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Holy Royal Martyr Queen Shushanik (†475)
Memory 28 August (10 September)
Saint Shushanik was the wife of the Georgian prince Varsken, the ruler[1] of Hereti. Having been raised in a pious Christian family, she was deeply penetrated with love and the fear of God.
At that time Kartli was under heavy political pressure from Persia, and Prince Varsken visited the Persian king Peroz in hopes of encouraging more friendly relations between the two countries. He willingly denied the true Faith, converted to the worship of fire, and promised the king to convert his wife and children upon his return to Hereti.
Having approached the border of Hereti, Varsken sent messengers to Tsurtavi, the city in which he ruled, to ensure that his subjects met him with due respect. The blessed Shushanik, having learned of her husband’s betrayal, fell to the ground and wept over him with bitter tears. Then she took her four children, deserted the palace, and sought refuge in a nearby church.
That evening Shushanik was visited by her spiritual father, the elder Iakob, who predicted, “Varsken’s cruelty and mercilessness are unmistakable. Know that terrible trials await you. Will you be firm and unbending in your position?”
“I would rather die than unite with him and destroy my soul!” she answered.
Three days later the prince arrived in Tsurtavi. As promised, he tried to persuade his wife to convert, but St. Shushanik firmly answered, “As you have renounced your Creator, so I am renouncing you.
I will no longer take part in your affairs, no matter what suffering I must endure!”
The next time, Varsken sent his younger brother Jojik and Bishop Apots to convince Shushanik to return to the palace. Shushanik refused for some time, but in the end she yielded to their persuasion. She set off for the palace with the Holy Gospel and the Lives of the holy martyrs, and when she arrived she locked herself in a squalid cell.
Two days later Varsken returned to the palace and invited Shushanik, his brother Jojik, and his sister-in-law for supper. The queen, however, could not bring herself to share a meal with one who had betrayed Christ: she pushed away the cup that Jojik’s wife had offered her, thus further angering her husband.
The furious Varsken beat his wife mercilessly, fettered her in irons, locked her in prison, and forbade the guards to let anyone in to see her.
St. Shushanik spent six years in captivity. While she was serving her sentence, she helped the poor that came to her. Through her prayers the sick were healed and children were born to the childless.
Before her death, Holy Martyr Shushanik blessed those around her and requested that she be buried at the place from which her unbelieving husband had dragged her out of the palace.
This happened in the year 475. The clergy and people alike wept bitterly over Shushanik’s tragic fate. Her holy relics were buried in accordance with her will.
In 578, with the blessing of Catholicos Kirion I, St. Shushanik’s holy relics were translated to Tbilisi, where they remain today, in the Metekhi Church of the Most Holy Theotokos.
O Holy Shushanik, because of thy husband’s transgression thou wast adorned with a martyr’s crown, and thou didst deny the rank of earthly queen in favor of the Heavenly Kingdom. Now thou dost stand boldly before the Bridegroom, the Immortal Christ. Protect us who praise thy name!
Archpriest Zakaria Machitadze
For further information on the book THE LIVES OF THE GEORGIAN SAINTS by Archpriest Zakaria Machitadze contact St. Herman Press:
St. Herman Press, P.O. Box 70, Platina, CA 96076
http://www.stherman.com/catalog/chapter_five/Lives_of_the_georgian_saints.htm
[1] As Hereti (a province of southeastern Georgia) was under Persian control at that time, Varsken was essentially the viceroy for the Persians.
Saint Ekvtime (Kereselidze) the Confessor (†1944)
Commemorated January 20/February 2 Saint Ekvtime (Kereselidze) the Confessor (†1944)
Abbot Ekvtime Kereselidze was born in 1865 in the village of Sadmeli (Racha region) to the pious Solomon andMarta Kereselidze. At birth he was given the name Evstate.
The Lives of the Georgian Saints
Archpriest Zakaria Machitadze The Lives of the Georgian Saints
Since the time of the ancient Greek historians, Georgia has been viewed as an enigma hidden behind impenetrable mountains and a complex language. Little has been written about this small country and its saints. Now, Pravoslavie.Ru presents the entire collection of the Lives of the Georgian saints which has been translated for the first time into English. These lives encompass the seventeen hundred years of Orthodox Christianity in Georgia. The stories of ascetics and bishops, warriors and noblemen are intertwined with the tumultuous history of the Georgian land.
Holy Confessors Ioane (Maisuradze) and Giorgi-Ioane (Mkheidze) (†1957 & †1960)
Commemorated September 8/21; Archpriest Zakaria Machitadze Holy Confessors Ioane (Maisuradze) and Giorgi-Ioane (Mkheidze) (†1957 & †1960)
Commemorated September 8/21
Archimandrite Ioane (Basil Maisuradze in the world) was born in the town of Tskhinvali in Samachablo around 1882. He was raised in a peasant family and taught to perform all kinds of handiwork. Basil was barely in his teens when he helped Fr. Spiridon (Ketiladze), the main priest at Betania Monastery, to restore the monastery between 1894 and 1896.
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Aug 4, 2008 | 2:26AM
Recap: 13 Innings Lucky for Cyclones Sunday
By Toby Hyde | Aug 4, 2008 | 2:26AM
Brooklyn (SSA – New York Penn League)
Brooklyn Cyclones 5, @ Staten Island Yankees 3 (13 innings)
With two on and one out in the 13th inning, Brooklyn centerfielder Sean Ratliff (pictured) sliced a double down the left field line to drive in the go-ahead run. The left-handed hitting Ratliff admitted that “it wasn’t what I was trying to do with the ball, but it ended up working out well.” Staten Island reliever Daniel Kapala had missed out of the strike zone on the previous seven pitches, so Ratliff “was looking for a four-seam fastball or something just to get one over. He threw one with a little bit of sink, it was down in the zone. … he actually kinda beat me with it off the end of the bat.” However, Ratliff explained in greater detail why it worked, “I was thinking it was gonna be a four-seamer and stay a little straight. I was just trying to barrel it up drive it back up the middle. It ended up tailing a little off the end and the way my swing stayed, [it] kinda flipped it out there.” Ratliff was 3-5 with a walk and 2 RBI.
Brad Holt recovered from his worst start of his career last Tuesday, to fire off six good innings Sunday. Holt walked seven in 3.1 innings Tuesday, in an outing he described as “one of those days…. My mechanics were bad and I was flying open.” However, by Sunday, “everything looked in sync and on time,” he said. When his mechanics are proper, “it allows me to get out in front and it’s easy to keep the ball down to both sides of the plate,” he explained. Holt gave up two runs, one earned on four hits in six innings, striking out five.
Holt sat 93-94 mph with his fastball, and touched 96. His hard curveball was 79-81. His manager, Edgar Alfonzo liked the way Holt threw, “he was outstanding,” Alfonzo said, “I thought he only made one mistake.” That one mistake was an elevated fastball on a 2-2 count that Yankees’ rightfielder Jeff Rye turned into a solo homer. Holt held his velocity all night long. His 93rd and final pitch registered 95 on the scouts’ guns. Holt did not use his changeup more than once.
Holt walked just one batter, Rye leading of the seventh, under heavy rain in Staten Island. The hurler had not quite adjusted to the mound conditions at that point, “when the rain started coming down, [the dirt] started getting caked up on both cleats. I couldn’t feel the rubber under my right foot and when I was landing, my left foot was sliding all over the place.” Just as he called time to resolve the issue, he was removed from the game. In a related development, moments later, a gorgeous rainbow appeared beyond the rightfield corner.
Each team scored in the ninth. Cyclones’ LF Eric Campbell launched a long homer to left to put his team out front. Stephen Clyne gave up the tying run in the bottom of the inning, in his second inning of work, but cruised through an easy 10th. Clyne’s sinking fastball started at 92, 93 mph to go along with his 84 mph nasty slider. By his third inning of work, he was 90, 91.
Injury notes: Ike Davis played for the first time in a week since injuring his right ankle. He admitted it still felt weak after the game, but was pain-free.
RHP Stephen Clyne left the game in the 11th inning with tightness in his upper back.
RHP Yury Santana left the game with fatigue in his biceps.
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Top Ten Tuesday – Contemporary Books I’ve Added to My TBR
June 6, 2017 June 6, 2017 professionalfangrl
Other Breakable Things by Kelley York
According to Japanese legend, folding a thousand paper cranes will grant you healing. Evelyn Abel will fold two thousand if it will bring Luc back to her. Luc Argent has always been intimately acquainted with death. After a car crash got him a second chance at life—via someone else’s transplanted heart—he tried to embrace it. He truly did. But he always knew death could be right around the corner again. And now it is. Sick of hospitals and tired of transplants, Luc is ready to let his failing heart give out, ready to give up. A road trip to Oregon—where death with dignity is legal—is his answer. But along for the ride is his best friend, Evelyn. And she’s not giving up so easily. A thousand miles, a handful of roadside attractions, and one life-altering kiss later, Evelyn’s fallen, and Luc’s heart is full. But is it enough to save him? Evelyn’s betting her heart, her life, that it can be. Right down to the thousandth paper crane.
A List of Cages by Robin Roe
When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he’s got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn’t easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can’t complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian—the foster brother he hasn’t seen in five years.
Adam is ecstatic to be reunited. At first, Julian seems like the boy he once knew. He’s still kindhearted. He still writes stories and loves picture books meant for little kids. But as they spend more time together, Adam realizes that Julian is keeping secrets, like where he hides during the middle of the day, and what’s really going on inside his house. Adam is determined to help him, but his involvement could cost both boys their lives…
Phantom Limbs by Paula Garner
Otis and Meg were inseparable until her family abruptly moved away after the terrible accident that left Otis’s little brother dead and both of their families changed forever. Since then, it’s been three years of radio silence, during which time Otis has become the unlikely protégé of eighteen-year-old Dara—part drill sergeant, part friend—who’s hell-bent on transforming Otis into the Olympic swimmer she can no longer be. But when Otis learns that Meg is coming back to town, he must face some difficult truths about the girl he’s never forgotten and the brother he’s never stopped grieving. As it becomes achingly clear that he and Meg are not the same people they were, Otis must decide what to hold on to and what to leave behind. Quietly affecting, this compulsively readable debut novel captures all the confusion, heartbreak, and fragile hope of three teens struggling to accept profound absences in their lives.
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she moved away, she tucked a love letter into his favorite book in his family’s bookshop. She waited. But Henry never came. Now Rachel has returned to the city—and to the bookshop—to work alongside the boy she’d rather not see, if at all possible, for the rest of her life. But Rachel needs the distraction. Her brother drowned months ago, and she can’t feel anything anymore. As Henry and Rachel work side by side—surrounded by books, watching love stories unfold, exchanging letters between the pages—they find hope in each other. Because life may be uncontrollable, even unbearable sometimes. But it’s possible that words, and love, and second chances are enough.
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she’s worked for begins to crumble. In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, smart, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of a popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea. With millions of followers and fans throughout the world, Eliza’s persona is popular. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves her digital community. Then Wallace Warland transfers to her school, and Eliza begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile. But when Eliza’s secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she’s built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
You go through life thinking there’s so much you need… Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit, and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz
The first day of senior year: Everything is about to change. Until this moment, Sal has always been certain of his place with his adoptive gay father and their loving Mexican-American family. But now his own history unexpectedly haunts him, and life-altering events force him and his best friend, Samantha, to confront issues of faith, loss, and grief. Suddenly Sal is throwing punches, questioning everything, and discovering that he no longer knows who he really is—but if Sal’s not who he thought he was, who is he?
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
As the daughter of a meth dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. Struggling to raise her little brother, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible “adult” around. She finds peace in the starry Midwestern night sky above the fields behind her house. One night everything changes when she witnesses one of her father’s thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold, wreck his motorcycle. What follows is a powerful and shocking love story between two unlikely people that asks tough questions, reminding us of all the ugly and wonderful things that life has to offer.
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide. Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app. Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon’s dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose? Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.
So these are my nine picks for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
Let me know if you have read any of these books!
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4 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday – Contemporary Books I’ve Added to My TBR”
Lauren @ Wonderless Reviews says:
I’m currently reading We Are Okay and am really loving it! The writing is so beautiful. I had a few issues with One of Us is Lying, but it was definitely a fast read!!
Bookworm Ink says:
We Are Okay is so gorgeous I just did my review on it ! I’m not a contemporary reader usually but that book was so good. I also wanna get to Eliza and Her Monsters !! Can’t wait to see your thoughts on these.
professionalfangrl says:
Okay now I need to read We Are Okay!😊
Yes !!! You do 🙂
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Robert B. Aderholt & Sean Patrick Maloney
Compare the voting records of Robert B. Aderholt and Sean Patrick Maloney in 2017-18.
Robert B. Aderholt
Represented Alabama's 4th Congressional District. This is his 11th term in the House.
Sean Patrick Maloney
Represented New York's 18th Congressional District. This is his 3rd term in the House.
Robert B. Aderholt and Sean Patrick Maloney are from different parties and disagreed on 65 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
Sept. 27, 2018 — American Innovation Act of 2018
June 20, 2018 — Individuals in Medicaid Deserve Care that is Appropriate and Responsible in its Execution Act
June 15, 2018 — Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act
May 22, 2018 — Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act
May 22, 2018 — Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act
April 11, 2018 — Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act
March 15, 2018 — Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act
March 15, 2018 — Regulation At Improvement Act of 2017
March 14, 2018 — Taking Account of Institutions with Low Operation Risk Act of 2017 or the TAILOR Act of 2017
March 6, 2018 — Comprehensive Regulatory Review Act
Feb. 14, 2018 — TRID Improvement Act
Feb. 8, 2018 — Mortgage Choice Act of 2017
June 15, 2017 — Broader Options for Americans Act
Jan. 13, 2017 — To provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces
Jan. 10, 2017 — Helping Angels Lead Our Startups (HALOS) Act
June 7, 2018 — Connolly of Virginia Part B Amendment No. 27
May 23, 2018 — Nolan of Minnesota Amendment No. 2
May 17, 2018 — Foxx of North Carolina Amendment No. 1
On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments with an Amendment
Jan. 30, 2018 — Child Protection Improvements Act of 2017
Oct. 5, 2017 — Yarmuth of Kentucky Substitute Amendment No. 4
Oct. 4, 2017 — Scott of Virginia Substitute Amendment No. 2
July 26, 2017 — Garamendi of California Amendment No. 52
July 13, 2017 — Blumenauer of Oregon Part B Amendment No. 13
Jan. 5, 2017 — King of Iowa Amendment No. 12
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Agenre Provocateur: Role with it
Posted on January 26, 2016 January 26, 2016 by Craig Hamilton
Agenre Provocateur is a column that explores the best of independent video gaming aimed at those new or returning to the scene.
You remember I said I would talk about Roguelikes last time?
Yeah, it turns out it’s impossible to write about them without covering role-playing games first, and of course you need to walk before you can role play so LET’S DO THIS! [+1 Enthusiasm]
I can only imagine that the 1970’s were a revolutionary time if you were a NERD, due to an explosion of their favourite pastimes: NUMBERS and FIGHTING BALROGS.
Computers were scaled down to a size less than an actual room and Dungeons & Dragons was allowing communities of neckbeards to band together using nothing more than dice, pen & paper and the FERTILE PLAYGROUND OF THE MIND. Of course, anyone who watches movies or TV will tell you that imagining stuff blows, so it wasn’t long before these two interests were smooshed together, enabling geeks to perform world-saving quests even without any pals (phew).
These early titles were text-based requiring the player to type in specific commands to perform actions. However, they quickly evolved graphical interfaces showing the player represented via an onscreen avatar, or presenting simple wire-frame dungeons as seen through the eyes of the protagonist.
Although most of the initial RPGs were swords and sorcery adventures influenced by D&D, as technology advanced the genre came to encompass any theme designers could imagine. Today I’ll be looking at three indie titles that show the depth of the genre. For those of you that are totally new, I’ve listed them sequentially in terms of how complex they are. Hopefully, these demonstrate the power of RPGs to tell a compelling story without bogging you down in stats and menus.
Set during Halloween, you take control of one of a pair of siblings and have to rescue the other after they get bumped with the crappy candy corn costume, leading to their kidnap by a sweet-toothed monster. As the title implies, your party explores a series of environments collecting costumes (that provide different powers), collecting candy (money) and battling monsters (they bad). The turn-based combat is incredibly simple, requiring you to respond to button prompts to increase damage or block attacks.
The combination of cutesy, hand-drawn-style graphics and genuinely superb humour make Costume Quest a great RPG that anyone can enjoy. (An alternate title for this: Ladybird First RPG.) A sequel is also available if this scratches an itch for you. (Windows/Mac/Linux, PS3, Xbox 360, iOS, Android)
Ask anyone who has ever played Bastion what they thought about it, and they’ll get that look reserved for recalling good times with friends and family before replying “Bastion, yeah” and walking off into the sunset. Set after an event known as The Calamity, you take control of The Kid as he attempts to rebuild the world. The Kid sports a melee and ranged weapon plus a special attack that are used to engage in real-time combat. There are a wide variety available that all handle differently, so there’s always a combination that you’ll feel comfortable using.
However, despite the gameplay being commendable it’s the aesthetic that absolutely drives Bastion. Featuring a truly exquisite narration from Logan Cunningham, the atmosphere is augmented by an acoustic-focussed soundtrack that draws heavily from Westerns (think Firefly or Deadwood). Put it all together and you’ve got an RPG experience that draws you in from beginning to end. (Windows/Mac/Linux, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox 360. iOS)
Shadowrun Returns
Originally a pen-and-paper RPG in the vein of D&D, Shadowrun takes the established fantasy tropes and dumps them into a futuristic setting of hacking, cybernetic implants and megacorporations. Holding everything together is a noir sensibility that makes conversation as important than fighting.
Here, you create your main character from the ground up. With a wide variety of races and classes, it’d be easy to make creating a character an overwhelming experience. However, every aspect is explained fully – via cleanly presented and streamlined menus – meaning you’ll only be spending a minority of your time in them.
Enemy encounters are turn-based but much more tactical than Costume Quest. Each area is grid-based and characters have a certain amount of action points to spend on movement, attacks and skills. Furthermore, like real life you’re safer behind cover, and much of the game is trying to maneuver into more advantageous positions.
If this sounds complicated, don’t sweat it. There’s a comprehensive tutorial at the start and an easy difficulty setting if you’re not feeling particularly confident. There’s also downloadable content (Dragonfall), a sequel (Hong Kong) and a ton of user created content available meaning that if the world of Shadowrun takes your fancy, you don’t have to leave, EVER. (Windows/Mac/Linux, iOS, Android)
Next time – Roguelikes. Like, actually this time.
Tags: Agenre ProvocateurCategories: Culture, Games, Uncategorized
A lifelong gamer, I'm currently trying to work through a backlog of around 300 games before my child is born and the crushing weight of adult responsibility is laid upon me. I live in Cambuslang outside Glasgow with my wife and 2 borrowed cats.
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Mueller Completes Investigation
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NYT: Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, on Friday delivered a report on his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election to Attorney General William P. Barr, bringing to a close an investigation that has consumed the nation and cast a shadow over President Trump for nearly two years.
NBC: Paul Manafort gets additional 43 months in prison in second sentencing
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced Wednesday to 43 additional months in prison by a federal judge in Washington on conspiracy charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.
NYT: Paul Manafort Is Sentenced to Less Than 4 Years in 1 of 2 Cases Against Him
Paul Manafort, the political consultant and Trump presidential campaign chairman whose lucrative work in Ukraine and ties to well-connected Russians made him a target of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly four years in prison in the financial fraud case that left his grand lifestyle and power-broker reputation in ruins.
WASHINGTON POST: SENATE VOTES TO CONFIRM WILLIAM BARR AS ATTORNEY GENERAL
A majority of senators voted to confirm William P. Barr Thursday as the U.S. attorney general, putting him in command of the Justice Department at one of the most politically charged moments in its history. Once Barr is officially confirmed, he will be thrust into supervising the special counsel probe into whether President Trump’s campaign worked with Russia to swing the 2016 election — and will be saddled with the political baggage that comes with it.
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NEWSWEEK: ROGER STONE INDICTMENT IS A ‘SERIOUS PROBLEM’ FOR DONALD TRUMP, MAJORITY OF VOTERS SAY IN POLL
The majority of Americans believe that Roger Stone’s indictment is a serious problem for President Donald Trump according to a new poll by the left-leaning coalition, Protect the Investigation. The survey, conducted by GBA strategies prior to Stone being charged on Friday, found that 33 percent of respondents thought an indictment of Stone by special counsel Robert Mueller would be a very serious problem for the president while 30 percent said it would be a somewhat serious problem.
CNN: Roger Stone indicted on charges brought by special counsel
Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone has been indicted by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. He was arrested by the FBI Friday morning at his home in Florida, his lawyer tells CNN.
NBC: Mueller accused ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort of lying about sharing polling data with alleged Russian spy
Special counsel Robert Mueller has accused former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort of sharing polling data with an alleged Russian spy during the 2016 presidential campaign, a new court filing by Manafort’s criminal defense lawyer has accidentally revealed.
VOX: Michael Cohen was just sentenced to 3 years in prison
Michael Cohen will be heading to prison. After pleading guilty to financial crimes, campaign finance violations, and lying to Congress, the president’s former lawyer was sentenced by Judge William Pauley to three years of incarceration Wednesday.
NBC: Special counsel Robert Mueller's office recommends little to no jail time for Michael Flynn in exchange for assistance
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn provided "substantial assistance" in the special counsel’s Russia investigation and should receive little to no prison time, federal prosecutors said in court papers filed Tuesday.
CNN: Michael Cohen pleads guilty, says he lied about Trump's knowledge of Moscow project
President Donald Trump spoke with Michael Cohen more extensively about the proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow than Cohen previously told Congress, Cohen admitted in federal court Thursday.
NYT: Manafort Breached Plea Deal by Repeatedly Lying, Mueller Says
Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, repeatedly lied to federal investigators in breach of a plea agreement he signed two months ago, the special counsel’s office said in a court filing late on Monday.
CNN: Jeff Sessions out as attorney general
President Donald Trump on Wednesday fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions. "At your request I am submitting my resignation," Sessions wrote in a letter to White House chief of staff John Kelly.
CNBC: Paul Manafort pleads guilty to conspiracy charges and agrees to cooperate with special counsel
Paul Manafort, who once headed President Donald Trump's campaign, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy charges and has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigations under a new plea deal.
CNN: George Papadopoulos gets 14 days in prison
Ex-Donald Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos has been sentenced to two weeks in prison for lying to investigators about his contact with individuals tied to Russia during the 2016 campaign. Papadopolous will also have 12 months of supervised release, serve 200 hours of community service within about a year and will be fined $9,500.
Washington Post: Manafort convicted on 8 counts; mistrial declared on 10 others
A jury found former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty Tuesday on tax- and bank-fraud charges — a major if not complete victory for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III as he continues to investigate the president’s associates.
NYT: Maria Butina, Who Sought ‘Back Channel’ Meeting for Trump and Putin, Is Charged as Russian Agent
A Russian woman who tried to broker a secret meeting between Donald J. Trump and the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, during the 2016 presidential campaign was charged Monday and accused of working with Americans to carry out a secret Russian effort to influence American politics.
CNN: 12 Russians indicted in Mueller investigation
The Justice Department announced indictments against 12 Russian nationals as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, accusing them of engaging in a "sustained effort" to hack Democrats' emails and computer networks.
NYT: Rick Gates, Trump Campaign Aide, Pleads Guilty in Mueller Inquiry and Will Cooperate
A former top adviser to Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign has agreed to cooperate with the special counsel inquiry into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election after pleading guilty on Friday to financial fraud and lying to investigators.
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'Commander Carbon' alter ego: Spekboom
Julia Griffin
Once considered just an ornamental bonsai plant outside of its home range of South Africa, the shrub Portulacaria afra, commonly called “spekboom,” is garnering attention for its carbon storage capabilities. Native to the arid cape region of South Africa, spekboom thickets can store 20 kilograms of carbon in every square meter of vegetation, or 200 tons of carbon per hectare. That’s equivalent to taking 37 cars off the road for a year. Since most dryland areas similar to the cape store less than 50 metric tons of carbon per hectare and deciduous forests are estimated to store 120 metric tons per hectare, this nearly 8-foot-tall plant could be a key to future carbon-capture trading markets in arid regions.
Unlike many arid plants, when soils are dry, speckboom can switch from the photosynthetic process that most plants in the world use to a less common and water-conserving photosynthesis pathway called “CAM.” Because of this, the carbon sequestration process in the plant is highly efficient for its environment, allowing it to thrive on only 10-11 inches (250-350 millimeters) of rain a year. Researchers also believe spekboom’s umbrella-shaped canopy allows organic material to accumulate at the base of the shrub, improving the water-holding capacity of the soil below.
Whether planting spekboom thicket plantations outside South Africa will be feasible remains to be seen, but it one day it could be a water-efficient way for regions like the Southwest United States to enter the emerging global carbon market.
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We’ll convert new VP residence to other use – Osinbajo
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja
The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday said the Federal Government would at the appropriate time convert the new official residence being built for the Vice President to another use.
Osinbajo said this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, amid continued criticism of the project which is expected to gulp over N7bn.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, Dino Melaye, had disclosed recently that only the security post, also known as gateman’s house, in the building will gulp N250m.
This was revealed on Thursday by the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory.
But Akande said the decision to build the new residence and the controversial gatehouse preceded the present administration.
He said Osinbajo’s position had remained that his present official residence, Akinola Aguda House, is good enough for him.
He gave an indication that the 14 building in the residence which is already in about 85% completion stage would be used for another purpose.
The statement read, “For the umpteenth time, we like to clarify that the proposed plan of the immediate past administration to build a new official residence for the occupant of the Office of the Vice President, including the controversial gatehouse preceded this administration.
“The project which started in 2010, was initiated and funded by the immediate past administration, but had never featured in the two budget proposals of the Buhari administration: neither in the 2016 nor the 2017 spending plans.
“Any suggestion therefore that this project benefits our administration or that it reflects our spending style or preferences is not only misleading but blatantly false.
“Besides, the incumbent Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said publicly that he considers Aguda House, which he currently occupies, a befitting official residence for the Vice President and sufficient for his needs.
“While the project is now about 85% complete, the Federal Government, in the circumstances, will decide at the appropriate time what is the best use for the 14 buildings already on the project site.”
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Explanatory Overeview of Dental Nitrous Oxide Scavenger Breathing Systems
The current recommended U.K exposure levels for nitrous oxide are 100 ppm (parts per million) over an 8-hour TWA (Time Weighted Average).
Suggested methods for complying with this exposure level are:
Use of an efficient Active Scavenger Breathing System (scavenging at the nasal mask; air flow rate 45 L/min)
12-15 Room air changes per hour (or other form of ventilation such as a low level expelair fan)
Staff rotation.
Below is an ‘overview’ of the most widely used types of Dental breathing systems manufactured by two American Companies; Porter Instruments & Accutron:
Modern Dental Scavenger Breathing Systems are divided into two distinct types –
Active and Passive (although the latter type is now obsolete, a definition is included for teaching and historical purposes).
Passive Systems –original type manufactured by Matrx – consisted of 22mm clear corrugated hoses w/one way valve – gas passed from fresh gas outlet (22mm) along tubing to nasal hood on patients face with a blanking cap to prevent escape of waste gases (the nasal hood could either be blue (originally grey) autoclavable or Dynomite scented single use), then, as the patient exhaled, a valve opened in the expiratory hose and the expired air was forced out, by the patients normal expiratory effort, into the further length of tubing. Commonly, this tubing was then either ‘hung’ out of the window, or connected to a low level wall exit vent block. In more recent times, these systems were also connected to a wall mounted AGS (Anaesthetic Gas Scavenging) System such as a MEC Purair 130 or Dental 2000. These units needed to be mounted no higher than one metre above floor level to have any efficacy. The transfer hose from the patient needing to be level or slope downwards, thus assisting the flow of waste gases, nitrous oxide in particular, being heavier than air. In cases where the receiver was mounted high up on the surgery wall then ‘back-flooding’ of gases could occur resulting in ambient pollution.
Comment: This system has been around for approximately 40+ years and is not efficient, with a potential for large amounts of waste gas leakage and resulting ambient surgery pollution. Historical note: In January 2009, Porter Instruments announced they had purchased the Matrx Nitrous Oxide Division from Midmark. All manufacturing was transferred to the Porter factory in Hatfield, Philadelphia. In January 2010, Porter announced that they were discontinuing the Passive breathing system – with immediate effect. This system is now obsolete and no parts are available.
Active Systems – More choice exists here – the two manufacturers each producing versions of active systems. Note: Active Dental Scavenger Breathing Systems require an active draw of 45 l/min at the nasal hood to operate efficiently
The various types are:
Porter: this is a ‘double mask’ system and proven to be the most efficient. (Ref 1) It consists of a corrugated hose connected to fresh gas outlet (22mm) passing via coaxial hose to the inner liner. As the patient breathes out, a flapper valve opens in the inner liner and the gas passes to the outer hood, where it is collected and passed down the second set of coaxial tubes to a vacuum hose. In addition, due to the gap between inner liner and outer hood, pollution caused by mouth breathing or speaking can be lessened, as a percentage of the waste gases are ‘sucked’ back into the hood and exhausted via the vacuum hose. There is an adjustable vacuum control block on the end of this hose (please note: this block is designed to operate in the vertical position – not horizontal), which allows the air flow rate to be adjusted to 45 L/min. This unit is autoclavable and latex free. The system is designed to be either connected to a HVE Port on central suction; AGSS wall outlet (special probe/adapter required), or Miniscav unit.
Comment: Most efficient system currently available on U.K. market and widely used.
Matrx: ANS (Autoclavable Nitrous Scavenger) – introduced by Matrx to address the infection control issue and replaced the earlier active system with reinforced spiral hosing. Has smooth white tubing (attracts dirt easily) and a collector cap over the nasal hood (can be noisy). Again a single tube from fresh gas outlet (22mm) to nasal hood (blue autoclavable or single use scented) then gas is collected via a ‘mushroom cap’ with valving that directs it to a further length of vacuum hose – designed to connect to central suction. Manufacture continues as part of the Porter range.
Comment: This system replaced the older Matrx active system due to the problem of infection control. Unfortunately, has not proved popular in the UK even though it has been modified to better ‘balance’ the nasal hood and collector cap arrangement. Problems with the use of conventional ‘single’ nasal mask – inefficient, leakage around nasal area etc.
Accutron: This system has a grey corrugated hose from fresh gas outlet (22mm) to white coaxial tubing. Fresh gas passes up to the nasal hood (grey multi use or scented single use – now available in single and double (Clearview)), and exhaled gases are collected via a clear collecting cap (can be noisy) and passes down distal set of coaxial tubes to a vacuum line designed to connect to central suction. This system also has a vacuum control block that can be adjusted.
Comment: Good system to use if you want to utilise scented nasal hoods. However, historically there have been some problems with the multi use hoods and collector cap material warping after autoclaving at British autoclave temperatures. The manufacturers, Accutron, appear to have corrected this fault. Similar leakage problems as above, with use of single nasal mask type.
Definition of Active/Passive Scavenging
“A Scavenging system, simply defined, is a means to collect and remove excess gases to prevent them from being vented back into the operating room. Installation of an efficient scavenging system is the most important step in reducing trace gas concentrations. It has been demonstrated that ambient concentrations have been lowered by 90 percent through the use of an efficient system”. (Ref 2)
The problem of connecting an Active scavenger breathing system to an ‘active’ vacuum source continues to be a matter of some confusion. The definition of Active is:
Exhaust ventilation of Nitrous Oxide from the patient’s mask should be maintained at an air flow rate of 45 L/min, measured by a calibrated flow device and vented outdoors.
This can be achieved in one of three ways;
Suitable dental vacuum system – (high volume port)
Centralised Anaesthetic Gas Scavenging System wall outlet (used with AGS Probe Adapter but no Receiver (Air break))
Miniscav unit
Receiving System Air breaks (preventing transmission of suction from the exhauster unit to the patient), sometimes called Barnsley Receivers, do not produce this vacuum and as such are considered unsuitable for use with dental active breathing systems. An example of this type of unit is the MEC Purair 130, (or MEC Dental 2000) which utilises a tubular receiver (air break). The role of the Receiving Unit is to provide a safe interface between the patient and the extraction flow rate. This is due to the original use of these systems being for g. a. circuits and was designed to protect the air flow of the unconscious patient. Centralised Anaesthetic Gas Scavenging Systems (utilising a remote pump and surgery ags terminals) may also be observed employing the use of an air break. This is commonly mounted on a bracket adjacent to the ags terminal and connected via a hose / probe assembly. Passive systems are then vented via connection to the inlet on the air break.
It is important in this case to understand the difference between the Extraction Flow Rate and the Induced Flow Rate (Ref 3). The Extraction Flow Rate operates between 130 and 80 L/min BS6834 : 1987 – (replaced by BS EN 737-2 :1998) which has an extraction flow rate of only 25 to 50 l/min)) and is to ensure that the waste gases are adequately removed from the surgery. The importance of this flow rate is that if it falls too low, it may not be sufficient for waste gas removal. This would lead to the waste gases spilling out from the base of the receiving unit reservoir into the immediate working environment.
The Induced Flow Rate, primarily for use with G A circuits, should be as low as possible, with the system ideally being passive between the patient and the receiving unit and active from the receiving unit to the exhaust point. In these cases the induced flow rate can be as low as 0.5 L/min BS6834 : 1997. (BS EN 737-2 has a maximum induced flow rate of
0.05 L/min). The value of the induced flow is the level of fresh gas flow that the receiving system is actively sucking on the patient circuit. This is where an element of confusion arises. As the Purair 130 and 2000 are termed an Active system, users are under the impression this makes the dental breathing system ‘active’. This is not the case. Currently, the only dental breathing system suitable for connection to a Purair 130 or the 2000D is the Matrx Passive type – and this is now a obsolete system. As explained above, the induced flow rate on the breathing system is minimal (0.5 l/min or 0.05 l/min), the main effort to drive the gases along the scavenging hose being through normal patient respiratory effort. Only once the gases reach the terminal outlet, does the extraction flow rate take over.
All the Active systems have been designed by the Manufacturer (s) to be connected to a dental vacuum system – capable of generating enough flow to operate at the recommended 45 l/min. This usually means occupying the high volume suction port and as most dental surgeries currently only have one high volume port, this is consequently not popular. (Some chair manufacturers, for example, ADEC, now provide a dual HVE option, with certain models, which addresses the issue.) The other main criteria is that the system is expired outside the surgery and building. It is not recommended that Tridac (Aspirade) models be used due to exhausted gases being exposed to motor arking.
If for some reason it is not suitable to utilise the dental vacuum system, the alternatives are:-
Connection to a centralised AGSS wall outlet (via a special probe adapter – please note: These AGS/Probe adaptors are designed to locate directly into the AGS outlet and do not require an air break (Barnsley Receiver) in circuit. They must be used with an Active Dental Breathing System which is capable of being adjusted to a flow rate of 45 l/min by a suitable flow limiter (vacuum control block) integral to the system.
Connection to a Miniscav Active Scavenger unit – requiring an electrical socket and an external exit vent (15mm). The vent should have a downturn on the outside with an insect filter. Again, must be used with an Active Dental Breathing System.
Excerpt from HTM02-01 (Ref 4)
Chapter 10 – Anaesthetic Gas Scavenging Disposal Systems
10.5: Active Scavenging for dental installation is an entirely different concept.
An active system is one in which there is a flow generated through the patient’s nasal mask and this carries away the waste gases exhaled by the patient. This flow is in the order of 45 L/min and is achieved by connection of the mask (via a suitable flow-limiting adaptor) to either; a dental vacuum system or directly to an active scavenging system
(BS/EN) wall terminal.
Appendix L – Important notes for use of medical vacuum and anaesthetic gas scavenging. Sections 8, 9 and 10 refer to Active Dental Scavenging Systems.
Ref 1: ‘Clinical evaluation of the efficacy of three nitrous oxide scavenging units during dental treatment’ Certismo, Walton, Hartzell, Farris
General Dentistry September-October 2002.
Ref 2: NIOSH Technical Report: Control of Nitrous Oxide in Dental Operatories
Ref 3: BS 6834 : 1987 / BS EN 737-2 : 1998
Ref 4: Medical Gases Health Technical Memorandum 02-01: Medical gas pipeline systems. Part A: Design, installation, validation and verification. 2006.
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Oryx and Crake Read-Along: Post Four (Part 7 – 9 Reaction)
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Reading Parts 7-9
This is probably the section of the book I remember the least about. Maybe I read it late at night. Or maybe I read it really fast, because we`re finally making some progress. Jimmy’s on the move, and he’s telling us more about Crake. Looking back, there are actually a bunch of really important things in these chapters, but I can’t talk about them yet! So if you`re still reading, PAY ATTENTION.
My thoughts are a little disjointed, but as always, there’s lots to comment on. The writing is so dense.
Part 7-9 Reaction
Blue Man Group: This book is pretty serious and scary most of the time, but there are some laughs:
Their penises turn bright blue to match the blue abdomens of the females, and they do a sort of blue-dick dance number, erect members waving to and fro in unison, in time to the foot movements and the singing: a feature suggested to Crake by the sexual semaphoring of crabs.
(Probably getting flagged as pornography by my work’s servers tomorrow. Again.)
So sex comes down to women being fertile and men being… there? Jimmy and Crake talk about what this means – no more unrequited love, no more rape, no more fussin’ and fightin’. But Jimmy wants to know what this means for art, much of which is inspired by heartache. Crake patronizes and condecends (why does Jimmy like him, again?) and finally asks:
Wouldn’t you rather be fucking?
Which is pretty much up there with “to be or not to be” as far as philosophical questions go. But says a lot about Crake, I think.
A Woman’s Work: Jimmy says the Craker women don’t do any work apart from tending the fire. I guess pregnancy, childbirth, and child care aren’t work? Dick.
Though maybe Crake made some adjustments in that area too. If *I* was designing a new strain of human, that’s the first thing I would mess with. Shorter gestation, smaller babies… maybe we could just lay eggs, or something? The more I think about it, the more I’m pissed off at Crake for not addressing this!
He better have got rid of wisdom teeth too.
Teach a Snowman to Fish: I feel like I’m missing something – why the hell can’t Snowman ask the Crakers to catch him more fish? He makes it sound like he can never go back on his word or contradict himself. They seem to take him at face value, so why can’t he just say Crake spoke to him through his watch and want them to catch more fish, or something? Or, why can’t Snowman go fishing with the Crakers, learn for himself? He is keeping himself at arm’s reach, for some reason. Is he afraid of them? Afraid he’ll become one of them? I don’t get it.
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy!: Atwood is very plot focused here. I found myself so caught up in Jimmy’s story that I sometimes forgot that oh yeah, billions of people have died. I think he’s a pretty self-centered guy, so it makes sense that his story is wrapped up in himself. But Atwood reminds us, from time to time, of the absolute horror that occured just weeks (months?) ago:
Along the road is a trail of objects people must have dropped in flight, like a treasure hunt in reverse. A suitcase, a knapsack spilling out clothes and trinkets; an overnight bag, broken open, beside it a forlorn pink toothbrush. A bracelet; a woman’s hair ornament in the shape of a butterfly; a notebooks, its pages soaked, the handwriting illegible.
The fugitives must have had hope, to begin with. They must have thought they`d have a use for these things later. Then they`d changed their minds and let go.
The most disturbing passage in the whole book, perhaps series:
“That’s the head in the middle,” said the woman. “There’s a mouth opening at the top, they dump the nutrients in there. No eyes or beak or anything, they don’t need those.”
I had Chicken McNuggets the day after reading this passage, and it has haunted my dreams ever since.
Future McNuggets. I’m Lovin’ It! (photo via Gizmodo.com)
Mommy Issues: So, both Crake and Jimmy lost their mothers to the evil HealthWyzer machine. Pretty good motivation for ending the world, or saving it, I suppose.
Oryx and Crake IRL: There was an epic thread on Reddit this week, asking people to spill industry secrets. There was lots of gross stuff about the restaurant industry, and how various service industries rip you off (Jiffy Lube, duh,) but this one caught my eye:
Most people who say this are ignored as kooks, but having worked in pharmaceutical research, I can confirm this:
We already have developed better, safer medicines than most of the crap currently on the market. However due to the following reasons, most of it will never reach the market.
FDA Approval costs a fair amount of money and time, and for a “new drug” to be approved takes bloody years. The slightest fuckup in testing and back to the beginning.
Money. If a new drug discovery is not going to be as profitable as the stuff currently on the market, it will simply be patented and sat on. Research funding: Not enough of it anymore to properly explore all the possibilities.
Life imitates art? Art imitates life? Damn.
Till next week! Check out the other read-along posts at Reading in Winter.
Written by lauratfrey Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with Chickie Nobs, Dystopian, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, OryxCrake2013, Read-Along
I just read a book that dealt with the same issues with drugs–how the stuff being sold is the profitable stuff, even if it doesn’t work or has terrible side effects, FDA approval, etc. Also (in this fictional book), even if they had found a drug that successfully helped or cured a disease, if the disease only affects a small number of people, drug companies will pass them over and only work on the drugs that will help a larger number of people, because PROFIT. Even though the book is fictional, I have no doubt this is true. Ugh.
Yikes. What was the book?
Race Across the Sky (Derek Sherman).
“So sex comes down to women being fertile and men being… there?” In nature, most of the time, yes. Just watch Planet Earth to see all the crazy dances and fights and displays males do to get the attention of females. Lots of pomp and circumstance haha. There’s a lot of evidence of Crake wanting to take human back to something more primitive, more primal. He seems to hold nature in somewhat low regard, but he sees lots of value in how animals behave.
“Crake patronizes and condecends (why does Jimmy like him, again?)” I know, right?! I was thinking this through the whole chapter. I get that, for the novel’s purposes, having them as foils for one another works great, but from an internal logic standpoint, why in the world would these two people be friends? It seems like each one would annoy the other. I’m wondering if this gets explained later?
“I feel like I’m missing something – why the hell can’t Snowman ask the Crakers to catch him more fish? He is keeping himself at arm’s reach, for some reason. Is he afraid of them? Afraid he’ll become one of them? I don’t get it.” I think the arm’s length comment is a good one. That’s what I’ve been thinking. He seems to watch over them, in a way, but he doesn’t want to be involved with them, he doesn’t want to need them for anything. Whether this is a statement against Crake or it’s his own need to stay independent and strong, I don’t know. Interesting, though.
“…oh yeah, billions of people have died. I think he’s a pretty self-centered guy, so it makes sense that his story is wrapped up in himself.” I’ve had the feeling, through the whole read, that the catastrophe that happened a while ago. Like a year or more. So at this point Jimmy has gone passed the grieving for humanity stage into anger. So if he seems self-obsessed, or concerned only about himself, a) he’s probably gone through the rest of humanity already, and b) there’s only himself left, so I’m sure you’d be pretty wrapped up in your own shit haha. I might be wrong on the timeline, though.
Finally, your comment about “ending the world, or saving it” is interesting. The idea of saving the world BY ending the world is fascinating. What a complex moral concept, hey? Reminds me about a book I’m reading, The Eye of the World, where a young man is told that he’s the savior of the world, but he’s destined to kill everyone he loves in order to do it. Crazy, but super interesting.
Great post again, as always!
Yeah I think you called out Crake’s comment about nature with a capital N. And Jimmy’s dad makes a comment in an earlier chapter about how “protein isn’t sacred” or something. I’d be interested to see how someone with religious leanings would interpret all this.
I think they do annoy each other. But I think Crake needs Jimmy more than Jimmy needs Crake… I just haven’t entirely figured out why yet.
Yes, Jimmy gets a pass for being self centred NOW, but he always was. I’m not sure about the timeline either! I thought it was longer, like you, until I read Year of the Flood (sorry, spoilerish)
August 21, 2013 - 8:50 am Rick @ AnotherBookBlog.com
Not really a spoiler, so no worries, The more I’m reading the more it seems that all of this devastation happened in a few short months.
The whole sex thing cracked me up! It was just so bizarre! So basically we’re like monkeys or something? We don’t feel anything, we just have a job that has to be done? Though when it comes to women’s job only being stoking the fire, I think that’s because the kids grow up faster than they do in our society now. So really, childrearing takes no time at all.
The chicken thing was SO GROSS. You’re right, probably the most disturbing part so far. Sure glad we weren’t eating chicken the night I read that.
I wonder about Jimmy and why he’s the only one. Well, he said that there must be others like him, but so far he seems to be the only one and the Crakers look at him differently. But then, if Crake saw the need to save him, why is he living how he is? Why doesn’t he get whatever fancy life Crake must have?
Great post, Laura!
I think there are lots of hints about the Crakers developing a bit of religious feeling (worshipping Oryx and Crake, with Snowman as their prophet) but I wonder if the Crakers will start to develop feelings for each other. Like, maybe one day a lady-Craker will only want one blue man, or something. Something to show that you just can’t “edit out” feelings?
Atwood always said that she was writing the MaddAddam trilogy from an optimistic standpoint. Despite all the crap that happens, she wants to be optimistic about the future. So I won’t be shocked if, in the end, Nature wins out, regardless of how badly Crake messed with things. Earth will always right itself, in time.
August 23, 2013 - 5:01 pm Buried In Print
Chapter Eight is one of my favourites; I feel like a lot of things start to come together there. Well, perhaps as many questions erupt to replace the others, but, still, it’s affirming to feel we’re gaining more of an understanding of the situation and the world such-as-it-is.
I asked the same questions about the fish, but I do feel it offers some new insight to his character, a way to offset the other kinds of ideas that he has about his own identity and intent and role, in contrast to some of the other observations about him. (Sometimes it’s hard to be sympathetic to his character, but simple hunger we can relate to.)
With his determination to stick with the original declaration, we have confirmation that he does operate according to a code, possesses an integrity that we might be inclined to overlook (deny?) based on some other plot elements, and we have to wonder about the responsibility he feels to create a story that is, at least, consistent, even if it doesn’t succeed for him personally.
August 27, 2013 - 11:30 am lauratfrey
Of course. Words are so important to Jimmy, so he can’t go back on his word. Great insight.
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r/Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the two genres. Metalcore is distinguished from other punk metal fusions by its emphasis on breakdowns: slower, intense passages conducive to moshing. This is a place for news, reviews, videos and discussion of your [favorite metalcore bands](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Metalcore_musical_groups).
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r/harrypotter
Welcome to r/HarryPotter, the place where fans from around the world can meet and discuss everything in the Harry Potter universe! Be sorted, earn house points, take classes with our fine Hogwarts staff, debate which actor portrayed Dumbledore the best, and finally get some closure for your Post-Potter Depression.
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r/vinyl
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r/thewalkingdead
Subreddit for all things The Walking Dead.
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Reflective Thinking
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Reflective Thinking officially started in January 2012. Director Dr. Ahmed Kharrufa had completed a PhD at Newcastle University and this combination of extensive studies into computer supported collaborative learning and 15 years experience in programming led to the beginning of the company.
This fusion of expertise and world-leading research inspired Reflective Thinking's passion for the future of learning. Involved in continuous studies in the sector, the team are at the forefront of innovation in education. The published research papers of these studies have been acknowledged by leading researchers across the world and international press.
At BETT 2013, Reflective Thinking launched their first product: collaborative learning platform Digital Mysteries. The program originates from the paper tool Mysteries, which Professor David Leat created in the 1990s. Paper Mysteries consist of 15-30 paper slips of information with a strong narrative thread on a range of things including people, places, times, phenomena, events and abstract information. Groups are asked an open question which is often supplemented by some closed questions. The process is designed to encourage higher-order thinking.
Reflective Thinking developed this concept into the 21st century version it is today, and due to the academic research behind it, the educational benefits of the software are as well thought out as each and every feature.
The company is already helping students collaborate effectively, increase their 21st century learning skills and perfecting the classroom of tomorrow, today.
Through world class research, create innovative technology that empowers teachers and helps students to become better team players and higher-level thinkers.
Who's in the team?
Dr. Ahmed Kharrufa is the Director of Reflective Thinking. With vast experience in programming and an enthusiasm for
technology-enhanced collaborative learning, he created the company in 2012. Dr. Kharrufa is also actively involved in research
at Culture Lab, Newcastle University, as a research associate. His research interest is a continuation of his PhD work on digital
tabletop technology and technology-enhanced collaborative learning. With this in mind, Reflective Thinking continue to be at the
forefront of innovation.
Professor David Leat is a consultant to Reflective Thinking. Also now the Director for the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching
(CfLaT) at Newcastle University, his interest in thinking skills has developed over the past 20 years through projects on metacognition,
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An Integrated Raman Microscope and in situ STM-TEM Analysis System (2008–2009)
The proposed Raman microscope integrated with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and a structural and chemical analyser will be an outstanding characterisation system for a wide range of materials, capable of structural, elemental, morphological, and physical characterization of the same sample region under precisely controlled conditions. The in-situ TEM holder will allow in-situ STM sample characterisations that will provide invaluable information on electrical properties and dynamic processes at specific locations. As a coordinated facility, these instruments represent a comprehensive characterisation tool underpinning the work of excellent researchers in advanced nano-materials, polymers, and biological systems.
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Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
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Head of Commercial Operations
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Australian Research Council
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expansion joints, repair, repair retaining wall, retaining walls
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Our REpair department serves to rectify common issues with ageing bridge & retaining wall structures, bridge expansion joints and deck seals, buried arches, culverts and pipes. And as the worlds’ infrastructure ages, there is an integral need for a company that can deal with the complexities surrounding remedial works on retaining structures, bridges, tunnels & water services on all scales, large or small.
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A bridge is just as important as your home. Therefore, we apply the same level of expertise across all projects — regardless of the size of the job or contract value.
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The Genesis version of Super Monaco adds a complete career mode, however. In the career mode, your goal is to win a season of races. Unfortunately, you start with a relatively slow car. By challenging other drivers, you can move to a better team and car, and ultimately win the F1 World Title. As well as the famous Monaco course, others from around the world have been added, to give the game a longer shelf life.
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Moblin, Linux for netbooks
published on May 21, 2009.
Moblin got me curios and I wanted to test it out:
Moblin is an open source project focused on building a Linux-based platform optimized for the next generation of mobile devices including Netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices, and In-vehicle infotainment systems.
Cause I don’t own (yet!) a netbook, I installed it under VirtualBox (VB from now on). The image is 666 MB big and it comes not in an .iso, but in a .img format. But, VB, a really awesome software, had no troubles booting from it. As with the majority of Linux distros nowadays, Moblin image is also a Live CD, which means you can run it, without installing it.
The preinstall process is made up from 6-7 steps: choosing the language, the keyboard layout, the timezone and, of course, the partitioning. Basically, it’s just another boring “Next-Next” process. The installation itself took around 6 minutes to finish. When it’s done, it asks for a username and a password.
The first boot went pretty quickly, considering that booting under VB takes longer than booting under regular installations. The thing about VB is that it needs, the so called “Guest Additions” installed on the guest machine, so that the guest machine can be used normally. In this case, I failed to install it: Moblin comes with one version of the Linux kernel and the additions are for another version of the kernel. This prevented me in my quest to test Moblin fully. Anyway, I’ve managed to take a few screenshots of it, all are uploaded to my Picasa profile.
There was one thing that was strange. It has a “Status panel”, from which you can update your profiles on social networks. A really useful stuff. I just opened it up and updated my Twitter profile. Almost. I wasn’t logged in to Twitter from it and Moblin didn’t say a word about it. It just happily said that my status is updated. Once I found the “Web services” panel I logged in and this time I was really updating my Twitter stream.
I really was hoping to test it normally and write a detailed review of it, but this guest additions thingy thought otherwise. Moblin is a great distro, even in this beta stage I believe it’s useful. What do you think? Did you test it already, saw it in action?
One thing’s for sure: when I’ll get myself a netbook, it’ll run on Moblin.
P.S.: Check out the Moblin intro, too!
Tags: about, introduction, linux, moblin, netbook, open source, random.
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Token Foreigner, Part 7 – Conclusion
For the past several articles, I’ve talked about a trope in anime that I called “the token foreigner”, and as we have seen there are several different types of portrayals of non-Japanese characters in Japan-centric cartoons. They’ve ranged from absolutely horrid to mostly harmless to full and well-developed characters. My purpose in writing these articles…
December 9, 2017 in Saturday Morning Cartoons, Show Review, Uncategorized, Valuable Information.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Token Foreigner, Part 6 – Cyborg 009
For the first few parts of this series of articles, I talked about a trope in anime that I call “the token foreigner”, gave examples of said characters, and talked about subsections of the trope in sports anime and in cases where the “foreigner” isn’t foreign. In an attempt to find anime that do non-Japanese characters…
December 2, 2017 in Movie Review, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Show Review.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Token Foreigner, Part 5 – Detective Conan (Case Closed)
For the first few parts of this series of articles, I talked about a trope in anime that I call “the token foreigner”, gave examples of said characters, and talked about subsections of the trope in sports anime and in cases where the “foreigner” isn’t foreign. In an attempt to find anime that do non-Japanese…
October 14, 2017 in Saturday Morning Cartoons, Show Review.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Token Foreigner, Part 4 – Eyeshield 21
In the past three articles, I talked about a trope in anime that I call “the token foreigner”, gave examples of said characters, and talked about subsections of the trope in sports anime and in cases where the “foreigner” isn’t foreign. In an attempt to find anime that do non-Japanese characters justice, for the next few…
October 7, 2017 in Saturday Morning Cartoons, Show Review.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Token Foreigner, Part 3 – Westaboos and Half-Japanese Characters in Anime
Coming from its Japan-loving counterpart “weeaboo”, a “westaboo” is one who is obsessed with Europe or America/American Culture/Cartoons/Comics etc. and assumes everything made in the west is superior to everything else in the world. Characters in Japanese anime that use western imagery, culture, or language despite not having anything to do with said countries can sometimes…
September 30, 2017 in Saturday Morning Cartoons, Show Review, Uncategorized, Valuable Information.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Token Foreigner, Part 2 – Sports Anime and the Portrayal of Black Characters
Welcome to part two in my series of articles about “The Token Foreigner” seen in Japanese animated shows. Last week I defined what exactly is a “token foreigner”, and I left off talking about the use of non-Japanese characters as antagonists or rivals in anime. This week I’ll be focusing on a special category…
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Token Foreigner, Part 1 – The Portrayal of Non-Japanese Characters in Anime
As I have probably mentioned before in previous articles, I live in Japan. I am originally from America, but came to Japan to work as an assistant English teacher. Living in Japan has been great, and I truly enjoy it here, but I would be lying if I said there weren’t downsides to being one…
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Tag Archives: The Other Wise Man
January 6, 2014 · 16:09
“The Other Wise Man” a short story by Henry Van Dyke
You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away to offer their gifts at the manger-cradle in Bethlehem. But have you ever heard the story of the Other Wise Man, who also saw the star in its rising, and set out to follow it, yet did not arrive with his brethren in the presence of the young child Jesus? Of the great desire of this fourth pilgrim, and how it was denied, yet accomplished in the denial; of his many wanderings and the probations of his soul; of the long way of his seeking and the strange way of his finding the One whom he sought–I would tell the tale as I have heard fragments of it in the Hall of Dreams, in the palace of the Heart of Man.
In the days when Augustus Caesar was master of many kings and Herod reigned in Jerusalem, there lived in the city of Ecbatana, among the mountains of Persia, a certain man named Artaban. His house stood close to the outermost of the walls which encircled the royal treasury. From his roof he could look over the seven-fold battlements of black and white and crimson and blue and red and silver and gold, to the hill where the summer palace of the Parthian emperors glittered like a jewel in a crown.
Around the dwelling of Artaban spread a fair garden, a tangle of flowers and fruit-trees, watered by a score of streams descending from the slopes of Mount Orontes, and made musical by innumerable birds. But all colour was lost in the soft and odorous darkness of the late September night, and all sounds were hushed in the deep charm of its silence, save the plashing of the water, like a voice half-sobbing and half-laughing under the shadows. High above the trees a dim glow of light shone through the curtained arches of the upper chamber, where the master of the house was holding council with his friends.
He stood by the doorway to greet his guests–a tall, dark man of about forty years, with brilliant eyes set near together under his broad brow, and firm lines graven around his fine, thin lips; the brow of a dreamer and the mouth of a soldier, a man of sensitive feeling but inflexible will–one of those who, in whatever age they may live, are born for inward conflict and a life of quest.
His robe was of pure white wool, thrown over a tunic of silk; and a white, pointed cap, with long lapels at the sides, rested on his flowing black hair. It was the dress of the ancient priesthood of the Magi, called the fire-worshippers.
“Welcome!” he said, in his low, pleasant voice, as one after another entered the room–“welcome, Abdus; peace be with you, Rhodaspes and Tigranes, and with you my father, Abgarus. You are all welcome. This house grows bright with the joy of your presence.”
There were nine of the men, differing widely in age, but alike in the richness of their dress of many-coloured silks, and in the massive golden collars around their necks, marking them as Parthian nobles, and in the winged circles of gold resting upon their breasts, the sign of the followers of Zoroaster.
They took their places around a small black altar at the end of the room, where a tiny flame was burning. Artaban, standing beside it, and waving a barsom of thin tamarisk branches above the fire, fed it with dry sticks of pine and fragrant oils. Then he began the ancient chant of the Yasna, and the voices of his companions joined in the hymn to Ahura-Mazda:
We worship the Spirit Divine,
all wisdom and goodness possessing,
Surrounded by Holy Immortals,
the givers of bounty and blessing;
We joy in the work of His hands,
His truth and His power confessing.
We praise all the things that are pure,
for these are His only Creation
The thoughts that are true, and the words
and the deeds that have won approbation;
These are supported by Him,
and for these we make adoration.
Hear us, O Mazda! Thou livest
in truth and in heavenly gladness;
Cleanse us from falsehood, and keep us
from evil and bondage to badness,
Pour out the light and the joy of Thy life
on our darkness and sadness.
Shine on our gardens and fields,
shine on our working and waving;
Shine on the whole race of man,
believing and unbelieving;
Shine on us now through the night,
Shine on us now in Thy might,
The flame of our holy love
and the song of our worship receiving.
The fire rose with the chant, throbbing as if the flame responded to the music, until it cast a bright illumination through the whole apartment, revealing its simplicity and splendour.
The floor was laid with tiles of dark blue veined with white; pilasters of twisted silver stood out against the blue walls; the clear-story of round-arched windows above them was hung with azure silk; the vaulted ceiling was a pavement of blue stones, like the body of heaven in its clearness, sown with silver stars. From the four corners of the roof hung four golden magic-wheels, called the tongues of the gods. At the eastern end, behind the altar, there were two dark-red pillars of porphyry; above them a lintel of the same stone, on which was carved the figure of a winged archer, with his arrow set to the string and his bow drawn.
The doorway between the pillars, which opened upon the terrace of the roof, was covered with a heavy curtain of the colour of a ripe pomegranate, embroidered with innumerable golden rays shooting upward from the floor. In effect the room was like a quiet, starry night, all azure and silver, flushed in the cast with rosy promise of the dawn. It was, as the house of a man should be, an expression of the character and spirit of the master.
He turned to his friends when the song was ended, and invited them to be seated on the divan at the western end of the room.
“You have come to-night,” said he, looking around the circle, “at my call, as the faithful scholars of Zoroaster, to renew your worship and rekindle your faith in the God of Purity, even as this fire has been rekindled on the altar. We worship not the fire, but Him of whom it is the chosen symbol, because it is the purest of all created things. It speaks to us of one who is Light and Truth. Is it not so, my father?”
“It is well said, my son,” answered the venerable Abgarus. “The enlightened are never idolaters. They lift the veil of form and go in to the shrine of reality, and new light and truth are coming to them continually through the old symbols.” “Hear me, then, my father and my friends,” said Artaban, “while I tell you of the new light and truth that have come to me through the most ancient of all signs. We have searched the secrets of Nature together, and studied the healing virtues of water and fire and the plants. We have read also the books of prophecy in which the future is dimly foretold in words that are hard to understand. But the highest of all learning is the knowledge of the stars. To trace their course is to untangle the threads of the mystery of life from the beginning to the end. If we could follow them perfectly, nothing would be hidden from us. But is not our knowledge of them still incomplete? Are there not many stars still beyond our horizon–lights that are known only to the dwellers in the far south-land, among the spice-trees of Punt and the gold mines of Ophir?”
There was a murmur of assent among the listeners.
“The stars,” said Tigranes, “are the thoughts of the Eternal. They are numberless. But the thoughts of man can be counted, like the years of his life. The wisdom of the Magi is the greatest of all wisdoms on earth, because it knows its own ignorance. And that is the secret of power. We keep men always looking and waiting for a new sunrise. But we ourselves understand that the darkness is equal to the light, and that the conflict between them will never be ended.”
“That does not satisfy me,” answered Artaban, “for, if the waiting must be endless, if there could be no fulfilment of it, then it would not be wisdom to look and wait. We should become like those new teachers of the Greeks, who say that there is no truth, and that the only wise men are those who spend their lives in discovering and exposing the lies that have been believed in the world. But the new sunrise will certainly appear in the appointed time. Do not our own books tell us that this will come to pass, and that men will see the brightness of a great light?”
“That is true,” said the voice of Abgarus; “every faithful disciple of Zoroaster knows the prophecy of the Avesta, and carries the word in his heart. `In that day Sosiosh the Victorious shall arise out of the number of the prophets in the east country. Around him shall shine a mighty brightness, and he shall make life everlasting, incorruptible, and immortal, and the dead shall rise again.'”
“This is a dark saying,” said Tigranes, “and it may be that we shall never understand it. It is better to consider the things that are near at hand, and to increase the influence of the Magi in their own country, rather than to look for one who may be a stranger, and to whom we must resign our power.”
The others seemed to approve these words. There was a silent feeling of agreement manifest among them; their looks responded with that indefinable expression which always follows when a speaker has uttered the thought that has been slumbering in the hearts of his listeners. But Artaban turned to Abgarus with a glow on his face, and said:
“My father, I have kept this prophecy in the secret place of my soul. Religion without a great hope would be like an altar without a living fire. And now the flame has burned more brightly, and by the light of it I have read other words which also have come from the fountain of Truth, and speak yet more clearly of the rising of the Victorious One in his brightness.”
He drew from the breast of his tunic two small rolls of fine parchment, with writing upon them, and unfolded them carefully upon his knee.
“In the years that are lost in the past, long before our fathers came into the land of Babylon, there were wise men in Chaldea, from whom the first of the Magi learned the secret of the heavens. And of these Balaam the son of Beor was one of the mightiest. Hear the words of his prophecy: ‘There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall arise out of Israel.'”
The lips of Tigranes drew downward with contempt, as he said:
“Judah was a captive by the waters of Babylon, and the sons of Jacob were in bondage to our kings. The tribes of Israel are scattered through the mountains like lost sheep, and from the remnant that dwells in Judea under the yoke of Rome neither star nor sceptre shall arise.”
“And yet,” answered Artaban, “it was the Hebrew Daniel, the mighty searcher of dreams, the counsellor of kings, the wise Belteshazzar, who was most honoured and beloved of our great King Cyrus. A prophet of sure things and a reader of the thoughts of the Eternal, Daniel proved himself to our people. And these are the words that he wrote.” (Artaban read from the second roll:) ” ‘Know, therefore, and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore Jerusalem, unto the Anointed One, the Prince, the time shall be seven and threescore and two weeks.”‘
“But, my son,” said Abgarus, doubtfully, “these are mystical numbers. Who can interpret them, or who can find the key that shall unlock their meaning?”
Artaban answered: “It has been shown to me and to my three companions among the Magi–Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. We have searched the ancient tablets of Chaldea and computed the time. It falls in this year. We have studied the sky, and in the spring of the year we saw two of the greatest planets draw near together in the sign of the Fish, which is the house of the Hebrews. We also saw a new star there, which shone for one night and then vanished. Now again the two great planets are meeting. This night is their conjunction. My three brothers are watching by the ancient Temple of the Seven Spheres, at Borsippa, in Babylonia, and I am watching here. If the star shines again, they will wait ten days for me at the temple, and then we will set out together for Jerusalem, to see and worship the promised one who shall be born King of Israel. I believe the sign will come. I have made ready for the journey. I have sold my possessions, and bought these three jewels–a sapphire, a ruby, and a pearl–to carry them as tribute to the King. And I ask you to go with me on the pilgrimage, that we may have joy together in finding the Prince who is worthy to be served.”
While he was speaking he thrust his hand into the inmost fold of his, girdle and drew out three great gems–one blue as a fragment of the night sky, one redder than a ray of sunrise, and one as pure as the peak of a snow-mountain at twilight–and laid them on the outspread scrolls before him.
But his friends looked on with strange and alien eyes. A veil of doubt and mistrust came over their faces, like a fog creeping up from the marshes to hide the hills. They glanced at each other with looks of wonder and pity, as those who have listened to incredible sayings, the story of a wild vision, or the proposal of an impossible enterprise.
At last Tigranes said: “Artaban, this is a vain dream. It comes from too much looking upon the stars and the cherishing of lofty thoughts. It would be wiser to spend the time in gathering money for the new fire-temple at Chala. No king will ever rise from the broken race of Israel, and no end will ever come to the eternal strife of light and darkness. He who looks for it is a chaser of shadows. Farewell.”
And another said: “Artaban, I have no knowledge of these things, and my office as guardian of the royal treasure binds me here. The quest is not for me. But if thou must follow it, fare thee well.”
And another said: “In my house there sleeps a new bride, and I cannot leave her nor take her with me on this strange journey. This quest is not for me. But may thy steps be prospered wherever thou goest. So, farewell.”
And another said: “I am ill and unfit for hardship, but there is a man among my servants whom I will send with thee when thou goest, to bring me word how thou farest.”
So, one by one, they left the house of Artaban. But Abgarus, the oldest and the one who loved him the best, lingered after the others had gone, and said, gravely: “My son, it may be that the light of truth is in this sign that has appeared in the skies, and then it will surely lead to the Prince and the mighty brightness. Or it may be that it is only a shadow of the light, as Tigranes has said, and then he who follows it will have a long pilgrimage and a fruitless search. But it is better to follow even the shadow of the best than to remain content with the worst. And those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone. I am too old for this journey, but my heart shall be a companion of thy pilgrimage day and night, and I shall know the end of thy quest. Go in peace.”
Then Abgarus went out of the azure chamber with its silver stars, and Artaban was left in solitude.
He gathered up the jewels and replaced them in his girdle. For a long time he stood and watched the flame that flickered and sank upon the altar. Then he crossed the hall, lifted the heavy curtain, and passed out between the pillars of porphyry to the terrace on the roof.
The shiver that runs through the earth ere she rouses from her night-sleep had already begun, and the cool wind that heralds the daybreak was drawing downward from the lofty snow-traced ravines of Mount Orontes. Birds, half-awakened, crept and chirped among the rustling leaves, and the smell of ripened grapes came in brief wafts from the arbours.
Far over the eastern plain a white mist stretched like a lake. But where the distant peaks of Zagros serrated the western horizon the sky was clear. Jupiter and Saturn rolled together like drops of lambent flame about to blend in one.
As Artaban watched them, a steel-blue spark was born out of the darkness beneath, rounding itself with purple splendours to a crimson sphere, and spiring upward through rays of saffron and orange into a point of white radiance. Tiny and infinitely remote, yet perfect in every part, it pulsated in the enormous vault as if the three jewels in the Magian’s girdle had mingled and been transformed into a living heart of light.
He bowed his head. He covered his brow with his hands.
“It is the sign,” he said. “The King is coming, and I will go to meet him.”
All night long, Vasda, the swiftest of Artaban’s horses, had been waiting, saddled and bridled, in her stall, pawing the ground impatiently, and shaking her bit as if she shared the eagerness of her master’s purpose, though she knew not its meaning.
Before the birds had fully roused to their strong, high, joyful chant of morning song, before the white mist had begun to lift lazily from the plain, the Other Wise Man was in the saddle, riding swiftly along the high-road, which skirted the base of Mount Orontes, westward.
How close, how intimate is the comradeship between a man and his favourite horse on a long journey. It is a silent, comprehensive friendship, an intercourse beyond the need of words.
They drink at the same way-side springs, and sleep under the same guardian stars. They are conscious together of the subduing spell of nightfall and the quickening joy of daybreak. The master shares his evening meal with his hungry companion, and feels the soft, moist lips caressing the palm of his hand as they close over the morsel of bread. In the gray dawn he is roused from his bivouac by the gentle stir of a warm, sweet breath over his sleeping face, and looks up into the eyes of his faithful fellow-traveller, ready and waiting for the toil of the day. Surely, unless he is a pagan and an unbeliever, by whatever name he calls upon his God, he will thank Him for this voiceless sympathy, this dumb affection, and his morning prayer will embrace a double blessing–God bless us both, the horse and the rider, and keep our feet from falling and our souls from death!
Then, through the keen morning air, the swift hoofs beat their tattoo along the road, keeping time to the pulsing of two hearts that are moved with the same eager desire–to conquer space, to devour the distance, to attain the goal of the journey.
Artaban must indeed ride wisely and well if he would keep the appointed hour with the other Magi; for the route was a hundred and fifty parasangs, and fifteen was the utmost that he could travel in a day. But he knew Vasda’s strength, and pushed forward without anxiety, making the fixed distance every day, though he must travel late into the night, and in the morning long before sunrise.
He passed along the brown slopes of Mount Orontes, furrowed by the rocky courses of a hundred torrents.
He crossed the level plains of the Nisaeans, where the famous herds of horses, feeding in the wide pastures, tossed their heads at Vasda’s approach, and galloped away with a thunder of many hoofs, and flocks of wild birds rose suddenly from the swampy meadows, wheeling in great circles with a shining flutter of innumerable wings and shrill cries of surprise.
He traversed the fertile fields of Concabar, where the dust from the threshing-floors filled the air with a golden mist, half hiding the huge temple of Astarte with its four hundred pillars.
At Baghistan, among the rich gardens watered by fountains from the rock, he looked up at the mountain thrusting its immense rugged brow out over the road, and saw the figure of King Darius trampling upon his fallen foes, and the proud list of his wars and conquests graven high upon the face of the eternal cliff.
Over many a cold and desolate pass, crawling painfully across the wind-swept shoulders of the hills; down many a black mountain-gorge, where the river roared and raced before him like a savage guide; across many a smiling vale, with terraces of yellow limestone full of vines and fruit-trees; through the oak-groves of Carine and the dark Gates of Zagros, walled in by precipices; into the ancient city of Chala, where the people of Samaria had been kept in captivity long ago; and out again by the mighty portal, riven through the encircling hills, where he saw the image of the High Priest of the Magi sculptured on the wall of rock, with hand uplifted as if to bless the centuries of pilgrims; past the entrance of the narrow defile, filled from end to end with orchards of peaches and figs, through which the river Gyndes foamed down to meet him; over the broad rice-fields, where the autumnal vapours spread their deathly mists; following along the course of the river, under tremulous shadows of poplar and tamarind, among the lower hills; and out upon the flat plain, where the road ran straight as an arrow through the stubble-fields and parched meadows; past the city of Ctesiphon, where the Parthian emperors reigned, and the vast metropolis of Seleucia which Alexander built; across the swirling floods of Tigris and the many channels of Euphrates, flowing yellow through the corn-lands–Artaban pressed onward until he arrived, at nightfall on the tenth day, beneath the shattered walls of populous Babylon.
Vasda was almost spent, and Artaban would gladly have turned into the city to find rest and refreshment for himself and for her. But he knew that it was three hours’ journey yet to the Temple of the Seven Spheres, and he must reach the place by midnight if he would find his comrades waiting. So he did not halt, but rode steadily across the stubble-fields.
A grove of date-palms made an island of gloom in the pale yellow sea. As she passed into the shadow Vasda slackened her pace, and began to pick her way more carefully.
Near the farther end of the darkness an access of caution seemed to fall upon her. She scented some danger or difficulty; it was not in her heart to fly from it–only to be prepared for it, and to meet it wisely, as a good horse should do. The grove was close and silent as the tomb; not a leaf rustled, not a bird sang.
She felt her steps before her delicately, carrying her head low, and sighing now and then with apprehension. At last she gave a quick breath of anxiety and dismay, and stood stock-still, quivering in every muscle, before a dark object in the shadow of the last palm-tree.
Artaban dismounted. The dim starlight revealed the form of a man lying across the road. His humble dress and the outline of his haggard face showed that he was probably one of the Hebrews who still dwelt in great numbers around the city. His pallid skin, dry and yellow as parchment, bore the mark of the deadly fever which ravaged the marsh-lands in autumn. The chill of death was in his lean hand, and, as Artaban released it, the arm fell back inertly upon the motionless breast.
He turned away with a thought of pity, leaving the body to that strange burial which the Magians deemed most fitting–the funeral of the desert, from which the kites and vultures rise on dark wings, and the beasts of prey slink furtively away. When they are gone there is only a heap of white bones on the sand.
But, as he turned, a long, faint, ghostly sigh came from the man’s lips. The bony fingers gripped the hem of the Magian’s robe and held him fast.
Artaban’s heart leaped to his throat, not with fear, but with a dumb resentment at the importunity of this blind delay.
How could he stay here in the darkness to minister to a dying stranger? What claim had this unknown fragment of human life upon his compassion or his service? If he lingered but for an hour he could hardly reach Borsippa at the appointed time. His companions would think he had given up the journey. They would go without him. He would lose his quest.
But if he went on now, the man would surely die. If Artaban stayed, life might be restored. His spirit throbbed and fluttered with the urgency of the crisis. Should he risk the great reward of his faith for the sake of a single deed of charity? Should he turn aside, if only for a moment, from the following of the star, to give a cup of cold water to a poor, perishing Hebrew?
“God of truth and purity,” he prayed, “direct me in the holy path, the way of wisdom which Thou only knowest.”
Then he turned back to the sick man. Loosening the grasp of his hand, he carried him to a little mound at the foot of the palm-tree.
He unbound the thick folds of the turban and opened the garment above the sunken breast. He brought water from one of the small canals near by, and moistened the sufferer’s brow and mouth. He mingled a draught of one of those simple but potent remedies which he carried always in his girdle–for the Magians were physicians as well as astrologers–and poured it slowly between the colourless lips. Hour after hour he laboured as only a skilful healer of disease can do. At last the man’s strength returned; he sat up and looked about him.
“Who art thou?” he said, in the rude dialect of the country, “and why hast thou sought me here to bring back my life?”
“I am Artaban the Magian, of the city of Ecbatana, and I am going to Jerusalem in search of one who is to be born King of the Jews, a great Prince and Deliverer of all men. I dare not delay any longer upon my journey, for the caravan that has waited for me may depart without me. But see, here is all that I have left of bread and wine, and here is a potion of healing herbs. When thy strength is restored thou canst find the dwellings of the Hebrews among the houses of Babylon.”
The Jew raised his trembling hand solemnly to heaven.
“Now may the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob bless and prosper the journey of the merciful, and bring him in peace to his desired haven. Stay! I have nothing to give thee in return–only this: that I can tell thee where the Messiah must be sought. For our prophets have said that he should be born not in Jerusalem, but in Bethlehem of Judah. May the Lord bring thee in safety to that place, because thou hast had pity upon the sick.”
It was already long past midnight. Artaban rode in haste, and Vasda, restored by the brief rest, ran eagerly through the silent plain and swam the channels of the river. She put forth the remnant of her strength, and fled over the ground like a gazelle.
But the first beam of the rising sun sent a long shadow before her as she entered upon the final stadium of the journey, and the eyes of Artaban, anxiously scanning the great mound of Nimrod and the Temple of the Seven Spheres, could discern no trace of his friends.
The many-coloured terraces of black and orange and red and yellow and green and blue and white, shattered by the convulsions of nature, and crumbling under the repeated blows of human violence, still glittered like a ruined rainbow in the morning light.
Artaban rode swiftly around the hill. He dismounted and climbed to the highest terrace, looking out toward the west.
The huge desolation of the marshes stretched away to the horizon and the border of the desert. Bitterns stood by the stagnant pools and jackals skulked through the low bushes; but there was no sign of the caravan of the Wise Men, far or near.
At the edge of the terrace he saw a little cairn of broken bricks, and under them a piece of papyrus. He caught it up and read: “We have waited past the midnight, and can delay no longer. We go to find the King. Follow us across the desert.”
Artaban sat down upon the ground and covered his head in despair.
“How can I cross the desert,” said he, “with no food and with a spent horse? I must return to Babylon, sell my sapphire, and buy a train of camels, and provision for the journey. I may never overtake my friends. Only God the merciful knows whether I shall not lose the sight of the King because I tarried to show mercy.”
There was a silence in the Hall of Dreams, where I was listening to the story of the Other Wise Man. Through this silence I saw, but very dimly, his figure passing over the dreary undulations of the desert, high upon the back of his camel, rocking steadily onward like a ship over the waves.
The land of death spread its cruel net around him. The stony waste bore no fruit but briers and thorns. The dark ledges of rock thrust themselves above the surface here and there, like the bones of perished monsters. Arid and inhospitable mountain-ranges rose before him, furrowed with dry channels of ancient torrents, white and ghastly as scars on the face of nature. Shifting hills of treacherous sand were heaped like tombs along the horizon. By day, the fierce heat pressed its intolerable burden on the quivering air. No living creature moved on the dumb, swooning earth, but tiny jerboas scuttling through the parched bushes, or lizards vanishing in the clefts of the rock. By night the jackals prowled and barked in the distance, and the lion made the black ravines echo with his hollow roaring, while a bitter, blighting chill followed the fever of the day. Through heat and cold, the Magian moved steadily onward.
Then I saw the gardens and orchards of Damascus, watered by the streams of Abana and Pharpar, with their sloping swards inlaid with bloom, and their thickets of myrrh and roses. I saw the long, snowy ridge of Hermon, and the dark groves of cedars, and the valley of the Jordan, and the blue waters of the Lake of Galilee, and the fertile plain of Esdraelon, and the hills of Ephraim, and the highlands of Judah. Through all these I followed the figure of Artaban moving steadily onward, until he arrived at Bethlehem. And it was the third day after the three Wise Men had come to that place and had found Mary and Joseph, with the young child, Jesus, and had laid their gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh at his feet.
Then the Other Wise Man drew near, weary, but full of hope, bearing his ruby and his pearl to offer to the King. “For now at last,” he said, “I shall surely find him, though I be alone, and later than my brethren. This is the place of which the Hebrew exile told me that the prophets had spoken, and here I shall behold the rising of the great light. But I must inquire about the visit of my brethren, and to what house the star directed them, and to whom they presented their tribute.”
The streets of the village seemed to be deserted, and Artaban wondered whether the men had all gone up to the hill-pastures to bring down their sheep. From the open door of a cottage he heard the sound of a woman’s voice singing softly. He entered and found a young mother hushing her baby to rest. She told him of the strangers from the far East who had appeared in the village three days ago, and how they said that a star had guided them to the place where Joseph of Nazareth was lodging with his wife and her new-born child, and how they had paid reverence to the child and given him many rich gifts.
“But the travellers disappeared again,” she continued, “as suddenly as they had come. We were afraid at the strangeness of their visit. We could not understand it. The man of Nazareth took the child and his mother, and fled away that same night secretly, and it was whispered that they were going to Egypt. Ever since, there has been a spell upon the village; something evil hangs over it. They say that the Roman soldiers are coming from Jerusalem to force a new tax from us, and the men have driven the flocks and herds far back among the hills, and hidden themselves to escape it.”
Artaban listened to her gentle, timid speech, and the child in her arms looked up in his face and smiled, stretching out its rosy hands to grasp at the winged circle of gold on his breast. His heart warmed to the touch. It seemed like a greeting of love and trust to one who had journeyed long in loneliness and perplexity, fighting with his own doubts and fears, and following a light that was veiled in clouds.
“Why might not this child have been the promised Prince?” he asked within himself, as he touched its soft cheek. “Kings have been born ere now in lowlier houses than this, and the favourite of the stars may rise even from a cottage. But it has not seemed good to the God of wisdom to reward my search so soon and so easily. The one whom I seek has gone before me; and now I must follow the King to Egypt.”
The young mother laid the baby in its cradle, and rose to minister to the wants of the strange guest that fate had brought into her house. She set food before him, the plain fare of peasants, but willingly offered, and therefore full of refreshment for the soul as well as for the body. Artaban accepted it gratefully; and, as he ate, the child fell into a happy slumber, and murmured sweetly in its dreams, and a great peace filled the room.
But suddenly there came the noise of a wild confusion in the streets of the village, a shrieking and wailing of women’s voices, a clangour of brazen trumpets and a clashing of swords, and a desperate cry: “The soldiers! the soldiers of Herod! They are killing our children.” The young mother’s face grew white with terror. She clasped her child to her bosom, and crouched motionless in the darkest corner of the room, covering him with the folds of her robe, lest he should wake and cry.
But Artaban went quickly and stood in the doorway of the house. His broad shoulders filled the portal from side to side, and the peak of his white cap all but touched the lintel.
The soldiers came hurrying down the street with bloody hands and dripping swords. At the sight of the stranger in his imposing dress they hesitated with surprise. The captain of the band approached the threshold to thrust him aside. But Artaban did not stir. His face was as calm as though he were watching the stars, and in his eyes there burned that steady radiance before which even the half-tamed hunting leopard shrinks, and the bloodhound pauses in his leap. He held the soldier silently for an instant, and then said in a low voice: “I am all alone in this place, and I am waiting to give this jewel to the prudent captain who will leave me in peace.”
He showed the ruby, glistening in the hollow of his hand like a great drop of blood.
The captain was amazed at the splendour of the gem. The pupils of his eyes expanded with desire, and the hard lines of greed wrinkled around his lips. He stretched out his hand and took the ruby.
“March on!” he cried to his men, “there is no child here. The house is empty.”
The clamor and the clang of arms passed down the street as the headlong fury of the chase sweeps by the secret covert where the trembling deer is hidden. Artaban re-entered the cottage. He turned his face to the east and prayed:
“God of truth, forgive my sin! I have said the thing that is not, to save the life of a child. And two of my gifts are gone. I have spent for man that which was meant for God. Shall I ever be worthy to see the face of the King?”
But the voice of the woman, weeping for joy in the shadow behind him, said very gently:
“Because thou hast saved the life of my little one, may the Lord bless thee and keep thee; the Lord make His face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee; the Lord lift up His countenance upon thee and give thee peace.”
Again there was a silence in the Hall of Dreams, deeper and more mysterious than the first interval, and I understood that the years of Artaban were flowing very swiftly under the stillness, and I caught only a glimpse, here and there, of the river of his life shining through the mist that concealed its course.
I saw him moving among the throngs of men in populous Egypt, seeking everywhere for traces of the household that had come down from Bethlehem, and finding them under the spreading sycamore-trees of Heliopolis, and beneath the walls of the Roman fortress of New Babylon beside the Nile–traces so faint and dim that they vanished before him continually, as footprints on the wet river-sand glisten for a moment with moisture and then disappear.
I saw him again at the foot of the pyramids, which lifted their sharp points into the intense saffron glow of the sunset sky, changeless monuments of the perishable glory and the imperishable hope of man. He looked up into the face of the crouching Sphinx and vainly tried to read the meaning of the calm eyes and smiling mouth. Was it, indeed, the mockery of all effort and all aspiration, as Tigranes had said–the cruel jest of a riddle that has no answer, a search that never can succeed? Or was there a touch of pity and encouragement in that inscrutable smile–a promise that even the defeated should attain a victory, and the disappointed should discover a prize, and the ignorant should be made wise, and the blind should see, and the wandering should come into the haven at last?
I saw him again in an obscure house of Alexandria, taking counsel with a Hebrew rabbi. The venerable man, bending over the rolls of parchment on which the prophecies of Israel were written, read aloud the pathetic words which foretold the sufferings of the promised Messiah–the despised and rejected of men, the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
“And remember, my son,” said he, fixing his eyes upon the face of Artaban, “the King whom thou seekest is not to be found in a palace, nor among the rich and powerful. If the light of the world and the glory of Israel had been appointed to come with the greatness of earthly splendour, it must have appeared long ago. For no son of Abraham will ever again rival the power which Joseph had in the palaces of Egypt, or the magnificence of Solomon throned between the lions in Jerusalem. But the light for which the world is waiting is a new light, the glory that shall rise out of patient and triumphant suffering. And the kingdom which is to be established forever is a new kingdom, the royalty of unconquerable love.
“I do not know how this shall come to pass, nor how the turbulent kings and peoples of earth shall be brought to acknowledge the Messiah and pay homage to him. But this I know. Those who seek him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.”
So I saw the Other Wise Man again and again, travelling from place to place, and searching among the people of the dispersion, with whom the little family from Bethlehem might, perhaps, have found a refuge. He passed through countries where famine lay heavy upon the land, and the poor were crying for bread. He made his dwelling in plague-stricken cities where the sick were languishing in the bitter companionship of helpless misery. He visited the oppressed and the afflicted in the gloom of subterranean prisons, and the crowded wretchedness of slave-markets, and the weary toil of galley-ships. In all this populous and intricate world of anguish, though he found none to worship, he found many to help. He fed the hungry, and clothed the naked, and healed the sick, and comforted the captive; and his years passed more swiftly than the weaver’s shuttle that flashes back and forth through the loom while the web grows and the pattern is completed.
It seemed almost as if he had forgotten his quest. But once I saw him for a moment as he stood alone at sunrise, waiting at the gate of a Roman prison. He had taken from a secret resting-place in his bosom the pearl, the last of his jewels. As he looked at it, a mellower lustre, a soft and iridescent light, full of shifting gleams of azure and rose, trembled upon its surface. It seemed to have absorbed some reflection of the lost sapphire and ruby. So the secret purpose of a noble life draws into itself the memories of past joy and past sorrow. All that has helped it, all that has hindered it, is transfused by a subtle magic into its very essence. It becomes more luminous and precious the longer it is carried close to the warmth of the beating heart.
Then, at last, while I was thinking of this pearl, and of its meaning, I heard the end of the story of the Other Wise Man.
Three-and-thirty years of the life of Artaban had passed away, and he was still a pilgrim and a seeker after light. His hair, once darker than the cliffs of Zagros, was now white as the wintry snow that covered them. His eyes, that once flashed like flames of fire, were dull as embers smouldering among the ashes.
Worn and weary and ready to die, but still looking for the King, he had come for the last time to Jerusalem. He had often visited the holy city before, and had searched all its lanes and crowded bevels and black prisons without finding any trace of the family of Nazarenes who had fled from Bethlehem long ago. But now it seemed as if he must make one more effort, and something whispered in his heart that, at last, he might succeed.
It was the season of the Passover. The city was thronged with strangers. The children of Israel, scattered in far lands, had returned to the Temple for the great feast, and there had been a confusion of tongues in the narrow streets for many days.
But on this day a singular agitation was visible in the multitude. The sky was veiled with a portentous gloom. Currents of excitement seemed to flash through the crowd. A secret tide was sweeping them all one way. The clatter of sandals and the soft, thick sound of thousands of bare feet shuffling over the stones, flowed unceasingly along the street that leads to the Damascus gate.
Artaban joined a group of people from his own country, Parthian Jews who had come up to keep the Passover, and inquired of them the cause of the tumult, and where they were going.
“We are going,” they answered, “to the place called Golgotha, outside the city walls, where there is to be an execution. Have you not heard what has happened? Two famous robbers are to be crucified, and with them another, called Jesus of Nazareth, a man who has done many wonderful works among the people, so that they love him greatly. But the priests and elders have said that he must die, because he gave himself out to be the Son of God. And Pilate has sent him to the cross because he said that he was the `King of the Jews.’
How strangely these familiar words fell upon the tired heart of Artaban! They had led him for a lifetime over land and sea. And now they came to him mysteriously, like a message of despair. The King had arisen, but he had been denied and cast out. He was about to perish. Perhaps he was already dying. Could it be the same who had been born in Bethlehem thirty-three years ago, at whose birth the star had appeared in heaven, and of whose coming the prophets had spoken?
Artaban’s heart beat unsteadily with that troubled, doubtful apprehension which is the excitement of old age. But he said within himself: “The ways of God are stranger than the thoughts of men, and it may be that I shall find the King, at last, in the hands of his enemies, and shall come in time to offer my pearl for his ransom before he dies.”
So the old man followed the multitude with slow and painful steps toward the Damascus gate of the city. Just beyond the entrance of the guardhouse a troop of Macedonian soldiers came down the street, dragging a young girl with torn dress and dishevelled hair. As the Magian paused to look at her with compassion, she broke suddenly from the hands of her tormentors, and threw herself at his feet, clasping him around the knees. She had seen his white cap and the winged circle on his breast.
“Have pity on me,” she cried, “and save me, for the sake of the God of Purity! I also am a daughter of the true religion which is taught by the Magi. My father was a merchant of Parthia, but he is dead, and I am seized for his debts to be sold as a slave. Save me from worse than death!”
Artaban trembled.
It was the old conflict in his soul, which had come to him in the palm-grove of Babylon and in the cottage at Bethlehem–the conflict between the expectation of faith and the impulse of love. Twice the gift which he had consecrated to the worship of religion had been drawn to the service of humanity. This was the third trial, the ultimate probation, the final and irrevocable choice.
Was it his great opportunity, or his last temptation? He could not tell. One thing only was clear in the darkness of his mind–it was inevitable. And does not the inevitable come from God?
One thing only was sure to his divided heart–to rescue this helpless girl would be a true deed of love. And is not love the light of the soul?
He took the pearl from his bosom. Never had it seemed so luminous, so radiant, so full of tender, living lustre. He laid it in the hand of the slave.
“This is thy ransom, daughter! It is the last of my treasures which I kept for the King.”
While he spoke, the darkness of the sky deepened, and shuddering tremors ran through the earth heaving convulsively like the breast of one who struggles with mighty grief.
The walls of the houses rocked to and fro. Stones were loosened and crashed into the street. Dust clouds filled the air. The soldiers fled in terror, reeling like drunken men. But Artaban and the girl whom he had ransomed crouched helpless beneath the wall of the Praetorium.
What had he to fear? What had he to hope? He had given away the last remnant of his tribute for the King. He had parted with the last hope of finding him. The quest was over, and it had failed. But, even in that thought, accepted and embraced, there was peace. It was not resignation. It was not submission. It was something more profound and searching. He knew that all was well, because he had done the best that he could from day to day. He had been true to the light that had been given to him. He had looked for more. And if he had not found it, if a failure was all that came out of his life, doubtless that was the best that was possible. He had not seen the revelation of “life everlasting, incorruptible and immortal.” But he knew that even if he could live his earthly life over again, it could not be otherwise than it had been.
One more lingering pulsation of the earthquake quivered through the ground. A heavy tile, shaken from the roof, fell and struck the old man on the temple. He lay breathless and pale, with his gray head resting on the young girl’s shoulder, and the blood trickling from the wound. As she bent over him, fearing that he was dead, there came a voice through the twilight, very small and still, like music sounding from a distance, in which the notes are clear but the words are lost. The girl turned to see if some one had spoken from the window above them, but she saw no one.
Then the old man’s lips began to move, as if in answer, and she heard him say in the Parthian tongue:
“Not so, my Lord! For when saw I thee an hungered and fed thee? Or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw I thee a stranger, and took thee in? Or naked, and clothed thee? When saw I thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee? Three-and– thirty years have I looked for thee; but I have never seen thy face, nor ministered to thee, my King.”
He ceased, and the sweet voice came again. And again the maid heard it, very faint and far away. But now it seemed as though she understood the words:
“Verily I say unto thee, Inasmuch as thou hast done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, thou hast done it unto me.”
A calm radiance of wonder and joy lighted the pale face of Artaban like the first ray of dawn, on a snowy mountain-peak. A long breath of relief exhaled gently from his lips.
His journey was ended. His treasures were accepted. The Other Wise Man had found the King.
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Sometimes a book takes you out of your comfort zone and surprises you. That was the case with Emily Skrutskie’s debut novel The Abyss Surrounds Us. Sure, it had been on my radar thanks to the science fiction and fantasy book blogs I follow, but I read less YA science fiction than YA fantasy. Yet when I dove into Skrutskie’s futuristic world of pirates, genetically engineered sea monsters, and the people who train the beasts, I came away from each chapter thinking, “That. Was. SO. COOL!” (You can read my review of The Abyss Surrounds Us here.)
Today I’m excited to have Emily here to talk about The Abyss Surrounds Us. How did she come up with her awesome Reckoners? Why was her route to publication different than other authors who are traditionally published? And, would Emily want to be a Reckoner trainer like her protagonist Cas? Let’s find out!
Q&A with Emily Skrutskie
Congratulations on the release of The Abyss Surrounds Us! It’s been out for a month, so how do you feel now that it’s out in the world?
I’m overjoyed, honestly. The reaction to the book has been so overwhelmingly positive, and every day new readers are reaching out to me to tell me how much they loved TASU. I can’t wait to share the sequel with you guys and start this process over again. So if I’m really being honest, I feel impatient! Bring on TASU 2!
For anyone who hasn’t read or heard of The Abyss Surrounds Us yet, could you tell us a little bit about it (without spoilers, of course *winks*)?
TASU is the story of a seventeen-year-old girl named Cas Leung who trains genetically engineered sea monsters to defend ships from pirates. But when pirates kidnap her and force her to raise a monster of their own, she’s forced to survive among her lifelong enemy.
Abyss is such a cook story! Pirates and genetically engineered sea monsters – I’ve never read anything quite like it before! What inspired you to write it? And where did you get the idea of sea monsters with DNA from other creatures like snapping turtles, snakes, and lizards?
It’s my dream story, really. I love the ocean, science fiction, and sea life, and all of these things synthesized together on a bus ride through Philadelphia when I looked out at some shipyards and imagined monsters alongside the ships.
The genetic engineering that synthesizes different animals to create Reckoners came from a need to be at least a little realistic. Just sizing up an existing creature wouldn’t work. For example, the terrapoids are closest to snapping turtles, but snapping turtles need freshwater to survive, so they have a little marine iguana woven into their makeup to adapt them to the oceans.
Cas is an awesome protagonist – and there’s a lot more to her than being a bad-ass Reckoner trainer. What do you admire most about her?
My favorite thing about Cas is this “Leeroy Jenkins”-type gut impulse she has. If Cas sees a job that needs to be done, she immediately charges in to do it, usually without much regard for herself. It’s not necessarily an admirable trait, but it’s one that makes me very, very proud of her.
Back to Reckoner training for a moment. If this were a job in the real world, I imagine it must be thrilling yet incredibly dangerous. So, would YOU want to be a Reckoner trainer? Why or why not? (And if it’s a yes, what would your Reckoner look like?)
I would absolutely want to be a Reckoner trainer! When I was a kid, I wanted to be a cetologist and study whales when I grew up. I got my SCUBA certification when I was 12 because I dreamed of swimming with them someday. So, I would love to be a cetoid Reckoner trainer!
Let’s talk about your path to becoming a published author. When and how did you decide to take writing seriously?
I started writing novels with the intention of getting published when I was 15, but it’s difficult to point to that as “when I started taking writing seriously” because I’ve been a storyteller all my life. Before then, I wrote short stories and built worlds and made movies, and even at the age of 9 I was walking out of Finding Nemo utterly obsessed with the process of assembling a story. But when I was 15, I did NaNoWriMo for the first time, turned out a good product, and started seeking an agent’s representation.
The road you took was unorthodox compared to other writers going the traditional publishing route. You received an offer for publication before signing with an agent. How did this work? And, how quickly were you able to get an agent after the fact?
I stumbled into my offer kind of unintentionally. I wanted to submit to Pitch Wars, polish TASU there, and then query agents, but I posted my query on WriteOnCon for feedback and ended up getting a request from Brian Farrey-Latz, my editor at Flux. Less than a month later, I had an offer of publication for two books on the table.
As for how long it took me to get an agent, there are kind of two answers. The first one is one week, which is the amount of time between when I received my offer of publication and when I decided among my four offers of representation, signed my agency contract, and put it in the mail. But the real answer is 20 minutes. Twenty minutes after I got my offer of publication and started sending out queries to every agent who had read my prior work, my phone started ringing with my first offer of rep.
Which authors have had the greatest influence on your writing? And who are some of your current favorites?
I have a holy trinity of people who I consider “#goals”: Maggie Stiefvater, Leigh Bardugo, and Victoria Schwab. Their writing is tight and amazing, they tell incredible stories, and their careers are something I aspire to!
I’ve heard there’s going to be a sequel to The Abyss Surrounds Us. (Yay!) Anything you can hint at while we wait to hear more about it? Also, are you working on other stories at the moment?
I will say that TASU 2 picks up three weeks after TASU ends, which has given Cas some time to settle into the choices she made at the conclusion of the first book. As far as other stuff, I have some pretty cool things in the pipeline! One is a book about girls who become cyborgs, and the other is about a prince and a pilot on the run. Both are IN SPACE.
What one piece of advice do you have for writers who aren’t published yet?
Attitude is everything, and perspective will save your life. Don’t draft and expect it to come out like a polished, published book. Don’t do your early rounds of revision expecting to get everything perfect. Don’t create expectations for yourself based on the people around you and how they’re doing the things you want to do. Keep your mind on the driving and your hands on the wheel. Be kind to yourself and understanding of others.
Thanks so much for your time, Emily! Best of luck with The Abyss Surrounds Us and all of your future projects.
Thank you so much for having me!
Emily Skrutskie’s Final Fast Five
Last Book She Read and Loved: Morning Star by Pierce Brown
A Name She’d Give Her Own Pirate Ship: C’mon, it’s GOTTA be the Minnow [the name of the pirate ship in TASU].
One Reason Why WALL-E Is Such an Awesome Movie: The filmmakers consulted with Roger Deakins, a legendary cinematographer, to make the camera in that movie as realistic as possible.
Random Object We’d Find at Her Writing Desk / Space: Earmuffs
Three Things She Can’t Live Without: Blank paper, good pens, and great conversation
About Emily Skrutskie
Emily Skrutskie is 6 feet tall. She was born in Massachusetts, raised in Virginia, and forged in the mountains above Boulder, Colorado. She holds a B.A. in Performing and Media Arts from Cornell University, where she studied an outrageous and demanding combination of film, computer science, and game design.
Her short fiction has been published by HarperTeen, and her debut novel, The Abyss Surrounds Us, is now available. She is represented by Thao Le of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
Find Emily Skrutskie:
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THE ABYSS SURROUNDS US
For Cassandra Leung, bossing around sea monsters is just the family business. She’s been a Reckoner trainer-in-training ever since she could walk, raising the genetically-engineered beasts to defend ships as they cross the pirate-infested NeoPacific. But when the pirate queen Santa Elena swoops in on Cas’s first solo mission and snatches her from the bloodstained decks, Cas’s dream of being a full-time trainer seems dead in the water.
Waiting for her on the pirate ship is an unhatched Reckoner pup. Santa Elena wants to take back the seas with a monster of her own, and she needs a proper trainer to do it. She orders Cas to raise the pup and teach him to fight for the pirates. If Cas fails, her blood will be the next to paint the sea.
But Cas has fought pirates her entire life. Santa Elena has no idea what she’s in for.
The Abyss Surrounds Us is out now and available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, The Book Depository, Books-A-Million, or Flux. You can also add it to your Goodreads shelf.
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11 thoughts on “Interview with Emily Skrutskie, Author of “The Abyss Surrounds Us””
Well this sounds like a real blast and I’m SO tempted! But I’ve also got so much else to read… AND I’ve just downloaded 2 more netgalley arcs this morning. But I WILL get hold of this one, as it sounds like such a very cool idea:). I loved the interview, too, Sara.
saraletourneau
Thanks, Sarah! 🙂
Really fun interview! I loved TASU and I’m very excited to know there is a sequel on the way. Sounds like Emily was very lucky in her road to publication:-) (although obviously a lot of hard work went into it too).
Thanks, Tammy! I’m very excited to read the sequel, too – once it’s out, of course. 🙂
I’m putting this book on my tbr. I hadn’t heard much about it pre-release, but the excitement seems to be growing now that it’s out and that kind of positive reaction always makes me pay attention. Plus, loved Tammy’s review and your excellent interview here! 🙂
Thanks, Mogsy! I think you’d have a lot of fun with The Abyss Surrounds Us, so I definitely recommend it and would love to see you review it for Bibliosanctum. 😉
Rawls E. Fantasy
Fab interview, Sara! I find the route Emily took to get published very interesting, and one I hadn’t thought of before.
Thanks, E.! Yes, Emily’s route to authordom was definitely unique. But it’s also a great example of taking advantage of opportunities we find through writing conferences and online contests. Who knows where and how you might get your foot in the door? 😉
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Sunshine(1973) [Signature Release]-Twilight Time Blu Ray .Color .124 mins. Region Free.
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Back in the 1970s, made for T.V. movies were big ratings getters.
Thanks to THE HOMECOMING: A CHRISTMAS STORY (WB/CBS ; December 1971)America was introduced to The Waltons , who soon garnered their own tv series. BRIAN’S SONG (ABC,1971)made a star out of James Caan and an earworm of a title theme that you couldn’t escape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w26pW2Uz2-Y . DUEL (Universal/ABC,1971). introduced the majority of Americans to a newcomer named STEVEN SPIELBERG.
Into this popular creative mix came SUNSHINE (Universal/CBS,1973). The inspired by a true story tear jerker was directed by Joseph Sargent (many popular episodes of STAR TREK ,Paramount /Desilu/NBC,1966-1969;as well as the theatrical movie COLOSSUS:THE FORBIN PROJECT (Universal,1970)which ironically BEGAN as a T.V. film ) with skill, finesse ,and a light touch which never made the story heavy handed nor pushed the tears as many other post LOVE STORY (Paramount,1970)films did. The emotions were natural and the reactions from the audiences were thus even more powerful(not that it affected me. No I’m not crying . The air in here is just dry.).
Airing on CBS, it became at the time the most watched TV film in history.
Making it more noteworthy was that the soundtrack was written by balladeer John Denver. “Sunshine on My Shoulders”, from which the film takes its title, was John Denver’s first number one hit (it went unnoticed on the album “Poems Prayers & Promises” in 1971, but became a hit single in 1973).
SUNSHINE CHRISTMAS
The film had a sequel in 1977, A SUNSHINE CHRISTMAS (Universal, NBC) that had less of an impact, as well as a short lived tv series in 1975, so it is odd that with all of the films that get pretty consistent exposure on revival television channels that SUNSHINE has not been aired .
People have fond memories of the film and bootlegs have been very popular.
Now, Redwind Productions, who prior to this released the documentary TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: KA SHEN’s JOURNEY (2010,about actress Nancy Kwan) and the Blu Ray release/restoration of HOLIDAY IN SPAIN /SCENT OF MYSTERY, now have gone all out to make this forgotten gem look even better than it did when first broadcast. Twilight Time is handling the Blu Ray release.
Jacquelyn M. ‘Lyn” Helton
The original film elements were used and given a 4K DPX scan (1080p Hi Definition),and restored the film’s original aspect ratios (1.33.1). The mono sound has also been cleaned up with a 2.0 DTS-HD MA mix. No multi-channel mixes, but none needed for this human tale, and the sound is hiss free, while the John Denver numbers are quite easy to listen to. To make it easier to find favorite bits of dialogue or music, one of the features on this Blu Ray is special chapter stops to go right to your favorite bits.
There are also optional English SDH subtitles, that are quite easy to read and follow the action (that is, if you can read them through teary eyes. I’m not crying, you’re crying. Shut up.).
The result is a beautiful looking print that you can watch with your entire family, either to revisit it with those who experienced it, or watch with your younger family members.
Did I mention to keep tissues nearby (not for me, for you, I am not crying. It’s my allergies.)?
FEB 12 1972, FEB 27 1972; Mrs. Lyn Helton; “I would have cared.”; (Photo By Dave Buresh/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
9/23/1971, NOV 8 1971; Dies of Cancer – Mrs. Lyn Helton, 20 the mother who tape-recorded her thoughts on death as cancer was taking her life, died Sunday at Denver’s Children’s Hospital.; (Photo By The Denver Post via Getty Images)
SUNSHINE was based upon the true life story of Jacquelyn M. ‘Lyn” Helton, who, at 18, after giving birth to her daughter Jennifer, was discovered to have bone cancer. She began to leave journals and audio tapes for her baby and her husband, Tom, with the goal of reminding them of how important they were, as well as inspiring people dealing with major illnesses.
Someone stole her tape recorder in 1971, which outraged people and after national coverage, she was gifted with a new recording device.
She died November 7,1971, with her story carried by national press.
Lawrence Schiller acquired the rights to her story, and thus two years and two days later (November 9,1973) her story was aired as SUNSHINE.
Names were changed for the tv story (opening credits say that it was “suggested by” Helton’s life) but it seems to follow the sad though inspiring tale (no I’m not crying. I think I have a cold starting. Stop it.).
Christina Raines , in her film debut, plays Kate Hayden. Kate is a young pregnant divorcee who falls in love with struggling musician Sam (Cliff DeYoung). Sam loves Kate so much that when the baby Jill is born, they both accept it as their own child. Kate finds out she has bone cancer, and the aggressive chemo she gets leaves her basically unable to go about her daily activities.
Frustrated, she decides she would rather live a short life as a functioning mother and wife than continue to be what she perceives as a burden. Kate continues to keep in touch with medical researchers as she begins to document her feelings and illnesses as she fights the terrible disease (I’m not crying. I think my eyes are tired. Shut up).
Someone steals her tape recorder, depressing her about the loss.
However, her story gets national attention, and her story inspires many to send gifts, including a new machine so she can continue journaling until…
(sniff… what? No! You are .Shut up.)
The film, while making the characters likeable, does not make them dull saints, and it deals with the stress of being the patient as well as its effect on those around them.
Ms. Raines has since retired from acting, but she now is a nurse who works with patients undergoing kidney dialysis. One wonders how much her role inspired her decision on this life choice. Before she stopped performing, she had a good career, appearing in films like THE SENTINEL (Universal,1977) and THE DUELLISTS(Paramount,1977).
Cliff DeYoung began as a musician who had performed with the likes of The Doors before became an actor, appearing in the original 1969 Broadway production of HAIR. After four years in NYC, he returned to California , landing his role in SUNSHINE. He continues to be an active actor.
Also in the film are Meg Foster, Brenda Vaccaro, and Billy Mumy.
The screenplay was by Carol Sobieski, who also wrote the adaptations for ANNIE (Columbia ,1982) and FRIED GREEN TOMATOES(Universal,1991), the latter earning a posthumous Oscar nomination for the writer.
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“My Sweet Lady”, “Day Dreams” “Goodbye Again”, “Poems, Prayers & Promises”, all with words and music by Denver alone, and “Sunshine On My Shoulders”, ’Take Me Home, Country Roads, and ‘Winter” which are Denver in collaboration with others. ‘Put Your Hand In The Hand” by Gene MacLellan is also featured.
The film seems to have gotten some sort of theatrical release, though I could only find a movie poster for this.
As an extra on the disc, however, there is also an original theatrical trailer.
Another bonus is a small booklet that really adds nothing though it has some great photos of the film as well as an overseas and American poster.
Recommended for those who enjoy a superior family drama, and don’t mind a few tears (not that I’m crying, mind you. I just need to go wipe my eyes. I’ll be fine).
Kudos to Redwind/Twilight Time for their effort to bring this well-loved story back to an appreciative audience who remember it fondly as well as a new group of viewers.
(warning tissues NOT included).
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While Hammer Films was reigning supreme as the creators of high-quality horror cinema, they continued to make movies in other genres as well. In the 1950s, Hammer tried their hand at a story of Robin Hood.
The legendary hero had been the subject of motion pictures since 1908 with the British made ROBIN HOOD & HIS MERRY MEN (Clarendon). Sadly, the cast is not currently known.
ROBIN HOOD & HIS MERRY MEN (1908)
American Eclair did a version simply called ROBIN HOOD that starred Robert Frazier,later to star in WHITE ZOMBIE (Halperin,1932)
1912 ,Friar Tuck officiates.
In 1913, a kinemacolor silent British film was shot in and around Nottingham called IN THE DAYS OF ROBIN HOOD, starring Harry Agar Lyons. That same year, Thanhouser in the U.S. made their own version, with William Russell in the title role, Maid Marian as portrayed by Gerda Holmes, and a sneering John Dillon as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
In The Days of Robin Hood (1913)
The most famous of the silent Robin Hood pictures was the exciting ROBIN HOOD (U.A. ,1922), starring Douglas Fairbanks in a role he was born to play.
He was so definitive that no one dared try the part until W.B. in 1938 created their Technicolor masterpiece, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, starring Errol Flynn as Robin, Olivia DeHavilland as Marian, Basil Rathbone as Sir Guy, Claude Rains as Prince John, and a wealth of familiar character actors. The film is how most people see Robin today, a laughing cavalier with a huge caring heart, quick with his sword or arrows to disperse justice and right wrongs.
Columbia waited ten years before attempting two films on the subject: BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST in Technicolor with Cornel Wilde as Robin’s son. Sam Katzman re- used the sets and costumes that same year in the cheaper Cinecolor process to create THE PRINCE OF THIEVES starring Jon Hall, inspired by an Alexandre Dumas novel.
ROGUES OF SHERWOOD FOREST
Two years later Columbia went back to Sherwood, or at least the Corriganville Movie Ranch to create ROGUES OF SHERWOOD FOREST. This tale was about ANOTHER son of Robin Hood (insert Maid Marian jokes here) in the person of John Derek, as well as a return to Technicolor with costumes from the 1938 film as well as actor Alan Hale Senior .Hale had played Little John in 1922, 1938 and here in again in his final screen role.
Television discovered the legends and put them to good use in 1953 for the BBC’s ROBIN HOOD, starring future Doctor Who Patrick Troughton. The show was broadcast live from a small television studio .
Hammer got into the tights and swordplay with THE MEN OF SHERWOOD FOREST (Hammer/Exclusive,1954, released by Astor in the U.S. in 1956) in Eastmancolor, their first color feature. American actor (and future director) Don Taylor worked on his British accent but seemed to have been instructed by director Val Guest that Robin laughs at everything. Seriously Robin, some of the things just weren’t that funny. Still, the movie is an enjoyable romp and a warm up for what Hammer would soon follow with.
From 1955 to 1959 , ITV created 143 half hour black and white television episodes for THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, with a deal with Officials Films to distribute the film within the United States in syndication .Richard Greene superbly played the hero of Sherwood , filming at the small Nettlefold Studios as well as locations that had standing medieval buildings ,as well as a great drawbridge and castle exterior constructed and also made use of for THE ADVENTURES OF SIR LANCELOT(ITV,1956-7).
20TH Century Fox gave us the DeLuxe Cinemascope SON OF ROBIN HOOD in 1959, which in fact was about Robin Hood’s DAUGHTER! It starred David Hedison and June Laverick.
Hammer returned to the shire, with a string of successes behind them since 1957’s CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (Hammer/WB) and a guaranteed distribution deal with Columbia Pictures. At this point, Hammer was a smooth running machine able to put out high quality entertainment on a budget with superb production values and top-notch performers. One of their sterling entertainment’s was SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST.
Hammer went to it’s main go to director Terence Fisher (who had directed several episodes of the Richard Greene series) and its biggest star Peter Cushing to play a villain to let fans know that this was indeed a Hammer Film. Richard Greene was the only performer from the popular series who was brought over.
Ardmore Studios
To show off their wide screen process MegaScope , Hammer went to Ireland and made use of the recently opened (1958) Ardmore Studios , as well as the green countryside surrounding in County Wicklow. Cinematographer Ken Hodges was no stranger to period dramas, having manned the camera on ITC’s THE BUCCANEER (1956), THE ADVENTURES OF SIR LANCELOT (1956-7), SWORD OF FREEDOM (1957-9) and of course ,13 episodes of THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, all for television. He makes great use of the lush colors that the natural locations provided.
Music was provided by composer Alun Hoddinott, of which this was his first of only four film scores. His music was marked by a strong Celtic air, and he was later awarded a CBE. Works like this made him a perfect choice for the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A–QSwlq-94 Composer Stanley Black wrote (uncredited) some of the ballads used within the film .
Filming took place between May 23 through July 8,1960. The film was edited scored, given its ‘U’ certificate (suitable for all audiences) uncut and released on Boxing Day, December 26,1960 in the U.K., with an Irish and American release following in January ,1961.
After the titles, the film begins with a wounded fugitive (an uncredited Desmond Llewelyn, 3 years before FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE ,U.A. 1963, as Boothroyd, before being properly named ‘Q’ in GOLDFINGER the following year) toppling off his horse, shot in the back by an arrow*.
Two of Robin’s men find the man and start going through his belongings. Robin Hood (Richard Greene) shows up and finds that the pair are in error, and that the man is not dead. Robin insists they bring him back to their camp where he can get treated.
They hear a sound and Robin draws his bow, telling whomever is hiding to come out. It is a quickly dressing Maid Marian (Sarah Branch who had appeared in Hammer’s 1959 HELL IS A CITY), who had been bathing au naturel but emerges with a very modern hair style, when she happened to catch sight of the man’s fall. She thinks the trio are the culprits, but Robin shows that the arrow used is not one of theirs, but from a crossbow.
Marian tries to set up a meeting with the Sheriff (Peter Cushing, looking as always born into whatever period he finds the films set within), but Robin is suspicious of the Sheriff’s motives. He was wise to be, as the Sheriff is up to his expected tricks, with one of Robin’s men killed in an attack
Robin, disguised, enters an archery contest and catches the eye of the Earl of Newark (Richard Pasco, later to appear in Hammer’s THE GORGON, Columbia ,1964). Robin plays along and discovers a plot to murder Archbishop Hubert Walter (Jack Gwillim, THE CURSE OF THE MUMMY’S TOMB, Hammer/Columbia,1964) .
By the way, there really was an Archbishop Hubert Walter, who had accompanied Richard 1st on the Crusades, helped raise the ransom for Richard when he was held captive in Germany, and as a reward was appointed Archbishop in 1193.
Back to the movie : The Earl has also a psychotic assistant in Lord Melton (a rising star, Oliver Reed, soon to top bill in several Hammer films before going on to international fame) who does something quite unexpected ¾ of the way into the film, which gets him chastised by the Earl, rather than the expected praise .
By the movie’s end, Robin, Marian, and the Merry Men emerge victorious, with the baddies all slain.
The production is first rate and moves at a rapid pace. Besides the performers already mentioned, there is also able support from Dennis Lotis (singer actor, known for CITY OF THE DEAD/HORROR HOTEL, Vulcan 1960. Lotis, at age 93, is still alive at the time of this writing ,living in Stiffkey in Norfolk England )as Alan A ‘Dale ; 6’ 4” Nigel Green(later to portray Hercules in JASON & THE ARGONAUTS, Columbia,1963)as Little John ,and Irish born actor Niall MacGinnis (forever to be remembered as Karswell from the classic NIGHT(CURSE)OF THE DEMON, Columbia,1957) .
Hammer returned twice more to Sherwood, with 1967’s A CHALLENGE FOR ROBIN HOOD (7 Arts) as well as Hammer releasing WOLFSHEAD: THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD in 1973. SWORD OF SHERWOOD, however, is perhaps the best of all their tellings of the legend.
Columbia released their Robin Hood films (Bandit, Sword, Rogues) to DVD in 2010 in no frill versions. Now TWILIGHT TIME has once again licensed one of the Hammer/Columbia releases, and given the film a proper sprucing up for Blu Ray release.
Limited as always to only 3,000 copies, the film is released in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio which was the proper 4 perf 35mm aspect ratio of Megascope (some Hammer films used Hammerscope, which was basically the same process). Some Megascope films were shot in the regular Academy frame and then printed on 4 perf 35mm anamorphic ( -source : http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/glossary.htm ).
The 1080p HD is a beautiful transfer, which superb details and colors. The DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 also does justice to the original sound mix, with dialogue and effects tracks being noise and pop free.
Extras include
A separate isolated audio track of both Hoddinott’s score as well as sound effects.
Optional English subtitles which are clear, easy to read and follow the action and dialogue accurately.
The original theatrical trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rJQ5ZTc90M
There is the always welcome Julie Kirgo booklet enclosed as well as a reversible cover for the blu ray. One wishes that they had gone for a more dynamic cover, even if from one of the oversea releases.
Still the cover is an incredibly minor quibble on what is once again a wonderful release of an entertaining action adventure film.
With the recent release of the $100 million plus dud from LIONSGATE this year, may I suggest that you rush out and buy this Blu Ray to see how to tell the tale properly and on a sensible budget, when filmmakers did not rely on outlandish CGI, but had talented craftsman telling a well written story.
HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION.
-Kevin G Shinnick
OTHER TWILIGHT TIME /HAMMER RELEASES:
PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER https://scarletthefilmmagazine.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/pirates-of-blood-river-twilight-time-blu-ray/
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*-Hammer’s MEN OF SHERWOOD FOREST also began with a rider shot with an arrow to get the story going.
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Mid-Summer Walk In The Peak District, Leader Helen Richardson, Saturday July 7th 2012
Reporter: Christine Fildes
We met at 9.30am by the Etherow Country Park visitor centre, in Compstall. The walk of about 9 miles was along tracks and paths in parkland and woodland. Ten of us set off, plus Freddie, the latest recruit and despite the mixed forecast, the weather was perfect.
Note:-
Compstall Mill was built in 1820 by George Andrew and Compstall Village was built to house his mill workforce. The waterways which can be seen today were also built by Andrew to carry water from the weir on the Etherow to turn the mill wheel (Big Lily). Built in 1839, it was the largest water wheel in the country, and stood where the car park is today.
After walking alongside the main lake adjacent the Visitor Centre, we crossed the bridge over the River Etherow which overlooked the weir (spectacular due to recent heavy rainfall) and climbed gently through Ernocroft Wood, and then joined Cown Edge Way. Eventually we were rewarded with exceptional views of over the Longdendale Valley, the Etherow Valley, with the Kinder Plateau on the on the skyline. We then descended by Warhurst Fold to the village of Broadbottom, passing The Lymefield Industrial Archeology Site and Visitor Centre. Once the site of a huge complex of cotton mills, the site of Broad Mills at Broadbottom, adjoining the Lymefield Visitor Centre, has been carefully reclaimed, and the remains of the mills with their complex arrangement of mill races, sluices, and die vats, restored for visitors to enjoy. A wide variety of birds and plants are in abundance in the area.
This was a perfect place to enjoy a lunch break (while basking in the sun). But we resisted the temptation to visit the garden centre and tea rooms nearby! After lunch Dave Taylor had to leave us, and then it was time to make our way back towards Compstall. We climbed gently again, out of the valley through delightful woodland (bathed in dappled sunshine) towards Hodgefold and Bothams Hall, where Helen and Brian assured us have recently seen a white peacock !*!* .... However not to-day, but we did see some pink pigs! A rare breed, according to a notice board. Finally we descended by Back Wood, passing the lower edge of Werneth Low golf club, Beacom Houses, and Mortin Clough to return Etherow Visitor Centre at approx. 3.30pm. Derek (wearing wellies), volunteered to go for a paddle in a stream with a very muddy Freddie, who was a little less exuberant than at the start of the walk.
Despite most of us being ‘Freddied’ during the walk, it was a delightful day. Helen had even arranged for Brian to do a spot of pruning ‘en route’. He produced a pair of secateurs from his rucksack when the footpath in Woodseats Lane disappeared through a gap in a holly hedge!
Thank you Helen for another well organised and interesting walk. You were even able to arrange some good weather for us too.
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MoviePass Hits 2 Million Subscribers, Adds $26 Million To Oscar Films
by Rose Moore
– on Feb 08, 2018
Movie subscription service MoviePass has announced that they have now surpassed two million subscribers but clarify claims about how much they've contributed to people seeing Oscar-nominated films. The service has been making headlines since it introduced a new price plan last year, allowing members to see up to one film per day for only $9.95 per month. This is obviously an incredible deal for regular moviegoers, but the price drop hasn't made theater chains happy - AMC, in particular, wants to ban MoviePass holders.
While the theaters might not be thrilled about the service, MoviePass themselves have seen a huge increase in subscribers since they dropped their prices. In December, MoviePass exceeded 1 million subscribers, and it managed to hit 1.5 million subscribers less than one month later. With another month down, MoviePass has hit their next major milestone: over 2 million subscribers in total - and they don't plan on slowing down anytime soon.
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THR confirms that MoviePass hit the 2 million mark this week, and CEO Mitch Lowe predicts more growth for the company:
We’re giving people a reason to go back to the movie theaters and they’re going in droves. With awards season here, we hope we can make Hollywood and exhibitors very happy by filling seats with eager audiences. Based on the dramatic increase in the number of MoviePass subscribers over such a short period of time, we believe MoviePass will continue to grow its subscriber base significantly.
Lowe also clarified comments made earlier this week about the impact that MoviePass has had on Oscar-nominated films. Originally, Lowe claimed that MoviePass contributed $128.7 million in box-office revenue to Oscar-nominated movies, attributing this to subscribers being willing to take risks on films they might not otherwise pay to see. However, Lowe has now revealed that the direct revenue to Oscar-nominated films by MoviePass was actually around $26 million for those films nominated in top categories, and $48 million when including any film nominated in any category. The remainder of the original figure included a "halo effect" (MoviePass subscriber recommendations and viewers accompanying subscribers to these films).
Although MoviePass has had to walk back their boasts about contributing to Oscar-nominees' box office figures, that's still a large number of viewers who may not otherwise have chosen to see these films at full price. Of course, there is no way of knowing which MoviePass subscribers may have paid full price for those same films, and which are only seeing them because they are subscribers, but it's a safe bet that at least some of them can be attributed to the subscription service itself.
Next: Why Movie Theaters Do Not Want MoviePass To Succeed
Source: THR
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Marli Tenorio Cordeiro1,2, Ulisses Braga-Neto1,4, Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira3, Ernesto T. A. Marques Jr.1,5,6*
1 Virology and Experimental Therapy Laboratory, Aggeu Magalhaes Research Center, Fiocruz, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, 2 Central Laboratory of Public Health, Secretaria de Saude do Estado de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, 3 Laboratory of Flavivirus, Institute Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 4 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, 5 Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 6 Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Background: Dengue virus infection causes a wide spectrum of illness, ranging from sub-clinical to severe disease. Severe dengue is associated with sequential viral infections. A strict definition of primary versus secondary dengue infections requires a combination of several tests performed at different stages of the disease, which is not practical. Methods and Findings: We developed a simple method to classify dengue infections as primary or secondary based on the levels of dengue-specific IgG. A group of 109 dengue infection patients were classified as having primary or secondary dengue infection on the basis of a strict combination of results from assays of antigen-specific IgM and IgG, isolation of virus and detection of the viral genome by PCR tests performed on multiple samples, collected from each patient over a period of 30 days. The dengue-specific IgG levels of all samples from 59 of the patients were analyzed by linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and one- and two-dimensional classifiers were designed. The one-dimensional classifier was estimated by bolstered resubstitution error estimation to have 75.1% sensitivity and 92.5% specificity. The two-dimensional classifier was designed by taking also into consideration the number of days after the onset of symptoms, with an estimated sensitivity and specificity of 91.64% and 92.46%. The performance of the two-dimensional classifier was validated using an independent test set of standard samples from the remaining 50 patients. The classifications of the independent set of samples determined by the two-dimensional classifiers were further validated by comparing with two other dengue classification methods: hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay and an in-house anti-dengue IgG-capture ELISA method. The decisions made with the two-dimensional classifier were in 100% accordance with the HI assay and 96% with the in-house ELISA. Conclusions: Once acute dengue infection has been determined, a 2-D classifier based on common dengue virus IgG kits can reliably distinguish primary and secondary dengue infections. Software for calculation and validation of the 2-D classifier is made available for download.
Citation: Cordeiro MT, Braga-Neto U, Nogueira RMR, Marques ETA Jr (2009) Reliable Classifier to Differentiate Primary and Secondary Acute Dengue Infection Based on IgG ELISA. PLoS ONE 4(4): e4945. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004945 Editor: Lisa F. P. Ng, Singapore Immunology Network, Singapore Received December 11, 2008; Accepted February 12, 2009; Published April 2, 2009 Copyright: 2009 Cordeiro et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID/NIH), under Grants U19 AI56541 and N01 AI 40085. Dr. Braga-Neto would like to acknowledge the support of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), under Grant DCR 35.0382/2004.2. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. * E-mail: emarques@jhmi.edu
Dengue virus (DENV) is a member of the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus, with four antigenically distinct serotypes (DENV-1 to DENV-4). Infection with this virus is a growing public health concern in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with an estimated incidence of 50100 million cases per year [1]. Dengue virus infection in humans causes a large spectrum of illness ranging from mild sub-clinical disease to a severe and occasionally fatal hemorrhagic clinical form, the dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) [2]. Severe complications of dengue infections such as DHF are mainly associated with sequential infection [3,4]. The lack of adequate tools to predict whether a patient infected with dengue virus will progress with the benign form or with life-threatening
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disease has often resulted in a large number of unnecessary and costly hospitalizations, which during dengue outbreaks have led to a public health crisis by creating a shortage of hospital beds [5]. Consequently, the differentiation of primary from secondary infection may be of great prognostic value for dengue patients, particularly children and the elderly, in whom a secondary dengue infection is more likely to result in DHF [4,5]. Also, for epidemiological purposes, it is important to characterize the dengue serological immune response during dengue outbreaks [5]. There is no doubt that clinical observation is the most important criterion for dengue diagnosis; nevertheless, definitive diagnosis of the disease requires laboratory confirmation [6,7,8]. ELISA-based detection of specific antibodies (both IgM and IgG) to the four dengue serotypes is valuable for the diagnosis of acute infection
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Secondary Dengue Infection
and for detection of previous exposure to dengue virus [8,9]. The hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test [10], based on antibody titering of paired serum specimens and recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) [7], is the method that has most frequently been used for serologic classification of dengue infections. However, this assay is time-consuming and crossreactions among Flavivirus have been noted [6]. The plaque reduction neutralizing test (PRNT) [11] may be also used, but this assay is difficult for most laboratories to perform, and the fact that the results take several days to obtain tends to limit its clinical usefulness. Thus, an accurate, timely and affordable assay that could be used to characterize the serologic response to DENV infection is clearly desirable. As an alternative to the HI test, several laboratories have developed and evaluated ELISA-format tests to detect IgG antibodies [12,13]. The IgG ELISA has the advantage of being easier to perform, as well as being suitable for surveillance and large-scale studies [14]. A number of commercial and standardized ELISA kits for both IgM and IgG antibody detection have also become available. The commercial IgGcapture ELISA kits that have been evaluated have shown good correlation with the HI assay [15]. However, the ability of both inhouse ELISAs and commercial kits to classify accurately primary and secondary dengue infections still needs to be validated with standard reference samples. This report shows how to design a linear 2-dimensional (2-D) classifier to assign primary and secondary dengue infection status to patients based on their IgG response, as measured by assays of samples taken on different days after onset of symptoms. This study is based on a set of IgG antibody data for patients from a well-characterized dengue cohort in the city of Recife, Brazil [16], where a commercial dengue IgG-ELISA kit is routinely used. In this kit the IgG-based classification of dengue infection is based on the use of a constant cut-off value to discriminate between the two types of infection, regardless of disease stage (as measured here by the number of days from the onset of symptoms). In the present study, we describe how to develop a reliable 2-D classifier that takes into account the disease stage and the IgG antibody level, and we demonstrate that this approach shows excellent performance with independent test data obtained from patients with independently verified primary or secondary dengue infections.
Table 1. Demographic of the patients. Primary and Secondary infection Information is based on the CPqAM classification criteria.
SUBJECT AGE Years
GENDER Male Female Total 1 1 9 13 17 14 54 3 8 16 11 16 55 1 4 17 29 28 30 109
TYPE OF INFECTION Primary Secondary 1 2 14 15 16 10 57 2 3 14 12 20 52
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demographic description of the subjects in this study is presented in Table 1.
Reference Standard (Recife method)
During the 20042005 period, the cohort had 230 subjects enlisted with confirmed dengue cases. From those 230 cases, 109 where unambiguously classified as primary or secondary infections based on a series of multiple standard methods (see below), and a total of 322 blood samples were obtained from these subjects. All the reference samples were strictly assigned by the authors according to the following criteria: 1) Primary infection (P) was characterized by absence of dengue specific IgG antibodies in the acute serum sample and presence of anti-dengue IgM, virus isolation and/or viral RNA detection, followed by the presence of anti-dengue IgG in convalescent serum samples; 2) Secondary infection (S) was characterized by presence of specific anti-dengue IgG in the acute sample and absence of anti-dengue IgM, associated with a positive RT-PCR and/or virus isolation; followed by the presence of anti-dengue IgM in convalescent serum samples. All unambiguously assigned samples were included in this study; no exclusions were made. The remaining 111 dengue cases could not be rigorously defined as primary or secondary dengue infections based on the criteria above and did not participate in the development of the classifier.
Materials and Methods Study population and specimen collection
Volunteers were recruited among subjects with more than five years of age who were admitted to one of three hospitals in the city of Recife Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco (IMIP), Hospital Esperanca (HE) and Hospital Santa Joana (HSJ) under suspicion of an acute dengue infection. Disease day 1 was the day of onset of symptoms, as reported by the patient. Blood samples were collected at the time of the first visit to the hospital. The patients had from two to five blood samples taken, on various days after the onset of disease. All first serum samples were evaluated using the standard tests: virus isolation, RT-PCR and serology (IgM and IgG). Serology only was carried out on all subsequent samples. Highly-experienced technicians performed all the assays in a blinded fashion, before any assignment of primary or secondary infection was made. Dengue cases were laboratoryconfirmed by virus isolation and/or viral RNA detection by RTPCR and/or by a positive anti-dengue, IgM-capture ELISA. A subset of samples collected during the two first years of the cohort (20042005) was employed. The complete clinical-epidemiological description of the cohort is described elsewhere [16]. The
Written consent to participate in the study was obtained from each patient (or the patients guardian) after a full explanation of the study was provided. All data were handled confidentially and anonymously. This study was reviewed and approved by the ethics committee of the Brazilian Ministry of Health (Nu 4909 CONEP) and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine internal review board (# 03-08-27-01).
Cohort serum collection
Blood samples were collected into 10 ml VacutainerH tubes (Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ). Serum was separated by centrifuging the tubes at 1,6006g for 10 min. Samples (1 ml per tube) were stored in two cryovials at 280uC and 220uC for later use in virus isolation, RT-PCR and serology.
Virus isolation and identification
For DENV isolation, serum samples were inoculated onto a monolayer of C6/36 cells [17]. Cells were harvested after 1014
days of incubation, and checked for the presence of virus by immunofluorescence assay. The dengue virus was identified with serotype-specific monoclonal antibodies as described by Gubler et al. [18].
Reverse transcriptase- polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)
Viral RNA was extracted from serum samples using a QIAquick PCR Purification kit (QIAGEN Inc. Valencia, CA). A two-step nested RT-PCR was carried out on all initial serum samples according to Lanciotti et al. [19]. Negative and positive controls were included in all steps. A purified and quantified dengue virus control was added to the PCR test to confirm the limit of detection of each assay of 10 genomic copies.
Serology
IgM ELISA. A total of 322 serum samples were used for IgM and IgG antibody detection. An anti-dengue, IgM-capture ELISA based on the viral envelop protein (Bio-Manguinhos, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil) was performed according to the manufacturers instructions. Results were interpreted as negative or positive according to the assay manual. IgG ELISA. An anti-dengue, IgG-capture ELISA (PanBio, Pty., Ltd., Brisbane, Australia) was performed according to the recommended guidelines. In brief, 100 ml/well of patient or control sera, diluted 1:100 in the reagent provided, was added to the assay plate, containing a combination of the envelope antigens (DENV-1, 2, 3 and 4) attached to its surface. After incubation, the residual serum was removed by washing, and 100 ml/well of peroxidase-conjugated anti-human IgG was added. After incubation and washing steps, 100 ml/well of the substrate system (tetramethylbenzidine / hydrogen peroxidase) was added. The reaction was stopped by the addition of 100 m/well of 1 M phosphoric acid and the absorbance was read at 450 nm. The results were calculated and interpreted according to manufacturers instructions. Anti-dengue IgG PanBio units were calculated by dividing the sample absorbance by the cut-off value and then multiplying this value by 10 (IgG Reference Unit). Results of PanBio Units were interpreted as follow: .11, positive; ,9, negative; and 911, equivocal. The cross-reactivity of the IgG-ELISA PanBio was investigated in dengue-IgG negative samples from 32 yellow fever vaccinees. There was no detectable dengue seroconvertion due to 17DD vaccination among these individuals, indicating very low cross-reactivity of the PanBio kit with yellow fever vaccinees (Table S1). However, six of the 32 dengue-negative IgG seroconverted 45 to 90 days later as a result of natural dengue infection, as determined by the presence of dengue specific IgM. In house IgG-ELISA (Rio method). The in-house IgGELISA was conducted at the Flavivirus Laboratory of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC), Fiocruz (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); the protocol used for the characterization of dengue immune response was previously described by Miagostovich et al [13]. Briefly, plates (96well (8612) microtiter plate, Immulon II, Dynatech, Inc., McLean, VA) were covered with 100 ml/well of hyper immune ascitic fluid (a mixture of anti-DENV-1, 2, 3 and 4 in equal parts) diluted in 0.1 M sodium carbonate buffer, pH 9.6, and were incubated overnight at 4uC. After washing, wells were blocked by filling with standard diluents (PBS pH 7.4/0,05% Tween/3% normal goat serum) and incubated for 1 h at 37uC. Seventy five microliters of 32 hemagglutinating units of purified virus antigen mix (DENV-1, 2, 3 and 4), diluted in standard diluents, was applied to each well and plates were incubated for 1 h at 37uC. After being washed three times in PBS, 100 ml of serum diluted 1:40 in PBS/Tween/3% non-fat dry milk (NFDM diluents) was
added to the first well in each column and 75 ml of the same diluents was added to the remaining wells. Four-fold dilutions were carried out to the eighth well in each column by transferring and mixing 25 ml. Plates were incubated for 1 h at 37uC, washed NFDM diluents was added. After incubating for 1 h at room temperature, plates were washed six times and 100 ml of substrate (ABTS) were added to each well. Plates were incubated at room temperature for 30 minutes, for color development, and the absorbance was read at 450 nm. Each plate contained a negative serum control, and the absorbance of each dilution was subtracted from the corresponding dilution of each test sample. According to this IgG-ELISA criteria, the immune response is defined as primary when acute-phase serum samples obtained before day 5 of illness have IgG antibody titers ,1:160 and convalescent-phase sera have titers #1: 40,960. Infections are defined as secondary when IgG titers are $1:160 in the acute-phase serum and $1:163,840 in convalescent-phase samples. The correlation of titers and serologic interpretations between IgG-capture ELISA and the hemagglutination inhibition assay (HI) were applied to validate the in-house IgG-capture ELISA. Hemagglutination Inhibition assay (HI method). The HI test was performed aiming to classify the patients immune response and compare the results to the other two methods above. The HI assay [10] modified to a microtiter plate format was performed on paired serum samples from all the 50 cases used as the independent test set. Antigens of DENV-1, -2, -3 and Yellow Fever, provided by the Evandro Chagas Institute (Belem-Para), Brazil, were used. The dengue immune response was classified according to WHO criteria [7]: cases with no HI antibodies (,1:20) in acute phase serum collected before the fourth day of disease and convalescent phase serum samples with an HI titer ,1:1280 were classified as primary infection. Infections were classified as secondary in patients with HI antibody titers of 1:20 or greater in the acute phase serum and a convalescent HI antibody titer greater than or equal to 1:2560 [7]. A summary of the results of all the tests performed on the independent set of standard samples is shown in Table 2. Statistical analysis. Data analysis and plotting were carried out using the open-source R statistical package, Version 2.2.1 [20]. Multivariate regression analysis was performed by fitting a linear model using the R function lm, and p-values for trends, intercepts and interaction were obtained by the lm function from t-tests for the significance of the corresponding coefficients in the model. The F-test for the difference in variances was performed by the R function var.test. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) was used to design a 2-D classifier, using as variables both the IgG unit level and the day of infection. LDA was coded in R directly from its definition in terms of group means and covariance matrices; e.g., see [21]. The bolstering resubstitution error estimation method used to assess the accuracy of the classifiers is based on the work described in [22]. Basically, it decreases the optimistic bias of the simple resubstitution error estimate (agreement-checking on the training data) by means of suitable bolstering probability density kernels placed at each training data point, producing a nearlyunbiased and low-variance estimator. The statistical analyses of test-set accuracy were performed in a blinded fashion, and the estimates were based on counting the number of correctly classified test samples and dividing by the total number of test samples. Confidence intervals for the test-set estimates were obtained from the binomial distribution, using the R function binom.test. The R code for LDA and bolstered resubstitution error estimation is provided as supplementary material (Statistical package S1) and is available for downloaded at this journal site.
Table 2. Characterization of the Standard Test Set samples used for test validation.
Patient and sample Nu
Nu days
Diagnostic Tests IgM RT- PCR NEG IgG RU 31 32 NEG 25 29 NEG 38 40 D3 22 44 NEG 38 38 D3 2 27 NEG 29 37 D3 2 19 D3 3 25 D3 33 40 NEG 1 24 D3 1 30 D3 27 41 D3 1 33 D3 46 39 D3 2 20 D3 14 18 D3 20 45 D3 20 22 D3 18 54 D3 44 44 D3 45 59 D3 48 51 D3 45 55 D3 16
HI test DENV1 1:160 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 1:1280 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:40 1:1280 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:80 ,1:20 1:20 1:1280 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:80 ,1:20 1:80 $1:2560 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:80 1:40 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:80 1:40 $1:2560 1:320 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 1:1280 $1:2560 1:1280 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 1:40 DENV2 1:160 $1:2560 1:640 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 1:640 $1:2560 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:40 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:40 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:80 ,1:20 1:40 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:80 1:20 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:80 1:20 $1:2560 1:160 $1:2560 1:640 $1:2560 1:1280 $1:2560 1:640 $1:2560 1:640 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 1:160 DENV3 1:320 $1:2560 1:80 1:640 1:640 $1:2560 1:80 1:1280 1:80 $1:2560 1:40 1:320 1:160 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:320 1:40 1:160 1:40 $1:2560 1:80 1:640 ,1:20 1:640 1:160 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:640 ,1:20 1:1280 ,1:20 1:640 ,1:20 1:1280 1:40 $1:2560 1:80 $1:2560 1:40 $1:2560 1:20 1:1280 1:20 1:1280 1:320 $1:2560 1:160 $1:2560 ,1:20 YFV 1:160 $1:2560 1:1280 $1:2560 $1:2560 $1:2560 1:1280 $1:2560 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:20 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 ,1:20 ,1:20 1:20 1:80 $1:2560 1:20 1:80 ,1:20 1:40 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:80 1:40 1:1280 ,1:20 1:80 1:40 $1:2560 1:40 $1:2560 1:160 $1:2560 1:80 $1:2560 1:80 1:640 1:40 1:1280 1:40 1:320 1:40 $1:2560 1:20
In house IgG ELISA (Rio method)
Classification/ Type of Infection
262 S1 262 S4 301 S1 301 S3 329 S1 329 S4 331 S1 331 S4 332 S1 332 S4 339 S1 339 S3 348 S1 348 S3 355 S1 355 S4 358 S1 358 S3 361 S1 361 S4 370 S1 370 S3 372 S1 372 S5 382 S1 382 S4 400 S1 400 S3 403 S1 403 S3 406 S1 406 S3 418 S1 418 S4 419 S1 419 S4 420 S1 420 S4 428 S1 428 S4 434 S1 434 S4 435 S1 435 S3 436 S1 436 S3 463 S1 463 S4 465 S1
2 15 4 17 2 11 4 14 4 11 6 14 5 23 4 15 5 11 4 17 7 12 3 30 5 12 5 15 7 13 6 28 4 11 2 16 4 15 3 15 5 13 5 32 5 34 4 16 5
POS POS POS POS POS POS POS POS POS POS POS POS NEG POS NEG POS POS POS NEG POS POS POS NEG POS POS POS NEG POS NEG NEG NEG POS NEG POS NEG NEG POS POS NEG NEG NEG POS NEG NEG NEG NEG NEG NEG NEG
1:2560 1:40960 1:2560 1:10240 1:10240 1:163840 1:2560 1:163840 1:10240 1:163840 1:40 1:10240 1:10240 1:40960 ,1:40 1:2560 1:160 1:2560 1:10240 1:163840 ,1:40 1:640 ,1:40 1:160 1:10240 1:163840 ,1:40* ,1:40 1:10240 1:163840 ,1:40 1:10240 1:160 1:163840 1:640 1:40960 1:2560 1:163840 1:2560 1:163840 1:640 1:163840 1:2560 1:163840 1:2560 1:163840 1:10240 1:163840 1:40
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Table 2. Cont.
Diagnostic Tests IgM RT- PCR IgG RU 42 D3 43 45 D3 39 39 D3 4 31 D3 2 29 D3 6 24 D3 38 40 D3 7 27 D3 33 38 D3 32 45 NEG 3 34 D3 17 32 D3 1 32 D3 7 37 D3 1 13 NEG 42 38 NEG 1 25 NEG 9 33 NEG 1 20 NEG 37 42 NEG 9 26 NEG 2 16 NEG 1 25 D3 2 26 NEG 4 21
HI test DENV1 $1:2560 1:1280 $1:2560 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:40 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:80 1:640 $1:2560 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:80 $1:2560 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:160 ,1:20 1:160 ,1:20 1:40 $1:2560 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:160 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:80 $1:2560 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:80 ,1:20 1:160 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:40 DENV2 $1:2560 1:1280 $1:2560 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:20 ,1:20 1:40 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:40 1:640 $1:2560 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:8 $1:2560 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:160 ,1:20 1:320 ,1:20 1:40 $1:2560 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:320 1:20 1:80 ,1:20 1:40 $1:2560 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:80 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:80 ,1:20 1:80 DENV3 $1:2560 1:160 $1:2560 1:40 1:1280 ,1:20 1:160 ,1:20 1:160 ,1:20 1:160 1:80 1:1280 1:40 1:320 1:20 $1:2560 1:40 1:1280 1:40 1:640 1:320 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:640 ,1:20 1:640 ,1:20 1:320 $1:2560 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:640 1:80 1:620 ,1:20 1:640 1:320 $1:2560 1:80 1:640 ,1:20 1:320 ,1:20 1:320 ,1:20 1:320 ,1:20 1:320 YFV $1:2560 1:320 1:1280 1:160 1:1280 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:40 1:160 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:20 1:80 $1:2560 1:160 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:40 1:640 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:160 ,1:20 1:160 1:20 1:640 1:1280 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:640 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:80 1:1280 $1:2560 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:80 ,1:20 1:40 ,1:20 1:80 ,1:20 1:40
14 4 17 5 16 7 18 7 21 5 13 5 12 8 15 4 12 2 14 6 18 3 7 4 24 2 10 3 10 5 12 5 13 11 33 11 33 4 9 8 15 4 18 4 13 3 11 3 11
POS NEG POS NEG POS NEG POS NEG POS NEG POS NEG NEG POS POS NEG POS NEG POS POS POS NEG POS NEG POS NEG POS NEG POS NEG POS NEG POS POS POS NEG POS NEG POS POS POS NEG POS NEG POS NEG POS NEG POS
1:163840 1:10240 1:163840 1:10240 1:163840 1:160 1:2560 ,1:40 1:2560 1:160 1:2560 1:10240 1:163240 ,1:40 1:2560 1:640 1:163840 1:10240 1:163840 ,1:40 1:10240 1:640 1:163840 1:160 1:10240 1:160* 1:655360 ,1:40 1:2560 1:10240 1:163840 1:160 1:2660 1:640 1:2560 1:640 1:2560 1:10240 1:163840 ,1:40 1:2560 1:160 1:10240 1:160 1:10240 1:160 1:40960 1:640 1:10240 P P P P P S P P P S P P P S P S S P S P P P S S
Diagnostic Tests IgM RT- PCR D3 IgG RU 7 34
HI test DENV1 ,1:20 1:40 DENV2 ,1:20 1:40 DENV3 ,1:20 1:160 YFV ,1:20 1:40
576 S1 576 S2
NEG POS
1:160 1:10240
Nu days, number of days from the start of the symptoms; P, primary infection; S, secondary infection; NEG, negative; POS, positive; YFV, yellow fever virus; D3, DENV-3; RU, reference unit. * discordant result. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004945.t002
Samples from 109 well-defined dengue infection cases, comprising 54 male and 55 female volunteers, were used in this work as reference samples. Summary of the demographic characteristics of these patients is presented in the Table 1. Samples from 59 patients were selected as the training set; of these, 33 presented primary infection, and 26 presented secondary infection, according to the Recife classification method, as defined in the methods section. A separate independent test set was established using data from the remaining additional 50 patients; of these, 24 corresponded to primary and 26 to secondary infection, again according to the Recife method. A schematic flow chart outlining the data processing steps is depicted in Figure 1.
The 59 patients of the training set provided two to five blood samples collected on different days. After about day 20, it is not possible to distinguish the IgG responses from the primary and secondary infection samples. Therefore, we limited our analysis to samples taken , = 20 days from the start of symptoms. For the training set, this resulted in 93 primary infection samples and 67 secondary infection samples, for a total of 160 training samples (Figure 1). Figure 2 shows a plot of IgG unit values versus number of days of symptoms for the 160 samples in the training data set. A multivariate linear model was fitted to this data, with IgG units as the dependent variable being regressed on days of fever and infection type (primary/secondary). The fitted line for the primary infection group (red circles) gave IgG = 26.865+2.1266day,
Figure 1. Data flow for standard samples from the cohort of dengue fever patients. Two to five blood samples were obtained from the patients on different days; these samples were pooled, resulting in 119 primary infection samples and 81 secondary infection samples, for a total of 200 samples. The effective training data set consisted of all available training samples from day 20 or earlier (93 primary and 67 secondary samples, for a total of 160). After design of the 2-D classifier, its accuracy was assessed both by training set bolstered error estimates and independent test-set error estimates. For the test set, the available samples were pooled, and those obtained after 20 days from the self-reported onset of symptoms were eliminated from consideration. The resulting test set had 51 primary and 61 secondary samples, for a total of 112 samples. The test set was also used to assess the accuracy of a diagnostic classifier that used all available samples for each patient. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004945.g001
Table 3. Threshold values for the IgG units reference values used to classify samples into primary infection (below the threshold) or secondary infection (above the threshold), as a function of sample day, according to the designed LDA classifier.
Days of symptoms onset 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004945.t003
IgG Unit Threshold 7.5 10.7 14.0 17.2 20.5 23.7 27.0 30.2 33.5 36.7 40.0
Figure 2. Training data, with primary and secondary infection classification according to the CPqAM criteria, with regression lines (dashed lines) and LDA classifier (solid line) superimposed. The regression line for the primary infection group corresponds to the equation IgG = 26.865+2.1266day, whereas the one for the secondary infection corresponds to IgG = 24.327+0.6746day. The slopes (dependence on day of infection) and intercepts were highly significant, for both primary and secondary infection groups (p,0.0005 in all cases). The difference between the intercepts is also highly significant (p,10-15), indicating a difference in initial immune response that reflects immunological memory in the case of the dengue-specific IgG. In addition, there is significant interaction between infection type and days of fever (p,10-7), that is, the lines are not parallel, and the trends within each group are significantly different, suggesting that it may be possible to define acute dengue infections on the basis of the rise in IgG level alone. The two regression lines converge near the 20-day limit, indicating that the groups cannot be reliably discriminated beyond this number of days. The equation for the LDA line is y = 7.494+1.6236x. The LDA classifier is depicted as a solid line in Figure 2. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004945.g002
whereas the one for the secondary infection group (blue triangles) gave IgG = 24.327+0.6746day. The regression lines are depicted as dashed lines in Figure 2, superimposed on the training data. The primary infection samples began with low IgG levels that quickly rose with time, whereas the secondary infection samples began with a nonzero basal value (reflecting immunological memory) and raised little over time. The slopes (dependence on day of infection) and intercepts were highly significant, for both primary and secondary infection groups (p,0.0005 in all cases). There were very few outliers. An F-test to compare the variances in the two groups does not reject the hypothesis that they are identical therefore the multivariate model allows us to test jointly the two lines. We find that the difference between the intercepts is highly significant (p,10215), indicating a difference in initial immune response that reflects immunological memory in the case of the dengue-specific IgG. In addition, there is significant interaction between infection type and days of symptoms (p,1027), that is, the lines are not parallel, and the trends within each group are significantly different, suggesting that it may be possible to define acute dengue infections on the basis of the rise in IgG level alone; however, this is not the goal of this study. The two regression lines converge near the 20-day limit, which is another indication that the
groups cannot be reliably discriminated beyond this number of days. Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) was performed to obtain a linear classifier based on these data (the outlier samples were not excluded). The equation for the LDA line is y = 7.494+1.6236. The LDA classifier is depicted as a solid line in Figure 2. Table 3 displays some of the threshold values calculated using the designed classifier equation (y = 7.494+1.6236) for the IgG units used to classify samples as indicating primary infection (below the threshold) or secondary infection (above the threshold), as a function of sample collection day. As expected, the threshold values increase over time. Sensitivity and specificity for this classifier were estimated via two methods. First, we used the training data itself to derive bolstered resubstitution error estimates (see Methods section). The estimated sensitivity and specificity found were 91.64% and 92.46%, respectively. The classifier recommended by the manufacturer corresponds to a horizontal line at IgG unit threshold = 40. This did not perform satisfactorily at all on our data, as this classifier is completely non-specific (this can be seen in Figure 2, which shows that almost all of the secondary infection IgG responses are below 40, not above). Decreasing the IgG unit level from the recommended value of 40 to the optimal one-dimensional classifier improves accuracy, but not to an acceptable level (data not shown). This underscores the need to include the stage (day) of disease as a classification variable, as in the proposed LDA classifier, to account for rising levels of IgG response. Secondly, the designed LDA classifier was tested on an independent set of samples, obtained from 50 additional patients, as described earlier (Figure 1). This typically results in a more accurate error estimator than the one using the training samples, provided the number of test samples is large. As before, we pooled all quantified sample data and ignored those that had been obtained more than 20 days after the onset of symptoms, resulting in 51 primary and 61 secondary infection samples, for a total of 112 test samples. This test set is large enough to allow accurate estimates of classification accuracy. Figure 3 displays the data for these samples, overlapped on the proposed classifier for inspection. Based on this independent test set of 112 samples, the estimated sensitivity and specificity of the proposed classifier, using as groundtruth the results of the Recife method, were 92.16% (95%
method [13], as defined in the Methods section, aiming to characterize the serological immune response and classify the infections as primary or secondary. From the panel of 50-paired sera, 24 cases were characterized as primary cases and 26 as secondary ones by the HI method (Table 2). Complete (100%) agreement was observed between the proposed classifier and the HI method (WHO criteria) in the classification of primary and secondary dengue infections. The Rio method identified 26 secondary infections, 22 primary infections and 2 inconclusive cases. Using these results as the groundtruth, we obtained an overall accuracy of 96% (48/50) for the proposed classifier. Using the HI method as groundtruth, the Rio method was more sensitive in confirming secondary cases (100%, 26/26) than primary ones (92%, 22/24). There was one instance where both the Recife and HI method called one patient as primary infection, whereas the call according to the Rio method was secondary infection.
In this manuscript, we describe a process for designing and validating a classification method to discriminate between primary and secondary dengue infections based on IgG antibody levels and the number of days of symptoms, and we demonstrate that a 2-D classifier designed using this approach is very reliable. We make available software that enables the user to insert their IgG data for the training and test data sets from their standard samples and obtain a validated 2-D classifier, which in our study generates classifications identical to the ones made by the HI assay. Although secondary infection with dengue virus is the most widely accepted risk factor for the development of dengue hemorrhagic fever, there is no simple, rapid, and reliable method that can routinely be used to discriminate between primary and secondary infections in the early days of an infection. Distinguishing between primary and secondary infections can be of great importance, particularly in endemic areas in which the dengue virus has recently arrived and primary infections are also frequent. Moreover, laboratory confirmation of acute dengue infection can sometimes be difficult, depending on the how many days the person has been sick and what diagnostic tests are available. It is important to note that the proposed 2-D classifier is not intended to determine the presence of an acute dengue infection, but to classify an acute infection as primary or secondary. In our experience, the ideal combination of tests to detect an acute infection in the first 5 days of symptoms is the use of RT-PCR associated with IgG serology to classify infection history, and from the sixth day of symptoms and after, the use of IgM and IgG serology. The most commonly used serological test is IgM-capture ELISA. Nevertheless, this test is not sufficiently sensitive during the first 35 days of symptoms. In primary cases, both IgM and IgG antibody detection often will give negative results during this period. Thus, in these early days of disease a diagnosis will only be possible by RT-PCR, virus isolation and/or dengue NS1 antigen detection by ELISA. It should be pointed out that in some secondary dengue infections, specific IgM is often not detected at all. The hemagglutination inhibition assay has been the gold standard for the serological diagnosis of dengue infection, as well as to classify the patients dengue immune response [7]. However, the most reliable way to define primary and secondary dengue infection is based on a combination of multiple laboratory tests (virus isolation and/or detection of virus RNA by PCR, IgM and IgG antibody detection) performed on blood specimens collected at two time points, at least. A primary dengue infection is defined
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Figure 3. Independent test data, with primary and secondary infection classification according to the CPqAM criteria, with a solid line representing the previously designed classifier, for inspection. Test data were obtained from 50 additional patients in the cohort. As with the training data, all quantified samples were pooled and those that had been obtained more than 20 days after the onset of symptoms were ignored, resulting in 51 primary and 61 secondary infection samples, according to the CPqAM criteria, for a total of 112 test samples. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004945.g003
CI = 81.12 to 97.82) and 95.08% (95% CI = 86.29 to 98.97), respectively. These accuracy estimates are not appreciably different from those obtained previously by bolstered resubstitution. The proposed classifier was able to correctly predict 47 of the 51 primary samples and 58 of the 61 secondary samples. We also used the independent test data to break down the estimates of accuracy according to various ranges of days of infection (Table 4). The results were consistent with the expectation that classification between primary and secondary infection would be easier early in the infection than at later times. The proposed classifier performed perfectly with samples taken on day 4 or earlier, but its sensitivity and sensibility decreased with time. As a final test, the serum samples from the independent test set were also classified according to the hemagglutination inhibition (HI) method and to an in-house IgG-captrue ELISA (Rio) Table 4. Accuracy of the proposed LDA classifier according to ranges of days of symptoms, based on the independent test set, with 95% confidence interval limits.
Days of Symptoms 14 58 912 1320 #20
Sensitivity 100.00 (66.37100.00) 94.44 (72.7199.86) 84.62 (54.5598.08) 90.91 (58.7299.77) 92.16 (81.1297.82)
Specificity 100.00 (80.49100.00) 100.00 (78.20100.00) 95.24 (76.1899.88) 75.00 (34.9196.81) 95.08 (86.2998.97)
as the absence of specific anti-dengue IgG antibodies in the first serum samples during the acute phase, with anti-dengue IgM, virus isolation and/or virus RNA being present, and dengue virus IgG being detected in a later sample. In contrast, secondary dengue infection is defined by the presence of specific anti-dengue IgG and the absence of anti-dengue IgM in the first sample, together with a positive RT-PCR and/or virus isolation, followed by the presence of anti-dengue IgM in a later sample. Defining primary and secondary dengue infections by means of these rigorous criteria is very expensive, and most clinical laboratories in dengue-endemic countries cannot realistically perform all these assays on all of their samples. Moreover, even when all the assays are available, because of the dates of the blood collections and the immunological windows, it is not always possible to unambiguously define primary versus secondary dengue infections. The main caveat is that depending on how long the patient is sick before the first sample is collected, it may be possible to detect anti-dengue specific IgG at the time of the first medical visit in a primary dengue infection. Furthermore, classification of primary versus secondary dengue immune responses exclusively on the basis of the HI test, following the WHO criteria [7] it is not always reliable and can be misleading [6]. In this case, diagnosis is based on the antibody titers of paired serum samples, and cross-reactivity among flaviviruses is common and can lead to false results. In addition, during acute secondary dengue infection, pre-existing serotype-specific antibodies are boosted [4], and if the number of days since the onset of symptoms is not taken into account, the HI test can result in misleading classification. In contrast, in a separate study we have found no evidence of cross-reactivity of the PanBio dengue IgG ELISA with sera from with Yellow Fever 17DD vaccinated volunteers (Table S1). Six of the 32 Yellow fever vaccinees presented dengue-specific IgG 45 to 90 days after the vaccination, however it was later confirmed that those individuals had natural dengue infection. Cross-reactivity among flavivirus diagnostic kits are common and it is important to select a dengueIgG kit with minimum cross-reactivity with other local flavivirus, however differentiating cross-reactivity against natural infection may not be an easy task in endemic areas. If possible, it is important actually verify with standard samples collected locally. Thus, a simple alternative laboratory method for the classification of primary and secondary dengue antibody responses is highly desirable. Matheus et al. [12] developed an IgG avidity test to discriminate between primary and secondary dengue virus infection using a single acute-phase serum sample and claimed good sensitivity and specificity. However, the real performance of this method still need to be evaluated in independent reference standard samples from patients for whom the classification of serological response was based on criteria other than only the HI test. The results from our dengue cohort clearly support the contention that to correctly delineate primary and secondary responses, it is strictly necessary to combine several assays, such as IgM and IgG levels, virus isolation and/or viral RNA detection. For example, an absence of IgM in some secondary cases, even in later samples, was seen in several of our dengue cohort patients, and this phenomenon has also been observed by others [23]. Dengue infections could be characterized as primary or secondary by determining the ratio of units of dengue IgM to IgG antibody [23]. However there are many cases where IgM is undetectable or not yet present and this criterion could not be applied. It would be necessary another test to confirm the acute dengue infection, for example, a positive RT-PCR, which is the most sensitive method to confirm dengue infection at the early days of the disease. Because IgM and IgG dengue ELISAs kits are commercially available at relatively low cost, dengue fever diagnosis is now being
done in many laboratories worldwide. In this study we took advantage of the existence of a good commercial IgG-ELISA kit to develop a 2-D classifier, using IgG levels and self-reported days of symptoms from a cohort of 109 patients with well-characterized primary or secondary dengue infections. This approach would allow to define, according to how many days of symptoms, what levels of anti-dengue IgG would be compatible with primary or secondary infections. We have found, by using multiple accuracy estimation methods, that the sensitivity and specificity of the designed 2-D LDA classifier are vastly superior to the most commonly used stageindependent 1-D classifiers (data not shown). For individual sample classification, estimates of sensitivity and specificity of the 2-D classifier were in the range of 9095%. For patient classification using a majority-voting rule, independent test-set estimates of both sensitivity and specificity were 100%. The 2-D LDA classifier was tested in an independent set of 50 patients and the results compared with two other methods, the HI assay, according to WHO guidelines [7] and an in-house made ELISA. There was a total 100% agreement between the HI results and our 2-D LDA classifier. When those results were compared to the in-house IgG-ELISA (Rio method) described by Miagostovich et al. [13], the overall sensitivity was 96% (48/50). As expected, the Rio method was more sensitive in confirming secondary cases (100%, 26/26) than primary ones (92%, 22/24). In primary infections, the Rio method is generally negative in the first week after the onset of the disease and individual variation may occur. Therefore, for a definitive and reliable result using the Rio method, it is important in some cases to also use a second sample from the convalescence phase. However when used samples from the acute and convalescent phase the results are clear, because the Rio titers in acute samples are low (up to day 5 after the onset of the disease) and very high in convalescent sera from secondary dengue cases as previously described by Miagostovich et al. [13]. These two independent tests results corroborated our immune response classification results (Table 2). The classifier developed in this study is currently being used, in daily practice, in our laboratory and has shown excellent performance on independently validated data that is compatible with the results presented here. Indeed, in our on going dengue study the most reliable and cost efficient combination of diagnostic exam is the detection of anti-dengue IgM, IgG and RT-PCR. With this combination of tests we can determine in 100% of the cases the presence of acute dengue infection, the viral serotype and with the use of the 2-D classifier, the patient serological history within 24 hours of the first blood sample collected. It is noteworthy that very few primary and secondary standard samples were dispersed among samples of the other type (Figures 2 and 3), suggesting also that patient-reported number of days of dengue symptoms, although a subjective measure, is considerably more accurate than often acknowledged. We would also like to point out that the methodology described here can be employed to design classifiers based on results from kits other than the PanBio kit or in-house assays such as the one in the Rio method, as long as a good set of standard primary and secondary reference samples is available. According to the manufacturer of the PanBio kit, and as found by Vaughn [15], an IgG result of 40 PanBio units correlates with an HI titer of $1:1280, the cut-off used to distinguish between primary and secondary dengue infection based on WHO criteria [7]. Thus, using this criteria, a result of .40 IgG units can be used to identify a secondary infection and IgG units of .1140 to detect a primary infection. However, we have shown that these suggested values do not provide reliable classification results in
patients from our cohort, nor does any stage independent 1-D classifier that does not take in consideration when a sample was collected in relation to the onset of symptoms. In conclusion, laboratories in endemic areas interested in distinguishing acute primary dengue infections from acute secondary infections can use the methodology we have described here. These laboratories can collect and characterize a set of reference samples from acutely ill patients in their region, and if necessary some of the characterization assays may be carried by another laboratory; they can then design a reliable 2-dimensional classifier based only on the IgG levels quantified by a clinical assay kit and the number of days of symptoms reported by the patient. In the supplemental material we provide for download R software for the calculation of the LDA classifier, as well as the bolstered resubstitution error estimator, and instructions that other laboratories can use to design their classifiers (Statistical Package S2). We ask the users of this classifier to share the classification data, classifier performance and standard samples with other investigators using the PLoS One post-publication and communication tools. By applying this classifier in samples from other cohorts and sharing the results we can further strengthen the validation and define the value of this method. In addition, we will offer and make available in our laboratory web site an interface to a set of dengue diagnostic tools and database (http://augustlab.bs.jhmi.edu/ index.html). The use of this approach can allow clinicians to
more quickly and reliably identify whether their patients are experiencing a primary or secondary dengue infection, which allows the assessment of risk of developing DHF in order to decide what is the most appropriate care and also reduce cost by reducing hospitalizations worldwide.
Table S1 Yellow fever cross-reaction supplemental data Found at: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004945.s001 (0.08 MB DOC) Statistical package S1 MathLab R code for calculation of 2LDA and error estimation Found at: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004945.s002 (0.01 MB ZIP)
We also thank all the staff of the IMIP, HE and HSJ for their valuable cooperation with this project.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MTC UBN ETM. Performed the experiments: MTC UBN RMRN ETM. Analyzed the data: MTC UBN RMRN ETM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTC UBN RMRN ETM. Wrote the paper: MTC UBN ETM.
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Unified Modeling Language at Fifteen: What a long, strange trip
OMG adopted Unified Modeling Language fifteen years ago as an official specification. Since then, UML has played a key but sometimes controversial role.
This month marks the 15th anniversary of the Object Management Group (OMG) adoption of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as an official specification. Although at times controversial, UML has come to play a big role in modeling modern applications.
Before UML, the world of object-oriented analysis and design was overrun by many vying object methodologies. UML came about in large part from a collaboration of object methodologists Jim Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson and Grady Booch, who came to work together in the mid 1990s at Rational Software, now part of IBM.
Rational had in fact responded to an OMG RFP for standards submissions. After various input (the eventual UML notation centered on "boxes" to represent classes, as opposed to Booch's original "clouds") a unanimous vote on 25 September 1997 recommended UML for adoption by the OMG's OA&D Task Force.
Today it is used to model structure and behavior of varied software systems throughout many industries. UML is the basis for many modeling tools, from companies both big and small. A milestone of sorts was holdout Microsoft's belated embrace of UML in 2008 (announced by no less than founder Bill Gates at his last TechEd keynote).
UML grows bigger
If you look back before UML, there was a wide range of mostly mutually incompatible modeling options, said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, for people collaborating on open source software. "UML did a good job of pulling together a fairly fractured community and creating a standard that everyone could look to," he said. "It has enabled a whole modeling community, including the open source community here."
OMG President William Hoffman well remembers the roots of UML -- the era of plentiful modeling methodologies. "It was the follow-on battle to the battle to uncover 'which language was going to the big object-oriented language,'" he said. "It became the methodology and design war."
Through the years, UML has added additional elements, many of which support embedded systems and model-driven code generation. Some people now wonder whether it has been asked to do too much.
Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum, said UML has grown and changed -- but not always for the better. For instance, he notes, UML 2.0 grew so complex that, in his view, it became far less usable. "Many people using UML today actually rely on the original UML specification," he notes.
Still, there is much to admire in UML. It may be said to have foreshadowed a broader commitment to standards in application development -- one that was less notable in the mid-1990s than it is today.
"This was a particularly vibrant time in software engineering, with powerful ideas coming from many other methodologists," noted Grady Booch (currently IBM fellow, chief scientist for software engineering, IBM Research) in a prepared statement.
"It was a rare case where an industry standard, presented by several people in one company, actually won over a bunch of rivals," said Baer. He said UML came along on one of the waves of application development innovation, in this case following on the development of client-server computing in the early 1990s.
"All of a sudden there was a vast flowering of development once we were free of the green screen," he says. At the time, too, computer-aided software engineering (CASE) had fizzled spectacularly, despite endless hype.
"CASE was a top-down disaster, but some people felt that maybe some of the modeling concepts it included might be helpful to explore,'' he says. And, despite clashes of egos and interests, "IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle actually agreed."
While UML has incorporated many extensions and profiles over time, some have been less successful than others. Baer points out that Systems Modeling Language (SysML), a general-purpose modeling language for systems that is directly descended from UML, has been "an unqualified success story," he says.
OMG's Hoffman says the somewhat numerous UML extensions are a byproduct of the OMG's open specification process. "Our specification process is open," he said. "UML goes where the community wants it to go. We are actually tickled to see all the uses it's been extended to since its early days of doing diagrams."
"UML 2.0 is a bigger language than UML 1.1 was," said Ed Seidewitz, vice president for Model Driven Architecture Services at Model Driven Solutions. "Whether it is too big is a judgment call."
The language does not require software architects to use it in its entirety, he notes, and different individuals use different parts.
"Most people don't use the whole language. There is very little that isn't being used by someone," he said. "The key thing is you can have a big language, and you don't have to use the whole thing."
UML still has room for growth, and at times it has been positioned as somewhat anathema to Agile development. For his part, Baer says UML's adoption was blunted somewhat by the pressure to speed development and delivery and by Agile software development. "People were anxious to avoid analysis paralysis," he said, "and that put a brake on UML."
"For many, UML is how they define their own models; they like to draw visuals and use and activity diagrams, which is part of UML," said Ed Merks, president of Macro Modeling and technical lead of the Eclipse Modeling project.
"Certainly there are a lot of organizations out there that like UML and see it as an important standard and make use of it to describe their information, the things they are trying to do and share in a visual way with other architects and to fully specify what needs to be implemented," said Merks.
There is room for improvement, however. For example, Merks chides OMG for not embracing reference implementations, something he says has hurt UML. For example, he said, "everyone implemented XML serialization and deserialization but with their own spin and with some things not fully specified so everybody did it in their own way and, consequently, it got quite hard to define exchangeable formats between the vendors."
Looking ahead to UML 2.5
The next step for UML is Version 2.5, which in ways appears intended to address some concerns. A major goal is simplifications. "The UML 2.5 Specification is easier for tool builders and vendors to understand, making conformant tools from different vendors more consistent and interoperable," said Richard Soley, CEO of OMG.
He foresees the development of UML 2.5 as part of an overall effort to make the UML ecosystem better, more precise and more usable.
UML is a big and complicated language, and making fundamental changes is difficult. The upcoming version of UML 2.0 "isn't actually simplifying UML, it's simplifying the spec," said Ed Seidewitz, who is part of a working group considering near and longer term UML changes. "The thinking of the UML community was that, in the near term, we could at least make the spec more useful -- more clear, consistent and correct."
Looking forward, UML 2.5 "provides a firm basis for any future changes or enhancements to UML," said Richard Soley. Looking back, "it's been a good run," said OMG's Bill Hoffman.
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Artist To Watch: The Catching
July 20, 2017 secretfangirls Leave a comment
Based in New Jersey, home of classic rock and emo kings galore, The Catching have been making a name for themselves from an early age. Consisting of four friends ranging in age from 18 to 20, singer Holden Glazer, guitarists Jake Farbman and Evan Hemwall, and drummer Drew Stevens, The Catching are ready to take over your Summer playlist! After releasing their debut EP “Teenage Fiction Pt. 1” almost a year ago, these guys have been causing waves ever since.
The Catching recently teamed up with legendary song-writer/producer Matt Squire (All Time Low, Selena Gomez, Panic! At The Disco) for their next release due out later this year. While we anxiously wait for the new EP, the guys shared a brand new video for their latest single “Do It All Again” off the upcoming project! The new track centers around the ups and downs of a relationship and how they would make the same mistakes all over again.
Watch the video below and stay tuned for more new music from The Catching!
Grab a copy of “Do It All Again” on iTunes or Amazon now.
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Austin Mahone, Boys We Like, Music, On Tour, Show Review
Austin Mahone & The Vamps Summer Tour Stops at the Izod Center
August 22, 2014 secretfangirls Leave a comment
We were lucky to catch The Vamps at their first headlining show ever back at The Grammercy Theatre in NYC in February, and at their MTV Artist to Watch show earlier this summer. So it was amazing to see how far they’ve come in such a short time, and to see them play in an arena setting. (And up next: a stadium!) The Vamps played all of their singles, as well as their fun covers of Jason Derulo’s “Trumpets” and “Cecilia.” We loved seeing all of the support The Vamps had in the arena – nearly everyone was singing and dancing along during their set. Impressive for a band that’s relatively new to the US, but they’ve had great success here so far. Their “Somebody To You” EP was released earlier this month and debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard. Pickup a copy on iTunes now!
The Vamps Setlist
1. “Wild Heart”
2. “Last Night”
3. “Trumpets”
4. “Somebody To You”
5. “Can We Dance?”
6. “Cecilia”
Austin, Austin, Austin. What can we say? He just gets better and better each time we see him. His dance moves are so smooth and flawless, and the choreography is always on point. We love how he interacts with his dancers, another reason why we call him the “one man boyband.” We imagine this is what it would have been like to see a 90s boyband back in the day. And we thank him for that. The concert was a non-stop dance party, for us anyway. (Yes that was us doing the choreography to “Banga Banga,” “Shawty Shawty,” and “What About Love.”)
Of course Austin is more than just 90s-era slow breakdowns and perfect slow leans that would make any *NSYNC fan cry. He can sing, too. And play the guitar, which he showcased in an acoustic set that included covers of George Strait’s “Check Yes Or No” and John Legend’s “All Of Me.” Too add to our boyband nostalgia, Austin put on a pair of ripped jeans that would have made Donnie Wahlberg proud. Our only complaint? We miss those leather tanktops Austin usually breaks out for tour…
There are still a few dates left on the tour, check out all of the dates here! Be sure to pickup a copy of “The Secret” EP so you can sing along during the show! Our personal favorites are “Secret” and “Next To You.”
Austin Mahone Setlist:
1. “Banga Banga”
2. “Say You’re Just A Friend”
3. “Shawty Shawty”
4. “Say My Name”
5. “Say Somethin'”
6. “Can’t Fight This Love”
7. “Shadow”
8. “Check Yes Or No”
9. “The One I’ve Waited For”
12. “Till I Find You”
13. “U”
14. “All I Ever Need”
15. “Next To You”
16. “What About Love”
17. “MMM Yeah”
Be sure to follow The Vamps, Austin Mahone & Secret Fangirls for more updates!
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AJR, Music, On Tour
Free AJR Show at iPlay America in Freehold, NJ!
July 9, 2014 secretfangirls Leave a comment
After a busy summer on tour with Lindsey Stirling, brothers Adam, Jack and Ryan are finally returning home to NYC to finish up their debut album (due out late Summer/early Fall) and hopefully gear up for a headlining tour of their own.
They’ll be having a show on Friday, July 18th at iPlay America in Freehold, NJ! The show is free, and you can reserve a ticket now to guarantee entry. (So you really have no excuses to miss this one) It’s just a hop, skip and a jump from NYC (make that a train, train and a cab) so make sure you take full advantage of Summer Fridays.
Don’t know all the words to I’m Ready yet? Watch the video below & pickup a copy of their I’m Ready EP before the show.
Be sure to follow AJR & Secret Fangirls on Twitter for more updates!
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How to Raise Grateful Kids in an Entitled World
Raising grateful kids in an entitled world can be downright challenging at times. Kristen Welch tells how her family is trying to break the mold of entitlement to raise grounded, grateful kids.
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There comes a time when every parent is smacked in the face with it – the ingratitude, the entitlement, the sense that even though the world has been handed to your kids, it’s still not enough.
For Kristen Welch and her husband Terrell, those attitudes surfaced during a cherished annual family outing: the Houston Livestock Show.
Each year the Welch family drives down to Houston to attend the show – the biggest indoor rodeo in the United States. But this year was a little different. This year, the Welches decided it was time to buy their three kids cowboy boots at the show – an expensive and somewhat extravagant purchase, but a Texas rite of passage nonetheless.
The day had been fun – there were treats and games and most of all cowboy boots.
But once the Welches headed for home, complaints and ungrateful remarks were heard from the backseat. One of their kids had been showing signs of entitlement for weeks and this attitude was flaring up again. Their family outing had been a splurge from the beginning but apparently wasn’t enough.
Warnings had been given but the complaining didn’t stop.
Terrell had enough. “That’s it. When we get home, I want you to pack your boots back in the box.” he said. The plan was to return the boots to a local shoe store.
The title of Kristen Welch’s book “Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World” sounds like the typical how-to parenting book. Do this, and your kids will be like that.
But Welch’s ability to tell stories, stories of her own life and others, pulls the reader in, exposing Welch’s failures, mistakes, and successes.
We’re right there with her as she wrestles with her decision not to allow her kids to have smartphones until high school. And cringe as a special family outing is cut short after escalating quarreling and ingratitude don’t stop.
The tone of Welch’s book feels more like chatting with a close friend than advice from an expert. The successes the Welch family has experienced are both insightful and inspirational and their challenges help us feel we’re not alone.
And while Welch’s book is chock full of research and lessons learned from other parents, there’s no doubt where Welch’s real source of inspiration lies – in her Christianity. God and Jesus are mentioned nearly every other sentence in the book.
For some readers, this blatant Christian message will be inspiring. But even if you’re not Christian or even religious, don’t write this book off – it’s still loaded with great advice on how to raise grounded kids.
To purchase the book on Amazon, click the image above [affiliate link]
What Parents Need to Do to Stop Entitlement
Raising kids is hard. Raising kids who are grateful and show few signs of entitlement can seem downright impossible at times.
Welch describes how easy it is to get sucked into the Western, and especially American, culture of wanting more, of never being satisfied and pursuing happiness with material things. But she concludes:
“My buy-in to the notion that I needed more of the best for myself and my kids didn’t satisfy me. Its pursuit actually left me feeling emptier than when I had less.”
It wasn’t until she went on a trip to Kenya with Compassion International that Welch realized her perspective was all wrong. The experience flipped a switch and made her realize that entitlement doesn’t start with kids, it starts with parents. Parents entitle kids because parents themselves are entitled.
So in order to raise grateful kids in an entitled world, according to Welch, we need to first look at ourselves. As she says in the book:
“And as uncomfortable as it sounds, parents who want less entitled kids have to be less entitled themselves, and parents who want to raise more grateful kids need to start by living more grateful lives.”
But there is more to raising grateful kids than just simply demonstrating it ourselves. Welch suggests we look carefully not only at the way we are spending money on our kids but also on how we discipline them and guide them through life.
Some of the over-arching themes of the book include:
Be a parent, not a friend to kids: you can be their friend once they’re independent.
Don’t be afraid to say “no” and experience the resulting fallout: no matter how ugly it is.
Stick to rules you think are best for your kids, even if it makes them uncool: for example, holding off on giving them smartphones.
It’s OK if kids experience failure or unhappiness: sometimes the best way to help our kids is to not help them, Welch says.
Don’t let your home become a child-centered home: “In a child-centered home, kids expect more of us and less of themselves.”
None of these directives is easy. They go “against the flow,” Welch says, against our mainstream culture where many kids are given what they want and parents cater to their every need.
Parents need resolve to raise kids who go against the grain. To raise kids who look outward rather than inward, who rely on their own abilities rather than mom and dad’s, and who are grateful for what they have and what they have been given.
And About Those Boots…
After that tough car ride home from the Houston Livestock Show, Terrell threatened to take away his child’s boots. The only problem was he couldn’t find the receipt.
Instead, the boxed boots were placed on a high shelf in the laundry room. Payment to get the boots back was to work – three days of weed picking in the huge mulched areas in the front and back yards of the family home.
And work the child did. Over the next few days and even through a rainstorm, those weeds were pulled.
After an apology, the boots were returned. “You earned these,” Terrell said as he handed back the boots.
This wasn’t the only time ingratitude was expressed in the Welch household, Kristen explains, and it certainly wasn’t the last.
And it was hard. Hard to see the boots taken away. Hard to see the child get to work.
But as Welch says: “…it was the day we called out entitlement in our home and waged war against it. It was the day we reestablished the fact that we wanted to raise grateful kids more than anything else.”
And so the quest began.
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Interoperability Matters
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Carequality Taps Dave Cassel to Lead Industry Initiative Driving Interoperability among Health Information Exchange Networks
Feb 3, 2015 | Press Releases
Interoperability Expert with Extensive Implementation Expertise to Lead Efforts to Achieve ATM-Like Connectivity for Sharing Health Information
McLEAN, VA. (February 3, 2015) – Healtheway, a non-profit, public-private collaborative focused on advancing the implementation of interoperable health information exchange (HIE), today announced the organization has hired Dave Cassel to oversee the Carequality Initiative.
Industry and government worked together to launch Carequality in the spring of 2014 under the management of Healtheway. Carequality was formed with an ambitious goal: to achieve in healthcare what the banking and telecom industries have done to link together ATM and cell phone networks.
For the many health information exchange networks that are already advancing interoperability among their own members, Carequality will provide a bridge, allowing the members of separate networks to connect to each other. The ultimate mission is to ensure that healthcare information is appropriately accessible wherever it is needed, regardless of individual providers’ geographical location, electronic health record (EHR) vendor of choice, or HIE network affiliation.
“Hiring Dave is an incredibly important step in transitioning Carequality from planning to implementation,” said Mariann Yeager, Healtheway CEO. “We wanted a dedicated leader for Carequality – ideally someone with extensive experience tackling and overcoming HIE interoperability issues in real world scenarios. Having worked with Dave as a partner in Carequality and witnessing his expertise and enthusiasm, he is the perfect person to lead this effort.”
Cassel has worked 17 years in health information technology, creating a national reputation as an expert in health information exchange. He has developed and launched health IT initiatives and applications throughout his career, constantly incorporating interoperability into all projects.
Cassel served most of his career at Epic Systems Corporation, with the last nine years focused primarily on health information exchange and interoperability issues. As part of his work, he regularly represented Epic in nationwide interoperability efforts, notably working on Carequality where he served on the steering committee to help stand up the initiative through Healtheway.
“Having spent the last decade focused on interoperability, I think the time is right for Carequality. I welcome the opportunity to jump in with both feet,” said Cassel. “Carequality has the potential to provide a huge leap in interoperability. There are amazing efforts in HIE happening throughout the country, but they’re not currently able to connect with each other. Carequality will allow these initiatives to come together into a whole that will dramatically surpass the sum of the separate parts. I’m thrilled to be a part of the effort. It’s an exciting time in the industry.”
Cassel holds a Master’s of Science in economics from the University of Wisconsin and a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Delaware.
To learn more about Carequality and find out how your organization can participate, visit www.carequality.org or follow on Twitter at @carequalitynet.
About Healtheway
Healtheway is a non-profit 501c3 chartered to advance implementation of secure, interoperable nationwide health information exchange (HIE). Healtheway currently supports two initiatives: the eHealth Exchange, a rapidly growing community of exchange partners who share information under a common trust framework and a common set of rules; and Carequality, a public-private collaborative effort to build consensus among existing health IT data exchange programs regarding technical specifications and best practices (similar to when the banking industry created a nationwide ATM network). Healtheway leads in cross-industry collaboration to develop implementation strategies that enable secure, interoperable nationwide exchange of health information. For more information about Healtheway, the eHealth Exchange and Carequality, visit www.sequoiaproject.org. Follow Healtheway on Twitter: @HealthewayInc @eHealthExchange and @carequalitynet.
About Carequality
Carequality is a public-private collaborative that facilitates agreement among diverse stakeholders to develop and maintain a common interoperability framework enabling seamless exchange between and among networks. Carequality brings together a diverse group of representatives from the private sector and government to come to collective agreement on how to enable data to flow seamlessly between and among networks and providers, much like the banking industry did for ATM / ACH transactions. For more information, visit www.carequality.org and follow us at twitter.com/carequality.
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Simpson University Psychology Students Present at Conference
REDDING, Calif.—Two Simpson University psychology students were selected to present original research this spring at the Western Psychological Association’s annual conference in Portland, Ore.
Junior Joseph VanDyke and senior Hannah Wallace presented research titled, “The Exploration of Anti-Fat Bias and Intuitive Eating Behaviors Among Healthcare Professionals” at the April 26-29 conference.
“Hannah and Joseph are brilliant students who designed, conducted, and wrote their original research from soup to nuts,” said Dr. Ashley Brimager, assistant professor of psychology. “They are the kind of students I would be excited to call colleagues in the near future.”
Both VanDyke and Wallace plan to continue their psychology studies in graduate school. Wallace, from Phelan, Calif., graduated from Simpson University in April and hopes to get accepted into a master’s of social work program. She is gaining internship experience at Bridges to Success in Redding, which provides evidence-based mental health support to children who experience behaviors that disrupt their learning abilities.
“The professors at Simpson have been an essential part of helping me figure out my future plans,” Wallace said. “The opportunity to do research at the bachelor’s level has been a great experience that will help me in graduate school and future employment.”
During the conference, Wallace and VanDyke displayed their research on a poster and took turns answering questions and sharing information with interested colleagues.
The pair looked at the relationship between intuitive eating behaviors (eating by “listening” to one’s body and needs) and anti-fat bias (the level of bias against obese and overweight people) among healthcare professionals.
“Our research suggests that there is a high level of discrimination against overweight people in the healthcare field,” Wallace said. “It also calls for an honest inspection of the eating habits of healthcare workers. Even though our subjects claimed to eat more intuitively, they were still found to eat more based on emotional rather than physical cues.”
Simpson University’s small class sizes allow for close interaction between professors and students, and student research is encouraged and highlighted.
More than 400 people attended the university’s 8th annual Student Research Symposium on campus this spring, which featured 27 student presenters sharing on a variety of topics.
Wallace and VanDyke are among five Simpson students whose research was selected this year for conferences at a regional or national level. Three biology students were selected to present research related to Shasta County’s Iron Mountain Mine at the National Council on Undergraduate Research’s annual conference in Oklahoma.
“The connections that I have made through my professors are a priceless asset of my Simpson University education,” Wallace said.
Simpson University offers psychology programs in its School of Traditional Undergraduate Studies and its School of Adult Studies ASPIRE program. It also offers a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology.
Photo: Simpson University psychology students Joseph VanDyke and Hannah Wallace presented original research at the Western Psychological Association’s annual conference in Portland, Ore., in April 2018.
Other student research stories:
04.12.2018 – Biology Students Present Research at National Council
04.27.2017 – History Student Wins First Place at Regional Conference
04.11.2014 – Simpson University Graduating Seniors to Present Research
01.16.2014 – Simpson University Graduate to Present Research at National Council
Simpson University, established in 1921, is a Christian university offering undergraduate, graduate, and teaching credential programs. The university celebrated its 25th year in Redding and the completion of a Science and Nursing Center in 2014. Academic programs include ASPIRE, a degree-completion program geared toward working adults with both on-campus and online course offerings, including degrees in psychology and organizational leadership. For information about the university, or to arrange a campus visit, call 1-888-9-SIMPSON or visit simpsonu.edu.
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Highlights from Bethesda E3 2016 Showcase
June 14, 2016 — by Manish "Trigger-Happy" Rajesh — 0
Bethesda E3 2016 conference was their second conference ever at E3 and they had some really exciting reveals. Here's a short summary.
Bethesda E3 2016 conference is their second ever and reveals to us info about some of their much anticipated titles and also gives us a glimpse at some of their planned expansions and their new take on the Quake franchise. News and details about Dishonored 2 and The Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises took the spotlight.
Bethesda E3 2016 Conference Highlights
The Quake Champions cinematic trailer had us all very excited and reminiscing of our old Quake 3 days. Bethesda started off their press conference with the trailer and as y’all know we’re big time Quake 3 fans here. While it maintains it’s arena-style first-person shooter combat, it looks like there’ll be unique characters and abilities as well.
Elder Scrolls Legends
An Elder Scrolls card game was also revealed by Bethesda, called Elder Scrolls Legends. In the trailer we see a Moth Priest, Kellen telling the tale of some forgotten hero.
Fallout 4 DLC
Three new DLCs for Fallout 4 were announced – Contraptions, Vault Tech Workshop, and Nuka World. The first of the three, Contraptions will be out sometime next week. An update for Fallout Shelter was also announced.
Elder Scrolls V Special Edition
The Elder Scrolls V Special Edition is a remastered version of Skyrim for PS4, Xbox one and PC. This will allow console versions of the game to be modded as well. Additionally, owners of the game on PC who have all the DLCs, or the Legendary Edition of the game, will get the Special Edition for free.
Prey will finally be getting a sequel, despite originally being revealed back in 2011, it never actually released. Bethesda debuted a new reveal trailer for Prey at the conference.
Doom DLC
Unto the Evil, the first DLC for Doom was revealed, which will feature three new multiplayer maps – Offering, Cataclysm, and Ritual. Also, the first level of the game will be available to play for free throughout the week, for those who are interested in the game but haven’t made the purchase yet.
Elder Scrolls Online: Dark Brotherhood DLC
The Elder Scrolls Online universe is expanding with their new Dark Brotherhood DLC. It’s also expanding internationally, coming to Japan starting June 23rd. Additionally One Tamriel was also announced, and is set for release this fall which features automatic level scaling for characters so they can “freely group with anyone they want”.
Doom and Fallout 4 VR
Bethesda have been working on two virtual reality projects – Doom and Fallout 4, which were playable in VR at the event. They’ve even planned for a Fallout 4 VR release on the HTC Vive sometime in 2017.
And finally, we get an extended look at Dishonored 2. We get a good look at the landscapes of Karnaca where most of the game is set to take place, but the game will feature portions of Dunwall as well. We also get a better look at Emily Kaldwins abilities, who will be a playable character alongside Corvo Attano.
Bethesda E3 2016 Full Video
If that wasn’t enough for you then you might as well watch the entire thing below. (Starts at 25m 23seconds)
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A332, Abu Dhabi UAE, 2012
On 30 January 2012, an Airbus A330 departing Abu Dhabi at night lined up on the runway edge lights in the prevailing low visibility and attempted to take off. The take off was eventually rejected and the aircraft towed away from the runway. Damage was limited to that resulting from the impact of the aircraft landing gear with runway edge lights and the resultant debris. An Investigation is continuing into the circumstances and causation of the incident.
On Ground - Low Visibility
AIRBUS A-330-200
Abu Dhabi International Airport
Ineffective Monitoring,
Manual Handling,
Spatial Disorientation
Misalignment on runway"Misalignment on runway" is not in the list (Overrun on Take Off, Overrun on Landing, Directional Control, Excessive Airspeed, RTO decision after V1, High Speed RTO (V above 80 but not above V1), Unable to rotate at VR, Collision Avoidance Action, Parallel Approach Operations, Late Touchdown, ...) of allowed values for the "RE" property.
On 30 January 2012, an A330-200 (A6-EYE) being operated by Etihad Airways on a scheduled passenger service from Abu Dhabi to Dublin lined up on the edge lights of departure runway 31L instead of the runway centre line in low night visibility and began a take off. After early recognition of the error, take off was rejected and the aircraft stopped after just under 800 metres of ground run. The aircraft was subsequently towed back to the terminal because of annunciation of nose gear tyre deflation and upon arrival there, the 229 uninjured occupants disembarked.
An Investigation is being undertaken by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Sector of the UAE GCAA. Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) data was successfully downloaded and used to assist the Investigation.
It was found that the only aircraft damage was to tyres, with both nose wheels and seven main wheels requiring replacement. Eleven runway edge lights were damaged and had to be replaced.
It was noted that fog had initially delayed the departure of the flight and that Low Visibility Procedures (LVP) remained in place when the flight did taxi out with the recorded IRVR shortly after the incident logged as 200 metres with no trend to greater or less than this figure recorded.
The entry to the runway was reportedly achieved by following the yellow marked centre line leading, by means of a left turn, to the lit runway 31L centreline. It was noted that this approximately 220 metre-long line is normally illuminated by a sequence of 30 green lights but that the flight crew involved in the event had subsequently stated that “shortly after passing the stop bar they could not see the green leading taxi centreline lights located on the yellow line”. In reality, the left turn had led to the alignment of the aircraft with the runway edge lighting. As the take off commenced, the aircraft nose landing gear had continued to track over these lights, passing over and destroying 11 of them while the left main landing gear was approximately 4.9 meters to the left of the runway edge and the right main landing gear within the runway but near to the left hand edge.
Aircraft Line-up Position (Source: Official Report)
The flight crew stated that the travel over the lights during the takeoff roll had been “unfamiliar” and that “the intensity of the ‘thumps’ (was) more intense”. Due to this the take off had been rejected. FDR data showed that the maximum indicated airspeed had reached 83 knots and it was calculated that the aircraft travelled approximately 775 metres before stopping just before the intersection with taxiway E14. After approximately 2 minutes, the aircraft had been taxied back onto the runway centreline with the intention of then vacating the runway but when an Electronic Centralized Aircraft Monitor (ECAM) alert indicated that the left hand nose wheel had lost pressure (it had been punctured by the impact with the runway edge lights) the aircraft was stopped again and a tow in to the terminal was arranged.
The Investigation considered the investigated circumstances of a number of other night misaligned take offs including one investigated by the GCAA, a Gama Bombardier CRJ200 attempting departure from Dubai on 9 May 2011, see:
CRJ2, Dubai UAE, 2011
and another involving an Air Canada Airbus A319 departing Las Vegas on 30 January 2006, see:
It was also noted that in 2009, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) had been sufficiently concerned at three successive similar Australian events involving small turboprops to undertake a review titled Factors influencing misaligned take-off occurrences at night of the circumstances of those and known similar events elsewhere. However, although the current Investigation did not make any comment in this respect, whilst all five of the investigated events examined in this review were night take offs, none were made in low visibility or by wide body aircraft types and only one, the Air Canada event referred to above, was a jet transport.
The Preliminary Report AAI Case Reference: 02/2012 was published on 30 January 2012. A Final Report has not yet (August 2015) been published.
A further example of an unintended night departure aligned on the runway edge lights, although also in good visibility, occurred at Dresden in 2002, see:
AT72, Dresden Germany, 2002
Low Visibility Procedures (LVP)
Runway Visual Perspective
Situational Awareness (OGHFA BN)
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Collins too much for Grizzlies in Hawks' lopsided win
GEORGE HENRY (Associated Press)
The Associated Press March 14, 2019, 3:25 AM UTC
ATLANTA (AP) -- John Collins knew the Memphis Grizzlies didn't want to play a fast-paced game, so the Atlanta Hawks needed to keep pushing the ball up the floor,
''I think they have a little bit more a slower tempo, and I think we were able to take advantage of that and attack that,'' Collins said. ''We like to get up and down. A lot of transition buckets. Open 3s. We were able to just execute on offense.''
Collins had 27 points and 12 rebounds, Trae Young added 22 points and Atlanta snapped the Grizzlies' three-game winning streak with 132-111 victory on Wednesday night.
It marked the most points that Memphis, the NBA defensive scoring leader, has allowed this season, seven more than it gave up in an overtime win Nov. 30 at Brooklyn.
C.J. Miles scored a season-high 33 points and Mike Conley finished with 20 for the sluggish Grizzlies. Atlanta, which had 35 assists on 52 field goals, never trailed in a matchup of teams buried in the standings.
Though Young threw an alley-oop pass from deep in Memphis' end for his dazzling dunk in the second quarter, Collins saved his best moves for early the fourth. He hit a runner and then had a strong athletic move against Jonas Valanciunas, who blocked Collins' shot but still let Collins get off a second attempt - a reverse right-handed move - before his feet touched the floor to make it 116-92.
''I felt like he blocked the shot and I had a little extra air time to just flip it up,'' Collins said. ''I haven't actually seen the play back yet myself, so hopefully I'll get as excited as you guys.''
The Grizzlies began the game with the NBA's best scoring defense since the All-Star break, but they allowed 72 points, a season high for the first half and trailed by 11 at intermission. Atlanta began the game with the league's best scoring offense since the All-Star break.
''Some games we come out and play a certain way, and sometimes it's different,'' Young said. ''The way we played tonight, we've played like that most of the year. We just haven't been able to finish out games.''
Whenever Memphis pulled within a couple points of the lead, the Hawks would force a turnover or a poor shot and pull back ahead by double-digits. Miles had a season-high five 3-pointers and 17 points by the midway mark of the second, but he couldn't keep the Grizzlies close enough.
Atlanta spread out its offense to get good spacing and used screens and dribble penetration to keep Memphis on its heels.
''This group hasn't had a night like this before,'' Memphis coach J.B. Bickerstaff said. ''Some nights you have these nights. We just can't repeat it. Tonight we laid an egg, plain and simple. You could feel it. We were loose on both ends of the floor.''
Young and Taurean Prince each launched a long 3 on consecutive possessions to make it 80-62 early in the third, and the lead swelled to 23 on Collins' fast-break dunk at the 8:07 mark.
Memphis pulled within 15, but Kevin Huerter hit a 3 before Vince Carter passed from the corner to Alex Len for an alley-oop dunk that made it 110-87 in the last minute of the third.
Grizzlies: Bickerstaff had 11 players available. F Kyle Anderson (shoulder soreness), G Dillon Brooks (toe injury) and F Jaren Jackson Jr. (thigh bruise) did not make the trip.
Hawks: C Dewayne Dedmon returned to the starting lineup for the first time in four games. He missed two games with a right knee contusion and came off the bench in Sunday's win over New Orleans.
Grizzlies: Visit Washington on Saturday.
Hawks: Visit Boston on Saturday.
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Blog Doncaster Rovers: Living the dream. With style.
Doncaster Rovers: Living the dream. With style.
Andy Ryan 13 December, 2010
7 years ago Doncaster were playing in the Conference. They hope to spend this season fighting for a place in the Premier League.
Donny are an easy team to like. There is a feeling that they have achieved successs in the right way. John Ryan, a charismatic local businessman, has invested heavily in the club that he loves and has offered strong backing to his managers. Under Sean O’Driscoll, they have established a reputation for playing quality passing football in a division that doesn’t always reward style.
How much further can the dream go? What is clear is that the squad is strong, the manager is clever and the owner is very sensible. Not many Championship clubs can claim such an array of riches.
Steven Yardley edits the Rovers Till I Die website and shares his thoughts.
How would you rate Doncaster’s season so far?
Excellent, the best in my lifetime, I’m 47 and the club is at its highest.
Rovers get a lot of credit for the way you play. If it comes to it, are you happy seeing style sacrificed to get results?
This kind of question is asked by those that don’t realise we are competing with teams that have far bigger attendances and therefore more resources than our club. So we’re doing more than just getting “results”.
What’s been you result of the season so far?
I would say beating Portsmouth away, a recent Premiership team.
Which of your players should be in the Premier League?
Mustapha Dumbaya is one to watch, only came into football at a lateish age, picked out of non-league but is improving in leaps and bounds. Our manager recently compared him to ex-England full back Paul Parker. Also Jimmy O’Connor is getting noticed as someone who can play well anywhere across the back four.
Any dramatic changes that you would make if you were made chairman?
Couldn’t better what is already the in the boardroom at all levels.
Where do fans expect the club to be in five years time?
Who knows? Our club has been on a rollercoaster for years, we’re at the top currently but apparently the club is well provided for should any of our directors fall under a bus.
How do fans feel about the gaffer?
Worship him and dread every vacancy that arises in the Premiership. He will go on to bigger things but we have confidence our chairman can unearth another unknown “diamond”.
Which team have impressed you so far this season?
Hate to say it but Derby. They should be up their though as they have the highest attendances.
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It’s been a while since I blogged. I’ve been overseas and also busy finishing my first series of “Artist Portrait” podcasts (see below). Meanwhile I’ve been listening to some impressive music making in the neighbourhood.
The Domaine Wine Bar had a Summer Jazz festival last week and I was very fortunate to catch my favourite trio (Broc Hempel, Sam Trapchak and Christian Coleman) in full swing with guest Greg Ward on sax on the first night. Greg Ward is an impressive player, a real star who travels widely around the world with his music. To be able to hear these talented artists so close to home is a real privilege.
On Wednesday we had the extra privilege of hearing jazz virtuoso Jean-Michel Pilc (http://www.jeanmichelpilc.com) perform two solo piano sets. This man is a genius of the piano. In what seemed to be a series of extemporisations, he drew from the history of western music (especially 20th century classical, jazz and popular music) in creating moving and exciting sounds from the bar’s small upright instrument. If you search for Jean-Michel on the internet you will find video of him playing grand piano in grand spaces, solo or with small groups. Here we had him by himself, playing for us in a little bar just by the subway entrance on Vernon Boulevard.
Jean-Michel Pilc playing at Domaine bar a vins
For me this was one of the most profound and enjoyable musical experiences of my 18 months in New York. In bar settings like this you can always expect a mixed audience, but the contrast between the sheer wonders of Jean-Michel’s playing and the loud bar crowd, who for the most part did not seem to want to listen, was a challenge to my ability to focus and just enjoy the music. Fortunately they did not get in the way of my enjoyment, I didn’t allow them to; but it’s a challenge for Domaine to attract a more appreciative audience (who might be tempted to pay a few dollars to hear an artist for whom they might have to pay up to $100 for a ticket in a big concert hall).
The previous weekend had seen the “First Annual Big City Folk Festival” at the LIC Bar (www.LICBar.com), all Sunday afternoon. This is LIC Bar at it’s best. A hot sunny day, sitting in the courtyard in the shade of huge willow trees and listening to a series of excellent musicians brought together under the Big City Folk Collective umbrella, by Niall Connolly (http://www.reverbnation.com/label/bigcityfolk).
I’ve often wondered how such large willows remain strong in this semi-industrial part of town, and quite a way from natural watercourses (the East River, and the Anable Basin). There are three trees, each of which must be 30 feet tall at least, with heavy cascades of green that flow over the road and into the courtyard. The word on the street ( a phrase which, in New York, has extra relevance – as the streets are full of words) is that the tree roots tap into the public water supply, a worthy gift from the people of NYC.
I didn’t catch all the artists that afternoon, 7 hours in the sun at a bar is a long session, but I did catch many I knew, plus two who were new to me, Jo Kroger and Chris Mills. Big City Folk is an active collective, with members swapping roles as members of each other’s bands and joing in to offer backup vocals. Whilst Chris Mills offered solo singer songwriter material Jo Kroger was supported by Jasper Lewis, a young and talented guitarist and singer in his own right. Jasper also played in the Sky Captains of Industry, one of whom, singer and guitarist Eric W Harris, managed the sound for the afternoon and also played in the band that accompanied Casey Black. Also often seen was Brandon Wilde; bass player, guitarist and singer, who appeared with his own band – The All-Night Chemists, played bass for Niall Connolly and offered backup vocals for Warren Malone.
I’ve written about Casey Black before. He’s a strong singer and songwriter who hails from Nashville, and it’s to his home town that New York is losing this talented man, who has graced our clubs and bars for the last couple of years. At LIC Bar he played with Don Paris Schlotman (bass), Peter Lanctot (violin), Eric W. Harris (guitar) and Neal Nunziato on drums, with some vocal support from Michele Riganese. He has just played his last shows as a New York resident and is flying south to his homeland. Let’s hope we see and hear him again soon.
Casey Black and the Big City Folk Festival band
Jo Kroger is an experienced singer songwriter who knows how to relate to her audience. She was quick to point out that she was the only woman headline performer that afternoon, and one of only three who would appear on stage. The others were Michele Riganese, who supported Casey Black and Matt Sucich on back-up vocals and Matt’s old friend and musical collaborator Jessica, who also provided vocal support to two of his songs.
Jo Kroger and Jasper Lewis
I enjoyed Jo’s music, she has a strong accurate voice and writes good songs in a classic American folk/country style with interesting lyrics. Check her out on:
(http://jokroger.com/wordpress/)
I also enjoyed Chris Mills’ style and energy (http://www.reverbnation.com/chrismillsmusic) . He’s clearly been around a while and sings from his experience of life with great craft as a songwriter. He’s quite different to Jo Kroger in that he has more of a straight line kind of style. By that I mean he sings very much on the beat rather than that kind of bluesy style that rides the beat like a jockey rides a horse, rarely resting on the saddle and flowing with the movement of the song. There’s nothing wrong with his kind of style, it’s an approach that brings focus more on the words of the song rather than the melody and rhythms that the words inspire. He has a strong voice and brings his words home with a power that makes you listen and take notice.
Chris Mills tells it straight
It’s hard to single out any particular artist from that afternoon – Anthony Mulcahy (http://www.mulmusic.com/) writes such beautiful songs; Matt Sucich was great, renewing his partnership with his old singing partner Jessica; Warren Malone played a $50 Telecaster that he had rescued from oblivion; Niall Connolly was as energetic as I’ve seen him, and even more powerful as he belted out his insightful and intelligent lyrics with his all-star band of Warren Malone, Len Monachello (drums), Brandon Wilde (bass), and Dennis Cronin 0n trumpet ; Brandon Wilde’s collaboration with Len Monachello on guitar and Brad Gunyon on drums- the All Night Chemists – were a delight, Brandon writes and sings such melodic songs. (http://www.brandonwildemusic.com/)
I was sorry not to catch Kevin Goldhahn’s “Gantry” – This is an exciting band that I’ve yet to hear properly.
I usually enjoy the Sky Captains of Industry, I like their ironic Sci-Fi style, with skilful lyrics and performance. On this occasion I must say that I found them to be too loud, and distorted. The crew had a reasonable quality PA for the afternoon and Eric W. Harris had managed the sound mix and volume well for everyone else. Then suddenly the volume rose, the sound was distorted and I couldn’t hear the words; we had to go inside the bar, but even then the distortion in the sound spoiled what I believe to be a good band. I know that this sounds rather curmudgeonly, maybe it is – I do like to hear lyrics though, and also love purity of sound. Deliberate distortion can be an art with intruments, but overloading voices into a small PA is something else.
However, everyhing else was superb. So congratulations to Niall and the BCF crew for putting together the first of what could become an annual event.
Niall Connolly belting it out
I’ve just finished uploading the last of the first group of six “Artist Portraits” podcasts onto the web. In these interviews with local musicians we talk about their lives, their musical experiences and their development as musicians. The interviews include excerpts of the music they talk about and some full length recordings of their own music.
The podcasts can be downloaded from www.earthsounz.podbean.com or from http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sometime-in-long-island-city/id523786622?mt=2
You can also hear them directly in this Blog (click on the link beneath the photo):
Michele Riganese
Artist Portrait – Michele Riganese
Jeneen Terrana
Artist Portrait – Jeneen Terrana
Little Embers
Artist Portrait – Little Embers
Artist Portrait_ Matt Sucich
Warren Malone
Artist Portrait – Warren Malone
Shelly Bhushan
Artist Portrait- Shelly Bhushan
FOOD AND DRINK CORNER
I’ve made some return visits to a couple of lower-priced restaurants in the Hunter’s Point are over the last few weeks. Casa Enrique is proving to be a popular eating place locally, judging by the numbers in there as I’ve walked past. I took some friends there a few days ago and we were worried that we might not get seats, so we reserved our table for 7pm. As it happened this was not necessary as there were only four other tables occupied when we arrived. However, when we left there was a line at the door of people waiting for vacant tables! There were 5 of us that night and we enjoyed a range of dishes, starting with two servings of freshly prepared Guacamole ($8 each), mild and medium spiced at our request and with offers of more chips if we needed them (a nice touch – it’s so frustrating to run out of chips). The restaurant makes a point of letting you know that the dishes are prepared to order, so it’s important to have some kind of starter. Between us we had the Lamb Shank (“Delicious, and so good to have the meat falling off the bone”) – which no doubt was not prepared to order, it needs long slow cooking to get it to taste that good ($20); I had the Cochinito Chiapaneco, Pork Ribs with chilli, rice and beans ($16), very tasty and interestingly spiced beans; The Market fish (Striped Bass) was very nicely prepared and presented, clearly cooked to order ($22).
As always the service at Casa Enrique was pleasant and unhurried. The surroundings are plain white, with little decoration. We sat at the rear of the restaurant, where the ceiling is low. With plain wooded tables and chairs the acoustics are quite “lively”, which makes loud diners with high pitched voices intrusive at times, as well as the clash of cutlery on plates. This could be remedied with some softer furnishings in the space; maybe plain, lightly-decorated rugs on the wall, or painted acoustic tiles on the ceiling.
We had to resist desserts as we were returning to our friend’s for those, but we would definitely have had their most delicious flan. At present Casa Enrique only have a restricted liquor licence, which meant we took our own wine; not really a problem, and also cheaper (they don’t charge corkage).
At a lower price level, the local Filipino restaurant Ihawan2 (http://www.ihawan2.com) beckoned us again as a prelude to a late night social event in the city. This time there were just three of us, choosing the oxtail in peanut sauce (Kare Kare), the Combo Barbeque and the Bicol Express (spicy belly pork in liver sauce). Filipino cuisine is new to me, I found the mixture of ingredients, flavours and textures interesting and tasty. Belly pork can be quite fatty and I prefer it crispy (as in their grilled version), rather than soft in this dish: but that’s just my preference. Two of us had drinks and the check for three came to just over $45 – a good, reasonably cheap meal to start the evening. This is a restaurant which will grow in popularity as it becomes more well known in the neighbourhood.
Just up the East River from us is a little riverside bar at Anable Basin. It’s hard to find places in New York where you can sit at a table right next to the water drinking a cool beer and eating a tasty barbecue snack. The Anable Basin bar and Grill (http://anablebasin.com/) is just that, a bar and a grill in a kind of makeshift building with classic all-in-one bench tables that sit next to what is a mini marina, where you can park your yacht or dinghy. You can also walk or drive there, to the end of 44th Drive, next door to the Waters Edge restaurant (white tablecloths, and which looks like it suits large groups of well-off diners). It has a beach/island feel – casual with a small, but interesting selection of beers and wines and a short menu of international barbecue specialities – Brazilian Steak (Pikanya), Bosnian sausages (Chevapi – with a delicious ajvar relish), Bratwurst, Bison Burgers, salads, corn and vegeburger. This is a peaceful venue, a place to sit and watch the fish jump, the geese beg for scraps and the occasional boat passing by. It’s as close as you’re going to get to a beach bar in New York, and then you also get the impressive Manhattan skyline, especially when the sun is going down. It may not be the Pacific but it sure is peaceful. I note that they advertise “speciality cocktails”, well I might just have to go down there again.
The mooring at Anable Basin Bar and Grill
Some news from Cranky’s (http://www.crankyscafe.com/). It’s sad to see that Lindsay and Cranky’s have parted company. She’ll be missed. Meanwhile I’ve tried a few more of their lunchtime dishes and can throughly recommend their flank steak salads – either straight (with warm corn, tomato etc) or as a steak caesar. The chef Alan has created an exquisite marinade for the steak that makes it melt in your mouth. He’s also created an excellent caesar sauce for the salad – straight caesar, chicken or steak. It’s good to see that the “Eating Theater” evenings are continuing and proving very popular.
I note that there are a couple of new eating places appearing in the Hunters Point area. “Cyclo”, a new Vietnamese Noodle and Sandwich cafe is just about to open, on 46th and Vernon next to Petey’s Burger, and “Spice”, one of a chain of successful Thai restuarants on the site of the, often empty, previous Thai cafe on Vernon Boulevard.
That’s it from me for another week – watch out for new “Artist Portrait” blogcasts over the next few weeks.
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There’s Something About Keite
Posted by Vivrant Thang in Let's Rock: Concert Reviews
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I had the pleasure of finding out just what that was last weekend at the Black Cat here in DC. Keite opened to a crowd practically simmering over in anticipation of rocking with Chrisette Michele. A couple of people standing by me didn’t even know who was opening and asked, “Who Is Keite Young?” By the time he made his way to the stage and funked up a cover of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy,” I do believe they had their answer.
If that didn’t do it, his cover of the Police’s “Roxanne” surely did.
Don’t get it twisted. While Keite does a hell of a cover, the original material from his debut album, The Rise and Fall of Keite Young, had me anxiously waiting to cop his CD and put it in regular rotation.
Check out “If We Were Alone” (um…is this really coming from an ordained minister?)
“Thinkuboutmi”
He closed the set by taking a HUGE risk and covering Prince’s “Beautiful Ones.” I admit, I was scared for him. You just don’t touch Your Royal Purpleness. But when he ripped that hat off his head and messed that doobie up, I knew he was about to give us the business. Prince fans, what say you?
I had the chance to meet Keite after the show. We look cute huh? No real reason I’m cheesing like that. I tend to smile too big in my pics.
I think I’ve mentioned before that one reason I love supporting new or independent artists is because they are still so grateful and hungry. Keite seemed to be in awe at the people lined up to buy his album. I would also imagine that since he’s traveled such a long, hard road to bring us the music, he probably still can’t believe he’s finally here. And judging from what I saw, what’s yet to come will be even better.
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mstrouble74 said:
Okay I looked thru your posts and didn’t see you mention that you went to the Stevie Wonder Tribute at Liv Nov 16th! Where where you girl. DJ Spinna and Bobbito was the bizness. That was a great party, I hope you were there!
vivrant thang said:
Oh yes, I was there but I don’t think I blogged about that one for some reason. It was a HOT party. I hadn’t danced like that in a while – before the Tru School Party. I LOVE Stevie. And yes, Bobbito and Spinna are the truth!
If you’re not familiar, visit soulbounce.com. I think you would like it there. Google Stevie and you’ll find a nice download of Love Is On Fire from Spinna. I rock that when I want to remember.
I knew you had to be there. I was really feeling that party. The whole vibe was so awesome in there. I will check out soulbounce on the regular. Keep me in the loop of what is cool!
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Strong beef prices likely to continue for cattle farmers
Andrew Gorrie
Beef fortunes are up, lamb is stagnating and New Zealand needs more market access, says ANZCO chairman Sir Graeme Harrison.
Strong market demand for New Zealand beef products should continue to bring high prices for cattle farmers into the new season.
The market is expected to remain vibrant because New Zealand’s closest competitor, Australia, was looking to re-build its herd after large cullings of capital stock and demand was high for Kiwi beef in the Asian and North American markets, said ANZCO chairman Sir Graeme Harrison .
Critical to maintaining that strength was improved access to those markets, said Harrison at a symposium on hill country farming organised by the New Zealand Grasslands Association and attended by more than 300 people.
Market access would improve with the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), which brought New Zealand closer to a long term regional economic integration with Asia and the Pacific.
The agreement also established a platform for other trade deals with the signing countries and the biggest opportunity for that was Indonesia.
For a free trade agreement to be established in the Asia-Pacific, the United States would ideally accommodate China.
“If that were to occur, a re-invigorated World Trade Organisation should follow,” said Harrison.
In contrast to beef fortunes, Harrison expected the lamb market would continue to stagnate.
Demand from European consumers was subdued because of a sluggish economy and this did not help the restaurant trade where the bulk of New Zealand lamb was eaten.
There was also high domestic supply from United Kingdom sheep farmers.
“They had a good production year for growing lamb, but it’s staying in the UK, it’s not being exported in the volumes it was and that makes a big difference.”
He said the protests by UK sheep farmers were because of market frustrations and New Zealand lamb was an easy target.
There was good demand elsewhere in other markets, but this was not enough to lift the overall price.
“China is the key in terms of being able to lift the price overall.”
Some of the poor pricing was also due to the slump in co-products such as pelts.
Harrison said greater market access was essential for the future prosperity of hill country farming, where the bulk of New Zealand’s beef and lamb was grown.
“Asia’s growing demand for protein is real and forging partnerships beyond the farmgate is necessary if increased market segmentation and consumer targeting are to achieve price premiums for hill country’s farming credentials.”
In 2012, 6 per cent of New Zealand’s GDP came from the growing and harvesting of raw agricultural products on farms. Product processing lifted that total contribution of the agricultural sector in the New Zealand economy to one dollar in every four.
“We negotiate trade agreements because we seek advantage, for New Zealand is a trading nation. Our domestic market is small, our access to capital is limited so we need to look externally for growth and development.”
In 2009, the United Nations published global food demand forecasts up until 2050. Compared with actual consumption, the projected growth for meat demand was expected to outpace dairy.
Most of this demand would be supplied by chicken and pork, but it would also present “unprecedented opportunities” for New Zealand meat especially beef, Harrison said.
“Today’s food security reality is that 60 per cent more animal protein-sourced foods will be needed by 2050 to satisfy the growing middle class demand. In the end, you either believe in the middle class growth story in Asia and the increase in protein demand, or you don’t … and I believe in it.”
Harrison will leave for China shortly with Prime Minister John Key and others to try and negotiate greater access to that market, including gaining chilled beef access and access for manufactured meat products, which New Zealand does not have.
He said this presented a huge opportunity for New Zealand.
There were opportunities for value added products, but competing commodity demand had made it difficult to implement a value added strategy by any New Zealand meat company and so far it had been a “flop”.
A credible providence story based on integrity and linking this to customers through partners down the value chain was needed.
“For this to grow, true partnership will be vital between farmers, processors and other links in the value added chain.”
New Zealand’s limited success to adding value to its products has been because of its small domestic market, trade barriers, geographic isolation, capital restraints and entrenchment in commodities.
The New Zealand trader transactional relationship model that had characterised the meat industry would need to change and a “win win approach”, was the way forward, he said.
– Stuff
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FRSC moves to check crashes involving trucks in Anambra
March 14, 2019 Admin2 SundiataPost Metro Comments Off on FRSC moves to check crashes involving trucks in Anambra
Chimezie Anaso
Awka – The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) says it will hold enlarged stakeholders’ meeting with articulated vehicle operators in Anambra to check the rate of crashes involving trucks in the state.
Mr Andrew Kumapayi. FRSC Sector Commander in Anambra, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Thursday.
No fewer than six persons were killed and 14 others sustained varying degrees of injuries when a tanker laden with Kerosene lost control and rammed into a popular motor park in Onitsha on Wednesday.
Another accident also involving tipper lorry, which ran into a local market in Umuchu, Aguata Local Government Area of the state, claimed lives and injured many others on Wednesday.
Kumapayi described the incidence of crashes involving articulated vehicles as alarming and deserving urgent measures to check.
He said the meeting, which will hold before the end of the month, would include drivers and fleet operators of tipper trucks, petroleum tanker and other articulated vehicles in the state.
He said that the command had already reached out to the various unions at the national level, especially those who plied the Anambra corridors.
“The rate of crashes involving these trucks are worrisome; we intend to hold serious stakeholders’ engagement with them and that I believe will be before the end of this month.
“We shall go beyond advocacy, there shall be strict enforcement on their activities because we don’t want to have recurrence of these crashes in Anambra,” he said.
The sector commander said the FRSC was already working with Anambra government through the ministry of works to enforce restriction on movement of trailers and tankers in some routes of the state.
He said there was also need to dislodge all form of trading on the major roads of the state to minimise casualties in the event of emergency.
“I am already discussing with the Anambra government on the need to restrict movement of some of these heavy duty trucks on some roads in the state.
“The traffic environment must also be freed from markets and trading because that is another menace that is common here,” he said.
Kumapayi, who commiserated with the families of those that lost their lives or injured in the crashes, said the command would continue to work for the safety of all road users.
The second commander called for the collaboration of all stakeholders with the commission.
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Home » IRS PATROL » IR-2013-71: John Dalrymple Named Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement
IR-2013-71: John Dalrymple Named Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement
WASHINGTON — Internal Revenue Service Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel today announced former long-time IRS executive John M. Dalrymple has been named Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement.
“This is a critical leadership position for the IRS touching on everything from taxpayer service to tax enforcement issues,” Werfel said. “During John’s three decades at the IRS, he gained a wealth of first-hand expertise and experience in areas he will be leading. His insight and knowledge of the IRS will be an asset to help keep our core tax operations running smoothly.”
Dalrymple will start his new role on Sept. 16. He previously served as IRS Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support from 2003 to 2006.
As Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement, Dalrymple will provide direction to the four taxpayer-focused IRS operating divisions, including Wage and Investment; Large Business & International; Small Business/Self-Employed and Tax Exempt and Government Entities. He will also oversee the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, Office of Professional Responsibility, Online Services, the Return Preparer Office and IRS Whistleblower Office.
Dalrymple has 31 years experience working at the IRS, including 13 years in the Senior Executive Service. Following his retirement from the IRS in 2006, he became a Director at Deloitte Consulting.
During his IRS career, Dalrymple’s experience covered a variety of enforcement, taxpayer service and support positions. He served as Commissioner of Wage and Investment from 2000 to 2003. He was IRS Chief Operations Officer from 1996 to 2000, and he was a District Director in the IRS North Central District from 1995 to 1996.
He began his career with the IRS as a revenue officer in 1975 and has held management positions in several IRS district offices. Dalrymple is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa.
The IRS Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement is a career civil service position. The position, along with the Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support, reports directly to the IRS Commissioner.
By Stacie Clifford Kitts in IRS PATROL on August 27, 2013 .
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And you just used it twice. What's that say??
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"I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired."
"Well, you're not."
"I'm certainly not. But i'm sick and tired of being told that I am."
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Epiq Announces Executive Leadership Changes
January 9, 2019 Asianet Pakistan Asean, PRESS RELEASES
New CEO Appointed
ATLANTA and NEW YORK, Jan. 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Epiq, a global leader in the legal services industry, today announced David C. Dobson has joined the company as the new chief executive officer and John Davenport, Jr., current chief executive officer of Epiq, will move up to executive chairman of the board.
Davenport founded Epiq, then known as Document Technologies, in 1998 and grew the business from a handful of employees and clients to a billion dollar global organization.
“We have found a remarkable leader that embodies our core values and client-centric focus to assume leadership of Epiq,” said Davenport. “After a thorough search process, I’m looking forward to my new role as chairman and to working with David, who will continue to execute on our vision and strategy of being the premier global legal services partner to clients around the globe. I believe that he is the right person to lead Epiq into the future.”
“I am very excited and honored to be joining such an incredible team at this important time in our company’s history,” said Dobson. “I look forward to building on the momentum that John and this team have created. We have a tremendous opportunity to further extend our leadership position in delivering high value services to our clients around the world.”
Dobson previously served as the chief executive officer of Digital River, a global eCommerce platform and services company. Prior to Digital River, Dobson held senior leadership positions at IBM, Corel, Pitney Bowes and CA Technologies. Dobson has a degree in electrical engineering and management from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.
About Epiq
Epiq, a global leader in the legal services industry, takes on large-scale, increasingly complex tasks for corporate counsel, law firms, and business professionals with efficiency, clarity, and confidence. Clients rely on Epiq to streamline the administration of business operations, class action and mass tort, court reporting, eDiscovery, regulatory, compliance, restructuring, and bankruptcy matters. Epiq subject-matter experts and technologies create efficiency through expertise and deliver confidence to high-performing clients around the world. Learn more at
www.epiqglobal.com.
Jill Brown
jbrown@epiqglobal.com
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/fe583718-3c80-4e47-a537-d45ec8dc5eb5
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The relationship between twitch depression and twitch fade during neuromuscular block produced by vecuronium: correlation with the release of acetylcholine
Shashi B Bhatt1Email author,
Jack Kohl1,
Anton Amann2 and
Vladimir Nigrovic1
© Bhatt et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2007
Train-of-four stimulation pattern following the administration of non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs reveals fade on successive contractions. Fade is caused by the release of fewer acetylcholine molecules by the fourth (A4) than by the first stimulus (A1). The current study was conducted to define the relationship between the clinically observed fade and the simulated decline in acetylcholine release (A4/A1) that would be necessary to produce it.
The T4/T1 ratios produced by different doses of vecuronium (15–80 μg·kg-1) were plotted as a function of the concomitant T1. Separately in a model of neuromuscular transmission, T1, T4, and T4/T1 were estimated using simulations in the presence and in the absence of a neuromuscular blocking drug and a stepwise decrease in A4, but constant A1.
Vecuronium induced neuromuscular block was associated with larger T4/T1 ratios (less fade) during the onset than during the offset of the block. All doses caused similar fade during offset. Simulations revealed that the smallest T4/T1 was associated with the nadir of A4/A1 and occurred at the beginning of T1 recovery. The nadir of A4/A1 was only marginally affected by the dose of vecuronium: 15 μg·kg-1 producing the minimum A4/A1 of 0.8 and 80 μg·kg-1 the minimum A4/A1 of 0.7.
The hysteresis in the fade between onset and offset appears to be caused by a delayed decrease of A4/A1 as compared with the decrease in T1. Tentative estimates of the decrease in A4/A1 during fade produced by vecuronium are offered. However, the validity of these estimates is dependent on the validity of the assumptions made in simulations.
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Non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs cause a dose-dependent decrease in the indirectly evoked muscle contractions (twitches). Upon repetitive stimulation, the successive twitches during partial nondepolarizing block are reduced more than the first twitch. This phenomenon is known as fade. The ratio of the twitch strength produced by the fourth stimulus (T4) compared to that produced by the first stimulus (T1), i.e. T4/T1, elicited by a train-of-four (TOF) stimuli is of interest to both anesthesiologists and physiologists. Anesthesiologists use the T4/T1 ratio as an indirect measure of the still present muscle paralysis [1–3], while physiologists study the fade to gain insight into the processes of neuromuscular transmission [4–6].
Bowman [7] and others [4, 8–10] have suggested that neuromuscular blocking drugs produce twitch fade during repetitive stimulation by binding to the presynaptic cholinoceptors and inhibiting the positive auto-feedback action of acetylcholine (ACh) on its own release elicited during repetitive stimulation. This action of neuromuscular blocking drugs causes the stimuli following the first stimulus to release fewer ACh molecules.
We have conducted the following study in an attempt to relate the clinically observed twitch fade, to the decrease in ACh that could account for the fade elicited by a train of four stimuli. In the first part of the investigation, we studied twitch depression and twitch fade in human subjects following the administration of different doses of vecuronium. In the second part, we expanded our model of neuromuscular transmission[11] by considering a decrease in the release of ACh elicited by the fourth stimulus.
Clinical experiments
After approval by the local IRB, 21 ASA physical status I or II, adult non-obese subjects scheduled for elective surgery consented to participate in the study. Following the i.v. administration of midazolam 1 – 2 mg and fentanyl 3 – 5 μg·kg-1, anesthesia was induced with propofol 2 – 3 mg· kg-1. Tracheal intubation was performed following the topical application of lidocaine (4%, 3 ml). Anesthesia was maintained with propofol infusion (100–150 μg·kg-1·min-1) and 66% N2O in oxygen. Ventilation was controlled to maintain normocapnia.
The thumb of one hand was abducted (preload between 250 g and 300 g) and connected to a force transducer (Gould FT-10, Grass Telefactor, West Warwick, RI). The signal from the force transducer was amplified, digitized at 100 Hz, and recorded on a PC using PolyVIEW data acquisition and analysis software (version 2.5, Astro-Med, Inc., West Warwick, RI) for subsequent analysis.
Supramaximal stimuli were delivered to the ulnar nerve at the wrist via skin electrodes. Baseline stabilization was obtained by applying 1 Hz stimuli for 20 minutes. Following the stabilization period, the stimulation was changed to a TOF pattern, i.e. four supramaximal stimuli at 2 Hz, and the trains repeated at 12 s intervals. Vecuronium was injected in doses ranging from 15 μg·kg-1 to 80 μg·kg-1. The doses were chosen to produce a wide range of twitch depression, including the complete ablation of T1. The recorded strengths of T1 and T4 were expressed as fractions of T1 before the administration of vecuronium. The recordings were continued until complete spontaneous recovery from the neuromuscular block. The results are reported only for those subjects in whom T1 returned to within ± 10% of the baseline.
Simulation of T1 and T4 as related to the release of acetylcholine by the first and the fourth stimuli
The strength of the twitches elicited by the first and the fourth stimuli in a TOF stimulation pattern was simulated in the model of neuromuscular transmission [11]. The model considers the stimulus-induced release of ACh into a synaptic cleft, ACh binding to two sites at a single postsynaptic receptor, and ACh hydrolysis. The number of ACh molecules released by the first stimulus was postulated to establish a constant initial concentration of ACh, [A]1 = 7.75 × 10-6 M. The model was expanded by assuming that the fourth stimulus releases either the same or a smaller number of ACh molecules, and establishes the initial concentration of ACh in the synaptic cleft denoted by [A]4. The ratio [A]4/[A]1 was assigned nine values from 1.0 to 0.8 in steps of 0.025, and two additional values for [A]4/[A]1 = 0.75 and 0.70. The concentration of the postsynaptic receptors in the synaptic cleft, [R], was assumed to be 7.75 × 10-5 M [11].
Binding of ACh to two sites at a postsynaptic receptor was defined by the association rate constant kassociation identical for both sites, kassociation = 1.35 × 108 M-1· s-1. The assigned dissociation rate constants, kdissociation, were different: for site1 kdissociation = 1350 s-1, and for site2 kdissociation = 13500 s-1. The assignments define two equilibrium dissociation constants, KA1 = 10-5 M for site1, and KA2 = 10-4 M for site2. Affinities of ACh for the binding sites are the reciprocals of the equilibrium dissociation constants. After the release of ACh, three complexes are formed between ACh and the receptors: ARO, ORA, and ARA. Here, the first and the third letter indicate the species occupying site1 and site2, A is ACh, O is an empty site, and R is the postsynaptic receptor. The complex ARA represents the activated postsynaptic receptors. The concentrations of all three complexes increase transiently after the release of ACh, reach a peak, and subsequently decline due to hydrolysis of free ACh. We assigned a first-order rate constant for hydrolysis of ACh (khydrolysis) at 12000 s-1 [11].
The strength of T1 or T4 was calculated based on the assumption that a muscle fiber contracts when [ARA] reaches or surpasses the threshold level of [ARA] for that fiber [11]. The strength of T1 or T4 depends on the number of contracting fibers. All those fibers with a threshold [ARA] at or below the calculated peak value of [ARA] contract. The twitches, be it T1 or T4, were calculated identically using the calculated peak value of [ARA] after the first or the fourth stimulus:
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where γA characterizes the distribution of the threshold [ARA] among the fibers of the muscle and [ARA50] is the median of all threshold [ARA] [11]. We used the previously defined values: γA = 4.732 and [ARA50] = 9.524 × 10-9 M [11].
The hypothetical muscle relaxant D competes with ACh for binding to the same two sites at a postsynaptic receptor. The assigned constants for the interaction were: kassociationD identical for both binding sites, kassociationD = 4.0 × 108 M-1 s-1, and the equilibrium dissociation constants KD1 = 10-7 for site1 and KD2 = 10-6 M for site2. The dissociation rate constants were calculated from kdissociationD = KD·kassociationD. Similar to ACh, the muscle relaxant D produces three types of complexes by itself, e.g. DRO, ORD and DRD, and two additional mixed complexes with ACh, ARD and DRA. The molar concentrations of D in the synaptic cleft are labeled [D]synaptic cleft. Higher [D]synaptic cleft leads to a larger fraction of the postsynaptic receptors occupied by D. In the calculations, we used 100 logarithmically equidistant values for a 10-fold increase in [D]synaptic cleft to produce T1 declining from its maximal value to 0.05. This was achieved by increasing [D] from 1· 10-8 to 5· 106 M. We assumed that the decrease in T1 is produced exclusively by increased [D] and, hence, an increased occupancy of the postsynaptic receptors. On the other hand, the decrease in T4 is caused by a combination of increased postsynaptic receptor occupancy and the diminished release of ACh elicited by the fourth stimulus. Neuromuscular block (NMB) was defined as the difference in strength of T1 in the absence and the presence of a muscle relaxant.
The calculations were performed using the program MATHEMATICA (version 5.2) from Wolfram Research, Inc., Champaign, IL.
Although 21 subjects were studied, the first twitch returned to within ± 10% of the baseline in only 15 subjects and only the data from these subjects are presented. Since our measurement technique did not allow us to measure twitch tension with precision once T1 decreased to below 10% of its baseline value, we have not included in our analysis any data, be it for T1 or T4/T1 ratios, for T1 < 0.1.
In all subjects studied, the peak depression of T4 lagged behind the peak depression of T1, and the minimum T4 was always lower than the minimum T1. This is illustrated for two subjects who received vecuronium doses of 15 μg·kg-1 or 35 μg·kg-1, respectively (upper panel in Figure 1). The plot of T4/T1 as a function of T1 for the same two subjects reveals that, for any given value of T1, the T4/T1 ratio is higher during the onset than during the offset of NMB (lower panel in Figure 1).
Time-course of the first (T1) and the fourth twitch (T4) in two subjects following the injection of vecuronium. The dose of vecuronium was 15 μg·kg-1 in one subject (filled symbols) and 35 μg·kg-1 in the second subject (open symbols, upper panel). The dotted line parallel with the Time axis indicates twitch = 0.1. The lower panel presents the T4/T1 ratios as a function of T1 for the same two subjects. The loops commence at T1 = 1.0 and T4/T1 = 1.0 and then follow the direction indicated by arrows. The dotted line parallel with the T4/T1 axis indicates T1 = 0.1.
The T4/T1 ratios as a function of T1 for various doses of vecuronium during the onset of NMB are presented in the upper panel of Figure 2. To simplify the presentation, only one representative subject is presented for each dose. The results indicate that, at any level of T1, the T4/T1 ratios are higher, i.e. the twitch fade is less pronounced, with larger doses of vecuronium. Thus, at T1 = 0.5, a vecuronium dose of 20 μg·kg-1 produced T4/T1 = 0.4. However, at the same T1, T4/T1 was 0.78 in the subject who received the dose of 80 μg·kg-1.
Upper panel: The ratios of the fourth to the first twitch (T4/T1) as a function of the first twitch (T1) for various doses (μg·kg-1) of vecuronium (individual subjects) during the onset of neuromuscular block. At the moment of vecuronium injection, T1 = 1.0 and T4/T1 = 1.0. Lower panel: T4/T1 ratio (mean ± SD) as a function of T1 (at T1 = 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 0.9) for all doses of vecuronium during the offset of neuromuscular block. The number of subjects is indicated by n. The temporal sequence of observations starts at the lowest value of T1 and progresses toward higher values of T1. The label for the X-axis is identical to the label of the X-axis in the upper panel.
When compared at identical values of T1, the T4/T1 ratios during the offset of NMB (lower panel in Figure 2) were lower than those observed during the onset. The ratios were similar among the different doses of vecuronium during the offset. Therefore, we have summarized the data for T4/T1 during the offset of NMB at T1 = 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 0.9, and present the mean ± SD in Figure 2.
The simulations produced 11 curves, one for each [A]4/[A]1 value, relating T4/T1 to T1 (Figure 3). The curves indicate the inter-relationship between T1, T4/T1, and [A]4/[A]1. The relationship may be summarized as follows: (i) at a constant T1, the T4/T1 ratio is higher for higher [A]4/[A]1; (ii) at a constant [A]4/[A]1, the T4/T1 ratio is lower for lower values of T1; (iii) a given T4/T1 may be associated with many combinations of [A]4/[A]1 and T1; and (iv) a pair of T4/T1-T1 values is associated with a unique value of [A]4/[A]1. If the fourth stimulus releases the same number of ACh molecules as does the first, i.e. if [A]4/[A]1 = 1, then T4 remains equal to T1, i.e. T4/T1 = 1, for any value of T1 (Figure 3).
Upper panel: The ratios of the fourth to the first twitch (T4/T1) as a function of T1. The 11 curves were obtained in simulations assuming a constant amount of acetylcholine released by the first stimulus ([A]1) and either the same or smaller amounts released by the fourth stimulus ([A]4). The ratios of the initial concentrations of acetylcholine released by the fourth and the first stimulus are denoted by [A]4/[A]1. The continuous bold curves indicate, in descending order, [A]4/[A]1 ratios of 1.0, 0.9, 0.8, and 0.7, respectively. For the intermediate values of [A]4/[A]1 see Methods. Lower panel: The observed T4/T1-T1 data pairs during the onset of NMB and the mean values during the offset are inserted into the grid of the T4/T1 versus T1 curves presented in the upper panel. The observed data are those presented in Figure 2.
T4/T1-T1 data pairs observed during the onset of NMB produced by different doses of vecuronium, as well as the mean values of T4/T1-T1 observed in all patients during the offset of NMB (Figure 2), were superimposed on the grid relating T4/T1 ratios to T1 at different levels of [A]4/[A]1 (lower panel in Figure 3). The superimposition helps to clarify the relationship between the clinically observed data pairs and the simulated [A]4/[A]1 ratios.
The maximal decrease in [A]4/[A]1 appears to be influenced only minimally by the dose of vecuronium. For example, the smallest dose (15 μg·kg-1) decreased T1 to 0.8 and [A]4/[A]1 to 0.82. The largest dose (80 μg·kg-1) produced a complete ablation of T1 and yet decreased [A]4/[A]1 to only 0.7.
The relationship between the observed T4/T1-T1 data pairs and the simulated T4/T1 versus T1 curves as a function of the [A]4/[A]1 ratios was examined in more detail in a single subject. The dose of vecuronium in this subject was 25 μg·kg-1 and the complete observed time-course for T4/T1 versus T1 is presented (Figure 4). The results indicate that the T4/T1 ratios correspond to different [A]4/[A]1 during the onset and offset of NMB. Interpolation of the observed T4/T1-T1 data pairs between the simulated [A]4/[A]1 curves permitted us to plot the approximate [A]4/[A]1 ratios as a function of time after the injection of vecuronium in this subject (lower panel in Figure 4). The results reveal that, during the onset of NMB, the decrease in [A]4/[A]1 lags behind the decrease in T1. The peak depression of [A]4/[A]1 occurred approximately ten min after the injection of vecuronium, while the peak depression of T1 occurred after 4.5 min.
Upper panel: The complete set of the ratios of the fourth (T4) to the first twitch (T1) as a function of the concomitant T1 observed in a single subject. The dose of vecuronium was 25 μg·kg-1. The grid of the 11 curves is that presented in Figure 3. The dashed line parallel with the Y-axis indicates the minimal T1. Lower panel: The observed values of T4/T1 were interpolated between the [A]4/[A]1 curves to obtain [A]4/[A]1 values at times of the observed T4/T1-T1 data pairs. The estimated [A]4/[A]1 values are plotted as a function of time elapsed from the injection of vecuronium. The time-course of T1 depression in the same subject is also plotted (right Y-axis, filled circles). The dashed line parallel with the Y-axis indicates the time of the minimal T1.
Our finding that vecuronium produces less fade for any given twitch depression during the onset compared to the offset of NMB (Figure 2) is consistent with the findings reported by other investigators [12–16]. We have also found that, during the onset and at similar T1, larger doses of vecuronium produce less fade than smaller doses (Figure 2). This finding is also consistent with the results from other investigations [14, 15]. During the offset of NMB, the pooled T4/T1-T1 data pairs from all subjects (Figure 2) are similar to those reported by other investigators using vecuronium as well as other neuromuscular blocking drugs [12–16].
The primary purpose of the present study was to correlate twitch fade, as observed in the current study and by the other investigators, with the decrease in ACh release that would be necessary to produce the fade. The simulations are based on the postulate by Bowman [7] that twitch fade is due to the decreased amount of ACh released by the fourth stimulus as compared to that released by the first stimulus. The correlation between the clinically observed fade and the simulated decrease in [A]4/[A]1 allowed us to suggest tentative estimates for the vecuronium-induced decrease of ACh release elicited by the fourth stimulus during the TOF pattern of stimulation.
We have previously investigated in simulations twitch fade caused by nondepolarizing muscle relaxants [17]. However, in that report we were interested in the properties of the muscle relaxants in relation to their interaction with the presynaptic receptors (the affinities and the rates of interaction). In the current study, our focus is on the estimate of the magnitude of the [A]4/[A]1 ratio necessary to explain the fade.
The simulated result that no fade is present if the amount of ACh released by the fourth stimulus remains identical to that released by the first stimulus, i.e. if [A]4 = [A]1 (Figure 3), contradicts the suggestion that, even in the absence of neuromuscular blocking drugs, a spontaneous fall-off of the ACh quantal content occurs at 2 Hz stimulation frequency [18]. If there were a spontaneous fall-off in ACh quantal content upon repetitive stimulation, then in the presence of a drug that binds exclusively to the postsynaptic receptors, e.g. α-bungarotoxin or erabutoxin, the spontaneous fall-off in ACh release would, of necessity, lead to fade. However, it has been demonstrated repeatedly that these drugs produce a profound decrease in twitch height without producing fade [5, 6, 19]. Thus, the results of our simulations accord with, and support the notion of, no decline in ACh quantal content during the TOF pattern of stimulation in the absence of nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs [9, 20, 21].
The results from our simulations suggest that fade, i.e. T4 < T1, depends on both T1 and [A]4/[A]1 (Figure 3). Signal transmission across the neuromuscular junction results from a bimolecular reaction, i.e. from ACh binding to the postsynaptic receptors. A minor decrease in one of the partners, be it of ACh or the postsynaptic receptors, to its threshold concentration is not accompanied by failure of the muscle fibers to contract. This phenomenon is known as the safety factor [22]. Our simulations suggest that, with one partner at its threshold concentration, a concomitant decrease in the concentration of the other partner decreases the safety factor below its critical values in some muscle fibers. Failure of these fibers to contract leads to a decrease in twitch strength and, if the twitch is T4, a lower T4/T1.
All the T4/T1-T1 data pairs observed in our study and those reported by other investigators may be interpreted on the basis of the simulated T4/T1 versus T1 relationship and assuming different [A]4/[A]1 ratios. The observed T4/T1 ratios correspond to [A]4/[A]1 varying from 1.0 to 0.7. There appears to be a ceiling effect for the maximal decrease in [A]4/[A]1. Even the largest doses of vecuronium did not lead to [A]4/[A]1 < 0.7.
Whereas the lower [A]4/[A]1 ratios explain twitch fade, the lower ratios by themselves are insufficient to explain that: (i) the minimal value of T4 is attained later than the minimal value of T1 (Figure 1); (ii) twitch fade is not as extensive during the onset as during the offset of NMB (Figure 2); and (iii) during the onset, larger doses of vecuronium produce less fade at a given T1 than the smaller doses (Figure 2). These findings, confirming the previous findings of other investigators, are best explained by invoking a slow association of the nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drug with the presynaptic receptors and, hence, a slow development of the decrease in [A]4/[A]1 [8, 14]. The slower development of the decrease in [A]4/[A]1 relative to the development of T1 depression (Figure 4) also explains the phenomenon that larger doses of neuromuscular blocking drugs produce less fade (during the onset of NMB) as compared with smaller doses. The reason is that the neuromuscular block develops faster with larger doses of a muscle relaxant. Thus, T1 = 0.05 is reached sooner following the doses 2 · ED95 or 3 · ED95 than following 1 · ED95 of the same muscle relaxant. The fast development of the decrease of T1 does not allow sufficient time for [A]4/[A]1 to decrease (cf. lower panel in Figure 4) and, as a consequence, the T4/T1 ratio is higher during the onset of the neuromuscular block following the larger doses of a muscle relaxant.
The correlation of the clinically observed time course of twitch fade to the simulated time course in the decrease in [A]4/[A]1 as well as the findings that the decrease in [A]4/[A]1 develops slowly do not reveal the processes leading to the decrease in [A]4/[A]1.
The postulates that (i) the fourth stimulus releases fewer ACh molecules than the first, and (ii) the decrease in [A]4/[A]1 develops slower than the decrease in T1, adequately explain the T4/T1-versus-T1 relationship observed with vecuronium. The doses of vecuronium used in this study decrease the amount of ACh released by the fourth stimulus up to about 70% of the amount released by the first stimulus. However, the validity of these estimates is dependent on the validity of the assumptions made in simulations.
AA greatly appreciates the support by the Bernhard-Lang Research Association. The study was supported by the funds of the Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, University of Toledo.
SBB conceived the study, designed the clinical experiments, carried them out, performed data analysis, conceived the theoretical analysis and drafted the manuscript.
JK performed the clinical experiments and contributed in drafting the manuscript.
AA performed the calculations for the theoretical analysis part of the study and contributed to formulating the theoretical analysis and in drafting and revising the manuscript.
VN assisted in designing the experiments and in data analysis, assisted in calculations for the theoretical analysis, and contributed in drafting and revising the manuscript.
All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, and Department of Environmental Sciences, Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
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Startups Weekly: VCs celebrate the new year the only way they know how
Kate Clark @kateclarktweets / 6 months
Venture capitalists swore in the new year the only way they know how… by submitting SEC paperwork for new funds! insert party hat/confetti emoji here.
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TechCrunch’s Lucas Matney takes a look at struggling augmented reality startups and questions some of the larger players, from Magic Leap to Snap and Niantic. And speaking of Niantic, the Pokémon GO developer closed a $190 million funding round this week at a $3.9 billion valuation.
Indian startups start the year off strong:
Startups based in India raised more than $10 billion in 2018, per Venture Beat, a record amount of capital for the country. Already this year one company has closed a round larger than $100 million. CarDekho, an online marketplace for car sales in India, has pulled in a new $110 million Series C funding round this week to push deeper into financial services and insurance.
Future tech:
Boom Supersonic, which is building and designing what it calls the “world’s first economically viable supersonic airliner,” announced a $100 million Series B funding round led by Emerson Capital. Other investors include Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund, Caffeinated Capital, SV Angel, Sam Altman, Paul Graham, Ron Conway, Michael Marks and Greg McAdoo.
A startup disrupting the … bottled water business:
FloWater has raised $15 million for its reusable water bottle refilling stations to produce purified water. Bluewater, a Swedish company that sells water purifiers, among other things, led the round.
VC subsidized vending machines:
Vengo makes wall-mounted mini-vending machines the size of large picture frames that it then sells to vending machine distributors, asking for a small fee per month in exchange for access to its software. Now it has $7 million to build out its business.
A VC gets a second chance:
After SpaceX filed more SEC paperwork as part of its $500 million upcoming fundraise, TechCrunch’s Connie Loizos noticed a familiar name on the document: Steve Jurvetson. Jurvetson is a longtime board member of both Tesla and SpaceX, but after he left DFJ, the venture capital firm he co-founded, in 2017 amid questions about his personal conduct, there was uncertainty around whether he would keep those director positions. Well, it looks like Elon Musk is standing by Jurvetson.
And finally, are you smarter than a TechCrunch reporter?
Let this test decide.
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Target ups its ad efforts with revamped media company, Roundel
A surprise addition to this year’s NewFronts, first-time participant Target today announced its plans to rebrand its media network formerly known as “Target Media Network” to be called “Roundel.” The goal with the repositioning is to better communicate to clients that its focus goes beyond display ads on Target.com. Instead, Roundel will create campaigns and content for its clients, which include brands and agencies — including brands that aren’t sold in Target’s stores — and deliver them either to Target’s own website or to “brand-safe” external channels like Pinterest, PopSugar and NBCUniversal.
To date, Target’s pitch has been that its data on consumers and their habits can help it create better campaigns and content for interested brands. Target Media Network had already been working with national advertisers, including those who didn’t sell products in Target, ahead of this rebranding. But the prior name limited its potential, the retailer believed.
Roundel’s nearly 1,000 partners (previously Target Media Network clients) have included Coca-Cola, Disney, Pepsi, P&G, Mastercard, Unilever, Dyson and others. The network, launched in 2016, has seen double-digit growth during this time.
AdWeek (paywalled) had the exclusive on Roundel’s launch. Target has now shared the details on its own website, as well.
According to AdWeek, Target wanted to announce Roundel at the NewFronts because it wasn’t only going to focus on display ads — it would also involve social, video and linear TV.
Roundel will leverage Target’s shopper insights to create personalized ad campaigns that can run on Target.com or elsewhere across 150 brand-safe channels, like Pinterest, PopSugar, NBCU and others. These channels may also be web, mobile or social sites, Target notes.
The advertisers don’t have to currently sell products at Target to work with Roundel. Other brands — like financial services, automotive and travel businesses — can also leverage Roundel’s offerings.
Contrary to rumors ahead of the event, however, Target doesn’t have plans to invest in original content like its rivals Walmart (Vudu) and Amazon (Prime Video).
The launch comes at a time when retailers are getting more directly involved in advertising both on their websites and through other media that goes beyond basic display ads. Amazon, for example, is now running a live-streamed QVC-like video network on Amazon.com called Amazon Live. It also has been building out a large and growing ad business that spans it properties, including Amazon.com, IMDb and Amazon Video, and is talking to clients about other ad types, including video.
In Q4 2018 its ad business topped $3 billion, but slowed in Q1 2019 to reach $2.7 billion after five quarters of 60%+ growth. It’s now the No. 3 three player behind Facebook and Google, but still very much a distant third.
Target had kept its plans well under wraps ahead of today’s event. But it wasn’t the only retailer catering to the advertisers at this week’s Digital Content NewFronts.
Yesterday, Walmart introduced a new video ad network, the Vudu Audience Extension network, which it claims will reach half of U.S. households, as well as its plans for interactive video and “shoppable” shows, and new original content. It has also been building out its advertising business and increasing its outreach to agencies to talk about new ad formats like video.
Target didn’t follow the usual course for these sorts of presentations. Its event was hosted in a unique environment, with little seating, pop-up talks in different spots and was bathed in red light.
I'm at Target's newfront now, and this setup is dif-fer-rent pic.twitter.com/lz99epxiwm
— Joan E. Solsman (@joan_e) May 2, 2019
For some unknown reason, Target has decided to host its Newfront in da club, authentic in its red neon lighting and a dearth of seating pic.twitter.com/Uazr0qKDhE
— Katie Deighton (@DollyDeighton) May 2, 2019
“When we influence emotions, we influence decisions” says Chief Creative Officer @toddwaterbury @Target @IAB #NewFronts pic.twitter.com/94PKmNJNKx
— iab (@iab) May 2, 2019
.@Target rebrands its in-house media network as Roundel. @IAB #NewFronts pic.twitter.com/CQUYnkja0R
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The Conundrum of Chinese Cloud Storage Startups
|By Kang Zhou
Along with the hype of cloud computing, free online storage also grabbed people’s attention as the likes of Dropbox (turned down Apple’s olive branch) and Box.net (reportedly planning an IPO) gained popularity among users. The past few years witnessed more and more new entries into the market with mixed results on both sides of the Atlantic.
Besieged by Giants
The phenomenal prevalence also brought Chinese Internet conglomerates’ attention to the field. Companies like Baidu, Huawei, Tencent, Qihoo 360 and so forth also set both eyes and feet onto the market, which makes life even harder for existing startups engaged in the same business and leaves them in a situation of losing users and business and desperately finding a way out.
Liang Tianzhu from RayFile, one of the Dropbox wannabes in China, mentioned the word “barely survive” several times in an interview with local media. RayFile launched its service back in 2007 and was well received among Chinese netizens. People can use the service to upload and share contents; some are illegal ones that might involve copyright infringement. But it did bring enormous traffic and advertisement sales to RayFile. However, good days as always come to an end. Rayfile saw its traffic declining rapidly since the giants also ventured into the market. For example, Rayfile’s traffic was on a sharp drop of 20% only two days after Baidu launching its similar cloud storage offering in September.
What’s worse, many employees left Rayfile with only 4 now remained in the business, including Mr. Liang himself.
Rayfile’s sad story exemplified the common experience of other cloud storage startups.
Waiting for the turnaround
Mr. Liang thought that there would be an end for Baidu, Huawei, Thunder to burn money, and RayFile planned to maintain the current resource and market, and wait for future opportunities.
Likewise for other startups which also planned to maintain their service at minimum cost to wait for a turnaround.
However, there still are some optimists who took the severe competition as an opportunity to shuffle the market towards a better direction. Lai Linfeng, founder and CEO of 115.com has faith in the idea that there must be a way out via cloud storage-based innovation or by focusing on niche market. His company aims to create a SNS/mobile-infused cloud storage product. Wish him luck.
Not sure how would Mr. Lai’s plan pan out down the road, but at least he’s rising to the challenge and fighting back, which might be a better solution than just sit tight and wait for the giants to pull back from their greediness.
Image Credits: Bing
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Organizational Behavior 16th Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge Test Bank
Test Bank for Organizational Behavior, 16/E By Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge. Note: It is not a text book. Description: ISBN-10: 0133507645 ISBN-13: 9780133507645.
Categories: General Management, Management Tags: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Forensic ACCT, General Management, Management
Test Bank Organizational Behavior 16th Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge
CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR?
1) ________ are defined as people who oversee the activities of others and who are responsible for attaining goals in organizations.
A) Assistants
B) Managers
C) Secretaries
D) Interns
E) Apprentices
2) Sally Mitchell works as a manager at an environmental organization. She is currently working on a global warming project and decides which tasks related to creating awareness about the issue need to be done. In addition, she is also deciding which members of her team will work on engaging with the public and which will work on lobbying with the government. She is also assigning people as team members to ensure that tasks are undertaken on time. Which of the following categories of functions is Mitchell undertaking?
A) planning
B) organizing
C) scrutinizing
D) controlling
E) envisioning
3) Johanna Reid, a campaign manager at a child rights organization, recently started working on an illiteracy project. During the project, she needs to motivate team members to attain their project milestones and direct them through different phases of the project. Which of the following kinds of functions will these tasks be covered under?
D) evaluating
E) leading
4) Lesley Torres is a project manager for the campaign “Action against Deforestation in Indonesia.” She recently faced a glitch when the campaign could not be launched publicly according to schedule. Torres monitored the schedule to find the cause of the delay before speeding up the implementation process by allocating more members for the implementation phase. By doing this, which of the following functions is she performing?
A) controlling
B) planning
C) formulating
D) leading
E) organizing
5) Which of the following functions do managers undertake as part of planning functions?
A) defining an organization’s goals
B) implementing strategies for achieving goals
C) executing plans to integrate activities
D) accomplishing goals of a project
E) employing strategies to coordinate tasks
6) According to Henry Mintzberg, a factory supervisor giving a group of high school students a tour of the plant may be termed as a ________.
A) leader
B) figurehead
C) resource allocator
D) negotiator
E) disturbance handler
7) Ellen Ortiz works as a sales manager at a telecom firm. The company has recently launched a new product in the market. Her work in the next few weeks involves sharing knowledge about the product with her team members. She will also need to inspire them to reach their sales targets and clarify any doubts about the new product. Which of the following roles is Ortiz playing?
B) liaison
C) disseminator
D) spokesperson
E) negotiator
8) Regina George works as a campaign manager in a not-for-profit organization in Hampshire. For the upcoming campaign against genetic engineering, she is networking with managers who are working on the issue of food safety. Through her network of contacts, she strives to gain information about the stakeholders in the food industry and other lobby groups. Which of the following roles is George most likely to be playing according to Mintzberg’s classification of managerial roles?
A) figurehead
B) leader
C) liaison
D) entrepreneur
E) resource allocator
9) Annette Simpson works for a fashion house in Paris and is preparing for the company’s upcoming line of winter clothing. She is currently researching online to know what is in vogue this season. In addition, she is also networking with contacts from the press and fashion magazine editors to understand the changing tastes of consumers. Which of the following roles is Simpson playing according to Mintzberg’s classification of managerial roles?
C) symbol head
D) monitor
E) spokesperson
10) According to Mintzberg’s classification of managerial roles, the role of a(n) ________ is to transmit information received from outsiders or from other employees to members of the organization.
A) entrepreneur
B) resource allocator
C) spokesperson
D) leader
E) disseminator
CHAPTER: 2 DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS
1) Kimberly Ortiz strongly believes in working for a company which promotes diversity. She believes that such organizations are respectful of differences and allow employees more exposure. She recently attended an interview where she was told that the company follows policies which focus on organizational diversity. However, when she finally joined the company, she had a strong feeling that the company’s claim was not true. Which of the following, if true, weakens Kimberly’s belief that the company does not encourage diversity?
A) Eighty-five percent of the top management positions in the company are held by men.
B) She is the only African-American member in the entire workforce.
C) The workforce is not dominated by any specific ethnic or racial group.
D) The previous company she worked for made a conscious effort to employ an equal number of men and women.
E) Her team members believe that they are treated equally in spite of differences in performance.
2) ________ diversity refers to diversity in observable attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex, and age.
A) Psychographic
B) Additive
C) Surface-level
D) Disjunctive
E) Conjunctive
3) Which of the following is true with respect to surface-level diversity?
A) It refers to psychographic characteristics of the members of a group.
B) People with surface-level diversity will also share deep-level diversity.
C) It indicates differences of values, emotions and personality traits between people.
D) It refers to differences in easily perceived characteristics, such as gender and race.
E) It represents a person’s or group’s thought processes and feelings.
4) Differences in ________ indicate surface-level diversity.
A) personality
B) values
C) style of work
D) ethnicity
E) attitudes
5) Which of the following most likely indicates surface-level similarity?
A) Tim and Jake are colleagues who take risks and are quick decision makers.
B) The employees at GenSys prefer teamwork over individual assignments.
C) Nina and Chuck are colleagues who share similar views on corporate social responsibility.
D) Jane and Sara grew up in the same town and went to school together.
E) Hannah and Nate are both introspective and tend to be slow to reach decisions.
6) ________ diversity refers to diversity with respect to attributes that are less easy to observe initially but that can be inferred after more direct experience.
A) Surface-level
C) Demographic
D) Deep-level
7) Which of the following best represents deep-level similarity?
A) colleagues who both hail from the same neighborhood in Alabama
B) employees who are college graduates with a degree in business management
C) employees who speak Spanish and share similar religious values
D) employees who seek challenges in assignments and like to work collaboratively
E) employees in their mid-thirties with 10 years’ work experience in the publishing industry
CHAPTER 3: ATTITUDES AND JOB SATISFACTION
1) ________ refers to evaluative statements or judgments concerning objects, people, or events.
A) Attitude
B) Behavior
C) Appearance
D) Demeanor
E) Performance
2) The statement, “A person who eats meat and then fights for animal rights demonstrates double standards” is an evaluative statement. Such an opinion constitutes the ________ component of an attitude.
A) cognitive
B) affective
C) reflective
D) behavioral
E) reactive
3) Which of the following statements represents the cognitive component of attitude?
A) I have decided to inform my supervisor that I will be quitting my job.
B) I intend to work during the weekend to meet the month’s deadline.
C) I feel upset about having to work during Christmas.
D) It is disappointing to know that I did not get a good evaluation.
E) This job is not giving me an opportunity to explore my skills.
4) Abigail Jones is a sales executive at Orbit Bank in Brussels. She is the best performer on her team and often gets the highest number of corporate accounts for the company. However, she feels that she does not get sufficient credit for her hard work. During lunch, she says to her colleague, “I have been getting the largest accounts for the bank for the past eight months. Yet, my manager never acknowledges the kind of effort I put in to get these accounts.” Which component of attitude is being demonstrated by Jones?
A) positive component
B) cognitive component
C) affective component
D) behavioral component
E) reflective component
5) Which of the following is an example of the affective component of an attitude?
A) believing that one achieved all objectives of a project
B) relying on the information of a company’s annual report
C) perceiving whistle-blowing as the right thing to do
D) feeling hurt at being unfairly accused of a wrongdoing
E) deciding to fire an employee because of underperformance
6) Johanna Rouse feels disheartened because she was not selected for the campaign exchange program in Amsterdam. Which component of an attitude does Rouse’s feeling represent?
7) Janice Hartley works as a writer at a fashion magazine in New York. She was recently asked by her editor to write an article on “10 must-haves for the autumn season.” Her editor has now sent back the article saying it is not interesting enough to hold the attention of the reader. Janice is upset and disappointed about the feedback. Which component of an attitude is represented in this scenario?
E) evaluative component
8) Kimberley Mayfield recently evaluated her subordinate’s progress report. She now plans to inform her about the objectives she did not achieve and how she can perform better. By doing this, Mayfield will be demonstrating the ________ component of an attitude.
9) Which of the following statements is an example of the behavioral component of an attitude?
A) I have decided to apply for the position of a campaigner in the climate department.
B) I am thrilled to know that the human resource department is looking for a climate campaigner.
C) The position of a climate campaigner is challenging and interesting.
D) The position of a climate campaigner will allow me to explore my skills as a campaigner.
E) I think the position of a climate campaigner involves extensive travel.
10) Sarah Mayer works as a security officer and is in charge of keeping track of who is in the office at any given time. She notices that some employees do not sign out of the office when they go out for meals, which makes it difficult to keep track of attendance of employees. Even though Mayer has repeatedly asked the employees to sign out, they have not followed her advice. She now decides to report the issue to her supervisor. Which of the following components of an attitude is being demonstrated by Mayer?
A) affective
B) behavioral
C) positive
D) cognitive
E) knowledge
CHAPTER 4: EMOTIONS AND MOODS
1) Which of the following is a generic term that covers a broad range of feelings that people experience?
A) affect
B) knowledge
C) insight
D) attention
E) cognition
2) Which of the following is a characteristic of emotions?
A) Emotions are reactions to a person or event.
B) Emotions last for a longer time period than moods.
C) Emotions are never action-oriented in nature.
D) Emotions lack a contextual stimulus.
E) Emotions involve less intense feelings than moods.
3) Which of the following terms best describes an intense feeling directed at someone or something?
A) perception
B) cognition
C) mood
D) reasoning
E) emotion
4) Ashley Madison works as a receptionist at a fashion magazine. One morning, her boss walks into the office and yells at her, telling her that the front office is a mess and she needs to clean it immediately. After her boss leaves the room, Madison goes to the front office and violently slams trash into the bin. Which of the following best describes Madison’s anger?
A) a recognition
B) an insight
C) a mood
D) an emotion
E) a perception
5) ________ refers to feelings that tend to be less intense than emotions and that lack a contextual stimulus.
D) Thought
E) Reaction
6) Robert Springer woke up in the morning and felt a sense of joy and peace as he got ready for work. At work, though challenges came his way, he tackled them without getting stressed about them. This feeling lasted for several days that week. What is one of the reasons that Springer’s feeling can be categorized as a mood and not as an emotion?
A) It is more intense than emotions.
B) It is brought about by a specific event.
C) It is prolonged in nature.
D) It is a positive feeling.
E) It is indicated by a facial expression.
7) When Ariana Winter is told that her dog has been killed by a car, she feels deeply saddened. Her feelings are then overcome by a surge of anger at the car driver. However, minutes later, she is able to laugh and talk about the good memories spent with her pet. What is one of the reasons that Winter’s reaction can be categorized as an emotion?
A) Its cause is general and ambiguous.
B) It lasted for a brief time period.
C) It is not action-oriented.
D) It is a negative feeling.
E) It is cognitive in nature.
8) Which of the following statements is most likely to be true regarding moods?
A) Moods are always brought about by a specific event.
B) Moods last for a very short period of time, such as a few seconds.
C) As compared to emotions, moods are more likely to be clearly revealed by facial expressions.
D) Moods are more fleeting than emotions.
E) Moods are cognitive in nature.
9) Katherine Connor started her day with a cup of coffee while reading the newspaper. However, something about the day makes her feel low. When she reaches the office, she feels upset and distracted from work although she cannot pinpoint a reason for feeling this way. She continues to feel upset and distracted through the rest of the day. Which of the following is she most likely to be experiencing?
A) a response
B) a reaction
C) a counteraction
D) an attitude
E) a mood
10) Erin Corbett works at a software company and is in charge of the help desk. A short while ago, she received a call from a discontented customer about a problem he is facing due to the company’s software. Though she tried to help the customer with the software, he refused to listen to her. He continued yelling at her and finally banged the phone down. Corbett feels exasperated after hanging up the phone and goes for a cup of coffee to calm herself down. What makes Corbett’s anger an emotion, rather than a mood?
A) The cause of her behavior is unclear.
B) The feeling of being angry is prolonged.
C) The anger has a contextual stimulus.
D) The response is void of action.
E) The response is cognitive in nature.
8) Malcolm Industries recently hired a large number of workers for the company’s new construction factory in Colorado. During the hiring process, the management made a clear effort to recruit physically strong individuals because the work at the factory involves manual labor. The jobs need to be performed by individuals who have the energy and physical stamina to work for long hours. Which of the following surface-level characteristics did the company most likely concentrate on when selecting the new workers?
A) age
C) beliefs
D) religion
E) personality
9) A difference in ________ would indicate deep-level diversity.
A) gender
B) age
C) ethnicity
D) disability
E) values
10) ________ differences between people represent deep-level diversity.
A) Race
D) Gender
CHAPTER 5: PERSONALITY AND VALUES
1) According to Gordon Allport, ________ is defined as the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine a person’s unique adjustments to his/her environment.
A) cognitive dissonance
B) heredity
C) personality
D) descent
E) genealogy
2) Who defined personality as the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine a person’s unique adjustments to his/her environment?
A) Leon Festinger
B) Dr. Sigmund Freud
C) Gordon Allport
D) Abraham Maslow
E) Ivan Pavlov
3) ________ is the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others.
A) Talent
B) Skill
C) Knowledge
D) Heredity
4) Esther Lugo has gone for an interview at an advertising firm in Manhattan and has been asked to complete a self-report survey to help interviewers understand if she is the right candidate for the job. From the interview, they have found that she is extroverted, empathic, scrupulous, and cooperative in nature, which are key characteristics needed for the job. These characteristics about Lugo indicate her ________.
D) genealogy
5) Which of the following is the most common means of measuring personality?
A) in-depth interviews
B) self-report surveys
C) career portfolio
D) reference interviews
E) stress interviews
6) Which of the following is a drawback of self-report surveys?
A) They can hold only a limited number of questions.
B) They involve a large number of people in the evaluation process.
C) They may have biased results if the surveyor’s judgment is biased.
D) They comprise a large number of complex statistical data.
E) They may result in the respondent lying to create a good impression.
7) In ________, a co-worker or another observer does an independent assessment of personality, with or without the subject’s knowledge.
A) observer-ratings surveys
B) paid surveys
C) knowledge surveys
D) deviation surveys
E) cadastral surveys
8) Tracy Winter works at a publishing firm in London and recently received an e-mail from the human resource department of her company asking her to study the behavior of a colleague, Cindy Camp, including her attention toward her work, without Camp’s knowledge. Winter now needs to scrutinize Camp’s behavior and notice if she is free from distractions and pays sufficient attention to her tasks. Which of the following is Winter conducting?
A) observer-ratings survey
B) informational interview
C) knowledge survey
D) participant observation
E) focus group survey
9) Which of the following terms refers to factors such as one’s biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup determined at conception?
A) social identity
C) behavioral contagion
D) self-concordance
E) social loafing
10) Which of the following statements is true about personality?
A) Personality is free from the influence of the environment.
B) Personality remains constant over time.
C) Personality can be measured solely through personal interviews.
D) Personality is influenced by hereditary factors.
E) Parents highly influence the development of their offspring’s personality.
CHAPTER 6: PERCEPTION AND INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING
1) ________ is the process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
A) Sensation
B) Impression
C) Apprehension
D) Attribution
E) Perception
2) Which of the following statements is true regarding perception?
A) Perception of reality is independent of one’s personality.
B) Our perception of a target is not affected by the context of the situation in which the perception is made.
C) Our perception of reality can be different from the objective reality.
D) Our perception of reality is independent of our past experiences.
E) We form a perception of a target by looking at it in isolation.
3) When two people witness something at the same time and in the same situation yet interpret it differently, factors that operate to shape their perceptions reside in the ________.
A) perceivers
B) target
C) timing
D) context
E) situation
4) David Myers is of the opinion that people who drive SUVs are rash drivers. He feels that people driving SUVs do not respect road rules and always violate traffic regulations. What personal factor is most likely to be affecting Myers’ perception of SUV drivers?
A) his financial background
B) his expectations
C) his interest
D) his motive
E) his personality
5) Extremely attractive or unattractive individuals are most likely to be noticed in a group. Which of the following statements best describes the reason behind this?
A) Our perception of reality depends on our past experiences.
B) Our perception of reality depends on our personality.
C) We don’t look at targets in isolation.
D) The time at which we see an object can influence our perception of the object.
E) Our motives and expectations affect our perception of a target.
6) During team meetings Amber Downing always notices that Rhona Law tends to ask innumerable questions and suggest ideas at each discussion. However, Law stands out in the meetings only because she is the only one making suggestions. If both of them were part of team meetings where almost all members made suggestions and asked questions, Law would not have drawn as much attention from Downing. Which of the following factors has most likely influenced Downing’s perception of Law?
A) expectation
B) interest
C) past experience
E) motive
7) Monica Walden feels that people who use plastic bags are insensitive toward the environment. She believes that people have a certain obligation toward their environment and should take it upon themselves to protect and preserve it. Which of the following factors has most likely influenced Walden’s perception of plastic bag users?
A) location
B) time
C) characteristic of the target
D) expectation
E) context
8) Which of the following is a factor present in a target which may affect a person’s perception?
B) motive
C) interest
D) novelty
E) experience
9) Which of the following is a factor present in a situation which may affect a person’s perception?
A) similarity
B) size
C) expectation
D) time
10) Which of the following is a factor present in a perceiver which may affect perception?
A) interest
B) similarity
C) sound
D) proximity
E) background
CHAPTER 7: MOTIVATION CONCEPTS
1) ________ is defined as the processes that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.
A) Leadership
B) Management
C) Learning
D) Emotional labor
E) Motivation
2) The ________ dimension of motivation measures how long a person can maintain effort.
A) direction
B) persistence
C) intensity
D) knowledge
3) The ________ element of motivation describes how hard a person tries.
A) intelligence
B) experience
C) direction
D) intensity
E) persistence
4) Which level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs deals with satisfying one’s hunger, thirst, and other bodily needs?
A) safety
B) physiological
C) social
D) esteem
E) psychological
5) Which of the following needs would most likely motivate Joanna?
A) social
B) esteem
C) physiological
D) self-actualization
E) safety
6) Which of the following needs would most likely motivate Josephine?
7) Which of the following needs would most motivate Jonathan?
8) According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which of the following is a lower-order need?
B) safety
C) esteem
E) recognition
9) If we consider Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in the context of Japan, Greece, and Mexico, where uncertainty-avoidance characteristics are strong, then ________ needs would be on top of the hierarchy.
A) self-actualization
B) security
E) growth
10) Which of the following needs in Maslow’s hierarchy refers to the drive to become what one is capable of becoming?
B) self-actualization
CHAPTER 8: MOTIVATION: FROM CONCEPTS TO APPLICATIONS
1) ________ is not a benefit of flextime.
A) Reduced absenteeism
B) Decreased work/life balance
C) Increased productivity
D) Reduced tardiness
E) Increased autonomy
2) Job design is defined as the ________.
A) degree to which the job rewards competence
B) way the elements in a job are organized
C) degree to which the job contributes to profit margins
D) degree of decision-making power with the immediate superiors
E) way the job is evaluated in terms of its relative worth to other jobs
3) With reference to the job characteristics model, which of the following defines skill variety?
A) the degree to which a job requires completion of a whole and identifiable piece of work
B) the degree to which work activities generate direct and clear information about performance
C) the degree to which a job provides the worker freedom in scheduling and procedure
D) the degree to which a job has an impact on the lives or work of other people
E) the degree to which a job requires a variety of different activities tapping different abilities
4) With reference to the job characteristics model, which of the following defines task identity?
E) the degree to which a job requires a variety of different activities
5) Adam Sears is an assembly line employee with Swenson Motors. Though Adam is popular among his supervisors and colleagues, Adam experiences low morale and lack of motivation. He feels frustrated that his job is restricted to fixing nuts and bolts on the car parts. He fears that he has no chances of advancing in his career as he cannot completely assemble a car. Which of the following is true with regard to Adam?
A) Adam’s job has high task complexity.
B) Adam’s job has a high span of control.
C) Adam’s job has low role definition.
D) Adam’s job has low task identity.
E) Adam’s job has high task significance.
6) According to the job characteristics model, task significance is the degree to which ________.
A) a job requires completion of a whole and identifiable piece of work
B) a job generates direct and clear information about performance
C) a job provides the worker freedom in scheduling work and determining its procedure
D) a job bears an impact on the lives or work of other people
E) a job requires a variety of different activities
7) Samantha Barnes is an emergency medical technician. Recently, during an emergency call, she was able to resuscitate a man who had a cardiac arrest. Subsequently, she spent some time calming the 12-year-old daughter of the patient and looked after her till the rest of the patient’s family arrived at the hospital. Based on this description, it can be concluded that Samantha’s job is high in ________.
A) task identity
B) feedback
C) extrinsic rewards
D) task significance
E) job rotation
8) According to the job characteristics model, autonomy is defined as the degree to which ________.
C) a job provides the worker freedom, independence, and discretion
D) a job has an impact on the lives or work of other people
9) According to the job characteristics model, ________ indicates the degree to which carrying out work activities generates direct and clear information about your own performance.
A) task significance
B) autonomy
C) feedback
D) task identity
E) skill variety
10) Which of the following series of dimensions of the job characteristics model (JCM) combine to create meaningful work?
A) autonomy, task identity, and feedback
B) skill variety, autonomy, and task significance
C) skill variety, autonomy, and feedback
D) feedback, task identity, and task significance
E) skill variety, task identity, and task significance
CHAPTER 9: FOUNDATIONS OF GROUP BEHAVIOR
1) Which of the following is true with regard to groups?
A) A group is characterized by the independence of its members.
B) A group typically lacks definite roles and structures.
C) A group influences our emotional reactions.
D) An informal gathering cannot be considered a group.
E) The membership of a group does not affect how its members treat outsiders.
2) Which of the following is true regarding formal groups?
A) They are natural formations that arise in response to the need for social contact.
B) They lack clearly defined structures and roles for their members.
C) They have negligible impact on employee performance and behavior.
D) A group of people who come together to protest against a new law make up a formal group.
E) They are marked by stipulated behaviors in pursuit of organizational goals.
3) An informal group is characterized by the ________.
A) stipulation of expected behaviors by the organization
B) predetermined designation of tasks of members
C) pursuit of particular organizational goals
D) fulfillment of the need for social contact
E) creation of timelines and rationale
4) Which of the following differentiates between formal and informal groups?
A) The timeline of reference for formal groups is greater than that for informal groups.
B) The impact of formal groups on organizational performance is less than that of informal groups.
C) Formal groups pursue the goal of social contact, while informal groups have definite organizational goals to attain.
D) Formal groups are typically smaller in size when compared to informal groups.
E) Formal groups involve clearly defined tasks and roles, while informal groups are neither formally structured nor organizationally determined.
5) Our tendency to take personal pride or offense for the accomplishments of a group we are a part of is the territory of the ________ theory.
A) social exchange
B) expectancy
C) social identity
D) reinforcement
E) equity
6) Which of the following is true with regard to the social identity theory?
A) It proposes that members take personal pride in accomplishments but dissociate from the group in the event of any offenses or failures.
B) It proposes that people have emotional reactions to the failure or success of their group because their self-esteem is tied into the group’s performance.
C) It proposes that people develop only one social identity in childhood that becomes more defined and concrete in the course of their lives.
D) It proposes that social identities can never be detrimental as they have no effect on how members of an ingroup view members of an out-group.
E) It proposes that members of an ingroup are viewed as being homogeneous, while members of an out-group are seen as being heterogeneous.
7) ________ is defined as the tendency to see members of the group of which we are a part of as better than other people.
A) Ingroup homogeneity
B) Xenocentrism
C) Ingroup favoritism
D) Black sheep effect
E) Hindsight bias
8) At Milton farms, where a large part of the management comes from the same sociocultural background, many employees of diverse ethical or cultural origins are hired only to ensure legal compliance with laws relating to diversity at the workplace. The company’s day-to-day functioning leaves much to be desired in terms of promoting diversity. Recently, the owner’s cousin was promoted to the post of a branch manager while three suitable candidates hailing from different cultures were blatantly overlooked. This is an example of ________.
A) social loafing
B) ingroup favoritism
C) groupthink
D) contrast bias
E) social exchange
9) Aaron Dias was working on the last shift for the day at All Needs, a retail store owned by an Asian man, when he opened the cash register and stole some money thinking that nobody would witness him stealing. However, one of the customers watched him steal the money and reported it to the manager the next day, and Aaron was terminated. Subsequently, the manager became extremely strict with all his Caucasian employees and was often heard abusing them by saying, “You guys are all the same.” This scenario depicts ________.
10) Similarity is a characteristic under the social identity theory that manifests itself in the ________.
A) tendency of ingroup members to notice and emphasize identities that reflect how different they are from other groups
B) tendency of people who have greater uniformity in values and characteristics to have greater group identification as well
C) tendency of people to link themselves to high-status groups in an attempt to define themselves favorably
D) tendency of people to use the group as a means of understanding who they are and how they fit into the world
E) tendency of ingroup members to prefer and endorse the products, ideas, and aspects of someone else’s culture over their own
CHAPTER 10: UNDERSTANDING WORK TEAMS
1) The current popularity of teams can be attributed to the fact that ________.
A) they enable quicker accomplishment of goals than individuals
B) they represent a better way to use employee talents
C) they reduce the need for coordination and supervision
D) they aid in the performance of simple tasks that do not require diverse inputs
E) they strengthen the worth of individual teams players over the team
2) Which of the following statements best defines a work group?
A) A work group performs at a level greater than the sum of its inputs from individual members.
B) A work group interacts primarily to share information, rather than to engage in work that requires joint effort.
C) A work group consists of members who work together and generate positive synergy through coordinated effort.
D) A work group consists of members having complementary skills that are applied in a coordinated fashion to the task at hand.
E) A work group involves individual and mutual accountability regarding results and outcomes.
3) Work groups are characterized by ________.
A) the emphasis on generating positive synergy
B) the goal of sharing information among members
C) the mutual and team-based accountability for results
D) the need to attain collective performance
E) the availability of complementary skill sets
4) The goal of work groups is ________.
A) generating positive synergy
B) improving collective performance
C) inculcating a climate of trust
D) sharing relevant information
E) enhancing team efficacy
5) Which of the following statements is true regarding a work team?
A) Work teams are rarely used in organizations today.
B) Work teams are generally less flexible than traditional departments.
C) Work teams generate positive synergy through coordinated effort.
D) Work teams are less responsive to changes in the internal and external environment of the company.
E) Work teams involve members of random and varied skill sets.
6) A work team is characterized by ________.
A) the goal of sharing information
B) the presence of neutral to negative synergy
C) the availability of complementary skills among members
D) the individual accountability for outcomes and results
E) the mere accumulation of individual efforts
7) Which of the following accurately differentiates between work groups and work teams?
A) Work groups are used by top-management employees, while work teams are used by lower-level workers.
B) Work groups are used for functions relating to areas of the external environment, while work teams are exclusively used for departmental problems and issues.
C) Work groups involve members who have complementary skills, while work teams use employees who have random and varied skills.
D) Work teams generate a potential for an organization to generate greater outputs with no increase in inputs, while work groups cannot perform this function.
E) Work teams represent the mere accumulation of individual efforts, while work groups generate a positive synergy within the organization.
8) The extensive use of work teams benefits organizations by ________.
A) generating neutral synergy among all employees of the team
B) eliminating the need for mutual accountability for results
C) developing the various team member’s skills such that they are random and varied
D) generating a potential for creating greater outputs without increasing inputs
E) ensuring that the mere accumulation of individual efforts is used for group work
9) A team consists of employees from the same department who meet for a few hours each week to discuss ways of improving the work environment but they do not have the authority to unilaterally implement any of their suggestions. This is most likely to be a(n) ________ team.
A) cross-functional
B) virtual
C) self-managed work
D) problem-solving
E) independent
10) Problem-solving teams can ________.
A) implement the recommended changes to resolve a problem
B) assume responsibility for the outcomes of a solution they implemented
C) provide recommendations after a discussion amongst department members
D) resolve problems of different departments in an organization simultaneously
E) combine the expertise of employees across different divisions and organizational levels
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Home » Mohun Bagan ends East Bengal’s stranglehold on the Calcutta Football League
Mohun Bagan ends East Bengal’s stranglehold on the Calcutta Football League
By Yuvraj Gurung on 13th September 2018
Mohun Bagan fans celebrating their first championship since 2009.
Image courtesy: @mohunbagan
Mohun Bagan ended East Bengal’s stranglehold over the Calcutta Football League with a 2-0 win over Calcutta Customs on Wednesday.
Topping the table with 26 points and gaining an unassailable lead of six points over East Bengal, the Mariners clinched their 30th Calcutta Football League Premier Division A title with a match in hand.
Playing in front of a packed crowd at the Mohun Bagan ground in Kolkata, Mohun Bagan looked in complete control right from the start and took the lead in the fourth minute through Henry Kisseka.
The Ugandan striker made it 2-0 when he controlled a through ball from Dipanda around the six-yard box before slotting it past the Calcutta Custom custodian, Suvam Sen, at the far post.
The win ended the eight-year winning streak of East Bengal who has won consecutive titles since 2010. This is Mohun Bagan’s 30th league title, while East Bengal has won the title 39 times
East Bengal’s title hopes were dashed when they were beaten 2-1 by Mohammedan S.C. on Tuesday. Philip Adjah scoring a brace in the 87th and 94th minute to deny East Bengal’s chances of retaining the title.
Mohun Bagan’s final fixture is against Mohammedan Sporting on September 18, while East Bengal hosts the relegated FCI team.
Tutu’s foot in mouth moment
The win was celebrated by the Mohun Bagan president, Swapan Sadhan Bose, who is fondly known as Tutu. He compared the triumph to a son being born after seven daughters.
“Daughters were being born for the last seven years, suddenly a son has been born. How would you like it if that was the case with you? I have the same feeling”, said ‘Tutu’ to the presenter of Sadhna News.
Foot(ball) in mouth! Mohun Bagan president says his club's Calcutta Football League triumph in 2018 is like a song being finally born after seven daughters! https://t.co/PGKW4PqNj0
— Sandip Roy (@sandipr) September 12, 2018
Tutu did try to make amends on Thursday as he released a statement where he tried to use the “I’m not racist, I have a (insert minority race) friend”defense, by saying that he understands the importance of the role of women in his life – like his daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
Ah! The people running Indian football! Quite a shocker considering that the reputation is squeaky clean. Especially the top man himself.
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RuPaul’s Drag Race: Bring Back My Queens!
To steal a timely quote from Mama Ru herself, we have one thing to say about this episode:
It’s time for us to state a hard truth about RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11: It’s just not a good season. While there have been a handful of standout queens (most notably, the one sent home last night after being passed over for her excellent work far too much), it has not been a season full of gag-worthy let alone meme-worthy moments. Starting with the “Slap Out of It” mini-challenge this episode (which was unfunny and went on way too long) and all the way through to that insanely piss-poor lip sync, it’s become too obvious not to be stated: this crop of queens is not up to Drag Race standards.
Collectively, they’ve all manage to produce some of the worst, most awkward improve, sketch comedy, and Snatch Game results. The choreography seems to get dumbed down for them, going by the rehearsal scenes vs. the final dance numbers, and pageant queens like A’Keria and Brook Lynne keep soaking up all the judges’ praise because they’re the only ones who have any real polish on that runway. There are no truly shining stars among this bunch.
They are, for the most part, a nice enough bunch, but Silky has been a problem from Day One and it’s really weird watching the show struggle with that fact. Scarlett made the mildest of bitchy observations and while confrontations are built into the werk room scenes, Silky’s high dudgeon over the fact that someone might have expressed an opinion about her was exhausting and not remotely interesting. Worse, it never feels like we’re looking at an angry or offended person defending herself when it comes to her. It always, always, ALWAYS comes off like someone constantly needing to be the center of attention and professing to a level of offended that we just don’t buy. Silky didn’t care that Scarlett said something mean. Silky just wanted another reason to have all eyes and ears on her at all times.
And we have to say, “WigGate” has got to be the LEAST interesting “scandal” in Drag Race history and the fact that such a banal topic has resulted in several arguments and altercations is another example of just how bad this season has been. These queens can’t even do drama well.
A big part of our disappointment has to do with the makeover challenge itself. In prior seasons, the family makeovers were a way for the show to celebrate the idea that queer people often have to create their own families around them due to rejection by their families of origins. They also pay tribute to the concept of drag families and they tend to be a showcase for drag queens to teach non-drag queens about the art or for queer men to have conversations with straight men or women about their differences and similarities. It’s always been among the more heartwarming of the show’s recurring challenge (we have a chapter devoted to it in our book), so it was a bit disappointing to see it stripped of its usual undertones and instead used as another way to get the queens to fight with each other.
#CategoryIs: Drag Family Values
Who had your fav lewk? #DragRace pic.twitter.com/8OqdWmG7QT
— RuPaul’s Drag Race (@RuPaulsDragRace) May 10, 2019
Having said that, the results were pretty good overall, although we suppose that’s to be expected when everyone in the makeover is already a professional drag queen.
We think if Yvie had saved this concept for herself she might not have gotten so many complaints from the judges. Trying to get Scarlett to make it work just showed how singularly Yvie it is. She’d have been better off doing more of her freaky, full-coverage, costume-based drag. This just looked too much like trash pickings.
As noted, these made great Pride parade costumes, but they are absolutely not working as stagewear or runway fashion. The wigs were bafflingly terrible and we have no idea why Nina thought bike shorts made good drag. Love this queen, but her sense of her own body in drag is not as developed as it needs to be. Drag queens need to have a deep understanding of their own body and proportions. As fabulous as some of Nina’s drag can be, we’ve never seen anyone on Drag Race who hadn’t figured out how to dress herself to her best effect. A shoulder-accentuating top half and bike shorts is just a stunningly bad combination for her body.
Can’t really argue with pageant drag when it’s done well. Still, A’Keria got assigned her own drag cousin. That’s a bit of an advantage and we have to judge the results accordingly. Also: she made sure she was the prettiest.
Honestly, Vanjie should have won this. He took a queen who looked nothing like him and who works drag nothing like his and made the resemblance so strong that a couple of times, we really had to look for a second to determine who was who. And the way he repurposed costumes so that one of them had a dress while the other was in a matching jumpsuit was a much more creative way of applying the challenge than…
Just wearing matching gowns. There’s no denying this was good drag, but we felt like the difficulty setting for Brook Lynne was the lowest one in the room.
This was just awful drag, top to bottom. As per the usual whenever Silky is critiqued, she had a lot of excuses, but at this point in the competition, anyone trying to excuse a consistent record of bad drag on the main stage should be going home.
C’mon NO SCRUBS! @NinaWest @Silky_Ganache #DragRace pic.twitter.com/kLPUix5MBc
We won’t deny that it’s hard to suggest that Nina should have stayed based on that awful lip sync, but it’s no harder than suggesting Silky should. They were both terrible. Say what you will about Nina’s proportions or costume choices, she doesn’t present bad or sloppy drag on that runway. Silky has done so every week, with a string of excuses as to why every time she’s called out for it.
We realize we also can’t argue that Nina should have stayed because she’s the nicer queen, but dammit, it’s the truth. She works hard, does her best to listen, and has been one of the most polished and likable queens all season. If Ru wasn’t going to send them both home (which honestly would’ve been hard to argue with), there’s no way keeping Silky over Nina makes any sense.
This season only has a little time left to course-correct before folks start declaring it officially The Worst.
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TWU herbarium director receives conservation award
Camelia Maier, Ph.D., with her NSDAR Conservation Medal and certificate.
April 15, 2019 —DENTON— Texas Woman’s University biology professor and herbarium director, Camelia Maier, Ph.D., received the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) Conservation Medal at the 120th Annual State Conference of the Texas Society Daughters of the American Revolution. In addition to the medal, Maier received a certificate from Texas State Regent Susan Tillman at the awards dinner in Houston in March.
The Captain Nathaniel Mills Chapter, established in 1962 and located in Hurst, nominated Maier last fall after chapter members Donna Moore and Ann Marie Thompson visited the Dr. Bettye Myers Butterfly Garden and discussed the project with Maier, who serves as chair of garden’s advisory committee. The nomination focused on Maier’s volunteer work on the butterfly garden, her recent procurement of an EPA grant for the garden totaling nearly $75,000, and her volunteer service in the local community. A panel of non-NSDAR judges reviewed the nominations submitted by chapters throughout Texas and selected Maier for the award in December.
Approximately 1,000 NSDAR members and guests attended the awards dinner. Other TWU representatives attending the event were Diana Elrod, Ph.D., director of the Center for Student Research, and biology doctoral candidate and instructor Paramita Basu.
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NSDAR was founded in 1890 as a women’s service organization and today has more than 185,000 members in 3,000 chapters around the world. The society’s three focus areas are patriotism, historic preservation and education. The NSDAR Conservation Committee was established in 1909, and part of its mission is to encourage the recognition of individuals with a distinguished volunteer conservation record.
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The Berlin clinic lies in a low, off-white building housing several office. Behind the dark blue door, a snow-soaked carpet leads to the front desks. Bundled up in winter jackets and scarves, new and returning patients talk to administrators, or fill out paperwork in the small waiting room to the left.
A patient goes up to a window, says her name, and waits while the administrator behind the desk shuffles unseen, then slips a container through an open section in the bottom of the glass. The woman steps aside and takes a seat on a bench, gesturing for her young daughter to stay close as she puts a paper under her tongue. She sits there, and pulls out her phone.
The BAART program (Bay Area Addiction Research and Treatment), follows Medication Assisted Treatment, (MAT), which utilizes drugs like Methadone and Suboxone to treat recovering opioid addicts.
Suboxone tabs
Lance Woods BAART Berlin’s treatment director, wasn’t there at the clinic’s opening eight years ago, but says that in contrast to BAART’s first location in Newport, the Berlin community is very accepting of the clinic. When the Newport location opened, Woods says they heard a lot of myths around MAT. During the four years between the two clinics’ openings, “there had been a lot of breakthrough with community awareness, up until the point where we opened [in] Saint Albans this summer, and it was basically the community asking us to come in.”
While the negative sentiments have certainly died down, he says, “even to this day, we continue to hear that people are allowed to get high or use drugs for free here, or that we’re replacing one drug with another.” The first myth, Woods says, is simply untrue. Opioid abuse isn’t permitted within the clinic walls at all. The second myth is a misunderstanding. Methadone and Suboxone are both derived from the poppy Papaver somniferum, which is commonly known as the opium poppy, but the two drugs can’t be compared to heroin or Oxycontin.
Methadone has been around since the first BAART clinic opened in the 70’s, and it’s a dark red, watery substance that comes in huge industrial bottles. The doses are administered in small plastic cups, like Tylenol. Suboxone comes on small sheets of paper. Patients sit on benches in the dosage hallway, waiting for the tabs to dissolve underneath their tongues. There’s a sign on the far side of the hallway that reads, “NO TALKING.” Woods explains that talking makes the Suboxone tabs slower to dissolve, but, he adds, they’re pretty lax about that rule.
Suboxone (left) and Methadone (right)
As he sketches out a diagram, similar to the one below, Woods explains these drugs are prescribed to keep patients in a normal range of function.
Both drugs contain buprenorphine, which binds onto the same receptors on the brain opioids bind to. “If someone like you or I were to take 50mg of methadone, it would probably get us high,” says Woods, because neither of us have a tolerance to opioids. But for recovering addicts, they’ve developed a tolerance to opioids, so buprenorphine just alleviates the symptoms of withdrawal.
When patients use Suboxone or Methadone in conjunction with therapy, he says, they’re able to do the normal things; get to work, take their kids to school, make dinner. The people who seek treatment at BAART come at their family and friends’ urging, their own conscience, or by recommendation from the local police department or hospital.
The staff are former teachers, school counselors, or even yoga instructors. At BAART, people with real problems are treated without judgement or shame.
The patient in the waiting room finishes her tab of Suboxone. She and her daughter leave through a side door, and get into the car waiting just outside. She buckles her daughter into a car seat, and slides into the passenger side. And the car drives off.
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Desert Explorer: UAE & Oman
UAE, Oman
From $4,198 pp*
Imagine desert dunes gently transforming into remarkable upscale locales and the turquoise waters of the Arabian Gulf calmly lapping white sands on a backdrop of breathtaking skyscrapers. Hop off the plane and indulge in a delicious meal while experiencing the sparkling ambience of a traditional setting. Then, browse the endless aisles of golden ornaments, lavish materials and fragrant spices in Dubai's most famous Souqs. Bounce over sand dunes on a roller coaster desert safari and bask in the breathtaking majesty of the Sheikh Zayed Mosque, boasting the world's largest chandelier, luxurious carpets and 1,000 columns. Head to the enigmatic Oman, where ancient secrets are softly revealed through the country's ageless traditions and nature showcases an array of quiet beauty. Marvel at the glorious Grand Mosque with its enormous handmade carpet before catching panoramic views of Al Hamra, Bilad Seit and Bahla at your stunning eco-luxe accommodation. Release your creativity while learning the art of pottery in a local village and settle in for a starry evening nestled within the golden slopes of the mystical Arabian Desert. Glamour and simplicity merge towards the ultimate in sophistication. *Note: Pricing is based on a group of 4 travelers.
Marhaba Airport Assistance
Airport Transfer (Arrival)
Arabian Courtyard Hotel - Heritage Room
Morning at Leisure
Desert Safari & BBQ dinner
Dubai Old City Tour
Transport: Dubai - Abu Dhabi
Lunch at Emirates Palace
Half Day Abu Dhabi City Tour
Radisson Blu Yas Island - Standard
Al Ain City Tour
Abu Dhabi - Dubai - Muscat
Falcon Hospital
Transport: Abu Dhabi - Dubai
Flight: Dubai - Muscat
Muscat Airport Assistance & Transfer
Muscat Dhow Coastal Cruise
Al Bustan Palace Muscat - Mountain View Room
Muscat City Tour
Al Hamra - Jebel Shams
Muscat-Al Hamra
The View Oman - Superior Room
Jebel Shams
Al Hamra-Nizwa Day-Jebel Shams Day Tour
Wahiba Sands Desert
Al Hamra - Wahiba Sands Desert
Desert Nights Camp Oman - Deluxe Tented Suite
Wahiba Sands - Sur - Muscat
Airport Transfer (Depart)
Welcome to Dubai! Upon Arrival at the Dubai Airport Terminal, you will be met and assisted by a Marhaba Meet and Greet Services representative. This service has been carefully selected for you, keeping in mind the necessity for luxury and care. Afterwards, you will be escorted through the airport related formalities and immigration via a dedicated fast track counter.
Our Travelous representative and personal chauffeur will be waiting for you in the arrival area holding a sign with your name on it. While you are transported to the hotel, your driver will point out some important landmarks of Dubai. A refreshing welcome drink with Arabic dates is served at the hotel upon arrival.
As the "Shopping Capital of the Middle East" and the 7th most visited city in the world, Dubai has become a name associated to riveting architecture, vast amounts of gold and bustling open-air marketplaces. With its vibrant society, Dubai offers you the possibility of relishing a variety of exotic cuisines to endless local and utterly delicious delicacies. Whether you're basking in the warm sun on a white sandy beach or embarking on an exhilarating desert safari, Dubai has limitless opportunities for the most Travelous vacation!
Enjoy a morning at leisure or indulge in the endless possibilities that your hotel's extravagant spa offers to pamper yourself!
Head out into the Arabian Desert and feel the adrenalin as your driver takes you on a roller coaster ride of off-roading and dune bashing before stopping on a high to watch a magical sunset! You will then drive to a Bedouin camp where you will settle in for the evening to the sounds of Arabic music and a display of Arabic tradition. Enjoy the rhythmic music while grabbing drinks from the bar. Ladies might choose to have their hands painted with beautiful designs drawn by henna artists while men try the "sheesha" (hookah), popularly known as the hubbly-bubbly. End the evening with a sumptuous barbeque dinner and a belly dance show performed by an expert dancer. Return to the hotel by 4x4 vehicles after an incredibly memorable evening! (Dinner is buffet with mineral water & soft beverage included. Alcohol can be purchased directly)
Begin your Dubai Old City tour day with a visit to Bastakiya, an area of Dubai on the Bur Dubai side of the Dubai Creek that date back to the 1890s, where residents originally earned money from pearl diving. Bastakiya is named after the Iranian town of Bastak - many of the original traders in Bastakia were from Iran. Receive an entertaining account of UAE's history with Moez Toumi, an award winning trainer & guide in Dubai. The Bastakia Quarter, which squeezes itself between the Dubai Creek and the buzzing Bur Dubai district, is a mini maze of wind-towered buildings, a clutch of which have been transformed into art galleries and cafes.
At 1pm, you will be taken to enjoy a cultural lunch at The Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding, where you can experience the ambience of a traditional setting while learning the customs behind true Arabian hospitality.
After having a lavish feast, you will continue on a city tour during which you will visit the Dubai Museum, the Gold Souq and Spice Souq. You will then stop at the famous Dubai Creek to explore and take pictures. Next, you will head to the Abra Station, (water taxi ferry) for a short ride across the creek.
Finally, you will visit the 150 years old Al Fahidi Fort (Dubai Museum), which was built around 1787, and guarded the town. Renovated in 1971 for use as a museum, its colorful life size dioramas vividly depict everyday life in the days before the discovery of oil. Galleries recreate scenes from the Creek, traditional Arab houses, mosques, the souk, date farms and desert and marine life. One of the more spectacular exhibits portrays pearl diving, including sets of pearl merchants' weights, scales and sieves. Also on display are artifacts from several excavations in the emirate, recovered from graves that date back to the third millennium B.C.
Spending the evening aboard a traditional wooden Dhow, offers an intriguingly different view of this amazing city. You will see many other wooden vessels, which still brave the open seas to deliver its goods to faraway places, as well as super modern yachts and ships. Admire the architecture of places such as the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club, the spectacular Chamber of Commerce building as well as Sheikh Saeed's house & the Heritage Village. A sumptuous dinner is served while you cruise along. Savor the delicious taste of true Arabian hospitality. This unforgettable romantic evening cruise includes an international buffet dinner. Relax! Indulge! Enjoy (Buffet dinner with mineral water and return transfer to and from your hotel is included).
This full day tour is a respite from the hustle and bustle of city life. It takes us through the Northern Emirate, passing through the Oasis town of Dhaid, renowned for its fruits and vegetables plantation. The journey continues to Masafi, the picturesque village of the majestic Hajar Mountains, before reaching the village of Dibba. Driving along the narrow coastal strip, we proceed to Al Bidya Historic Mosque, the oldest mosque in the emirates, built in 1424. We take a short break at the resort area, Khor Fakkan, famous for its excellent beaches and water sport facilities. Lying in the south-eastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula - Fujairah, is the only emirate located on the Gulf of Oman rather than the Arabian Gulf. This emirate is naturally endowed with scenic beauty. The Hajar Mountains, forming a magnificent backdrop, provides a magical effect in every picture. While in Fujairah, we also stop at the ruins of the old fort and the old citadel of Bithna before returning to Dubai.
Transfer in private vehicle to Abu Dhabi - the capital of the United Arab Emirates & the administrative center of the country, also called the "Manhattan of the Middle East"!
Enjoy an international buffet lunch in a truly exceptional setting - a must for any visit to Abu Dhabi. Located in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, the magnificent Emirates Palace is a national landmark and one of the most impressive hotels and conference venues ever built. Emirates Palace is constructed on 1.3 km of private white sandy beach and surrounded by 85 hectares of beautifully landscaped gardens.
Visit the capital of the United Arab Emirates and the administrative center of the country!
You will start the tour by visiting the Women's Handicraft Center, a rounded building featuring several huts where local female artists perform silver thread work and weaving. They also exhibit essential Arabic oils, incense, local dress and handmade crafts and - for a minimal fee - treat ladies to the famous traditional art of henna body painting. Photography is restricted and visitors are advised to remove their shoes before entering each hut.
You will then continue on your way to the Sheikh Zayed Mosque, the largest mosque in the UAE, founded by the Late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan. The Badshahi Mosque inspired the layout and floor plan of the mosque and both Mughal and Moorish design inspired the architecture. Its archways are quintessentially Moorish and its minarets classically Arab. The carpet laid out on the vast expanse in the mosque is the "World's Largest Carpet". This mosque also holds the largest chandelier. There are seven copper and gold-plated chandeliers imported from Germany.
Radisson Blu Yas Island - Standard Room
Begin your journey with a drive (approx. 2 hours) to the greenest part of all Emirates; Al-Ain, an oasis surrounded by red sand dunes, known as the "Garden City" and one of the oldest settlements in the region. The area boasts vegetable farms and date trees. You will pass by the Hili City, which is famous for its green gardens and visit the archaeological sites.
The next stop is for lunch at a hotel. Following lunch, you will visit the largest camel market in the Middle East and proceed to the Museum next to the old fortress, where archaeological findings of the UAE's ancient settlement date back to the Iron and Bronze age.
Continue your journey to the most beautiful landscape in the area - Jebel Hafeet - the tallest mountain in the UAE. Check into the Wadi Adventure Park for some fun activities. Enjoy surfing, rafting, kayaking, climbing, wakeboarding and swimming.
After this exciting experience, return to your hotel in Abu Dhabi for overnight.
Spend your afternoon with a visit to the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital. A unique experience, allowing an insight into the fascinating world of falconry, which is an integral part of Emirati heritage. The visit includes both the Falconry Museum and the Hospital, where you may see live medical work in progress and will also have an up close and personal experience with the majestic falcon. After sightseeing, enjoy your evening at leisure. Return transfer provided to your hotels20\par
Transfer in private vehicle from Abu Dhabi to Dubai.
Flight from Dubai to Muscat, Oman. Duration. Duration is approximately 1 hour.
Before getting to visa services, you will be met by a local representative and escorted to the plaza lounge where you will enjoy Omani hospitality. Hot or cold refreshments will be offered while the lounge executive completes the travel documents. You will then be escorted to the baggage hall and assisted with baggage and other customs formalities.
You will be transferred in private vehicle to your hotel, and assisted with check-in. Freshen up and get ready for your first Muscat experience!
In the afternoon, you will be taken to the Marina to embark on a relaxed dhow (fishermen's boat) cruise. See the Muscat Coast through the eyes of ancient seafarers who plied this route for centuries. Have a brief stop at a natural cove. Photograph the spectacular Al Bustan Palace Hotel before returning to the Marina for the transfer to the hotel. (Soft drinks, tea, coffee and dates served on board)
Spend a relaxing evening in Muscat, exploring the city or enjoying your hotel facilities.
Your first stop will be at the Grand Mosque, the highlight of Muscat city.
Finished in 2001, the Grand Mosque is a beautiful modern building that harmoniously incorporates traditional architecture and decoration. The handmade carpets, the chandeliers and the ceiling of the great dome in the main prayer room. Please note: During your mosque tour, ladies should be fully covered and wearing a headscarf while men should wear trousers. Lecture by an Omani Scholar on Islam at Grand Mosque.
You will continue on to the Bait Al Zubair Museum where you will be given a brief introduction about Oman's fascinating history and development. Drive along the waterfront cornice, visiting the bustling Muttrah Souq. You will proceed for a photo stop at the magnificent Al Alam Palace, the official palace of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos, flanked by the 16th century Portuguese forts Mirani & Jalali.
Spend the afternoon at leisure exploring this incredible city at your own pace.
Once you've had breakfast at the hotel, you will begin an exhilarating journey towards Al Hamra.
Drive through the date palms to the sparkling springs and Fort at Nakhl. Turn towards Wadi Bani Auf where this stretch of graded road is extremely adventurous, involving steep bends and bumpy roads. Visit the charming mountain village of Bilad Sayt where one is awestruck by the beauty of the landscape. This 40-mile stretch of road continues on to the village of Al Hamra, famous for its expansive date plantations.
Check in at hotel "The View, " located in the Jabal Shams Mountains, more specifically at Hail al Shas, 8. The Eco Luxe accommodation is remarkable with its wonderful panoramic view in which Al Hamra, Bilad Seit and Bahla are only a glimpse away.
Visit Jabrin, the finest of Oman's castles, built in the late 17th century. The vastle displays the highest achievement in Omani ceiling painting and beautifully executed woodcarvings. After taking a photo stop at the Bahla Fort, you will continue to a pottery village where you will get a chance to work with the Omani artisans who will teach you how to make your very own pottery!
Visit Misfah, a pretty mountain village with stone dwellings still in existence. While heading for Jebel Shams, stop at the terrace farming village of Wadi Ghul. Drive to the spectacular gorge of Wadi Nakher where you will be presented with the most incredible views of towering mountains, including the Jebel Shams.
Today, you will drive to the famous Round Tower Fort, built in the 17th century, You will also visit its Souq, which is renowned for its Friday cattle auction, intricately hand-carved "Khanjars" (daggers) & ornamental silver jewelry.
Proceed in an easterly direction towards Wahiba Sands, a vast mass of undulating red and white sea of sand dunes rising up to 750 feet, which are also home to a variety of flora and fauna. Check in at the Desert Nights Camp.
Desert Nights offers a comfortable desert setting, six miles into the desert from Al Wasil in the Wahiba Sands region, just two-hours drive away from Muscat. The rooms are set up as individual units in a Bedouin tent design with cement painted walls and canvas with screen tent shaped roof. Each unit offers a sitting room, bedroom, en-suite bathroom and cozy sit-out with panoramic vistas across the golden sands.
Enjoy a barbecue dinner around the camp fire, breakfast and a short camel ride on the camp grounds at sunset with dune-top snack and soft drinks included. The property has a dining room, bar and a recreation room that offers board games, dartboard, chess set and DVD's. Quad bike rides, dune drives, henna painting and more extensive camel rides are available for an additional cost.
Desert Nights Camp - Deluxe Tented Suite
You will be picked up from Desert Nights Camp and proceed to visit Bedouins in the wilderness. Enjoy the dune bashing experience before you head towards the clear deep blue waters that sit in Wadi Bani Khalid. The valley comprises of small pretty villages embedded in the mountains.
After having enjoyed your picnic in the Wadi, you will proceed to Sur. At Sur, you will find the renowned boatyards where dhows are still made to this day. Here, you will get a short briefing by an expert on traditional dhow building and a light lunch before continuing your tour on route to Muscat.
Visit the ruins of Bibi Miriam's Tomb, seen at the village of Qalhat on the coastal road to Muscat. Enjoy the visit of Wadi Shaab before you proceed to Fins Beach. Your final stop is at the Bimah Sinkhole, a spectacular limestone crater with an incredible turquoise water at its base begging you to take a swim.
Return to Hotel for overnight in Muscat.
Unfortunately, we say goodbye to you today. A Travelous representative and private vehicle will transfer you to Oman Airport and offer full assistance there. Keep the memories alive and hope to see you again in Oman. Stay Travelous!
United Arab Emirates comprises seven monarchical emirates: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah; each unique in its own way and complementing to the rich heritage and culture of the UAE. All emirates lie on the western coast except for Fujairah which entirely lies on the eastern coast. In addition to being one of the fastest growing countries on the planet and its pristine coastline on the Arabian Gulf, the UAE is most notably known for its two largest emirates: Abu Dhabi, the capital, and Dubai, home of the world's tallest free standing structure - the Burj Khalifa.
Arabian Courtyard Hotel
An award winning hotel featuring unique Arabian Architecture and character in the heart of Bur Dubai - The Arabian Courtyard Hotel and Spa offers the perfect habitat to relive the magical moments and all the mythical charms of by-gone era of old Arabia. It is centrally located in Down Town Al Fahidi Historical Area. Across Dubai Creek, represents the ancient trading hub where merchants used to trade gold, textile and spices.
Inspired by the impact of Khaleeji lifestyle and the influence of visiting Merchants from the region; Heritage rooms are adorned with wood, marble and rich intricate patterns reflecting the warmth of Arabian Gulf. Average rooms are spacious (30 to 38 sq m). Bathrooms are a bit compact featuring bath/ shower and all essential amenities.
Radisson Blu Yas Island
Tucked on the coast of picture-perfect Yas Island, the Radisson Blu Hotel, Abu habi invites guests to enjoy a slice of Gulf Coast paradise. Enjoy thrilling visits to the Formula 1 racetrack and Ferrari World theme park, or play a round on the beautiful Yas Links golf course. Savour delicious meals while you drink in the views. Stay active with a swim in the pool or a competitive game of tennis on the hotel courts.
Enjoy breathtaking views of your Yas Island surroundings from each Standard Room. Relax in a king-size bed while you catch up on the news or watch a movie on the flat-screen television. Surf the web or stay connected with friends and family via the Free high-speed, wireless Internet. The options of Early Check-in and Late Check-out add flexibility to your travel plans, subject to availability.
Al Bustan Palace Muscat
It is tradition to offer coffee when a guest enters an Oman home. So it is at Al Bustan Palace, one of the most elegant resorts in Muscat, Oman, where the act of welcome and friendship is performed by the "coffee man," the cultural host of our Oman beach resort. His craft spans spice stalls and centuries to immerse guests in new experiences and the local way of life. It is a story that unfolds throughout every guest"s stay, the blending of the old and the new, the local and the worldly, the opportunity to engage in a new experience, or simply give in to complete relaxation. Arab and art deco influences infuse the luxury Oman resort with an elegant ambiance, most notably in its majestic 38-metre-high domed atrium lobby. A sandy, white beach keeps guests busy with a wealth of waterfront activities, or content to do nothing at all. Dining options include both regional and international flavours, making each guest"s journey as much about the experience as it is about the destination.
With a choice of one king or two double beds, the Mountain View rooms are spacious and feature expanisive windows and doors allowing for enhanced vistas and natural light. All rooms include stylish decor with muted soothing earth tones and a private balcony overlooking the Al Hajar Mountains.
The View Oman
The View is located at 1,400 meters above sea level, driving through 8 kms of winding road from Al Hamra to Hail Al Shas.Located 2 \u189\'bd hrs drive from Muscat, 45 minutes from Nizwa and 15 minutes from Al Hamra, it is a perfect getaway with 30 exclusive rooms for a truly relaxed and comfortable stay. The View isn't just an 'Eco Luxe' retreat, but an experience where nature holds pride of place - Where service and hospitality is at its finest.An ideal port of call for visitors wanting to start adventurous trekking expeditions and excursions towards the peak of Jabal Shams Mountains. The View provides stylish accommodations apart from enjoying a relaxed time by the campfire or taking a dip in the infinity pool.
The View Eco Luxe Superior room accommodations feature stylishly furnished pods having a partial view of the valley. Each room has a deluxe bed with high quality mattress & pillows along with side tables, writing desk, wardrobe and safety locker. Facilities: Bottled water, Tea/Coffee amenities, Mini Fridge, Heat/cool air conditioner, Television, Bathrooms with WC, Rain Showers. Note: All rooms are non smoking.
Desert Nights Camp
Desert Nights Camp, the only luxury desert camp in Oman, is an ideal base for your Arabian desert adventure, with spectacular craggy mountains in the distance, endless dunes and crystalline wadis. It is only a two hour drive away from Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman. The camp is sprawled across 10-acres of silken sands, secluded 11km within the vast isolation of the Omani desert. 30 luxurious Bedouin style tents await those who seek the ultimate desert adventure vacation at the finest Oman boutique hotel.
Luxury Tented Suites are comprised of one king bedroom with separate living room and luxurious en suite bathroom with shower. Ammenities include: hot and cold water on tap, bathrobes and bathroom slippers, selection of bathroom amenities, individually controlled air conditioning, tea/coffee making facilities, mini bar, complimentary mineral water, hair dryer, 110 V plug point for electric shavers, 220-240 V square pin plug points and a cozy sitting area with a panoramic views of the Wahiba Desert.
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Chechnya: Republic of Contrasts
2013, Society - 26 min 9 Comments
In the aftermath of two wars, Chechnya is haunted by memories of great desolation and turmoil. But today, it's become a visiting ground for celebrities. A bustling haven for growing infrastructure, and home to one of the largest mosques in Russia. The documentary Chechnya: Republic of Contrasts addresses this dichotomy. Throughout the film, we witness a Chechnyan Republic in search of a new identity in the 21st century, but determined to remain grounded in the traditions on which it was founded.
In the midst of what was once a region of great conflict and ruins, a five-star hotel plays host to internationally-known figures like action star Jean-Claude Van Damme. Creative expression is indulged in a state-of-the-art music recording studio. Dancers dutifully rehearse their routines for an upcoming festival. The Firdaws fashion house offers extravagant evening gowns and wedding dresses, and gains the attention of upscale female clientele from around the world.
Each of these enterprises remain seeped in the values and religious customs of the Chechnyan people. In accordance with Islamic faith, the dancers are not permitted to touch or look into the eyes of their partners. Adorned by elaborate headwear, the fashions are encrusted with valuable stones made of diamonds, silver and gold, and serve as clever hybrids between the traditional and modern.
Beneath this glitzy facade lies a more subdued and somber reality. We see swarms of students who devote their young lives to a rigorous study of the Quran, and hear one of these children warn non-believers of their assured path to Hell.
Chechnya: Republic of Contrasts beautifully intercuts between these two divides in order to illustrate a region in transition.
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9 Comments / User Reviews
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someguy - 01/13/2017 at 16:25
somebody please finish what Russians had started in the 90's. drop one big nuk on them and finish them idiots off...
Chechens, it's not even a nation, no history, no culture, waynax my ass...
bunch of i*****.
Sergi Rincón - 10/03/2016 at 20:27
Let those kids live away from religion. Let them be FREE!
thomas - 08/29/2016 at 21:44
Chechenia: europe??
doc producers should go back to geography basics.
Aftab Ahmed - 08/02/2016 at 08:14
A beautiful documentary showing glimpse of Peaceful, Beautiful Muslim Country. A nice introduction about the culture , people and their positive Islamic thinking in every field of life. Awesome.
Alliyah Brown - 07/25/2016 at 16:27
This documentary was disappointing to me. It shows that Chechnya fought for independence for nothing. There is too much that is not Islamic. They fighting was for nothing.
Raman deep Singh cheema - 07/23/2016 at 10:35
The Chechnya is not different from other regions of world where there is conflict going on or has just passed .As we see in every conflicting regions people becomes fundamentalists or to much obsessed with religious believes and traditionalists.We can see this in Iraq,Syria,Libya,Pakistan(Waziristan),Afganistan,and to some extent Israel.In these situation religious beliefs,regionanal beliefs,Nationalties beliefs etc.etc.becomes their wepons to fight the grim situation,that pervailed due to conflict.But by the passage of time all this dilutes from their daily life.
B4 - 07/18/2016 at 02:16
First I have to say I'm glad not many people have watched this 'documentary' and it only lasts 26mins because the amount of misinformation coupled with the tone in which it is conveyed is very disturbing. To mention a few:
1. [3:45] The Arabic word 'Dhikr' to anyone who knows Arabic or could use an Arabic dictionary means remembrance and in reference to God means remembering God which has no time constraints and hence could be done at anytime or place.
2. [3:53] Again the term Haafiz used to refer to one who memorizes the Quran by heart and not an Islamic scholar(Aalim).
3. [5:00] Can't say that is what the kid said for sure but if he said that then who ever told him that is wrong. People are admitted into heaven based primarily on their believe in the oneness of God and then their actions (weighed between good and bad). Research encouraged if one intends to find out more.
4. [15:30] Dancing with with the opposite gender in its entirety is not even allowed unless with one's wife, daughters, sisters, paternal or maternal aunts(/uncles) {in the case of a male and vice versa for a female}. The dance shown(with its entire rules) only has to do with their customs and traditions and nothing else.
5. [17:00] Presumably this is just the wife's personal choice or for whatever reason not being at dinning table and it is extremely outrageous to say that because she and her 'grown-up' daughter are of a certain age, they cannot eat on the same table. Doesn't need to be mentioned as they already have kids together and I can't imagine that happening if they can't come close to each other.
These are just a few of the plain fallacies presented in this film and one should wonder why or to what benefit the person/people behind this film would stoop down to such a level. Would be absolutely disgraceful if this was done intentionally and equally so if it is as a result of negligence as such striking sentiments should not be made public just for the fun of it.
Sharon - 07/18/2016 at 01:34
People across the globe can talk about "tradition" all they want but behind closed doors, in the privacy of one's own home or traveling abroad these traditionalists will do what people do. The more religious the more likely "rules" are being broken and abusiveness becomes pervasive. It doesn't matter the religion. Sadly, religion is not seen as developing a relationship with God but in controlling people. I mean if you didn't control people there would be war, pandemonium, chaos, greed, cruelty...oh wait...you CAN'T control people. You can only love them into community. Unfortunately, most institutions seek short term goals by threatening others into submission, either by withholding love and/or resources. It works for awhile then...it doesn't. Then here we go round and round the Merry-Go-Round - again.
martin - 07/17/2016 at 15:31
indoctrination on an industrial scale - "give me a child of 12 years old and I will make him/her mine for life" - the prime of miss jean Brodie.
It's very unlikely but perhaps equip the kids with, along-side the Koran a copy of the 'Origin of Species' and let them make their own minds up - that's if it isn't too late.
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Samsung Galaxy Fold hinges on screen
Updated: April 16, 2019 2:11 PM EDT
A model holds a Samsung Galaxy Fold smartphone to her face, during a media preview event in London, Tuesday April 16, 2019. Kelvin Chan / AP
LONDON — When Samsung said this year it would launch a smartphone with a folding screen, the big question was whether the innovation was something people actually wanted or needed.
Is the Galaxy Fold a gimmick to help sell more smartphones in a slowing market or a true breakthrough that will change how we use our devices?
Major manufacturers have in recent years been largely updating smartphones with marginal improvements like better cameras and face scanning technology, so skepticism has been high.
The South Korean electronics company this week offered the media a hands-on preview ahead of the release in the U.S. this month, and the first impression is that a folding screen in some circumstances might be a useful innovation — but at a cost of almost US$2,000 it won’t be a mass market product anytime soon.
WHY A FOLDABLE SCREEN?
The Samsung Galaxy Fold smartphone is seen during a media preview event in London, Tuesday April 16, 2019. Kelvin Chan / AP
As people increasingly use their phones to do data-hungry tasks like view photos on Instagram and watch movies or TV shows on YouTube or Netflix, Samsung says the case for a folding phone has become clear: People want bigger screens but they also want a phone they can carry around in their pocket.
Skeptics might say that folding phones are a sign that the smartphone industry has run out of good ideas and fallen into an innovation malaise. Samsung isn’t alone. Little known Royole started selling its FlexPai in China last year while Chinese tech giant Huawei announced its own folding phone, the Mate X, days after Samsung’s announcement.
OPEN AND SHUT
The Samsung Galaxy Fold smartphone is seen in its folded position, during a media preview event in London, Tuesday April 16, 2019. Kelvin Chan / AP
Closed, the Galaxy Fold is about 6.3 centimetres wide and 16 centimetres long (2.5 by 6.3 inches). It felt like holding a TV remote control, but heavier. The phone’s two panels are held shut by magnets, so a bit of force is needed to get it open. With a little practice I was able to do it one-handed by jamming my thumb between the two sections to pop them apart.
Samsung spent nearly five years working on the hinge, which went through more than 1,000 prototypes. It uses cogs and gears to give it a smooth feel and has two open positions. First, it unfolds to 140 degrees — handy if you want to put it down on your desk but still need to angle part of the screen for a video call, for example. Bend it further and the screen silently and solidly opens to a flat position. To close the phone, you click it out of the open position and snap the sides shut.
Fully open, there’s plenty of real estate on the Galaxy Fold’s main screen, which measures 7.3 inches (18.5 centimetres) diagonally. It’s great if you want to take and review photos, watch videos or read e-books without squinting. Multi-tasking is also possible with up to three apps open at the same time. Wide open, the Fold felt more like a small tablet than a smartphone, which suggests that one possible market is people who want both kinds of devices but don’t want to buy two.
As with anything that folds, there’s a crease. It runs down the centre of the screen and is visible at certain angles, though I didn’t really notice it when using the apps. Samsung developed a new adhesive to glue the composite polymer screen together, and promises it can withstand being opened and closed 200,000 times, or 100 times a day for five years.
The Fold has a second screen, a long, narrow display, on one of its outer panels, so you can continue using apps while it’s closed. I tried out a few — YouTube and car racing game “Asphalt” — that transitioned seamlessly between both screens. It could, for example, be useful to consult Google Maps in detail on the big screen before setting off, then put it in your pocket and quickly check the directions en route. But I’m still not convinced that “app continuity” is something I need.
The phone’s specs have been available to app makers for a while and the company says most should only need a few tweaks to run properly on its Android operating system. Hundreds of apps have already been “optimized” for the Fold but Samsung won’t say how many until it’s released.
CAMERAS AND MORE
The Galaxy Fold has no less than six cameras. Three lenses on the rear, another on the cover next to the second screen, and two more inside, including a selfie camera. There’s a fingerprint scanner on the right side, which can be used when it’s both open and closed. Inside, the battery is split in two, one in each panel, and it has enough juice to wirelessly charge another device, such as the wireless earphones included. It’s not clear if the bigger screen needs more power — Samsung hasn’t given any battery life estimates, saying only that it may vary.
The Galaxy Fold is set for release in the U.S. on April 26, priced at US$1,980 ($2,646). No official date has been released for its launch in Canada.
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Tag Archives: Henry Kissinger
Hustle the East – Love It or Leave It (Excerpt)
Posted on November 14, 2018 by uglyamericanbookclub
Here’s an excerpt from the new novel Hustle the East, from Black Rose Writing
1 – Love It or Leave It
My time in Laos taught me that even I was not the person I thought I was. An ordinarily apathetic American, the son of CPAs, I never imagined I would be tossed in jail for killing a prostitute. Back then I wasn’t a murderer. Murder, with premeditation, came much later.
As the newest teacher in the Buddhist kingdom, I resolved I would do everything by the book. I would rely on my good intentions to pave the road ahead. As good intentions often do, mine led me to a place I hadn’t planned to go. It took me a while to figure out that in Laos, the good guys were the bad guys. Who knew that the American saviors of Asian democracy, who bragged they’d never lost a war, would abandon their lofty undertaking and ditch loyal allies without warning?
Jack Gaines was one of the Americans who came to save the Kingdom from Communism, and stayed around to watch it fall. Like Asia itself, Gaines was a charmer and a seducer. I disliked him from the get-go. Based on what I heard about his caddish behavior, I summarily condemned him for his lack of couth and civility. Decades later, I can still see him smile and hear him say, How much civility do you expect in a civil war?
In February 1973, Laos was squooshed between Thailand, which was fighting to remain free, and Vietnam, which was freefalling into Communism. The civil war in Laos was a sideshow in the Vietnam War. “Laos was only the wart on the hog,” a U.S. diplomat once observed undiplomatically. But, as Gaines would say, Oh, what a wart it was!
To this day, when I think of Laos I wonder if it’s possible for love to grow true in a place poisoned by lies and deception.
An open-air motorboat ferried me across the milewide Mekong River from Thailand. Upon landing on a muddy bank, I scrambled up ahead of the other passengers to reach Royal Lao Immigration and Customs. Royal though it was, the Immigration office was a shack no bigger than a telephone booth back home. I presented my passport to a ruddy-faced officer in a green uniform and high-peaked hat.
“Patpawt no good more three days,” he said. He admitted me to the Kingdom anyway.
A decade earlier, my parents had made us passports for a trip to Hawaii. As a consequence of my old man’s colossal incompetence, I was condemned to spend precious hours of my first day in Laos renewing my passport.
Arriving in Vientiane, more bad luck. I checked out the Sanook Hotel but couldn’t check in. The no-stars Sanook had been highly recommended by a hippie I’d met in Bangkok, who’d just come down from Laos still high.
“Up in Vieng, you can buy dope by the kilo,” the hippie told me. “Old grannies sell it at the Morning Market. They make soup with it, Man. I shit you not.”
“What about the war?” I asked.
“It’s far from the capital. You’ll never even know it’s there.”
“I heard a rumor about a ceasefire.”
“Yeah, that rumor’s been around for years.”
After waiting for what seemed to be years, a reedy Lao man of indeterminate age appeared before me like an apparition. I handed my passport to the anemic desk clerk.
“I’m Benny Bendit,” I said.
“Say here Paur,” said the clerk.
“Paul Bendit is my real name. Benny is a nickname.”
“You name Nick?”
“No, Paul. But you can call me Benny. I need a room.”
“No loom. Maybe rater.”
“How much later?” I asked.
“Yes,” said the clerk.
It was not yet eight a.m. Roomless, restless and afflicted by the hotel’s ailing air-conditioning, I ordered coffee.
“Nohm, or no nohm?” asked the clerk who was also the barista. The coffee cup of my brain was brimming with incomprehension.
“Nohm it mean lady’s boob and also mean milk,” the gaunt man explained.
“Kafe nohm it mean kafe wit’ milk.”
Ten minutes later, I got my kafe nohm. Lao coffee was a mountain-grown Arabica blessed with a unique flavor and blended with chicory to stretch the meager crop. Kafe nohm was served in a three-inch high glass with a half-sized spoon atop a saucer. Wallowing in the bottom of the glass was an inch-thick dollop of sweetened condensed milk. In a quaint custom that defied a coffee-lover’s logic, Lao coffee was always served with a glass of weak Chinese tea. Coffee comes with tea. Welcome to Laos.
At quarter to nine, the kafe nohm was a sweet memory. The weak tea had miraculously washed away the sticky-milk residue of the coffee. I removed my passport and Traveler’s Cheques from my Samsonite and made sure to lock it.
“Is it safe to leave my suitcase until a room becomes available?” I asked the druggy-eyed clerk.
“You come back too soon,” he said.
“Is it O.K. to leave it here for half an hour?”
“How about one hour?”
I looked into the young old man’s dilated eyes.
“You don’t understand English, do you?”
Passport in hand, I set off for the U.S. Embassy. I was confident I could conclude my embassy business, check into the hotel, and collect a teaching certificate before the end of the day, maybe even before noon. My unfettered
enthusiasm belied my unbound naïvete. As a newbie, I had no inkling this would be a red-letter day in the Kingdom’s six-hundred-year history, a date that would live in anti-Communist infamy.
On the streets of Vientiane the first thing that hits you is the capital’s signature fragrance, an eau d’égout that emanates from open sewage trenches. The next is the feeling that a soggy blanket of moist air is smothering you. Sweating bullets, I trod a treacherous pedestrian terrain over tilted and cracked sidewalks.
Rue Samsenethai was a jumble of two-story shophouses that mingled the sights and smells of Siam, China and India with those of France, Corsica and the Hippie Trail. The main drag’s distinctive characteristic was a mélange of
motorcycle fumes mixed with the pungent aromas of curry, incense and the Vietnamese soup called phở. There were few cars. Three-wheeled bicycle taxis took up the prime parking at the Constellation Hotel. Samlor drivers parked willy-nilly near the curb, sitting on their bicycle seat, or lounging on the passenger seat under its canvas awning.
In Rue Chanthakhoummane, I discovered a dilapidated bell-shaped Buddhist monument. Tufts of grass and little trees reached out from its cracks. The sooty pile of broken bricks and century-old mortar looked like a twelve-layer cake topped by a stone party hat. Plopped down in the middle of the road, the resolute black hunk compelled traffic to circulate around it. What a stupid place to place an ancient monument! A quarter of the way round it, I caught sight of an American flag flapping high above a canopy of flame trees.
The U.S. Embassy compound stood on Rue Bartholoni, a short street named for a French aristocrat who drowned when a mail boat went down in the Mekong River. Behind equally high walls, the Consulate stood on one side of the shady little street, the Chancery on the other.
Within the ramparts, the whitewashed buildings were chockablock with puffy-faced, paunchy Americans. The diplomats who were fighting a war within a war wore a hangdog expression that foretold the futility of their mission.
The first time I saw Jack Gaines he was standing ahead of me in the queue for the Embassy cashier. It was impossible to ignore a big lug with bushy blond hair in a loud Hawaiian shirt. Even from the back, his posture was an affront. He continually shifted his leggy weight from one buffalo-hide sandal to another.
Sensing my stare, Gaines turned around and flashed a toothy grin. Jeez, I thought. This guy’s got gleaming teeth, a tan like he just got off a beach, and a physique like he spends all day in the gym. But landlocked Laos had no beach and at the time there weren’t enough health-conscious foreigners to support a fitness club. Not only did he lack a gym, he lacked good manners. He was so American. Here was a prime example of the kind of American in Asia I intended to avoid.
As the idiot in the Hawaiian shirt advanced to the window, I caught a glimpse of the graceful Lao woman behind the narrow brass bars of the cashier’s cage. Craning my neck, I could see the cashier wore an immaculate white blouse. Atop her smiling face, her shiny black hair was piled high in a chignon adorned with gold ornaments. Admiration for the cashier melted away when the lout in the loud shirt waved a check in her face as if there were no bars between them.
“Look, Dollface,” said the toothy check-waver. “You really have to cash this. It’s got my name on it: Jack Gaines. You know me: Jack Gaines, The All-American Boy.” I was irritated by the way Jack Gaines The All-American Boy was treating the angelic cashier. Despite the rude treatment she was getting from Gaines, the cashier delivered her refusal to cash his check with a certain sweetness.
“Sorry, I no can do, Mister Jack,” she said. It was customary in Laos to use the honorific Mister with a person’s first name.
Mister Jack kept up the verbal barrage.
“Look here, this is a perfectly good check in perfectly good U.S. dollars. If I paid any taxes, I’d be paying your salary.”
“You choking me, Mister Jack.”
To Lao speakers of English, “joking” and “choking” were homonyms. However, the pretty cashier’s meaning was clear when she added, “You too funny.”
“O.K.,” said the badgerer. “If you won’t cash my check, you can come to my house and swallow my one-eyed snake.”
That did it. I’d had enough of The All-American Boy.
“Excuse me,” I said to Gaines. “But I’m in a hurry.”
“Take it easy, Buddy Boy,” said Gaines. “This is Laos. There’s no such thing as a hurry here.”
He turned to leave, slowly. Like he said, no hurry. Making a mental note to ignore Gaines if I ever saw him again, I stepped up to the lovely doe-eyed woman in the cashier’s cage. I felt the need to apologize on behalf of the American people.
“Miss, I’m really sorry about that guy,” I said.
The pretty cashier accepted my payment without looking up. As I stammered on about Gaines’s rudeness, she completed the transaction.
“Hav’a ni’ day,” she said.
To read more: https://www.amazon.com/Hustle-East-Mark-Tawen/dp/1684331455
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Published 60 years ago, The Ugly American by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick remains paramount in the pantheon of novels about Americans bungling about in Southeast Asia. The book touched a nerve, and half a century later, its title remains a catch-phrase for incompetent and insensitive U.S. diplomats, arrogant entrepreneurs, and even travelers and tourists from the States who act badly abroad. Nearly all of the books and films discussed here are reflections on the Ugly American theme.
We’re focused on American characters, primarily fictional characters, mucking about in Southeast Asia during the Cold War, Vietnam War era and the new Millennium.
Spoiler alert: Many of the characters you’ll meet here are seriously flawed or downright evil, deserving of the appellation Ugly American. It seems that whenever America is striving to reclaim its dignity in the world, someone comes along to poison the reputation of good-natured, well intentioned Americans everywhere. President Trump, if you’re listening, pay attention.
Some of the works discussed:
The Ugly American (book and film)
The Ambassador by Morris L. West
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Saint Jack by Paul Theroux
The Consul’s File by Paul Theroux
Hustle the East by Mark Tawen
With Hearts Aflame by Dr. Victor M. Ordonez
Deliver Us From Evil by Dr. Tom Dooley (non-fiction)
Crazy Rich Asians (book and film)
Miss Saigon (musical)
South Pacific (musical)
The Beach (film)
Brokedown Palace (film)
Apocalypse Now (film)
Platoon (film)
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Contentious politics in China
By official count, the incidence of popular protest in China has increased ten-fold in the past fifteen years. Kevin O'Brien and Rachel Stern report that the Chinese state reported 8,700 "collective incidents" in 1993, and this number had grown to 87,000 by 2005 (12). And the issues that have evoked protest have expanded as well: land seizures, egregious local corruption, lay-offs and labor mistreatment, ecological and environmental concerns, and the Sichuan earthquake and building collapses, for example. (The photo above is drawn from a 2008 story on factory protests in Dongguan in the Telegraph (link).) A recent volume by O'Brien and Stern, Popular Protest in China , is a collection of some of the best current work by China scholars on popular protest in contemporary China. Contributors include some of the researchers who are doing the most detailed work on this topic today, including William Hurst (The Chinese Worker after Socialism) , Kevin O'Brien (Rightful Resistance in Rural China) , Guobin Yang (The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online) , and Yongshun Cai (Collective Resistance in China: Why Popular Protests Succeed or Fail). So the volume offers an excellent perspective on the state of the field.
(It is mildly ironic to note that the conference on which the volume is based was held in 2006 -- several years before the global financial collapse that threw millions of Chinese workers out of work. The incidence and severity of factory protests has certainly increased in the intervening years.)
Sidney Tarrow frames the volume by observing that there has been a welcome recent convergence between China studies and the field of contentious politics. The contributors to the volume have made productive use of some of the core concepts of the theories of contentious politics that have been developed in the past two decades -- resource mobilization, political opportunity, issue framing, social networks, issue escalation, etc., that have proven so productive in the analysis of a range of instances of contention and collective action. And Tarrow poses a comparativist's challenge: to what extent is it possible to discern similar processes of mobilization and escalation in the China case? Further, Tarrow points out that much of the theorizing about contentious politics has taken place in the context of more democratic regimes; so how much of a difference does the fact of China's authoritarian political system make for the occurrence and character of social contention?
One of the important insights offered by several of the contributors is the importance of disaggregating structures like "political opportunity," "actor," and "issue." O'Brien and Stern put it this way in their introduction:
The essays in this volume show that political opportunity in China depends (at a minimum) on the identity of the participants, the region, the grievance at hand, and the level of government engaged. (14)
The Chinese state is not a "monolith" but a "hodge-podge of disparate actors," an "attractive, multidimensional target." (14, quoting O'Brien and Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China )
And, of course, we have to recognize the widely different circumstances facing potential contentious actors in different regions and segments of the country. The point is an important one: we should not look to the intellectual framework of contentious politics research as a set of conceptual recipes for deductively explaining contention. Rather, we are better off looking at the literature on contentious action as a toolbox of "mechanisms and processes" that recur across contexts and that aggregate differently in different circumstances. (This is, of course, the methodology that Tarrow, McAdam, and Tilly advocate in Dynamics of Contention.)
Each chapter focuses, by and large, on a different thread within the current literature on contentious politics: framing (William Hurst), trust (Teresa Wright), transnational actors (Patricia Thornton), leadership (Feng Chen), networks (Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao), repression (Yongshun Cai), communication (Guobin Yang), and opportunity (Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao). As such, the volume also serves as something like a tutorial on current theories of contentious politics.
Liz Perry's concluding essay frames the argument around "rebellion" (protest against particular officials) versus "revolution" (protest against principles and structures of government). And she is inclined to think that the rise in protest in China today falls in the former category -- mostly harmless from the point of view of the power and structure of the regime.
Despite its remarkable frequency, then, contention in contemporary China remains limited in size, scale, and scope. With few exceptions, the social composition, territorial reach, and endurance of individual protests have all been highly circumscribed. (206)
But I'm inclined to think that this misses one of the most important implications of the contentious politics literature, and the import of its most important case. Small-scale mobilization and protest can escalate to fundamental and widespread demands for justice. And a broad movement can emerge that is not revolutionary -- devoted to the overthrow of the state -- and yet is persistently transformative: dedicated to the long, slow transformation of society and state in the direction of equality and dignity for all members of society. The great historical example of this -- the example that motivated some of the best work in the literature of contentious politics -- is the American civil rights movement. This movement demanded a fundamental change of law and of culture, and it succeeded. And we might say that this is what ordinary people in China today demand and deserve. The demand for voice and legal protections of lawful activities that swims throughout the more specific claims currently being made has the potential of becoming a very widespread movement.
(There are a number of earlier posts on these issues, collected under the tag CAT_collective action.)
Labels: CAT_China, CAT_collective action, China, collective action, labor rights
Skinner's spatial imagination
Zomia -- James Scott on highland peoples
Influences and arguments
Detroit: Taking charge of our story
Marx's influence on Rawls
The moral sentiments
Rawls on Marx; December 1973
Essentializing race?
Appearance and reality in public life
Democracy and agency in development ethics
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On May 7, 2018 August 19, 2018 By kristendenhartogIn 1830s-1913: In Darkest London
Our cowkeeper, Benjamin Jones, likely taken in the 1860s, some time after his first run-in with the Inspector of Nuisances.
Some Victorian occupations have such colourful names you just can’t resist finding out more. That was the case when we came upon the term “Inspector of Nuisances.” John Errington was the first such inspector for Southwark, and from the 1850s on he prowled the streets south of the Thames sniffing out foul smells and unsanitary conditions, and bringing them to the attention of the Medical Officer of Health. We first discovered him in 1855, when he accused our great-great-great grandfather, Benjamin Jones, of keeping his stables in a deplorable condition and allowing dung and filth to accumulate in his yard.
Twenty years later Errington was still a thorn in Benjamin’s side; he’d had complaints from a local business to which Benjamin supplied milk, so he hid in the office of that establishment one day, and when Benjamin arrived with his delivery, Errington popped out and declared himself, and took the sample away for testing. It was discovered to be more than half water, and deemed an egregious case.
Scanning through newspapers, and through health reports available at the Wellcome Library, it seems this was a typical part of Errington’s work. If you sold bad fish or rotten cherries, he’d be after you if he found out about it, for his mission was “the discovery and abatement of nuisances” and the protection of the public’s health. And in an area so steeped in poverty, there was plenty to put that health in danger.
In June of 1866, he received a complaint about an “intolerable effluvium” coming from a house in Gravel Lane. Upon inspecting, he discovered the premises belonged to an undertaker named Mr. Hodges, who was in possession of a female body dead some three weeks. The corpse was rapidly decomposing, and Errington found the stench unbearable. Neighbours were decidedly anxious.
But Hodges claimed he was in a difficult position. A fortnight earlier, two sisters had come to him and asked him to remove their mother’s body from the workhouse, where she had died a week before; he took their word that they would pay the transport and burial expenses, and fetched the body and put it in his shed. Later the sisters denied having promised to pay him, and he was a poor man, he told Errington, and could not afford to pay the expenses himself. So the body sat there, decomposing further each day.
When the sanitary committee met to discuss the issue, Mr. Hodges was ordered to bury the woman at once, or face charges. He could “make the relatives pay the necessary expenses afterwards,” though there was no suggestion as to how he might do that, given it seems he’d already tried. And with their mother finally interred, what motivation would there be for the sisters to pay?
So many questions arise from this one little story. Under the Anatomy Act, unclaimed bodies of workhouse inmates, prisoners and so on could be used for medical research. Was this why the dead woman’s daughters wanted their mother removed from the workhouse? And did they wish to avoid the stigma of a so-called pauper burial? Was Hodges telling the whole truth as he knew it? Were the sisters as heartless as Hodges suggests? Or so poor that they couldn’t afford to bury their mother, despite best intentions? And if so, why didn’t the parish cover the costs in the end? Presumably they would have if she’d been left unclaimed at the workhouse.
Sadly the topic of bodies unburied wasn’t new to Errington and the Medical Officer of Health for whom he worked. Dr. Robert Bianchi, in hearing Hodges’ tale, reflected on another Southwark death two years earlier: a family had vacated their lodgings and left a body behind. Bianchi himself paid for the burial, “as no one else would do it.”
“A Dead Body Unburied for Three Weeks.” South London Press, 16 June, 1866
Medical Officer of Health Reports, Southwark. Wellcome Library
Anatomy Act 1832Asylums & WorkhousesInspector of NuisancesPauper burialsVictorian occupationsVictorian poverty
22 thoughts on “Inspector of Nuisances”
Marilyn Charbonneau
Loved this story and look forward to lots more.
May 8, 2018 at 11:01 am Reply
Thank you! We’ve got lots more on the way!
colin bloomfield
FANTASTIC STORY, can’t wait for more and the book.
Love Colin & Suexx
Thank you! There’s really no end of riveting stories to choose from — we do hope you’ll enjoy following along!
Thanks Colin and Sue. Glad you enjoyed the post. Plenty more in the works!
Sharon Fiset
So interesting. I am looking forward to more AND the book. Good work girls.
Thank you Sharon, we appreciate the support!
Wendy Spencer
Wow! Can’t wait to read it, have just finished watching on Net Flicks :DICKENSIAN STORIES IN THAT TIME FRAME. oUR BOOK CLUB WILL BE READING IT VERY SOON, tHANKS TO YOUR WONDERFUL M OM! from Wendy Spencer–Deep River friend!
Thanks for your good wishes Wendy! I will check out the Dickensian stories too. We’d be happy to visit the book club when the time comes. 🙂
Hi Wendy. Glad to hear your book club will be reading The Cowkeeper’s Wish. Maybe these posts will get them prepared!
Thank you Sharon.
Gerry McLoughlin
Looks great Kristen. Looking forward to it. Gerry
Thanks Gerry!
heidi den Hartog
What a crazy job that would have been. And even crazier that the first Inspector of Nuisances for Southwark was ERRington 🙂 Fun stories. Look forward to more!
I think there was a lot of erring going on, so it certainly kept him busy!
unsunghero53
Another interesting story. The Victorian era contains a multitude of stories waiting to be told. I had a teacher who read Jane Eyre to us. I always remember her saying that if we dreamt of living in those times we would be rich with fabulous clothes etc. But that we would probably be living in slums!
Yes, that’s a wise point for sure!
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Hello from England: I saw in a newspaper y’day, for the first time, a mention of an Inspector of Nuisances. Googling it, I found your book! It looks great and I am excited about being able to buy it on 9 March 2019. Thank you from Rose.
How nice! That’s just lovely to hear. Please let us know what you think! I have another piece coming out soon about nuisance inspectors, and will post a link to it on this blog when that happens. Thanks so much for getting in touch, Rose!
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Madras High Court lifts ban on online sale of medicines
Chennai, India January 2, 2019January 2, 2019
Chennai : The Madras High Court on Wednesday allowed online pharmacies to sell drugs and cosmetics, staying an earlier order.
A two-member bench of the court said the earlier direction to the Central government to notify the rules governing the online sale of drugs before January 31 continues.
The Tamil Nadu Chemists and Druggists Association had filed a case against the sale of drugs by online companies.
According to the Association, online purchases may be convenient, but there exists the risk of unlicensed online outlets selling fake/expired/unapproved medicines.
Reacting to the court order, Pradeep Dadha, Founder and CEO, Netmeds.com in a statement said: “We are happy with the order of the Division Bench of the Madras High Court staying the sale of online medicines till further orders.”
“We are extremely grateful for the observations made by bench which validates the work that we have put in for the last three years,” said Dadha.
“As part of the observations, the bench recognized that mechanisms are in place to prevent any real abuse of process by the online pharma sector. One of the most pertinent observations made was that the Central Government is not opposed to online pharmacies and is actively putting in place systems for regulating the sales,” Dadha said.
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June 9, 2017 By Susan Abernethy in Medieval History Tags: Duke of Normandy, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emperor Henry V of Germany, Empress Matilda, Eustace count of Boulogne, Geoffrey Count of Anjou, Henry I, Henry II, King of England, King Stephen, Lady of the English, medieval history, Queen of England, The Anarchy, Treaty of Wallingford, Treaty of Winchester, William Adelin 7 Comments
“..and men said openly that Christ and His saints slept..” Quote from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle regarding the Anarchy of twelfth century England
The Treaty of Wallingford, for all intents and purposes, ended the civil strife of twelfth century England which some historians have christened the “Anarchy”. It didn’t exactly change the course of English history. It was more of a redirection.
King Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror, had been a strong and effective king. When his only legitimate son William Adelin died in a horrific shipwreck in 1120, Henry’s only remaining legitimate child was his daughter Matilda. She had been married to Emperor Henry V of Germany at the age of eleven. She lived there until the Emperor died and then returned to her father who arranged for her to marry Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. Henry had his noblemen and clergy swear an oath of loyalty to Matilda on three separate occasions, recognizing her as his heir to the throne of England. Despite the oaths, there is a possibility Henry was grooming Matilda to be a Queen Mother rather than a Queen Regnant. When Henry died in December 1135, he may have had a change of heart. There were men who attended him on his deathbed who swore he wanted his favorite nephew Stephen of Blois to be king.
Matilda was pregnant when her father died and either unwilling or unable to press for her right to the English throne. Stephen rushed to England and claimed the throne. The nobles and clergy were not keen on having a woman as ruler and they definitely didn’t trust her husband the Count of Anjou whom they considered a foreigner. Many of them had reservations about reneging on their oath to Matilda yet Stephen was acclaimed king and crowned.
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Almost immediately Stephen ran into resistance, especially from Henry I’s illegitimate son Robert of Gloucester who coordinated attacks around England in support of his half-sister Matilda. This was the beginning of many long years of fighting in the kingdom. The warfare included few pitched battles. Noblemen would switch sides whenever it was convenient and to their advantage and the king could never rely on anyone for complete loyalty and support. There were sieges and counter-sieges, castles and counter-castles were built, villages and churches were burned to the ground. England experienced famine and foul weather. Sometimes a town would surrender to make peace but the neighboring castle would keep fighting. The King of England wasn’t strong enough to complete his victory. At one point, Matilda gained custody of Stephen but had failed to be crowned queen due to her haughty manner and unpleasant temper.
Matilda gave up her personal fight for the throne in early 1148 when she withdrew from England and retired to Normandy. Her husband, Geoffrey had completed a systematic conquest of the duchy of Normandy while King Stephen was occupied with fighting civil war in England. Even before Matilda left, her eldest son Henry had come to press his own claims. His four forays into England had been largely unsuccessful if not humiliating. Stephen’s son Eustace also participated in the warfare, setting traps and thwarting Henry at every turn.
Geoffrey of Anjou died 1151. Henry was now Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou in his own right and came to England with a small number of troops in 1153. He set about with the same type of warfare used during the Anarchy with limited success. Stephen concentrated his efforts on the Angevin stronghold of Wallingford. The garrison held on tight but were running out of food. Henry brought his forces to help relieve the castle but could not break the blockade. Stephen knew Wallingford was the last bastion in his struggle to keep the throne of England and called up a large force that included his son Eustace. On two occasions the troops of Stephen and the troops of Henry faced each other on either side of the Thames River and twice battle was avoided.
Ruins of Wallingford Castle
The nobles on both sides were not prepared to rely on the outcome of a pitched battle when the possibility of a negotiated settlement was achievable. At this point, even the most loyal supporters of King Stephen believed Henry should be accepted as Stephen’s heir. Both men knew the possibility of treachery in their troops and a five day truce was agreed. Henry and Stephen met privately, each man on the opposite banks of a stream. Both of them complained bitterly of the disloyalty of their nobles. Henry was allowed to destroy Stephen’s counter-castle of Crowmarsh and mediators began working on more lasting terms. Eustace withdrew greatly vexed and angry. In his opinion, the war had not reached a proper conclusion.
The truce did not last long. Ready for revenge, Eustace attempted to lure Henry into a pitched battle and spread destruction all over Cambridgeshire. But then Eustace died suddenly on August 17. Stephen had a younger son William but at this point, Stephen’s resolve had been broken. Stephen and Henry’s armies approached each other at Winchester and it was agreed that a more lasting peace was required.
Stephen and Henry appeared at Winchester on November 6, 1153 in a public show of reconciliation. Peace was made on the following terms. Both sides were to lay down their arms. Stephen acknowledged before the assembled barons, earls and other magnates that Henry had a hereditary right to the kingdom of England. Henry generously conceded Stephen should retain the kingdom of England for the rest of his life provided the king, the bishops and other magnates bind themselves by an oath that Henry, if he survived, should succeed to the kingdom peacefully and without denial.
The terms required that lands which had fallen to intruders be restored to their former and legitimate owners who held them in the time of King Henry I. Any castles which had been erected since the death of Henry I were to be destroyed. Law and order was to be reestablished according to the old customs. All mercenary troops were to be sent home. These terms became known as the Treaty of Wallingford or the Treaty of Winchester. Stephen marked the implementation of the treaty by leading Henry in a procession through the streets of Winchester and again later through London. This agreement formed the basis for a settlement only. The exact terms and further stipulations were confirmed in a charter issued by Stephen at Christmas.
The charter declared Stephen had adopted Henry as his son and heir and that Henry had sworn homage to him and swore allegiance as long as Stephen was alive. Henry confirmed Stephen’s son William held the honors his father had bestowed on him, the properties he owned by right of his marriage to the daughter of the Earl of Warenne and agreed to restore to William the castles belonging to the honor of Mortain in Normandy. William never advanced a claim for the throne of England.
All of Henry’s vassals did homage to Stephen and Stephen’s men did homage to Henry, saving only the fealty they owed the king as long as Stephen lived. Custodians acceptable to Henry and Stephen were entrusted to watch over the primary castles of the Tower of London, Windsor, Oxford, Lincoln, Winchester and Southampton and they were to turn these castles over to Henry upon Stephen’s death. If any of these custodians rebelled, both Henry and Stephen were to wage war until the rebels gave them satisfaction. Stephen promised to act with the advice of Henry except in his right to exercise royal justice throughout the realm.
King Henry II of England
Although the kingdom rejoiced in the prospect of peace offered by the Treaty of Wallingford and the charter of Winchester, the relationship between Henry and Stephen began to show strain by January of 1154. Henry complained that Stephen was not destroying the castles according to the treaty. The lands that were supposed to be restored to the owners from King Henry I’s time came to be disputed and rival claims would beleaguer Henry for his entire reign as king. Because the treaty mentions Henry would become king “if he survived”, rumors began to circulate regarding plots to kill Henry. Henry decided to retire to Normandy and left by Easter.
Henry was in Normandy besieging the castle of Torigny when word reached him that Stephen had died on October 25. He finished reducing the castle, put his affairs in Normandy in order and then was forced to wait for favorable winds to cross the Channel. Consequently, England was without a ruler for six weeks but peace prevailed. On December 7, Henry and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine left Barfleur. On December 19, 1154, Henry and Eleanor were crowned king and queen at Westminster Abbey by Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury.
Further reading: “Stephen and Matilda: The Civil War of 1139-1153” by Jim Bradbury, “The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English” by Marjorie Chibnall, “Henry II” by W.L. Warren, entry on Eustace, count of Boulogne in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography written by Edmund King
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Vielka Helen Gorriz says:
Hi Susan: I love the history around all the Plantagenets , Mí love the life of Matilda, I read a book about the life of her and her first husband, how much she learn next to him..
This is a great post!! ❤️
grdtobin says:
Why would Eustace have “spread destruction all over Cambridgeshire”? Large parts of the shire were in the Honour of Richmond, which was loyal to King Stephen.
Sandra Deckinger says:
Excellent article. A disturbing time in English history. Both Mathilda’s were strong women. I find them fascinating.
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The Escapist Portal > The Escapist Forums > The News Room
Jurassic World 2 Announced For 2018
StewShearer
1 POSTED: 24 Jul 2015 13:50
Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard will return for 2018's Jurassic World 2.
I didn't hate Jurassic World like some other people did. It wasn't anywhere near the film that Jurassic Park was, to be sure, but it was still a lot of fun and delivered some of the finest dinosaurs-eating-people action the cinema's seen in a good long time. Honestly though, what I or the film's detractor think doesn't really matter. What matters is the fact that it made oodles upon oodles of money. Why you ask? Because Hollywood likes money and when it makes a large sum of it, it starts looking for ways to do it again.
In the case of Jurassic World for instance, Universal has announced that it will be producing and releasing a sequel flick. The new movie will see the return of Chris Pratt an Bryce Dallas Howard in the starring roles as well as Colin Trevorrow as its director. Derek Connolly, who did a rewrite for the original film, will handle the script for the sequel which, currently, is just being called Jurassic World 2. Steven Spielberg will also work with the film as its executive producer.
The big question, of course, is whether or not it will be able to beat its predecessor's massive profits. Jurassic World raked in more than $614 million in domestic ticket sales alone and would go on to earn more $1.5 billion worldwide. We'll find out if Jurassic World 2 can compare when it starts landing in theaters on June 22nd, 2018.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
rcs619
I'm not opposed to this really. If they gave us a more interesting main cast (the kids weren't awful, but kind of dull, and the whole romantic sub-plot was a bit clunky), maybe even bring back some of the originals again, and give us more set-pieces like the final fight scene... it could actually be a lot of fun. Hell, use all that money to bring Sam Neil, Jeff Goldblum and whoever played Ellie Sattler back into the mix. Get some real chemistry in there (which, sadly, the raptor-whisperer and the workaholic just did not have).
There's a lot of potential there if they learn from the mistakes of the first movie and distil it down to the parts that worked (because when Jurassic World worked, it *really* worked) :D
Bolt-206
I'm completely fine with this.
...As long as they answer a bunch of questions that the ending of the first JW never got 'round to answering.
Examples of such;
*Do the kids' parents still go ahead with their divorce?
*What happened to the guy that made the star dinosaur of the movie? (Especially since the guy he made the deal with got raptor'ed)
*What becomes of the now evacuated park, with most - if not all, it's once captive dinos loose, once owner now dead, and the rest of the heads either dead or likely scarred for life?
*WILL BLUE RETURN???
gonenow3
Bolt-206:
I am 100% fine with never knowing what happens to the kid's parents. Hell I'd prefer it if I never had to deal with the kids again. They served no purpose while creating a narrative mess with neither of them having realistic character development. But they wanted to mimic JP so they had to exist T_T
I agree with the rest of your list though. JW suffered a lot from being way too busy rather than having a focused narrative so hopefully they just focus on 1 thing in the sequel.
Vigormortis
Third highest grossing film in the industry's history. Of course there's a sequel. In fact, last I'd heard, it's already planned as a trilogy.
And you know what? I'm okay with this. In fact, I'm overjoyed. Despite it being dumb in some respects, I loved the hell out of the film. It was fun, it was thrilling, it had some great, humorous dialog, and it gave me (most of) what I wanted and expected from it.
So...yeah. Bring on the dinos.
If Pratt's character is returning, and there's even a chance they'll tie the now-defunct park into the next story, they'd be dumb not to bring back Blue. She was essentially the 3rd pillar of the main protagonists.
FPLOON
FPLOON:
Huh... Again, I was not expecting that from this series and, unlike with Pacific Rim 2, the hype I have for this is on par with my hype with Jurassic World instead of exceeding towards eminent fanboy territory...
Other than that, will this sequel feel more like Jurassic Park 2, a smarter Jurassic World, or the Jurassic World equivalent to Jurassic Park 3?
You said it, me... Although, honestly, you should know by now that a blockbuster movie that makes a lot of money would equate to a pending sequel in some way, shape, or form in its future...
Anyway, I can wait til 2018 for this sequel to come out, I guess...
Charcharo
I will never get why it is the budget and box office that ends these things instead of critical, public or even scientific consensus...
Are we really so soulless at this point? That even in a site dedicated to people that love these things, we go all business-like?
*Jaded Charcharo is jaded*
Frankster
I like Jurassic World for all its faults so looking forward to a 2nd.
Fingers crossed they drop the 15 rating, or at least up the gore factor by a lot.
There just wasn't enough tourists eaten for my tastes (though that english chick got an uber brutal death that wouldn't have been out of place in an 18 cert...FFs she gets tossed around by air dinos, her limbs and bones probably breaking and snapping in the process, then gets eaten alive to either die of suffocation or of being digested? And this was a 15 cert death? Well gimme more of that please!), and I really do dig the premise of a park full of yummy tourists caught up in a wave of freed dinos..Which sadly didn't happen for more then 5 mins in the film.
Yes I have issues.
Poetic Nova
Honestly? This was telegraphed in Jurassic World already.
Which I honestly won't mind, I enjoyed said movie alot.
Scytail
10 POSTED: 25 Jul 2015 10:18
Frankster:
Nah, its the same reason you won't see any of the MCU movies rated R or 18+, they have to make it available to as many people as possible to make as much money as possible.
I just have to wonder how they're going to contrive a sequel to this. I mean I figured the park was pretty much dead after that disaster, from a business perspective I mean.
Do you honestly care?
canadamus_prime:
Not really, mainly just adding it to the list of things that Jurassic World never got 'round to resolving
Fdzzaigl
Jurassic World was the worst Jurassic Park movie I've ever seen. I even liked numbers 2 and 3 for the record.
Horrible looking dinosaurs, retarded dialogues, predictable plot and a complete lack of emotional investment into any of the characters.
How anyone could praise it is beyond me. I never even felt excited to see any dino on-screen. Something which the original still does to this day.
I'm hoping they do better with the next one. But I'm not holding my breath for it. I fully expect more CGI shitness.
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Current Research Focus:
Representations of American History in Rockstar Games (Red Dead Series; L.A. Noire; Grand Theft Auto); brand identity and promotional discourses of historical games; the intersections of historiography and film criticism, genre cinema and historical popular culture.
I am a full-time, Centre for Arts Doctoral Research Excellence (CADRE) funded PhD candidate, supervised by Professor J.E. Smyth. I am also an Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study (IAS).
My research looks at the relationship between contemporary video games and other visual media (film/television), and how specific prominent film genres influence and and inform the portrayal of American History through digital games. The focus is Rockstar Games – particularly Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire, and Grand Theft Auto – tracing how their narratives, gameplay elements, and marketing strategies try to foster and construct a sense of historicity and authenticity around their titles.
My research explores the way historical video games and their accompanying promotional discourses recreate and evoke specific conventions and memory images of the past already established in visual popular culture. I consider how these paratextual discourses interact with textual representations of the past, and are often used to support an exclusive image of American history. Ultimately, I argue that we should be considering promotional disocurses, the brand identity of historical video games and developers, and other paratexts, as part of the representation of the past contained within historical video games themselves.
I blog about history, video games, film and TV here.
AM102 North America: Themes and Problems 2018/19 (seminar tutor, undergraduate).
"Marketing Authenticity: Rockstar Games and the Use of Cinema in Video Game Promotion", Kinephanos: Journal of Media Studies and Popular Culture, 7.1 (2017). Special issue: “It’s [not just] in the game”: the promotional context of video games.
"On the Promotional Context of Historical Video Games", Review Article, Rethinking History, 22.4 (2018), pp. 598-608.
Guest Editor, Press Start Journal Special Issue: On Walking Simulators (forthcoming, 2019).
'Marketing “Authenticity”, and Rockstar Games as Historian', Games Cultures Seminar, Birmingham City University, 1 May 2018.
'American History and Rockstar Games', Play/Pause seminar series, University of Birmingham, 29 November 2018.
'Rockstar Games Presents': American History (?), American Studies/Game Studies research seminar, University of Kent, 31 January 2018.
“This is what life in the West was like”: Controlling and Selling American (Cultural) History through Video Games, The International Association for Media and History Conference (IAMHIST XXVII), Northumbria University, 16-19 July 2019.
Roundtable Discussion: American Studies Pedagogy and Praxis: A Conversation about Teaching, British Association for American Studies 2019, University of Sussex, 25-27 April 2019.
“A million little details” in a “Rockstar world”: Generating Expectations of Authenticity in Red Dead Redemption 2, British Association for American Studies 2019, University of Sussex, 25-27 April 2019.
Historical and Cinematic Information as Entertainment in Video Game Promotion, Media Mutations 10, Universitá di Bologna, 21-22 May 2018.
With Adam Chapman (University of Gothenburg), ‘Documenting’ History in Mafia III: Playing with America’s Difficult Pasts, EBAAS Conference 2018, King's College London, 4-7 April 2018.
“It’s a sad story but this town has seen it play out a thousand times”: L.A. Noire’s ‘Historical’ Women”, Hardboiled History: A Noir Lens on America's Past, University of Warwick, 19 May 2017.
Playing with Genre and Gender: 'Historical' and 'Cinematic' Representations in Rockstar Games, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Annual Conference 2017, 20-21 April 2017.
Promoting 'Authenticity': Rockstar Games, American History, and American Cinema, British Association for American Studies Annual Conference 2017, Canterbury Christ Church University, 6-8 April, 2017.
Rockstar Games' 'Difficult Men': Contemporary Masculinity in Video Games and Television", Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference 2017, Chicago, IL, 22-26 March, 2017.
Portraying British American History in Disney's Pocahontas, Pocahontas and After: Historical Culture and Transatlantic Encounters, 1617-2017, The Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, 16-18 March 2017.
The ‘myth’ and ‘reality of the Old West’: Rockstar Games and Western Authenticity, Current Thinking on the Western III, University of Bradford, 13-15 June, 2016.
Gameplay vs Narrative: Choice and Restriction in Red Dead Redemption, Play Me A Story: Video Games as Narrative, Lancaster University, June 10, 2016.
“The first step in solving any problem is recognising there is one”: Reimagining the Past in the Present through Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, Ethics of Storytelling: Historical Imagination in Contemporary Literature, Media and Visual Arts, University of Turku, June 5, 2015.
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Hardboiled History: A Noir Lens on America's Past, May 19th 2017. Sponsored by Warwick History, the Warwick Humanities Research Centre, and the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). Co-organised with Hannah Graves (Warwick History)
Gaming the Gothic, 13th April 2018 at the University of Sheffield. Sponsored by the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities. Organisational Committee.
The Journal of Popular Culture, New Media and Society, Rethinking History.
Forthcoming: Film Studies (MUP).
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Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire and Battlefield V: the real history behind 3 popular video games
Video games tell historical stories to millions of people around the world, and many have budgets on par with Hollywood movies. But what kind of histories are they telling? Here, Esther Wright examines the real history behind three popular video games: Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire and Battlefield V...
Red Dead Redemption 2 and the (Un)Dying Old West
Today, Rockstar released the third official trailer for the forthcoming sequel to 2010's Red Dead Redemption. In typical Rockstar fashion, it drip-feeds eager fans suggestions of what to expect, while still holding back enough information for them to run to the forums and tear the trailer apart, frame by frame, looking for clues.
Screenbrum - Video Games! (14/7/2017)
ScreenBrum has entered the game! We are joined this week by Esther Wright, who is studying for a PhD about American History in Computer Games. Esther talks about some of the key titles: Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire, Fallout 3 and many more, and we of course platy the very very best music.
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Raven Live at the Inferno NWOBHM 12" Viny LP
"Live at the Inferno" is the first live album by the heavy metal band Raven. It was released in 1984.
Album Summary: Liner notes: Special Thanks to All Raven Lunatics Everywherem Youre the Best
Music Genre: NWOBHM Music
Description / Collector's info: Gatefold (FOC) cover design. This album includes the original thick paper/light cardboard custom inner sleeve with album details, complete lyrics of all songs by and photos.
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Published by Neat Music Publ / Athletic Rock Publ.
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Alex Perialas is an American Producer and sound engineer, and owner of the "Pyramid Sound Recording Studios" in Ithaca, and has been responsible for the production and engineering of dozens of Heavy Metal albums during the 1980s. Alex Perialas and Carl Canedy have been working both together on the albums: Anthrax's "Spreading the Disease" , "Fistful of Metal", Overkill's "Feel The Fire", "E-X-E - Stricken by Might"
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John Gallagher (GBR) - during the 1980s "John Gallagher" has been playing bass and singing with the "Raven (GBR) band, during this period they recorded 7 full-length albums. John Gallagher is the brother of "Mark Gallagher" who is also a band-member of the Raven band. Both John and Mark Gallagher have spent their entire musical career (since 1974) with the Raven band.
Mark Gallagher (GBR) - during the 1980s "Mark Gallagher" has been playing guitars and occasionally singing with the "Raven (GBR) band, during this period they recorded 7 full-length albums. Mark Gallagher is the brother of "John Gallagher" who is also a band-member of the Raven band. Both Mark and JOhn Gallagher have spent their entire musical career (since 1974) with the Raven band.
Norman Dunn a sound engineer and in the 1980s responsible for the recording of several metal albums for bands like Anthrax, Carnivore, Crumbsuckers, Raven, Whiplash.
Jack Skinner is a well-known mastering engineer, working at "Sterling Sound, New York City". During the 1980's he has mastered many albums for Heavy Metal bands, some of them include: Metallica , Exciter , Savatage , Anthrax and many others.
Record Label: Roadrunner RR 9808
Record Format 12" LP 160 grams vinyl
Year & Country 1984 Made in Holland
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Band Members and Musicians on: Raven Live at the Inferno NWOBHM
Band-members, Musicians and Performers
John Gallagher - Lead vocals, Bass
Mark Gallagher - Lead Guitar
Rob "WACKO!" Hunter - Drums
Track Listing of: Raven Live at the Inferno NWOBHM
Live at the Inferno (Gallagher, Hunter) 1:21
Take Control (Gallagher, Hunter) 3:22
Mind Over Metal (Gallagher, Hunter) 3:30
Crash Bang Wallop (Gallagher, Hunter) 3:13
Rock Until You Drop (Gallagher, Hunter) 4:12
Faster Than the Speed of Light (Gallagher, Hunter) 4:12
All For One (Gallagher, Hunter) 3:48
Forbidden Planet (Gallagher, Hunter) 1:52
Star War (Gallagher, Hunter) 5:19
Tyrant of the Airways (Gallagher, Hunter) 6:41
Run Silent, Run Deep (Gallagher, Hunter) 3:48
Crazy World (Gallagher, Hunter) 4:53
Let it Rip (Gallagher, Hunter) 3:48
G.A.R.B.O. (Gallagher, Hunter) 2:03
Wiped Out (Gallagher, Hunter) 4:02
Firepower (Gallagher, Hunter) 3:29
Don't Need Your Money (Gallagher, Hunter) 3:22
Break the Chain (Gallagher, Hunter) 3:58
Hell Patrol (Gallagher, Hunter) 7:23
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For Sale RAVEN - All For One ( 1983, Italy ) 12" LP
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This is the Italian release of "All For One", which is the third full length album of Raven and is their first album to be recorded in the USA.
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This is the French release of "All For One", which is the third full length album of Raven and is their first album to be recorded in the USA.
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"Stay Hard" is the fourth full-length album by the British heavy metal band Raven, released in 1985.
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Doctor, my goldfish has epilepsy: The problem with T&T Governance
Akins Vidale Thursday 7 August 2014 Akins Vidale, View Point 9 Comments
I had been considering several topics to write on and then inspiration (if I can call it that) came by the way of an ill-conceived attempt to stir my sense of humour. The message on my phone read as follows:
I phoned the vet the other day and said, “I think my goldfish has epilepsy.”
The vet came over and saw it swimming and said, “It looks OK.”
“But,” I chimed in “look what happens when you take it out of the water.”
Photo: Ex-FIFA vice-president Jack Warner (left) and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar share a light moment during the 2010 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago.
(Courtesy FIFA.com)
It was a mediocre joke at best, although, I could not help but reflect on the clumsy epileptic attempts by the leaders of this current administration to convince the population that they are practicing good governance.
It is evident to even the most apathetic observer that, not only has this administration lost its bearings, it has also lost all moral authority to continue to govern. They are fish out of water.
That being said however it is not enough to come to this conclusion without properly discussing how we got here and, more importantly, how do we move forward. The fact is that we have been having below par governments for some time now. The fact that some can feign competence longer than others only prolongs the inevitable ‘epileptic fit.’
Between 2002 and 2007 civil society groups were unrelenting with their cries of injustice meted out by the then Patrick Manning-led PNM administration. The general resentment within the society gave room for an embryonic Congress of the People to pose a formidable challenge to the entrenched traditional bases of two major parties.
Having survived the ballot in 2007, the PNM would ask the electorate to return to the polls in less than three years. While it is arguable that the PNM could have struggled through the final two years of its term, the situation was getting volatile and the leadership of the PNM had become indefensible.
Photo: Former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Ministers Basdeo Panday (left) and Patrick Manning have a chat at a Presentation College reunion.
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So why do we always seem to be like fish out of water when it comes to the governance of a population of only 1.3 million people with a GDP, according to the World Bank Report, in excess of US$30,000? (By the way, Trinidad and Tobago’s GDP is higher than Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
There is a prevailing view that many of our state institutions have collapsed or failed. I do not share that view. I want to suggest that their inherent flaws have been exposed and that these institutions were not created for functionality in participatory democracy.
They have not collapsed in as much as they are unable to meet the demands of a population which is more vigilant and more demanding of genuine democracy. The government structures of our society have outlived their usefulness and the changes which are needed are not cosmetic changes to who holds office but fundamental changes to what it means to hold office in Trinidad and Tobago.
Let us take the recent resignation of the Minister of Sport Anil Roberts.
The Prime Minister would have us believe that it is the beginning of an unprecedented dispensation of good governance to accept a resignation letter weeks after the Minister’s position had already become untenable. What is of even greater concern is that, in the absence of the eventual capitulation to public pressure, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has absolutely no check and balance to hold office holders accountable.
Photo: Sport Minister Anil Roberts (left) greets then National Security Minister Jack Warner during happier times.
(Courtesy Trinidad Guardian)
Remember that in spite of the fact that the Attorney General is the legal advisor to the Cabinet, the infamous Section 34 was never flagged by him (at least that is what we are told) and yet he remains an office holder.
We must take an honest look at ourselves. Are our independent institutions as independent as they should be? Do we have the kind of separation of powers that can engender confidence in these institutions?
Are our ‘watch dog’ institutions toothless tokens?
The answer to these questions lies in a reorganisation of our state through policy and constitutional reform. It is also requires and open mind from us as citizens to shift our culture or practice of governance.
Over the next few weeks I will deconstruct the proposals by the Movement or Social Justice which we see as a step in the right direction to achieving this transformation.
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Akins Vidale lectures at the Cipriani College of Labour and Cooperative Studies and is a UWI graduate with a B.A. in History. He has served as the president of the Trinidad Youth Council and is the General Secretary of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions and NGOs (FITUN). Read his blog: http://akinsvidale.wordpress.com/
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“It is certain that both [Darryl] Smith and the Prime Minister are aware that once …
Erline
Monday 11 August 2014 at 11:50 am
I thought the joke was pretty funny, actually. And the analysis sadly true.
Gerard Nicholas
Friday 8 August 2014 at 11:00 pm
Very informative.
Lasana Liburd
Friday 8 August 2014 at 4:30 pm
If you are good, you can get 20 years of corruption done in four years. Ask Anil.
Selwyn King
Well said Mr Woodyear that why they coming with this thing cause they control more vote south of the Caroni bridge so that they reassurance to stay in government so that’s their 50% majority
Geoffrey Woodyear
“The Prime Minister would have us believe that it is the beginning of an unprecedented dispensation of good governance to accept a resignation letter weeks after the Minister’s position had already become untenable.” If what we are experiencing is good governance then why is there such great fear to face the polls? Mr. Manning believed he was a model of good governance but when in doubt at least he refered to the electorate for a second opinion.
Jemail Neeramanii
Thursday 7 August 2014 at 10:16 pm
Kevin Knights
Thursday 7 August 2014 at 8:50 pm
Looking forward to the deconstruction Akins. Keep keepin’ on brother!!
Kirwin Weston
Thursday 7 August 2014 at 6:51 am
Like that Goldfish ingest some “seaweed”, if you know what I’m talking about
Then there is the proposal of a 2-term (supposing 10-year) cap for the PM. This can translates to, “You only have 10 years to manage efficient corruption.” I guess these politicians will boost there strategic skills in “spranging” we tax money if they know it’s max 10 years to do so. I getting the “goldfish” feeling too yes. Vet…check my vestibular system dey !
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Paris Saint-Germain forward, Kylian Mbappe, has called on his team-mates to show more personality, after they were thrashed 5-1 by Lille on Sunday.
The defeat delayed their Ligue 1 title celebrations by another week.
PSG were reduced to 10 men, after Juan Bernat had cancelled out Thomas Meunier’s early own goal.
The French champions went on to concede four times in the second half for their heaviest league defeat under their Qatari owners.
“It was a box-to-box game, some moments we were in control, some moments we were not.
“We’re going to be champions but we cannot lose like this.
“It’s not normal. We lack personality, it’s one of our flaws, we have to correct this. We played like debutants,” Mbappe told Canal Plus.
PSG will be crowned champions on Wednesday, if they win at Nantes. They have 81 points after 31 games, to second-placed Lille’s 64 after 32 matches.
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Final report from public records task force reflects members’ resilient divides
Sara Gentzler January 4, 2019
During its final of four meetings, the Legislative Task Force on Public Records agreed on eight recommendations all members of the task force “could live with.” Ongoing discussion beyond those eight points, though, led the task force to allow members to submit page-long statements for inclusion in its final report.
Six of the 15 task force members took the opportunity: Three lawmakers, two representatives of the public, and the representative from “an open government organization.” No statements from members representing media sources or lawmakers representing the Democratic caucuses were included in the report.
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All the letters feature at least part of a sentence expressing appreciation for the task force’s work or some of the conversation; read as a group, though, they point to persistent divisions within the task force.
Letters from lawmakers emphasize a need to protect the Legislature. Reps. Shea and Volz’s short joint statement states support for transparency, while expressing appreciation for the “thoughtful recognition” that exemptions for legislative records “may need to be different, or apply in a different way” than they do for other branches of government.
Meanwhile, Sen. Becker devoted most of her page-long statement to an argument for legislative privilege.
In its final meeting, the task force didn’t reach consensus on a ninth recommendation that would’ve read “there is a need for protection of the legislative deliberative process.” Legislators wanted to add that language as-is, while others on the task force advocated for the addition of the phrase “beginning with the existing deliberative process exemption in the Public Records Act and adding narrowly crafted exemptions as needed.”
In her statement, Becker attributes the group’s inability to reach consensus on that recommendation to “a fundamental misunderstanding of the legislative privilege established in the state constitution by the speech or debate clause.”
Also reflecting that divide, David Ammons, Vice Chair of the Public Disclosure Commission, emphasized in his statement that the Legislature should agree to “adhere to the voter-approved expectation that our lawmakers will follow the PRA, with any additional carve-outs that are deemed indispensable, beyond the 500 exemptions already enacted.”
“Disclosure and open records, as ordained by the public nearly 50 years ago, are part of the solution and the healing,” Ammons concludes. “I commend this report as a starting point for your consideration.”
Candice Bock, Government Relations Director for the Association of Washington Cities (AWC), expressed a similar viewpoint.
“AWC supports one version of the PRA as the best way to serve our shared Constituents,” Bock wrote. “We believe that they deserve the same access to all levels of government. We are also concerned that different rules will create confusion and mistrust.”
Toby Nixon, President of the Washington Coalition for Open Government (WCOG), wrote of an overall disappointment in the work done by the task force.
“We hoped that we would be able to roll up our sleeves and work together side-by-side with legislators to identify how to bring the legislature fully under the Public Records Act and craft specific exemptions to protect the public interest,” Nixon wrote. “We are disappointed that the outcome of the process is limited to just a few vague, broad, high-level statements of principles that should have been obvious to all from the start. It is good that one of those statements urges the legislature to continue to engage with stakeholders while actual bill language is developed.”
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Why the owner of ‘The Bend’ says he wanted to invest in a hotel for East Moline
Posted 10:45 pm, December 26, 2018, by Jonathan Ketz, Updated at 09:37AM, December 27, 2018
EAST MOLINE, Illinois- Dan Murphy brought the first hotel to the city during the month of December, and when you ask him why he invested in it, he goes back to his childhood.
"Hearing the whistles, and seeing the people coming and going, this place was alive."
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We had Breakfast With...Murphy on Thursday, December 13 on Good Morning Quad Cities. Murphy grew up in Silvis and moved to Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 2004 to start a business called Precision Pipeline. He sold it five years later. Throughout that time, Murphy says he's never lost touch with his hometown.
"I think it's important to never lose touch with where you came from," Murphy said. "You give back if you can, and I try to do that."
Murphy put money into the Hyatt House and Hyatt Place hotels called 'The Bend.' Combined, they have more than 230 rooms. Murphy says it's been ten years since he was first contacted about the project.
"We were fortunate enough that some of the people we were dealing with at the time had contacts with Hyatt," Murphy said. "Some of this is like anything, some of it is just chance."
Murphy says market studies have shown a hotel like this can sustain itself, and even though he brought the idea to Hyatt, he hopes this hotel is a model of success in the years to come. To learn more about the hotel's Winter Extravaganza, click here.
There are also two hotels going up in Bettendorf. One at the site of the old Lodge hotel off I-74. Another is going up at the site of the new TBK Bank Sports Complex. Both of them are being built by Frontier Hospitality Group. Mayor Bob Gallagher says another hotel is supposed to go up next to TBK Bank as well.
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Aug 23, 2016. During the behind-the-scenes tour, the secret to how the blue paint stays on. of the props and equipment are used, such as the PVC pipes and the backpack. One of the music Instruments used in the Blue Man Group show.
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Oct 2, 2018. The night will also feature performances by the Blue Man Group, Boyz II Men and. The bizarre, body-painted performance artists pulled off a fun number with some PVC pipes and music and strangeness, and it was great.
Their boho-beach approach includes a canopy bed created from repurposed shipping palettes and PVC pipe and topped with a billowy linen. The room which had been painted light blue, with the bed.
Apr 23, 2016. The music renews the classic sounds of the group, which centers around heavy. Blue Man Group performs with paint during a media preview on. are more classic Blue Man Group tracks, with the heavy PVC pipe providing.
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Jan 27, 2016. Paint drumming is one of Blue Man Group's signature moments of the show. wildly popular for their unique use of comedy, music and technology. “It's not like we have a set of massive, big, ten-foot-long PVC pipes at.
Exhibition design is perhaps the group’s forte, and since their tall. Renaud Jerez built robot-like mannequins out of PVC pipe. Most recently, Andrei Koschmieder installed decrepit, rusty,
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Transfer Rumours: Milinkovic-Savic to Man Utd, Bayern Eye Vazquez, Douglas Costa's Future & More
Jamie Clarke 06 Jul 2019
As clubs up and down the country begin their pre-season campaigns, fans are being treated to the plethora of transfer rumours that come with it.
Managers get a glimpse of the playing squads they have in front of them and will inevitably have their eyes on transfer targets to boost their chances of success.
With just over a month left for clubs to make their signings, there are plenty of rumours doing the rounds. Let's take a look at the pick of the bunch from the past few days.
Manchester United 'Particularly' Keen on Milinkovic-Savic
Prior to the 2018 World Cup, every major club under the sun was linked with a move for the Serbian midfielder. However, a disappointing tournament saw speculation dampen, temporarily at least.
Now, Italian publication SportMediaSet claim Manchester United have rejuvenated their interest in the Lazio man and are 'particularly' keen on Sergej Milinkovic-Savic to help revitalise their midfield.
Despite asking for €120m a year ago, the Rome club are believed to be happy to settle for just €80m now. Lazio's sporting director has travelled to London to settle the player's future 'once and for all'.
Birmingham City Offer Saido Berahino Career Lifeline
Saido Berahino could be offered a way back into first-team football by Birmingham City, as current club Stoke City are looking to sack the forward following a drink-driving conviction.
The Sun say the Blues are set to offer a trial to the Burundi international, who scored five goals in 56 appearances for the Potters. Berahino's form has been in decline since a move from West Brom to Tottenham Hotspur broke down in 2015.
The forward is expected to leave the bet365 Stadium this summer, and the Midlands side look his most likely destination. Birmingham recently lost Che Adams to Southampton and manager Pep Clotet might see Berahino as the perfect replacement.
Karl Darlow Subject to Blackburn Interest
The Newcastle exit door looks set to continue revolving with substitute keeper Karl Darlow now the subject of interest from Championship side Blackburn.
Sky Sports report that Darlow, who hasn't featured for the Magpies since April 2018, is being lined up by Rovers as a replacement for David Raya, who is close to finalising a move to Brentford.
An official bid has not yet been tabled, but boss Tony Mowbray is believed to favour an experienced Championship goalkeeper.
Bournemouth Fail with £2.5m Bid for Luton's Jack Stacey
Bournemouth have had a bid of £2.5m turned down for Luton Town full-back Jack Stacey. The defender has been virtually ever-present for the Hatters in back-to-back promotion seasons from League Two to the Championship, scoring four goals in that time.
According to Sky Sports, Eddie Howe has failed in this attempt to convince Luton to allow the full back to join the Premier League side.
Luton have already lost another full back in James Justin to Leicester this summer, and will be keen to avoid losing another as they attempt to cement their place in the second tier.
Watford's Stefano Okaka Attracts Galatasaray Interest
Turkish Super Lig champions Galatasaray are ready to make a move to capture Watford's Stefano Okaka, who spent the second half of the 2018/19 season on loan at Udinese.
However, the Watford Observer have been told that the Turkish giants' valuation of the player is below Watford's.
During his spell in Serie A this year, Okaka scored six goals in 16 games. The Italian, who still has two years on his deal at Vicarage Road, is set to move on this summer, but Galatasaray's valuation of £2.5m is too low.
Crystal Palace in Advanced Talks to Sign Atalanta Defender
Premier League side Crystal Palace are in pole position to sign Atalanta wing back Timothy Castagne as the two clubs reach an advanced stage of discussions.
As reported by Football Italia, if Palace make a minor improvements to their €20m offer for the Belgium international, the Serie A side will be willing to let the player go.
Castagne made 37 appearances last season, scoring five and assisting another five. The 23-year-old has also recently broken into the Belgium international set-up, making five appearances.
Douglas Costa Wants Second Chance to Impress at Juventus
Brazilian winger Douglas Costa is ready to reignite his career at Juventus, following a disappointing campaign in 2018/19 in which he provided just one goal and two assists in 17 appearances.
The 28-year-old is said to have impressed his management, particularly new head coach Maurizio Sarri by arriving early at the team's training camp for pre-season.
As quoted by Goal, the forward said: "I have another three years of contract and I am convinced to stay. Now everything is new, so I remain. I do not know Sarri personally, but I have seen him work in Naples. With him we will make great things."
West Ham Make €15m Bid for Wolves Target Edson Alvarez
The future of defender Edson Alvarez looks set to be decided in the coming days, as Mexico's Gold Cup run comes to an end after they take on USA in the final on Sunday.
Alvarez, who is still just 21, has attracted interest from Ajax as well as both Wolves and West Ham, but the Mexican is believed to favour a move to the Premier League, according to FutbolTotal.
West Ham have joined Wolves in registering a formal bid for the centre back, believed to be in the region of €15m.
Bayern Munich Register Interest in Arsenal Target Lucas Vazquez
True (the interest of @FCBayern. But: no offer for @Lucasvazquez91 of @FCBayern to @realmadrid ) https://t.co/tR1dgZmFm8
— Christian Falk (@cfbayern) July 5, 2019
Lucas Vazquez is one of a number of Real Madrid players who could leave the Bernabeu this summer, and his availability has attracted the interest of a number of clubs.
Arsenal's intrigue was reported earlier in the week, but according to Christian Falk (via AS), Bayern Munich have entered the race for the Spaniard.
However, the Bundesliga club are yet to register an offer to Real Madrid and the Gunners remain in pole position to complete the deal.
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Virgin Atlantic Upper Class LHR-SFO: Pumba’s Last Ride
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Brexit: The Beginning of the Beginning
I've been watching, reading, and dreaming about the Brexit gloom and doom. Not one to bite my tongue, I have to give my 2 pence worth. Unlike John Oliver, I am in complete support...
EasyJet: Know Before You Go
thepointsoflife - November 22, 2015
EasyJet is not Southwest Airlines. It is more like Allegiant because you should 'expect everything, carry nothing'. I was looking for a cheap option to get from London to Athens after fog forced me to miss my flight to Poland. I had heard the horror stories of Ryanair and opted for Easyjet instead.
No. 1 Lounge Gatwick: The James Bond Review
No. 1 Lounge Gatwick is part of the Priority Pass Lounge network. The queue to get in gave the false impression that it would be an overcrowded, underwhelming lounge. That was not the case.
National Express: Bus From Heathrow to Gatwick
Not a lot of entertainment in this part of the Trip Report but some useful information that I wish I would've known ahead of time that may be of benefit to you if you are flying into Heathrow and out of another London airport. Nothing is as stressful as arriving in one terminal and being forced to depart from another.
Virgin Atlantic Revivals Lounge LHR: Call Me George Jetson
In the future we will cross the Atlantic on a flying machine, arrive before the start of the business day, and treat ourselves to an a la carte meal before heading to the office.
Virgin Atlantic Upper Class DTW-LHR: Party in the Sky
Everything about Virgin Atlantic Upper class is a party. In fact, it was my favorite flight I've ever taken not because it was Emirates, Singapore, or Cathay quality, but because the passengers and cabin crew were like Janice in Account, they just don't give a F*ck. And that's a good thing.
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Exclusion of South East from national assembly leadership is a repeat of Azikiwe, Awolowo’s mistakes
Slapping Sen. Abbo arraigned by police; granted bail for N5m
Elumelu responds to his suspension by the PDP – but what are his options
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Ahmed Lawan, Festus Adedayo and the APC mob
by Fredrick Nwabufo
Building a cohesive society starts with delivering justice to all and protecting the interest of not just a few, but all in the composite unit. Justice is the adhesive which cements the foundations of attuned societies. And it is the scaffold on which national balance rests.
Mauritius is a poly-ethnic island country in Africa. The nation is a congruence of different peoples of Indian, African, European and Chinese of descent. But this tiny country is the most advanced democracy on the continent. It has been able to manage the disparate interests by maintaining a balance of power in its parliamentary system of government.
In 2016, the Economist Intelligence Unit described Mauritius as a full democracy. It has also been projected to be the first developed country in the third world.
Nigeria cannot exit the jungle, if it does not put the piece to the puzzle of political justice. It will always take one step forward and five steps backwards.
Nigeria is like a locomotive operated by different drivers who take turns at the engine, and when one driver makes effort to get it moving, another one tries to sabotage him. This cycle is repeated as the drivers take turns. How can such a country move forward?
The attempt to scheme out the south-east in the politics of the national assembly leadership should be interrogated by every Nigerian who truly holds this country dear. In 2015, the south-east had no representation in the leadership of all the arms of government. This was rationalised at the time with a bogus claim, “the zone did not produce any ranking senator or member of the house of representatives on the platform of the APC”.
And in 2019, the same game is at play. Ahmed Lawan has been singled out to be the president of the senate and Femi Gbajabiamila “anointed” to be the speaker of the house of representatives. If this crystallises, with Buhari and Osinbajo as heads of the executive; Lawan and Gbajabiamila as leaders of the legislature and Ibrahim Tanko as the head of the judiciary, the entire government will be in the hands of two groups in a multi-ethnic country.
Really, it will be dangerous for national coagulation to allow this imbalance. The refrain that there is no “ranking APC senator” from the south-east is a moot point. This is not entirely true. Besides, there are senators from the southeast elected on the platform of the APC. The rules of “ranking” can be circumvented for the sake of national balance and cohesion. I believe achieving political balance and fostering unity is more important than any rule which only favour a few.
We must protect our unity. Imagine if it was the other way around. Imagine if it was the southwest or the north that is facing this obvious political marooning. Repeating a bad precedent and rationalising it with political niceties will only deepen recriminations and provide ammunition for future generations to trade hate.
Every day young people on social media trade hate over what Azikiwe and Awolowo did and did not do in the 1960s and 70s. Both men have been blamed for being the fount of Nigeria’s political challenges – depending on the divide.
While the Igbo blame Awolowo for introducing ethnic politics into the system, the Yoruba blame them as well for the same reason.
Today, our political leaders and particularly a certain godfather, for selfish reasons, are introducing “maroon politics” into the system, creating minefields for future ethnic wars and bashing by their actions.
How bleak is the future of our unity?
Righting the wrongs of yesterday and avoiding the pitfalls of tomorrow begin with doing justice to all and making compromises where necessary.
Follow this writer on Twitter: @FredrickNwabufo
Related Topics:APC, Senate, South East
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Boko Haram terrorists earn more than Nigerian soldiers – why it matters
Buhari meets with service chiefs who assure him that their strategy is working
The Pastor Fatoyinbo saga proves again that Boko Haram is our national religion
Buratai denies blaming troops for setbacks; criticises local communities
Army accuses NGOs again of Boko Haram ties – but its message faces same roadblock
A member of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed, has revealed that Nigerian soldiers receive N1000 as daily allowance, while Boko Haram terrorists receive $3000.
Mohammed, who heads Humanitarian Assistance and Rehabilitation at PCNI, said this during a presentation to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Sub-Sahara Africa’s Regional Economic Outlook Report on Monday in Abuja.
“The Nigerian military, for example, gets N1,000 daily for being in the North East at the war front as their allowance. In the same North East, Boko Haram members receive $3,000 per day as allowance.”
On recruitment: “Don’t forget that Boko Haram members are being killed on a daily basis, but they are also recruiting on a daily basis. They are getting people to recruit because it is lucrative and many young people are unemployed.”
On amnesty: Mohammed urged the FG to consider amnesty for members of the sect.
Unemployment, according to him, has to be tackled urgently to reduce the number of available young men for Boko Haram to recruit.
Why this matters: If Mohammed’s claims are accurate, then the gulf between pay for soldiers and terrorists shows clearly why it has been so hard to end the insurgency (despite the many claims that the group has been technically defeated.) But he is right about the urgency of tackling the unemployment crisis. It is just so much more easier for the terrorists to recruit when over 43 percent of the population are either unemployed or underemployed as per NBS Q3 2018 data.
Go Deeper: “We have stopped Boko Haram in its tracks”: 5 quotes from Buhari’s NEC speech
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Oyo State Governor-elect is proposing to negotiate the minimum wage – why it matters
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Campaigning on policy – what a concept!
Ride that pony
Nek minnit
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 11:31 am, October 28th, 2011 - 52 comments
Categories: Economy, equality - Tags: gas, maui pipeline, RWC
Net benefit of hosting the Rugby World Cup $280m over 7 weeks ($780m tourist spending minus $500m investment and operating losses).
Cost of an 8cm welding crack in the Maui pipeline: $350m after 2 days.
Guess it pays to mind the small stuff. Least it didn’t happen during the Cup when Auckland was chocka with tourists.
52 comments on “Nek minnit”
Colonial Viper 1
I missed the whole ‘nek minnit’ meme. What the?
pollywog 1.1
I voted for Key thinking he was some sort of financial whizz and was gonna pull the country out of recession and debt…NEK MINNIT
well nah jokes…i didn’t vote Key
Ianupnorth 2
It was a Facebook thing, gone and best forgotten.
However, if the country looks at this pragmatically, we should be investing in infrastructure and creating jobs and training opportunities.
I had an old Volvo once; it had two lighting circuits, so that if one set of lights fused you still had headlights and tail lights. Aircraft have similar back up systems. Now, how about a back up gas pipe (or sections of), so the gas could be rerouted away from the source of the problem – same for the electrical grip, phone system, etc.
insider 2.1
There is a parallel pipeline owned by Vector http://www.vector.co.nz/sites/vector.co.nz/files/Transmission%20pipeline%20map.pdf. That’s why so many businesses and residential customers are able to carry on with a gas supply. But unless it is completely empty waiting for an event it can never provide 100% replacement of the other pipeline’s capacity. We’d have similar capacity issues if there was a major power line down or major highway closed. The fact businesses have made themselves so reliant on gas without back ups shows how reliable the network is. There should be no sympathy for businesses that fail to manage their risk adequately.
Deadly_NZ 2.2
Now why would anyone want to put in backup pipes?? takes profit away from the greedies.
vto 2.2.1
yes well this failure is one of the reasons I aint never put in gas in any of my business dealings. Not reliable.
It is a bit like telling people to take out their fireplaces and install some dumb-arse electrical heating device. You become reliant on some private business that is not reliable.
Monty 2.2.2
I remember the industry around upgrading the pipeline in the early 1980s. A massive and expensive project and part of the “think big”. To say that there should be a second back-up pipeline is naive. There is a cost of humdreds on millions of dollars. To date the pipeline has been very reliable – i remeber a digger went through a pipeline along a the Foxton Straights a few years ago. But otherwise I am not sure there has been a failure. so maybe the reliability needs to be looked at in the context of service of 30years and the value to all NZers over that time. Pretty bloody good actually.
/agreed
What we’re really seeing here isn’t a need for a backup pipe but lack of maintenance and upkeep.
Mac1 3
Regarding nett gain to the economy from the RWC, did I not hear that normal business activity in New Zealand dropped away during the RWC and therefore NZ businesses actually benefitted less than the tourist income suggests?
John Key also liked to tout “85,000 tourists over the time period of the RWC”. The normal number of tourists during this time period is 70,000.
Kevin Welsh 3.2
I am involved in the printing/communications industry and the rubber wool cup combined with school holidays has us down about 30% this month.
Rich 3.3
That $780mln is unbelievably bogus (I assume they went down the list of 61 higher ranked universities in the UK before they could find one that would write what they wanted – we’re talking the UK equivalent of Natcol here).
I’ll be interested to see what Stats come up with on the final tourist numbers – there will be a substantial number of people who stayed away because they got the picture that NZ would be full and expensive. Not to mention that there is an upper capacity limit on what can be milked from tourists, that a lot of the dollars will go overseas (fuel, flights and the like) and that we’re comparing gross turnover against net taxpayer spend. (Tax take from $780 mln would be maybe $250mln, so only half the spend).
Puddleglum 3.3.1
And there’s also the possibility that tourist visitation has simply been shifted from the future to now (during the RWC).
That is, those who came may have been thinking that “sometime (soon) I’ll visit NZ” – the RWC then simply triggered that decision.
Lanthanide 4
I’m wondering what all these companies are planning on doing when the maui gas field runs out in 10-15 years time. They’ll start seeing some significant price increases within the next 5-7 years.
creeping energy depletion
and higher prices won’t put extra gas in the field.
pollywog 4.1.1
I’m pickin the faster than light neutrino anomaly will lead to a scientific discovery that will revolutionise the energy industry and make the oil years an era best forgotten like the dark ages thus making any worries about peak oil and climate change irrelevant
and i’m pickin it’ll happen within the next generation and by someone form the next generation.These youngers are gonna have to fend for themselves in ways we can’t imagine.
there’s your brighter future.
…scientific discovery that will revolutionise the energy industry…
Yep I agree. It will all be like the clean fusion energy revolution again….. Ummm wait a minute….
pollywog 4.1.1.1.1
heh…prolly be something more like a lossless dark energy converter that filters out the harmful shit through an inert dimension 🙂
Lanthanide 4.1.1.1.2
Outside of the Tokamak fusion boondoggle, there are a variety of groups working on fusion.
IMO polywell seems to be the furtherest along, and based on actual working (but not net-energy-positive) fusors from the 1950s and 1960s. After initially being funded by the US Navy in 2007, they’ve picked up successive funding contracts up through 2011 and seem to be making progress. Unfortunately the Navy want the research kept classified and confidential at this stage, so it’s difficult to judge how far along they really are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
lprent 4.1.1.1.2.1
Eventually I suspect they will get it (sometime). It is mostly an engineering problem albeit a difficult one.
But I was really pointing out that there is a hell of a time lag these days between seeing a entry point in the physics to being able to implement a workable engineering solution. Fusion power is the obvious example.
But if you think that Rutherford split the nucleus about 1917, but the first scaled power reactors based on the same principle didn’t really go into use until 1960 and weren’t significant for power generation until the mid-60’s. It took nearly 50 years to go from experimental proof of the physics to get into widespread usage in power generation.
Installed nuclear capacity initially rose relatively quickly, rising from less than 1 gigawatt (GW) in 1960 to 100 GW in the late 1970s, and 300 GW in the late 1980s. Since the late 1980s worldwide capacity has risen much more slowly, reaching 366 GW in 2005.
I think that polly is being just a tad optimistic. And of course fission power was the sprint race of all power generation technologies.
pollywog …
Optimistic ?…don’t you know the distance between events is getting shorter and time is speeding up. Bring on the singularity i say.
It’s our kids kids that are gonna sort this energy shit out and put all the doom n’ gloomy predictors of global warming, peak oil, over population and lack of resources to shame. Unfortunately it’s gonna get worse before it gets better and it’s gonna be our kids which revolt.
…and there’s something fishy about fission. I think it’s a red herring eh ?
” And of course fission power was the sprint race of all power generation technologies.”
That’s the factor, not just time.
And the thing is that corporations and governments now have a real point to investing in technologies like fusion and green energy – because oil is running out and even fission might have a fuel issue, according to some.
…even fission might have a fuel issue, according to some.
All physical resources have peaks and u235 (needed for fission reactions in today’s reactors) is, IIRC, past it.
Blighty …
“And of course fission power was the sprint race of all power generation technologies.”
yeah because of the massive government investment in it’s twin, nuclear weapons programs that needed breeder reactors – a huge subsidy on commercial nuclear electricity development.
Fusion would be awesome though. And, if all goes according to plan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMO , we could have commercial generation by the middle of the century and there would be huge cost and environmental incentives for rapid uptake after that.
Just got to get through the next 30-50 years of falling energy availability first.
I do love that the fusion research is looking forward on that kind of timescale though, not demanding results now or giving up.
It’s kind of like Labour’s policies – you fix big, long-term problems with big, long-term policies.
It’s a new outlook for industralised society, that isn’t used to thinking beyond the next quarter, and democracies, that aren’t used to thinking beyond the next election.
Rich 4.1.1.1.3
Sadly, it appears to have been an error caused (ironically) by failure to correctly account for special relativity in the use of GPS clock signals for synchronisation.
pollywog 4.1.1.1.3.1
ummm…so that’ll be distance between events getting shorter and time speeding up then ?
pollywog 5
Tariana Turia was gonna solve all Maori problems with the millions of reprioritised funds skimmed off general gov’t dep’ts to bankroll Whanau Ora…NEK MINNIT
Anyone seen Aunty Tari lately ?
Maori Party have been remarkably quiet of late. Maybe they’re wishing they went with Mana’s non-aggression pact after all.
Ianupnorth 5.2
She’s a muppet; all the money for Whanau Ora Nact style has been pilfered from other services helping Maori, robbing Peter to pay Paul – just like free afetr hours care for under 6 year olds is going to be funded by cutting other services.
How much did it cost the health services as a result of a record number of people through the Auckland Hospital emergency dept, a significant amount due to RWC revelries? A large number of injuries were alcohol-related.
Tigger 6.1
Any figures reported Carol? Great point, what other costs like this aren’t being taken into account when we look at what that bloated ‘event’ cost us.
Carol 6.1.1
Tigger:
Between September 9 and October 23 staff at the hospital’s Adult Emergency Department treated 7419 patients – many of them with injuries directly related to rugby nerves and elation, said department clinical director Dr Tim Parke.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/rwc-in-auckland/5848685/World-Cup-causes-Auckland-patient-overflow
Yesterday was the busiest day on record with 234 patients treated.
It followed heavy partying in the central city after the All Blacks’ nail-bitting 8-7 victory over France.
The Labour Day numbers were up around 56 per cent on an average day.
At times, the hospital says it was seeing one new patient every two to three minutes.
The previous record, 212, followed the tournament’s opening ceremony.
prism 6.2
I think that emergemcy clinic treatment at hospital should have a set charge. And that government have a small optional insurance cover for this. The cost would be discretionary so that community card holders would pay less but most drunk and disorderly would have to front up for their mayhem or get sued. These are the real bludgers on the state.
And children would be seen free at an after dinner clinic for them say 7 to 8pm. Help parents particularly low income, and stem outbreaks of whatever, a win-win policy.
I think the blame for the RWC emergency spike goes to the government & IRB that encouraged and enabled widespread alcohol-fueled partying. Did the IRB/NZRU have some kind of deal with alcohol companies?
vto 6.2.1.1
Beer was one of the main shponsorers … hick *
Ianupnorth 6.2.1.1.1
Heineken were only involved so they COULD sell their $7.50 cans of beer
McFlock 6.2.2
“I think that emergemcy clinic treatment at hospital should have a set charge.”
So what’ll happen is a drunk guy GPFOs, has a bit of a headache, decides against going to A&E, and ends up dead. Or someone puts off the call over a bit of angina, and has a massive coronary. Everybody loses.
A better (and probably cheaper) idea is just to fund the heck out of hospitals, social workers and the education system, and better enforce the current liquor legislation, as well as incorporating community opinions in liquor license applications after a certain threshhold.
prism 6.2.2.1
What about some personal responsibility when drinking? How come that there are so many wailing wallies worrying about the alcoholics and the druggies giving them a licence to get wasted and no recriminations.
The drunks and druggies themselves don’t care about others – they even turn on the social workers the ambulance people the nurses etc. who try and help. It’s so wet that no-one can be blamed.
I am really angry at the way that government greases the way for people becoming drunks, in return for revenue from liquor. Fagin was more direct and honest. But people must try to set standards for themselves for their own self respect – to think otherwise is to despise and infantilise them.
Vicky32 6.3
A large number of injuries were alcohol-related.
Sad but not surprising..
Peak Oil is Near 7
What part of a pipeline owned by a private company going bust, the government’s fault? Are you saying this wouldn’t have happened under Labour?
Ed 7.1
You are the first to suggest it was the government’s fault, POiS – but it does illustrate how small things can have a large impact on us all.
It shouldn’t be privately owned.
How about the cries for help from the poor farmers who might lose money? They expect a handout but then begrudge the unemployed or disabled….
\Craig 8
Want to bet that this is attributable to hamfisted redundancies, loss of skilled staff, neglect of pipe maintenance and overall execrable risk management? Ah, Tory crisis management, what a wonderful oxymoron…
KJT 8.1
http://kjt-kt.blogspot.com/2011/04/kia-ora-corporatism-and-neo-liberalism.html
“”Many corporations and State or private enterprises run despite management, not because of them. In fact the constant parade of new brooms trying to make a name for themselves, with rapid changes and cost cutting, cause competent staff to resign and demoralise the rest.
How many times, within a company, when you want the person who get things done. You ignore the suits staring out the windows in the corner offices and talk to the person, usually a women, who actually does things. Normally someone several pay grades below the suits.
Or when you are ordering something. The bright well dressed manager calls some wizened old guy from the shop floor to ask if it can be done.””
It has already been made clear to me by an executive, in an SOE, power company, that, instead of doing their best for the current shareholders, Us! They are actively working towards privatisation so they can get rewarded by the new owners, with increased salaries and share options.
They do not want it to work to well now so they can pretend privatisation has made the company more successful. At the same time collecting their bribes from the new owners. Just Like Simon Power.
William Joyce 8.1.1
Wouldn’t surprise me. That’s the principle of self-interest for you.
The other side of the corporate/soe ladder is when they are appointed as the new broom – institute some high sounding new policy that makes the gut, cut, slash & burn sound reasonable – then wait until the balance sheet looks good, record their success on their CV, get a new high paying job on the basis of the success and they stay one step ahead of the consequences.
Years later, when the chickens come home to roost (eg. oil on the sea and no oil spill equipment or people lying dead because there was no psych institution/service for the killer) the “New Broom” is long gone, living off the profits off a failed policy and we have to pick up the tab.
I still wonder where the fuck Max Bradford is every time I get my power bill.
I am reminded of the partial privatisation of electricity companies under the AID government of 1984 (Act in Disguise) and the immediate lack of maintenance.. Going past the Meremere station on a bus and seeing it all dark…
randal 9
nek minnit along come gas leak and all earnings of bars and restarauteurs from the cup wiped out.
hah mus be nationals fault.
Funny. The party of individual responsibility does not take responsibility for anything.
Afewknowthetruth 10
The succession of failures we have witnessed over recent months must surely put the CEOs and senior executives of the organisations involved in line for stupendous performance bonuses.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/business-as-usual-top-directors-get-49-per-cent-pay-rise-2376929.html
One of the Masses 11
So what back-up systems did all these “essential”industries have in place for a disruption in gas supply (for whatever reason) – ability to maintain steam pressure via alternative energy sources (e.g. electricity, LPG).
I the farmers are so financially crippled by emptying their milk vats – why not have a second “back up” vat to cover them in the eventuality that the milk tankers, for whatever reason, cannot pick up your milk for 4 days.
Telephone, Power, Gas, Internet, EftPos are all taken for granted – but not guaranteed. Like the AB’s have done recently – it pays to plan for every worst case scenario, including losing 43 players in 1 crucial decision making role.
Here is a simple truth. Efficiency is the enemy of resiliency.
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Protectors, not Protesters: We’re All Peeing into the Same Pool
by thewhaleweeps in Uncategorized Tags: #Muskrat Falls, #NoDAPL, #SacredStoneCamp, #StandingRock, #SupportBillyGauthier, #Unist'ot'enCamp
I have been watching for some time the ongoing struggles of the people of the Unist’ot’en camp in BC, the Sacred Stone camp in South Dakota, and Muskrat Falls in Newfoundland and Labrador. For the people of these regions, decisions about pipelines or reservoir flooding are neither remote nor abstract. NIMBY is a luxury they do not have; controversy has come knocking on their doors. Their homes, their water, and their way of life are being threatened.
Within a colonial structure in which every kind of trespass is punishable by law except, apparently, those enshrined in treaties, corporations such as Nalcor and Energy Transfer Crude Oil Company operate with impunity, protected by government and laws that are blind to planetary reality. Those in power, whether corporate or citizen, are insulated by money, distance, and usually race; they frame the conversation so that anyone who opposes their interests is a threat to the status quo, a terrorist, a protester.
In the purest sense of the word, the people of Muskrat Falls and the Unist’ot’en and Sacred Rock camps are protesting something, namely corporate projects (or, in the case of Muskrat Falls, not the project itself but specific negligence), but there is a reason for their rejection of this persistent mainstream label. In everyday parlance, the word protester is a concept, tainted, denigrated, the domain of the criminal and the uneducated. Protesters are radical and fringe-y and why can they not just get a job? Mainstream Canadians and Americans see those who block pipeline development as the enemy, and the media happily follow along for the scandalous ride.
What is less recognized and given less space in the national newspaper is that the original insult, the initial illegal move, was proceeding with the project itself when safety could not be reasonably guaranteed. Against treaty, against human rights documents given lip service by politicians, against planetary limits, the trespass continues. This is the bigger picture, but we seem to be missing it, so zoomed in on the minutia are we. Clause x and by-law y versus the reality of thousands of litres of oil and chemicals dumped into a source of drinking water.
It is with a deep understanding of this discourse, wherein the reaction of people less powerful (and, not accidentally, in all of these examples, Indigenous) is characterized as reckless, violent, and against ethical codes, that the local people ask to be named in the media as “protectors” rather than protesters. After all, they are demanding that governments respect the concept of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), uphold treaties, and respect human rights over those of corporations. They are advocating for themselves, the animals, their children. They are protecting something.
Let me pose a question. If someone urinates in the swimming pool of a rich home-owner, is the resident considered a protester when chasing the offender away or pressing charges?
The answer, of course, is no. You would suggest that the person is protecting their pool.
That is the law. That is the European-based law which most North Americans recognize. Unfortunately, many of us become murkier when it comes to treaties, the concept of unceded land, and universal human rights. Are these not abstract concepts? Obsolete contracts? Dusty and meaningless remnants of a long ago past?
No, no, and no.
What the people of the Unist’ot’en and Sacred Stone camps and Muskrat Falls are doing is letting us know that we are peeing in their pool, and they are being called protesters for protecting it. They are causing the ruckus.
But what is really ironic (sad, infuriating, pick an adjective) is that their pool is also our pool, it is just that we are farther away from the pee and think it will not reach us. They are warning us, but our area is less contaminated and we are okay with that. For now.
I will leave you with the words of the Wet’suwet’en people’s page about their Unist’ot’en camp:
“The Unist’ot’en homestead is not a protest or demonstration. Our clan is occupying and using our traditional territory as it has for centuries. Our free prior and informed consent protocol is in place at the entrance of or territory as an expression of our jurisdiction and our inherent right to both give and refuse consent. Our homestead is a peaceful expression of our connection to our territory. It is also an example of the continuous use and occupation of our territory of our territory by our clan. Our traditional structures of governance continue to dictate the proper use of and access to our lands and water.
Today all of our Wet´suwet´en territory, including Unist’ot’en territory, is unceded Aboriginal territory. Our traditional indigenous legal systems remain intact and continue to govern our people and our lands. We recognize the authority of these systems” (http://unistoten.camp, retrieved October 26, 2016).
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Zombie Land SAGA – First Impressions
On October 10, 2018 October 10, 2018 By AstralGeminiIn Fall 2018, Seasonal Anime
So uh…. WHAT?
Haaaaah??
That basically sums up my thoughts after this first episode. I mean, it’s a pretty… I mean, REALLY FREAKING WEIRD show. But… not in a bad way, honestly. While I didn’t really know what I was getting into when I first picked it up, I found myself with a big, dumb grin on my face like, 60 seconds into the show. Because, it’s hilarious!
I’m always talking about a group of principles that I call the “Rules of Comedy”, and Zombie Land SAGA fits a lot of these rules really well. It does the unexpected, giving us comedy in some very unique and surprising ways. With all the shows nowadays that are inundated with “comedy” based around seeing a character get slapped for the 50th time as a “running gag”, there was something so fresh and new about seeing our main character get HIT BY A FREAKING TRUCK only 60 seconds into the episode.
… SAAAAIL!
With a setting that’s all about zombie girls being turned into idols, there’s a lot that could be done poorly, so many tropes that could be fallen into… but it doesn’t. It uses the setting, the characters… everything is used to the greatest advantage possible to create a real, genuinely fun experience.
Lookin’ a little blue there…
Studio MAPPA has done an awesome job with this show. The visuals are perfect; fluid, smooth, and just fit the setting so well. The sound design, the character voices… it’s all so good. While the concept of the show is pretty simple, I feel like this show can appeal to a much wider audience than fans of Idol shows, blending small elements of horror and turning it into comedy along the way.
Perhaps it’s just because I went in with pretty low anticipation, and promptly had my expectations exceeded, but I really, really enjoyed this first episode. I’m excited to meet the rest of the characters that we got a brief introduction to, and to learn more about why they’re zombies in the first place. Plus, what’s the deal with glasses dude, huh?
That’s just a gesture of affection, right?
In essence, maybe I only enjoyed this first episode as much as I did because of the surprise factor. Unexpected comedy, unexpected quality… but I think this may be a show to keep up with this season. What do you guys think? For those of you who’ve picked up the show this season, or maybe just sampled it, what are your thoughts on this first episode? Let me know down in the comments, and I hope to see you all in the next post!
Well at least they know how to party, huh?
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5 thoughts on “Zombie Land SAGA – First Impressions”
As someone who doesn’t enjoy comedies a lot, I was very surprised that I liked this one so much 😊 It was completely crazy, over the top….but I highly enjoyed it. Can’t wait to continue with this one! 😊😊
kimchisama
I really enjoyed it haha. I do think the surprise factor like you said had a lot to do with it.
Jon Spencer
I had a fun time with this one 🙂
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David Sedaris Wanders The World
June 21, 2018 Best of Think, Culture
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David Sedaris’ best-selling books have allowed him a comfortable life, including a beach house on the North Carolina coast. And it’s at that house that he did much of the reflection that goes into his new book, “Calypso.” He joins us to talk about his latest story collection, which delves deeply into middle age and mortality while maintaining his trademark wit.
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Sandy Hook Shooting Prompts Rise In NRA Membership
Annie-Rose Strasser Dec 20, 2012, 5:20 pm
The National Rifle Association has remained stone-cold silent in the aftermath of the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary. While gun control advocates have called for the banning of extended magazine clips and stricter safety laws on assault weapons, the NRA has been biding its time, promising only to make a public statement at the end of the week.
But today, leaks emerged in the NRA information dam. In an apparent effort to gain some credibility before tomorrow’s press conference, one ‘source’ revealed to Fox News that the organization has seen a rise in membership following the shooting:
#NEWTOWN: An NRA source tells Fox News its membership has surged by an average of roughly 8,000 new registrations a day since the massacre.
— James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) December 19, 2012
The NRA may think it can up its credibility by showing off enrollment numbers, but the organization is ignoring a key fact about NRA members: They don’t always agree with the organization’s policy positions. NRA members support sensible laws about reporting stolen guns, prohibiting certain people from acquiring a firearm, requiring background checks, and issuing restrictions on concealed carry permits. Like Americans overall, NRA members support the second amendment, but they also believe in stricter gun safety laws than the NRA proposes.
It’s possible that the NRA will in fact come up with “meaningful contributions” that it’s promised in response to the horrific tragedies that took place this year — from Oak Creek to Sandy Hook, Aurora to the streets of Chicago — but if history is any indication, the NRA’s move might be an empty gesture before it continues on its warpath toward absolute deregulation of guns.
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NM House Dems’ political arm apologizes for email
SANTA FE — The New Mexico House Democrats’ political arm apologized Monday for sending out an email that included a “contribute” link — a no-no for lawmakers during legislative sessions.
However, a spokesman for Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver’s office said the apology may not have been necessary, since the “blackout” period on fundraising during sessions does not apply to political committees.
In any case, the New Mexico House Democratic Campaign Committee described the link on a weekend update it sent out as an error. The initial email was not sent out directly by any current legislator, but the group has given hefty contributions to several Democratic incumbents in recent months.
Per state law, all 112 legislators and the governor are barred from raising campaign funds from Jan. 1 through Feb. 15, the session’s last day.
The blackout period is intended to reduce the possibility of undue influence during legislative sessions.
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Teen grabbed at bus stop, raped on South Side: police
Posted 12:09 PM, July 26, 2018, by Erica Demarest, Updated at 12:58PM, July 26, 2018
CHICAGO — A 17-year-old girl standing at a Marquette Park bus stop was grabbed by men in an SUV and then raped, police said.
The attack happened between 8 and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 7100 block of South Spaulding Avenue.
The girl was standing at a bus stop when two men grabbed her and pushed her into a red SUV with tinted windows, according to the Chicago Police Department. The victim was taken somewhere near 65th Street and Bell Avenue, where one of the kidnappers raped her, police said. The girl was then able to escape.
Officials gave only a vague description of the attackers, but said they are likely in their 30s.
Police advise residents to walk in groups and report suspicious activity.
Detectives ask anyone with information to call 312-747-8380 and mention report No. JB364680.
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2 charged in murder of 24-year-old woman who died protecting baby
Day 5: Video shows FBI agents questioning man who killed U of I Chinese scholar
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The Vault Club and Casino hosts the Full Metal Comedy Show, courtesy of Armed Forces Entertainment, featuring comedians Michael Issac, Jeff Scheen, Anthony Moore and Jeff Zenisek.
Anthony Moore is a comedian and writer hailing from west Philadelphia. Growing up within a tight-knit family in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia, Anthony's childhood and background has been the foundation of his laid-back, witty, original and thought-provoking comedy. In November Anthony makes his national television debut on Kevin Hart’s new show, Hart of the City on Comedy Central.
Jeff Scheen is a stand-up comic hailing from Chicago, IL. Jeff has been featured on the FOX TV series Laughs and was a finalist in the 2016 Laughing Skull Festival in Atlanta, GA. He’s also been in a number of other comedy festivals including The Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Montreux’s Jokenation Festival, Laugh Your Asheville Off in North Carolina, and Laughfest in Grand Rapids Michigan.
Jeff Zenisek is an up and coming stand-up comic who has has made appearances at the 10th Annual Laugh Your Asheville Off Festival, the 3rd Annual Burbank Comedy Festival and the 5th Annual Accidental Comedy Festival (Cleveland, OH). He also appeared in the Kansas City Comedy Festival, and also at the Scruffy City Comedy Festival (Knoxville, TN), and the 20th Annual LA Comedy Festival.
Michael Issac, a Chicago native, has an anecdotal style of stand up comedy. He keeps audiences laughing with his relaxed delivery of funny stories about his unique life experiences. His comedy is full of anecdotes about growing up on the Southside as a child and moving to the South Suburbs as an adult. Recently, however, he has been performing on Cruises all over the Caribbean and South America. So let’s just say Issac has a “few” new jokes.
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Editing Houston (section)
===By public transportation=== The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, better known as '''METRO''' [http://www.ridemetro.org/], operates local and express bus lines, as well as a very popular light rail system called '''METRORail''' [http://www.ridemetro.org/TransportationServices/MetroRail.asp]. Visitors may be able to get around without a car, especially if they stick close to downtown, but ample free and cheap parking, combined with Houston's suburban sprawl, make public transit an unpopular choice for Houstonians themselves. All METRO fares can be paid with exact change in coins and $1 bills, or with the recently-implemented reloadable fare smartcard, the '''Q Card'''. Q Cards can be obtained for free at METRO's RideStore downtown, and at many local supermarkets, usually at the same service center you'd go to to cash a check or send a wire transfer. Oddly enough, the machines at Park & Ride lots and METRORail stations do ''not'' sell Q Cards, so bring exact change or buy your Q Card before boarding. There are four options for re-filling your Q Card: * '''Credit Vending Machines''' in Park & Ride lots, which accept credit and debit cards * '''Ticket Vending Machines''' at METRORail stations, which accept both cash and credit cards * '''Bus Reloaders''' at the back of every local bus. These are a bit counterintuitive to use, but once you get them, they're quite simple. Insert a bill, and ''then'' place your card in the slot. These machines take $1, $5, $10, and $20 bills, and will reload only one bill at a time. * '''Places where cards can be bought''': any store that sells Q Cards can also reload the card for you—just ask at the service desk! Most grocery chains and many convenience stores sell Q Cards. ====By bus==== If you're brave enough to see Houston from the back seat of a bus, a Q Card is definitely worth the investment, as it's the only way to obtain transfers from one route to the other. Unlike other systems, which require you to transfer at a central point, or only give you a short amount of time to switch buses, METRO gives you unlimited, free transfers for a full three hours after boarding the first bus. No need to ask the driver for a transfer—just tap your Q Card like you would normally. The computer will make sure you pay the least amount possible. The following bus lines listed below are the ones that most visitors will probably find to be useful. * '''Bus Route #2:''' [http://www.ridemetro.org/MetroPDFs/NBN/LinerMaps/2_Bellaire_FINAL.pdf] Runs east and west along Bellaire Blvd connecting the Texas Medical Center with the various ethnic neighborhoods along Bellaire Blvd in Southwest Houston with frequencies of every 15 minutes. * '''Bus Route #27:''' [http://www.ridemetro.org/MetroPDFs/NBN/LinerMaps/27_Shepherd_FINAL.pdf] Runs north and south along Shepherd Ave. connecting the Houston Heights neighborhood with Montrose and Rice Village/Rice University and the Texas Medical Center and runs every 15 minutes. * '''Bus Route #35:''' [http://www.ridemetro.org/MetroPDFs/NBN/LinerMaps/25_Richmond_FINAL.pdf] Runs east and west along Richmond Blvd. connecting the Uptown/Galleria area with Montrose and Midtown and runs every 15 minutes. * '''Bus Route #40:''' [http://www.ridemetro.org/MetroPDFs/NBN/LinerMaps/40_TelephoneHeights_FINAL.pdf] Connects Houston-Hobby Airport with Downtown Houston and runs every 30 minutes generally. * '''Bus Route #56:''' [http://www.ridemetro.org/MetroPDFs/NBN/LinerMaps/56_Airline%20Montrose_FINAL.pdf] Runs north ans South along Montrose Blvd. passing connecting the Texas Medical Center, Rice University/the Museum District, Montrose, and the Houston Heights neighborhoods with frequencies of every 15 minutes. * '''Bus Route #82:''' [http://www.ridemetro.org/MetroPDFs/NBN/LinerMaps/82_Westheimer_FINAL.pdf] Runs east and west along Westheimer Rd. connecting the Uptown/Galleria area with Montrose and Midtown and runs every 15 minutes. * '''Bus Route #85:''' [http://www.ridemetro.org/MetroPDFs/NBN/LinerMaps/85_AntoineWashington_FINAL.pdf] Runs east and west along Washington Ave. connecting Downtown Houston with the Washington Ave corridor and Memorial Park and runs every 15 minutes generally. * '''Bus Route #102:''' [http://www.ridemetro.org/MetroPDFs/NBN/LinerMaps/102_BushIAHExpress_FINAL.pdf] Connects Houston-Bush Intercontinental Airport with Downtown Houston and runs every 30 minutes. [[File:Houston MetroRail (13176847545).jpg|thumb|Houston METRORail]] ====By rail==== METRORail is a 22.7-mile (36.5 km) light rail system that consists of three lines. The Red Line (which is the line that most visitors will find to be useful) runs between Downtown, Midtown, the Museum District, the Medical Center, and Reliant Park. The Purple Line and Green Line primarily serve residential neighborhoods and are not really useful to most visitors (aside from the University of Houston which is served by the Purple Line). It costs $1.25 for a one-way ticket. (Also see the [[#Stay Safe|stay safe]] section.)
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UN Syria envoy travels to Moscow for Syria peace talks
Staffan de Mistura to meet Russian foreign minister as Moscow says it has invited regime and rebel groups for talks.
Staffan de Mistura, the UN envoy to Syria, will hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, as diplomatic efforts gather fresh momentum in the wake of Vienna talks on Friday.
"The main subject will be the political process in Syria and starting a genuine dialogue between Damascus and the Syrian opposition," Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told AFP news agency on Tuesday.
The meeting comes a day after Russia’s foreign ministry said that Syrian people should decide the fate of President Bashar al-Assad.
US and its regional allies have been pushing for Assad to leave power for a political solution, while Russia and Iran have resisted the move.
Asked by a reporter on Tuesday if saving Assad was a matter of principle for Moscow, Zakharova said: "Absolutely not, we never said that."
"We are not saying that Assad should leave or stay," Russian news agency, RIA, quoted her as saying.
Zakharova said Russia had not changed its policy on Assad and that his fate should be decided by the Syrian people.
Syrian opposition invited
Lavrov and de Mistura met on Friday in Vienna alongside the top diplomats from 17 other key international players on the Syrian conflict, including the US, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, in the broadest push yet to end the four-year conflict.
OPINION: Memo to British PM: Less talk, more action on Syria
The participants - who did not include any representatives of the Syrian government or its opponents - agreed to ask the UN to broker a peace deal between the regime and opposition to clear the way for a new constitution and UN-supervised elections.
De Mistura has since been to Damascus to brief the government on the talks and called for a new ceasefire on the ground to build on the diplomatic efforts.
Russia said on Tuesday that it could host a meeting between the Syrian government and unspecified members of the opposition next week in Moscow.
"Next week we will invite them to Moscow for consultations," Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
"Now we are in contact with the representatives of different opposition groups to get them to come to Moscow."
Talks premature
Russia said that it handed Saudi Arabia and the US a list at the Vienna talks of dozens of Syrian opposition figures with whom it is liaising in a bid to thrash out who each side thinks represents the factious opposition.
RELATED: Analysis: US Special Forces in Syria, why now?
But the US state department said that it was premature for the Russian government to invite the Syrian opposition to talks in Russia.
"We think it's premature. We think that there's a lot of work that is done… We think it's premature before the Vienna group meets again," state department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said.
Trudeau said that for now nations involved in diplomatic efforts on Syria's conflict should concentrate on what was agreed on in international talks last week in Vienna.
However, representatives from the Free Syrian Army or FSA say they are at war with Russia - and as long as it continues to bombard their fighters - there can be no dialogue.
Both the Russian and Syrian forces have pounded the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stronghold of Raqqa, an area the FSA is still trying to recapture.
At least 23 people were killed on Tuesday in air strikes across the city.
Russian defence ministry says it has hit 2,084 rebel targets since the beginning of its operations in Syria.
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Freetown flood disaster was '90 percent man-made'
Three months on, as efforts to repair devastated towns continue, attention turns to how more damage can be prevented.
by Lilah Gaafar
A man helps a woman cross a log bridge after the flash flood washed away a concrete bridge at Pentagon, in Freetown August 18, 2017 [Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters]
SIERRA LEONE FLOODS
Between 500 and 1,000 people killed in mudslides and floods in August, 2017
Mudslides came after three days of torrential rain
Disaster rendered thousands homeless
Freetown, Sierra Leone - Benia Daboh, 31, has been living at a camp with her three children and two nieces since early September.
It is three months to the day since deadly floods and mudslides changed her life.
"I lost my husband, my sister and her husband, now I have to care for their children and my three," says Benia, who grew up in Freetown, and dreams of working in a restaurant or hotel. "I used to sell fried rice, jollof, potato salad and couscous."
Benia is not alone.
Many people were rendered homeless after the mudslides and floods [Lilah Gaafar/Al Jazeera]
There are hundreds like her, whose families, homes and businesses disappeared in the space of three minutes, when volumes of water, mud and rock swept through Freetown on August 14.
The official death toll from the mudslides and flooding three months ago was around 500 people, but estimates said that it was likely some 1,000 people perished.
I lost my husband, my sister and her husband, now I have to care for their children and my three
Benia Daboh, Sierra Leone floods victim
It was not the first time Sierra Leoneans witnessed such dramatic events. With annual rainfall of 3,600 litres, natural disasters have plagued the country for years. But previous floods have had less impact.
This time, preventable human causes are being blamed.
The mudslide that devastated the mountain town of Regent was the result of heavy rainfall, urban sprawl and soil erosion due to deforestation.
Benia Daboh with her children and nieces [Lilah Gaafar/Al Jazeera]
It has also been a catalyst for change.
"This disaster was 90 percent man-made. There were trees along 80 percent of the river and hardly anybody lived there. Thirty years ago, no one would have been killed," says Thorsten Kallnischkies, a geologist seconded to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) office in Sierra Leone.
"The only way to avoid this in future is through raising awareness among the communities - how to build and where to build," he says. "Administration and government must enforce laws to avoid future fatalities."
Sierra Leone's Office of National Security (ONS) has been working closely with national and international stakeholders, says John Rogers, ONS director of disaster risk management.
A house pictured in Regent, waiting to be repaired [Lilah Gaafar/Al Jazeera]
These include global experts trying to recover losses and withstand future hazards.
In the meantime, government is focusing on restoring water supply; rebuilding bridges; fixing schools, housing; social protection and developing capacity management and early warning systems before next year's rainy season.
Communities affected by the disaster are also planning and rebuilding their own futures.
Teams of volunteers are cleaning drainage systems, constructing gabions and terraces to protect banks from erosion, and cultivating agriculture through recycling and composting to reduce the erosion of slopes.
And the Environment Protection Agency has put out a radio jingle, proclaiming the impact of human activity on the environment.
"It's about sensitising communities to risk and enabling them to develop better methods to live," says the UNDP adviser. "Landslides will always occur as long as there are hills and rainy seasons."
The worst damage took place in the mountain town of Regent, on the outskirts of Freetown [Lilah Gaafar/Al Jazeera]
Nonetheless, warns Kallnischkies, unless change takes place at every level, the benefits of development are vulnerable and could be reversed.
"It will happen again, if politicians and administration allow unplanned settlements and deforestation. Victims who lost their families and houses are already rebuilding their houses - in the same places. It's like having a picnic on a motorway."
IDPs wait for pots, pans, soap, foam, rice and oil at the Old Skool camp in Freetown [Lilah Gaafar/Al Jazeera]
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Lee Marvin Smoking by David Steen
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'Lee Marvin Smoking is a striking fibre print from iconic 20th Century photographer David Steen and is part of a limited edition of 50. Also available in other sizes'
Lee Marvin Smoking is a striking portrait, on fibre paper, from iconic 20th Century photographer David Steen. Steen’s introduction to photography was as a 15-year-old school leaver joining Picture Post where he had the good luck to be taken under the wing of the legendary Bert Hardy as an assistant. It was the ultimate training ground in photojournalism, and the launch pad for his career. David’s reunion with Picture Post after doing his National Service was short-lived. The magazine was losing ground and closed. He moved to Fleet Street, first to a bright new Mirror title, Woman’s Sunday Mirror, where incidentally he picked up First Prize in Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Best Pictures of the Year Award for his sequence of ‘Birth of a Baby’, the progress of a young woman delivering her own baby under hypnosis. He was 21, the youngest ever to be awarded this prize. There followed time as a staff photographer with The Daily Mail; Fleet Street was the hub of the world. Then on to freelancing…Queen magazine, Nova, the Sunday Times Magazine, international magazines around the world, over the years covering projects as diverse as riots in Harlem to a film set in Acapulco, a battered wives’ refuge to the Queen and family at Sandringham: the hopeless, the homeless, the glitterati. Trained on the maxim ‘every picture tells a story’ he has focused on film stars, actors, criminals, politicians, prime ministers and countless men, women and children going about their everyday lives.
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CM 227 - Speaking in Small Groups
This course explores issues related to the unique communication processes attached to Small Group Communication and Public Speaking. This course will focus on how to communicate effectively in small groups, as well as how to present professional group presentations. Specifically we will discuss small group processes, including leadership, group roles, and conflict mediation
CM 259 - Modes of Film Communication
This course is designed to provide an introduction to the elements of film style and communication through a focus on narrative film. Students registering for this course must also register for
Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST)
CM 310 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
This course focuses on the history and importance of rhetorical tradition from the fifth century B.C. to the present, including the role classical rhetoric has played in the development of modern rhetorical theory.
Prerequisite(s): g.
CM 315 - Communication Theory
This course is intended to provide a thorough introduction to various theories about the nature and dynamics of human communication. This course will explore the major subdivisions of the Communication discipline, including interpersonal, group, public, mass, and cultural communication.
Prerequisite(s):
CM 318 - Intercultural Communication
This course provides an introduction to intercultural communication, focusing on the importance of diversity in our everyday lives. In order to develop a strong level of cross-cultural competency, this course challenges students to learn about the ways people from different cultural backgrounds communicate based on their worldviews and narratives.
Meets Global Engagement Learning Outcome (GLOB)
CM 325 - Special Topics in Communication
Sample Topics: Media Criticism, Communication and Popular Music, Gender and Communication.
CM 330 - Political Communication
This course is designed to introduce students to the central concepts and principles underlying the communicational process in the political arena. Students will be expected to demonstrate mastery of relevant terminology and theory, to recognize the forms and genres of political communication, to provide specific examples of such forms and genres and to critique and evaluate forms of political communication and to manifest their mastery in discussion and written assignments, as well as examinations and quizzes.
CM 378 - Queer Media Studies
This course considers the politics of representation of LGBTQ+ individuals in film, television, advertising, and other media. Topics include the development of media stereotypes of the LGBTQ+ community and the various applications of "queer" as an identity, theory, and critical lens.
CM 400 - Independent Study
During their course of studies Communication majors may take up to two independent study courses arranged with an individual professor. The proposed independent study must be designed in cooperation with the professor and approved by the Department Chair
CM 470 - Communication Senior Seminar
Required of all senior Communication majors, this course asks students to integrate the knowledge and skills they have acquired as communication majors. Being mindful of the ethical issues surrounding topics in communication studies, students are expected to develop a capstone project that culminates in both a senior thesis and a presentation of the results of their research.
Prerequisite(s): Rhetorical Theory and Criticismor CM 315 Communication Theory.
CM 481-482 - Internship
Student-originated internships, supervised by the English Department in areas of communication, public relations and journalism.
EN 105 - Freshman English
This course develops students' written communication skills while also emphasizing critical reading and giving students experience in finding, using, and documenting sources for a research paper. In Freshman English, students write multiple essays with different rhetorical purposes. Students write their essays in a series of step that make up the writing process. The course also focuses on written language; students learn to use language clearly and precisely in their writing. They also study the English language narrowly by learning to construct grammatically correct sentences and by becoming more aware of the rhetorical and artistic effects of well-chosen words.
Meets Linguistic Awareness Learning Outcome: Writing Composition (COMP)
EN 106 - Introduction to Literary Studies
Introduces the beginning English major to the study of literature through discussion of various critical theories and methods and through analysis of literary forms and genres.
EN 153 - World of Poetry
Designed for non-English majors and open to all students, EN153 The World of Poetry introduces students to the basic formal, stylistic and literary-cultural elements of poetry and furnish them with the opportunity to grow in understanding and appreciation of poetic expression in its varied forms. Individual sections of EN153 will be structured around a particular theme and/or author.
EN 154 - World of Fiction
Designed for non-English majors and open to all students, EN154 The World of Fiction introduces students to the basic formal, stylistic and literary-cultural elements of fiction and furnish them with the opportunity to grow in understanding and appreciation of fiction writing in its varied forms. Individual sections of EN154 will be structured around a particular theme and/or author.
EN 155 - World of Drama
Designed for non-English majors and open to all students, EN155 The World of Drama introduces students to the basic formal, stylistic and literary-cultural elements of drama and furnish them with the opportunity to grow in understanding and appreciation of dramatic texts and performances. Individual sections of EN155 will be structured around a particular theme and/or author.
EN 207 - Advanced Composition
This course is designed for students who have completed EN105 and wish to elevate their writing ability within a challenging workshop context that requires students to study and practice the essay in its prevalent forms in rhetoric, journalism and academic writing..
EN 212 - Creative Writing: Fiction
This course is a workshop in the composition of short fiction. After initial guidelines on the forms of writing short fiction are set out, students will read from their work-in-progress and receive critiques from their peers and from the instructor.
EN 213 - Creative Writing: Poetry
This course is a workshop in the composition of poetry. After initial guidelines on the forms of writing poetry are set out, students will read from their work-in progress and receive critiques from their peers and from the instructor.
EN 215 - Business and Professional Writing
Students in this course will plan, produce, edit, and adapt both the content and the structure of their writing to successfully address specified business and professional audiences. Students will develop a portfolio of writing that includes revised and polished samples of business correspondence, reports, formal proposals and presentations. A laptop is required for this course.
EN 222 - Oral Interpretation of Literature
In this course students will learn to apply techniques used in the art of oral interpretation to various literary genres. Works performed are analyzed. Individual performance is required.
EN 233 - Studies in Medieval Literature
This course focuses on selected works of Medieval English literature, from Anglo-Saxon through late Middle English.
EN 234 - Studies in Renaissance Literature
This course introduces students to the poetry, prose, and drama of major 16th and 17th century writers such as More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Southwell, Marlowe, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Webster, and Milton.
EN 235 - Early American Literature
This survey of "Early American Literature" takes as one of its aims the scrutiny of each of the terms in the course title. Should "early" refer to the literature by the first European explorers and settlers to come to the continent, and/or should it refer to native oral literature that predated Europeans' arrival by centuries? Can the term "American" appropriately be used to describe literature that predated the American Revolution? Is "American" a state to be achieved or aspired to, or is it simply a descriptor for those living on the continent or, after 1776, in the new nation? Major figures from the Puritan settlement to the era of the new republic, including John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur, and Benjamin Franklin, with attention to the oral literature of Native Americans.
EN 236 - Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
This course focuses on the study of British literature from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, decades in which Enlightenment ideals spread across Europe, print culture expanded dramatically, and exploration and trade brought a new awareness of the larger world; analysis and criticism of representative works of poetry (Pope, Swift, Johnson, Gray); drama (Behn, Goldsmith, Sheridan); and prose (Addison and Steele, Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Austen).
EN 237 - Studies in Romantic Literature
This course focuses on the major writers of the English Romantic Period, with emphasis on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
EN 238 - Studies in Victorian Literature
This course focuses on the social and intellectual problems of the Victorian Age seen through the chief novelists, poets, and essayists.
EN 239 - Studies in Modern British Literature
This course focuses on the major writers and movements of the Edwardian and Georgian periods to 1936, with an emphasis on the Modernist literature by Conrad, Woolf, Eliot, Joyce, Yeats, and Lawrence.
EN 240 - Studies in Postmodern British Literature
This course focuses on representative poetry, fiction, essays, and drama of the later twentieth century to the present, including such authors as Orwell, Auden, Pinter, Beckett, Thomas, Larkin, Waugh, Rhys, Lessing, Heaney, Stoppard, and McEwan.
EN 241 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
This course focuses on representative 19th century writers such as Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, and James.
Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST) and the Citizenship Learning Outcome (CITZ)
EN 242 - Studies in Modern American Literature
This course focuses on representative poetry, fiction, and drama of the twentieth century including such authors as James, Wharton, Eliot, Frost, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Stevens, O'Neil, Hughes, Welty, Miller, and O'Connor.
EN 243 - Studies in Postmodern American Literature
This course focuses on American writing from 1945 to the present, focusing on those works that challenge the premises of Modernism and examine contested identities that make up America.
EN 244 - Literature and Gender
Focuses on literature that addresses some of the cultural meanings ascribed to being male and female, with an emphasis on literary genres and traditions and historical contexts. Because the course is taught differently by the several instructors who teach it, readings will vary. The course might be organized by a focus on a particular era (such as twentieth-century American literature) or by theme (such as gender and violence).
EN 245 - Introduction to African-American Literature
This course focuses on the development of African-American literature from its beginnings to the present, with an emphasis on literary genres and traditions, and historical and cultural contexts.
EN 251 - Shakespeare
TThis course engages students in close reading of selected comedies, histories, and tragedies.
EN 252 - Milton
This course covers the major works of Milton, including
EN 255 - Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
This course introduces students to the development of postcolonial literature as a genre that emerged following the end of the British Empire. It covers a range of periods and geographies: from 1947, when the British left India, to post 1960s, when they left Africa. It has now been expanded to include modern Empires such as the former Soviet republics, Latin America, and Ireland. The course includes contemporary Indian, African, and Caribbean literature as well as select canonical texts that can be read from a postcolonial perspective.
EN 261 - Beginning Acting
This course offers students an introduction to the basic vocal and physical techniques of acting with emphasis on the development of technical skills and the emotional and intellectual resources required in acting. Improvisations and theatre games are used extensively. Formal acting is explored through monologue and duet acting scenes.
EN 262 - Beginning Directing
This course offers students an instruction and practical experience in the art of staging plays. Selection of materials, script analysis, casting, blocking, rehearsal procedure, and techniques of communication with the actor are explored. Directing methods are examined in a major scene prepared for presentation to the class.
EN 271 - American Gothic Literature
American Gothic literature presents confrontations between ordinary people and the supernatural-ghosts, monsters, witches, and devils, real and metaphoric. Typically set in wild or imprisoning places and in moments when the archaic erupts suddenly into modernity, its plots often focus on abuses of power, gothic motifs that have often been used to focus on repressed or unwanted truths about unjust social norms, especially in relation to race and gender. Covers works by writers including Poe, Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Alice Walker, William Faulkner and Shirley Jackson.
EN 307 - Special Topics in Writing
Sample Topics: Advanced Journalism
EN 332 - Arthurian Legends in Literature
This course offers an overview of primary texts in the Arthurian Legends tradition focusing on the "historical" Arthur and the development of the tradition through the Middle Ages.
EN 333 - Special Topics in Medieval Literature
Sample Topics: The History of the English Language, Chaucer; Celtic Traditions.
EN 334 - Special Topics in the Sixteenth Century
Sample Topics: Edmund Spenser; The Sonnet; Marlowe.
EN 335 - Special Topics in the Seventeenth Century
Sample Topics: The Metaphysical Poets; Non-Shakespearean Drama.
EN 336 - Special Topics in the Eighteenth Century
Sample Topics: Jane Austen; Neo-classical Satire; Eighteenth Century Novel
EN 337 - Special Topics in the Romantic Period
Sample Topics: The Gothic Novel; Mary Shelley and her Circle.
EN 338 - Special Topics in the Victorian Period
Sample Topics: Gerard Manley Hopkins; Thomas Hardy; The Brontes.
EN 339 - Special Topics in the Modern British Literature
Sample Topics: Bloomsbury: Virginia Woolf and Her Circle
EN 340 - Special Topics in Postmodern British Literature
Sample Topics: Contemporary British Novel.
EN 341 - Special Topics in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Sample Topics: Whitman and Dickinson; American Transcendentalism; Hawthorne and Melville.
EN 342 - Special Topics in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Sample Topics: The Harlem Renaissance; African-American Literature, 1930-1950; Willa Cather; Postmodern American Poetry.
EN 343 - Native American Women Writers
This course offers an introduction to aesthetics specific to Native American cultures and a look at some key moments in Native American history as contexts for reading and analysis of novels, poetry, and essays by mostly contemporary Native American women writers including Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, and Layli Long Soldier.
Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST) and Citizenship (CITZ)
EN 344 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
This course offers a survey of the aesthetic, socio-political and ideological issues of the literature of the Harlem Renaissance, the period of African American letters between World Wars I and II.
EN 345 - Progress and Nostalgia: Mid-Victorian Britain in History and Literature
The period between 1851-1867 constituted the high noon of Victorian England, an era when Britain enjoyed unprecedented stability and prosperity. Beneath the equipoise of these years, however, great changes took place, and Victorians attempted to deal with what they saw as the transition from the medieval to the modern world. This course identifies several areas in which significant change occurred, such as politics, art, and religion and others. Within the selected areas, students will learn to appreciate the great literature of the period and examine the historical forces influencing the art, culture and people of the mid-Victorian period.
EN 351 - The Brontes
The Brontës focuses on intensive literary analysis of the poetry and novels of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, three important English writers of the nineteenth-century. The course studies Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Villette. Also included are selections of Brontë juvenalia, Emily Brontë's poetry, and the biography, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, written by Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell.
EN 354 - Introduction to Literary Theory
Students in this course will engage in the general principles and trends in the theory and criticism of literature from antiquity to the twenty-first century, including classical rhetoric, formalism, structuralism, post structuralism, new historicism, and gender studies.
EN 355 - Introduction to General Linguistics
This course is designed to provide students with a grasp of fundamental linguistic principles, concentrating on the grammar of English. It emphasizes the analysis of English according to the traditional, structural, and generative transformational approaches. Included are the implications of applied English linguistics for teachers, literary scholars, and other professionals.
EN 356 - History of the English Language
The historical development of the English language: the phonological, morphological, and syntactic changes through the centuries governed by language laws and foreign influences.
EN 363 - Topics in the History of the Theatre
In this course various phases of theatre development are studied. Representative plays are read as examples for discussion. Sample topics: American Drama and Culture, European Masters of Drama, American Playwrights since 1945, Great Ages of the Theatre. Cross-listed as FAH 363 ..
EN 370 - Special Topics in Irish Literature
Sample Topics: Contemporary Irish Fiction; Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival; Anglo-Irish Literature; Contemporary Irish Poetry.
EN 373 - Special Topics in Literary Genres
Sample Topics: Tragedy: Theory and Practice; Psychological Fiction; Contemporary Travel Narratives.
EN 374 - Special Topics in Literary Theory/Criticism
Sample Topics: Contemporary Theory; Gender in Music and Literature.
EN 375 - Gender in Music and Literature
Students in this course will explore gender representations in four distinct genres of music: opera, rock, country, and hip-hop. Along with listening to music in these four genres, they will read literature that corresponds to the music's time period, subject matter, and performative aspects. The course is intended (1) to introduce students to some current ways of thinking and writing about issues of music, literature, and gender; (2) to facilitate students' development of an informed, self-aware position in relation to recent scholarship; (3) to challenge assumptions about the way we read and hear gender; (4) to introduce them to excellent music and literature they might not otherwise hear or read, which will broaden their knowledge and appreciation of these art forms.
EN 400 - Independent Study
During their course of studies English majors may take up to two independent study courses arranged with an individual professor. The proposed independent study must be designed in cooperation with the professor and approved by the Department Chair
EN 475 - English Senior Seminar
Required of all senior majors, this requires each student to write and present a thesis on a single major work. The seminar encourages coordination of literary knowledge by bringing literary theory, history, and criticism into conjunction with one another.
EN 481-482 - Internship
Student-originated internships, supervised by the English Department, in areas of communication, publishing, journalism, and theatre.
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Toms River downtown could get more than 500 apartments, stores, restaurant
Toms River is working with Capodagli Property Co. to build apartments, parking and retail space on two parking lots in the downtown area.
Toms River downtown could get more than 500 apartments, stores, restaurant Toms River is working with Capodagli Property Co. to build apartments, parking and retail space on two parking lots in the downtown area. Check out this story on app.com: https://www.app.com/story/news/local/redevelopment/2019/07/02/toms-river-downtown-could-get-more-than-500-apartments-stores/1586966001/
Jean Mikle, Asbury Park Press Published 5:00 a.m. ET July 2, 2019 | Updated 7:24 p.m. ET July 2, 2019
Toms River has an ambitious plan to redevelop its downtown area. Jean Mikle
TOMS RIVER - More than 500 apartments, retail space and a restaurant are part of an ambitious redevelopment plan for two parking lots in the township's downtown area.
The Township Council approved a resolution June 25 to designate Capodagli Property Co. as the redeveloper for two Toms River-owned parking lots on Irons and Water streets.
Designating Capodagli as the redeveloper means the township will negotiate with the developer exclusively for 180 days in an attempt to finalize an agreement for construction on the two parking lots.
Aerial photo showing the Toms River and downtown Toms River at the lower left. Bob Bielk/Asbury Park Press 8/12/11 (Photo: Bob Bielk/Asbury Park Press)
Township Planner David Roberts said preliminary plans include 160 apartment units, parking and retail on the upper portion of the Irons Street parking lot, and more than 400 units, a restaurant, parking and retail space on the Water Street lot that's adjacent to the Red Carpet Inn property.
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Affordable units also would be included in the construction, Roberts said.
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Councilman Maurice B. "Mo" Hill Jr. said Capodagli has a track record of successful development in New Jersey, mostly centered around transit hubs. The apartments the company would build in the downtown would be close to the NJ Transit bus station, which provides service to northern New Jersey and Manhattan.
Hill, a member of the council's land use committee, said he plans to visit the Capodagli project in Hackensack next week. Councilwoman Laurie Huryk, also a member of the committee, also is expected to travel to Hackensack to view the development.
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In addition to Hackensack, Linden-based Capodagli's recent projects include complexes in Dover, Linden, Roselle Park and Rahway.
Taller structures of varying heights would be permitted downtown under a redevelopment plan the township adopted last year. Fifty percent of structures would be two to four stories high; 20 percent five to seven stories, and 10 percent eight to 10 stories.
Watch the video above to find out more about the downtown redevelopment plans.
Roberts said Capodagli has suggested the apartments would be constructed in six-story buildings, with parking below the residential units.
Main Street in downtown Toms River is shown in this flatened 360 degree image Thursday, February 8, 2018. (Photo: Thomas P. Costello)
Township officials believe luring more people to live in the downtown is key to revitalizing the area.
Toms River took a big step toward redeveloping downtown last year, when the Township Council agreed to spend $3.3 million to purchase the troubled Red Carpet Inn on Main and Water streets. Also, the Legion Square apartment complex recently opened on Legion Court near Toms River High School South, bringing 55 new apartment units to the downtown.
The Red Carpet Inn, which is now vacant, is expected to be demolished by the end of the summer.
The township also hopes the downtown post office will relocate to a newly designated redevelopment area on Hooper and Caudina avenues near Seacourt Pavilion. That area could also be home to an expanded Veterans Administration clinic, 50-multifamily housing units and a new fire department substation.
If the post office were to relocate, that would open up more space in the downtown for housing, retail and parking, officials have said.
Capodagli intends to build rental units in the downtown, Hill said. Most of the units would be one-bedroom apartments, with some two-bedrooms, he said.
"It's a good-looking project," Hill said. "A lot of good things are starting to happen in the downtown."
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Roberts said Capodagli plans to build a restaurant on the Water Street lot, along with additional parking and some retail. The company has a hospitality arm that would operate the restaurant, he said.
"We were hoping to get something like this for those two parking lots," Roberts said. He said high-rises make sense in the downtown area because they won't interfere with neighbors.
Huddy Park on Water Street in Toms River is the township's original park
Huddy Park, on Water Street, is Toms River's original public park Jean Mikle
Huddy Park, on Water Street, had more than $1.5 million in improvements before the township's 250th anniversary, in 2017 Jean Mikle
Huddy Park on Water Street was Toms River's first municipal park. The land for the park was acquired by the township for $3,000 in 1905. Jean Mikle
A view of the Toms River from Huddy Park Jean Mikle
Huddy Park is named for Capt. Joshua Huddy, who commanded the Toms River Block House during the Revolutionary War Jean Mikle
Bridge over the Toms River in Huddy Park Jean Mikle
A view of the Toms River from Huddy Park, looking west Jean Mikle
A view of the bridge over the Toms River in Huddy Park Jean Mikle
Two festivals take over the downtown Toms River area. The Wooden Boat festival takes place in Huddy Park while Summer in the Street takes over Washington Street. Toms River, NJ Saturday, July 21, 2018 @dhoodhood Doug Hood
A reproduction of part of the Toms River Block House, a fort that was attacked by the British Army in 1782. Jean Mikle
Revolutionary War figures at the entrance to Huddy Park in Toms River Jean Mikle
Gazebo in Huddy Park, Toms River Jean Mikle
The Puffin on display. Two festivals take over the downtown Toms River area. The Wooden Boat festival takes place in Huddy Park while Summer in the Street takes over Washington Street. Toms River, NJ Saturday, July 21, 2018 @dhoodhood Doug Hood
Capodagli also is expected to contribute some enhancements in the downtown as part of an agreement to allow the company to build high-density housing there.
The company could assist with construction of the waterfront park that is expected to replace the Red Carpet Inn, or could perhaps pay for a jitney or a water taxi to take people from the downtown apartments to the bus station, Roberts said.
Jean Mikle covers Toms River and several other Ocean County towns, and has been writing about local government and politics at the Jersey Shore for nearly 35 years. A finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in public service, she's also passionate about the Shore's storied music scene. Contact her: @jeanmikle, 732-643-4050, jmikle@gannettnj.com.
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Foyer Faux Pas: The Do's—and Don'ts—of Decorating an Entryway
by Amy McLeod Group
First impressions matter, especially when it comes to your home. And the best way to make a good impression on all who enter your abode is to have a sharply decorated entryway.
"Entryways and foyers have really become an important part of the house because it's a view into the lives of the folks who live there," says Dee Frazier, owner and lead organizer of Dee Frazier Interiors.
The entryway is your chance to showcase your personality. Plus, if you're selling anytime soon, this is a potential buyer's first look at your house.
But effectively curating an entryway is something of an art form. And not paying attention to the following principles could be the difference between a foyer that's cluttered instead of one that's chic.
To help you make this hot spot a memorable space in your home, we've polled the pros for their tips and advice—and their warnings of what to avoid.
Do: Add a place to sit
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Whether you use a bench or an extra chair from the kitchen, a place to perch is critical. Where are you going to sit to lace up your sneakers or tug off your boots?
"Make it [do] double duty by opting for a bench or ottoman that offers interior storage," says Jamie Novak, an organizing pro and author of "Keep This Toss That."
Don't: Let clutter creep in
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Newspaper stacks and piles of shoes are your entryway's worst enemy. They look sloppy and could be a tripping hazard.
Drew Henry of Design Dudes suggests keeping your entryway as open as possible by using light, streamlined furniture like a sleek console table or a mirror.
It's also smart to place a wicker basket near the door as a catch-all for shoes and other items that you're likely to set down upon entering your home.
Do: Consider your entryway's size
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You may love that vintage coat stand that you snagged from a flea market, but if it takes over your entire entryway, you're just going to bump into it every time you take off your rain slicker. Instead, use your limited floor space for another more useful piece like a bench and mount a small set of hooks or a simple Shaker peg rail for jackets and scarves.
Don't: Waste vertical space
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Entryways tend to be narrow, so it's best to take advantage of vertical space. Novak suggests adding wall storage like a hanging mail caddy or a small shelf to hold your keys. Label the cubbies for each family member, and you'll never lose a utility bill again.
Do: Consider covering the walls
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Give your entryway walls a critical eye and decide whether wallpaper or a wall treatment like stone, wood planks, or tile might add some oomph to your decor, says Frazier.
"Any of these options would make an impact, but if you don't want to cover the entire foyer with wallpaper, you could place it on the wall going up a staircase or in alcoves around the room," she says.
Feeling extra bold? Take it one step further and apply wallpaper on the ceiling.
Don't: Hesitate to add color
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Does the color palette in your home skew neutral? The entryway is an ideal spot to take a risk with color, says Frazier.
Ideas to try: bold artwork on a wall, a brightly patterned throw pillow on the bench, or a vase of colorful flowers.
Do: Think about lighting
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Your entryway should also feature some light fixtures to illuminate the front part of your house and make it look welcoming to all who stop by. Our experts recommend installing both ambient lighting (e.g., a chandelier) and task lighting (e.g., a floor lamp).
A chandelier offers both light and a dramatic statement upon entry, and a floor lamp can light your way when you enter the front door and then switched off in the evening when everyone goes to bed.
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6 Ways to Banish Mildew Smells in the Bathroom
Have you ever walked into your bathroom and thought: My God! What is that smell? Mildew could be to blame for transforming your special oasis into stink central. Don't panic, we're here to help.
Mildew, or mold in its early stage, tends to be found in wet, moisture-prone areas. It looks grayish-white but can turn brown over time. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, mildew can grow on wood products, ceiling tiles, insulation, wallpaper, carpet, drywall, fabric, plants, and other organic materials that are commonly found in bathrooms. And once the fungus makes its way onto your precious towels and tiles, you need to get serious about eradicating it.
You can get rid of that mildew misery and restore your bathroom to its former lavender-scented glory in no time.
“Minor mold issues can usually be addressed by most homeowners with a little cleanup,” says Gregory Frazier, with Art Plumbing, AC & Electric, in Coral Springs, FL.
Ready to scrub away that stale stink? Here's how.
1. Wash it
The first step to battling the mildew stench is to wash everything. This means washing those hand-towels that have been hanging in the bathroom forever, the musty bathroom rugs, and the stale window curtains. When laundering, experts suggest adding one cup of white vinegar to wash the load. Frequently wash your nonslip mats, too. And, toss that vinyl shower curtain and replace it with a washable cotton, hemp, or nylon shower curtain.
“Bleach can be used to clean the mildew source and stop it from growing," says Gina Perry, senior merchant of cleaning at The Home Depot in Atlanta.
For items that can withstand bleach, FEMA recommends using a 10% solution or 1.25 to 1.5 cup of bleach to a gallon of water. The bleach/water solution can also be used to wipe down shower doors, cabinets, and walls, and to mop hard floors around bathtubs and toilets.
2. Address any water issues
Water can be the big culprit behind that nasty smell. “You can get a mildew smell if you have a slow drain leak under a sink or around a drain,” says Frazier. He says the same thing can happen with toilets if a wax ring seal, which seals the toilet to the flange, has a slight leak that is allowing small amounts of water to seep out under the toilet.
“The fix is to repair the leak promptly and wipe the area that got wet down with a strong, bleach-based cleaner,” Frazier says.
Bathtubs can also occasionally get a mildew smell if they're not properly sealed and if small amounts of water get between the wall and the tub. A bleaching solution can scrub away mildew on top of caulk, but if it’s underneath, it will need to be completely removed and properly recaulked.
3. Let the bathroom breathe
Dark, damp, warm rooms make for a happy home for mildew to thrive. To remedy this, open the windows and let fresh air in. If you don't have a window in the bathroom, keep the bathroom door cracked open when showering. If you need more privacy and prefer to shower with the door closed (no judgment!), install a ceiling fan or consider running an electric fan to keep air moving. Open your cabinets so they can get fresh air, too.
“I find one of the biggest things homeowners can do to combat mildew smells in bathrooms is to ensure they have a properly functioning, properly sized exhaust fan,” says Frazier.
4. Use an air purifier
Mildew reeks, but it can also make people with allergies or asthma sick or irritate their eyes, nose, throat, and lungs.
Sara Alsén, chief purpose officer for Sweden-based Blueair, a leader in air-cleaning solutions, says placing a high-performing air purifier in the bathroom will have a twofold effect: It will remove the unhealthy mold and bacteria in the air and make the smell disappear.
“An air purifier with a high airflow will also increase the air circulation in the bathroom and as such, help fight the mold growth,” she says.
5. Apply a fresh coat of paint
There’s nothing a new paint job can’t cure, right? Try using mold- and mildew-resistant paint.
Rick Watson, director of product information at Sherwin-Williams, says paints with odor-eliminating technology can help inhibit the growth of mold and mildew and reduce common indoor odors, so rooms stay fresher longer.
But make sure to treat the mildew before painting. Bathrooms are splash-prone areas, so lower parts of the walls and corners and edges near the ceiling are typical breeding areas for mildew.
After cleaning, brush a coat of mildew-resistant primer on ceiling and walls to prevent peeling in high-moisture areas. Let the coat of primer dry, then apply the first coat of mildew-resistant paint and say goodbye to that mildew smell.
6. Try an odor eliminator
Odor-absorbing items can help. Charcoal briquettes, an open box of baking soda, or a small pouch of kitty litter can make the bathroom smell fresher by absorbing the odor and the moisture in the air. However, make sure to replace them every month or so. Natural air fresheners, like essential oils or citrus peels, can also cut the stench.
By: Realtor.com, Anayat Durrani
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What Really Happens When You Sell Your House for More Than You Owe on a Loan
What happens if you sell your house for more than you owe on your loan? If you find yourself asking this question, congratulations are most likely in order. Selling a house for more than the value of your mortgage often means you'll walk away with a nice profit.
But not always. Sometimes, even if a home's sales price is higher than the mortgage amount owed, a seller may not see a dime—or may even owe money at the closing table instead! Here's how to figure out if you're going to make or lose money when you sell your house.
Where your profits go when you close the deal
During your home closing—the final leg of the sales process where you swap your house keys for a check—there's traditionally a go-between who handles transferring funds from buyer to seller. That might be an escrow company, a real estate agent or attorney, or a title company, depending on where you live, but they're the ones who will take the buyer's money (usually a check from the lender) and use it to pay off the seller's mortgage, says Bryan Zuetel, managing broker of Esquire Real Estate and the managing attorney of Zuetel Law Group, in Pasadena, CA.
Yet that check doesn't just go straight into a seller's pocket. Many other parties must be paid off first. Here are a few costs that may eat up your profits.
Real estate agent commissions
First up, the seller's real estate agent has to be paid a commission—as well as the buyer's agent, if the buyer had one, says Robert Berliner Jr., a real estate attorney with the Berliner Group, in Chicago.
Traditionally, the title company, escrow company, or lawyer handling your closing will cut a check directly to your listing agent, Berliner says. This agent will split this with the buyer's agent who helped secure the deal.The typical commission for a seller's agent is around 5% to 6% of the sales price of the house, although just how much your real estate agent gets will be outlined in the listing agreement—the document you signed when you hired the agent to sell your house.
If for some reason there isn't enough money left over from the sale to pay your agent, you'll need to be ready to write a check at closing to make up the difference.
We know: It's a downer to write a check on the day you sell your home, but it happens if housing prices have dipped since you bought the place. Comfort yourself with the thought that you might be getting out before suffering more serious losses.
The buyer typically pays most closing costs, but sellers often face some closing costs, too. These fees can amount to as much as 1% to 3% of the purchase price of the house. Everything from recording fees to title insurance premiums can come out of the sales price of the house—aka the money the buyer pays to the seller—as part of closing.
And you guessed it, these fees will be paid during the process, so they'll come right out of the money left over after you pay off your mortgage.
After the agents get their cut and the closing fees are settled, any taxes you owe on the property will be levied. In many states, taxes are paid a year in arrears, Berliner says. In other words, the real estate taxes paid in 2019 are actually the taxes on the property for the year 2018. Your buyer isn't responsible for taking on the taxes for the time you owned the property—which means you may have to pay up.
Some states also levy a transfer tax when property is sold, which falls on the seller to pay out of the price of the home.
Just how much you're facing can vary greatly depending on where you live, Zuetel says, but you can expect costs roughly from $50 to $225.
Anything left? It's yours!
After your loan is paid, the agents get paid, and any fees or taxes are settled, if there's money left over, you get to keep the balance. Congratulations! The money can be paid by check or wired straight into your account.
To see just how much you're expected to net, you can ask your closing attorney, escrow officer, or even the title company for a draft settlement statement before closing. This document details all of the closing costs, real estate commissions, fees, and taxes that will come out of the sales price of the home.
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By: Realtor.com, Jeanne Sager
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Home Staging in a Hurry: Hacks to Spruce Up a Space in 5 Minutes
Selling your home these days takes more than just finding an agent and listing it. You’ve got to really sell it. That means impressing buyers the second they walk in the door.
One of the best ways to do this? Home staging, where your home's decor undergoes a makeover in order to entice home buyers to swoon and make an offer.
“The statistics don’t lie,” says Samantha Rose Frith of Warburg Realty in New York City. “A well-staged house will sell more quickly and draw a higher sales price.”
But who has time for that? Hiring a pro is pricey (here's more on how much home staging costs). Plus a pro can't do all of the work; you’ll still need to do some sprucing up if you have an unexpected showing.
So if the clock is ticking, here are home staging tips and tricks that you can pull off fast, depending on how much time you have—from an hour to just 5 minutes.
Home staging in 5 minutes
Put down the toilet seats: “Yes, that makes a difference,” says Jennifer Okhovat, a real estate agent in Los Angeles. Tracey Hampson, a real estate agent in Santa Clarita, CA, also recommends hiding the plunger and toilet brush, and any reading material you may have accumulated in your bathroom. “A bathroom is a bathroom, not a library,” says Hampson. Amen.
Open the blinds: Let in as much natural light as possible—unless you have a spectacularly bad view, in which case, keep those blinds closed.
Take out the trash and recycling: You may get that one potential buyer who will look everywhere.
Home staging in 15 minutes
Clear your countertops: “The less clutter on countertops, the better,” says Okhovat. A nice bowl of fruit can spruce things up, but if you have several small appliances and all of your spices out, take a few minutes to stash them in your cupboards or a storage bin.
Adjust the temperature: You don’t want buyers to rush through your house because it's too hot or too cold. You also want to show that your heating and cooling are working. The ideal temperature depends on your home and the season, but keeping it at around 70 degrees should ensure everyone who sees your home is comfortable.
Hide any piles of toys, clothes, and mail: “Remove the clothes from the stair steps, ensure the four piles of mail get reduced to one or tucked away entirely,” says Katie Coombs of Total Home Experience in Reno, NV. Janet Lorusso of JRL Interiors, in Boston, recommends keeping baskets handy in your living spaces for quick cleanup of toys and other clutter.
Remove personal items: Buyers like to view each home as a blank canvas, and that’s hard to do with pictures of someone else’s family dominating the space. “Family and vacation pics are great, but maybe the Disneyland throw blanket and the hanging, glued-together puzzle could go in the closet for a bit,” says Coombs. Keep your privacy in mind as well as you clear items. You may want to stash items with your family member’s full names on display, for example.
Clean, clean, clean: Vacuum, sweep, and mop as often as you can stand. “Check mirrors for spatters," says Lorusso. Bonus: "The smell of cleaning products will make your house feel clean, even if it isn’t."
Add or adjust your lighting: “Use torch lamps if a room doesn’t get a lot of natural light, says Joel Moss of Warburg Realty in New York City. “We also find that replacing LED bulbs with bulbs that give it a warmer feel has a beneficial effect on buyer interest.”
Hang a mirror: “Hang a wall mirror strategically to add visual interest and make the space look larger,” says Amber Harris of Keller Williams Capital Properties in Washington, DC, and interior decorator with At Home DC.
Home staging in an hour
Rearrange the living room furniture: Instead of arranging your living room furniture based on the best view of the TV, “arrange furniture to face focal points in the room, like a large window with a view or a fireplace,” says Anne Clancy, a Re/Max real estate agent in Cottage Grove, MN.
Make small repairs: “That leaky faucet or moldy caulk might not seem like a big deal if you lived there for the last 10 years, but they will almost always factor into a lower offer,” says Frith. If there’s a small project you’ve been putting off, like fixing a hinge on a cabinet door, now’s the time to take care of it.
Spruce up walls, outdated countertops, dressers, and more with contact paper: “It’s not just for lining shelves anymore,” says Michael Nelson, chief operating officer of the Pyramid Project, a property management firm in Kissimmee, FL. “We’ve used it on everything from walls to countertops. It holds up well, looks great, and when you want a change, it removes with ease and no damage to the surface.”
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By: Realtor.com, Melinda Sineriz
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6 Crucial Plumbing Facts That Could Make or Break Your Bathroom Remodel
Planning to remodel your bathroom into the oasis of your dreams? Then you'd better get a handle on your plumbing. Even if you don't see the pipes connected to your sink or shower, understanding how they work is essential if you want your bathroom renovation to turn out all right (and within budget).
That's why, in the latest installment of our "Dream Bathroom Remodeling Guide," we break down everything you need to know about plumbing into bite-size pieces. Read on for some surprises!
1. Bathroom remodel 101: Types of pipes
In the past, most bathroom plumbing pipes were made of cast iron or galvanized metal. However, these pipes won't work with many of the newfangled, water-saving setups like, say, low-flow toilets. Low-flow toilets will save about 17,000 gallons of water yearly. (Note: Flushing a standard toilet uses about 38% of an average household’s water.) The catch is, they require PVC (polyvinyl chloride) or PEX (cross-linked polyethylene) pipes. But updating to these kinds of pipes is both easy and affordable.
"These new types of pipes are flexible—and thus very simple and inexpensive to install," says Cassidy Melhorn, a pipe design engineer and founder of Knoxville's Volhomes.
You also need to figure out if you prefer hidden or exposed plumbing when you're looking to buy your sink, tub, or toilet.
"Exposed plumbing is the more traditional look, while hidden plumbing is much more minimalist and cleaner-looking," says Ryan Holden, director of Progressive Heating & Air, an HVAC and plumbing company in San Diego.
If you have a lot of visible plumbing, you might want to use copper pipes instead of PVC or PEX, because copper is more appealing aesthetically. Just keep in mind that it's more expensive and difficult to work with, since sawing and fitting these pipes into place will take more work than cutting soft, flexible PEX/PVC.
Regardless of the material, consider insulating these pipes, which can help reduce the amount of heat lost as your water travels from the heater to the faucet.
2. Plumbing can affect a bathroom's layout
The existing water and drain lines in your bathroom usually dictate the location of fixtures in your renovation. You can move pipes and drains—although it'll cost you—but some relocations might be impossible.
For example, you may be dreaming about a large tub right next to the bathroom window.
"But if the piping won't allow for this configuration, then you will need to rethink the entire layout," says Holden. This all comes down to drain line access. While it's usually feasible to relocate a large fixture, the supporting joists beneath the bathroom floor usually can't be cut in order to install new drains.
Bottom line: Before you buy any fixture that connects to a pipe, sit down with your contractor (or a plumber) and have a conversation about what's feasible.
3. Watch out for water pressure
The good news is that there's something called the National Pipe Thread, which is a U.S. standard size for a fitting that connects rigid pipes such as shower heads to the shower arm pipe in your shower. That means if you're replacing a shower head, most fixtures out there will fit the existing pipe.
The bad news? That new shower head may not work with your existing water pressure. New shower heads are now required to restrict water flow and deliver less than 2.5 gallons per minute. So if you have low water pressure and add a new water-saving shower head, you may be soaping up under a trickle. To avoid this travesty, have your home's water pressure checked before you buy your accessories.
"Each home will have a different water pressure, but the average is usually around 45 to 80 pounds per square inch," says Holden. "It's the little things like this that people often overlook, and end up buying all their accessories only to find they won't work with existing plumbing."
Also keep in mind that there are things you can do to adjust your water pressure. If your water pressure is too low, it's often due to clogged pipes you can unclog—or if not, you can also buy a water pressure booster. Or if your pressure is too high, you can install a pressure-reducing valve.
4. Take a look at your water heater
A remodel may also call for a water heater replacement—heaters generally last about 10 years—or even an upgrade to a tankless water heater. Also called “demand-type water heaters,” these devices are about the size of a small suitcase and deliver endless warm water only when you need it. Conventional water heaters always have a tank of hot water whether you need it or not, which drives up energy costs. Just note that on-demand heaters cost up to three times more than conventional heaters to buy and install. That works out to about $800 to $3,000 for the unit, and installation can add an additional $1,000 to $3,000.
5. Plumbing for luxe extras
Renovating is a good time to think about heating, as your walls and floors will often need to be opened anyway.
"Consider installing underfloor heating," says Holden. Known as radiant heat, this method uses hot water to carry heat through a network of tubing beneath the floor.
"You may wish to have a hydronic heated towel rack installed, too," he adds.
6. Make sure to shut off your water first!
One last no-brainer for you rookie DIYers out there: Whether you're swapping out your sink, shower, toilet, or some other water-spouting device, you have to shut off your water first—or else!
You can generally just shut off the water at the fixtures you are swapping out. Sink valves are typically under it, and the toilet valve is generally where the plumbing meets the wall. Some bath and showers have an access panel on the reverse side of the wall, which may house shut-off valves. There's also a main shut-off inside the house, usually in the basement.
By: Realtor.com, Margaret Heidenry
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Should You Do Home Upgrades Now ... or Right Before You Sell?
Home sellers are often told to make upgrades to their house before they sell ... but when is the best time to get those home improvements underway, in terms of scoring the best ROI?
It's a tough balance to strike. After all, the sooner you remodel your kitchen or retile the bathroom, the more you'll get to enjoy it all yourself. But if you make those improvements too long before you sell, you risk them looking run-down and outdated by the time you want to market your home. So, when's the right time to give the green light?
If you're agonizing over such questions, we can end your misery now—in a good way! Here’s how far in advance of listing your home you should do certain home improvements, so they'll still look fresh enough to fetch top dollar.
7 to 10 years out
Well, you’re quite a planner, aren’t you? That’s cool … we’ll play the long game with you. Here are upgrades you can safely undertake when you still have significant time until your sale.
1. Redo your landscaping
This is truly one of the few housing projects that gets better with age, since shrubs and trees only improve as they mature. And, bonus: It's likely that it will never look dated, says Lisa Shiroff of Leafy Green Landscaping in Buena, NJ. However, she cautions, think twice about unique or difficult-to-maintain items if you are concerned with resale value—we’re talking elements like a meditation nook, bocce ball court, or koi pond.
“Most people are not willing to invest the time, energy, or finances to maintain those areas, so keep your additions relatively mainstream and user-friendly,” Shiroff says.
2. Update the garage door
Believe it or not, updating your garage door is the top upgrade you can make in terms of return on investment.
“Curb appeal is key when you’re getting ready to sell your home, and garage doors can dramatically improve the look of your home,” says Matt Edstrom of GoodLife Home Loans in Laguna Hills, CA. Since garage doors can last for up to 40 years, this is an update you can enjoy right now, without worrying about taking a depreciation hit.
3. Replace your roof
If your roof is more than 20 years old and you plan on selling, you may want to replace it, suggests Taylor Willson, owner of Willson Home Inspection Inc. in Tampa, FL. For one thing, you may receive immediate savings from your insurance company, he says, and beyond that, “A newer roof is a great selling point.” Choose a hardy material, like concrete tiles or asphalt shingles, that have a long useful life.
4. Keep up on repairs
Repairs should have a permanent spot on your “to do” list. If it’s broke, then, yes, please fix it.
“Don’t put off repairs while you wait for the optimum time,” says Cristina Miguélez, remodeling specialist at Fixr.com. “They help your home retain value and can keep a small problem from becoming exponentially bigger.”
5 years out
This is a good time to start thinking about big-ticket items that will affect your resale and that you won’t want to pay for all at once. Here are some to consider.
1. Replace major systems
We’re talking HVAC systems, plumbing … anything whose average life expectancy is relatively long, and where you want your listing to showcase that these key systems are less than five years old. Replacing them now allows you to enjoy the improved operation and potential energy savings, while avoiding a concession in the sale price when the time comes, Willson says.
2. Check on anything with a warranty
This is also a good time to do a check on any items that have a current warranty—such as windows and appliances—while they are still covered, suggests Frances Dawson, with Re/Max Executive at the Lake in Cornelius, NC.
3. Switch out your front door
Another important element of “curb appeal,” your front door can really make your house pop, says Edstrom, as well as potentially increase your energy efficiency. Front doors can last for decades, but they are also exposed to the elements, so this is a good time frame to allow you to enjoy the aesthetics and energy savings, without running the risk that it will look too weathered come sales time.
Two years is nothing in a home’s history, so it’s time to really start getting serious. Here’s what to do to start prepping for a relatively imminent sale.
1. Reno the kitchen or bathroom
This can be subjective, but you’re probably safe doing an overhaul in this time frame if you are hoping to get some personal enjoyment out of your updates. Miguélez suggests, however, that you pick your decor carefully to avoid being stuck with an upgrade that’s already dated.
"A ‘trend’ is something that’s predicted to last roughly 10 years, so your safest best is to find a look that’s been on the upswing for roughly two to three years," Miguélez explains. "That means it will look relevant for a while, rather than something that is already five years old and potentially nearing its expiration date.”
Dawson recommends seeking the opinion of a local real estate agent, who can steer you to cost-effective updates that will increase the value of your home without over-improving it. And, she says, beware of DIY.
“If you don't have extensive prior experience, hiring a professional is going to be cheaper in the long run, because the DIY look is unappealing to your potential buyer.”
2. Get to organizing
This is also a good time to start cleaning out storage areas, closets, cabinets, the garage, the attic—anyplace you have an accumulation of stuff, Dawson says. Your future self will thank you for getting this time-consuming project out of the way now.
3. Have a home inspection
Very few sellers do this, but it’s smart to have your home professionally inspected right about now, so you won’t run into any nasty surprises when selling time rolls around.
“It is always less expensive to repair items before you get into negotiations with a buyer,” Dawson points out.
1 year or less
It’s crunch time, and now is the time to attend to all the high-traffic areas, as well as make improvements that will freshen up your listing.
1. Redo flooring
Pets and kids can scratch up your floors quickly, so wait as long as you can before refinishing floors. Replace carpet, too, if it’s dingy, and especially if it has pet odors.
2. Roll on a fresh coat of paint
Walls get dinged up constantly, so painting right before putting your house on the market can really make it sparkle. It’s also a quick job that you can get done in a week or two.
3. Replace all your accessory items
These are things like bedding, throw pillows, chair cushions, patio furniture, shower curtains, plumbing fixtures, cabinet pulls—all the embellishments that provide the “lipstick” for the foundational elements. Shop those sales and switch out everything you can, Dawson recommends.
“You want the house to shine like a new penny, not appear to be well-loved," she says.
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By: Realtor.com, Cathie Ericson
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9 Surprising Things Everybody (Yes—You, Too) Forgets When Renovating Outdoor Spaces
I don't know about you, but once the thermometer ticks past 70 degrees, a lightbulb goes off in my head: Is this the year, I ask myself, that I can finally build the outdoor space I deserve?
Of course I can! And so can you. With a little work, you'll soon be grilling in your outdoor kitchen or reading in a hammock on your sunny patio.
But don't drop the ball: There are some elements commonly forgotten during an outdoor renovation that can ruin it all. Go through this list before breaking ground, to ensure your backyard space is up to snuff. And get ready to enjoy the summer!
1. Proper lighting
Photo by Native Son Design Studio
You'd think being able to see at night would be an important patio requirement, but you'd be surprised how often lighting systems are skipped.
"Many homeowners spend time and money creating an outdoor space but forget about this key element," says Joe Raboine, the director of residential hardscapes at Belgard.
Consider first how you intend to use the patio. If you're hoping guests might linger over long conversations, provide low lighting around your seating nooks. And if your backyard BBQ plans involve lots of late-night drinking games (because, why not?), illuminate the entire space with string lights.
Nothing is worse than planning your perfect patio layout—complete with a keg cooler, botanical garden-worthy lighting, and a show-stopping Christmas display your neighbors will never top—only to realize you forgot one essential element: electricity.
"Be sure to install a few electrical outlets for supplemental holiday lighting or just working on a laptop," says architect and interior designer Leslie Saul.
And no, you can't just add one outlet and be done with it. Will you want speakers? A fridge? A TV? Make sure everything has juice.
3. The position of the sun
Photo by Prime Design Tasmania Pty Ltd
You can't bask in the sun if there is no sun. Before constructing the patio of your dreams, pay close attention to the trajectory of that big ball in the sky.
"The location of the sun relative to an outdoor area is one of the most important elements to consider when designing an outdoor living space," says Shaun Gotterbarn, an architect with Alisberg Parker. "Understanding the sun’s path throughout the day and studying the shadows cast by trees and neighboring buildings allows you to make sure you have your seating area in the perfect place."
4. Outdoor storage
Photo by Harrison's Landscaping
Once temperatures dip, it'll be time to store away all the things that made your outdoor space an enviable destination to begin with. But unless you factored in storage space from the jump, you might find yourself shoving patio cushions into your kids' closets and gardening tools into your pantry.
"Lots of water-resistant outdoor storage allows for a beautiful, clean outdoor space," says patio designer and blogger Eric Clark. "You need multiple easily accessible areas to store outdoor cushions and throw pillows and protect them from rain and mildew."
Or, build your storage into your patio design. If you're adding an outdoor kitchen, leave plenty of cabinet space for your outdoor must-haves, or construct custom cabinetry that blends seamlessly with your siding.
5. Drainage
Here's a shocking secret: Your patio is outside. Where it rains. And rain loves to wreak havoc.
"When rainwater pools on your foundation, you’ll find yourself not only dealing with a safety hazard, but also eventually, you’ll need to redo the entire groundwork," says Robert Himmaugh, manager of Acadian Windows & Siding.
Prevent damage by installing a gutter around your patio roof—if it has a roof, of course—and by paying attention to drainage. Your patio should slope away from your home's foundation, and the ground should slope away from your patio base, as well.
6. Privacy and noise
Photo by Wolf Design Studio
Plan on throwing raucous parties in your new outdoor space? Good for you—unless you've built it right next to your neighbor's backyard.
Alternatively, maybe your neighbor is the one throwing the ultra-loud parties. Consider building your outdoor living space on the opposite side of the property, allowing you to enjoy your evenings quietly reading, not growling about the sixth keg stand (so far).
Of course, in a tiny backyard, you might not have many options. Get clever about your construction to add privacy and reduce sound.
"Vertical gardens can double as fences, and water features can mask noises," Raboine says.
And Saul recommends adding trellises, on which you can grow beautiful climbers, like clematis. That's a two-for-one deal: privacy and style.
7. Utilities
Adding utilities, like gas lines for BBQs and water lines for your wet bar, can be a pain. But installation is significantly easier if done during construction.
"Think about their location before you start construction," Gotterbarn says. Even if you're not building a kitchen now, you might want to later, so make sure all necessary utilities are easily accessible.
8. That winter view
Sure, your patio offers a fantastic summer view. But what will you be staring at come winter?
"For those of us who live in northern climates, our patio may be shut down for half the year, although we will be looking at it all year long," Clark says. "Often we're staring at ugly furniture covers protecting mini-mountains of clustered furniture, half covered with snow."
To save your eyes this sadness, Clark recommends choosing decorative outdoor lighting (weather-resistant, of course), landscape rocks, and colorful all-weather chairs to "focus the eye on more interesting views, as you stare at the patio through the window while cooking dinner."
9. Future plans
Chances are, your gorgeous outdoor space is just a fraction of your eventual dream landscape, Saul says.
"It's always good to create a master plan, even if you don't plan to implement it all at once," she says. "Then you'll know what infrastructure to install early, so you'll be ready to go later, without all the mess."
Do you plan to turn your rocky sideyard into a gorgeous grassy expanse? Consider in-ground sprinklers. And if you're dreaming about a koi pond, water pipes can turn that fantasy into reality. You can design around the empty space, leaving it unimpeded for whatever your future brain cooks up.
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By: Realtor.com, Jamie Wiebe
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2 Trends Helping Keep Housing Affordable
Two positive trends have started to emerge that impact the 2019 Spring Housing Market. Mortgage interest rates for a 30-year fixed rate loan have dropped to new lows, right as reports show that wages have increased at their highest rate in decades!
These two factors have helped keep housing affordable despite low supply of houses for sale driving up prices. First American’s Chief Economist, Mark Fleming, explains the impact,
“Ongoing supply shortages remain the main driver of the performance gap as the housing market continues to face an inventory impasse – you can’t buy what’s not for sale.
However, an unexpected affordability surge, driven primarily by lower-than-anticipated mortgage rates, rising wages and favorable demographics, has boosted housing demand.”
Mortgage interest rates had been on the rise for most of 2018 before reaching their peak in November at 4.94%. According to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, interest rates last week came in at 4.20%.
Average hourly earnings grew at an annual rate of 3.2% in March, up substantially from the 2.3% average pace seen over the last 10 years.
These two factors contributed nearly $6,000 worth of additional house-buying power for median households from February to March 2019, according to First American’s research. Fleming is positive about the prolonged impact of lower rates and higher wages.
“We expect rising wages and lower mortgage rates to continue through the spring, boosting housing demand and spurring home sales.”
Low mortgage interest rates have kept housing affordable throughout the country. If you plan on purchasing a home this year, act now while rates are still low!
By: KCM Crew
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Existing-Home Sales Slide Nearly 5% in March as the On-Again-Off-Again Housing Market Retreats
The numbers: Existing-home sales ran at a seasonally adjusted annual 5.21 million rate in March, the National Association of Realtors said Monday. That was 4.9% lower than February’s pace and missed the Econoday consensus of a 5.3 million rate.
What happened: Sales of previously-owned homes fell more sharply than expected in March as the usual housing headwinds stalked the market. The surge in February was the strongest in nearly four years, and the Realtor lobby group is attributing the March decline to a return to normalcy after that spike. Still, sales were 5.4% lower than a year ago.
The median price of a home sold in March was $259,400, a 3.8% increase versus a year ago. At the current pace of sales, it would take 3.9 months to exhaust available supply, still well below the long-time average of 6 months. Properties stayed on the market for an average of 36 days in March, down from 44 days in February but a bit longer than the 30 days averaged last year.
According to NAR’s measure of first-time buyers, they accounted for 33% of all transactions in March. But more recent comprehensive research – NAR’s is based on survey data – suggests first-time buyers currently make up about the same share of the market that they have for the past two decades.
Activity was mixed regionally, as always, but all regions saw a decline. In the Northeast, sales were down 2.9%, and in the South they fell 3.4%. In the West, which has suffered for several months, in large part because of the recent tax law changes, sales fell 6%. But the Midwest saw the biggest decline, of 7.9%.
Big picture: The housing market is getting a second wind from the steep decline in mortgage rates over the past few months, although rates may have bottomed out. And there still isn’t enough inventory of the type that’s most needed. “The lower-end market is hot while the upper-end market is not,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.
It’s normally the government’s data on newly-constructed homes that are so choppy, not the existing-home market, which accounts for most of the sales activity in housing.
What they’re saying: “March might be the closest approximation we have seen in a while to the true underlying sales pace,” said Amherst Pierpont Securities’ Stephen Stanley after the release. “The 3-month average through February was 5.14 million. The March pace picked up modestly from there but was still short of the 2018 tally of 5.34 million. The National Association of Realtors is optimistic (when are they not?!?) that lower mortgage rates and a better inventory situation will help to propel sales forward during the peak spring season.”
By: Realtor.com, Andrea Riquier
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5 Strange Things That Can Stop a Home From Ever Selling
Ever wonder what could keep a home from selling? Just ask a listing agent. They've seen some doozies.
Listing agents, as the professionals who help prep a home for sale, are often tasked with telling home sellers why their house might not sell in its current condition. It's a tough job, but it sure beats saying nothing and then watching a home sit indefinitely.
While most corrective tweaks are small—say, a fresh coat of paint or a solid decluttering—sometimes the things that stop a home from selling take everyone by surprise. Here are a few that listing agents have dealt with, and the solutions that saved the day.
1. The 'green monster'
Seth Lejeune, real estate agent with Berkshire Hathaway in Collegeville, PA, coined this phrase to describe a "horrendously colored hunter-green carpet” in his home seller's living room. This home had already been listed once with another agent with no offers; Lejeune was quite sure this carpet was the culprit.
“So I told the seller to replace the carpet with something neutral,” Lejeune says. The seller "was surprised, but receptive. I explained the importance of first impressions, and he got it after a few minutes.”
Replacing the carpet cost only $1,500. “We got four showings within two weeks, and it was the fastest townhome sale of the year,” Lejeune says. In fact, the home buyers mentioned at settlement that they especially loved the living room.
Take-home lesson: Even simple cosmetic flaws, like an ugly shade of carpet, can make some home buyers run. Luckily swapping out carpet is an easy fix.
2. Too many pets
Seattle real estate agent Matt Parker recalls meeting with a landlord who was looking to sell his rental property. The problem? The home had been rented to, as Parker puts it, a couple of “pet enthusiasts.”
“They had about 30 injured birds, squirrels, dogs, cats, lizards, snakes, and dozens of fish in a 910-square-foot house,” he says.
The snakes were in cages and the fish were in bowls, of course, but the rest of the animals roamed free.
“You can imagine what the home smelled like, how stained the floors were, and how many ‘hidden treasure’ land mines there were throughout the house,” Parker says.
The carpet, flooring, subflooring, walls, and exposed wood throughout the house had been permeated with a foul odor, Parker says.
Parker told the home seller that his odds of selling were slim, unless it were a teardown. Thankfully, the seller accepted the news without much drama.
Take-home lesson: We love our furry friends, but that doesn't mean potential buyers want to see our pets (or any of their traces) when looking at a home they're thinking of buying. (Here are tips on how to sell a home with pets.)
3. Noisy neighbors
Homeowners value privacy, but, alas, they don’t always get it.
Courtney Poulos, a broker at ACME Real Estate in Los Angeles, experienced this firsthand with a client who was looking to sell a stylishly remodeled three-bedroom home. Unfortunately, the house “was right next to a large apartment complex,” Poulos says.
“When you were in the backyard, you felt that the occupants of the apartment complex were looking right down on you," she adds.
Poulos agreed to list the house, but remembers a couple of troublesome open houses. During one, a couple living in the apartment building out back “were fighting and you could see them and hear them from the backyard,” she says. At another open house, “one of the neighbors had his TV on so loud that we had to blast music of our own in the open house to try to cover it up."
The fix? “Since we were not getting the offers we wanted after the first couple of weeks, we built a 12-foot fence, incorporated canvas sun shades, installed twinkle lights, and made the outdoor space much more private,” Poulos adds.
The costs tallied up to $3,000, but it was a modest expense considering “this backyard solution ultimately helped sell the property.”
Take-home lesson: No one likes noisy neighbors, especially those who can see right in your house without effort. So, if your home is located adjacent to an apartment building or another home, you’ll want to take steps to provide yourself some privacy.
4. An underground oil tank
“I sold a home earlier this year that an investor had purchased through a foreclosure auction,” says Christopher Pagli, associate broker at William Raveis Legends Realty Group in Tarrytown, NY. But a presale inspection turned up some unwelcome news.
“There was a buried oil tank on the property,” Pagli says. “This came as a surprise, because the home was fueled by natural gas.”
Altogether the testing, removal, and backfill for the oil tank cost the seller about $8,000. The good news? Once the oil tank was removed, the home sold in three weeks.
Take-home lesson: Underground oil tanks are rare, but if you suspect your property has one, you’ll want to have the land tested by an inspector who specializes in oil tank location and decommissioning before putting your house on the market.
5. Mold
No word strikes fear into the hearts of home buyers and sellers more than mold.
“It is a four-letter word, and most definitely has been the issue of greatest magnitude for my home sellers," says Michael Edlen, a real estate agent in Pacific Palisades, CA.
One particularly bad experience sticks out: Before listing a house, Edlen spotted mold in a relatively small area of the garage, but that was just the start.
“[Mold] remediators found that the mold had gotten into the wall framing, so they had to open walls up behind and next to primary areas,” Edlen says. “By the time the work was done, it took two full months and nearly $60,000."
Fortunately, the sellers didn't freak out over the bill—or Edlen.
“One way or another, they would have had to deal with it—and better to fix it upfront than leaving it to later,” he explains.
Take-home lesson: Mold can put a homeowner’s health at risk, which explains why it’s one of the most common fears among home buyers. Make sure you check your house for mold and address any issues before listing it.
By: Realtor.com, Daniel Bortz
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[New Game] GAMEVIL Distils Soccer Down To Its Addictive Essence With Freekick Battle
Ryan Whitwam
2012/08/09 8:46pm PDT Aug 9, 2012
You can always rely on Gamevil to create engaging little games that will eat up your free time. In that spirit, Gamevil has released a new game on Google Play called Freekick Battle. This title has easy-to-master controls and a single goal: to err... score goals. All that other soccer stuff is out the window, though. All you're doing here is taking free kicks. It's just you and the defenders.
https://youtu.be/CjhiYfnfuDM
The controls are very simple, so after a few minutes you'll get the hang of it. Just line up the shot, and use the big soccer ball button to determine the speed and angle of the kick. The entire game is played online as your character goes up against other players to see who can score the most points in the allotted time. Unfortunately, that means a network connection is required to play any real matches. The game looks nice with cool character models and some impressive cartoon-y animations.
As is often the case with Gamevil titles, this one is free-to-play but has in-app purchases. You can play as much as you want, but there are near limitless ways to customize your character to make them unique as you face off against other folks. You don't have to buy any of these mods to play, though. Take a look and see if you can climb the online rankings while you're in line at the bank.
The app was not found in the store. :-(
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Steam Link Anywhere brings full on-the-go PC game streaming to Android
Jordan Palmer
2019/03/14 11:41am PDT Mar 14, 2019
Valve announced some big news for Steam users today, introducing the new Steam Link Anywhere service. Building off of its namesake, Anywhere takes streaming your personal library to the next level by allowing you to play on a client device outside of your local network (which was one of the weakest points of Steam Link when it launched for Android). To coincide with the announcement of the Anywhere beta, Valve has updated the Steam Link Android app to support it.
What we use, 2017 edition: The stuff Jordan can't live without
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So here we are already elbows-deep into 2017. Let me start off by saying that I love this job — I work with and I have met some great and intelligent people. By some miracle, I have earned the "right" to write up one of these posts. Now is your chance to see into the other side of your screen to get a glimpse of how I bring you such profound content.
NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service gets new games and a new price model, coming to PCs soon
Michael Crider
2017/01/04 9:09pm PDT Jan 4, 2017
GeForce Now, NVIDIA's PC game streaming service, is currently limited to the original SHIELD Portable, the SHIELD Tablet, and the SHIELD TV. Starting in March that's going to change: the company is expanding access to all standard PCs running Windows and Mac OS, via a regular download client. GeForce Now will finally be the successor to "cloud" gaming services like OnLive. According to the PR material, any PC - including those without an NIVIDA-branded graphics card - will be able to connect to the GeForce Now service. It's a big deal if you want to play advanced PC games on something like a Macbook or a Surface.
VRidge Lets Virtual Reality Fans Play Oculus Rift And SteamVR Games Using Google Cardboard
2016/05/08 3:12pm PDT May 8, 2016
The current boom in virtual reality tech is progressing along roughly two lines: big, complex, and expensive VR headsets driven by full-power gaming machines, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and small, cheap headsets that slot a high-resolution smartphone in to pull double duty as processing unit and display, like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR. Users who don't have four figures worth of money to burn have had to make do with the latter. But a new app is hoping to change that.
Almost A Year Later, Razer's Turret Wireless Keyboard And Mouse Combo Is Finally Available For A Whopping $160
2016/04/19 7:06pm PDT Apr 19, 2016
Forge TV
It wouldn't be fair to call the Razer Forge TV a failure. No, that simply wouldn't be right. If I did that, I'd miss the opportunity to call it a half-baked, poorly-supported product that lags behind even the limited field of Android TV devices like a three-legged dog chasing a nitrous-powered mail truck. Almost a year after its US launch the set-top box is still inexplicably incompatible with Netflix, the promised PC game streaming software feature has disappeared, and even after being injected with the decrepit soul of OUYA the Forge is basically a dead platform. But there's one last thing to report on before we can finally lay it to rest: the Turret.
Logitech's Arx Control App Lets You See Your Gaming PC's Performance And Switch Accessory Profiles
2014/10/01 3:18pm PDT Oct 1, 2014
Logitech's got a new Android app on the Play Store, and it doesn't have anything to do with Bluetooth mobile accessories. This one's for the gamers: Arx Control is a WiFi system monitor for gaming PCs and a customization extension for Logitech's line of PC gaming accessories. It's a free download, at least if you've got a Logitech G-series device... or you lie and go to the download page for the free Logitech Gaming Software program for Windows. I won't tell if you won't.
Arx works on phones and tablets, connecting to the Gaming Software on your local WiFi network.
[New App] ROCCAT's Power-Grid App Gives PC Gamers Remote Control Of Their Rigs Via Android, Open Beta Starts Tomorrow
2013/10/21 2:09pm PDT Oct 21, 2013
The latest gaming rigs are powerful enough to run circles around the upcoming generation of gaming consoles, but unless a PC gamer is willing to run a title in windowed-mode, invest in a second display, or become an alt-tab ninja, getting absorbed in a game can mean tuning everything else out. Keyboard and mouse developer ROCCAT's Power-Grid app offers gamers a way to stay immersed with much less effort. This free offering turns your Android device into a customizable remote for your PC, giving you the means to monitor system stats, play music, follow social media, and more without having to interrupt the game.
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Angling Trust calls for Bass Bag Limit to be restored
Later this month EU Fisheries Ministers will be considering a proposal from the European Commission which is expected to recommend the reinstatement of a bag limit for recreational catches of sea bass for the remainder of 2018.
This follows the publication in June of revised scientific advice from ICES which significantly reduced the estimated impact of recreational fishing on bass from 1,627 tonnes down to 212 tonnes, giving scope to reinstate a bag limit.
Sea anglers across Europe have been annoyed by the no-take policy, which they considered unfair and unnecessary, and frustrated at the time it has taken the European Commission to respond after the revised scientific advice was issued earlier this summer. Anglers’ frustration was compounded by knowing that whilst they faced draconian restrictions commercial fishermen have been able to land and sell bass since January this year.
The Angling Trust has written to Fisheries Minister George Eustice asking him to support a two fish recreational bass bag limit and to “do whatever you can to ensure that the proposal is considered by the Council at the earliest opportunity” following a commitment made last year to look again at the measures when new scientific advice became available.
David Curtis, Director at Save our Sea Bass, said: “Sea anglers have been disproportionally hit by EU bass measures: our share of the bass catch has fallen from 25% in 2012 to just 6% in 2018. The revised science confirmed in June that the removal of the bag limit was a mistake, but here we are in September and only now is the EU Commission getting around to making a proposal to amend the law. And then we must wait for the EU Fisheries Ministers to review and approve it. Meanwhile, businesses that rely on bass angling continue to suffer needlessly and sea anglers have missed the opportunity to land a bass over the summer. Let’s hope that our Fisheries Minister can speed things up and end this injustice quickly.”
David Mitchell, Head of Marine at the Angling Trust added: “No member of the public who goes angling can understand the logic in banning them from keeping a few bass for personal consumption particularly when commercial fishing for bass has continued. Now that the science proves the public are having a vastly reduced impact than previously thought its time that the ban on them harvesting publicly-owned bass is overturned at the earliest possible opportunity.”
In October 2017, ICES provided an estimate of sea bass mortality attributable to public sea angling of 1,627 tonnes, which resulted in the introduction of a complete ban on sea anglers taking a bass for the table in 2018. This was while commercial fishermen could continue landing bass, effectively privatising the bass fishery. A proposed ban on anglers targeting bass on a catch & release basis in the first 6 months of 2018 was overturned, following a 13,000 signature petition organised through the European Anglers Alliance (EAA).
ICES has used a revised methodology to come up with a figure that represents an 87% decrease in the estimated impact of recreational fishing in 2016 compared to the figures published last year. Scientists are now estimating recreational removals from 2016 were only 212t, compared to a previously estimated 1,627t.
A copy the letter to George Eustice can be downloaded here.
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A new door opens.
Introducing the latest addition to Axolotls signature door range, this architecturally detailed door in Axolotl Concrete is a world first. Clad in a fluted profiled substrate and coated in our award winning 'shale' concrete, the door appears as though cast from solid concrete, however due to Axolotls patented (pending) technology carries none of the associated risks or restrictions of solid concrete which can include weight, need for structural reinforcement, and brittleness causing chipping.
A similar profile on a larger scale looks great in metal also, as illustrated in the recent fit-out at the Ray White head office. Coated in Bronze Florentine, the ridges area of the three dimensional panels are polished to reveal the bronze through the areas of aged florentine.
Link. Published on August 14, 2012 by axolotlblog.
From the creative minds of the talented team at JPDC, comes the latest venue to hit the Sydney bar scene, 'The Bar' at one of the most prestigious Hotels in Sydney's CBD. Axolotl were engaged by Joseph Pang, principle at JPDC, to design and create the feature walls and signage for the moody interior inspired by a vintage timepiece motif.The luminous backdrop for the bar was fabricated by Axolotl employing a combination of processes and techniques to produce a unique and entirely bespoke feature. Laminated MIRO glass with translucent printed interlayer is inlayed with Axolotl LINK in Rust, demonstrating to great effect Axolotl's ability to combine multiple processes and products across our glass and metal ranges to create something truly original.
Entry to the bar is flanked with a lasercut feature signage wall in Rust which echoes the timepiece concept and materiality running throughout.
Metal LINK
The entry to this Northern Beaches residence is another stunning example of Axolotl LINK combined with laminated MIRO glass. Here we have inlaid Treasury Bronze into both faces of the glass in a custom screen like design to create depth and a multi-dimensional quality. Laminated with a soft white interlayer, the translucent panel retains sufficient privacy whilst still allowing movement and the transmission of light into the space beyond.
Concrete LINK
The latest addition to the LINK range is our new Concrete surface applied onto or inlaid in to glass. With this particular example we have first applied the concrete entirely to the glass surface, then etched through the concrete, simultaneously articulating the design and creating translucent areas through the glass.
Link. Published on June 27, 2012 by axolotlblog.
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The Driver's Seat
By: Muriel Spark
Narrated by: Dame Judi Dench
Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking. One day she walks out of her office, acquires a gaudy new outfit, adopts a girlier tone of voice and heads to the airport to fly south. On the plane she takes a seat between two men. One is delighted with her company, the other is deeply perturbed. So begins an unnerving journey into the darker recesses of human nature.
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By Rochelle on 31-01-2018
Narrated by: Eve Karpf
"Remember you must die" says the telephone caller.This the voice, and message communicated in a series of anonymous calls made to many elderly people. Including; Dame Lettie, a blue-blooded reformer, Godfrey - her rather irritating brother, and his once fabulous novelist wife Charmian. But who is the caller? And why are they reminding them of this final truth? It's unsettling and mysterious. The activity increases and soon a witch-hunt is in full force, with nobody beyond suspicion.
Entertaining and just so true
By Fiona Thurn on 23-02-2016
Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
"You girls are my vocation... I am dedicated to you in my prime." So says Miss Jean Brodie, a teacher unlike any other. She is proud and cultured. A romantic, with progressive, sometimes shocking ideas and aspirations for the girls in her charge. When she decides to transform a select group of pupils into the 'crème de la crème' at the Marcia Blaine School they become the Brodie set. In exchange for their undivided loyalty the girls earn a special place of honour and privilege within the school. Yet they are also introduced to a startling new world of adult games....
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The Complete Short Stories
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Emilia Fox, Richard E. Grant
The Complete Short Stories is a collection to be loved and cherished, from one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century. From the cruel irony of A member of the Family to the fateful echoes of The Go-Away Bird and the unexpectedly sinister The Girl I Left Behind Me, in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her unique talent.
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Narrated by: Nadia May
When the firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley hires Dougal Douglas (a.k.a. Douglas Dougal) to do "human research" into the private lives of its workforce, they are in no way prepared for the mayhem, mutiny, and murder he will stir up. In fact, this Music Man of the thoroughly modern corporation changes the lives of all the eccentric characters he meets, from Miss Merle Coverdale, head of the typing pool, to V.R. Druce, unsuspecting Managing Director.
The Girls of Slender Means
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
The Girls of Slender Means is the third Muriel Spark audio release of 2012, following The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Complete Short Stories. It is 1945; a time of cultural and political change, and also one of slender means. Spark's evocative and sharply drawn novel focuses on a group of women living together in a hostel in Kensington who face new challenges in uncertain times. The novel is at once dramatic and character-based, and shows Muriel Spark at the height of her literary powers.
A Far Cry from Kensington
First published in 1988 and described by Ali Smith as 'one of Muriel Spark's most liberating, and meditative novels' - A Far Cry from Kensington shows Muriel Spark at the mature height of her powers.The narrator is one Mrs. Hawkins. She writes from Italy, a far cry from Kensington indeed, taking us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. As a young, rather fat war-widow she spent her days working for a crazy, almost bankrupt publisher; and her nights offering advice from her boarding-house in South Kensington.
Loitering with Intent
"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Loitering about London in 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world", as secretary to the odd Autobiographical Association. Are they a group of mad egomaniacs, hilariously writing their memoirs in advance, or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? Rich material, in any case.
The Mandelbaum Gate
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
The Mandelbaum Gate divides the conflict-torn realm of Jerusalem, separating Israel from Jordan. Barbara Vaughn, a stubborn young English woman and half-Jewish Catholic convert, insists upon crossing the divide in order to rendezvous with her fiancé, in spite of the very real danger. Her quest sets off a series of bizarre situations and adventures, set against the backdrop of the Eichmann trial of 1961.
The Bachelors
First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum's, the cozy bachelors are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented - defrauded, stolen from, blackmailed, or pressed to attend horrid séances - and then plunged, all together, into the nastiest of lawsuits. At the center of that suit hovers pale, blank Patrick Seton, the medium.
Miss Jean Brodies bästa år
By: Muriel Sparks
Narrated by: Cecilia Walton Agrell
På en flickskola i mellankrigstidens Edinburgh samlar Miss Jean Brodie en frigjord, passionerad och högst målmedveten lärarinna en skara noggrant handplockade elever: de allra, allra bästa, hennes flickor, Brodies gäng. De mer konventionella skolämnena får ge vika för kärlek, politik och konst, och Miss Jean Brodie gör allt för att forma flickorna till starka och oberoende kvinnor. Samtidigt har hon kärleksaffärer med två av skolans manliga lärare, varav den ena är gift.
By: P. G. Wodehouse, James Thurber, Edgar Allan Poe, and others
Narrated by: Liza Goddard, Richard Griffiths
This wonderful collection, ideal for cat lovers and feline fanatics, brings together the best and worst of catty behaviour. Ranging from the very funny to the profound, this collection has something to please everyone - without running the risk of developing an allergy!
By: P. G. Wodehouse, James Thurber, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, John Keats, Patricia Highsmith, Muriel Spark, Lewis Carroll
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Narrated by: Glen McCready
Ten stylish Londoners assemble for a smart dinner party - a knot of people with pasts and connections that at first seem few but are later found to be many. As the wine flows and conversation continues, the guests anticipate the arrival of the distinguished Hilda Damien, a rich widow, who is expected to look in after dinner. But Hilda is inexplicably absent for a very grim reason.
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