 1988; Wenderoth, Zwan, & Johnstone, 1989; Wolfe, 1984). Moreover, the simultaneous presentation of the oriented context and the center patch at an extremely shorter duration, such that the context is suppressed from awareness, could also result in an observable tilt illusion (Clifford & Harris, 2005; Mareschal & Clifford, 2012).
This strongly manifested and rapidly aroused tilt illusion is supported by data directly recorded from the primary visual cortex of primates and cats. Neuron responses to the CRF stimulus surrounded by an iso-oriented context start to decrease no more than about 20 ms from the onset of the neuron responses to the CRF stimulus only or to the CRF stimulus with a orthogonally oriented context (Bair, Cavanaugh, & Movshon, 2003; Knierim & van Essen, 1992; Müller, Metha, Krauskopf, & Lennie, 2003; Nothdurft, Gallant, & van Essen, 1999; Shimegi et al., 2014, but see Zipser, Lamme, & Schiller, 1996, who reported a slightly longer onset latency at about 80 ms). Consistently, surround suppression, as indicated by the reduction of evoked magnetic responses in the human visual cortex, is also accompanied with a small response delay (Ohtani, Okamura, Yoshida, Toyama, & Ejima, 2002).
The immediate influence on a center patch by its surround, however, does not mean that surround suppression will decay at a comparable speed. Researchers manipulating the temporal separation between the center patch and the oriented context found that, although the tilt illusion decreases as the stimulus onset asynchrony increases, it completely disappears only when the context precedes the center beyond about 300 ms (Corbett, Handy, & Enns, 2009; Durant & Clifford, 2006; Matin, 1974). Further, neurophysiological results support the finding that neurons are suppressed not only during the presentation of the context (Knierim & van Essen, 1992; Lamme, 1995; Zipser et al., 1996), but up to almost 200 ms after its disappearance (Ishikawa, Shimegi, Kida, & Sato, 2010; Shimegi et al., 2014).
The aforementioned temporal properties of the tilt illusion, i.e., immediately evoked but temporally extended, are mainly found when a center patch with a short duration (from tens to hundreds of milliseconds) is accompanied by an unchanged context of the same amount of time. However, in a more natural situation, the contexts may be flexible to change. This inspires an interesting question about how surround suppression will appear in a situation in which the context changes dynamically but the center remains still for a relatively long duration. Therefore, in the present study, to investigate how dynamic contexts affect a static center, we continuously alternated leftward- and rightward-oriented contexts, and examined whether a vertical grating at the center would be dynamically modulated and would apparently sway back and forth as a pendulum.
Moreover, given that the tilt effect, at any moment, is influenced by a preceding context (Corbett et al., 2009; Durant & Clifford, 2006), it is almost impossible to extract the instantaneous tilt effect at any precise time point when the outside world is changing rapidly. Illusory percept, in this case, probably depends on the surround suppression temporally chunked into distinct epochs as shown in many other research fields. For example, if the alternate speed between successive items exceeds the individual's temporal resolution, temporally adjacent items would be parsed into one epoch and integrated into a unified perception instead of being chunked into separate epochs to trigger flicker perception, apparent motion, etc. (Holcombe, 2009; VanRullen, 2016; VanRullen & Koch, 2003). If the “dynamic tilt illusion” exists, it is expected to be modulated by the alternate speed of the oriented contexts too. Specifically, the illusionary sway would be more apparent when the contexts alternate at a relatively slow speed because the inhibition mechanism would rely on one single context, just like that in the classic tilt illusion. When the alternate speed increases, two or more opposite contextual orientations are more likely to be temporally parsed into a single epoch to modulate the visual perception of the central grating.
The study was approved by the institutional review board of the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and it adhered to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. In total, 44 participants with normal or corrected-to-normal vision were recruited and paid for their participation. All provided informed consent before formal experiments. Sixteen participants completed Experiment 1 with half of them assigned to the red/green surround condition (four males; mean age = 22.6, SD = 1.6 years) and the other half assigned to the gray surround condition (four males; mean age = 21.6, SD = 2.2 years). Both Experiments 2 and 3 included 10 participants (Experiment 2: four males; mean age = 22.2, SD = 2.3 years; Experiment 3: four males; mean age = 23.4, SD = 2.1 years). Experiment 4 included eight participants (four males; mean age = 23.3, SD = 3.4 years).
Stimuli and apparatus
All experiments were conducted in a dim, sound-attenuated room. Participants sat comfortably at a viewing distance of 57 cm from the monitor. Stimulus gratings were generated by Matlab and presented using Psychtoolbox. The luminance of the red, green, and gray was corrected for the CRT monitor with a resolution of 1280 × 1024 pixels at a refresh rate of 60 Hz. Both the oriented context and center patch were sinusoidal gratings, which had a spatial frequency of 1 c/°, and they were presented on a black background with a luminance of 0.22 cd/m2.
In our experiments, the oriented contexts were red, green, or gray, and they were drawn in an annulus with inner and outer diameters of 3° and 15°, respectively (Figure 1a, b, c, and d). The orientation of the contexts was alternated at different frequencies between 15° clockwise and 15° counterclockwise tilts with respect to the vertical orientation. During each presentation, the two opposite-oriented contexts were modulated by continuously varying the maximal RGBs of the sinusoidal gratings to match a sinusoidal luminance change of between 0.37 and 8.59 cd/m2 (Figure 1e; except for the gray surround in Experiments 1 and 4, the minimum luminance equaled that of the background). For example, the clockwise-oriented context grew bright and dark according to a sinusoidal function of specific frequency while the counterclockwise-oriented context was held constant in a dim lightness (see demo, 1 Hz). The test gratings constantly presented at the center with a maximal luminance of 6.14 cd/m2 were always gray and vertical.
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Examples of stimuli and representative luminance changes over time. Panels a through d show the peak luminance of the surround gratings during the alternations for different experiments and conditions, respectively. The spatial gap between the surround and center in panel d was 1°. The temporal function (1 Hz, for example) that controlled the luminance of the surround gratings has been presented in panel e.
Each presentation lasted for 10 s to ensure that the opposite-oriented contexts alternated at least 10 times in a usual case. However, for alternations at slow frequency (<1 Hz), presentation duration was correspondingly lengthened to include 10 alternations.
Task and design
In general, the opposite-oriented contexts were alternately presented in each trial, and participants were told to judge whether they saw the central grating apparently and continuously swaying from side to side by pressing the up arrow button and if not by pressing the down arrow button in all experiments. The judgments could be made whenever they were sure about their perception during the presentation, and if no judgments were made until the end of the presentation, we required them to register a quick guess. Participants were reminded to respond according to their real percepts rather than inferences, and they were not informed about how many “sway” percepts would be judged. If participants felt that they saw the apparent sway, they were asked to further compare the relative angles of the apparent sway. In other words, they had to indicate whether the angle of the sway in the current presentation was relatively small or large on a four-point scale based on all the apparent sways they had seen before (buttons A, S, D, and F, from smallest to largest).
Experiment 1 tested whether the alternation of the opposite-oriented contexts would cause an apparent sway of the central vertical grating and, if so, whether the increase of the alternate speed/frequency would deteriorate the dynamic tilt illusion. Two types of surround and multiple alternate frequencies were used. For the red/green surround (Figure 1a), seven alternate frequencies were used: 0.6, 0.9, 1.5, 2.4, 4.0, 6.0, and 10.0 Hz, and each level was repeated 30 times, mixed trial-by-trial in seven blocks. For the gray surround (Figure 1b), 0.90, 2.4, and 6.0 Hz were adopted with each repeated 30 times in three blocks.
Experiment 2 added a control condition to examine whether the dynamic tilt illusion is a true perceptual illusion rather than a response prompted by the experimenter. For the control condition, the opposite-oriented contexts were both luminance-modulated at the same frequency with identical phases (Figure 1c). That said, in contrast to the experimental condition, the clockwise- and counterclockwise-oriented contexts always grew bright and dark simultaneously in the control condition (see demo, 1 Hz control), such that the surround would be seen as a colorful plaid rather than two individual gratings with opposite orientations, thus no longer favoring either orientation. Each cell of the three (alternate frequency: 1.0, 3.0, and 8.57 Hz) by two (condition: experimental and control) design was repeated 20 times, mixed across four blocks.
Experiment 3 was designed to further confirm and precisely measure this dynamic tilt illusion. In Experiment 3, when participants were sure about the percepts of the apparent sway, they were required to modulate a real sway of a central grating to match the apparent sway they just saw instead of judging its magnitude on a scale. We created a real sway by gradually changing the clockwise and counterclockwise angles of the central grating according to a sinusoidal function so that the speed as well as the clockwise and counterclockwise angles of the real sway can be modulated. Once certain about their current judgment, participants pressed the space bar to continue. They were previously trained to acquaint with this task in case too much time was spent; otherwise, their memory trace of the apparent sway would gradually decay. Four alternate frequencies of 0.8, 1.6, 2.4, and 3.2 Hz were tested because they produced acceptable proportions of the apparent sway reports to measure (see Results). Each manual modulation was repeated 20 times in four blocks.
Experiment 4 tested whether the dynamic tilt illusion is reduced by introducing a spatial gap between the surround and center, consistent with that found in the tilt illusion. The scenarios and procedures were identical to the gray surrounds of Experiment 1 except that a gap was inserted between the surround and center at 0°, 0.5°, or 1° (e.g., Figure 1d, Demo_1 Hz_GraySpatialGap1degree). The alternate frequency of the oriented surrounds was set to 1 Hz, which was proved very effective in causing the apparent sway (see Results). Each spatial gap was tested 20 times, and the 60 trials were randomly separated into two blocks.
In Experiments 1, 2, and 4, we calculated the proportion and magnitude of the apparent sway reported by the participants. The proportion was measured as the probability of pressing the up arrow button. The magnitude at each alternate frequency and condition was measured as follows: first, the press of the down arrow button was thought as an index of no perceived sway and was scored zero; second, if the up arrow button was pressed, the A to F buttons were assigned scores of one to four, respectively, to represent the magnitude (assumed linear); finally, the mean score across trials was computed as the magnitude of the apparent sway.
In Experiment 3, the proportion was calculated as mentioned above. However, the magnitude was computed by dividing the modulated angle of sway by two, the same measurement as the tilt illusion (Clifford & Harris, 2005; Patten & Clifford, 2015). In addition, another index, i.e., the speed of the apparent sway, was calculated. We used the motion of a pendulum (simulated by a sinusoidal function) to simulate the sway of the central grating. The frequency of the pendulum represented the frequency of the apparent sway. Theoretically, it is half of the alternate frequency because the alternation from clockwise- to counterclockwise-oriented contexts induces a complete sway from left to right.
Without particular mention, all the F values from repeated measures ANOVAs were Greenhouse–Geisser corrected, and all the p values from multiple comparisons were Bonferroni corrected to control the family-wise error rate.
Experiment 1
Results have been presented in Figure 2. For the red/green surround, the repeated measures ANOVAs with the proportion and magnitude of the apparent sway as dependent variables revealed significant effects of alternate frequency, F(6, 42) = 27.675, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.798; F(6, 42) = 25.767, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.786, respectively. For the proportion of the perceived dynamic tilt illusion, the post hoc t tests showed that the 0.6-, 0.9-, and 1.5-Hz alternations induced significantly more reports of the apparent sway than at the 6.0- and 10.0-Hz alternations did (ts > 5, ps < 0.03), and more apparent sway was perceived at the 0.6-Hz than at the 4.0-Hz alternation, t(7) = 6.575, p = 0.007. For the perceptual magnitude of the dynamic tilt illusion, participants judged the swaying angles from left to right as significantly larger at the 0.6-Hz alternation than those at the 2.4-, 4.0-, 6.0-, and 10.0-Hz alternations were (ts > 5.9, ps < 0.02) and near significantly larger than that at the 1.5-Hz alternation was, t(7) = 4.597, p = 0.052. The angles of the apparent sway at the 0.9-Hz alternation was also significantly larger than those at the 4.0-, 6.0-, and 10.0-Hz alternations were (ts > 4.7, ps < 0.05) and near significantly larger than that at the 2.4-Hz alternation was, t(7) = 4.512, p = 0.058.
The proportion and magnitude of the apparent sway in Experiment 1. The left and right panels plot the proportion and magnitude of the apparent sway, respectively. The shaded areas indicate the 95% confidence intervals. The dotted line in the left panel represents the proportion of 50% to perceive the apparent sway.
Similar results were obtained for the gray surround. The proportion and magnitude of the apparent sway significantly decreased as the opposite-oriented contexts alternated faster, F(2, 14) = 23.098, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.767; F(2, 14) = 16.049, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.696. Specifically, the likelihood of the apparent sway measured at the 0.9-, 2.4-, and 6.0-Hz alternations significantly differed from each other (ts > 3.1, ps < 0.05), and the magnitude of the apparent sway at the 0.9- and 2.4-Hz alternations was significantly larger as compared with that at the 6.0-Hz alternation (ts > 3.2, ps < 0.05).
Furthermore, we tested whether the proportion of the apparent sway at each alternate frequency significantly differed from 50% chance level. Irrespective of the surround types, significantly more apparent sway was perceived than 50% at the slow frequencies (green/red surround: 0.6 Hz, t(7) = 8.706, p = 0.0004; gray surround: 0.9 Hz, t(7) = 12.689, p < 0.0001) whereas much less apparent sway was perceived than 50% at the fast frequencies (green/red surround: 6 and 10 Hz, ts < −9.1, ps < 0.001; gray surround: 6 Hz, t(7) = −4.754, p = 0.006).
As hypothesized, the continuous alternation of opposite-oriented contexts generated a dynamic tilt illusion in which the central grating was perceived as alternately swaying back and forth. Further, this illusion was modulated by the alternate speed of the contexts. Slow speed corresponded to a larger sway magnitude. Moreover, the robust apparent sway was observed in Experiment 1 regardless of the hue of the contexts.
It is necessary, however, to prove that this dynamic illusion was exclusively based on the direct tilt illusion rather than experimenter's expectation given that Experiment 1 provided no quantitative measure about the relationship between the orientation of the apparent sway and the contexts. Fortunately, in the postexperiment inquiry about participants' subjective experience, four out of eight participants in the red/green surround and six of eight in the gray surround noticed that the central grating apparently swayed in an opposite direction against the contextual orientation while the other participants reported that they paid no attention to this relationship. Although the experimental parameters and participant's subjective experience convergingly indicate that the dynamic alternation between the clockwise and counterclockwise surrounds caused the apparent sway of the central grating, we carried out Experiment 2, in which a control condition incapable of inducing any tilt illusion (Figure 1c) was brought in to directly compare the apparent sway between the experimental and control conditions.
The proportion and magnitude of the apparent sway for the experimental and control conditions have been presented in Figure 3. A repeated measures ANOVA with condition (experimental vs. control) and alternate frequency as independent variables and proportion as a dependent variable revealed that the main effects of condition and alternate frequency were both significant, F(1, 9) = 73.690, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.891; F(2, 18) = 16.383, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.645, respectively. More importantly, the interaction was also significant, F(2, 18) = 16.761, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.651. Next, independent ANOVAs were carried out for each condition, and results showed that, only in the experimental condition, the proportion significantly varied as a function of the alternate frequency, F(2, 18) = 30.144, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.770, and this was not true for the control condition, F(2, 18) = 1.198, p = 0.325, η2 = 0.117. Therefore, post hoc t tests were only conducted for the experimental condition. The proportion of the apparent sway was significantly larger at the 1.5- and 3.0-Hz alternations than it was at the 8.57-Hz alternation (ts > 4, ps < 0.01) with a marginal significance between 1.5 Hz and 3.0 Hz, t(9) = 2.803, p = 0.062. For the experimental condition, significantly more apparent sway was perceived than 50% at the 1.5- and 3.0-Hz alternations, ts ≥ 3.000, p < 0.05, while much less apparent sway was perceived than 50% at the fast frequency, t(9) = −3.613, p = 0.017, consistent with the observations in Experiment 1. However, for the control condition, significantly less apparent sway was perceived than 50% at all the alternation frequencies (ts < −3.0, ps < 0.05).
The proportion and magnitude of the apparent sway in Experiment 2. The left and right panels plot the proportion and magnitude of the apparent sway in the control and experimental conditions, respectively. The dotted line in the left panel represents the proportion of 50% to perceive the apparent sway. The shaded areas indicate the 95% confidence intervals.
A similar pattern was found for the magnitude. The two main effects and the interaction were all significant: condition, F(1, 9) = 67.046, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.882; alternate frequency, F(2, 18) = 16.252, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.644; interaction, F(2, 18) = 14.356, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.615. The significant interaction was also attributed to the significant effect of alternate frequency in the experimental condition, F(2, 18) = 19.902, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.689, but not in the control condition, F(2, 18) = 1.702, p = 0.224, η2 = 0.159. For the experimental condition, the 1.5- and 3.0-Hz alternations generated a greater magnitude of the apparent sway than that at the 8.57-Hz alternation was (ts > 3, ps < 0.05), and the difference between 1.5 Hz and 3.0 Hz was marginally significant, t(9) = 2.624, p = 0.083.
The results of Experiment 2 further confirmed that slower alternate frequency instigated and amplified apparent sway, and more importantly, this apparent sway can rarely be perceived when the surround, composed by interweaved clockwise and counterclockwise orientations, alternates. Therefore, the perceived apparent sway caused by the alternation of opposite-oriented contexts indicates a dynamic illusion on the basis of the direct tilt effect. However, this dynamic tilt illusion was only measured by subjective reports until now. Therefore, we required participants to manually alter a truly swaying grating to match the dynamic tilt illusion in Experiment 3. This design allowed us to precisely measure the perceived angles and alternate speed of the apparent sway concurrently in order to compare with the classic tilt illusion.
Four alternate frequencies lower than 4 Hz were used in Experiment 3 to ensure there were enough reports of the apparent sway because, only in this case, the participants could be asked to match the truly swaying grating. As illustrated in Figure 4, the influence of the alternate frequency on the reported proportions, modulated angles, and frequencies of the dynamic tilt illusion were all evaluated as significant: for proportion, F(3, 27) = 10.069, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.528; for modulated angles, F(3, 27) = 3.729, p = 0.023, η2 = 0.293; for modulated frequencies, F(3, 27) = 8.936, p = 0.012, η2 = 0.498. The proportions of the apparent sway at the 0.8- and 1.6-Hz alternations were significantly larger than that at the 3.2-Hz alternation was (ts > 3, ps < 0.05), and the proportion of the apparent sway at the 0.8-Hz alternation was significantly larger than that at the 2.4-Hz alternation was, t(9) = 3.509, p = 0.04. The swaying angle modulated at the 0.8-Hz alternation was significantly larger than those at the other three alternate frequencies were, t(9) = 2.27–2.72, p = 0.024–0.049, uncorrected. The swaying frequency modulated at the 0.8-Hz alternation was significantly slower than that at the 1.6-Hz alternation was, t(9) = −4.171, p = 0.014, and near significantly slower than those at the other two alternate frequencies were (ts < −3.2, ps < 0.06).
The proportions, modulated angles, and frequencies of the apparent sway in Experiment 3. The dotted lines in the leftmost and rightmost panels represent the proportion of 50% to perceive the apparent sway and the assumed frequency of the apparent sway (half of the alternate frequency), respectively. The shaded areas indicate the 95% confidence intervals.
The significance of magnitude here did not pass multiple comparison correction, partially because there were a relatively smaller amount of trials for manual adjustment when the alternation went faster rather than slower due to limited experiment time. Nevertheless, the significant effects obtained from the ANOVAs suggest that our results in Experiment 3 are reliable.
The results of Experiment 3 were quite similar to those of Experiments 1 and 2. Furthermore, the swaying angles modulated (1.32°–1.84°) resemble those frequently reported about the direct tilt illusion (Clifford, 2014), which supports the finding that the apparent sway is based on the direct tilt illusion. Interestingly, the swaying frequencies modulated did not equal to the assumed frequencies, i.e., half the alternate frequencies, but were numerically (although not statistically significant) lower than the assumed ones were as the alternate frequency increased (Figure 4 rightmost panel). This finding suggests that the apparent sway may not be a precise reflection of the surround suppression.
Finally, if the dynamic tilt illusion is indeed a temporally extended format of the classic tilt illusion, it ought to be reduced by introducing a spatial gap between the surround and the center, like what is found in the tilt illusion (Durant & Clifford, 2006). Experiment 4 examined this hypothesis.
As expected, the proportion and magnitude of the apparent sway changed as a function of the spatial gaps between the center and surround (Figure 5). A repeated measures ANOVA with spatial gap (0°, 0.5°, and 1°) as independent variables and proportion as the dependent variable revealed a quite significant effect, F(2, 14) = 22.107, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.760, with post hoc t tests showing that the proportion of the apparent sway was significantly larger when there was no spatial gap than when there were 0.5° and 1° spatial gaps (ts > 4, ps < 0.01). The same was true for the magnitude, F(2, 14) = 32.382, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.822. The alternation without a spatial gap generated a significantly greater magnitude of the apparent sway as compared with those with spatial gaps (ts > 5, ps < 0.01) while the alternation with a 0.5° spatial gap showed a marginally significant effect than that with a 1° spatial gap, t(7) = 2.762, p = 0.084.
The proportion and magnitude of the apparent sway in Experiment 4. The shaded areas indicate the 95% confidence intervals of judgments. The dotted line in the left panel represents the proportion of 50% to perceive the apparent sway.
As hypothesized, Experiments 1–4 consistently revealed that continuous dynamic alternations of two opposite-oriented contexts made the center patch sway apparently. This so-called dynamic tilt illusion based on the classic tilt illusion correlated with the alternate speed of the oriented contexts. It became weaker but faster when the contexts alternated at a higher speed.
Potential mechanistic models have been proposed to explain the tilt illusion (Clifford, 2014; Schwartz et al., 2007). Specifically, the neurons with their preferred orientation closer to the surround orientation are inhibited more than those far away from the surround orientation are (red/green curves in Figure 6). The population responses then have their peak activity shift away from the surround orientation (solid gray curves in Figure 6). To further explain the alternate speed modulation of the dynamic tilt illusion, a discrete temporal parsing mechanism was added to the classical model. The temporal parsing, an extreme form of rhythmic sampling, temporally structures events into discrete epochs within which separate events would be integrated as a unit (Holcombe, 2009; VanRullen, 2016; VanRullen & Koch, 2003).
Temporal parsing mechanism of the dynamic tilt illusion. Predictions for the (a) slow and (b) fast alternation of contexts have been illustrated. The time course of oriented context changes is depicted in the leftmost section. The orange frames represent the epochs into which surround suppression was temporally chunked. The right panels are a simplified demonstration of how responses of the neuron population tuning to the center orientation of the vertical are modified by the surround orientation outlined in the orange frame. The green and red curves represent the lateral inhibition tuned to the surround of clockwise and counterclockwise 15° orientation, respectively. The orientation tuning function of the population unaffected by surround has been illustrated by dashed gray curves, and the repulsive shift of the orientation tuning function has been presented in solid gray. Importantly, the suppression is determined by all the surrounds chunked into the orange frame. As predicted, the slow alternation of contexts causes the classic tilt illusion as more coherent oriented surrounds might converge within one chucked epoch, and the continuous update of the tilt illusion along successive epochs generates the dynamic tilt illusion.
For the dynamic tilt illusion, it is probable that continuous suppressive responses would be temporally chunked into distinct epochs to bias the preferred orientation of the neuron population (Figure 6). Specifically, when the contexts are slowly alternated, their orientations are more likely to be the same within one epoch. Greater suppressive responses after temporal parsing would therefore bias toward either the clockwise or counterclockwise orientation. Continuous update of the suppressed orientation of the neuron population would phenomenally result in a percept of apparent sway. However, when the contexts are alternated faster, suppressive responses from the clockwise and counterclockwise surround orientations interweave within one epoch, which may cancel out each other such that the orientation tuning function of the neuron population would shift to neither side.
Although the dynamic tilt illusion examined here may be well explained by temporal parsing of the continuous surround suppressions, one may argue that the tiny illusion at the faster alternate speed simply occurred because the alternate cycle of the contexts was too short (e.g., 100 ms at 10 Hz) to evoke a tilt effect at that moment. However, this argument can be rebutted as previous studies have repetitively shown that a much shorter flashed context (e.g., 30 ms) than that used in the present study can induce a robust tilt effect (Calvert & Harris, 1988; Clifford & Harris, 2005; Mareschal & Clifford, 2012; Wenderoth & Johnstone, 1988; Wenderoth et al., 1989). Another line of evidence comes from neurophysiological studies, as reviewed in the Introduction, which reported that suppressive neuron responses with little latency have been directly recorded from the primary visual cortex (Bair et al., 2003; Knierim & van Essen, 1992; Müller et al., 2003; Nothdurft et al., 1999; Ohtani et al., 2002). Moreover, some individual participants in our experiments indeed perceived sporadic apparent sway at fast alternate frequencies.
Suppose temporal parsing provides the frame to explain the speed modulation of the dynamic tilt illusion; then how long should the chunked epoch be? Although this is still open to answers, some implications can be derived from the present and previous findings. First, as seen from Experiment 1 of the present study, the proportion of apparent sway approached its minimum value at about 6 Hz, suggesting that the dynamic tilt illusion almost disappears when a complete alternation between opposite-oriented contexts is encapsulated into an epoch of about 300 ms (e.g., Figure 6b). This result is consistent with the temporal properties of brightness and color induction, which showed that the brightness changes induced by a flickering surround occur only at low temporal frequencies (below about 2.5–3 Hz; De Valois, Webster, De Valois, & Lingelbach, 1986). Second, in addition to the magnitude, the experienced speed of the apparent sway was modulated by the alternate speed of contexts, and it was slower than that assumed in Experiment 3. This implies that the temporal parsing mechanism is of a coarse temporal resolution (lower than 4 Hz) because only an alternate speed below such resolution can be decoded. Last, although the tilt illusion declines, it could still persist when the center test is delayed 200–400 ms from the context (Corbett et al., 2009; Durant & Clifford, 2006), which means that nearly all the suppressions from one context occur in an epoch of about 300 ms, marked by their onset. However, it is important to note that the chunked epoch by temporal parsing may be more plastic than a fixed 300 ms to better fit the cognitive requirements under varying environments (VanRullen, 2016).
In summary, the current study demonstrated another version of the direct tilt illusion, called dynamic tilt illusion. That is, under continuous dynamic alternation of two opposite-oriented contexts, a center static patch seems to apparently sway like a pendulum. The magnitude and speed of this apparent sway is modulated by the alternate speed of the oriented contexts. This dynamic tilt illusion probably reflects some temporal parsing of surround suppression at a coarse resolution in our primary visual cortex.
This work was funded by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31525011, 31600884), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2015LH0047, 2016M591279), and the Strategic Priority Research Program and the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB02010003, QYZDB-SSW-SMC030).
Commercial relationships: none.
Corresponding author: Xiangyong Yuan; Yi Jiang.
Email: yuanxy@psych.ac.cn; yijiang@psych.ac.cn.
Address: State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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