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ANC determined to reclaim Western Cape – Without EFF coalition
- all4women.co.za | 3 months ago
Rasool took a swipe at the DA, which has been garnering votes by telling people to vote their party and keep the ANC and EFF out of the Western Cape The DA’s Western Cape Premier candidate, Alan Winde, has also been asking voters to vote for his party so that they can prevent a government of coalition by the ANC and the EFF.
This was dismissed as a “scare tactic” and a “message of hypocrisy” by Rasool “If you’re alleging on a poster or radio advertisements about an ANC-EFF coalition, that’s dangerous for the Western Cape. First break your coalition with the EFF in Johannesburg, Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay (municipalities)… you cannot say, beware of the ANC-EFF alliance and maintain your alliance in Tshwane, Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay,” “If you’re alleging on a poster or radio advertisements about an ANC-EFF coalition, that’s dangerous for the Western Cape.
First break your coalition with the EFF in Johannesburg, Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay (municipalities)… you cannot say, beware of the ANC-EFF alliance and maintain your alliance in Tshwane, Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay,” he said.
read full story @all4women.co.za
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"Johnson County"
Domestic slave trade 1
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Bill of sale for a man named Daniel to Jerome B. Annis
May, Thomas, American
Signed by
Woodward, John Wesley, American, 1820 - 1865
Annis, Jerome Bonaparte, American, 1807 - 1870
ink on paper (fiber product)
H x W: 9 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (25.1 × 20 cm)
bills of sale
Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
Camden, Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
This bill of sale details the sale of an enslaved man named Daniel from Thomas May to Jerome B. Annis. The paper was previously tri-folded leaving deep creases across the page. On the back of the paper the words [Bill of sale / for slave named / Daniel / Date / 2nd / Nov 1851] is written in pencil. The paper is lined and has a blueish tint. Thomas May wrote the receipt and John W. Woodward, notary public, witnessed the sale and signed at the bottom of the page [J. W. WOODWARD. N.P.]. The seal for the notary public of Johnson County, Arkansas is made of newspaper and is affixed to the page in the bottom left corner. The text on the seal is raised but most of its red ink has worn away. It reads [NOTARY PUBLIC JOHNSON COUNTY ARKANSAS]
Domestic slave trade
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Tammy Quackenbush and Teri Fotheringham
Documents and Published Materials
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© Konrad Fersterer
Staatstheater Nürnberg: Am Rand (Ein Protokoll)
Regie: Jan Philipp Gloger | Bühne & Kostüme: Franziska Bornkamm & Anna Lechner (Mitarbeit Kostüm) | Licht: Tobias Krauß | Dramaturgie: Brigitte Ostermann | Musik: Kostia Rapoport | Fotos: Konrad Fersterer
Festival Theaterformen 2018 "Watch & Write" – Ismael Fayed on "Saigon" by Caroline Guiela Nguyen and Les Hommes Approximatifs
Braunschweig, 11. Juni 2018
Colonialism Sweet and Sour
by Ismael Fayed
In Feburary 2017, then presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, apologized for his comments on French colonialism in Algeria. During a previous trip to Algeria, Macron had called French colonization a "crime against humanity" – a term that proved controversial amongst many back home. Macron did not apologize to an Algerian audience, nor did he apologize for the devastating effects of French colonialism (which lasted 132 years) on Algeria. He apologized to the French people of the city of Toulon saying, "I am sorry to have offended you, to have hurt you". Yes, French people were hurt by being confronted with the bloody, horrible past of colonialism. Perhaps this is the fragility of the colonizer.
In June 2017, Caroline Guiela Nguyen from the theater company Les Hommes Approximatifs premiered her show, "Saigon" at the Festival Ambivalence(s) in France, a little further north from the city of Toulon. Perhaps continuing a theme from her previous production Mon Grand Amour (2016), this production is switching back and forth between Paris and Saigon over four decades, starting from the end of the French occupation of Vietnam (consolidated as a French protectorate by the 1887) in 1956 all the way to 1996 when the Vietnamese government allowed Vietnamese expatriates, the Viet Kieu, the right to return.
A restaurant as a place where public and private converges
In three hours, over the course of three parts or chapters (Departures, Exiled and Return) and with a cast of a dozen or more characters, Nguyen stages multiple narratives and stories in the setting of a restaurant, colorfully called ‘Saigon’ in its Paris iteration, run by a Vietnamese emigrant, Mary Antoinette and her niece Lam. It is through the microcosm of Mary’s restaurant and her story that the other narratives of the patrons are told.
Inside the Restaurant "Saigon" © Jean-Louis FernandezIn a highly naturalistic, almost cinematic scenography of a real restaurant, with a kitchen, utensils, tables and chairs, and outstanding light design, we get to hear the voice-over of Lam, soft, young and timeless relating the story of her aunt and how it overlaps with all who come to her restaurant. Nguyen even pays homage to the pervasive culture of karaoke in East Asia and has a corner with a mic and a keyboard where music and singing are integral parts of the visual and soundtrack of the play (giving the play a real sense of melodrama-- as a “melody-drama”).
This choice of setting, namely a restaurant, cleverly sets a sense of domesticity but also gives the possibility of an audience. It becomes the point where the public and private converge, and what could be more domestic and intimate than cooking and serving one’s own cuisine? Yet the serving part also problematizes that notion of the choices one has. One can imagine that Mary had very few skills when she came to France (she speaks broken French, is illiterate and probably was a peasant back in Vietnam) and “cooking” and “serving” the French must have seemed one of the few possible options to survive.
Women are the ones bearing the costs of war
In showing this domestic scene Nguyen does something remarkable: She introduces the idea that the feminine, the domestic, needs not to be invisible, irrelevant, when examining a history. Women are always the ones bearing the costs of cataclysmic changes like war, and yet their stories are not often told. When one thinks of war, one thinks of weapons, tanks, bombs and territory gained and resources lost, one never thinks of who survived and how. Very little is told to us about what happens after the bombing or after the last solider departs. Nguyen tells us what soldiers do and what they leave when they depart: a trail of blood and tears.
Wedding without wedding-guests © Jean-Louis Fernandez
Speaking of blood and tears: there's a lot of the latter. Nguyen does not spare anyone the harrowing realities of colonialism. In performances awash with pathos and tragedy, nearly all the characters at some point break down in tears, some more hysterically than others, some out of Post Traumatic Stress disorder (Edouard, the solider fighting in the French army), some out of their complicity in the looting and destruction of Vietnamese communities and resources (Meme Gautier whose husband employed Vietnamese young men, some of whom ended up being “missing in action” during WWI and WWII) to not-very-convincing biracial children (Antoine, Edouard’s son (played by a “white” actor, whose curt Vietnamese mother, never shies away from throwing a few punches, rendering her difference, and her son’s alienation from that difference, a source of constant misery).
Complex love stories between colonizers and colonized
There is an intricate web of love stories between Vietnamese and French women and men, colonizer and colonized. On the one hand, there is the love of the colonized for their colonizers that can be seen as seeking respect and recognition. One the other hand, there are colonizers who fetishize the colonized as the subject of their own guilt. Saigon becomes an imagined space where all these conflicted narratives unfold, using a dramaturgy of memory, that follows no strict chronology: the past, the present and the future can all be converged into one moment creating a density of experience that might be the perfect conduit to an experience as conflicting and problematic as colonialism and its history.
Karaoke-Misery © Jean-Louis Fernandez
As an Arabic-speaking spectator not entirely familiar with the complex and tragic history of modern Vietnam – French colonialisation of Vietnam (1887-1954), two civil wars (First Indochina War 1946-1954 and the Second Indochina War 1955-1975), American War (1954-1975), Vietnamese occupation of Laos (1959-1975) and Cambodia (1975-1989) – sitting there trying to decipher the French dialogue intermixed with Vietnamese with subtitles in English and German projected on top of the stage, created a cacophony of linguistic layers that sometimes was as exhausting as it was distracting. It also created a sense of incomprehensibility or rather what gets lost as one moves from one language to the other, the other language being the language of the colonizer or the oppressor. And in some cases, even the language of the lover. Whether by speaking or by singing or by reading the subtitles, Nguyen’s heavily textual staging leaves little doubt about the overwhelming sense of loss one keenly feels outside of one’s mother-tongue. Adding to that a general sense of displacement and alienation.
It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, the metaphor of the kitchen, cooking and the history of a certain cuisine with its very particular flavours and recipes-- as if somehow the bitterness, acrid taste of realization of the present, is contrasted with the almost cloying sweetness of nostalgia and the melancholy of remembrance. Perhaps there is even a little saltiness of being aware that no love stories will rectify the devastation of the past without confronting, speaking about it and perhaps even staging it as Nguyen did – but maybe with a less sickly sweet palate.
Ismael Fayed is an independent writer and researcher based in Cairo. He has been writing and researching contemporary artistic and cultural practices of the Middle East since 2007. His focus is on visual arts and film. He has contributed to local and international publications, including MoMA's upcoming volume on Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents. His writings appeared in Mada Masr, Muftah, Nafas Art Magazine, ArteEast, Aperture and many others.
Hier die deutsche Übersetzung dieses Artikels.
Here Milisuthando Bongela writes about the situation of cultural journalism on the African continent. And here Yvon Edoumou on the question whether "poor" people can enjoy arts. Stéphanie Dongmo portraits the theatre director Martin Ambara from Cameroon (in German). Enos Nyamor writes about the Kenyan Theatre today.
This text is a product of "Theaterformen" festival's journalistic project "Watch & Write" and is being published on nachtkritik.de in the context of a media cooperation with the festival. It is not part of the regular programme on nachtkritik.de.
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A laptop infected with the worst malware sold for $1.3 million, all for art
Chinese internet artist Guo O Dong, who became famous for riding a Segway while walking a hipster on a leash, made the piece
The laptop is infected with six viruses: WannaCry, BlackEnergy, ILOVEYOU, MyDoom, SoBig and DarkTequila.thepersistenceofchaos.com
Taylor Telford
An art patron has paid $1.3 million for the tech equivalent of a dormant land mine: a 2008 Samsung laptop containing some of the world’s mot destructive malware.
“The Persistence of Chaos,” as the work is known, was created by Chinese internet artist Guo O Dong and commissioned by Deep Instinct, a New York-based cybersecurity firm. The company supplied the malware and collaborated with Guo to guard against the kind of real-world damage the project was designed to highlight.
“We have this fantasy that things that happen in computers can’t actually affect us, but this is absurd,” Guo told The Verge. “Weaponized viruses that affect power grids or public infrastructure can cause direct harm.”
The featured viruses have names that could be mistaken for pop songs, but collectively have caused more than $95 billion in economic damage. The “Wanna Cry” ransomware attack of May 2017 was one of the biggest, affecting more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries, and wreaking havoc on the National Health Service in Britain and Renault factories in France. “BlackEnergy” caused blackouts across the Ukraine in December 2015. The oldest malware, “I Love You,” was an email attachment masquerading as a love letter in May 2000 that infected tens of millions of PCs on the Windows operating system.
Artist ordered to pay $3,000 for angry Facebook rant against gallery owner who owed him money
Self-shredding Banksy painting goes on display. Curators hope they’ve foiled a second prank
“These pieces of software seem so abstract, almost fake with their funny, spooky names, but I think they emphasize that the web and IRL (in real life) are not different spaces,” Guo told The Verge.
Guo and Deep Instinct said they took steps to ensure the malware isn’t dangerous. The laptop is air-gapped, meaning it’s not directly connected to the Internet and cannot spread the viruses to other networks. Its Internet capabilities will be disabled before it is shipped to the winning bidder.
Malware includes viruses, worms, spyware, ransomware and other malicious code designed to extract personal information or inflict damage. In November, Marriott International disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 500,000 customers, making it one of the biggest breaches in history. And earlier this month, a cyberattack that used a leaked tool from the National Security Agency wreaked havoc on Baltimore.
Guo first made headlines with his art in 2017, with a piece of performance art involving the artist riding a Segway while walking a hipster on a leash through the streets of Brooklyn.
Alberta couple faces scorn over photo with dead lion after U.K. tabloid makes them face of anti-hunting campaign
Trump unbowed by criticism of tweets derided as racist, demands apology
It took a far-right murder to push German politicians to denounce extremist speech
Novak Djokovic wins fifth Wimbledon title in longest singles match in its history
A chess grandmaster quietly rose to the top until a cheating scandal sent his career down the toilet
Peter Thiel says Google has been 'infiltrated' by foreign intelligence agencies
‘Completely unacceptable’: British PM, U.S. Democrats decry Trump tweets as racist
Japanese are renting cars to nap in private, eat their lunch or watch tv — but not to drive
France warns Brittany tourists against toxic sea lettuce after two die
No sign of threatened U.S. deportation raids, as immigrants stay hidden
Civilians, armed with umbrellas, clash with police as Hong Kong protests spread to border town
Skydivers killed in plane crash tried to jump to safety, witnesses say
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NEVER-SAY-DIE JETS KEEP DREAM ALIVE: RIDE HERD ON BRONCOS TO STAY ONE GAME BACK
By Mark Cannizzaro
December 9, 2002 | 5:00am
Broncos 13
Call the Jets what you want this season.
Call them underachieving or slow-developing, which they were early in the season. Call them dynamic and thrill-seeking, which they have become since Chad Pennington took over the reins at quarterback.
Call them anything in-between and you’d probably be correct.
Always, however, call this team resilient and, after yesterday, heart-stopping.
The Jets, despite their debilitating slow start (remember 1-4 and 2-5?) and their difficult-to-stomach Monday night loss to the Raiders last week in Oakland, are not dead yet.
They extended their season of improbable playoff hopes with a gritty 19-13 win over the Broncos yesterday at Giants Stadium.
The victory gives the Jets a 7-6 record and keeps them one game behind the lead in the AFC East. The loss dropped the Broncos to 7-6.
The Jets had a chance to put this game away in the fourth quarter, but had to settle for a 21-yard John Hall FG with 5:56 remaining. That gave the Jets their 19-13 lead.
Settling for a field goal left the Jets’ defense vulnerable for a heart-breaking defeat, thanks to a missed PAT by Hall in the first half.
On third-and-goal from the three, Pennington (19-30, 244 yards, 1 TD) appeared to connect with Anthony Becht, but the ball bounced from between the two eights on the tight end’s jersey and fell to the ground.
It was sickeningly reminiscent of the infamous drop of a sure TD pass by Jackie Smith in 1979, and you wondered if it was going to cost the Jets.
The Broncos, taking over with 5:48 remaining, marched down the field and got to the Jets’ 23 before Denver QB Brian Griese was intercepted by rookie safety Jon McGraw near the goal line with 1:23 remaining to seal the victory for Gang Green.
The Jets found themselves in an odd position at halftime.
They were trailing the Broncos 13-6. That marked the first time in Pennington’s nine starts that the Jets trailed at intermission.
Undaunted, the Jets cut the lead to 13-9 on a 43-yard Hall FG 4:39 into the third quarter.
The Jets then got lucky with the Broncos having a chance to separate themselves with a heavy field position advantage. First, Broncos’ K Jason Elam missed a 33-yard FG attempt wide left with 7:16 remaining in the third quarter and then, a short time later, Elam was well short on a 46-yard FG attempt with 3:08 remaining.
That set the stage for an electric 28-yard Pennington TD pass to Laveranues Coles on the third play of the fourth quarter to give the Jets a 16-13 lead and ignite the frigid Giants Stadium crowd.
On the play, third-and-eight from the Denver 28 and into a stiff wind, Pennington’s back foot slipped as he released the ball, which was underthrown.
Coles, the Jets’ dynamic leading receiver, made a fantastic adjustment to the ball while being interfered with by Denver CB Jimmy Spencer and made a diving catch, rolling untouched into the end zone.
Earlier, the Broncos had taken a 3-0 lead on a 22-yard Elam FG, which climaxed a monster opening drive of 14 plays, 68 yards in 8:05.
The Jets answered on the very next drive with a one-yard Curtis Martin scoring run to take a 6-3 lead just one play into the second quarter.
Why just 6-3?
Because Hall had his second PAT of the season blocked thanks to a low kick, which was deflected by Denver DE Kavika Pittman.
It was the sixth kick Hall has had blocked this season – two PATs and four FGs – numbers that some NFL kickers don’t reach in a career.
For Martin, it was the 70th rushing TD of his career.
The Broncos used their next drive to tie the game at 6-6 on a 23-yard Elam FG with 8:34 remaining in the half.
Though Denver was having to settle for FGs, its offense was moving the ball up and down the field, more than doubling the Jets in plays (41-20), first downs (14-6) and time of possession (20:24-9:36) in the first half.
There were two common denominators to the Denver dominance – the ability of Broncos’ rookie RB Clinton Portis to find open holes in the Jets’ defense (83 first-half rushing yards) and the inability of the Jets’ defense to cover or even slow down Denver TE Shannon Sharpe, who caught seven passes for 87 yards in the first half.
Griese, who’d missed the previous two games with a knee injury, returned and was sharp right away, completing 16-of-20 passes for 170 yards in the first half.
It was Griese who gave the Broncos a lead at the half when he connected with rookie WR Ashley Lelie from 10 yards out with 11 seconds remaining in the half.
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Columbia Sportswear sues rival over fraud, racketeering
By Oregon Small Business Association,
Portland-based Columbia Sportswear has filed a $20 million lawsuit against a competitor, accusing Seirus Innovative Accessories of San Diego and its leaders of wire fraud, perjury, and racketeering.
Columbia’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Portland, is just the latest volley in six-year intellectual property fight rife with accusations of perjury, fraud, and destruction of evidence.
Columbia accused Seirus of violating its two patents by copying its heat-reflective Omni-Heat technology, according to The Oregonian. Columbia uses the profitable technology introduced in 2010 in its clothing, including shirts, gloves, socks and jackets. Seirus uses a similar reflective fabric in its products.
Columbia filed its first infringement lawsuit in 2013, and Seirus had a year to challenge the patents at that time but didn’t do so. Instead, just before the trial began, a Korean company called Ventex Co. Ltd., a Seirus supplier, challenged the patent. Columbia claimed Seirus was collaborating with Ventex after Seirus missed its chance to challenge the patent, a charge Ventex officials denied.
Although the case never reached the trial stage, Columbia officials claim they’ve spent $700,000 in legal fees. Columbia also contended that Seirus paid Ventex enough money to cover legal fees for the patent fight.
A federal appeals board dismissed Ventex’s challenge and Columbia retained its patents. Columbia filed the $20 million lawsuit to dissuade others from stealing its intellectual property, The Oregonian reported.
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PHIL/GEEK/PHIL
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Coldpuppets
Filed under: Music | Tags: Coldplay, life in technicolor, video
excellent video for an average song.
Viva !
Filed under: Music | Tags: 42, Coldplay, daily show, Lost, Violet Hill, viva la via
I’ve listened to the new album many times now and can safely say that I like it.
I was never a big fan of Coldplay but, as I said it in a previous post, I’ve always respected their role in the music scene : bring the underground forward to the mainstream. They do it again here, by having an album full of rather progressive songs that are somwhat demanding from the audience, especially if you consider how easy to listen their previous albums where.
The gem of the album is a song called 42, which manages, in just about 4 minutes, to be a full-blown progressive song, with 5 major switches of feeling/melody/time. Another highlight would be Yes, that suddenly fades out and back in for a whirlwind of niceness. Other highlights include the groovy, RnB influenced Lost? and Violet Hill, the first single off the album.
I’m glad coldplay saved their carreer and I cannot end this post without clearly giving credit to Brian Eno, whose production work on the album is outstanding and who’s influence is felt in every note. He saved coldplay from the abyss they were in after the disastrous X&Y.
Enjoy 42 and Lost! these two songs from a live performance on the daily show…
Some praise for Coldplay…
Filed under: Music | Tags: Coldplay, indie rock, NME, viva la vida
I read this about coldplay today.
[quote] See, they don’t have it in them to be Radiohead, making nice-but-vaguely-difficult records for 30-something £50 Men who want to feel ‘cutting edge’ while only buying one record a year, nor would we want them to. Because they are fantastic at what they do, ie sneaking alternative culture into the nation’s subconscious while pretending to be dinner party music.[end quote]
I have always thought that coldplay’s music, eventhough it is totally mainstream , is a dumbed down, sugar-candied version of interesting indie rock; and I believe that their success collaborated in large to make indie rock more accessible to the mainstream public. They ease them in : It’s like slowly entering a pool of cold or hot water. Slowly…. to avoid being shocked ! Which is why I will always respect them and their contribution to the industry, but not necessarily like their music.
Album comes out in 3 weeks. We’ll see what I have to say then.
Filed under: Music | Tags: Coldplay, Music, Violet Hill
http://fakepennycomics.com/blog/CP_VioletHill.mp3
Best (1st) single from coldplay in years : it’s fresh, exciting, and totally coldplay !
It’s literally the opposite of what Speed of sound was (a dull, self-plagiaristic single).
gotta love the buzzy guitars, the fuckin’ awesome solo, the high-pitched chorus melody and the almost emotionless piano.
In the end, it delivers what is expected of coldplay : a pop, catchy rock tune, with a few hints of originality. I don’t go to coldplay for originality. I go expecting a solid pop song.
That being said, the song could’ve been more soulful and I could’ve lived without the 40 second intro.
This being the 1st single off this album, it promises edgier content for the other tracks (the first single is usually the “poppier”-radio-friendly song off the album). I have high hopes for that fourth album. I was very dissapointed by the previous two.
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Biophysicists manipulate 'zipper,' reveal protein folding dynamics
by Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Biophysicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Germany, have published the results of single-molecule experiments that bring a higher-resolution tool to the study of protein folding. How proteins arrive at the three-dimensional shapes that determine their essential functions - or cause grave diseases when folding goes wrong - is considered one of the most important and least understood questions in the biological and medical sciences. Folding itself follows a path determined by its energy landscape, a complex property described in unprecedented detail by the TUM researchers.
In this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they report taking hold of a single, zipper-like protein molecule and mapping changes in its energy landscape during folding and unfolding.
Previous studies, including atomic force microscopy experiments by the same Munich laboratory, have gone a long way toward characterizing energy thresholds or barriers that stand between a protein's unfolded and folded states. Detailed observations of the quick transition from one state to the other have remained elusive. The results published this week open the door to higher-resolution, direct measurements. Better characterization of the folding process is seen as a vital link in understanding the chain of events leading from DNA coding for a protein to that protein's biological function. Another motivation for research in this field is the search for new drugs and therapies, because malfunctions in protein folding are implicated in a number of serious diseases - including diabetes, cancer, cystic fibrosis, prion diseases, and Alzheimer's.
This is the latest in a long series of single-molecule biophysical experiments carried out by Professor Matthias Rief and colleagues in the TUM Department of Physics. Co-authors Christof Gebhardt and Thomas Bornschloegl are members of Rief's lab; Gebhardt also is a member of the Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science.
As a model system for studying real-time protein folding dynamics, the TUM scientists chose a so-called leucine zipper found in yeast. It offers, as proteins go, a relatively simple "coiled coil" structure and zipper-like folding action: Picture two amino acid strings side by side, joined at the bottom, open at the top, and made essentially to zip together.
The researchers extended this structure so that they could make independent measurements at the top, bottom, and middle parts of the zipper. They took hold of the free ends at the top of the zipper with handles made of double-stranded DNA. These DNA handles in turn were attached to tiny beads that could be directly manipulated by "optical tweezers" - a tool based on the ability of laser beams with a certain kind of profile to pin down nanoscale objects. One end of the protein molecule was held fixed, and the other was held under tension but with some freedom to move, so that folding dynamics could be measured directly, in real time, as the protein zipped and unzipped. This arrangement enabled measurements with high resolution in both space and time.
"What I consider the major improvement is that the new experiments allow the observation of thousands of transitions between the folded and the unfolded state," Rief said. "This enables us to detect not only the folded and unfolded states but also, directly, the excursions of the large energy barriers separating those states. This has previously been impossible, and it now allows direct insight into the precise energy profile of this barrier."
Study predicts, verifies protein folding
More information: Full distance resolved folding energy landscape of one single protein molecule, by J. Christof M. Gebhart, Thomas Bornschloegl, and Matthias Rief, PNAS Early Edition for the week of Jan. 18, 2010.
Provided by Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Citation: Biophysicists manipulate 'zipper,' reveal protein folding dynamics (2010, January 19) retrieved 16 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2010-01-biophysicists-zipper-reveal-protein-dynamics.html
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Heastie visits Calspan's crash-test lab to see impact of state investment and life-saving research
By Avery Schneider • Aug 23, 2018
New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie inspects Thor, the high-tech crash-test dummy at Calspan in Cheektowaga
New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Assembly Member Monica Wallace tour the 650-foot crash-test track at Calspan in Cheektowaga
Director of Crash Test Operations Jerry Goupil explains the use of a rotisserie-like device in testing for fuel leaks after crash tests to New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Assembly Member Monica Wallace
New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Assembly Member Monica Wallace get friendly with a high-priced crash-test dummy named Thor
New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Assembly Member Monica Wallace being shown around the crash-test facility at Calspan in Cheektowaga
State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s summer tour of New York brought him to Cheektowaga on Wednesday afternoon for a visit with one of the region’s high-tech employers.
WBFO's Avery Schneider reports.
Heastie was invited by local Assembly Member Monica Wallace to see the results of the state’s investment in Calspan’s new crash-test facility. The $20 million lab opened in January, and evaluates the safety and durability of vehicles from around the world. Of the $20 million, close to $900,000 came from Excelsior tax credits and a grant. But it wasn’t just the impact of investment that Heastie came away with.
“To see this facility and all that they do, and all of the lives that could be saved by the work that they do here, it was a very good experience,” said Heastie.
Crash Test Operations Director Jerry Goupil led the tour along the 650-foot indoor test track, its control room, and through a lab filled with some of the world’s most technologically advanced test-dummies. He said the work being done makes a difference in a number of ways.
“One, the case of this facility of making cars safer. But two, when you think about the amazing opportunities for employment…these are high-tech types of jobs, these are really specialty jobs, these are interesting jobs that most people don’t really know exist,” said Goupil.
Heastie said he didn’t know about the facility prior to his visit, and Wallace had the same experience when it opened at the start of the year.
“I’ve lived in Western New York for decades and didn’t even know that this existed. So to find out that this amazing facility was here was really exciting to me, and I wanted to show the Speaker,” said Wallace.
“It’s a good example of how we can invest a little bit of public money to ensure that good-paying jobs stay in Western New York.”
The facility currently employs 18 staff members, and Goupil says by the end of the year, Calspan expects to increase that number to 26.
“That’s all because we have something that is so unique, that has amazing capability, that these vehicle manufacturers around the world are hearing about us, and they’re bringing all the work to us,” said Goupil.
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By Mike Desmond • Jan 19, 2018
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You can't see it from Genesee Street in Cheektowaga, but might see it from an airplane flying in or out of Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Calspan unveiled its new $20 million automotive crash-test facility Thursday.
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Prosperity Fellows are at the Colored Musicians Club Thursday and touring the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor - talking to entrepreneurs, non-profit leaders and other changemakers. It is part of an active effort to keep the people here who were educated in local colleges and universities.
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Oliver North Claims NRA’s Leader Defamed Him
David Voreacos and Neil Weinberg
Bloomberg July 11, 2019
(Bloomberg) -- Former National Rifle Association President Oliver North accused the group’s leader, Wayne LaPierre, of defaming him, forcing him out of the gun rights group and retaliating after North raised questions about lavish spending and financial mismanagement.
In a court filing Thursday, North said the NRA falsely accused him of fomenting a failed “coup” to get LaPierre, once a “long-term, close personal friend,” to step down. Instead, North lost the power struggle and resigned in April after saying he had quietly tried to protect the NRA and its mission.
LaPierre, aided by the NRA’s outside counsel, William Brewer, has since used adverse publicity to “undermine North and his efforts to address allegations of financial misconduct at the NRA,” according to the filing.
North is responding to an NRA lawsuit filed last month in New York state court in which the gun group claims he’s not entitled to legal fees. North says the NRA’s bylaws require the association to cover fees stemming from a May 3 inquiry by the Senate Finance Committee and any other queries he may receive from law enforcement or investigative bodies about the gun rights group.
The NRA has been in turmoil since North left his unpaid presidency. It suspended its chief lobbyist, Chris Cox, after accusing him of joining North and the NRA’s former advertising and public relations firm, Ackerman McQueen Inc., in the failed coup. Cox has left the association, and Ackerman McQueen cut ties after LaPierre accused it of breach of contract.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the NRA’s finances. The group claims in a lawsuit that the state illegally discouraged banks and insurers from doing business with it. The NRA also sued Ackerman McQueen, which produced the now-defunct NRATV. The advertising firm countersued.
North said he objected in April to LaPierre receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in clothing, private jet travel, and other personal benefits paid by Ackerman McQueen. He also sought an independent review of Brewer’s law firm, which North said was billing the NRA $2.9 million a month in fees.
Ackerman McQueen hired North in 2018 after he left Fox News, when LaPierre “urged and convinced” him to take on the new role. However, Ackerman McQueen has been “unable to pay” North since late June. The NRA’s lawsuit against Ackerman McQueen “appears to be motivated by Brewer’s long-simmering animosity toward his current in-laws, who run Ackerman McQueen,” according to North’s filing.
“The NRA views this as a misguided attempt to deflect from reality -- Col. North played a central role in an extortion scheme that caused the issues for which he now seeks indemnification,” Brewer, the outside NRA attorney said in an email. “The NRA will not look the other way when it appears that crimes against the association have been committed by people motivated by their own self-interests.”
(Updates with details of lawsuit and NRA attorney’s response.)
To contact the reporters on this story: David Voreacos in New York at dvoreacos@bloomberg.net;Neil Weinberg in New York at nweinberg2@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Jeffrey D Grocott at jgrocott2@bloomberg.net, Joe Schneider
The European Union may be about to get slapped with up to $7 billion in Trump tariffs over EU aid to Airbus.
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Unleash your naughty side with Evernight’s Executive Assistant: Manlove Edition anthology…
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Straitlaced scientist Dr. Peter Loeffler and freewheeling administrative assistant John Quincy are the Odd Couple of the Kenilworth Research Center. Their ongoing battles over funding are the stuff of legend, and their bickering can be heard up and down the hallways of the center. But in the aftermath of a very important site visit, the scientist and the admin find out that they may have more in common than they first assumed.
Mai massaged the bracketed skin between her eyes again. “I really wish you’d just ask him out already.”
“Ask who?”
“Quincy.”
Peter’s mouth dropped open. “I beg your pardon?
“Oh, please. You know perfectly well what I’m talking about,” she said. “I’ve seen the way you look at him when you think nobody’s watching. And he looks at you the same way. Your little mating dance has been amusing enough, but don’t you think it’s time to step up your game and do something about it?”
He finally got his jaw under control. “Quincy and I are not doing a mating dance,” he said. “Despite what you most mistakenly believe, I think he’s an obnoxious little troglodyte, and he obviously has no fond feelings for me. We’re not compatible in any way, shape, or form.”
One weary eyebrow arched at him. “How would you know, seeing as the only thing you ever do is bicker with him?”
“I do not bicker,” Peter said sharply, then paused. “All right, perhaps I do. A bit. But he starts it!”
“Mating dance.” Mai sighed. “Look, there’s no rule against you dating a staff member as long as they don’t work for you, so why don’t you try being the bigger man for once and just ask him out?”
“It would be difficult to be the littler man to that homunculus,” Peter muttered.
Her eyes narrowed. “Let me remind you, doctor, that you’re speaking about the man who can pull your metaphorical fat out of the fire. If you won’t cowboy up and ask him out, that’s your decision, but I do expect you to go ask him for some grant help, especially if it has a bearing on the site visit.”
He resisted the image to squirm under her gaze. “I will take that into consideration. May I go now?”
With another sigh, the director waved him off. Peter stalked out of the office, into the anteroom that doubled as Quincy’s domain.
And slowed. Mai’s words came back to him: he looks at you the same way.
If he had to be honest with himself, the increasingly frequent (and intensely sexual) dreams he’d had about the administrative assistant were at the root of his urge to argue with the man. Their daily battles had become a defensive mechanism to help him forget the images of pinning Quincy to his lab door, attacking those lush lips with brutal kisses, grinding against him until he could feel Quincy’s cock hardening. Dragging him onto his lap for more hungry kisses, stripping his clothes off ruthlessly until the smaller man sat there naked and hard, desperate for anything Peter wished to do to him.
And there was so much he wanted to do to John Quincy. But he’d simply assumed that the fast-talking, snarky admin was far too dominant to want to be taken in hand.
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Justia Patents US Patent Application for MOBILE ADVERTISEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS Patent Application (Application #20080201215)
MOBILE ADVERTISEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS
A method of displaying an advertisement on a vehicle comprising the steps of detecting a user's wireless transmission, receiving information pertaining to an advertisement from a user via a wireless interface, activating an electronic paper screen by supplying power to the screen, displaying the advertisement on the electronic paper screen and removing the power to the electronic paper screen such that the advertisement may still be displayed on the electronic paper screen after the power is removed.
Display technologies using encapsulated electrophoretic particles, multichromal beads and liquid crystals are commonly referred to as electronic paper. A group of encapsulated bichromal beads, cylinders, crystals or other bichromal or multichromal particles can be dispersed in an elastomeric sheet swollen by a fluid and positioned atop a conductive substrate. The particles, fluid and substrate are covered with a transparent layer such as glass or plastic and a transparent conductive material such as indium tin oxide, and are sealed to form a display material. The particles in the display material rotate in response to an electric or magnetic field that is applied to the conductive substrate. Such materials have been described in, for example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,126,854 to Sheridon and 4,143,103 to Sheridon, the disclosures of each of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
Bichromal displays have numerous advantages over conventional electrically addressable visual displays, such as LCD and CRT displays. In particular, they are suitable for viewing in ambient light, they retain an image indefinitely in the absence of an applied electric field, and they can be made lightweight, flexible, foldable, and with many other familiar and useful characteristics of ordinary writing paper. Thus, at least in principle, they are suitable both for display applications and for so-called electric paper or interactive paper applications, in which they serve as an electrically addressable, reusable substitute for ordinary paper.
Outdoor advertising displays are common. Conventional outdoor advertisements on public transportation systems are typically displayed in a static form, such as painted on the exterior of a bus or the interior of a subway. As such, these advertisements cannot be dynamically modified or updated. Moreover, the cost of replacing such advertisements is high. In addition, such advertisements cannot be dynamically updated based on proximity to an advertiser.
The disclosure contained herein describes the methods of resolving one or more of the problems discussed above.
Before the present methods are described, it is to be understood that this invention is not limited to the particular systems, methodologies or protocols described, as these may vary. It is also to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure which will be limited only by the appended claims.
It must be noted that as used herein and in the appended claims, the singular forms “a,” “an,” and “the” include plural reference unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. Thus, for example, reference to a “code” is a reference to one or more codes and equivalents thereof known to those skilled in the art, and so forth. Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meanings as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. As used herein, the term “comprising” means “including, but not limited to.”
In an embodiment, a method of displaying an advertisement on a vehicle may include detecting, at the vehicle, a user's wireless transmission, receiving information pertaining to an advertisement from a user via a wireless interface, activating an electronic paper screen by supplying power to the screen, displaying the advertisement on an electronic paper screen and removing power from the screen. The advertisement may remain on the screen after the power is removed.
In an alternate embodiment, a method of displaying an advertisement on a vehicle may include receiving information pertaining to an advertisement from an advertising agency, storing the information in memory, detecting, at the vehicle, a user's wireless transmission, receiving an advertisement identifier from the user that corresponds to the advertisement information, activating an electronic paper screen by supplying power to the screen, displaying the advertisement on the electronic paper screen and removing power from the screen. The advertisement may remain on the screen after the power is removed.
In another embodiment, a system for displaying an advertisement on a vehicle may include a vehicle, a wireless receiver, a processor in communication with the receivers an electronic paper screen located on the exterior of the vehicle and a processor readable storage medium. The processor readable storage medium may contain programming instructions for displaying an advertisement on the vehicle by detecting a user's wireless transmission, receiving advertisement information from the user, activating the electronic paper screen, displaying the advertisement on the electronic paper screen and removing power from the electronic paper screen such that the advertisement remains on the screen even after the power is removed.
In another embodiment, a system for displaying an advertisement on a vehicle may include a vehicle, a wireless receiver, a processor in communication with the receiver, an electronic paper screen located on the exterior of the vehicle and a processor readable storage medium. The processor readable storage medium may contain programming instructions for displaying an advertisement on the vehicle by receiving advertisement information from an advertising agency, storing the advertisement informant in memory, detecting a user's wireless transmission, receiving an advertisement identifier that corresponds to the advertisement information from the user, activating the electronic paper screen, such that the advertisement remains on the screen even after the power the removed.
FIG. 1 depicts exemplary elements of a mobile advertisement system according to an embodiment.
FIG. 2 depicts an exemplary system of displaying an advertisement on a vehicle according to an embodiment.
FIG. 3 depicts an exemplary method of displaying an advertisement on a vehicle according to an embodiment.
FIG. 4 depicts an exemplary system of displaying an advertisement on a vehicle by transmitting advertisement information in advance according to an embodiment.
FIG. 5 depicts an exemplary method of displaying an advertisement on a vehicle by downloading the information pertaining to the advertisement to one or more processors in communication with a receiver and one or more electronic screens according to an embodiment.
FIG. 6 depicts an exemplary method of displaying advertisements from multiple users on the same electronic paper screen according to an embodiment.
FIG. 7 depicts an exemplary method of displaying advertisements from multiple users on the same electronic paper screen based on the user's advertising bids according to an embodiment.
Exemplary elements of a mobile advertisement system, as illustrated in FIG. 1, may include an electronic paper screen 100 located on the exterior of a vehicle 105, such as a bus, taxi cab, train or billboard vehicle. The electronic paper screen 100 may include a flat panel display capable of displaying electronic text and graphics. Unlike a conventional electronic billboard that may include a fixed-pattern display for displaying advertisements only as fixed patterns, the electronic paper screen may include an arbitrary pattern display for displaying advertisements as arbitrary patterns. The dimensions of the electronic paper screen 100 may be sufficiently large to operate as an effective display medium and sufficiently durable to endure outdoor conditions such as wind, rain, snow and the like. In an embodiment, the electronic paper screen 100 may include a weather resistant, translucent covering to protect it from such outdoor conditions.
In an embodiment, a user's location 110 may be equipped with a wireless transmitter 115. User locations 110 may include, but are not limited to, stores, commercial establishments, malls, entertainment venues, universities, landmarks, movie theaters, athletic stadiums and the like. When a vehicle 105 with an electronic paper screen 100 travels within range of a user's wireless transmitter 115, the transmitter 115 may send a wireless transmission 125 which may be detected by a receiver 120. The transmitter 115 may be a wireless terminal, a computer with wireless capability, a Bluetooth enabled device or any other device capable of transmitting wirelessly. The receiver may be located on or in the vehicle 105, and may be a computer with wireless capability, a Bluetooth enabled device, or any other wireless device. The receiver 120 may transmit the advertisement information to a processor 130, which may be located in the vehicle 105 or at a remote central location. The processor 130 may activate the electronic paper screen 100 by supplying power to the screen 100. The processor 130 may then communicate the advertising information to the electronic paper screen 100 and instruct the electronic paper screen 100 to display the user's advertisement, thus providing interactive, localized and customized advertising. The advertisement may include text and/or images. Once the advertisement is displayed, the processor 130 may remove power from the electronic paper screen 100, but the advertisement may remain displayed on the screen 100. In an embodiment, the advertisement may still be displayed on the electronic paper screen after power is removed.
In an embodiment, as illustrated in FIG. 2, a system for displaying an advertisement on a vehicle may comprise a wireless receiver 210 located on or in the vehicle, a processor 215 in communication with the receiver 210, an electronic paper screen 220 in communication with the processor 215 and a processor readable storage medium 225 in communication with the processor 215. When the receiver 210 detects a user's wireless transmission 205, the receiver 210 may receive information pertaining to an advertisement. The receiver 210 may then communicate the advertisement information to the processor 215 which may activate the electronic paper screen 220 and instruct the electronic paper screen 220 to display the user's advertisement.
In an embodiment, as illustrated in FIG. 3, a vehicle with an electronic paper screen may enter the range of a user's wireless transmitter 300. When a receiver detects 305 a user's wireless transmission, information pertaining to the advertisement may be received 310 by the receiver, which is in communication with the processor. The advertisement information may include, among other things, text and/or images to be displayed, the dimensions of the advertisement, a position at which to place the advertisement and/or other information associated with the advertisement. In an embodiment, the processor may convert 320 the advertising information into a proper display format so that the user's advertisement may be displayed on the electronic paper screen. In another embodiment, the advertisement information may be received in the proper display format, so no conversion may be required. When the advertisement information is received 315, the processor may activate 325 the electronic paper screen by supplying power to the screen. The processor may then instruct 330 the electronic paper screen to automatically display 335 the user's advertisement. After the advertisement is displayed, the processor may remove 340 power to the electronic paper screen. In an embodiment, the advertisement may still be displayed on the electronic paper screen after the power is removed. Wireless transmission of the advertisement information may enable a user to dynamically personalize, customize and update its advertising content. For example, if one hour remains for a Shoe Store user's sale, the Shoe Store user may transmit advertising content such as “Shoe Spectacular—One Hour Left—Best Shoes in Town are Behind You!” This advertisement may be displayed on the electronic paper screen of the vehicles that pass by, thus quickly informing passerbys that the sale is almost over.
In an embodiment, as illustrated in FIG. 4, a system for displaying an advertisement on a vehicle 430 may comprise a plurality of users 400, an advertising agency 405, at least one processor 410 in communication with a receiver 415, an electronic paper screen 420 and a processor readable storage medium 425, A user may transmit advertising information to an advertising agency 405. The advertising agency 405 may download the advertising information to one or more processors 410. When a user's signal is detected, the advertising information may be retrieved and displayed.
In an embodiment as illustrated in FIG. 5, a user's advertisement information may be pre-stored on a processor readable storage medium in communication with the processor. A user may transmit 500 information pertaining to an advertisement to an advertising agency. The advertisement information may be transmitted to the advertising agency by email, by fax, or by mail, among other ways. The advertising agency, in turn, may download 505 the information to one or more processors in communication with one or more electronic paper screens. A vehicle with an electronic paper screen may enter 510 the range of a user's wireless transmitter. A receiver may detect 515 a user's wireless transmission which may include an advertisement identifier. The advertisement identifier may correspond to the user's advertisement information and the advertisement to be displayed. When the user's wireless transmission is received 520, the advertisement information may be retrieved 525 from the processor readable storage medium using the advertisement identifier. In an embodiment, the processor may convert 530 the advertising information into a proper display format so that the user's advertisement may be displayed on the electronic paper screen. In another embodiment, the advertisement information may be in the proper display format, so no conversion may be required. After the advertisement information is retrieved, the processor may activate 535 the electronic paper screen by supplying power to the screen. The processor may then instruct 540 the electronic paper screen to automatically display 545 the user's advertisement. After the advertisement is displayed, the processor may remove 550 power from the electronic paper screen. In an embodiment, the advertisement may still be displayed on the electronic paper screen after the power is removed.
For example, if a fast food restaurant wants its advertisement “‘Eat at Lucky’s” displayed on passing vehicles, it may send the information associated with the advertisement to the advertising agency. Once the advertising agency downloads the advertisement information, “Eat at Lucky's” may be automatically displayed whenever the restaurant's signal is detected. In such an embodiment, the advertisement may be displayed more quickly because real time transmission of advertising information is not required.
In an embodiment, the user's advertisement may remain on the electronic paper screen until the receiver detects a second user's wireless signal. In an alternate embodiment, the advertisement may remain on the screen for a specified period of time. The user, the advertising agency, or the processor, among others, may specify the time period for an advertisement to remain on the electronic paper screen. In an alternate embodiment, the advertisement may be displayed until the user's wireless transmission is no longer detected.
In an embodiment, as illustrated in FIG. 6, advertisements from multiple users may be displayed on the same electronic paper screen. An electronic paper screen 620 on a vehicle 650 may be divided into a plurality of display areas to simultaneously accommodate advertisements from a plurality of users. By allocating the electronic paper screen 620, multiple users may display their advertisements without excluding any user or users. For example, if a receiver 645 detects four users' signals, user 1 600, user 2 605, user 3 610 and user 4 615, the processor may divide the electronic paper screen 620 into four display areas, and may display the advertisements of the four users simultaneously. In an embodiment, the first user's 600 advertisement may be displayed on the top left of the display 625, the second user's 605 advertisement may be displayed on the top right 630, the third user's 610 advertisement may be displayed on the bottom left 635 and the fourth user's 615 advertisement may be displayed on the bottom right 640.
In an alternate embodiment, the size of the display areas may correspond to the amount of the users' advertisement bids. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 7, a receiver 735 may detect wireless transmissions from user one 700, user two 705 and user three 710, where user one 700 paid $500 for its advertisement and users two 705 and three 710 each paid $250 for their advertisements. In this instance, all three users' advertisements may be displayed simultaneously on a vehicle's 740 electronic paper screen 745, but user one's 700 advertisement may occupy a larger display area 720 than either the display area 725 for user two or the display area 730 for user three. It will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that the electronic paper screen may be subdivided into more or fewer subdivisions. It will also be apparent to those of skill in the art that the electronic paper screen may be subdivided into less than a maximum number of subdivisions if fewer than such maximum number of transmissions are received.
Alternatively, advertisements for a plurality of users within range of the same receiver may be displayed in the sequence in which they are received. As such, if a processor receives requests to display advertisements from four users in the following order: user two, user three, user one, user four, then user two's advertisement may be displayed first, followed by user three's advertisement, user one's advertisement and user's four advertisement. In another embodiment, advertisements for a plurality of users within range of the same receiver may be displayed in an order corresponding to the amount of the user's bid. For example, if the receiver detects transmissions from two users, user one and user two, within the same range, and user one paid more for its advertisement than user two, user one's advertisement will be displayed first, followed by user two's advertisement.
It will be appreciated that various of the above-disclosed and other features and functions, or alternatives thereof, may be desirably combined into many other different systems or applications. Also that various presently unforeseen or unanticipated alternatives, modifications, variations or improvements therein may be subsequently made by those skilled in the art which are also intended to be encompassed by the following claims.
1. A method of displaying an advertisement on a vehicle, the method comprising:
detecting, at a vehicle, a wireless transmission from a user;
receiving advertisement information from the user via a wireless interface;
activating an electronic paper screen on the vehicle by supplying power to the electronic paper screen;
displaying an advertisement on the electronic paper screen based on the advertisement information; and
removing the power from the electronic paper screen, wherein the advertisement remains on the electronic paper screen after the power is removed.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the advertisement is automatically displayed when the wireless transmission is detected.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic paper screen comprises an arbitrary pattern display area on which the advertisement is displayed.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the advertisement is displayed on the electronic paper screen until a second wireless transmission is detected.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein wireless transmissions are received from a plurality of users, wherein the users are within range of a receiver located on or in the vehicle.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein advertisements from a plurality of users are displayed simultaneously with each user's advertisement displayed in a different display area of the electronic screen.
receiving advertisement information pertaining to an advertisement from an advertising agency;
storing the advertisement information in a processor readable storage medium;
receiving an advertisement identifier from the user via a wireless interface, wherein the advertisement identifier corresponds to the advertisement information;
10. The method of claim 7, wherein the advertisement remains on the electronic paper screen until a second wireless transmission is detected.
11. The method of claim 7, wherein wireless transmissions are received from a plurality of users, wherein the users are within range of a receiver located on or in the vehicle.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein advertisements from a plurality of users are displayed simultaneously, with each advertisement displayed in a different display area of the electronic paper screen.
13. A system for displaying an advertisement on a vehicle comprising:
a vehicle;
a wireless receiver;
a processor in communication with the receiver;
an electronic paper screen in communication with the processor, wherein the electronic paper screen is located on the vehicle; and
a processor readable storage medium in communication with the processor, wherein the processor readable storage medium contains one or more programming instructions for performing a method of displaying an advertisement on the vehicle, the method comprising: detecting, at the vehicle, a wireless transmission via the wireless receiver, receiving, via the wireless receiver, advertisement information from a user, activating the electronic paper screen, via the processor, by supplying power to the electronic paper screen, displaying an advertisement on the electronic paper screen based on the advertisement information, and removing the power from the electronic paper screen, wherein the advertisement remains on the electronic paper screen after the power is removed.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor readable storage medium further comprises one or more programming instructions for automatically displaying the advertisement when the wireless transmission is detected.
15. The system of claim 13, wherein the electronic paper screen comprises an arbitrary pattern display area on which the advertisement is displayed.
16. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor readable storage medium further comprises one or more programming instructions for displaying the advertisement on the electronic paper screen until another user's wireless transmission is detected.
17. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor readable storage medium further comprises one or more programming instructions for simultaneously displaying advertisements acquired from a plurality of users in different display areas of the electronic paper screen.
a processor readable storage medium in communication with the processor, wherein the processor readable storage medium contains one or more programming instructions for performing a method of displaying an advertisement on a vehicle, the method comprising: receiving, via the processor, advertisement information pertaining to an advertisement from an advertising agency, storing the advertisement information in the processor readable storage medium, detecting, at the vehicle, a wireless transmission from a user via the wireless receiver, receiving an advertisement identifier from the user via the receiver, wherein the advertisement identifier corresponds to the advertisement information, activating the electronic paper screen, via the processor, by supplying power to the electronic paper screen, displaying an advertisement on the electronic paper screen based on the advertisement information, and removing the power from the electronic paper screen, wherein the advertisement remains on the electronic paper screen after the power is removed.
21. The method of claim 18 wherein the electronic paper screen comprises an arbitrary pattern display area on which the advertisement is displayed.
Filed: Feb 16, 2007
Publication Date: Aug 21, 2008
Inventor: Jie Lin (Rochester, NY)
Current U.S. Class: 705/14
International Classification: G06G 1/14 (20060101);
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E-learning & Digital Cultures
Signed up for a MOOC titled E-learning and Digital Cultures. Let's see what these Massive Open Online Courses are all about. I hope I can keep up with it with my busy schedule. 40,000 + enrolled.
EFs responding to NGSS 2nd draft
Einstein Fellows met at the Department of Energy to discuss the NGSS 2nd draft. I brought up my disappointment at not finding mention of introducing the Periodic Table in the middle school Performance Expectations. This should be introduced in middle school as properties of pure substances and chemical reactions are included (MS-PS1-b, MS-PS1-d). Mention of using the Periodic Table appears for high school only. As we went through the documents and print outs, we discovered that there were discrepancies between the Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI) and the topical versions; these two don’t read exactly alike. We looked at the NGSS as a guideline to construct assessments, so we refrained from feedback that will be completely ignored. My primary concern, however, is that these performance expectations favor uniformity of approached rather than being conducive to diversity, equity and inclusive of all students’ backgrounds. Since the Committee of Ten (1893) we have had a standardized curriculum and “the cumulative effect is to deny the validity of any other cultural perspective on science-in particular on which might have more relevance to women and students from other cultures…” (p.60, Claussen & Osborne, Science Education, Vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 58-79, 2013). NGSS is another elegant example reflecting the values of an elite where “the imposition of a cultural arbitrary by an arbitrary power” is apparent (p. 60, Claussen & Osborne, citing Bourdieu).
Jack & Jill of America, Inc. Celebration
As part of the inauguration week festivities, yesterday NASA participated in the Jack and Jill of America Inauguration Celebration at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, Pentagon City. Jack and Jill of America, Inc. is not only celebrating the Presidential Inauguration and the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, but it is also celebrating its 75th Anniversary Commemoration. Jack and Jill is a national organization with chapters throughout the country dedicated to inspire children and empower parents to foster the leaders of tomorrow. Our Mission STEM activity, part of NASA’s Educate to Innovate program, had Leland Melvin, Associate Administrator for Education, kicking off the event, and several NASA volunteers. We had an Xbox 360 Mars Rover Landing simulation for the kids to practice, a complete spacesuit on display and a demonstration and hands-on activity in which students designed and constructed a mock pressure suit for Marshmallow Peep ‘astronauts’ to be tested in a vacuum chamber. You can find this ‘survival in a vacuum’ lesson and related activities at http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/pdf/dressing_for_altitude.pdf Send me any feedback if you go over the document or use any of the lessons; I’ll be curious to know how you use them and how your students react to the activities. We had over 100 smiling kids during the event; parents and kids alike were delighted with the venue. Even Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator, made an appearance; that was a real treat. NASA Rocks!
Reverse Science Fair at National Science Foundation
Last week many Einstein Fellows, scientist assistants and scientists presented at the Reverse Science Fair (RSF) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The event ran from Tuesday thru Thursday. I had a blast; and even though I haven't been out of the classroom for too long, I was craving interaction with students. There were about 45 students from Washington, DC Stuart-Hobson Middle School. The students who came in Thursday, the day I presented, were 8th graders. This Reverse Science Fair was organized by NSF-Division of Environmental Biology. It was arranged as a poster session presentation in which students rotated every 10 min between stations. Students voted on their favorite presentations, I won in the Einstein Fellows division. One group of students commented: “This dude made learning about the Kepler Mission and finding planets Earth’s size or smaller fun, signed the Ghetto Girls.” I told one of the scientists that they should do a RSF more often, perhaps every two months or so to reach more undeserved students from the DC/Arlington area. The RSF increases students’ awareness of research programs and protocols, engages them in hands-on activities related to their scientific investigations, promotes inquiry and makes relevant STEM research for society. The scientists are challenged to communicate their research in an accessible way while inspiring the next generation of STEM professionals.
Reverse Science Fair at NSF
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Gas Pos Brings Relief to Nationwide Gas Pump Cost Crisis
October 12, 2018 By: Payment Week
Palo Alto, CA, October, 2018 – Imagine if, because of new fuel efficiency laws, every gas-powered car on the road became illegal to drive on New Year’s Day, and the only way to keep running was to buy a new, upgraded car. Good news: This situation does not exist…for cars. Bad news: A similar predicament does exist for the gas stations selling fuel for those cars.
According to petroleum market organization Conexxus, gas stations account for roughly $400 million of counterfeit fraud annually. As a result, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express moved to mandate that all gas stations must replace their magnetic strip-based pumps with EMV chip-reading pumps — or else be held liable for any fraud incurred through those pumps. The EMV change-over deadline extended from 2017 to October 2020, but that’s little solace to outlets now faced with upgrade costs that start at $25,000 and easily run north of $150,000. For some gas stations, such numbers may exceed their annual profit.
Jockeying for Gas Pos-ition
For small, often unbranded gas stations, these five- and six-figure expenses can close a business. Even larger operations may be forced to take on debt to survive the staggering up-front conversion costs. However, in a move that reflects so many modern, disruptive technology advances, startup Gas Pos has a radical solution.
“Our value prop for retailers is simple,” says Gas Pos founder and CEO Joshua Smith. “We spent eight months designing and testing an EMV upgrade module called Switchly that will plug into existing gas pumps and connect with encrypted wireless back to an in-store communication station. We can come in, give them modern software, online access, and all the things they need. It doesn’t cost them anything up front. The average customer will save $30,000 in day-one capital expenditures.”
The above numbers are not overinflations. According to Visa, “older pumps may need to be replaced before adding chip readers, requiring specialized vendors and breaking into concrete.” Replacement costs alone, before running new wires or suspending pumping operations, typically run from $6,000 to $10,000 per pump. After considering all expenses, Gas Pos saves gas stations owners roughly $17,000 per gas pump and helps them keep 30 days of fuel sales they would otherwise lose to downtime.
Another problem facing gas stations heading toward the 2020 EMV deadline is a significant labor shortage. Across the U.S., approximately half a million gas pumps need EMV upgrades, and it’s reasonable to expect the press of upgrade requests to increase as the deadline grows closer. Alternatively, Gas Pos partners with qualified service fleets across the country able to provide quick, seamless servicing. From the first phone call to completion, Switchly and Gas Pos platform installations average three weeks and come with a 90-day, no-questions money back guarantee.
In that Gas Pos upgrade period, stations receive hardware and software, training, and a lifetime warranty on all equipment. Whereas conventional pump servicing can take anywhere from 12 hours to multiple days, Gas Pos delivers a four-hour break-fix turnaround.
A Legacy of Success
Gas Pos is the fuel pump industry’s first software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, meaning that, as with so many household names from the computing and Internet worlds, the Gas Pos platform delivers its intuitive, constantly improving software platform in a way that requires zero maintenance by the user. An affordable subscription model replaces costly legacy package purchases, and features such as inventory tracking, pricebook management, and comprehensive reporting are easy to master.
Clearly, the industry is taking notice. After one year of operation, Gas Pos now services over 175,000 consumers per month, but that’s only a drop in the tank. Fuel payment processing accounts for $700 billion in annual revenue. That’s a massive business ready to benefit from a simpler, far more cost-effective payment platform.
“My family, we’re merchants,” says Josh Smith. “We’re retailers, grocery store owners, restauranteurs. We’re small business owners. Our passion has always been and remains helping customers. With Gas Pos, we’re here to fix something that I think is wildly wrong. This was a case of planned obsolescence and a money grab worth billions to a few big corporations, no matter who got hurt. We want to eliminate the pain.”
About Gas Pos
Gas Pos, a new technology platform for the fuel business, is the only SaaS solution available today for the fuel industry. It includes an EMV-compliant point of sale system that provides advanced payment security for convenience stores, gas stations, travel plazas, and truck stops, protecting owners and consumers alike. Advanced payment security includes EMV, PCI, and point-to-point encryption to keep merchants protected from fraud, hacking, and fines. This integrated solution carries no capital expense investment costs for gas stations, truck stops, and convenience stores. In addition, Gas Pos provides a cutting-edge inventory system to make running a fuel business easier. The platform removes the need for a back office to control the price book, with features such as tracking item inventory, creating custom price groups, and more. For more information, visit www.gaspos.co, connect with Josh on LinkedIn, or call 1-800-209-1241.
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September 2008, VOLUME 122 / ISSUE 3
Administration of Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine to Parents of High-Risk Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Andrew M. Dylag, Shetal I. Shah
OBJECTIVE. Tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccination is recommended for adults who are in contact with infants who are younger than 12 months and in the NICU. The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccine administration to parents in a tertiary care, level III NICU and to measure its effect on vaccination rates among parents of this high-risk population.
METHODS. For a 4-month period from July to October 2007, all parents of admitted patients were informed of the risks and benefits of tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccine by placing an information letter at their infant's bedside. All staff were educated about the dangers of pertussis infection and instructed to reinforce the need to obtain vaccination. Immunization was available for 20 hours per day at no cost. Student's t tests were used for data analysis.
RESULTS. During the study period, 352 children (598 eligible parents) were admitted to the NICU at gestational ages ranging from 23 to 42 weeks, and 495 (82.8%) parents were offered the vaccine. Overall vaccination rate was 86.9% (430 parents) of the screened population. Fifty-five (11.1%) parents in the screened cohort refused vaccination, predominately citing pertussis as an insignificant health threat or disbelief in vaccination. There were no differences in vaccination rate on the basis of parental age. No allergic reactions to vaccination were observed. The 54 infants whose parents were not offered vaccine had a significantly shorter length of stay, higher birth weight, and higher gestational age than parents who were offered vaccine.
CONCLUSIONS. Administration of tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccine in the NICU is an effective means of increasing vaccination rates of parents of this population. Logistic barriers persist when implementing this program for infants with a short (<3-day) length of stay.
Bordetella pertussis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in infants who are younger than 4 months.1 Whole-cell pertussis vaccine has controlled disease but not eliminated infection, and the incidence of pertussis is increasing.2–5 Several factors explain the recent increase in infections. Adolescents and young adults are contracting pertussis as a result of waning levels of immunity from the last dose of vaccine at 4 to 6 years of age. Individuals who have close contact with unimmunized or underimmunized infants serve as a reservoir for the pathogen, delineating a cycle of transmission from older adolescents and adults to susceptible children.6
Infants who have chronic respiratory illness and contract pertussis, particularly those discharged from the NICU, exhibit hospitalization rates 3 to 7 times that of other children.7 Neonates with pertussis can present without the disease's characteristic paroxysmal cough and inspiratory whoop. This clinical picture renders diagnosis difficult, delays supportive care and treatment, and leads to longer periods of infectivity and increased morbidity.8–10 Pertussis deaths occur primarily in children who are younger than 6 months, and studies have implicated the pathogen in sudden infant death syndrome.11–14 The immature airways of preterm infants increase the vulnerability of this population to all respiratory pathogens.15–19 Furthermore, preterm infants are at greater risk for immunization delay, impeding the receipt of the multiple doses of vaccine required to confer adequate levels of immunity.20–23 Taken together, these factors underscore the need to protect this patient population.
Tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccine (TdaP) (Adacel [Sanofi-Pasteur, Lyon, France]) is licensed for administration as a single-dose vaccination to those who are aged 11 to 64 years and were fully immunized in childhood. Clinical studies have shown that the vaccine is safe and confers immunity that lasts up to 8 years.24–28 Multiple studies have also demonstrated that vaccination of adolescents and adults decreases transmission to the unimmunized.29–31 The vaccine is well tolerated, with local injection site reactions documented in ∼10% of recipients and fever occurring in ∼1% to 2% of recipients.32
On the basis of this information, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommend 1 dose of TdaP for previously unimmunized new mothers and individuals who have close contact with children who are younger than 12 months and who were fully immunized in childhood.33 These guidelines aim to prevent transmission of infection to high-risk infants.34
Experience with other adult immunizations demonstrates that cost, convenience, and access are barriers to vaccination.35 For specifically addressing these, vaccination of adults at the time their children interact with pediatric care has been proposed.36
Given the availability of 24-hour/day staffing with medical personnel, convenience to parents, and their proximity to a high-risk population, the NICU is considered an ideal arena to immunize eligible parents. Experience with influenza, another respiratory pathogen for which close contacts require vaccination, suggests that postdischarge care of preterm infants can be improved by implementing NICU-based parental vaccination.36 During 1 program, influenza immunization of parents in the NICU resulted in a 94.9% immunization rate and secondarily increased health care worker vaccination rates.37,38 Using the same health care delivery model, administration for TdaP to NICU parents has also been proposed39; however, no study to date has demonstrated the efficacy, feasibility, and parental acceptance of administration of TdaP in the NICU setting. The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of providing TdaP to parents in the NICU on immunization rates.
Between July 1, 2007, and October 31, 2007, parents of infants who were hospitalized in the Stony Brook University Medical Center NICU were eligible for counseling regarding immunization against pertussis with TdaP. Signs posted in the NICU asked parents to discuss pertussis prevention with their physician or nurse. Two weeks before the program's implementation, the nursing staff was educated about the rationale for vaccination of parents. Staff members were encouraged to answer parental questions and notify medical personnel when parents were available at the bedside.
All discussions regarding the risks and benefits of immunization were performed on the basis of a standard outline and included informed consent for administration of TdaP. All conversations took place at the bedside of the hospitalized infant, and all parental questions were answered.
Parents who were considering immunization were given a standardized consent form that asked screening questions to assess contraindications for vaccination (allergy to latex, fever, bleeding disorder, history of seizures, and/or history of Guillain-Barre syndrome). Vaccine lot number, the administering health care worker, parental age, and vaccination date were also recorded. In addition, the infant's date of birth, gestational age, Apgar scores, race, and discharge date were documented. Parents were excluded from the program in cases of neonatal palliative care, paternal noninvolvement, or child-care services custodianship and are collectively classified as unavailable for vaccination.
Survey days were defined as the number of days available for parental screening. This parameter was calculated as the date difference of admission date and discharge date for infants who were born after the start of the study period. Infants who were already in the NICU had the study start date substituted for their admission date. Parents who refused immunization were asked to identify a primary reason for deferral via open field, questionnaire, which was prevalidated on the basis of pilot testing in the newborn well-infant nursery.
After completion of screening, parents were administered TdaP in the deltoid muscle of the nondominant extremity and were not allowed to leave the NICU for 30 minutes subsequent to receipt of vaccine. The vaccine was provided at no cost to NICU parents by the manufacturer (Sanofi-Pasteur).
Responses were tabulated into numerical data and were entered into a Microsoft Access database (Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA). Analysis was performed by using Student's t test, and P < .05 was considered statistically significant. Data are presented as means ± SD where applicable.
Overall Vaccination Rate
During the study period, 352 infants were admitted to the NICU with an average birth weight of 2627 ± 985 g and gestational age 35
weeks ± 30 days. A schematic outline of the study population is shown in Fig 1. These infants had 640 parents, 598 of whom were available for screening (313 mothers and 285 fathers). Average parental age was 30.6 ± 6.8 years, and no differences in parental age existed between groups. Among available parents, 495 (82.8%) were surveyed and 103 (17.2%) were not surveyed (missed) before discharge. Overall vaccination rate among surveyed parents was 86.9% (430 parents) with 421 parents immunized in the NICU and 9 (1.8%) parents previously immunized elsewhere. The remainder of the surveyed group contained 55 (11.1%) parents who refused vaccination and 10 parents for whom vaccination was medically contraindicated. The primary reasons cited for refusal were consideration of pertussis as an insignificant health threat and overall disbelief in vaccination.
Overall results of a NICU-based program to immunize parents with TdaP. A total of 313 mothers and 285 fathers were eligible for immunization; 495 parents were offered immunization. The overall immunization rate was 86.9%; 103 parents were not offered immunization, 55 parents refused, and 10 parents had a medical contraindication. BW indicates birth weight; GA, gestational age.
Immunization Pattern and Gestational Age
Immunization trends are detailed in Fig 2. All parents of infants who were <32 weeks' gestation were either vaccinated in the NICU or not eligible for immunization because of palliative infant care, paternal absence, or child protective services involvement. The percentage of parents who were not offered immunization increased with the child's gestational age. Of infants who were born between 32 and 36 weeks' gestation (n = 92), 6 (6.5%) were not offered immunization. For parents of infants who were >36 weeks' gestational age (n = 292), 97 (21.8%) were missed. Parental vaccination rates were significantly greater among those with infants of <32 weeks' gestation (79.3% vs 65.0%; P = .005).
Immunization efficacy with TdaP on the basis of gestational age. All available parents with infants of <32 weeks' gestation were immunized in the NICU. The greatest number of unimmunized parents were those of infants who were born at >32 weeks' gestation. Parents of infants who were born at >36 weeks' gestation had the highest rate of missed immunization opportunities. Parents were classified as other in cases of custodianship by child protective services, paternal absence, palliative infant care, or medical contraindication.
Efficacy of Immunization Delivery
Data for the 421 parents who were immunized in the NICU are summarized in Fig 3. Across all gestational ages, 60.1% of parents were immunized within 72 hours of their infant's NICU admission. Of the remaining 39.9% of parents, approximately half were vaccinated in the proceeding 48 hours and the other half ≥5 days after admission. Vaccination rate within the first 72 hours of admission was significantly higher than in the remaining duration of NICU stay.
Efficacy of immunization delivery of TdaP to 421 parents. More than 60% of the parents were immunized in the first 72 hours of their infant's NICU stay. The first 72 hours proved to be a sensitive period for receipt of immunization. Parents who were offered vaccine in this window most likely received TdaP. Those who were not offered vaccination at this time were also more likely to be missed as a result of shorter length of stay.
Effect of Length of Stay on Immunization Rate
The effect of length of stay on TdaP immunization rate is summarized in Table 1. The average total survey days for the study population was 16.2 ± 27.8. Surveyed parents were available for a longer period of time than missed parents (18.4 ± 22.1 vs 3.7 ± 10.9 days; P < .0001). Of surveyed parents, those who received TdaP were accessible for more days than the parents who refused immunization (19.1 ± 21.4 vs 6.2 ± 10.9 days; P = .003).
Effect of Length of Stay on TdaP Immunization Rate Within the Study Population
Refusal of Vaccination
Fifty-Five parents refused vaccination. Of this group, 25 (45.4%) stated a reason for deferral. Twelve (45%) parents cited disbelief in vaccination, and 10 (40%) did not believe that pertussis was a significant health threat. The infants of parents who refused immunization had higher gestational age, higher birth weight, and shorter survey days compared with immunized parents (37
± 30 vs 34
weeks ± 30 days [P = .004], 3240 ± 776 vs 2493 ± 986 g [P < .001], and 6.2 ± 10.9 vs 19.1 ± 21.4 days; [P = .003], respectively). Eleven parents had contraindications: 7 (63.6%) had a latex allergy, and 4 (36.4%) had a history of seizures.
Pertussis is a major cause of morbidity in infants who are younger than 1 year, particularly those who have underlying respiratory disease or immunization delay.13 These characteristics put preterm infants at risk for B pertussis infection and prioritize vaccination of their close contacts, who serve as vectors for disease. The increasing number of adult vaccines required to protect children and greater frequency of high-risk preterm births requires evidence-based strategies to assess adult immunization rates.
This study demonstrated that baseline TdaP immunization rates for expectant parents are extremely low: <2% in our survey population. Additional studies are needed to determine the baseline rate of TdaP immunization in the general adult population. Most parents surveyed could not recall their last tetanus booster, underscoring the need for improved record-keeping.
The overall immunization rate of 86.9% demonstrates that NICU administration of TdaP significantly improves immunization rates. This difference is attributable to elimination of barriers to adult vaccination and increased concern for the newborn among parents. Our program provides direct contact between a high-risk population with the convenience of 24-hour/day staffing, favorable conditions for vaccine administration.
A previous study that used the same delivery system for administration of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in the NICU resulted in an increased vaccination rate (95%) than that observed in our study.40 We speculate that the seasonality of influenza in conjunction with annual reminders that patients receive about the disease reinforce the need for vaccination and may explain this difference. Because the majority of parents who refused immunization believed that pertussis is an insignificant health risk, education aimed at the severity of this disease in newborns may improve adult vaccination.
Logistic and financial considerations must be resolved regarding reimbursement and administration of TdaP vaccine. Obstetric physicians would be ideal candidates for immunization of pregnant mothers and partners because of their increased interaction during pregnancy, postpartum hospitalization, and follow-up outpatient visits; however, experience with influenza vaccine suggests that these physicians administer vaccine to only 20% of eligible patients, a fact attributed to financial constraints and vaccine storage issues.40–42 In addition, these physicians have been hesitant to vaccinate fathers, preventing the “cocoon” of immunity around the at-risk infant.43 In our study, vaccination of fathers was done after screening, the results of which were placed in the infant's medical chart. Concerns over liability for injury are covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and required no specific modifications to hospital policy for implementation. Cooperation of all health care contacts, including primary care, obstetrics, newborn nursery, and neonatal intensive care, will be required to increase adult vaccination rates and ultimately reduce the pertussis burden.
Although the strategy was effective at delivering vaccination to parents of high-risk infants, analyses are needed to determine economic feasibility. The cost-effectiveness of adolescent TdaP administration has been well described.44,45 We speculate that cost-savings for this program will depend on regional factors, including baseline incidence of pertussis in the community, proximity of high-risk contacts, smoke exposure, and availability of testing facilities46–48; however, a previous study of NICU-based administration of influenza vaccine suggested that this strategy can be cost-effective once a certain patient population is reached.49 Furthermore, issues involving different financial stakeholders must be addressed. In this model, the hospital bears the cost of immunization and the primary benefit is toward public health; however, it should be noted that because no additional health care workers are needed to implement this policy, cost-effective modeling of NICU-based delivery of vaccine has been shown to reduce costs significantly compared with outpatient immunization programs.49 Additional multicenter trials are required to determine whether this immunization rate is reproducible in other NICUs and sustainable for periods greater than the 4-month trial period.
Delivery of TdaP in this manner has limitations. Seventeen percent of parents were not offered immunization. Most of their infants were term gestation and spent <72 hours in the NICU. To ensure all parents are offered vaccination, several strategies have been proposed, including standing orders and nurse vaccination postpartum.50 This intervention addresses only infants in nurseries, a highly susceptible population but a minority compared with term infants in terms of absolute number of pertussis infections in infants.
Receiving vaccinations was medically contraindicated for 10 adults, which in our study included a history of seizures. Progressive or uncontrolled seizures are a relative contraindication for TdaP administration.51 Well-controlled seizures do not exclude vaccination. Because the NICU is not staffed by physicians who are licensed in adult medicine, our hospital policy requested this difference in the screening questions given to adults for presumed medical and legal reasons, yet this removed a small number of patients from the overall screening pool.
Despite these concerns, given the increased levels of acuity in tertiary care NICUs, vaccination was offered to >80% of parents. This method of immunization delivery represents new potential for preventive health care delivery. Given the vaccination rate and ease of implementation, this program is an ideal candidate for all NICU and well nurseries.
We acknowledge the contribution of Sanofi-Pasteur for donation of vaccine. We also acknowledge Emily Campito, Sarah Li, and the entire Stony Brook University Medical Center NICU staff for assistance in implementing this program.
Address correspondence to Shetal I. Shah, MD, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Health Sciences Center Tower, 11th Floor, 060, Stony Brook, NY 11794. E-mail: shetal.shah{at}stonybrook.edu
The authors have indicated they have no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose.
What's Known on This Subject
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend TdaP administration to close contacts of infants, but evidence suggests problems with current vaccine-delivery strategies. Additional investigation is needed to determine how to vaccinate parents of at-risk infants in the NICU.
What This Study Adds
This program successfully immunized 87% of surveyed parents, introducing a new avenue by which the NICU can improve public health while protecting a vulnerable population. The program is widely reproducible and is an ideal candidate for implementation in other hospitals.
TdaP—tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis
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Sewing a Revolution
Faith Ringgold self portrain
Faith Ringgold was already an accomplished artist in her forties when she wrote a memoir of her life. Still, no one would publish it. Instead, the painter turned to a new medium, creating quilts that — via images and words — told the narratives not only of her life, but of other black women. “I decided I would write my story on my art,” she told the crowd packed into the atrium of the California African American Museum yesterday at the closing ceremony for the exhibit We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85.
One of the earliest figures whom Ringgold depicted was Aunt Jemima. When her daughter questioned her inclusion of the controversial syrup idol, the artist said, “She’s a black feminist hero.”
“She’s not my black feminist hero” replied the daughter, Michele Wallace – an acclaimed scholar and author.
Mother and daughter shared the dais at CAAM Sunday, a formidable pairing at an event packed with powerful personages. Before their panel, three women of the Saar family (the Saarority?) stood together: the legendary Bettye Saar with her daughters Alison and Lezley. If, goddess forbid, the CAAM ceiling had collapsed yesterday, a few generations of important, inventive artists and their acolytes and analysts would have been buried beneath the rubble. Then again, these are women who have already busted through several glass ceilings on their own; maybe they would have just weathered the crash then begun making sculptures out of the debris.
We Wanted a Revolution gathers drawings, paintings, photos, videos, pamphlets, letters and more from a period when Black and female artists were forcibly fighting against their exclusion from museums and the mainstream. There’s Adrian Piper, Lisa Jones, Emma Amos, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and more. Many of the artists, including Linda Goode Bryant, Maren Hassinger, Dindga McCannon, and Senga Nengudi, were part of the closing symposium.
“Have friends and don’t stop working.” That was Hassinger’s advice to young artists trying to persevere, progress and prosper. “Music can be your friend; art can be your friend,” added another speaker.
The work in We Wanted a Revolution is phenomenal, though the show, which was originated by the Brooklyn Museum, is traveling on. You still have a month to see Salon des Refuses, the intense, imaginative exhibit of works by Lezley Saar also on display at CAAM. Saar’s paintings and assemblages are psychedelic and psychological in their exploration of the unconscious and of alternative states of being. Deconstructing – literally – and then reconstructing books, she breaks down definitions of race and gender. She paints Renaissance portraits of dandies and rebel girls as Edgar Allan Poe might have imagined them, with mushrooms coming out of their heads, or bats for ears.
Lezley Saar’s Salon des Refuses
It was moving to think about how Lezley Saar is carrying on the legacy of her mother, Bettye, and how Wallace has dedicated much of her career to chronicling the life of Ringgold. The ghost of the previous generation was in the room as well, as Faith talked about the influence of her mother, Willie Posey Jones, a fashion designer. Mama Jones, as the family called her, helped her daughter make her quilts. Wallace recalled that in her foremothers’ time, all women knew how to sew. But her mother corrected her. “I refused to sew,” Ringgold said. She repeated the statement a few times, emphasizing refused. So, perhaps the most famous quilter of all time was a storyteller, not a seamstress. Yesterday, she made sure her story got told – and we listened.
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EntertainmentMeghan Markle shamed online for how she held son Archie at polo event
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© Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images Meghan Markle Meghan Markle stepped out on Wednesday to support Prince Harry at a charity polo event with their son, Archie Harrison, in tow.
It was the first outing since the 2-month-old baby boy was christened in a private ceremony on Saturday.
The Duchess of Sussex held Archie throughout the match while watching with her sister-in-law Kate Middleton, who was there with her three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, to watch Prince William participate in the match.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's son, Archie Harrison, was christened in the Private Chapel in Windsor Castle on Saturday.
"She doesn't know how to hold the poor thing," a user wrote.
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Meghan Markle, 37, and Prince Harry, 34, received the plush lion gift as they attended the Lion King premiere in Leicester Square this evening. The royals were presented with toy by two beaming girls.
The public got a peek at little Archie's face when the Sussexes released photos from the baby's christening. Kate and Prince William were in attendance as was Markle's mother Doria Ragland, Prince Charles, his wife Camilla, and the late Princess Diana's two sisters — Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorquodale.
"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are so happy to share the joy of this day with members of the public who have been incredibly supportive since the birth of their son. They thank you for your kindness in welcoming their first born and celebrating this special moment. Their Royal Highnesses feel fortunate to have enjoyed this day with family and the godparents of Archie," the caption read.
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Archie was born May 6 and is seventh in line to the British throne.
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Duchess Meghan joins Beyoncé and Hollywood's A-list as she makes a stunning return to the red carpet - see all the pictures
Meghan Markle has made a dazzling return to the red carpet, and she's well and truly provided a sight for sore eyes. We look at the best moments from the stunning evening. We're not sure what's more exciting, the fact that The Lion King's live action remake is finally here, or that Meghan Markle just made a show stopping return to the red carpet. Today, we might edge towards the latter, especially after seeing the stunning royal as she stepped out at the UK premiere of the Disney film in Leicester Square on Sunday, July 14.
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On May 8, 2019, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, introduced their newborn son, born on May 6, to the world at St. George's Hall in Windsor Castle, England. The couple have named the baby Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, who is seventh in line to the throne.
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First glimpse of the newborn during a photocall on May 8.
The couple hold the baby during the photocall on May 8, two days after he was born.
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Prince Harry speaks to the media at Windsor Castle on May 6. He said: "It’s been the most amazing experience I can ever possibly imagine. How any woman does what they do is beyond comprehension, and we’re both absolutely thrilled.”
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A notice placed on an easel in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace announces the birth of a baby boy to Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in London, England, on May 6, 2019. It reads: "The Queen and the Royal Family are delighted at the news that Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex was safely delivered of a son at 0526am today. Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well."
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A sign reading "It's a boy" is pictured outside the Prince Harry pub in Windsor.
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A woman holds a sign that reads "It's a boy" outside the gates of Buckingham Palace in London.
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Newspapers are on display at a news agent announcing the birth of a son to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in London.
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A local pub shows its support for the new born royal in Windsor.
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The London Eye is seen illuminated in red, white and blue to celebrate the birth of the royal baby.
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An unofficial Town Crier announces the birth of a baby boy born to Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex to members of the media and onlookers near King Henry VIII gate, Windsor Castle in Windsor, south England, May 6, 2019, after Prince Harry announced that his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has given birth to a boy.
Members of the media gather outside Windsor Castle on May 6, 2019, after Prince Harry announced that his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has given birth to a boy.
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Well wishers gather outside the gates of Buckingham Palace in London, May 6, 2019, after Prince Harry announced that his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has given birth to a boy.
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This image taken from the Instagram feed of Sussex Royal on May 6 shows the announcement of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex giving birth to a baby boy.
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(6) An extension notice is a notice which—
(a) identifies the illegal working closure notice to which it relates, and
(b) specifies the period of the extension.
(7) The Secretary of State may by regulations amend sub-paragraph (3) or sub-
5paragraph (5) to change the rank specified in that sub-paragraph.
Cancellation of illegal working closure notices
3 (1) An immigration officer may by the issue of a cancellation notice cancel an
illegal working closure notice if the employer shows in relation to the
employment of each illegal worker that if a penalty notice were given under
10section 15 of the 2006 Act the employer would be excused under subsection
(3) of that section from paying the penalty.
(2) A cancellation notice may be issued only—
(a) by an immigration officer of at least the rank of the immigration
officer who issued the illegal working closure notice, or
(b) 15where the illegal working closure notice has been extended by an
extension notice, by an immigration officer of at least the rank of the
immigration officer who issued the extension notice.
4 (1) A notice under paragraph 1, 2 or 3 must be served by an immigration officer.
(2) 20The immigration officer must if possible—
(a) fix a copy of the notice to at least one prominent place on the
premises,
(b) fix a copy of the notice to each normal means of access to the
(c) 25fix a copy of the notice to any outbuildings that appear to the
immigration officer to be used with or as part of the premises,
(d) give a copy of the notice to at least one person who appears to the
immigration officer to have control of or responsibility for the
(e) 30give a copy of the notice to the people who live on the premises and
to any person who does not live there but was informed (under
paragraph 1(11)) that the notice was going to be issued.
(3) If the immigration officer reasonably believes, at the time of serving the
notice, that there are persons occupying another part of the building or other
35structure in which the premises are situated whose access to that part will be
impeded if an illegal working compliance order is made under paragraph 5,
the immigration officer must also if possible serve the notice on those
persons.
(4) The immigration officer may enter any premises, using reasonable force if
40necessary, for the purposes of complying with sub-paragraph (2)(a).
Illegal working compliance orders
5 (1) Whenever an illegal working closure notice is issued an application must be
made to the court for an illegal working compliance order (unless the notice
has been cancelled under paragraph 3).
(2) An application for an illegal working compliance order must be made by an
immigration officer.
(3) The application must be heard by the court not later than 48 hours after
service of the illegal working closure notice.
(4) 5In calculating when the period of 48 hours ends, Christmas Day is to be
disregarded.
(5) The court may make an illegal working compliance order in respect of
premises if it is satisfied, on the balance of probabilities—
(a) that the conditions in paragraph 1(3) and (6) are met, and
(b) 10that it is necessary to make the illegal working compliance order to
prevent an employer operating at the premises from employing an
illegal worker.
(6) An illegal working compliance order may—
(a) prohibit or restrict access to the premises;
(b) 15require a person specified in the order to carry out, at such times as
may be so specified, such checks relating to the right to work as may
be prescribed by the Secretary of State in regulations;
(c) require a person specified in the order to produce to an immigration
officer, at such times and such places as may be so specified, such
20documents relating to the right to work as may be prescribed by the
Secretary of State in regulations;
(d) specify the times at which and the circumstances in which an
immigration officer may enter the premises to carry out such
investigations or inspections as may be specified in the order;
(e) 25make such other provision as the court considers appropriate.
(7) Different provisions in an illegal working compliance order may have effect
for different periods.
(8) The maximum period for which an illegal working compliance order or any
provision in it may have effect is 12 months.
(9) 30Provision included in an illegal working compliance order which prohibits
or restricts access may make such provision—
(a) in relation to all persons, all persons except those specified, or all
persons except those of a specified description;
(b) having effect at all times, or at all times except those specified;
(c) 35having effect in all circumstances, or in all circumstances except
those specified.
(10) An illegal working compliance order, or any provision of it, may—
(a) be made in respect of the whole or any part of the premises;
(b) include provision about access to a part of the building or structure
40of which the premises form part.
(11) The court must notify the relevant licensing authority if it makes an illegal
working compliance order in relation to premises in England and Wales in
respect of which a premises licence is in force.
Illegal working compliance orders: adjournment of hearing
6 (1) This paragraph applies where an application has been made under
paragraph 5 for an illegal working compliance order.
(2) The court may adjourn the hearing of the application for a period of not
5more than 14 days to enable any person who has an interest in the premises
to show why an illegal working compliance order should not be made.
(3) If the court adjourns the hearing it may order that the illegal working closure
notice continues in force until the end of the period of adjournment.
Extension of illegal working compliance orders
7 (1) 10An immigration officer may apply to the court for an extension (or further
extension) of the period for which any provision of an illegal working
compliance order is in force.
(2) The court may grant an application under this paragraph only if it is
satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that it is necessary to grant it to
15prevent an employer operating at the premises from employing an illegal
worker.
(3) Where an application is made under this section, the court may issue a
summons directed to—
(a) any person on whom the illegal working closure notice was served
20under paragraph 4, or
(b) any other person who appears to the court to have an interest in the
requiring the person to appear before the court to respond to the application.
(4) If a summons is issued, a notice stating the date, time and place of the
25hearing of the application must be served on the persons to whom the
summons is directed.
(5) No application may be granted under this paragraph such that an illegal
working compliance order, or any provision in it—
(a) is extended for a period exceeding 6 months, or
(b) 30is in force for a period exceeding 24 months in total.
Variation or discharge of illegal working compliance orders
8 (1) An application may be made to the court under this paragraph—
(a) by an immigration officer for an illegal working compliance order to
be varied or discharged,
(b) 35by a person on whom the illegal working closure notice was served
under paragraph 4, or by any other person who has an interest in the
premises, for an illegal working compliance order to be varied or
discharged.
(2) Where an application is made under this paragraph, the court may issue a
40summons directed to—
(a) an immigration officer,
(b) any person on whom the illegal working closure notice was served
under paragraph 4, or
(c) any other person who appears to the court to have an interest in the
5hearing of the application must be served on the persons to whom the
(4) The court may not discharge an illegal working compliance order unless it
is satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that it is no longer necessary to
prevent an employer operating at the premises from employing an illegal
10worker.
Notice and orders: appeals
9 (1) An appeal against a decision—
(a) to make, extend or vary an illegal working compliance order;
(b) not to discharge an illegal working compliance order;
(c) 15to order that an illegal working closure notice continues in force,
may be made by a person on whom the illegal working closure notice was
served under paragraph 4, or any other person who has an interest in the
premises.
(2) An appeal against a decision—
(a) 20not to make an illegal working compliance order;
(b) not to extend a provision of an illegal working compliance order, or
not to vary such an order, made on the application of an immigration
officer;
(c) to vary or discharge an illegal working compliance order;
(d) 25not to order that an illegal working closure notice continues in force,
may be made by an immigration officer.
(3) An appeal under this paragraph—
(a) if it is in relation to premises in England and Wales or Northern
Ireland, is to the Crown Court,
(b) 30if it is in relation to premises in Scotland, is to the sheriff appeal court.
(4) An appeal under this paragraph must be made within the period of 21 days
beginning with the date of the decision to which it relates.
(5) On an appeal under this paragraph the court may make whatever order it
thinks appropriate.
(6) 35The court must notify the relevant licensing authority if it makes an illegal
Notices and orders: enforcement
10 (1) Where access to premises is prohibited or restricted by virtue of an illegal
40working closure notice or an illegal working compliance order an
immigration officer or a constable may enter the premises and do anything
necessary to secure the premises against entry.
(2) A person acting under sub-paragraph (1) may use reasonable force.
(3) An immigration officer or a constable, together with any person acting
under that person’s supervision, may also enter such premises to carry out
essential maintenance or repairs.
Notices and orders: offences
11 (1) 5A person who without reasonable excuse remains on or enters premises in
contravention of an illegal working closure notice commits an offence.
(2) A person who without reasonable excuse contravenes an illegal working
compliance order commits an offence.
(3) A person who without reasonable excuse obstructs a person acting under
10paragraph 4 or paragraph 5(1) commits an offence.
(4) A person guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable on summary
(a) in England and Wales, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51
weeks, to a fine or to both;
(b) 15in Scotland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, to
a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both;
(c) in Northern Ireland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6
months, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to
(5) 20In relation to an offence committed before section 281(5) of the Criminal
Justice Act 2003 comes into force, the reference in sub-paragraph (4)(a) to 51
weeks is to be read as a reference to 6 months.
Access to other premises
12 (1) Where—
(a) 25access to premises is prohibited or restricted by a provision of an
illegal working compliance order,
(b) those premises are part of a building or structure, and
(c) there is another part of that building or structure that is not subject
to the prohibition or restriction,
30an occupier or owner of that other part may apply to the court for an order
under this paragraph.
(2) Notice of an application under this paragraph must be given to—
(a) whatever immigration officer the court thinks appropriate;
(b) each person on whom the illegal working closure notice was served
35under paragraph 4,
(c) any other person who has an interest in the premises.
(3) On an application under this paragraph the court may make whatever order
it thinks appropriate in relation to access to any part of the building or
structure mentioned in sub-paragraph (1).
(4) 40For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3), it does not matter whether provision
has been made under paragraph 5(10)(b).
Reimbursement of costs
13 (1) Where the Secretary of State incurs expenditure for the purpose of clearing,
securing or maintaining premises in respect of which an illegal working
compliance order is in force, the Secretary of State may apply to the court for
5an order under this paragraph.
it thinks appropriate for the reimbursement (in full or in part) by the owner
or occupier of the premises of the expenditure mentioned in sub-paragraph
(3) 10An application for an order under this paragraph may not be heard unless it
is made before the end of the period of 3 months starting with the day on
which the illegal working compliance order ceases to have effect.
(4) An order under this paragraph may be made only against a person who has
been served with the application for the order.
15Exemption from liability
14 (1) Each of the following—
(a) the Secretary of State,
(b) an immigration officer,
(c) a police officer,
(d) 20the chief officer of police under whose direction or control a police
officer acts,
is not liable for damages in proceedings for judicial review or the tort of
negligence or misfeasance in public office, arising out of anything done or
omitted to be done by the person in the exercise or purposed exercise of a
25power under this Schedule.
(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to an act or omission shown to have been
in bad faith.
(3) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply so as to prevent an award of damages
made in respect of an act or omission on the ground that the act or omission
30was unlawful by virtue of section 6(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998.
(4) This paragraph does not affect any other exemption from liability (whether
at common law or otherwise).
15 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), a person who claims to have incurred financial
35loss in consequence of an illegal working closure notice or an illegal working
compliance order may apply to the court for compensation.
(2) An application under this paragraph may not be heard unless it is made
before the end of the period of 3 months starting with the day on which the
notice or order ceases to have effect.
(3) 40On an application under this paragraph the court may order the payment of
compensation out of money provided by Parliament if it is satisfied—
(a) that the applicant is not otherwise associated with the use of the
premises on the basis of which the notice or order was made;
(b) if the applicant is the owner or occupier of the premises, that the
applicant took reasonable steps to prevent that use;
(c) that the applicant has incurred financial loss in consequence of the
notice or order;
(d) 5that having regard to all the circumstances it is appropriate to order
payment of compensation in respect of that loss.
(4) No application may be made under this paragraph in relation to financial
loss related to a person’s work; and for this purpose “work” includes—
(a) employment;
(b) 10work under a contract personally to do work;
(c) work under or for the purposes of a contract for services;
(d) work for a purpose related to a contract to sell goods.
16 (1) The Secretary of State may issue guidance about the exercise of functions
15under this Schedule.
(2) The Secretary of State may revise any guidance issued under this paragraph.
(3) Before issuing or revising guidance under this paragraph the Secretary of
State must consult—
(a) persons whom the Secretary of State considers to represent the views
20of immigration officers and of chief officers of police, and
(b) such other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
(4) The Secretary of State must arrange for any guidance issued or revised
under this paragraph to be published.
17 (1) 25In this Schedule—
“court”, except where the context otherwise requires, means—
in relation to premises in England and Wales or Northern
Ireland, the magistrates’ court;
in relation to premises in Scotland, the sheriff court;
30“owner” in relation to premises, means—
a person (other than a mortgagee not in possession) entitled
to dispose of the fee simple of the premises, whether in
possession or in reversion;
a person who holds or is entitled to the rents and profits of
35the premises under a lease that (when granted) was for a term
of not less than 3 years;
“person who has an interest”, in relation to premises, includes—
the owner;
any person with control of or responsibility for the premises;
40any person who otherwise occupies the premises;
“premises” includes—
any land, vehicle, vessel or other place (whether enclosed or
not);
any outbuildings that are, or are used as, part of premises;
“premises licence” has the meaning given by section 11 of the Licensing
Act 2003;
“relevant licensing authority” has the meaning given by section 12 of
that Act.
(2) 5In this Schedule—
(a) a reference to employment is to employment under a contract of
service or apprenticeship, whether express or implied and whether
oral or written;
(b) a person is subject to immigration control if under the Immigration
10Act 1971 the person requires leave to enter or remain in the United
Kingdom.
Amendment of Licensing Act 2003
18 After section 167(1) of the Licensing Act 2003 insert—
“(1A) This section also applies where a court has made an illegal working
15compliance order under Schedule 3 to the Immigration Act 2016 and
the relevant licensing authority has accordingly received a notice
under that Schedule.”
SCHEDULE 4 Bank accounts
1 20The Immigration Act 2014 is amended as follows.
2 After section 40 (prohibition on opening current accounts for disqualified
persons) insert—
“40A Requirement to carry out immigration checks in relation to current
(1) 25A bank or building society must, at such times or with such
frequency as is specified in regulations made by the Treasury, carry
out an immigration check in relation to each current account held
with it that is not an excluded account.
(2) For the purposes of this section carrying out an “immigration check”
30in relation to a current account means checking whether, according
to information supplied by the Secretary of State to a specified anti-
fraud organisation or a specified data-matching authority, the
account is operated by or for a disqualified person.
(3) A “disqualified person” is a person—
(a) 35who is in the United Kingdom,
(b) who requires leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom
but does not have it, and
(c) for whom the Secretary of State considers that a current
account should not be provided by a bank or building
40society.
(4) A current account is an excluded account for the purposes of
subsection (1) if the account is operated by or for a person or body of
a description specified in regulations made by the Treasury.
(5) An account is operated by or for a person or body if the person or
5body is an account holder or a signatory or identified as a beneficiary
in relation to the account.
(6) A bank or building society must—
(a) make arrangements with a specified anti-fraud organisation
or a specified data-matching authority for the purpose of
10enabling the bank or building society to carry out
immigration checks in relation to current accounts, and
(b) pay any reasonable fee required to be paid under those
arrangements.
(7) In this section “specified anti-fraud organisation” and “specified
15data-matching authority” have the same meaning as in section
40(3)(a).
40B Requirement to notify existence of current accounts for disqualified
(1) This section applies where, as a result of an immigration check
20carried out under section 40A, a bank or building society identifies a
current account that is operated by or for a person who the bank or
building society believes to be a disqualified person.
(2) Where this section applies, the bank or building society (as the case
may be) must as soon as reasonably practicable—
(a) 25notify the Secretary of State that a current account held with
it is operated by or for a person who it believes to be a
disqualified person, and
(b) provide the Secretary of State with such other information as
may be prescribed.
(3) 30A notification made, or information provided, under subsection (2)
must be made or provided in the prescribed form and manner.
(4) In subsections (2) and (3) “prescribed” means prescribed in
regulations made by the Treasury.
(5) Regulations under subsection (2) may (in particular) require the
35provision of information relating to any accounts held with the bank
or building society that are operated by or for the person who is
believed to be a disqualified person.
40C Action to be taken by Secretary of State following section 40B
(1) 40Where the Secretary of State receives a notification from a bank or
building society under section 40B(2) in relation to a person, the
Secretary of State must check whether the person is a disqualified
person.
(2) If the Secretary of State determines that the person is a disqualified
45person, the Secretary of State may apply under section 40D for a
freezing order in respect of one or more of the accounts held with the
bank or building society that are operated by or for the disqualified
(3) If the Secretary of State decides not to apply for a freezing order
under subsection (2), or decides to apply for a freezing order in
5respect of one or more but not all of the accounts held with the bank
or building society that are operated by or for the disqualified
person, the Secretary of State must notify the bank or building
society that it is subject to the duty in section 40G(2) in relation to the
disqualified person.
(4) 10A notification made under subsection (3) must contain the
prescribed information and be made in the prescribed form and
manner.
(5) In subsection (4) “prescribed” means prescribed in regulations made
by the Treasury.
(6) 15If the Secretary of State determines that the person is not a
disqualified person, the Secretary of State must notify the bank or
building society accordingly.
40D Freezing orders
(1) On an application by the Secretary of State under section 40C(2), the
20court may make a freezing order in respect of any account specified
in the application.
(2) A freezing order in respect of an account is an order that prohibits
each person and body by or for whom the account is operated from
making withdrawals or payments from the account.
(3) 25A freezing order may be made subject to exceptions.
(4) An exception may (in particular)—
(a) make provision for the disqualified person to meet his or her
reasonable living expenses and reasonable legal expenses;
(b) allow another person or body by or for whom the account is
30operated to make withdrawals or payments from the
(5) An application for a freezing order may be made without notice.
(6) The court may vary or discharge a freezing order made in respect of
an account (whether made under this section or on an appeal under
35section 40E) on an application made by—
(a) the Secretary of State, or
(b) a person or body by or for whom the account is operated.
(7) If the Secretary of State applies for a freezing order in respect of an
account and the order is not made, or the order is made but
40subsequently discharged, the Secretary of State must notify the bank
or building society that it is subject to the duty in section 40G(2) in
relation to the disqualified person.
(8) A notification made under subsection (7) must contain the
information and be in the form and manner prescribed in regulations
45made under subsection (4) of section 40C for the purposes of
subsection (3) of that section.
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[Well, it looks like we may be able to settle the embarrassment of riches that the county should suffer from if we really do have 700K annual visitors to the South Yuba. gjr]
"Work smarter, not harder"
What snide sarcasm, Ozzie/Jeffie. If you were one of the folks out there flipping houses, just holding homes for as long as it took to sell it, you were taking homes off the market for families who needed them and the money you made was money taken out of their children's food and education budget.
Building homes is honest work. So is buying fixers and fixing them effectively and honestly. Buying habitable homes, slapping on some poor quality paint and substandard floor coverings to make a quick buck isn't honest work towards an honest living.
Posted by: Gregory | 15 April 2019 at 06:40 PM
Ozz | 15 April 2019 at 06:17 PM
As usual, you totally missed my point. I am calling you hypocrite socialist monkeys out. You complain and attack capitalism while sucking on its teets. For me I loved building and all that it took to accomplish. Those homes are still there while your life was a mess filled with regrets. Just look at what and how you write. You are a miserable troll moron afraid to use your real name.
Lastly, I provided for myself and family while you were milking the taxpayers. I have zero regrets. Now go back to bed and be sure to wear those depends.
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 15 April 2019 at 06:41 PM
Sure why meet with the biggest employers in your city, especially if you want to BURN THEM DOWN!
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ny-congresswoman-aoc-refuses-to-meet-with-banks-top-brass
Posted by: Don Bessee | 15 April 2019 at 07:21 PM
"Building homes is honest work. So is buying fixers and fixing them effectively and honestly. Buying habitable homes, slapping on some poor quality paint and substandard floor coverings to make a quick buck isn't honest work towards an honest living."
Is stiffing or bullying subs into taking pennies on the dollar like dj trump honest work? What about devaluing your real estate in order to lower your taxes? What about condemning illegal workers while employing them? What about over-valuing your real estate used a collateral to get a loan?
Posted by: Harold Knutz | 15 April 2019 at 07:33 PM
You are talking about liberals and not Trump. You hire all those illegals because you can pay them a lot less. Hypocrites.
WINNING in a strategic sense that will last for over a generation, how many seats on SCOUTS in the next 6 years?? YO YO YOU pony tail of ignorance, pray tell us again why the historic Senate gain is a nothing in your guys world?-
The Senate has been largely focused in the last few months on approving nominees to fill vacancies within the Trump administration, something that doesn’t require input from the House. Since the beginning of the year, they have confirmed more than 200 nominees to positions in the executive branch, circuit courts and district courts, including confirming Californian David Bernhardt to be the new Interior secretary Thursday.
McConnell called confirming the nominations, especially the judicial positions, part of his legacy.
“The impact on the courts has been enormous and positive for the country — young men and women that we’ve been confirming as rapidly as possible who believe the job of a judge is to follow the law,” McConnell said.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/us-politics/la-na-pol-congress-divided-house-senate-
passing-few-laws-20190415-story.html
Semper Fi Brother -
https://www.foxnews.com/us/marine-running-boston-marathon-for-fallen-comrades-crawls-across-finish-line
Ewww troll poop! Sounds like a sucker -
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/irs-50219667-tax-return-filers-paid-0-or-less-income-taxes
"Harold Knutz"
One, I didn't think we were talking about hotel and office buildings, but homes. Two, I doubt you have first hand knowledge about Trump's dealings with subs. Or even second hand knowledge.
Bad news for Scenes.
Scenes’ Gal got tired of looking like a jackass and is taking a timeout. Won’t be posting as many daily “Opps, she did it again” articles with pics of those eyes. I give her a week and three days. :)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45985/ocasio-cortez-reveals-shes-cutting-back-social-ryan-saavedra?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 15 April 2019 at 10:12 PM
Did you hear Taiwan got a bunch of non US anti ship weapon systems in the last year or two? -
China’s People’s Liberation Army said its warships, bombers and reconnaissance aircraft had conducted “necessary drills” around Taiwan on Monday, although it described them as routine.
Tsai said Taiwan was not intimidated by the drills.
“As you may be aware, China’s armed forces yesterday sent a large number of military aircraft and naval vessels into our vicinity. Their actions threaten Taiwan and other-like minded countries in the region,” Tsai said.
“These actions only serve to strengthen our resolve. Our military forces have the capacity, determination, and commitment to defend Taiwan and not allow coercion to dictate our own future,” she said.
Tsai also said the Trump administration had notified Taipei of its third arms sale to Taiwan, the training of pilots at the Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.
“It enhances their abilities to defend our air space. I want to express my appreciation to the U.S. government for the announcement,” she said.
Tsai was speaking at a forum co-hosted by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mark the 40th anniversary of Taiwan-U.S. ties under the Taiwan Relations Act, following Washington’s decision to ditch formal recognition of Taiwan in favor of China in 1979.
The event was attended by a delegation led by Paul Ryan, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-taiwan/taiwan-president-says-island-not-intimidated-by-chinese-military-drills-idUSKCN1RS03B
Well I be a son of a gun. There is one college president out there that stood up for a free thinker without buckling under. A rarity. They can never silence Camille.
“Camille Paglia said something the other day that triggered a group of whinypants college students at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. They launched a petition to get the school’s president, David Yager, to silence its most famous professor.
I just want to let that sink in: these SJW twerps actually think they can defeat CAMILLE FREAKING PAGLIA!”
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/shock-college-president-spine-manifested
The offense:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jRX4gscvHtA
Gregory 10:11. --tell me about your first hand research into climate change or your second hand research into climate change.. you have pretzel logic .. because you were not talking about office buildings but homes, therefore comments about trump's business practices are null and void.. what a weasel.. the subject was business practices in the cponsltsuection trades.... Based on that I conclude since you have no first hand research into climate change, your opinion on the subject is null and void.. denial denied..
Posted by: fish | 16 April 2019 at 06:42 AM
Not Michael... the Brownian motion setup and lack of logic smells like Douglas Keachie to me.
Posted by: Gregory | 16 April 2019 at 07:36 AM
Morn'n ECO bastards... Your "ECO ain't so ECO.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/16/will-liz-warren-green-energy-wildlife/
From birds getting fried in flight, or whacked out of the sky,
to killing "relocated" crawling critters..
Not to mention the square miles of sensitive lands paved over by solar panels and/or mirrors.
Windmills as far as the eye can see...(The new scenic"pretty")
And wait till you get the power bill for that "clean, cheap energy" (three to four times what you pay now)
And from the same loonie bin thinking burning food in your gas tank was a good idea. Yup ethanol sounded SO good.
Posted by: Walt | 16 April 2019 at 07:53 AM
Take a nice new sock, crap in it, place on hand, start posting.
And we have a "Harold".
What the heck is cponsltsuection? Garbage in, garbage out. The poor man’s ranting days are limited. What he did to our school children’s minds in is a crime that will not go unpunished.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 16 April 2019 at 08:10 AM
Speaking of climate change, anyone notice the alarm at Chicago having the latest snow event of the past 50 years?
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/one-of-the-snowiest-days-in-late-april-in-history-whitens-chicago/70007987
Neither did I. It may be that the Cubbies were just relieved not to lose to the Dodgers.
It really is weather... but I have little doubt a 50 year warm or dry event would be pounced on by NPR, PBS, NBC, CBS ABC etc. as a harbinger of bad things to come... from climate change.
Interesting words from former Senator Bob Kerry.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45994/democrat-blasts-his-party-over-russia-collusion-ashe-schow?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand
Morn'n Gregory,, I shove that up the OOzzzhole yesterday.
As usual,, ignored the unwelcome suppository, and changed the subject with clenched butt cheeks.
My other kid up in Alaska tells me of the ice breakup guessing game.
They have a pole out in the middle of a river. When the pole drops, it's "official" marker.. The ECO nuts are trying to make a big deal out of it, because is the second earliest "ice break" on record.
They refuse the accept the notion that the 5+ earthquake just a few days ago, not far away, had ANYTHING to do with it.
Tozer 8:10
"What the heck is cponsltsuection?" Mr. Knutz was obviously talking to Todd, not you.
Posted by: Ozz | 16 April 2019 at 09:05 AM
pop goes the weasel...
Posted by: Harry Knutz | 16 April 2019 at 09:08 AM
Here's one for "no voter fraud" Emery.
"Espinosa-Pena is a lawful permanent resident in Wake County, however, his application for United States citizenship had been denied. He had attempted to register to vote prior to the election but was initially denied since he was not a U.S. citizen. (RELATED: Nine Arrested In Texas For Illegal Voting Scheme, Says State AG)
An election official ultimately registered Espinosa-Pena and advised him that “if he wanted his voice to be heard, he needed to vote,” according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice."
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/16/mexican-national-2016-vote-election/
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/08/nine-arrested-texas-alleged-illegal-voting/
You know,, just the ones that have been caught. No wonder LIBS refused to allow voter records to be reviewed.
Could Notre Dame Cathedral be a Muslim signal?
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 16 April 2019 at 09:15 AM
No Todd. It was built by Catholics. R4BIA is a muslim signal.
"The ECO nuts are trying to make a big deal out of it, because is the second earliest "ice break" on record."
That's because it's CLIMATE, not WEATHER. Climate means 'anything that involves falling over poles'.
"“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’" according to Mr. Dodgson.
"R4BIA is a muslim signal."
I can think of a stronger signal. To quote Mr. O'Rourke.
"One by one and man to man Arabs are the salt of the earth - generous, hospitable, brave, wise, and so forth. But get you in a pack and shove a Koran down your pants and you act like a footlocker full of glue sniffing civet cats."
Posted by: scenes | 16 April 2019 at 09:41 AM
Check this out. The Dems have a new argument for Open Borders: Climate Change. But of course. Something Scenes’s Gal has been spouting..
“So what’s your solution to the border problem, Governor?”
“Number one,” Inslee said, “I would attack climate change because a lot of these people are climate refugees. Not all, but a lot of them.”.............
“So serious, in fact, the UNHCR happens to have a handy-dandy Global Compact on Refugees — an international agreement adopted by the General Assembly last December that requires participating nations to provide food, clothing, shelter and la dee da, practically everything for those fleeing “environmental degradation and natural disasters.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/16/climate-refugees-democrats-new-tool-to-kill-us-bor/
Over 1500 attacks on Christian churches and symbols in the last two years in France. And last Friday the babe that tried to car bomb Notre Dame was jailed. I think we might be able to see the perps. Maybe a person from the Middle East? Or friends of the Charlie Hebdo cartoon killers?
Ozzie 905am
The knutz screed was literally addressed at me.
walt 901am
Yes, the Nenana Ice Classic officially saw the tripod topple in the wee hours of the 14th. The determination of the winning bets and the payoff are a couple weeks away.
https://www.nenanaakiceclassic.com/
Ice breakups happen.
Overall, the arctic circle isn't thawing.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
Now, the influence of galactic cosmic rays on low cloud formations mean with more GCR, there are more clouds at mid latitudes and lower temperatures... but as clouds are not as pearly white reflective as snow and ice... with more GCR helping create more clouds at higher latitudes, in the frigid north, temps trend upwards.
I'm not making a claim that's what's led to a surprise winner of the Ice Classic, even though we're at a solar minimum... just a reminder there's more to it than what first meets the eye.
Todd @ 10:09 am
It’s all speculation right now. Gotta wait and see.
With that said......It took two separate attacks to bring down the Twin Towers. The Blind Sheik and 9/11. When you think about it, what other symbol of France, Western Culture, western civilization’s superior art, literature, and architecture than Norte Dame. Not even the Eiffel Tower embodies so much.
Can’t blame you or anyone for thinking the Jihadists were involved. I have a feeling that even IF Islamics were behind it, the French Government would never let the secret out. Political Correctness is killing the West.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/an-isis-plot-to-blow-up-notre-dame-cathedraland-rule-the-world
“Newsweek reported on March 21, 2019:
Vandals have smashed statues, knocked down tabernacles, scattered or destroyed the Eucharist and torn down crosses, sparking fears of a rise in anti-Catholic sentiment in the country.
Last Sunday, the historic Church of St. Sulpice in Paris was set on fire just after midday mass on Sunday, Le Parisien reported, although no one was injured. Police are still investigating the attack, which firefighters have confidently attributed to arson.
The website Churchpop.com noted,
Since early February, vandals desecrated more than a dozen Catholic Churches throughout France. They’ve looted, burned, destroyed statues, threw consecrated hosts all over the floors, and marked a cross on the wall with human feces.
The Washington Post on April 2 reported: "Among attacks on churches in February, a cross of human excrement was found in the southern city of Nimes, a statue of Mary was smashed in a Paris suburb and a statue of Jesus decapitated...”
Of course, that doesn’t mean, in any way, that’s what is happening in Paris. And people shouldn’t recklessly speculate. But neither should Smith decide a guest is unlistenable simply because he tries to inform an American audience about what's going on in France.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2019/04/15/shepard-smith-wont-allow-discussion-attacks-french-churches-notS
Todd-
"Maybe a person from the Middle East? Or friends of the Charlie Hebdo cartoon killers?"
Holy clue bender, you might be onto something Todd! Maybe it was a male, or, maybe it was a mole? No, more likely a female. Probably had brown eyes and was right handed. Over the age of 60 no doubt. We have a suspect! LOCK HER UP!!!
The extreme right has jumped onto yet another cause to turn into a Jade Helm or Sandy Hook conspiracy to promote their agenda but in the end will looking like the fools they are. Stick to your Dan Brown novels and let Clouseau handle this. Or let Todd be your mouthpiece and we'll assume all of you who don't say otherwise are lockstep in his paranoia.
Sounds like OOzzhole is actually cheering the destruction. Nope,, NO WAY it could be done by one who hates Christianity, despite all the recent attacks on Church's.
Never mind a Muslim "refugee" who "could" have done it. It's perfectly acceptable to do that where "they" came from.
So OOZZhole is now a Muslim protectionist?
But it could also be a halogen work light too close to a wood rafter, since that's where they think it started.
But OOzzhole and his buds can celebrate the destruction just the same.
Posted by: Steve Frisch | 16 April 2019 at 10:33 AM
Or let Todd be your mouthpiece and we'll assume all of you who don't say otherwise are lockstep in his paranoia.
NOOOOO…….Steve thinks we are all spun up about "Jade Helm"………say it ain't so.
You already "assume" we ("all of you") are (Insert "ist", "ism", or "phobic" here). Why would you think that we care about any of your other silly pet issues?
The long list of anti-Catholic attacks and growing anti-Semitism in France is just the fruit of the secular left’s labor. Was it Scenes or Fish yesterday who asked. “Are there ay Catholics in France anymore?” My paraphrase. Probably not too many as the French (and most European nations) have turned away from Christianity. And in the USA as well. Mocking and verbally attacking Christianity by the Leftinistas is the inthing here as evidenced by the Clinton Campaign WikiLeaks e-mails and how the Christian haters never miss an opportunity to bash Christians here. It’s who they are. And it didn’t happen overnight. It’s been a long steady campaign.
As far as the rash of church desecrations going on in France, it’s sounds more than likely young French hooligan Socialist students or youth. The French youth like to burn things and vandalize. They even vandalized the Arc de Triomphe and armed guards were sent to protect it. Sort of like our OWS crowd after the sun goes down. Of Antifa. Anti-fascists are the new fascists. Christian bashing is the new cool. Burn it down! Destroy it all.
Walt-
They were also using flax (linseed) oil in the restoration. It doesn't take long for an oily rag to combust.
Though I am in no way Catholic by the longest stretch of imagination, I am in no way heartened by the destruction of such a monument either.
For Todd to preemptively use the tragedy as an anti-muslim device shows us the depth of his depravity, hate, and paranoia. It rings of Hitler and his pretexts for persecuting the Jews. If Muslims are to blame, so bit it and cut off their heads. If it is a construction accident, it is a construction accident.
"shows us the depth of his depravity, hate, and paranoia. It rings of Hitler and his pretexts for persecuting the Jews."
lol. Such drama these days.
The radical Tea Party. I invite your kind attention to the 16apr19 update of the most recent Ruminations.
Posted by: George Rebane | 16 April 2019 at 11:10 AM
BillT: "The Dems have a new argument for Open Borders: Climate Change. But of course. Something Scenes’s Gal has been spouting."
Given the overpopulation in a lot of those places that undocumented workers come from, there's a thing that climate change doesn't appear to have reduced much.
I've been considering this chart:
https://selahministriesblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cjhc5gku.jpg?w=660
https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/ocasio-cortez-meme-4.jpg
and wonder if this isn't what makes her so hot. Once you go wacky, you never go backy.
OOZE and his troll ilk of the left blame the "alt" right for every little thing here and they do it right out of the box. But OOZE thinks we all forget what he does. I baited the troll and he took it. Shows all the total hypocrisy of these lefty trolls here. What a hoot! Hell the OOZE even hoes to Hitler! What is that called Gregory? Some axiom or something? Anyway, OZZE is just a run of the mill liberal loon troll. Nothing to see of any consequence.
Ozzie 1100am
Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding!
We have a *classic* Godwin's Law forfeit!
Thank you, Ozzie/Jeffie/Stevie for playing today.
I wonder if, in addition to noting the play of the Hitler card, we should also take into account how quickly?
Looks like somebody is having some self control issues.
For Gregory
"I always felt the British are very good at laughing at themselves; the Americans are better at laughing at other people," Gilliam told the Journal. "I still think it’s pretty true, but it’s changing because now we can’t laugh at anybody because it causes offense."
https://www.dailywire.com/news/46005/monty-python-great-mocks-pc-outrage-culture-james-barrett?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
Scenes @ 11:19 am
I prefer this chart:
https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1585600871573944/?type=3&source=54B
The nails are flashing -
https://freebeacon.com/politics/pelosi-in-ocasio-cortezs-district-glass-of-water-would-win-with-a-d-next-to-its-name/
Love it. The smear job on Judge Moore will come back to bite.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/poll-roy-moore-leads-republican-field-challenge-doug-jones-n995021
"WASHINGTON — Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is leading the Republican field vying for the party’s 2020 nomination to challenge Sen. Doug Jones, the Democrat who beat Moore in 2017, according to a survey released Tuesday."
Posted by: Walt | 16 April 2019 at 12:55 PM
Today, I stand in solidarity with all the Catholics in the world. I, not a Catholic, would rather side with them anyway than throw my lot in with the soulless haters on the Dark Side.
“No wonder how many art pieces and artifacts that were sitting in the Notre Dame were stolen from former colonies," said user Shaziya. When confronted with criticism and backlash, she doubled down: "I’m criticizing French colonialism, if this bothers you so much then you ought to reevaluate your morals, bye."
"I think it sucks that Notre Dame is burning but f*** imagine if we had this same energy for every historic building we carpetbombed in the Middle East," said another user.
“Other users reveled in the fact that "white people" were saddened to see Notre Dame go up in flames. "I'm dying at the white people triggered," said one person named Aly. "It's a damn building that's literally used for tourism, no one died, move on."
"Notre Dame on fire is the most aesthetically pleasing visually I've ever seen," said another user.
"This one's for colonizing African countries b****," said another user.
"Notre Dame burning is cosmic karma for all the historical sites and artefacts [sic] France destroyed and stole when being colonialist scum," said the blue-checkmark "culture writer" Hikikomori Povich.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/46029/hard-left-celebrates-notre-dames-destruction-im-paul-bois
Its not over yet snowflake -
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/04/16/report-jussie-smollett-cut-from-starring-role-in-broadway-revival-of-take-me-out/
AOC on asking for a tax break. She was smarter then.
https://bongino.com/hypocrite-aoc-slammed-tax-breaks-for-amazon-sought-one-for-herself-in-2012/?fbclid=IwAR2PSPb6oyd-S1Y1IK_M3B_JTBRauZPTCpMeUu7EmZslEWc6mmdSnSK1Cik
Walt: Free range chicken shredders and broilers.
http://www.freerangereport.com/green-energy-projects-threaten-to-gobble-up-americas-rural-landscapes/?fbclid=IwAR2pkBS_xSQLaqEdlXUACWKf8NxlAehHO7_CGnBPWKU2XWmYy_Rg50TEG80
Daily Quotes:
Insight: “An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.” —Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911)
Upright: “One of the reasons our politics is so contentious and angry is that we can’t agree on what the rules are. Some of us want to argue that certain policies are good and certain policies are bad. But a vocal chunk of Americans don’t really care about what the policies are; they would much rather argue that their side is right. They don’t care if these are the same policies or comparable to those they denounced earlier. The system is clogged with bad-faith arguments, hypocrisy, and flip-flopping.” —Jim Geraghty
The BIG Lie: “I do reject socialism as a[n] economic system. If people have that view, that’s their view. That is not the view of the Democratic Party.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Non compos mentis: “There’s something bigger going on with this story. It tells us something about the right-wing rage machine and about how news priorities are set. The history of the United States is a tug of war over who belongs and who is equal and who has power. It’s the biggest story of all. And yet, those of us in the press often-times cover this just in tiny discreet bits.” —CNN’s Brian Stelter defending Rep. Ilhan Omar’s “some people … did something” statement regarding 9/11
Who knew? “Economic justice does include a living wage for everyone.” —Sen. Cory Booker
Braying Jackass: “The vice president is entitled to his religious beliefs. My problem is when those religious beliefs are used as an excuse to harm other people.” —Mayor Pete Buttigieg
Friendly fire: “[Joe Biden] does not particularly animate right now.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Dead Diary: “I personally gave up Facebook, which was kind of a big deal because I started my campaign on Facebook. And Facebook was my primary digital organizing tool for a very long time. I gave up on it.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
And last… “Look for facebook’s stock to plunge today since the Boss has quit it.” —Twitter parody account @AOCpress
My goodness, the ol' pussy grabbing porn star bonker is now achieving Biblical comparisons:
“He is highly biblical, and I would say to your listeners, we will in all likelihood never see a more godly, biblical president again in our lifetime. So we need to be not only praying for him, we need to support him, in my opinion, in every possible way that we can.”
Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 April 2019 at 01:55 PM
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michele-bachmann-godly-trump_n_5cb5697fe4b098b9a2d91706
Spoken by a goat sacrificing druid. What a hoot!
That sounds like a White House job interview.
Posted by: Ozz | 16 April 2019 at 02:02 PM
Poor Emery.. Forgets his boy "O" sat in a church, yet never heard a word Rev. Wright said. Yet was REAL GOOD at siting the Muslim book.
Trump has done nothing but good for the nation. Done his best to restore the rule of law.(something your boy "O" sure didn't do)
No you go and do whatever dieasts do. Or whatever religion your following this week.
"we will in all likelihood never see a more godly, biblical president again in our lifetime"
Says everything I've ever needed to say about the hypocrisy of Christians and Christianity. Run down the list and Trump does everything scorned bu Jesus.
Huffington Post? I once met Michael Huffington at a convention for the R's along with my wife. He went gay to get away from the women he was married to. She was/is a gold-digger. Her "journals are crap/.
Todd.. I will be in the land of Druids next week. I will ask around if any know Emery. Oh.. Wait.. He ain't one. He just hijacked the word for personal benefit.(yaaa.... It sounds cool...)
Never heard of a pacifist Druid.(they were mean bastards)
Walt, watch out those Druids still sacrifice virgins. The Romans were in a five hundred year war with those meanies and finally, they were defeated. Now they sit on boulders at the river and stare at the women.
Gosh Todd
when do you believe Trump achieved his holy ascension? Before or after his affair with a pornstar while his wife was at home with a babe in arms?
Unlike you phony libs, we on the right practice "forgiveness". No one is perfect. But you beat the drum until you are no longer relevant. Stop beating the drum and join the human race.
It's all good Todd,, It's the land of MY ancestors.(yup, I have rock solid proof of that)
Emery's kin only came in to try and rule the place. It didn't work out so hot in the long run. No real diff. between a Greek and a Roman,,, right Emery? Just a "name change".(kinda like LIB and Progressive... Same damned piece of work)
Poor Emery.... Better read up on Mary Magdalene.
Now just what's been said about her and Jesus?
No,, Trump ain't no Saint.. No one ever said he is.
Yet you still have no proof. Just hearsay. Your whore Stormy
lost BIG. Yes,, those nondisclosure agreements are legal.
Todd "I cheated on all three of my wives" Juvinall speaking as a character witness for Trump who cheated on his three wives. As they say, consider the source.
What next? OOzzz will tell us he walks on water?
As it's said,, "he who is without sin cast the first stone."
OK OZZhole,, your chucking the rocks, yet hide behind one.
(TROLLass somebitch.)
More protectionism of Hillary comes to light.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-failed-to-provide-details-on-contact-with-clinton-campaign-lawyer-judicial-watch
Then there is this.
DOJ REACHED SECRET AGREEMENT WITH CLINTON LAWYERS NOT TO SEARCH SERVER EMAILS RELATED TO CLINTON FOUNDATION
Yet the LIBS think the Muller report will sink Trump?
How "O"and Co. protected Clinton and spied on Trump.
The facts are coming out!
Happy Easter -
https://www.yahoo.com/news/christianity-grows-syrian-town-once-besieged-islamic-state-124025292.html
Its not over baby, go get em judicial watch -
In response, Judicial Watch announced Tuesday it has filed lawsuits seeking the full release of all relevant documents. The flurry of litigation comes just days before Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report is set to be publicly released, with some redactions.
Separately on Tuesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham was joined by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson in sending a letter to the Justice Department demanding the release of information concerning the FBI's investigation of Clinton's private email server, known as the "Midyear Exam" probe.
Its open civil war in the socialist dem camp -
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/16/pelosi-admits-she-defended-ilhan-omars-9-11-remarks-without-knowing-what-was-said/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/16/bad-blood-bernie-clinton-camp-feud-rages-in-battle-for-control-of-the-democrat-party/
The other front of the socialist dem war -
As Schultz weighs a possible presidential campaign, many Democrats have been up-in-arms over the possibility that he will siphon votes away from the party’s eventual nominee. Schultz had been a long-time Democrat and one of the most progressive CEOs in Corporate America. More recently, however, he has been critical of the far-left tilt of the party as the growing list of candidates are embracing progressive issues such as universal health coverage and free college tuition.
Retaining a conservative consultant like McCloskey – which has yet to be reported – may further inflame the opposition Schultz has faced from top Democrats as well as party activists. As FOX Business first reported, some Democratic groups such as the Center for American Progress have put Starbucks on notice that if Schultz does indeed run as an independent in 2020, the company could pay a stiff price.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/howard-schultz-retains-republican-advisor-brewing-dissent-among-democrats
Walt 3:27 - "The facts are coming out!"
Well -
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-department-ig-blames-fbi-wide-software-failure-for-missing-strzok-page-messages-says-phones-were-wiped
Uh oh - Oopsie again! Anyone notice how anything related to stored digital data by the Dems seems to have the same exact problem? Just another 'glitch'.
One after another. Failed hard drives, lost in the mail laptops, wiped memories. Go ahead and try that with the IRS next time you're audited.
Posted by: Scott O | 16 April 2019 at 05:12 PM
Kinda odd that the French said the cause of the Norte Dame fire was likely an accident while the timbers were still smoldering. Over here in the States, it takes at least a week or two to sift through the aftermath to determine the cause of arson or accident. Odd.
“The first question on everyone’s minds was whether Monday’s fire was set deliberately, though authorities have said it was an accident amid a multimillion-Euro renovation. Already this year, however, vandals have attacked numerous Catholic churches across France, destroying various objects within them or harming the buildings, including by setting two of them on fire” 🔥
“In 2017 alone the French government recorded 887 attacks on Christian artifacts or churches.”
“It’s unclear if any of these attacks have been attributed to Muslims, but given the rise of radical Islam in Europe, it’s not unthinkable. France, where at least one-eighth of the population follows Islam, has the Western world’s largest number of Muslims. And, of course, other deadly attacks in France have been perpetrated by radical Islamists.
“Yet far more important than the burning of Notre Dame is the metaphor it creates for Western Christianity. Once the center of Christendom, Europe has descended over the last two centuries into a secular, post-Christian — and often anti-Christian — malaise. Arguably, Europe was always more culturally Christian than doctrinally Christian, but now instead of the church being the center of society, government is.”
What happened to the LIBS? Can't deal with the "sins" of your own elected?
All that criminal activity getting unearthed, and the news of the setup of Trump is ready to hit the fan..
Notice how uppity the LIBS got when an investigation of the investigation was put on the table? Queen Nan wizzed her Depends!
Pencil neck grew a new eraser with fear, and fake rage.
Yes Proggys,, your troubles are just starting.
Oh... And those Lefties looking to beat Trump? Yup,, Stating that the plan is to bury you in new taxes is really going to sell.
OUCH,TMZ Headline that's oh too true. There's still porn -
State's Attorney Kim Foxx Calls Him
'Washed Up Celeb'
The socialist dems had lobotomized their sense of humor before Trump but now its psychotic -
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was pumped to attend a taping of The Price Is Right in Hollywood this week. The special guest introduced herself as a U.S. representative and rising star of the Democratic Party. Things got interesting when the game began and every time it was her turn to estimate the price of an item her answer was “free.”
Items included a set of Italian leather handbags, an all expenses paid trip to the Bahamas, and a brand new 2019 BMW 330i, at all of which Ocasio-Cortez shouted, “FREE!”
When host Drew Carey asked if Ocasio-Cortez understood the game’s rules, she told Carey not to cat-call her and then responded, “Don’t hate me cause you ain’t me.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/04/16/snopes-fact-checks-christian-satire-website-babylon-bee-again/
It is just too true so why didn't they see it coming and do something when they had the chance? I would bet they already have a greatest flubs video reel accruing fast.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-a-glass-of-water-with-d-next-to-it-would-win-ocasio-cortezs-district
OH... So THAT'S it.... Todd's Conservative...
So of he was LIB, you would pat him on the back.... Got it
So maybe we should track down every LIB with a gun? So only Conservatives should have them? That's in line with YOUR thinking,,,
Whatda say to that Emery? And most mass killings have been done by Left leaning thinkers.(fact old geezer) So let's releave the likes of you of weapons...The streets will be safer.(and schools,malls,,,)
The pony tail of ignorance is bereft of any actual thoughts worth writing @ 634!
Well - the left shows again how 'inclusive' they are. Another thing to ban.
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Cow-Palace-to-stop-hosting-gun-shows-beginning-in-13772291.php
Of course the bay area lefties still allow kiddies to watch gay porn, murders and rape on TV, because they don't want to be accused of censoring anything.
And rap songs glorifying violence against women, rape and murder are still on the air.
Glad to know the kiddies won't have to be subjected to the horror of non-violent white males politely visiting the bay area in a non-violent atmosphere.
And the Dems 'discuss' the future of a living human being just born lying on a table in a hospital.
Brave new world.
WOW... And the LIBS whine that their elected Muslim is "in danger"
because Trump pointed out 9/11.
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2019/04/16/black-man-wearing-donald-trump-maga-hat-beaten-maryland/
A black immigrant from West Africa was beaten up Saturday by two black men in Germantown, Maryland, because the victim was wearing a red Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” hat, police say.
Maybe Paul will say Trump paid him to get beat up.
Giving a home to anti-Semites and raking in their cash and then polluting the system with dirty money -
https://freebeacon.com/politics/omar-tlaib-saw-spikes-in-campaign-cash-after-accusations-of-anti-semitism/
https://freebeacon.com/politics/two-house-dems-dont-disclose-contributions-from-ilhan-omar/
https://www.facebook.com/comedianbryandey/photos/a.860184647518165/1139433416259952/?type=3&theater&ifg=1
Posted by: Bil a | 16 April 2019 at 07:33 PM
It's only getting worse for the LIBS and Hillary.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/16/gop-senators-fbi-clinton-memo/
"The Republican chairmen of three Senate committees are pressing Attorney General William Barr for details about “highly classified information” that the FBI declined to investigate as part of the Hillary Clinton email probe.
According to the Republicans, the FBI drafted a memo in May 2016 saying that the information was “necessary” to complete the investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information on her private email server.
But as the Justice Department inspector general found in a report released last year, the FBI declined to take up the matter before closing the Clinton investigation in July 2016.
The trio of senators want to know why."
Because you don't indict a Clinton????
Walt,
The Enemy of the People shithead media won’t say anything about it. A illegal killed a Muslim teenage girl. An illegal did it. The Wa Po and others did a lot of stories on the anti-Muslim fear in the Muslim community, blamed Trump, etc. Even covered the sentencing. Never mentioned the murderer was an illegal. Neither did the BBC. Finally, the NYT mentioned it. El Salvador.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/us/muslim-girl-murder-virginia-illegal-immigrant.html
https://www.facebook.com/TheFederalistPapers/photos/a.673409832697256/2397437240294498/?type=3&theater&ifg=1
Posted by: Bill. | 16 April 2019 at 07:54 PM
People are not so afraid of the chi coms now -
The Philippine government announced on Monday it will take legal action against China for harvesting giant clams at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
Filipino fishermen complained, with video evidence to back them up, that Chinese Coast Guard ships are blocking their access to the shoal and seizing their catches while Chinese fishermen harvest the clams. The Philippine government has tended to downplay these claims until now, stating they have no conclusive evidence of the Chinese physically harassing Filipino fishermen in the area.
That seems to have changed suddenly with the release of a report by ABS-CBN News in which Filipino fishermen talked about China’s bullying tactics and mass harvesting of claims in the area, a process that disturbs the water so much that other forms of fishing become impossible. Mud blasted up into the ocean by the clam harvesting process can actually endanger the health of spear and net fishermen, as well as making the water too cloudy to work in and driving away so many fish that the livelihood of Filipino fishermen is in serious jeopardy.
ABS-CBN reporters actually found at least 14 Chinese boats engaged in these activities and saw “pile upon pile of dead giant clams, each batch marked distinctly with yellow, green, and red labels.”
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/04/16/philippines-sues-china-harvesting-clams-south-china-sea/
Soda tax is racist.
“Furthermore, while that $79 million sounds great, in fact, the tax lagged projections by about 17 percent. Apparently, pennywise consumers with the means to do so don’t mind shopping outside the city for soda (and when they do, they take other shopping business with them).
“This leaves the bulk of the tax to be paid by the city’s lower-income population, which likes soda but has little choice but to buy it at its new premium price, making it a highly regressive tax. Furthermore, the tax falls disproportionately on the city’s black population, which has left the tax and its supporters open to charges of elitism and racism.
“Wrote Ernest Owens in Philadelphia magazine,
“The soda tax, as it currently exists, further aggravates our growing divide — on one side the privileged who can benefit from pre-K programs and recreation centers without ever sipping on a can of soda again, and on the other the impoverished and people of color who fund them.”
“Americans have a long history of resisting taxes on their drinks.
“Following the Revolutionary War, to pay off its hefty war debt, the federal government passed a tax on spirits that led to a full-scale revolt known as the Whiskey Rebellion (1791-1794). The rebellion saw several tax collectors tarred and feathered after its passage in 1791. Violence steadily escalated until George Washington, riding at the head of 13,000 militiamen, peacefully put down the rebellion in 1794. (Though a couple dozen ringleaders were arrested, all were acquitted or pardoned.)”
https://fee.org/articles/philadelphia-s-soda-tax-already-is-facing-threat-of-repeal-from-democrats/
It’s hard to believe that AOC and Candace Owens are the same age. One called for the elimination of ICE today, the other squares off against fascists and calls them for what they are.
“CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST CANDACE OWENS CALLS ANTIFA ‘NEO-KKK’ BEFORE SPEAKING AT IVY LEAGUE REPUBLICAN EVENT”.
https://www.newsweek.com/conservative-activist-candace-owens-calls-antifa-neo-kkk-speaking-ivy-league-1397549
Posted by: BillTozer | 16 April 2019 at 08:41 PM
Imagine that.. Paul not answering up.. Looks like I'm right again.
Twisted off LIB chick on the loose!!
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/16/jefferson-county-schools-lockout/
Administrivia - Just finished deleting a pot load of comments that contained references to commenters sexual affairs. Let's see how long I can keep that up before you guys stop the junior high playground slurs and name calling. And yes, I know - 'But he started it ...'
Posted by: George Rebane | 16 April 2019 at 09:15 PM
Well that makes sense, takes free pass off the tail -
Immigration judges cannot release migrants who are caught sneaking into the United States, even if the migrants ask for asylum, says a binding legal decision by Attorney General William Barr.
The decision will dramatically shift the migration-caused civic and housing crises from the nation’s blue-collar communities over to the Congress and the Department of Homeland Security, whose budget and detention centers only have enough resources to house about 50,000 people year-round.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/16/attorney-general-barr-blocks-catch-and-release-by-migration-judges/
Don 8:24 - China will tell any court to go pound sand. What will the world do? What did the world do when the USSR closed Berlin against their own agreement? What did the world do when China reneged on their own agreements with Hong Kong?
I say cut China off and blockade the country until they leave the disputed islands they took by force. If not, the spoiled brat will do what it wants and we will all have to suffer the consequences.
Global chaos? Of course. But nothing to compare to what is to come. Russia and China must be brought to heel now or we repeat the same mistake we made in '38 letting Hitler have his way.
Does the world have the nerve? Of course not. We didn't in '38 and we don't have it now. Fun and games to follow.
Really, just figuring that out?
Sen. Booker, Democrats say Trump's sanctuary proposal wouldn't be safe
A long read, but a good review of Russian Collusion as we approach the eve of the Mueller report release. The media goes not look good nor neither does every argument the Popinjay wasted our time for months obsessively putting forth....not to mention the 17 iintel agencies. :). A great chronology of events.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/russian-collusion/
Scott I think Trump kicking nato in the ass, empowering central Europe, the northern tier and selling everything wanted by our real friends with the new world attitude will clip the dragons wings. Our friends are coordinating their buys to complement each other and owning their space like never before.
https://www.defenseone.com/business/2019/04/army-secretary-reveals-weapons-wishlist-war-china-russia/156347/?oref=d-topstory
https://www.janes.com/article/87914/uk-india-renew-defence-collaboration-pledge
https://www.janes.com/article/87898/boeing-awarded-usd14-3-billion-for-bomber-support
https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/aaaa/2019/04/16/bell-v-280-flies-with-system-that-can-see-through-aircraft/
https://thediplomat.com/2018/12/japan-approves-plans-to-convertizumo-class-into-f-35-carrying-aircraft-carriers/
https://southafricatoday.net/world-news/asia-and-pacific/south-koreas-first-f-35s-to-arrive-in-march-amid-easing-tensions-with-north/
https://www.janes.com/article/87849/us-military-examining-army-s-role-in-the-pacific-along-island-chains
A word of warning for our cap and trade scammers.(yaa. You on the Left)
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/17/alberta-canada-carbon-tax/
It’s the first time an Albertan government has been toppled after only one term in power, and it’s the second time in the last year conservatives have won a landslide victory on a platform centered around repealing carbon taxes.
“Friends, tonight the silent majority has spoken,” Kenney said in his victory speech. “They have chosen free enterprise values over the politics of resentment.”
Don 11:04 - Trump is doing what he can and I think Japan and the Philippines and possibly Indonesia are getting nervous. China just marched into Tibet and took over and the world put bumper stickers on their cars.
Europe is too far gone for the most part. Germany, France and England are being take over by North Africa and the response is everything from welcoming it (Germany), Resentment (France) and some actual pushback (England). The Scandinavian countries and the low countries are in no position to do much. Russia has the enviable position of being able to survive as a nation under extreme hardship and deprivation, so economic pressure on them doesn't accomplish as much as it does on China. China's economic boom has allowed Xi to take over as eternal dictator with popular support from the masses. He needs to keep it going, and when times get tough - dictators need to find countries to conquer and loot. Just as we see some hope of North Korea coming out of their nightmare, China is sliding into a new kind of high-tech totalitarian disaster. I think Xi read Brave New World, Animal Farm and 1984 and believes them to be guidebooks - not cautionary tales.
Posted by: Scott O | 17 April 2019 at 08:09 AM
Perhaps a word on the Notre-Dame school... of polyphony. Music. Co-incident with the building of the great cathedral was the beginnings of Western music. The first two composers whose names are known (from the writings of an English student at Notre-Dame known only as Anonymous IV) are Leonin and Perotin, believed to have been employed at the cathedral. Leonin left a number of two part Organum (two voices dancing above a chant), Perotin built upon the two part theory and wrote three and four part polyphonic song.
Here's a nice write up in the Telegraph, with links to some recordings that hope to be representative of how this sounded:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classical-music-guide/9958013/Ivan-Hewetts-Classic-50-No-15-Perotin-Viderunt-omnes.html
The technology of music notation was also new... five lines drawn across the page, with squares (mostly) showing tones but not the length of the notes. That came later. In a second semester of a history of technology sequence I took at Scripps College, I wrote a research paper on music notation (earned an A and a real nice note from the prof who contrasted it with the paper I'd written for the first semester, that for good reasons wasn't as well received). As a freshman (and sophomore, I think) at Mudd I also had a weekly radio slot at KSPC (Pomona College's station) where I played selections mostly from my own collection of early music. from Perotin to early Baroque, such as written by Claudio Monterverdi of the Venetian school.
That was 45 years ago. Time flies.
Great music, that. The very soul of Western Civilization. Thank you, Notre-Dame circa 1200. Thank you, Venice circa 1600.
Thanks, Gregory...
Posted by: L | 17 April 2019 at 10:01 AM
There is a price to pay for lying to your audience -
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/17/nolte-cnn-loses-nearly-50-of-primetime-audience-msnbc-down-nearly-30/
Posted by: Don Bessee | 17 April 2019 at 10:05 AM
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Faith...Fellowship...Service
CHYLL (Christ Helping Youth Love Life) would like to thank all of the parishioners for the amazing support.
YOUTH MINISTRY ANNOUNCEMENTS:
YOUTH MUSIC MINISTRY
Rehearsals for Youth Music Ministry are held during the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month at 4:15pm. All interested youth are welcome to join.
"We know that all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28
Interested boys and girls who have received their first Holy Communion may contact Tony Belo 650.345.6660.
Sandwiches on Sundays
Youth & adults interested in donating their time to making and delivering sandwiches to Samaritan House in San Mateo are welcome to contact us! Contact Peg Culver 650.349.1408.
St. Vincent de Paul Conference (SVDPC)
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SPORNO: Olympic Hotness Louis Smith Bulges with Bronze
PHOTOS: AP, GETTY, REUTERS
Super-talented and ridiculously hot R20 crush object Louis Smith has lead Team Great Britain to a bronze medal in the Artistic Gymnastics Men's Team Final at the London 2012 Games. This was GB's first gymnastics team win in 100 years. China took gold and Japan took silver.
Smith has been described as Team GB's "best hope" for gymnastics gold at London 2012. The pommel horse hotness took bronze at Beijing 2008 and became only the second Black male gymnast to win an Olympic medal. Smith will compete in the pommel horse event this week.
A few more spono-rific images—and a peek at his muscular assets—WHEN YOU JUMP ...
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New Anthology "For Colored Boys" To Be Released August 8
The wait is over. For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Still Not Enough will be released next week. The much-anticipated new anthology is edited by New York Times bestselling author and television commentator Keith Boykin.
"For Colored Boys will be available online on August 8 and in bookstores on August 13," Boykin told Rod 2.0. "It will also be available as an e-book once it's released."
For Colored Boys collects the writings of more than three dozen Black LGBT writers—read the full list and bios—media personalities, activists, scholars and other thought leaders. The book was launched in the wake of numerous "young Black men literally committing suicide in the silence of their own communities" such as Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, Jaheem Herrera, Raymond Chase, Joseph Jefferson and others reported on Rod 2.0, Boykin announced last summer.
"It's been a long process but I'm finally glad that it's done," Boykin told R20 on Monday. "I am very excited about the book. It's going to make a huge difference for many people. So much has happened this year. President Obama endorsing same-sex marriage, Frank Ocean's new CD and many other news stories fit right into the themes of the book."
The publication For Colored Boys is very timely. A new survey was released last month that found a shocking 43 percent of Black gay youth have considered or attempted suicide as a result of issues related to their sexual orientation. Almost one in ten have been sexually or physically abused.
The publication also comes as new data released last week at AIDS 2012 revealed that Black gay men have been more affected by HIV/AIDS than any "other population in the world." The trend has been particularly “alarming” among young Black gay men aged 13 to 19, according to the Centers for Disease Controls. New infections have increased by almost half between 2006 and 2009.
For Colored Boys includes 44 contributions from 42 authors, "including 37 African-Americans, 3 Latinos, 1 Asian-American, 1 Canadian and 1 British writer," Keith Boykin told R20. "The contributors' ages range from 23 to 63. We have at least 5 writers in their 20s."
Many of the names should be familiar to R20 readers. For Colored Boys includes contributions from myself, Darian Aaron, Jamal Brown, Topher Campbell, Wade Davis, Kenyon Farrow, L. Michael Gipson, James Earl Hardy, DeMarco Majors, David Malebranche, B. Scott, Rob Smith, Kevin E. Tayor, Craig Washington, Tim'm West, Nathan H. Williams and Emanuel Xavier. The anthology will include nine poems. In addition to Keith Boykin, the editors include young filmmaker Mark Corece and author/scholar Frank Leon Roberts.
Stay tuned for more details on publication, the book tour and more. The Twitter hahtags are #ForColoredBoys and #ColoredBoys.
Posted by Rod at 13:44 in #ColoredBoys, #ForColoredBoys, Books, Bullying, Craig Washington, Darian Aaron, David Malebranche, Emanuel Xavier, For Colored Boys, Gay, Gay Youth, Jamal Brown, Keith Boykin, Kenyon Farrow, Kevin E. Taylor, L. Michael Gipson, Nathan Williams, Rod 2.0, Tim'm West, Topher Campbell | Permalink | Comments (2)
KENYA: Venezuelan Diplomat in Court After Embassy Murder
A senior Venezuelan diplomat has been arraigned in court in Nairobi, Kenya in connection with the killing of the acting ambassador. Dwight Sagaray, First Secretary at the embassy, was arrested on Saturday and will be held without charges for six days.
Venezuelan charge d'affaires and acting ambassador Olga Fonseca was strangled on Friday after she fired at least five male Kenyan staff members ... who complained to police about sexual assault and harassment by the previous ambassador.
Police are looking for another suspect in the murder and believe this was a power struggle, reports Nairobi's Capital FM.
Police are now looking for a Kenyan doctor in connection with the murder. On Tuesday, the police released pictures of the doctor named Muhammed Ahmed Mohammed Hassan whom they say has been mentioned in the probe of the envoy’s death. Investigations have shown the suspect is a close friend of Sagaray.
Two Guards who manned the gate of the slain Venezuelan ambassador Olga Fonseca were also charged with committing a felony for falling to prevent the envoys death. The two ... denied the charge and were released on a cash bail.
The previous envoy was Gerardo Carillo Silva, who quickly left the country last month as the Nairobi police began an investigation. Silva is accused of sexually assaulting, fondling, exposing himself and sexual harassing at least six male employees. Silva has diplomatic immunity and cannot be prosecuted under international law. The former staff members have said that Fonseca dismissed them after they refused to retract the claims against Silva.
Kenya's government is considered progressive on gay rights. Same-sex relations are illegal—penalties are between five and 14 years’ imprisonment—but arrests and prosecutions are rare.
Kenya was the first African nation to include men who have sex with men in their national HIV strategy. The recently-appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice Dr. Willy Mutunga has said that "gay rights are human rights" and expressed a desire to overturn anti-gay legislation. As a result of these and many other incremental advances, Kenya has rapidly become a refuge for many LGBTs who have been persecuted in East African nations.
KENYA: Venezuelan Diplomat Held in Embassy Murder
KENYA: Venezuela Envoy Slain
Can Kenya Lead Africa on Gay Rights? [EBONY]
Kenya HRC Calls for Repealing Anti-Gay Laws
Kenyan Men Forced into Gulf Sex Trafficking?
UN Chief Urges African Leaders to Respect Gays
KENYA: Pro-LGBT Justices Confirmed
Controversy in Kenya After Pro LGBT Nominees
Kenyan Prime Minister: "All Gays Should Be Arrested"
KENYA: Questions Surround Mandatory HIV Testing
AIDS 2010: Joel Nana on African Gay/Bi Men, HIV
WATCH: CNN Surveys Gay Rights in SA, Kenya, Cuba
Kenyan Gays Demand Protection After Brutal Assault
Posted by Rod at 11:00 in Crime, Gay, Kenya, News, Politics, Venezuela | Permalink | Comments (1)
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro to Keynote Dem National Convention
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will become the first Latino to keynote the Democratic National Convention, reports the Washington Post. The 37-year-old rising star in Democratic politics is also among the youngest mayors of a major American city.
Castro will speak on the convention’s opening night, Sept. 4. First Lady Michelle Obama will also speak on opening night, Democrats announced.
Democrats’ selection of Castro suggests the party is going to be making a full-court press to turn out Latino voters in November. Western swing states with substantial Hispanic populations like Nevada and Colorado could be crucial for the president in the fall. In 2008, Obama took 67 percent of the Hispanic vote to just 31 percent for Arizona Sen. John McCain.
As keynote speaker, Castro will step into the same spotlight that launched Obama into national prominence in 2004.
Watch Castro's announcement video AFTER THE JUMP ...
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Posted by Rod at 10:01 in Antonio Villaraigosa, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Julian Castro, News, Politics, San Antonio, Texas | Permalink | Comments (1)
SPORNO: Silver Medals for Cullen Jones, Team USA in 4 x 100m
PHOTOS: STAR LEDGER, GETTY, AP
Adrian Nathan, Cullen Jones, Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps of the United States won the silver medals in the Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay final last night at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Team USA lost to France in a hotly contested relay. Russia won bronze.
At the Beijing 2008 Games, Jones, Lochte, Phelps and Jason Lezak swam into history with a world record and gold medal in the same event. Jones also became only the nation's second Black gold medalist in swimming.
Swimming hotness Cullen Jones has twice been ranked the world's fastest swimmer. He will also compete in the 50m and 100m. A few more photos AFTER THE JUMP ...
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REPORT: Democratic Platform Draft Includes Marriage Equality
The Democratic Party hopes to include support for marriage equality in its party platform this year for the first time in its history. The draft language was supported in a unanimous vote by the platform committee, reports the Washington Blade.
Retiring gay Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who sits on the committee, told the Washington Blade on Monday that the 15-member panel unanimously backed the inclusion of a marriage equality plank after a national hearing over the weekend in Minneapolis, in which several witnesses testified in favor of such language.
"I was part of a unanimous decision to include it," Frank said. "There was a unanimous decision in the drafting committee to include it in the platform, which I supported, but everybody was for it."
A Democratic National Committee staffer, who is familiar with the process and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the language in the platform approved on Sunday not only backs marriage equality, but also rejects DOMA and has positive language with regard to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The exact wording of the language wasn’t immediately available.
A draft will be considered later in August. It then will be presented to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina for final approval in September. That's where President Barack Obama will formally accept the party's nomination for re-election.
It was only two months ago when Obama became the first siting American president to support marriage equality. This came a little more than one year after the Administration's decision to stop defending the odious Defense of Marriage Act.
Six states currently mandate marriage equality—Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York—as does the District of Columbia. Maryland and Washington have approved marriage equality but the legislation will head to the November ballot in voter referendums.
Posted by Rod at 16:12 in 2012 Elections, Barack Obama, Defense of Marriage Act, Democratic Party, DOMA, Gay, Gay Marriage, News, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0)
TANZANIA: LGBT Rights Activist Killed, Hate Crime Suspected
One of the leading LGBT rights activists in the East African nation of Tanzania has been killed. Initial autopsy results indicate "Maurice Mjomba was strangled by unknown persons," reports Denis Nzioka at Identity Kenya.
Mjomba's body was discovered in his house in Dar es Salaam. According to the Centre for Human Rights Promotion's Julius Lumanyika Kyaruzi, Mjomba was working as the Training Coordinator for HIV and injecting drug use. Mjomba was a member of Tanzania's premier MSM group, Stay Awake Network Activities. He was one of the founding member, and served as the group's assistant secretary and executive committee member.
In a Facebook post on their Wall, SANA wrote, "We sadly announce that Moris Mjomba, one of our founding member, a friend and activist, was strangled by unknown person (s) the date of his death has not been confirmed yet. For more information, we will let you know."
Julius told Identity Kenya that a neighbour 'noticed a foul smell' from Mjomba's house and called the police. This could mean Mjomba could have been dead for days.
Friends suspect that Maurice Mjomba's murder was an anti-gay hate crime and are pressing for a police investigation.
Tanzania is adjacent to Kenya but is far more conservative than its neighbor on LGBT issues. Sexual relations between men are criminalized and punishable by up to 30 years imprisonment. In late 2011, the East African nation slammed UK Prime Minister David Cameron's suggestion that aid would be cut unless it relaxed its anti-gay laws.
In May 2011, the UK Home Office was criticized after it began deportation procedures against a Tanzanian gay activist who sought asylum. Twenty-nine-year-old Edson Cosmas escaped to the UK in 2006 after "beatings, stoning and other assaults for his sexual orientation." The deportation has been put on hold.
Posted by Rod at 10:20 in Activism, Gay, Hate Crimes, HIV/AIDS, News, Tanzania | Permalink | Comments (0)
KENYA: Venezuelan Diplomat Held in Embassy Murder, Police Probe Gay Sexual Assault Claims
There are new developments in Nairobi, Kenya after a murder, sex scandal and gay sexual assault claims in the Venezuelan embassy. Police have arrested a Venezuelan diplomat over the strangulation murder of the South American nation's charges d'affaires in her official residence, reports Reuters Africa.
Olga Fonseca was killed on Friday after she fired at least five male Kenyan staff members ... who complained to police about sexual assault and harassment by the previous ambassador.
Dwight Sagaray, First Secretary at the Venezuelan Embassy, was arrested on Saturday and Kenyan police on Monday made a court application to hold him in custody for another 14 days. "The suspect was arrested by the police after his diplomatic immunity was waived," deputy prosecutor Tabitha Ouya told the courtroom.
"The investigation is incomplete and (we) require more time to secure crucial evidence and apprehend other suspects," Ouya said. Sagaray was arrested along with five Kenyans who worked at the embassy but it was unclear whether the local suspects have been charged or released.
The previous envoy was Gerardo Carillo Silva, who quickly left the country last month as the Nairobi police began an investigation. Silva has diplomatic immunity and cannot be prosecuted under international law. The former staff members have said that Fonseca dismissed them after they refused to retract "sexual harassment claims" against Silva.
Reuters, The Independent and other western outlets do not expand upon the "sexual harassment" claims. More at China's Xinhua and Kenya's Daily Vation and the Kenyan-Post. Silva is accused of sexually assaulting, fondling, exposing himself and sexual harassing at least six male employees.
Kenya was the first African nation to include men who have sex with men in their national HIV strategy. Two pro-LGBT justices were confirmed to the Supreme Court in June 2011. The recently-appointed Chief Justice Dr. Willy Mutunga has said that "gay rights are human rights" and expressed a desire to overturn anti-gay legislation. As a result, Kenya has rapidly become a refuge for many LGBTs who have been persecuted in East African nations.
Kenya: "Things are Changing in Favor of Gays"
CHICAGO: Armed Private Security Patrol Hired for Boystown
A private detail of "armed off duty police officers wearing bullet proof vests" has been hired to "maintain safety" in Chicago's heavily gay North Halsted/Boystown corridor. The armed security team was hired by by the Northalsted Business Alliance after the second consecutive summer of street crime that has inflammed "racial tensions", according to ChicagoGoPride.com.
The enhanced and more visible security team started patrolling North Halsted this past weekend and consists of off-duty law enforcement officers hired by the Northalsted Business Alliance (NHBA), a non-profit group representing more than 80 businesses along North Halsted St. from Barry to Irving Park Road.
Since a video recording-gone-viral showing a late night stabbing in the heart of the Boystown neighborhood in July 2011, the debate over crime and racial tension in the city's LGBT community has continued to escalate.
This spring - as soon as temperatures heated up - the Boystown neighborhood again filled with displaced and often homeless youth. Following a series of robberies and assaults in the neighborhood from March through June, concerns over neighborhood safety grew and racial tensions appeared to reignite. Residents complain that large groups of loitering youth block building entrances, sidewalks and streets while dancing and yelling well past curfew. Critics argue Boystown is the only area where LGBT youth feel accepted.
The trouble began in July 2011 over Chicago's Black Gay Pride weekend. A brutal street brawl was captured on videotape by a local resident. The video shows more than a dozen Black LGBT youth arguing, fighting and attacking one young man. The victim was treated for multiple stab wounds and a collapsed lung.
Suspects were ultimately arrested. The vicious fight apparently started after a petty sidewalk encounter.
Boystown boasts among the lowest crime rates in the city. But that brawl was the third stabbing in the upscale and heavily gay neighborhood in as many weeks. The previous incidents also involved Black LGBT youth. Before the Black Gay Pride incident, the most recent stabbing victim had been white.
The stabbings and the presence of Black/Latino street youth in the upscale neighborhood have sparked a racially-fueled debate. Tensions flared last summer as "about 600 people" attended a community policing meeting. The debate "quickly turned to race" and was characterized by "yelling, cheers, booing and fights".
One final note: The article is non-attributed. There is no mention of the extent of the private security force's powers. There is also no mention of its policy regarding use of force, no details regarding arrest and detainment procedures and no comment or pushback on the private police force's accountability. Will arrest statistics be shared with the public? Who will listen to complaints about excessive force? Tsk, tsk.
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Posted by Rod at 08:43 in Chicago, Crime, Gay, Gay Youth, Illinois | Permalink | Comments (0)
SPORNO: Leyva, Orozco and Team USA Take Lead in Gymnastics
PHOTOS: Getty, Reuters
Sporno-rific gymnastics phenoms Danell Leyva, John Orozo (right) and Team USA have taken the early lead in gymnastics qualifications at the London Olympics. The USA men's team hopes to win their first gymnastics team gold medal since 1984.
Team Great Britain had the early lead after pommel horse hotness Louis Smith's near flawless routine. China has now slipped to fourth place after USA and Japan's routines, reports Reuters.
Going into the evening's final session, with Russia among the teams still to come, the U.S. led Britain by 2.922 points with Japan third. Consistent performances by Danell Leyva and John Orozco across the six apparatus gave the Americans, cheered on by enthusiastic, flag-waving fans at the North Greenwich Arena, the edge.
Scores are reset to zero in Monday's team final, for which the best eight teams qualify.
Leyva and Orozco are now ranked first and second, respectively. A few more sporno-tastic photos—if pint size and muscular is your "thing"—are AFTER THE JUMP ...
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Highlights from UseR! 2017
Published by Alexander Bertram on 2017-08-01 .
The whole Renjin team had a chance to descend on Brussels for the 2017 UseR! Conference and the co-located 2017 R Implementation, Optimization and Tooling (RIOT) Workshop.
We had the chance to give a few presentations on Renjin, but we also had the opportunity to learn a lot from the other conference speakers. From the persepective of a language implementor, I wanted to highlight some of these talks:
Static Analysis
There are a few independent efforts to apply static analysis techniques to R code for the purposes of optimization.
Renjin's JIT compiler of course combines runtime information with static analysis to compile for-loops to highly efficient machine code.
But Jianqiao Zhu also spoke about the ROSA Project, which uses some of the same static analysis techniques. Rather than applying them at runtime like Renjin does, ROSA is an Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compiler, which requires some user input as a substitute for the type information that Renjin gathers automatically at runtime.
And Nick Ulle also spoke about RLLVM (video), a LLVM-based Compiler Toolkit for R that seeks to provide a toolbox for applying these sort static analysis compilations and transformations.
R Byte Code Compiler
Tomas Kalibera gave a great presentation on GNU R's own Byte Code Compiler (video).
Compared with Renjin's JIT complier, the first big difference is the unit of compilation. The GNU R Byte Code Compiler (BCC) compiles entire functions, while Renjin's JIT compiler will selectively compile loops based on the number of expected iterations.
The second difference is when compilation takes place. Renjin compiles a loop mid-execution, using all available type information to generate highly-specialized machine code. The compiled loop body is thrown away after the loop finishes.
The GNU R BCC, on the other hand, compiles a function only once, and makes no assumptions about the incoming types of the arguments.
The trade off here is that Renjin can potentially spend more time on compilation, but can in many cases apply more optimizations because we know more about the types. We need better (and more) benchmarking to better compare the performance of these strategies.
One of the big questions we want to explore with Renjin is how we can take existing R and C code that was written for one context and transform it in such a way that it can run faster or in a new context. So far, we've focused on retargeting for the JVM and automatic parallelization, but we've experimented a bit with more exotic targets like GPUs, so I'm always keen to learn more about new architechtures.
Helena Kotthaus spoke on the challenges of parallelization in heterogenous embedded systems (video) where an R runtime would have access to multiple cores with different capabilities. This would be interesting challenge to support Renjin's vector pipeliner, which is currently "resource oblivious" when it comes to scheduling work on the available cores.
On another end of the computing spectrum, Scott Michael shared the results of R benchmarks on Intel's Knight Landing architecture (video), where an R runtime in principle has access to 64 cores with 256 threads. Though the benchmarks were mostly limited to linear algebra benchmarks, it was super interesting to learn more about this architecture.
Even after working on Renjin for several years, I continue to be suprised by the depth and flexibility of the R language.
Lionel Henry presented his work on "fexprs" or symbolic computation during RIOT and the main conference track. We're all familiar with a specifiying statistical models in R using a formula such as y ~ 3*x + 1, but it gets far more complicated when you start writing functions that parametrize such expressions. It's something I hadn't given alot of thought to, and so it was a real eye-opener.
It was also super interesting to hear Radford Neal's proposals for extensions or changes to the R language itself. There are really are some syntactical constructions that trip up R programmers, such as 1:x or y[x] when x is negative or empty, and I think there is tremendous value in finding backward-compatible solutions.
Kirill Müller shared progress on an R Foundation project to improve profiling of R and native code (video). I think there's a chance to develop a common raw output format for profiling tools on which a rich set of analysis tools can be written in R. We added a very basic profiler to Renjin awhile back, so we'll follow this closely to see if we can also support this common target.
The FastR team from Oracle has made some great progress on supporting graphics in their Graal-based R interpreter (video) that I think Renjin can leverage. After some experimentation, they settled on supporting the grid interface rather than the comparatively low-level grDevices interface which apparently is very tightly coupled to the GNU R interpreter internals. Their implementation is open source and written in Java so might be a good starting point for adding graphics support to Renjin.
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Gui-Jiang Zhou, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Xi'An Jiaotong University
Wai-Yeung Wong, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Hong Kong Baptist UniversityFollow
Organometallic acetylides of PtII, AuI and HgII as new generation optical power limiting materials
Within the scope of nonlinear optics, optical power limiting (OPL) materials are commonly regarded as an important class of compounds which can protect the delicate optical sensors or human eyes from sudden exposure to damaging intense laser beams. Recent efforts have been devoted to developing organometallic acetylide complexes, dendrimers and polymers as high performance OPL materials of the next generation which can favorably optimize the optical limiting/transparency trade-off issue. These metallated materials offer a new avenue towards a new family of highly transparent homo- and heterometallic optical limiters with good solution processability which outperform those of current state-of-the-art visible-light-absorbing competitors such as fullerenes, metalloporphyrins and metallophthalocyanines. This critical review aims to provide a detailed account on the recent advances of these novel OPL chromophores. Their OPL activity was shown to depend strongly on the electronic characters of the aryleneethynylene ligand and transition metal moieties as well as the conjugation chain length of the compounds. Strategies including copolymerization with other transition metals, change of structural geometry, use of a dendritic platform and variation of the type and content of transition metal ions would strongly govern their photophysical behavior and improve the resulting OPL responses. Special emphasis is placed on the structure-OPL response relationships of these organometallic acetylide materials. The research endeavors for realizing practical OPL devices based on these materials have also been presented. This article concludes with perspectives on the current status of the field, as well as opportunities that lie just beyond its frontier (106 references). © 2011 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Chemical Society Reviews
10.1039/C0CS00094A
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C0CS00094A
ISSN (electronic)
Zhou, G., & Wong, W. (2011). Organometallic acetylides of PtII, AuI and HgII as new generation optical power limiting materials. Chemical Society Reviews, 40 (5), 2541-2566. https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CS00094A
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Bucharest has been Romania's capital city ever since 1862, and it is the center of Romanian culture and art. It is a city that perfectly mixes the elements of the interbellum and communist periods with today's modern architecture.
Oftentimes called "Little Paris", Bucharest can charm you with its variety of landmarks, varying from impressive buildings such as the Palace of the Parliament or Bucharest Old Town to natural and traditional reservations such as Herestrău Park or the Village Museum.
Bucharest is also home to most of Romania's artists and musicians. Most of the concerts are organized here, and the nightlife is spread throughout the whole town, with clubs and pubs in every major area.
You can easily “get lost” yourself on one of the winding, narrow streets of Bucharest’s historical center, where tourists look for a seat at a restaurant or a terrace café, but there are a lot more things to do in Bucharest.
Bucharest's history
Bucharest’s golden age is considered the one-hundred-year span when the city thrived under a marked Western influence. The economic and cultural peak was reached in the interwar period, in 1938. Culturally speaking, in the nineteenth century Romania was a francophone country, as French was spoken by both the elites and the common people. It was a prosperous, elegant and attractive city with cosmopolitan highlights. Iconic buildings remained witnesses of a privileged past: the Atheneum, Cotroceni Palace, Calea Victoriei Boulevard. This elegant avenue revealing the facades of outstanding buildings hosts chic cafés, designer stores, museums and churches of great historical value.
The 50 years of communism have equally left their signature on the architecture of the city, as well: huge urban projects, administrative buildings entering the book of records in terms of size and … too little freedom. Yet, don’t be surprised to discover an underlying nostalgia associated with the communist regime or powerful emotions triggered by the ‘89 Revolution, the first revolution broadcast lives in TV history. These are all part of who we are, of our recent past. The last two decades have meant finding our way, struggling for an identity whose landmarks can be discovered in the city’s youthful spirit, in the new generations that come with a different mentality.
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Bloomingdale’s celebrates literacy with RonReaco Lee and Munson Steed
by Nia Chantal
Munson Steed, RonReaco Lee and Derik Smith (Photo by Nia Chantal for Steed Media Service)
Bloomingdale’s at Lenox Mall hosted Page Turners Make Great Learners’ third annual Runway Walk for Literacy fundraiser featuring special guest RonReaco Lee of the hit Starz’s show “Survivor’s Remorse.”
Founded in 2003 by FeFe Handy, Page Turners Make Great Learners is an organization determined to expand children’s knowledge and understanding of the world, themselves, and their unique possibilities through a love of reading. In an effort to raise awareness, Page Turners holds the back-to-school fashion show at Bloomingdale’s and receives 10 percent of each donation.
As the audience awaited the opening of the show, they enjoyed the sounds of DJ E-Clazz and sweet treats, compliments of Candace Okafor and Candid Events.
This year’s Bloomingdale’s models featured young budding stars, ready to show off their charming personalities wearing Michael Kors and Ralph Lauren threads.
After the kids walked the runway, Page Turners’ Million Word Reader and Literacy Ambassador Derik Smith interviewed Lee on the importance of reading as an actor.
“Reading is essential to my life. It is important to my career because of the scripts. If I couldn’t read, I wouldn’t be able to be an actor,” said Lee. “I also read to my kids every night, before bed. So reading is a huge component of my life.”
RonReaco Lee and his son (Photo by Nia Chantal for Steed Media)
Following the interview, Lee read an excerpt from rolling out CEO Munson Steed’s children’s book, Little Professor Skye: Favorite Things.
“I wrote the book about my goddaughter and named it Little Professor Skye so she and all of our kids could see themselves and know they have the ability to be in any profession,” said Steed. “[With Bloomingdale’s and Page Turners] we wanted to give children access to a character that lets them know they are special and loved by their community.”
Children’s books, like Little Professor Skye, with strong messages are imperative to children, as they shape their mind and thinking capabilities. “My favorite book of all time, which was given to me by my father, is The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” said Lee. “Though it wasn’t a children’s book, I found myself emotionally connected to it and it taught me so much.”
At the end of the event, guests were able to meet and greet Lee and receive signed copies of Steed’s Little Professor Skye.
Photo gallery by Nia Chantal for Steed Media Service
Photo Credit: Nia Chantal
Tags: Bloomingdales, Little Professor Skye, Munson Steed, page turners, RonReaco Lee, Survivor's Remorse
Nia Chantal
Journalist. Actress. Music Lover. Concert- Goer. Travel Enthusiast. Beauty Addict. Just a Southern girl living life to the fullest. Follow my journey on Instagram @niachantal
Nia Chantal September 6, 2017
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Tag Archives: Bunny Yeager
December 15, 2014 by JP
BETTIE PAGE QUEEN OF CURVES | BUNNY YEAGER WORLD’S PRETTIEST PHOTOGRAPHER
For me, Bettie Page & Bunny Yeager epitomize iconic American pinup photography. Not just of the 1950s… Ever. In 1954, Bettie Page was working with Irving Klaw in NYC and decided a break was in order, so she headed south to Miami for relaxation and fun in the sun. That’s when fate struck. Bettie met Bunny, and the rest is pinup history. Bettie Page never looked better than in the capable hands of Bunny Yeager (herself a former model) who arguably shot the best and most famous images of the black-banged beauty– like the epic Jungle Girl shoot (shot at the Africa USA safari Park in Boca Raton), and the game-changing image of Bettie posing nude in a Santa cap for Playboy magazine in 1955.
“When I first saw Bettie in the nude, I was pleasantly surprised; she looked great. She walked into the room on tippy-toes, like she was wearing high heels, which made her look taller and more natural at the same time. The first thing I noticed was that for some reason when she was nude, she did not seem naked. I had never seen anyone with an allover tan and she looked like the perfect doll or mannequin. Bettie was a true nudist and maintained her glorious golden olive color by sunning herself everyday. She would lie on the banks of the miami River. Maybe it was her tan, or maybe it was her attitude– she seemed completely at ease.” –Bunny Yeager, excerpt from Bettie Page, Queen of Curves
BUNNY YEAGER | THE LEGENDARY QUEEN OF PINUPS AND PHOTOGRAPHY, PT II
Miami, 1954– Bettie Page, Kathleen Stanley, and Bunny Yeager. Photographer Bunny Yeager was assigned to do some catalog photos of a line of petticoats and one of the models didn’t show up. Bunny jumped in, taking off her clothes and putting on a petticoat, and took this shot using a self-timer on her camera.
Bunny Yeager knew from an early age that her life’s desire was to be a model, and set out by studying the “come hither” poses of classic painted pin-up art, and snipping pictures of sexy screen sirens Betty Grable, Jane Russell, Rita Hayworth, etc., that were hoarded away in her growing collection of scrapbooks. Right after high school Bunny Yeager made it official. “I took a modeling course from an agency with the finest reputation in Miami,” she recalled.
January 12, 2011 by JP - 7 Comments
THE WEDNESDAY SHAMELESS PLUG | TSY x BLIPMAGAZINE’S WINTER ISSUE
Online magazine. Yuck. Please don’t ever refer to TSY as an “online magazine.”
Call it a… hell, I don’t know what you’d call it. And please don’t ever refer to me as a blogger. It makes me cringe, dunno why, but it does. The only words that make me cringe more– ointment, moist, slacks. Use them all in a sentence in my presence– prepare yourself for projectile vomit.
Now back to “online magazine.” It’s clearly one of the shittiest terms ever used to describe blipmagazine, in my humble opinion. It’s the creation of Frederick Barthelme (former Editor of Mississippi Review, and Director of The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi), who invited several of his staff members to come along to create what would become– blipmagazine.
Well, what is it exactly, you’re still asking?
“It’s a renegade outfit. And we like it that way. Literary rogue nation unto ourselves.
In fact, we’re gunning for one corner of the axis of evil, according to certain American politicos.”
–Courtney Eldridge of blipmagazine
“And what is The Selvedge Yard, you ask? Well, porn, mainly. That’s right, it’s good old-fashioned porn, the way God intended, offering up a little something-something for every body. What, you got cars, bikes, motorcycles, movie stars, centerfolds, style icons, textile design, punk rock—it’s BMX one day; Jean Cocteau the next… At the crossroads of auto-erotica and Americana, The Selvedge Yard is a celebration of that greatest of American tales: the open road.”
–Courtney Eldridge, blipmagazine
December 9, 2010 by JP - 25 Comments
BETTIE PAGE AND BUNNY YEAGER | LEGENDARY QUEENS OF PIN-UP
(Lt.) Photographer Bunny Yeager & Bettie Page (Rt.) 5′ 10″ Bunny Yeager in her modeling days
The pairing of pinup Bettie Page and shutterbug Bunnie Yeager was a deadly one-two punch combining beauty and brains. It was Bettie Page’s trademark black baby bangs, blue eyes, and red lips that are seared on our mind’s eye– but Yeager deserves a lot of credit for the photographic talent behind many of Page’s most memorable shots. Together they undoubtedly created some of the most iconic, influential, and titillating pin-up images ever that paved the way for the countless female models, actresses, artists and performers that would follow.
Photographer Bunny Yeager
Bunny Yeager
Bunny herself knew from an early age that her life’s desire was to be a model, and set out by studying the “come hither” poses of classic painted pin-up art, and snipping pictures of sexy screen sirens Betty Grable, Jane Russell, Rita Hayworth, etc., that were hoarded away in her growing collection of scrapbooks. Right after high school Bunny Yeager made it official. “I took a modeling course from an agency with the finest reputation in Miami,” she recalled.
Soon Bunny Yeager was Florida’s most stunning and sought after model. “I was never a pinup model,” she was quick to point out. “I did not pose for men individually like Bettie Page did.” Bunny made a name for herself as a fashion influencer as well– designing and donning her own two-piece bathing suits. “All the other models were wearing one-piece Jantzen and Catalina suits. I made my own and am beginning to think I invented the bikini, after the French did it.”
Famous Jungle Bettie / Bunny Yeager shoot. Bettie Page made the leopard print costume herself.
It was 1954 when Bunny Yeager, now married, decided to make the switch and get behind the camera. Her own formal modeling experience and creativity gave Bunny a sensitivity, insight and eye that no male photographer could touch. Female models instantly found themselves comfortable working with her, and appreciated the refreshingly caring and honest approach. It was this same year that Bunny met the baby-banged beauty who will forever be hailed as the gold standard of saucy pin-ups– Bettie Page. Up until that time Bettie was working with the likes of Irving Klaw, and anyone else who would pay, posing for pictures that were exploitive and fetishist at best, and pornographic (by 1950’s puritanical standards) at worst.
The union of Bettie & Bunny was short, but sweet. The famous Boca Raton-based Jungle Betty shoot, and Bettie Page’s 1955 January Playboy Playmate Christmas pic, are two notable highlights of their epic partnership. Bettie Page soon drifted away– posing periodically for a few more years here and there, before disappearing almost entirely from the limelight. The tabloids sizzled with sensational speculation on Page’s mysterious disappearance. Bunny Yeager recalls the day she witnessed firsthand the shift in Bettie Page’s priorities–
“It was in the Florida Keys that one night she saw a neon cross on top of a little church, and was drawn to it to go inside. From that day on, she got religious and decided to give up posing.”
A slew of Bettie Page pics after the jump–
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Breads/My Vienna - Freud & Food
Posted on September 9, 2018 by Nino (Shaya) Weiss-Loss / 6 Comments
The best challah recipe you’ll ever taste.
This is your traditional can’t-get-enough, soft, tearing-long-strands, perfectly sweet, Bubbe’s-childhood-memory-evoking deliciousness!
The special treat has a rich history behind it, so let’s get some definitions and historical facts straight before we create and enjoy our beautiful challah.
As one of the most iconic of all Jewish foods, challah is assuredly more ritual than recipe. Though it incorporates special covers, boards, trays, tins, cookbooks and (sometimes) knives, making challah is about more than just “things;” perhaps more importantly, it’s about prayers, initiation rituals, recipes and secrets.
Challah is omnipresent in Israel and in the Jewish diaspora, especially in the United States where, in many places, it’s a deli and supermarket staple, be it in the form of the ultimate French toast or even in a kugel, a Jewish baked pudding.
Here’s my wife pulling the soft, long strands of our classic, simple challah recipe!
Braided, egg-enriched bread is made in many other European cuisines. In Vienna, as in many other parts of Central and Eastern Europe, the locals claim their own local bread, presenting their own version of traditional braided bread as shtritsls, kalacs, and what-not. In German-speaking regions like Vienna, there’s even a so-called Zopf, which is German for “braided hair.” And don’t even start with the French about their wonderful brioche!
Most of these rather sweet, yeasty, and egg-rich delicacies are eaten on Sundays and holidays with butter, honey, and jam. The main difference between the gentile and the Jewish version is the absence of dairy products in the latter. This is to confrom to Jewish religious laws, which do not allow the mixing of dairy and meat.
Traditional challah recipes use oil instead of butter and milk, and add eggs. (Water challos is German with a distinct sourdough flavor and added potatoes to help the action of the yeast.)
Bacon and egg salad sandwich as found in Tel Aviv made with very frum, (Yiddish for pious) challah from Bnei Brak’s famous Vizhnitz bakery.
What’s particular about the Jewish tradition and where’s the strong connection to Vienna? Let’s start at the beginning.
In 2008, a third-century amulet inscribed with the central Jewish prayer Shema Yisrael was discovered in a Roman child’s grave in a burial ground near Vienna. This “archeological sensation,” as it was called in the headlines, remains the earliest trace of Jewish inhabitants in present-day Austria.
Thus, there were already Jews on the site of modern-day Vienna before the city existed officially, or at least since the late Roman Empire, when Jews made up a sizeable portion of its population.
The site of modern-day Vienna marked in German “Wien” as one of the important Jewish settlements of the 4th century in the area of the Roman Empire. (Map as exhibited at the Museum Judenplatz, the Jewish Museum at Vienna’s Judenplatz, which is showcasing medieval Jewish life in Vienna, fronted by a monumental Holocaust Memorial.)
A couple of hundred years earlier, before Christian persecution of the Jews, when the temple in Jerusalem was still standing, the word “challah” exclusively referred to the portion of a bread or dough donated, to the Kohanim (priests), from every dough that was prepared as described in the Book of Numbers 15:18-20.
These donated portions, each about the size of an olive, had to be handed over in the form of loaves befitting the status of a priest. It was meant for their sustenance, “in order that the priests, who are always occupied with Divine service, should live without any exertion,” (Sefer ha-Hinnukh, no. 385). However, they were nothing like what we know as challah today. How they really looked is the object of interesting and long discussions in the Talmud.
Challah in the shape of a bird for Yom Kippur, a symbol of the sins “flying away,” or for Sukkos based on Yeshayahu (Isaiah). “…as hovering birds, so will the Lord of hosts shield Jerusalem.
After Titus’ Roman legions destroyed the second temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE, and the priests could no longer officiate, the rabbis decreed that the priestly portion had still to be taken from the dough in order to keep the memory of this holy obligation alive. With no temple though, the dough had to be destroyed — most often via burning — which some communities see as protection from the “evil eye.” Challah — or any bread from which this small portion has not been taken and destroyed — is not considered kosher. Thus, the priestly portion itself became an unconsumable rest.
Since then, the table in every Jewish home is seen as a little temple, and the Shabbos challah loaves represent the so-called twelve showbreads displayed in the temple in Jerusalem before its destruction as described in Leviticus 24:5-8. Those loaves of bread were flat, round, and made from semolina-like flour, but the exact shape and form is also subject of discussion.
Vienna’s medieval Shul as it must have looked in 1421, the year of its destruction during the Viennese Geserah, the expulsion and murder of the Jewish community. (Model, as exhibited at the Museum Judenplatz.)
Meanwhile, Jewish Vienna resurfaced from the dark middle ages with written evidence from the twelfth century onwards — as such a Jew named Shlomo is mentioned as Duke Frederick I’s mint master in 1194. That’s when one of the leading rabbis of those times was born: Vienna’s rabbi Yitzhak bar Moishe, aka Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (ca. 1200-1270), also called the Riaz, was the author of Or Zarua (אור זרוע), which literally means “the arm of light.”
And it is here that in the early fourteen-hundreds Israel Isserlein (1390-1460), the famous author of Trumas HaDeshen (תרומת הדשן), an important foundation of Jewish law, for the first time extended the meaning of the word challah to the whole of the Shabbos bread, so that it no longer referred only to the small priestly portion.
The remains of the medieval synagogue were discovered during the construction of the Holocaust memorial at Judenplatz: When one analyses history, one uncovers the past. (Excavations as seen at the Museum Judenplatz in Vienna.)
Reverse shot of the excavations of the medieval synagogue at Museum Judenplatz, which is part of Vienna’s Jewish Museum.
This usage of the word challah came about because, first, Rabbi Isserlein miraculously escaped death during the Viennese Gzerah (גזרה), Vienna’s decree from 1421 in which the local authorities had decided to systematically annihilate the Jewish population and among other horrors, to burn two hundred Jews alive.
Second, as noted in John Cooper’s wonderful 1993 book, Eat and Be Satisfied: A Social History of Jewish Food, we learned about the rabbi’s use of the word challah because it was later compiled together with many other customs of Rabbi Isserlein by his student Joseph ben Moses of Austria (1423–1490?) in the latter’s halakhic (Jewish Law) collection, Leket Yosher (לקט יושר), which dates back to 1488.
Later, all of this spread to the rest of Ashkenaz (Jewish central and eastern Europe) and beyond, back to Israel and onto the new world. And that’s how challah, as we know it today, came from a book by a Viennese rabbi.
My six-stranded star of David challah and the instructional video I made to illustrate the process.
Notwithstanding Vienna’s (at times) extremely hostile environment, challah took on its particular shape and form in Austria and southern Germany at around the same time, according to Gil Marks’ Encyclopedia of Jewish Food. The distinctive embellishment of loaves of bread with various styles of braidings was seemingly adopted from surrounding populations. Some argue that the reason so many separatist laws and decrees were put in place by authorities on both Christian and Jewish sides was that there was quite a lot of mingling going on, at least in the public space. Anyway, that’s how, when, and where the braided strands of dough started to make up challah loaves.
Popular challah shapes from TOP, left to right: 1) Round, spiral or coil-shaped challah for the holidays from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur. The additional hand honors the Yom Kippur tradition when you shake hands to ask for pardon and for Hoshannah Raba, symbolic of reaching for a blessing, and that the verdict of Yom Kippur should be signed on that day. 2) The tablets of the law for Shavuos. 3) Key-shaped challah, shlissl-challah in Yiddish, for the first Shabbos after Pessach were the manna didn’t fall any longer. MIDDLE: 1) Ladder, on Yom Kippur five or seven-rung referring to Jacob’s dream on Hoshanah Raba. 2) Grapes for Sukkos. 3) Torah scroll for Simchas Torah and Shavuos. BOTTOM: 1.) Ornament. 2) Fish for Purim. 3) Six-stranded challah with an extra vav (sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet) on top.
In Vienna, often four strands are braided to form a challah, but six became very popular as the two customary loaves for each meal made up a total of twelve strands representing the twelfth showbreads of the temple. There are two loaves for each meal because of the double portion of manna that fell from heaven and was bestowed upon the Jews in the morning before Shabbos so as not to make them work. They would then collect the manna on Shabbos itself.
More shapes from TOP, left to right: 1) Spiral or coil shape for the holidays from Rosh Hashanah to Hoshanah Raba. 2) Six-strand Magen David or Star of David challah. 3) Four-strand round Challah for the holidays from Rosh Hashanah to Hoshanah Raba. MIDDLE: 1) Challah from a traditional tin. 2) Magen David or Star of David challah. 3) Little bird for Yom Kippur as the sins should fly away like birds and for a vers from Yeshayahu (Isaiah) As hovering birds, so will the Lord of hosts shield Jerusalem. BOTTOM: 1) Knot 2) Bun 3) Roll.
Vienna was at the heart of the Western Yiddish region, and it is the resemblance of Yiddish’s “monn” (poppy seed) to the Yiddish pronunciation of “manna” that is at the root of the use of poppy seeds as topping for challah. French medieval Talmudic and biblical commentator, Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki (Rashi), held that manna somewhat looked like sesame, which is why there’s often sesame on a challah.
In some areas, it is also common to use saffron in challah because manna was yellow, though eggs fulfill the same purpose. For a classic challah recipe however, this would amount to eight ingredients together with flour, sugar, yeast, salt, water, eggs and oil — a highly undesirable number. Why this? According to The Haimische Kitchen, written by the pious Ladies’ Auxiliary of Nitra (Mount Kisco in New York) named after the city 60 miles northeast of Vienna from where they were murdered and chased during World War Two, a true challah recipe “includes seven ingredients, corresponding to the seven days of the week.” At this point, we should remember the many other challah traditions that were lost forever due to the annihilation of European Jewry.
Dough preparation, from TOP, left to right: 1) Sifting the flour into the liquid ingredients mixed with the yeast beforehand. 2) Combine everything with the salt. BOTTOM: 1) Mix for a couple of minutes. 2) Push and tear the dough, fold it over itself and give it a quarter turn. Repeat for two minutes.
Shaping the challah strands, from TOP, left to right: 1) Flatten the ball of dough with a rolling pin is the easiest and quickest way. 2) Roll it onto itself lengthwise. BOTTOM: 1) Seal the dough with your fingers. 2) Shape the strand by giving it slightly tapered ends.
Coincidentally, another major ingredient for challah, yeast, though used since the Egyptians, in its modern form is also a Jewish product that was first perfected in Vienna by Hungarian Charles Louis Fleischmann, before he moved to the United States. There, he founded the well-known consumer and industrial yeast brand Fleischmann’s Yeast.
Setup for braiding a six-strand challah: Form six dough balls per challah. Pinch all strands securely together and proceed with the setup as instructed in the illustration.
My wife demonstrating how to braid a six-strand challah Start top left till bottom right and repeat. Seal the ends by pinching and tucking the ends away under the challah. (With challah strand positions numbered from left to right: 5->1 & 6->4 then 2->6 & 1->3. Repeat.)
So we see that challah’s name and shape date back to the Viennese middle ages. But the real sweetness came to challah much later as an additional allusion to manna, which had originally tasted like honey when pounded into cakes. Sweetness became affordable with the industrial revolution, in fact, parallel to the Haskalah, the Jewish enlightenment (ca. 1770-1881). Around this time, sugar prices dropped due to its large-scale mechanical extraction: it no longer had to be imported, as it would now come from locally grown sugar beets.
One cannot but notice the synchronicity with enlightenment’s secularist push precisely when religious practices, like eating challah, had to become even more addictive to keep the pious flock at the table.
Very gently brush the risen challah with egg wash, then top with sesame and/or poppy seeds. If you wish, you can give it another egg wash midway through baking. Using an instant-read thermometer will give you optimum results each and every time. Remove your challah from the oven when the internal temperature reaches 195°F90°C.
With the big smile of one that just had deliciously sweet challah — meaning not overly sweet — I understand that the distinctive form of cultural Judaism, which is culinary Judaism, surely is a result of this fight between enlightenment and its reactionary antagonists. Challah is not only an expression of an actively practiced religious belief, or even the fond memory of a passing tradition; it’s also the expression of a living culinary culture.
This is how to form knots, individual buns, rolls or whatever you wanna call them in Yiddish… bulka, bilke, and so on.
And this is how I braid a typical Viennese high four-strand challah Start at the top left picture, continue towards bottom right, and repeat. Pinch ends and tuck them away under the challah. (With challah strand positions numbered from left to right: 4->2 & 1->3 then 2->3. Repeat.)
Traditionally, Jewish mothers would teach their daughters how to make the sweet braided bread. Even though some tend to romanticize a women’s role in the shtetl world, women were (typically) marginalized in areas like religion, family, work, education, culture, and political life. To this end, the act of setting aside the challah portion, together with the obligation to light the Shabbos and festival candles and keeping in-line with laws pertaining to menstruation, was seen as a punishment for the original sin, as an atonement for female disobedience in the garden of Eden (Genesis Rabbah 17:8). Hassidic ideas directed especially at women may obviously present things quite differently to their audience. It was a general trend to sacralize popular rituals, like bread-making for Shabbos and holidays, thus lending greater value to female religious rituals (see Encyclopedia Judaica on Women).
My wife’s installation for a talk in 2010 at studio Weiss in Bnei-Brak with parchment papers gathered from her friends (approx. 10ft x 13ft / 4m x 3m).
In our age and time, Jewish and non-Jewish crowds flock around bakers treated like gurus when they show how to make challah to a crowd of mostly newbies and those (re-)discovering their childhood memories and culinary heritage. Indeed, there’s a strong religious and rich cultural background to the tradition, which is all the more important as we remember the mass murder and destruction of European Jewry during World War Two. Keep in mind how this little Viennese historical overview of ours ends: Those few but lively challah bakers still left in the city of Vienna today are highly valued remnants of what used to be Europe’s third-largest Jewish community!
On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, you can add an extra spoonful of sugar and some raisins. (No need to soaked in rum or grape juice, on the contrary, as this would add extra moisture.) Add the raisins when forming a long single strand for the coil-shaped challah, just before you roll up the dough to form the strand.
Challah is beautiful! Many people, including myself, like them slightly burnt on top, שרוף (saroof). At many bakeries, these are usually the first to be sold.
Recipe: Classic Eggy Yeast Challah
Political and religious divides tend to get blurred when it comes to challah. Both secular and religious crowds have always been attracted by spots like the famous Maphiat Lender (מאפית לנדנר) in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood, or the fabulous Viznitz challah bakery (מאפיית ויז’ניץ) — worth every detour — in Tel Aviv’s suburb Bnei Brak. These places are all about classic and traditional challah, since no one flies home for the holidays eager to be the guinea pig for an updated recipe. But if you insist on innovation, you should definitely test out challah made by someone like Uri Scheft, the Denmark-bred and Lenôtre in Paris graduated cosmopolitan. His boutique bakery Lechamim has branches in Tel Aviv and even Manhattan. He also offers the classic challah he learned to love as a child.
A quick and easy recipe
In 2016, Uri Scheft shared this recipe in his book Breaking Breads. For the occasion, I retrofitted my classic technique, adapted and annotated Scheft’s recipe, and tested it countless times. The minimalist technique is a mixture of that of my wife’s and all the tricks and secrets we ever learned from moms, grandma’s, aunts and uncles of friends and friends of friends, to the Chernobyler rebbetzin’s and her mother’s and obviously all the great names from Claudia Roden and Joan Nathan, over Mark Bittman, Mollie Katzen back to Uri Scheft.
My wife makes a terrific whole grain spelt water challah she perfected together with her friend Blimi Spitzer a decade ago — more on that recipe another time. But for the moment, I want to stick with an ultra-classic though very simple recipe. Not to make this quick and easy recipe here for a delicious and very traditional braided eggy Jewish yeast challah simply is a sin.
Use a scale!
Many home cooks I know who make challah weekly for decades don’t really measure anything. They just take a bit of this and a pinch of that. Sometimes it comes out a bit stickier…so what? It’ll turn out fine anyway, believe you me! Because the most important part of challah making is the technique, the overall procedure. Here I’ve done my best to describe this foolproof process, which I tested for perfect results with absolute beginners. Do use a scale! And the metric system! It makes baking so much easier — and professional.
Double the batch and freeze it
I always make a double batch, as my stand mixer can take it in one go. And it’s worth noting that challah freezes perfectly. To defrost, simply put in a microwave on high for 30 seconds, then turn the loaf and continue on high for another 30 seconds until the center of the loaf is defrosted — use an instant read thermometer! Then place the loaf into a hot oven (345°-435°F/175-225°C) for a couple of minutes to crisp up the loaf quickly, and let cool on a rack. Some people even freeze sliced challah and then toast individual slices to defrost and toast them at the same time. You just have to add a bit of extra time to the regular toasting time to allow for the defrosting.
Classic challah (yields 2 loaves or 12 large rolls):
400g (1 2/3 cups) warm water
15g (1 tablespoon and 1 3/4 teaspoons) active dry yeast
or 40g (3 Tablespoons and 2 teaspoons) fresh yeast
114g (2 large) eggs
75g (5 tablespoons or 1/3 cup) canola or sunflower oil
100g (1/2 cup) granulated sugar
20g (1 1/3 tablespoon) fine salt (iodine free to avoid bitter taste)
1kg (7 cups) sifted all-purpose wheat flour (In Austria take “glatt Typ 700” / In Israel קמח לבן or קמח רב תכליתי)
more flour for shaping (optional)
raisins (optional for Rosh Hashanah)
1 large egg at room temperature
pinch of fine salt (iodine free to avoid bitter taste)
80g (2/3 cups) poppy seeds and/or sesame seeds
Heat the oven to 85-95°F/30-35°C.
Mix cool room temperature water with yeast.
Mix in the rest of the liquid ingredients.
Sift the flour with a sifter if you didn’t do it yet. (Weigh the flour as amounts indicated often include the weight of the packaging!)
Preferably use the dough hook of a stand mixer on low speed to add the flour
Immediately drizzle in salt.
Continue to combine everything for 2 minutes on low speed (don’t worry if it’s a little bit sticky).
On medium speed, knead the dough for no more than 5 minutes.
Take out of the mixing bowl onto a working surface. Again, don’t worry if the dough is a bit sticky and firm. If necessary, use a dough scraper to get the dough from the work surface.
Stretch and fold the dough over (see illustration above). Use your hands to push and tear the ball of dough, then fold it over itself and give the dough a quarter turn. Stretch fold and turn again for a couple of minutes if you can.
Make a ball out of the dough and put it back into the bowl.
Turn off the oven and place the bowl into it.
Let rise for 45 minutes, or until it has approximately doubled in size (You can raise the temperature of the oven to 105°F/40°C if you see that the dough still doesn’t rise enough after that time).
Divide the dough into as many balls as strands needed to braid (one for a spiral, six or four strands).
With a rolling pin, flatten a ball of dough. (If using raisins, scatter them on top of the piece of dough). Roll up the dough onto itself, then shape it into a strand which is slightly tapered at the ends.
Braid the challah (see illustration for six or four strands) and place on a baking sheet lined with a parchment paper. (For optimum results, use a perforated baking sheet in addition to a perforated baking matt.)
Let the braided loaves rise in the warm oven for another 45 minutes, or until they have about doubled in size again. To see if the dough has risen enough, press on it lightly with your finger. If the hole slowly fills in by no more than half, the dough is ready. If on the other hand, the hole fills in completely and quickly, the dough needs more time. If you press on it and the dough deflates, you have over-proofed it. (To remedy this, go back to step 14.)
Take the loaves from the oven and place in a draft-free free spot. Preheat the oven to 425°F/220°C (regular convection setting).
Prepare the egg wash by mixing everything together in a small bowl with a fork so as to create as few air bubbles as possible. Very gently brush the egg wash onto the loaves.
Sprinkle with sesame and/or poppy seeds. (If using both, start with sesame.)
Bake the loaves on the middle rack or if they don’t fit, divide onto two racks. After 15 minutes, change the position of the baking sheets so the bottom one is on top, and the top one is on the bottom. Continue to bake for another 10 minutes or until golden brown (or slightly burnt). Since baking times will vary depending on the size of the loaves, it’s best to use an instant-read thermometer: Remove the loaves from the oven when their internal temperature is just above 195°F/90°C.
Take them off the baking sheet and let them cool completely on a rack.
Shlissel challah for the first Shabbos after Pesach (Passover). when the manna stopped falling from heaven. Maybe sesame or poppy seeds are not that appropriate for the occasion after all… I never really know.
Challah 101 continued: Another classic is to bake your hallah in a traditional (non-stick) tin. The main advantage of using tins is that challos can get higher and one can put more loaves at once in the oven.
My proud daughter with her beautiful — and delicious — classic six-strand challah! She did cut the strip (the “vav”) with scissors to make this nice ornament. The long strip placed on top of the challah stands for the Hebrew letter “vav”, which has the numeric value six. Hence, the two shabbos loaves next to each other add up to twelve, which was the number of showbreads at the temple in Jerusalem.
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Nino (Shaya) Weiss-Loss
Hi, I'm Nino, an unbridled foodnik blogging from Vienna, the city of dreams and Sigmund Freud. I'm cooking up a therapy with recipes and stories from Viennese cuisine and its eclectic influences – Jewish, Italian, Hungarian, Bohemian... – with an armchair psychoanalytical twist. View all posts by Nino (Shaya) Weiss-Loss →
Nino Loss says:
Here you can see what craving for challah means. They didn’t get their share of challah for just eight days during Passover (This is Moitze Pesach):
The wonderful מאפית לנדנר in Jerusalem:
Bread in Jerusalem
Hi Nino!
I am just starting to nibble my way through your blog posts. What a treat! So much history — Jewish, Viennese or both — entwined with your writing. I really appreciate your thoroughness. Your conversational writing style is really easy to digest. I have already learned a lot. I usually follow Joan Nathan’s Challah recipe but now I am inspired to try yours.
A couple summers ago my daughter and I spent several days in Vienna. We felt such an absence of Jewish life but maybe we did not look in the right places. Naturally, we visited Berggasse 19. As my father was a psychoanalyst, this was a particularly meaningful stop for me. Even though Freud and his immediate family made it out, the remains of his Vienna home were a poignant reminder of what was lost during the Shoah.
Nino Shaya Loss-Weiss says:
Naomi, thank you so much for these kind words about my blog. You might want to subscribe to the automated notifications about new posts and important updates, as my articles appear very irregularly.
You are right about the almost complete absence of any sign of active Jewish life in Vienna. There’s a very small but lively community in what used to be the heart of Vienna’s Jewish neighborhood in the 2nd district. But even there signs of active life are hard to come by. But actually, Vienna as a whole is a trace of past Jewish presence. It is its Jewish inhabitants that shaped great parts of what Vienna is today – just think of the Ringstrasse, the coffeehouses, the arts and the music aso. – even though its inhabitants have chased and murdered its Jews.
You’re visit to Vienna must have been full of stark emotions. Next time you plan a trip, don’t forget to let me know!
I hope to see you around – at least virtually!
PS. If you try my challah recipe, let us know how it went!
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Ski Club of Manchester Late Summer Walk, Saturday Sept 14th 2013, Forest of Trawden Area
By Ian Harford
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"A toilet! But why's the entrance that keyhole shape?" asked someone. "Was it a reminder to guests on the way in to hold their legs together, or simply to keep the animals out?" We never got a definitive answer though the curators of the site had suggested that the nook beside the giant mediaeval hearth might have been for food storage, cloak hanging or even wig powdering!
SCoM walks aren't always what you expect, which is why they attract people of an enquiring mind. Dave and Vanessa Miller had decided it was time for a change from walks in Cheshire, Derbyshire and Manchester. Now it was to be Lancashire's turn with a weekend visit to the Forest of Trawden and the fells behind Colne. Just over an hour's run on the motorway from Manchester, the Saturday walk was to show just how much we had been missing. The Sunday walk was another matter! See later.
A good car park awaited us about half a mile from the medieval village of Wycoller, which was to be our first port of call. Bought by Colne Corporation in 1896, this delightful valley and village was scheduled for flooding - like Thirlmere in 1894 in the Lake District - but a reprieve was given when a borehole was found instead. In the 1970s Wycoller was bought by the Department of the Environment and became a country park and nature reserve.
Just recently a Friends Group has been set up to raise grants to support a scheme for visitors and provide volunteers to maintain the area with its range of fascinating buildings. These include cottages, barns, clapper bridges and the half ruined manor hall, where the alleged wig powdering took place!
After a short stay looking round the site, our group of eleven plus a dog set off past the old packhorse bridge in a south westerly direction, climbing gently past a few houses and across open fields with wide views. The weather was as good as the forecasts had predicted with plenty of sun and blue skies.
We soon hit the small country lane running SE from the village of Trawden and had to avoid just one vehicle - the small red PO van delivering letters to this far flung community of sheep farmers and second home owners. Vanessa and I wondered if their letters would still cost the same to be delivered as mine in a busy street in Manchester, when the Royal Mail is sold off by the Government next month.
After about 90 minutes we were up on the track, running NE to SW above Gilford Clough, with just one final push to our lunch time destination, Lad Law (517 m) and Boulsworth Hill. The 360 degree views from the top were stunning and experts from the group suggested increasingly far flung sitings of hill tops, stone monuments and cooling towers. Ingleborough, Whernside to the north and Kinder Scout in Derbyshire were certain but the jury was out on whether we could see the Howgills in Cumbria as well.
With lunch over and Dolly satisfied with a good few leftovers from the sandwiches, we were off again at a fast cruising pace set by Dave. Picking up the track at Spoutley Lumb, we now descended the delightful Turnhole Clough, its sides bedecked with berry rich rowan trees and blackberries waiting for the adventurous. Soon we were picking up the beck from Smithy Clough, which later becomes Wycoller Beck. Two old clapper bridges, made with just one stone slab to cross the stream, kept the whole group marvelling for a good ten minutes at this early method of bridge building.
We were now in reach of Wycoller again and all settled down after a 7.5 mile walk to cups of tea and slices of lemon drizzle cake at the local cafe. It had been a great day, with great company.
When you have read this article, why not write to me (i.harford33@scom.org.uk) and tell me if you would like to be reminded about the next walking trip we organise for SCoM members? You will not regret it!
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We are holding a Community Gathering and Celebration in memory and honor of Joanna Fraguli. Please save the date. The gathering will include a program and reception with more details to follow as the program is developed.
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The School of Architecture will cap off an exciting academic year with thesis reviews, the Thesis Prize Jury competition and an exhibition of student work.
Thesis Reviews
On Monday and Tuesday, April 22-23, the school will host its annual final thesis reviews. Students, faculty and staff are invited to Slocum Hall to watch as Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) and Master of Architecture (MArch) degree candidates present their final thesis projects to a group of Syracuse Architecture faculty reviewers.
Both the BArch and MArch professional degree programs culminate with thesis projects. Working as individuals or in collaborative teams, students pursue research and design with an advisory group of faculty on topics related to their expertise.
The thesis year is an opportunity for students to synthesize the varied aspects of the curriculum in ways that focus on particular issues or opportunities in the field, allowing them to explore architectural knowledge and practice in a deeper and more complex way than occurs in their prior design studios or other courses.
“As emerging architects and overall design professionals, (thesis is a) rite of passage for finding our own voice within the professional world and in our projects to come,” says Nathalie Brock, 2019 MArch candidate.
For nearly four decades, hundreds of theses have been presented at Syracuse Architecture covering topics that are as varied as the interests of the students and the faculty, and that engage the most compelling ideas at that time. Students are encouraged to focus on issues they’re passionate about, that nourish them intellectually and that situate them to make unique contributions to the discipline.
“It’s a great way to end an academic career, because you’ve taken all that you’ve been studying and learning for three or five years and built it into that project that helps transition you into what you want to do with your career,” says Brian Lonsway, associate professor and graduate chair at Syracuse Architecture.
Through a combination of research and creative exploration, students develop a question, conduct research across multiple disciplines and produce an impressive amount of design work, ranging from sketches to digital models to material studies, scale models, sophisticated renderings and writing.
“I focused on trying to organize my project around tangible trends in practice and the academic discourse in architecture,” says Kokeith Perry II, 2019 BArch candidate.
At the final reviews, which are open to the public, the projects are presented to a group of faculty who critique their work and vote on its merits for inclusion in the Thesis Prize Jury.
“You become an expert at something…you are able to name that Thesis—it’s a contribution to the larger field,” says Jennifer Bonner, director of MALL and assistant professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
The full schedule of thesis presentations can be found at soa.syr.edu/calendar.
Thesis Prize Jury
The annual Thesis Prize Jury competition will be held on Friday, May 3, in Slocum Hall. A select group of undergraduate and graduate students from the Class of 2019 will present their theses before a panel of guest jurors and Syracuse Architecture faculty.
Guest jurors:
Joe Day teaches design and theory at SCI-Arc and is a partner at Deegan Day Design, Los Angeles.
Jia Gu is director and curator at Materials & Applications, Los Angeles, and co-director of Spinagu.
Nina-Marie Lister is associate professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University and founding principal of PLANDFORM.
Maxi Spina teaches design at SCI-Arc and is co-director of Spinagu.
Brittany Utting teaches at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and is co-founder of the design collaborative HOME-OFFICE.
Gretchen Wilkins is head of the Architecture Department and architect-in-residence at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Students who participate in the Thesis Prize Jury event compete for awards that will be announced at the 2019 convocation ceremony—the Dean’s Thesis Citations and James A. Britton Memorial Awards. This year’s Brittons will include the Jury Prize, Faculty Prize and Best Thesis.
The Thesis Prize Jury event is open to the public. Presentations will take place from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in Slocum Auditorium. There will be an opportunity to view projects throughout Slocum Hall from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., followed by a panel discussion with the jurors from 1 to 2 p.m.
‘Shelf Life’ Exhibition
In addition to Thesis Prize Jury, the School of Architecture will host an end-of-year exhibition titled “Shelf Life” that’s a collaborative production of the entire class of 2019 thesis students.
This year’s “Shelf Life” is the third version of a framework for students to playfully collect and assemble a range of objects that can convey or display the interests that have motivated their thesis investigations, or been produced along the way. The final form of this year’s exhibition is a large-scale video projection that combines and compares those objects in a dynamic and dramatic way.
“It celebrates a key transitional moment in the lives of the students and the importance of thesis to that transition, when they are moving into the first stages of their professional careers and, hopefully, will continue to pursue their thesis interests in exciting ways,” says Professor Mark Linder, “Shelf Life” co-curator and thesis director at Syracuse Architecture.
“Shelf Life” opens at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, in the Visiting Critics Studio on the first floor of Slocum Hall and will remain open to the public as part of the reception that immediately follows Syracuse Architecture’s 2019 convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 11.
David Shanks Faculty
David Shanks Assistant Professor; Director of the Architecture Program, Syracuse University in Florence drshanks@syr.edu Florence 315-443-5092
David Freeland Critic
Spring 2019 David Freeland
Matthew Celmer Faculty
Matthew Celmer Assistant Teaching Professor mcelmer@syr.edu 308F Slocum
Lori Brown Faculty
Lori Brown Professor lbrown04@syr.edu 324E Slocum 315-443-0297
Mitesh Dixit Faculty
Mitesh Dixit Assistant Professor mdixit@syr.edu 308D Slocum
Malkit Shoshan Critic
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Benjamin Vanmuysen Named Harry der Boghosian Fellow for 2019–20 News
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By contributor on September 22, 2015 Blog, San Diego Attractions, San Diego Entertainment, San Diego Events, San Diego Museums, San Diego Nightlife, San Diego Restaurants, San Diego Shopping, San Diego Sports, San Diego Theater, SD, SoCal Events, SoCal Things To Do
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Fashion Week San Diego
From fashion, film and aerial acrobatics, to Halloween and Oktoberfest celebrations, its a lively month in America’s Finest City. Check out our roundup of 28 things to do in San Diego this October that you don’t want to miss.
Kids Free in October
Oct. 1-31. The San Diego Museum Council hosts Kids Free in October where children ages 12 and under can explore over 40 museums in San Diego, including most of the Balboa Park favorites, USS Midway Museum, Birch Aquarium, The New Children’s Museum and many more. Various locations. 619.276.0101. sandiegomuseumcouncil.org
Haunted Trail
Through Nov. 1. No ordinary walk in the park, this mile-long scary trail features spine-tingling and shriek-inducing sights (not suitable for kids under 10), as well as an additional terrifying maze called The Experiment. Balboa Park, San Diego, 619.696.7227. hauntedtrail.net
San Diego Film Festival
Through Oct. 4. The film festival showcases more than 100 independent feature films, documentaries and shorts from around the world. Also enjoy filmmaker meet-and-greets, industry panels, film premieres, celebrity appearances and exclusive VIP events. Various locations, sdfilmfest.com
Oct. 1-4. Showcasing local and national designers, this fashion-forward event features art and beauty forums, after parties, runway shows, a trunk show, awards ceremony and live entertainment. La Valencia Hotel, 1132 Prospect St., La Jolla, fashionweeksd.com
MCAS Miramar Air Show
Oct. 2-4. Enjoy flight performances, parachute demonstrations, aerial acrobatics and more by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, Golden Knights, Leap Frogs, and others. Miramar Way, Miramar Mesa, 858.577.6000. miramarairshow.com
Oktoberfest La Mesa
Oct. 2-4. Be one of 200,000 expected revelers at the annual celebration—the largest of its kind west of the Mississippi. Expect more than 300 vendors, beer gardens, food courts and a kiddie carnival that fill 10 city blocks. La Mesa Blvd., between Acacia and Fourth avenues, 619.465.7700. lamesachamber.net
Rise of the Jack O’ Lanterns
Oct. 2-25. Fridays through Sundays, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park lights up the night with more than 5,000 hand-carved illuminated jack-o-‘lanterns created by professional artists and sculptors. Animal lovers will enjoy larger-than-life animal themes, a 50-foot-long dragon, and giant 100 pound pumpkins. 15500 San Pasqual Valley Rd., Escondido, 760.747.8702. sdzsafaripark.org
Maker Faire San Diego
Oct. 3-4. Balboa Park hosts the Maker Faire San Diego, a celebration of arts, crafts, technology, food, music, science and projects with the Do-it-Yourself mindset. Balboa Park. sdmakerfaire.org
Pacific Beachfest
Oct. 3. Enjoy volleyball and surf contests, live music, beer garden,local shopping the kids action alley and the best of the beach fish taco contest at the 18th annual event. Pacific Beach. pacificbeachfest.org
Carlsbad Oktoberfest
Oct. 3. San Diego’s longest running Oktoberfest celebration continues with fine craft and domestic beers, authentic German meals, costume contests, music and more. Holiday Park, Chestnut Ave., Carlsbad. rotaryoktoberfest.org
Ocean Beach Oktoberfest
Oct. 9-10. Live bands, bratwurst-eating and stein-holding contests, a sausage toss and more take over Ocean Beach’s Newport Ave. Ocean Beach, 619.224.4906. oceanbeachsandiego.com
CRSSD Festival
Oct. 10-11. The two-day electronic music festival returns to the San Diego Waterfront Park featuring three stages and more than 36 performers. Also enjoy craft beer, mixed drinks, food and more. 1600 Pacific Hwy., San Diego Marina, crssdfest.com
La Jolla Art & Wine Festival
Oct. 10-11. View works by 150 artists, while you enjoy live entertainment, a silent auction, gourmet market-place and beer and wine garden. The annual juried art show benefits arts and physical education programs at local schools. Girard Ave., between Prospect Ave. and Torrey Pines St., La Jolla, ljawf.com
Little Italy Festa
Oct. 11. Celebrate Italian heritage and cuisine at the largest Italian-American festival on the West Coast. Festivities include cooking demos, three stages of live entertainment, a Kids Fun Zone and more. India St., between Ash and Grape streets, Little Italy, 619.615.1092. littleitalysd.com
Taste of North Park
Oct. 17. Stroll though the trendy boutiques and galleries of downtown North Park and taste the best of the neighborhood while shopping. Enjoy food from over 30 of North Park’s finest restaurants and beer from 10 local craft breweries from served in participating storefronts. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.Various locations, North Park, tastenorthpark.com
Stone Pour it Black
Oct. 18. Stone Brewery’s Stone Pour It Black beer festival features more than 100 of the deepest, darkest brews gathered locally and internationally. Sip 15 3-ounce tasters with over 100 beers to choose from and a commemorative glass. $49/pp. Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens, 1999 Citracado Pkwy., Escondido, 760.294.7899. brownpapertickets.com
Children’s Discovery Museum Fall Family Festival
Oct. 25. Offering fun for the entire family, the Children’s Discovery Museum hosts the 5th annual Fall Family Festival with pumpkin carving, street fair and food vendors, live music, petting zoo and more. 320 North Broadway, Escondido, sdcdm.org
Chef Showdown
Oct. 29. Attendees get up close and personal with 10 of San Diego’s top chefs and mixologists at the 11th annual Chef Showdown as they battle to create five over-the-top culinary creations with exquisitely paired cocktails. Tickets include free-flowing cocktails, food from over 20 participating restaurants and more. 5:30-9 p.m. The Port Pavilion at Broadway Pier, 1000 North Harbor Dr., ccssd.ejoinme.org
Del Mar Racing
Oct. 29-Nov. 29. The fall “Bing Meet” features thoroughbred racing four days a week (Thurs-Sun). Post time is 12:30 p.m. Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar, 858.755.1141. dmtc.com
Hallo-wine and Spirits Party at Hotel del Coronado
Oct. 30. San Diego’s famous haunted hotel presents the 6th annual Hallo-wine & Spirits Party with costumes, spooky surroundings, great eats, wines and dancing. Keep an eye out for the resident ghost, Kate Morgan. Dinner reception begins at 7 p.m. and the dance party goes from 9 p.m.-12 a.m. $150/pp. Hotel del Coronado, 1500 Orange Ave., Coronado, 619.522.8490. hoteldel.com
Oct. 31. The annual festive street party features live bands, DJs and a costume contest. Gaslamp Quarter, 619.233.5008. sandiegomonsterbash.com
My Mañana Comes
Oct. 1-25. Four busboys working in a New York restaurant struggle to make ends meet in this humorous and haunting story about sacrifice and survival in pursuit of the American Dream. San Diego Rep, Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, downtown, 619.544.1000. sdrep.org
Oct. 7-18. Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical has been hailed by critics as “bigger and better than ever before,” featuring new special effects, scenic and lighting designs and staging and choreography. 1100 Third St., downtown, 619.564.3000. broadwaysd.com
Oct. 9-Nov. 15. Based on L. Frank Baum’s classic tale, this new adaptation illuminates the book’s darker corners and brings to light its romance, humor and adventure with a thrilling new score. Lamb’s Players Theatre, 1142 Orange Ave., Coronado, 619.437.6000. lambsplayers.org
Chapatti
Oct. 21-Nov. 15. Two lonely animal-lovers in Dublin cross paths and develop an unexpected spark in this heartwarming second-chance romantic comedy. North Coast Repertory Theatre, 987-D Lomas Santa Fe Dr., Solana Beach, 858.481.1055. northcoastrep.org
Shaping Sound
Oct. 22. Enjoy a mash-up of dance styles and musical genres brought to life on stage by a company of contemporary dancers who rose to fame on So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With The Stars. California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido, 800.988.4253. artcenter.org
MOMIX: Alchemia
Oct. 24. MOMIX, the inventive company of dancer-illusionists, will present Alchemia, a multimedia spectacle exploring themes of invention, beauty, sensuality and humor. California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido, 800.988.4253. artcenter.org
The California Ballet Performs The Great Gatsby
Oct. 23-25. Return to the splendor of the Jazz Age and the frivolity of the Roaring Twenties as Septime Webre’s choreography tells the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous tale, The Great Gatsby. San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., downtown. 619.570.1100. sandiegotheatres.org
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South Pasadena News
Announcing Pasadena Playhouse’s Playhouse Celebrity Game Night: Speed Charades Players to include John C. Reilly, Jane Kaczmarek, Simon Helberg, Alfred Molina, Matthew Lillard, and more!
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A hilarious competition where celebrity teams go head-to-head and battle it out in a fierce and fun game of speed charades. Benefits the programs of Pasadena Playhouse. Monday, June 10, 2019 Red Carpet at 6:00pm
Pasadena Playhouse, State Theatre of California, announces Playhouse Celebrity Game Night: Speed Charades, a hilarious competition where celebrity teams go head-to-head and battle it out in a fierce and fun game of speed charades benefiting the programs of the Pasadena Playhouse. Players for the Monday, June 10 fundraiser will include John C. Reilly, Jane Kaczmarek, Alfred Molina, Simon Helberg, Matthew Lillard, Melora Hardin, Jason George, Cynthia Rowley, and more.
The event, at Pasadena Playhouse, begins at 6:00pm with a Red Carpet Arrival and Backstage Party, followed by Speed Charades at 7:30, and an After Party to follow.
For an up to date list of celebrity guests visit pasadenaplayhouse.org/gamenight. Please note that celebrity players are based on continuing availability, cast subject to change.
Tickets to the event include a variety of benefits including an after party with attendees and start at $250. Proceeds benefit all Pasadena Playhouse programs including our education and outreach initiatives. To book tickets or make a contribution, visit pasadenaplayhouse.org, or contact Becky Birdsong at 626-204-7383 or gamenight@pasadenaplayhouse.org.
About Pasadena Playhouse Pasadena Playhouse is a place where people have gathered for 100 years to experience bold and important theater. It is one of the most prolific theaters in American history with a legacy of profound theatrical impact and courageous new work. In 1937, the Playhouse was officially recognized as the State Theater of California for its contribution and commitment to the dramatic arts. Today it continues that tradition of excellence under the helm of producing artistic director Danny Feldman. Dedicated to enriching lives through theater, community programs and learning initiatives, Pasadena Playhouse is a living force in the community.
For more information, please visit www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/
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On 30 January 2006 the Captain of an Airbus A319 inadvertently lined up and commenced a night rolling take off from Las Vegas on the runway shoulder instead of the runway centreline despite the existence of an illuminated lead on line to the centre of the runway from the taxiway access used. The aircraft was realigned at speed and the take off was completed. ATC were not advised and broken edge light debris presented a potential hazard to other aircraft until eventually found. The Investigation found that other similar events on the same runway had not been reported at all.
On Ground - Normal Visibility
AIRBUS A-319
Las Vegas McCarren International
Montreal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
Actual Destination
Event reporting non compliant
Distraction,
Procedural non compliance,
Ineffective Monitoring - PIC as PF
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.,
Continued Take Off
Non-aircraft damage
Causal Factor Group(s)
Aircraft Operation,
Airport Operation
Safety Recommendation(s)
None Made
Misaligned Takeoff
On 30 January 2006, an Airbus AIRBUS A-319 (C-FKKR) being operated by Air Canada on a scheduled passenger flight from Las Vegas to Montréal as AC 596 commenced take off in normal night visibility on the shoulder of the runway instead of on the centreline before correcting at speed and completing the take off. ATC were not advised and the debris from three broken runway edge lights was not discovered. The first information aboutf the occurrence was sent to the Operator by ACARS two hours after take off. Minor NLG tyre damage was found after flight.
The Investigation was delegated by the National Transportation Safety Board (USA) (NTSB) to the Canadian Transport Safety Board (TSB). The Operator removed and downloaded the aircraft DFDR and sent the data to the TSB. Relevant CVR data was overwritten.
It was noted that the Captain, who had been PF for the flight, had accumulated approximately 11,000 total flying hours which included about 3000 hours on A320 series aircraft split equally between time as Captain and time as Co-Pilot. The First Officer had accumulated a total of approximately 10,500 total flying hours which included about 1900 hours on the type variant involved.
It was established that the aircraft had been taxied onto departure runway 25R at the full length from taxiway B in accordance with clearance (see diagram below). The green taxiway centreline lights continued past the runway holding point along the curved taxiway centreline across the white runway edge line until they reached the runway centreline. It was noted that the runway did not have centreline lights, just white centreline markings which followed an initial 425 metres of displaced threshold arrows at the beginning. Runway edge lights were white except for those on the displaced threshold section between taxiways B and A2 which were red in the take-off direction. All edge lights except those in the taxiway merge areas were raised. A rolling take off had been made. During the initial stages of the takeoff the pilot was initially unaware of the misalignment because he was "scanning the airspeed and the engine instruments" without also (as also required by SOPs) "observing that the aircraft is on the runway centreline when the thrust levers are advanced and the take-off phase is activated".
After completing this internal scan, the First Officer reported that he "looked outside and saw a red light in front of the aircraft (and) realised that the aircraft was not on the runway centreline". He informed the Captain "who had already started to correct to the left". DFDR data showed that this change of direction "corresponded to a six-degree heading correction and was made approximately 11 seconds into the take-off run at a speed of 64 knots". At the beginning of this corrective action, the aircraft had been approximately 245 metres from the runway threshold, approximately 9 metres to the right of the runway edge lights and approximately 35 metres feet right of the centreline of the 45 metre-wide runway.
During the initial take-off roll, the pilots reported that they had "felt a sensation similar to the aircraft going over pavement joints (which) was considered unremarkable". The aircraft was found to have "regained the runway surface" in the vicinity of the displaced threshold markings, at which point, it had been accelerating through 113 KCAS.
Runway 25R threshold markings - Reproduced from the Official Report
It was noted that continuity of the white runway surface edge line at taxiway intersections was in accordance with the applicable FAA AC150/5340-1 and Volume 1 of ICAO Annex 14 Volume 1 Aerodrome Design and Operations but contrary to Canadian practice which includes introducing breaks in these lines at such intersections. It was also noted that the runway shoulders of the incident runway had been constructed so as to be "capable of supporting an aircraft if it runs off the side of the runway".
It was noted that at night, Denver taxiway and runway lighting was usually kept at 'stage two' intensity out of a possible five stages unless otherwise requested and was at this level at the time of the investigated event. All the green taxi centreline and lead-on lights were found to have been functioning normally and, in the absence of overwritten CVR data, the Investigation was unable to establish why this continuous line of lights onto the centreline "did not catch the flight crew’s attention". It was concluded that there was "no other adjacent lighting conditions that could give the erroneous perception that the right (north) runway edge line and lights could be the runway centreline".
The failure to reject the take off once the misalignment had been recognised and the subsequent failure to promptly inform ATC of the possible presence of FOD on the runway were considered. In respect of the former, the Captain's absolute discretion to reject or continue take off in the event of an abnormal situation occurring at low speed was noted, although the associated requirement that if a "condition or situation that may affect the safety of flight is observed, it will immediately be voiced (and) if a rejected take-off is not required, the Captain will call 'continue' ” which was not reported to have occurred. In respect of the latter, it was considered that it would have been "appropriate" to inform ATC.
It was found that neither of the pilots were frequent users of Denver - it was the Captain's second night departure and the First Officer's first departure from the airport. It was noted that having been instructed by ATC to maintain visual contact with the aircraft departing ahead, this may have had the effect of reducing the attention given by the Captain to ground visual aids whilst aligning the aircraft for take-off. It was considered "likely that the Captain relied on peripheral vision to align the aircraft and may have perceived the white runway side stripe marking, which intersected the taxiway centreline, as the runway centreline marking (which) would explain why the aircraft was initially aligned to the right of the right runway edge lights".
It was noted that there had been three very similar previously documented (but not investigated) events in January/February 2006 during which unidentified aircraft damaged the runway 25R edge lights at night and that there had been another since the event under investigation. These other events were not reported and thus had only been discovered during routine runway/taxiway inspections so that as with the late reporting of the investigated event, prior to debris discovery, other aircraft were at risk of damage.
The formal statement of Causes and Contributory Factors was as follows:
"The Pilot Flying likely relied on peripheral vision to taxi the aircraft because of the requirement to maintain separation with the aircraft departing ahead. This, combined with the aerodrome markings, resulted in the misalignment of the aircraft and the initiation of the take-off from the asphalt runway shoulder instead of the runway centreline."
Three Findings as to Risk were also identified as follows:
(1) A rolling take-off reduces the crew’s time for conducting a thorough outside visual check and verifying runway alignment before initiating the take-off roll.
(2) Taxiways B1 and A2 centrelines curve onto the runway edge line. At night, this could result in pilots aligning their aircraft with the runway side stripe marking instead of with the runway centreline.
(3) This occurrence was reported to company dispatch and air traffic services two hours after the event. During that time, debris left by the broken lights could have posed a hazard for other aircraft using Runway 25R.
Finally it was formally documented as an Other Finding that "the other three similar events that happened on Runway 25R at Las Vegas were not reported (and) failure to declare such events deprives investigators of important data that could help to identify the contributing factors that lead to this type of event".
Safety Action taken by the Las Vegas Airport Authority as a result of the investigated event was noted to have included modifications to taxiway markings at the threshold of runway 25R as follows:
at taxiway B1, the radius of the taxiway centreline was extended past the runway edge line to meet the runway centreline in the displaced threshold arrow area.
at taxiway A2, the radius of the taxiway centreline that curves to the runway edge line was erased, and the taxiway centreline now extends to the threshold markings.
However, these actions only had the effect of standardising the taxi lines onto the runway at these two points with the one that was already in place at the taxiway used by the incident aircraft at the time it was misaligned and so were actions not derived directly from the circumstances of the investigated event or directed at the prevention of an identical occurrence.
The Final Report of the Investigation was authorised for release on 1 February 2007 and such action followed. No Safety Recommendations were made.
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sketching a story
Growing up with the Daily Treat
FAMILY, FOOD & DRINK, LIFE
I don’t remember the first time I stepped foot in the Daily Treat.
I was young enough, actually, that my parents probably carried me into the restaurant, young enough that I didn’t eat but slept quietly at their side. I’m guessing I was about two weeks old.
My parents have loved the Daily Treat since before I was born.
Back in 1987, over sandwiches and salads with the real estate broker, they discussed their future in this quaint commuter town right outside of Manhattan. I think the charm of the restaurant drew my mom to Ridgewood, a place where she knew no one and would be alone most nights while my dad worked long hours at a nearby hospital. She was 24.
Photo: dailytreatrestaurant.com
Looking through the Daily Treat’s large windows facing Ridgewood Avenue, my mom watched young mothers with strollers walking by. Even though the rest of her family lived on Long Island, where she grew up, she began to picture a new life in New Jersey. In a way, my history with the restaurant began right then.
The Daily Treat has been around for more than 50 years and is a constant in a village that’s constantly changing. As newer, hipper restaurants and shops have moved to town, the Daily Treat has stayed put. For me, it’s a place of comfort. I always order the same thing: eggs and toast or chicken fingers with thick-cut fries. I know when I walk in I’ll see one of the Greek owners, Gus or John, standing behind the checkout desk, greeting customers at the door.
It’s funny how places, just like people, can be there for every milestone of your life.
The Daily Treat was where we’d go with both sets of grandparents after concerts, dance recitals and graduations. It’s where my brother and I complained about ordering off the kids menu and then insisted on ordering off the kids menu, as soon as we were too old.
Photo: Foursquare
In the sixth grade, the Daily Treat was the first place my friend Jolene and I went “alone”. We dressed up in our best Abercrombie & Fitch outfits, packed our faux leather purses and smeared on lip gloss before walking the half mile to town. I remember the sense of independence we felt going to a restaurant without parents. To us, this was the first step to being grown up.
In high school, the Daily Treat was a respite from the stress of exams and too many extracurriculars. I’d go with large groups, either during an extended lunch or straight after school. I remember seeing groups of middle schoolers and thinking about how young they looked. Do these kids even know how to split a bill? How are they here alone? At some point it occurred to me that we used to be just like them, a giggling gang of sixth grade girls sharing a couple orders of fries. Looking back, I’m surprised the owners tolerated us.
I spent my college years in Indiana and a summer out in Toledo, Ohio, where I was a reporter for a local paper. My job took me across cornfields and through downtrodden Midwest towns where the sense of decay was palpable. I was lonely – most of my friends were interning in New York City that summer – but while on assignment I found comfort at diners that reminded me of Daily Treat, diners that reminded me of home.
Photo: Dave D., Yelp.com
I still go back to the restaurant a few times a year – it’s where my childhood friend Laura and I catch up when we’re both in town. The place hasn’t changed much, though they now have al fresco dining and fancier-sounding menu items like Grilled Portobello Salad and Prosciutto Caprese Wrap. Over refill after refill of coffee we talk about our jobs, relationships and families. Sometimes we stay for three hours but no one ever rushes us, interrupting only to pour more coffee into the small white mugs.
It’s strange to think I’m already a year older than my mom was when she and Dad settled down in Ridgewood, yet I’m nowhere near as settled. Sometimes, when I’m at the Daily Treat I can almost see my parents sitting at the booth by the window, leaning into their drinks and one another other, exhilarated by the thought of starting their life together in this pretty village outside of New York City. Wondering how long it takes to thread yourself into the fabric of a community, how long it takes to call a place home.
Read more about the Daily Treat and its history here.
April 3, 2016 July 9, 2016 Sara F. Tagged coffee, diners, drink, food, friends, new jersey, restaurants, Ridgewood 2 Comments
Finding hope
PHOTOGRAPHY, PUBLISHED WORK
A Syrian refugee giving back. A child dancing after a devastating earthquake. A love-struck couple marrying after their village in Nigeria was attacked. Check out my new photo essay for UNICEF that proves hope and resilience prevail, even in the most trying of times.
February 28, 2016 March 1, 2016 Sara F. Tagged Hope, refugees, resilience, UNICEF 1 Comment
Calling Yaya
CREATIVE WRITING, FAMILY, LIFE, PUBLISHED WORK
This essay was awarded honorable mention in Notre Dame Magazine’s 2015 Young Alumni Essay Contest. It was originally published at magazine.nd.edu.
Everyone on Dallas Avenue knew Yaya’s high-pitched cackle.
My grandfather would walk home from the train station each night and hear her laugh from a block away. That’s Dorothy, he’d think to himself. She was usually on the phone. She was usually telling a story.
The phone connected Yaya to everyone she wanted to talk to and everywhere she needed to be. Even before coffee, the first thing she’d do each morning was roll over and check her stocks by punching in numbers. She wore out three keypads in just a few years of checking and trading those stocks. And she made my grandfather buy 25-foot-long cords for all phones in the house so she could chat away from absolutely anywhere.
From an early age I loved talking on the phone with Yaya and begged her to tell me the stories I knew and loved. Like the time in high school the nuns caught her smoking in the bathroom, so she filled her mouth with powdered soap to mask the smell but ended up with foam bubbling out of her mouth as she explained herself to the principal. Those stories reached a level of pure absurdity it seemed only Yaya could concoct.
We had serious conversations, too, she lying on her bed in Long Island, me on mine in New Jersey. One summer when I was around 13, a girl my age died in a tragic jet-skiing accident. A few of my friends knew her, and her death deeply affected me. I spent the night writing a poem for the girl and read it to Yaya, and then we talked about death and dying until our conversation slowed to a standstill. She was always straightforward about the topic, saying “when I die” or “will you do this for me when I’m gone, baby?” as if it were inevitable. I always hushed her and changed the subject.
I was 17 when Yaya passed. It was obvious her health was deteriorating. Months earlier she’d stopped dyeing her hair that signature red, a sign of defeat too painful for me to admit. Her weight had dropped below 100 pounds, her bones were brittle and her spine was collapsing inch by inch. Despite all this, her death felt sudden because I never got to say good-bye.
She died in February, the coldest part of winter. My younger sisters cried in my bed, not understanding how a person goes from being here to being gone. I thought I was old enough, mature enough, to understand her death and help my siblings properly mourn. But 17 wasn’t old at all, and since emerging on the other side of college and moving to New York City I’ve started missing her in a new way.
Yaya was a city girl, a trait that skipped a generation and landed on me. Papa often tells the story of their 1970s summer house in Greenport, Long Island, where Yaya stayed inside all day, depressed. The town was too quiet and the nearest phone was a quarter mile away. Papa says she’d press her face to the window, longingly watching car lights pass on the main road — the closest sign to civilization. All night she’d gaze at those lights, smoking her cigarettes in silence.
My grandmother needed to be around people. The house had been her idea, but within a decade they sold it.
Yaya grew up in the 1930s and ’40s in the South Bronx Irish tenements, the daughter of first-generation Irish immigrants. When she was 14 her father died suddenly of appendicitis. So her mother took a job as a housemaid at the Waldorf Astoria and moved the family out to Pelham Bay.
Yaya’s father, who’d been a carpet salesman at the flagship Macy’s store in Midtown, instilled in her a strong work ethic and sense of pride in being busy. In her 20s, she was the secretary to a high-powered lawyer at General Motors. Yaya loved showing up to the big building on Broadway, working for the big shots and going out to lunch with the other girls for special occasions. They’d pick a fancy spot like the Russian Tea Room, Tavern on the Green or an Italian place called Patsy’s that Frank Sinatra used to frequent. Birthdays and engagements never went uncelebrated.
Yaya was just around my age when she worked for GM. Even though she never told me about her 20s in Manhattan — maybe she thought I was too young — little things around the city remind me of her. My favorite photograph was taken at the Copacabana nightclub, shortly after Papa proposed to Yaya in 1959. Every time I pass the Copacabana in Times Square I think of the original Upper East Side club and my grandparents at a table inside, looking so glamorous and in love. I have the photograph saved in my phone so I can pull it up and imagine how she’d tell me the story.
My phone can tell me all about the Copacabana’s history, play videos from the nightclub’s heyday, even show me my very last email from Dorothy Coyne. But for all it’s capable of, it can’t connect me to her.
Seven years since Yaya died, I still can’t get past the urge to call her. Sometimes I feel like the helpless 5-year-old who would erupt into tears when my grandparents left after a weekend visit. I’d sit sullenly on our stoop, eyes watering as their car backed out of the driveway and escaped at 60 miles per hour down the highway.
Then I’d go back inside and wait for the phone to ring.
January 14, 2016 February 3, 2017 Sara F. Tagged Grandmothers, Grandparents, new york city, Personal Essay 7 Comments
Growing up with Chrismukkah
FAMILY, LIFE
We do both.
Yes, Christmas and Hanukkah. Trees and Menorahs. Candy canes and latkes. Come to my house in mid-December and we’ll have it all.
My mom is Catholic, my dad is Jewish and they raised my three siblings and I in both religions. Growing up, we sometimes resented the five hours each week of Hebrew School and Catholic education (CCD), but had no problem embracing our dual faith when the holidays rolled around.
Classmates over for playdates would notice the Star of David ornament hanging on our Christmas tree. What do you mean you celebrate both holidays? Does that mean you get double the gifts?
A few times I said “yes” to make them jealous. But the truth is, my parents realized double gifting was absurd after about a year. Christmas became our primary gift-giving holiday – an explosion of presents beneath the tree – while Hanukkah was about coming together as a family to honor the Jewish tradition.
Gifts aside, being a mixed faith family during the holidays meant celebrations start earlier and last longer. Occasionally, the two holidays overlapped and we’d light Hanukkah candles after Christmas dinner. Over time, unique Chrismukkah traditions emerged.
One Hanukkah when I was in high school we gathered in the kitchen to light the candles. Scrambling to find a yarmulke, the traditional head covering Jewish men wear during prayer, my dad grabbed the nearest Santa Claus hat that was sitting on the counter. We all looked at him skeptically.
“I mean, it covers my head, right?” he said, and started with the Hebrew prayers. My Dad has worn that Santa hat to light the menorah almost every year since.
Celebrating both holidays was trickier when I went away to Notre Dame, where 90% of the student body is Christian. From masses to parties to decorations in every corner of campus, Christmas at Notre Dame is wonderfully festive, so it would have been easy to embrace my Christian identity and toss away Hanukkah for a few years. But I didn’t want to give up on the Chrismukkah traditions I’d grown up with.
Freshman year, my good friend and I took a bus around South Bend, Indiana until we found the one party store that sold Hanukkah decorations. We picked up frozen hash browns from Walmart for latkes and coffee filters for makeshift yarmulkes. Finally, we persuaded an upperclassman to buy us four bottles of Manischewitz – a too-sweet kosher wine I will never drink again – and our Chrismukkah party was in business.
Manischewitz flowed freely in the dorm room adorned with “Happy Hanukkah and “Merry Christmas” banners. For a couple of students at Notre Dame, I was the first Jewish or partially Jewish person they had ever met. They were eager to learn about the Festival of Lights, the “other holiday” always mentioned around Christmas. I remember a classmate asking me in earnest, “Is it sacrilegious for me to play dreidel?”
The party was so successful we repeated it throughout college, and by senior year, everyone knew how to play dreidel.
Growing up with two faiths was at times confusing – I questioned my religious identity and wondered if I would ever “decide”. But I’m thankful for how my parents raised us, particularly around the holidays. Watching how they embraced the other’s traditions: my mom lighting the Hanukkah candles, my dad writing Santa’s note in the wee hours of Christmas – taught me about respect and acceptance in a fundamental way.
To me, there is nothing conflicting about celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah. The holidays even share similarities – both revolve around a miracle of light, whether from the guiding Star of Bethlehem or the oil in the Jerusalem Temple that burned for eight nights.
And of course, both are about spending time with loved ones.
Instead of relying on generic holiday greetings that are careful not to “offend,” I believe everyone should make an effort to learn about and celebrate their neighbors’ customs. Because as my parents taught me, joining in others’ traditions doesn’t mean abandoning your own.
“The more the merrier” – isn’t that what the holidays are about?
December 15, 2015 March 1, 2016 Sara F. Tagged chrismukkah, christmas, hanukkah, holidays 8 Comments
Lessons learned from my college newspaper
CAREER, JOURNALISM, NOTRE DAME, PUBLISHED WORK
Late nights. Early mornings. Not enough coffee in the world to keep you awake during that morning calculus class. It’s a story most college newspaper editors know well but would never change. We’re willing to put in the hours not only because of the close-knit community, one of the biggest draws, but because the skills you learn working for a college newspaper are invaluable across professional industries. Here are five reasons why.
You meet a wide range of people.
College is a bubble, but working on the paper exposes you to a wide range of people and viewpoints. During my four years on The Observer at Notre Dame, I interviewed a British literary scholar, the Chief Marketing Officer of Subway, the University president and the only Orthodox Jewish student on campus. Reaching beyond the bubble has huge value later on in the working world.
You get used to criticism.
Most professors at Notre Dame weren’t outwardly critical of my writing, focusing on what I could do better instead of what I did wrong. While I appreciated this approach in my classes, criticism is an unavoidable aspect of the professional world and life in general. My freshman year, I remember the first article I received back from my editor was completely covered in red ink, entire sections crossed out. I probably went home and cried that night, but soon learned not take things so personally (and that criticism helps you improve).
You master the art of succinct writing.
I used to think the phrase “writing is an art” meant I could use an unlimited number of words to make things sound beautiful. Now I believe that regardless of the writing form, every single word needs to have a purpose. Working on the paper taught me to boil down stories to their very core, write conversationally and include only the most powerful quotes. All of this prepared me well for a career in digital media.
You get comfortable leading conversations.
Most people love talking about themselves. Once you learn that, asking questions and leading conversations isn’t all that hard. When I started out as a reporter, I was scared to even place a call to a stranger. I read and reread my emails 10 times before requesting an interview. But with experience, I gained the confidence to assert myself during interviews, pursue contacts and ask the tougher questions.
You learn to work well under pressure.
Some of my most stressful days in college, I was under deadline for an article on the same day I had a major test. I spent free moments calling sources and writing while simultaneously trying to memorize history or statistics formulas. The Observer demanded everything of you, and you had to figure out how not to let your grades slip. It took years, but I learned to stay calm and trust that everything would get done (and that the world wouldn’t end if it didn’t).
I loved being an English major at Notre Dame. But truthfully, none of my classes stand out to me years later the way my days and nights spent in The Observer office do. While I nurtured my love for literature through my major, the newspaper that gave me the hands-on, practical education I needed to jump into the real world after graduation.
In the end, I’m thankful for the sleepless nights and overconsumption of chocolate. The Observer was the best (free) course I took at Notre Dame.
*This column was originally published in The Observer
October 31, 2015 April 3, 2016 Sara F. Tagged college, newspapers, Notre Dame, writing Leave a comment
The proposal by the bay
EXPLORING, LIFE
It was late afternoon in Sausalito and the sun was at its strongest, streaking the bay with light.
After a daylong bike ride through San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge and down a winding road to this coastal town, I was ready to rest. I rode along the water until I spotted a wide green field dotted with couples and families – the perfect place to collapse.
I set my bike down on an empty patch of grass near a couple who looked to be in their mid-20s. She was Irish, he was British. From the high-pitched, exaggerated way she laughed I guessed they were in the honeymoon phase of a new relationship.
Using my backpack as a pillow, I closed my eyes and drifted into that kind of half-sleep only caused by physical exhaustion. Their voices turned distant, blending in with the sounds of boats and children playing. But then something shook me awake.
“Oh, it’s perfect, absolutely perfect!” the girl exclaimed, jumping onto the guy’s lap. “Look at it!”
Did they just get engaged? Within minutes of me lying down next to them, sweaty, nearly passed out? I couldn’t believe it. Clearly I was wrong in thinking they were a new couple.
I caught a flash of light on her hand. This was like a movie – something better than a movie – unfolding before me, and I couldn’t look away.
“You know when you’d point to those rings in the windows? I know every single thing about those rings. How much they cost, what they’re named, everything.” He spoke quickly, emotions cascading through his chest and changing the pitch of his voice.
“You do? Oh, bless you,” said the girl, kissing him.
“I’ve got all the certificates for it and I’ve got it insured. I wanted to wait for a sunny day because when you move it around it’s just insane. Look at it!” He took her hand. “It’s like fire. Brilliance.”
It was obvious he was the practical, stoic one in the relationship, while she was the bubbly free spirit who laughed just as much as she spoke.
“It is,” she said, cocking her head to one side and examining how the stone glinted in the sun. “Brilliance, you’re right! It’s absolutely per-fect.”
There were no photographers hiding in bushes or trails of rose petals leading to a pretty view. She didn’t shriek. I don’t think he even got down on one knee. The proposal was natural and beautiful and I felt honored to be the only one to have witnessed it.
I wondered if they knew I was eavesdropping, but I was so close, how could they not? A few minutes later they moved to a bench just a few feet in front of me – now I could hear every word of their conversation.
“So, want to hear about how I got the ring fitted?”
“Of course I do!” she said, leaning her head on his shoulder.
”Well, remember a few years back when we found your grandmother’s ring in the attic? I had your friend Heather go fetch that ring. I asked her to try and get you to wear it, figuring the sizes would be similar. But of course I knew you wouldn’t put it on your left hand, only your right.” He turned and a smirk erupted onto his face. “So it was kind of a risk.”
“You poor thing,” she said, cupping his cheek. “Bless you.”
The sun started to weaken and the scent of baking bread drifted over from the bayside Italian restaurants. The park was clearing out. I knew I should get the next ferry back to San Francisco but wanted to say something to the couple, congratulate them.
When I saw them taking a selfie I walked over.
“Excuse me,” I said, “Did you two just get engaged? Can I take a proper photo of you in front of the bay?”
“Yes!” exclaimed the girl. “Look at it!” She held out her left hand. She seemed eager to share the good news, as if telling someone would solidify it as real.
“It’s beautiful,” I said. “Congratulations!”
“This one, she’s the most difficult girl in the world to propose to,” the guy said to me, as if we were old friends. ”I’ve been trying to do it for weeks but she keeps changing the plans! First, I tried in Seattle but that fell through. And then yesterday in San Francisco, when we were about to go to a nice dinner, she said, ‘let’s get chowder and see the sea lions!’”
I shook my head and smiled.
“Oh, you poor thing,” the girl said, cupping his cheek. Then she gave me her phone and I took a series of photos of them in front of the bay.
“How do they look?” I asked.
“They’re perfect,” the girl said, smiling as she flipped through the shots.
I congratulated them again and walked towards the ferry pier to get my ticket. The wait would be over an hour, I was told, since so many bikers had come to Sausalito that day. By the time I got on a ferry the sun was setting gloriously over the water, and I found a seat on the upper deck. I took out my notebook to write down what I’d just seen.
Then, from a distance, I spotted the couple. They weren’t speaking now, just leaning into the ferry railing and one another. They stared out at the water as it turned darker and darker, the day’s brilliance clasped safely in their hands.
August 17, 2015 February 28, 2016 Sara F. Tagged Bay, California, Engagement, Ferry, Proposal, San Francisco, Sausalito, Weddings 2 Comments
Tell me about the world
CREATIVE WRITING, FAMILY
All summer I’d watch the cool blue light from our neighbor’s mosquito catcher, hanging ten feet from my bedroom window. It glowed mystically, the stillness of night punctuated only by the occasional zap and a small voice beside me.
“Tell me about the world,” she would say.
Genevieve asked this question almost every night. She was six and I was twelve. We shared a room and a bed for a year while our house was renovated – at first I protested the arrangement but soon enjoyed the company.
“What do you want to know?” I turned to face her but she was nothing more than a vague outline of gray against black. I could sense her pupils dilating, absorbing the wisps of light drifting in from between the blinds.
“Oh, I don’t know, how about black holes and supernovas and stuff. Black holes especially.”
My mother started up the stairs and we ceased talking until the clunk of her shoes had faded down the hall. If she caught us we’d be scolded for staying up too late, but that was part of the thrill.
“Well, black holes aren’t exactly in the world, Genevieve. They’re not in the earth. And shhh. Be quieter.”
“What do you mean?’” Genevieve asked. “We can’t go to black holes, even if we wanted to?”
Thinking about black holes stretched my mind to its limit so I did not answer. Instead we fell silent and I could sense her struggling to come to terms with this information.
Isn’t the world everything? What can be bigger than the world? If black holes aren’t in the world, then where are they?
This is how most of our nights went. Silence followed by questions followed by more silence, both of our imaginations spinning as quickly as the fan above our heads.
“Why are animals different colors?” Genevieve asked me after awhile, her eyes bright in the dark.
“Because they’re from different places, “I said. “Doves are white because they come from the moon, and and there it’s all snowy and cold. Crows are black because they come from the sun and their feathers got burned by the fire. And peacocks used to fly by the stars, which makes their blue-green wings shine.”
“Oh,” said Genevieve. “I never knew that.”
Outside our room the mosquitoes buzzed and zapped, buzzed and zapped. It never occurred to me that they were dying and Genevieve never asked. To us, this was just the sound of summer the way rain is the sound of spring.
Sharing a bed with Genevieve, I discovered my passion for storytelling. I had the chance to create a world for my younger sister, as if the six years I had over her somehow made me the authority on things time can’t even measure. Some nights we talked for what felt like forever. But exhaustion always caught up to us and the silences got longer, the air soon filled with ideas, like disturbed dust, settling slowly into our dreams.
Thirteen years have passed since we lay side-by-side, whispering in that four-poster bed. In less than a month, the little girl will go off to college. She’ll study biology and chemistry and physics, learning the true, scientific reasons for why things work the way they do.
But her curiosity for the world will never wane, and she’ll find answers only create more questions. These questions will grow and multiply, buzzing during wake and sleep, swarming invisibly like mosquitoes on a summer night.
August 1, 2015 March 1, 2016 Sara F. Tagged family, sisters, summer 6 Comments
Photography: Brooklyn Heights Promenade
NYC, PHOTOGRAPHY
Brooklyn Heights, Fall 2014
February 7, 2015 February 28, 2016 Sara F. Image Tagged brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, new york city, photography 2 Comments
15 Things I Learned My First Year In New York
LIFE, NYC
January 31 marks my one-year anniversary of moving to New York. This time last year I wrote about the thrill of signing my first New York City lease, of smiling as I walked up 9th Avenue knowing I’d soon have my own pocket of space in the big city. I was about to leave behind the daily monotony of commuting, the packed buses and frantic dash through Times Square. Signing that lease was a pure, fleeting moment of truly making it.
Growing up 20 miles from Midtown Manhattan I’ve always identified with the city but knew you’re not a true New Yorker until you’ve lived here. At college in the Midwest I envied friends’ ability to say, “I’m from Chicago” despite living hours from the actual downtown. The same just doesn’t apply to the New York metro area – my proximity to the city and love for its fast-paced nature didn’t translate to being a New Yorker, as much as I wished it did.
The truth is, when you’re here – day to night to day – you start to notice things about the pulse of the city and the people who live here that didn’t present themselves before.
Here are 15 things I’ve learned after one year in New York:
1. The city never sleeps but it sometimes rests
When I was commuting, the New York I knew was the rush of Midtown between Port Authority and Rockefeller Center, and the Lower East Side swarming with people late at night. I never experienced those rare New York quiet moments when the city settles down and seems to belong to you alone. The last time it happened was Thanksgiving morning as I left to head home to New Jersey. Stepping out of my apartment around 8 a.m., 9th Avenue was quiet save for the hum of empty cabs, and I didn’t see another soul for 10 blocks in either direction. I don’t pine for these moments but love when they appear.
2. Strangers will brighten your day
Last year I wrote about Geoff, the newspaper hawker who told me to “have a great day, young lady!” every day for a year when I passed him on 42nd street. Geoff’s smile was contagious and it brightened my day each morning. While they’re not all as visible or vocal as Geoff, I’ve found other strangers are willing to help out when the subway turnstile blinks “insufficient fare” or you stumble on an unsalted sidewalk. The “cold, hardened New Yorker” stereotype is true, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t good at heart.
3. But…sometimes they’ll totally irritate you
The woman who doesn’t thank you for holding the door open as she saunters out of the store. The biker who disregards rules of the road. The people who walk in a horizontal line on the sidewalk. The occasional “manslamming” (yes, it happens). You try not to take it personally – they’re strangers, after all.
4. Family history comes to life
My family history on both sides is rooted in New York City. My mother’s father (Papa) grew up in an Irish tenement in Brooklyn, my father’s father in a Jewish neighborhood of the Lower East Side. This past summer I visited Katz’s Deli with my grandfather, right around the corner from the luncheonette his family owned. He described the Lower East Side he knew, filled with shoppers and street peddlers, not people heading to bars or brunch. And for years I’ve traveled in with Papa, spending days in parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan, but find it’s different now that I call the city home. It’s an amazing experience exploring the city with my grandparents, seeing the streets transform through their memories and realizing how much has changed.
5. You’ll spend more time online looking for restaurants than you spend actually in them
Birthday? Where’s a restaurant that’s centrally located, accommodates groups, has a cool atmosphere and isn’t too pricey? First date? How about a not-too-casual, not-too-upscale spot with good food if you get hungry but also lets you just have wine? Family coming in? Where’s a Theater District eatery with an array of vegetarian options that takes reservations so you can get to the show at exactly 7:30?
I’ve spent hours on Yelp and NYMag.com looking for restaurants that fit very specific criteria. Because New York has so many great options, there’s more pressure to find a place ideally suited to a particular night – and not return to somewhere you’ve already tried.
6. Most things are really expensive but certain things are forever fixed in price
When I go home to New Jersey – or really anywhere – I’m amazed at how much cheaper food items are. Pricey food is pretty much a given in New York. But certain things here, like 99-cent pizza, shock my friends from other cities. They wonder how the same city that charges $15 or more for cocktails serves pizza for less than a dollar. It’s a New York thing, I guess.
7. The subway is your best friend and your worst enemy
I’m simultaneously fascinated, terrified, grossed out by, and extremely thankful for the New York subway system. For a fixed price you can go almost anywhere in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn or the Bronx. I love that on a Saturday or Sunday with nothing to do, I can take off on a train and explore a new neighborhood. That being said, the subway can be an unreliable friend who cancels at the last moment, leaving you stranded with no plans. I’ve learned to tack on an extra 15-30 minutes to trips to account for subway delays.
8. You won’t get through the summer without an AC
Tried that. Won’t ever try it again.
9. Stories are everywhere
No wonder so many writers are based in New York – not only is it a cultural center, it’s a breeding ground for stories. The city is full of interesting, diverse people and lively conversation is happening around you at all times. I keep a running document of quirky phrases and bits of conversation I overhear on the streets – it’s all fodder for fiction.
10. Port Authority will always be the worst
If there’s one place in New York I’d be happy never to set foot in again, it’s that dreadful bus terminal. In fact, all of 8th Avenue between 34th and 50th Street for me is tainted by memories of pushing through Midtown crowds to make the 6pm bus. And the building itself, the busiest bus terminal in the world, badly needs a renovation. I don’t have nostalgia for my commuting days and never will.
11. Good luck finding that perfect coffee shop
Finding the perfect coffee shop in New York is like finding the perfect apartment. You’ll never get everything you’re looking for (space, location, price) but you might get two of the three. I’ve found coffee shops with working wifi and good coffee but no space, and shops with good coffee and space but no wifi. For now I’ve decided to sacrifice coffee quality for wifi and space, but I’m not giving up. One day I WILL find the perfect coffee shop – and it won’t mean going to Brooklyn.
12. You’ll be more aware of what you’re wearing
You can wear almost anything you want in New York City without attracting much attention. But if you’re not looking to stand out, and just looking to look good, there’s pressure to have a personal style here. There’s pressure to be unique, put together, or purposely not put together. The above billboard says it all.
13. Friends will become family
Most New Yorkers are fiercely independent, but in a large and daunting city, we all need to strip that façade from time to time. Whether it’s help moving furniture, someone to check in on you when you’re sick, or someone to share Sunday night dinner with, friends play the role of family and I’m incredibly grateful for them.
14. The city is constantly changing and you’ll be nostalgic for “how things used to be”
When I first moved to New York I told friends and family “don’t worry about the address, we’re the apartment above the Coldstone.” Six months in, the apartment-identifying Coldstone closed. Other restaurants in Hell’s Kitchen have closed down, replaced by new hotspots just slightly more upscale than their predecessors. My gym, which held a 25-year tenure in Midtown, closed only a week after notifying customers through a paper sign taped to the entrance.
When these places shut down it feels personal, like a breakup. Yeah, I know rents went up, but can’t you make it work? For me?
15. You’ll start building your own version of the city
You’ll deal with small apartments, soaring prices and smelly summers because “there is no place in the world like New York.” And it’s true. There is no place like this city. But within New York itself are millions of smaller New Yorks, and you’ll start building your own to add to the mix. The invigorating potential to make what you want of yourself and your surroundings is what draws people here. As Colson Whitehead wrote, “the New York City you live in is not my New York City, how could it be?”
January 28, 2015 February 28, 2016 Sara F. Tagged apartment, city life, new york city 5 Comments
Pigeon At My Window
LIFE, MISCELLANEOUS, NYC
I captured this photo late last summer in Hell’s Kitchen. The pigeons looked so peaceful silhouetted in the afternoon light, high above the Theater District rush.
I was noticing pigeons everywhere that summer. One in particular, the largest I’d ever seen, had made its home on the ledge outside my kitchen window. I’d turn on the stove for coffee Saturday mornings and it would greet me by fluttering its wings – revealing a streak of silver that each time I’d mistake for a flash of light. Each time I was surprised a bird could emit such radiance.
It occurred to me a few weeks ago I haven’t seen that pigeon in months. Where did he go? He hasn’t traveled south. Unlike other birds, pigeons don’t migrate – once they find a nesting place they will stay year round. Pigeons will always return to the location imprinted on their brains upon birth.
Maybe he’s been there all along but his feathers are dulled by the city dust. Or maybe he flutters his wings but there’s no light in the sky for his silver streaks to reflect, nothing to make me turn.
December 4, 2014 February 28, 2016 Sara F. Tagged apartment, light, nyc, pigeons, winter Leave a comment
Bye-Bye Benny’s
FOOD & DRINK, NEWS, NYC
Benny’s Burritos is closing tomorrow at the age of 26.
My heart sank when I heard this news. For someone who’d only had a margarita here once, late at night with a few friends, my sadness may seem exaggerated. But only recently I’d passed the Avenue A and East 6th Street corner where Benny’s stands, thinking, “That was a great place – I should go back sometime.” The problem is, Benny’s isn’t so much a place you go to but a place you stumble upon. And I never stumbled there again.
I’d only been to Benny’s once but knew it had history. The East Village gem opened its doors to the late ‘80s downtown scene where artist-types roamed the streets looking for a post-club bite. With its bright-colored walls and 1960s artifacts, Benny’s was always a bit kitschy, but that was part of its appeal. As New York Magazine wrote in 1990, “Benny’s Burritos is a rare find: a scene with no attitude.”
Photo by circlealine
These days Chipotles pop up all over Manhattan, but just 25 years ago the burrito wasn’t a fast food go-to. In fact, its rise has been fairly recent. Burritos existed at chili parlors, the burrito joint’s predecessor, but were slender, manageable tubes of rice and meat rather than the monstrous creations we know today. Benny’s was a big-burrito pioneer back when “Mexicali food was as rare as an East Village stockbroker,” according to New York Magazine.
Owner Mark Merker told EV Grieve “the world has changed” since he first opened Benny’s in 1988. Business has been good, but costs keep rising and competition from franchises like Chipotle doesn’t help.
OK, it’s not quite true that Benny’s is closing – it’s downsizing. Benny’s is shuttering its restaurant space and keeping just the takeout counter. (Its sister restaurant, Harry’s Burritos on the Upper West Side, will also close.) But for me this may as well mean the end of Benny’s – it was all about atmosphere. With a proliferation of other food options in the East Village, from fancy fries to authentic tacos, I don’t envision stopping at the takeout counter for a just-OK burrito.
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The Twitterverse agrees, one customer lamenting, “it was never about the burritos (average) but the great sidewalk scene.” Reading other reactions on Twitter, it’s clear the burrito joint played a role in many New Yorkers’ formative years:
Benny’s will always be the taste of being 19, broke and spending my last $20 on a margarita and burrito
Mass foreclosure on my early NYC memories continues. Ate many a meal at Benny’s in late ’80s/’90s
Heard last night that Benny’s Burritos on Ave A is closing. End of an era in NYC
This one hurts.
I can’t claim the same disappointment as customers who frequented Benny’s during “Rent” years. But I’m sad for what it represents – continued rent hikes forcing a generation of beloved restaurants to downsize or shut down completely. Casual gathering spots like Benny’s, where the people and not the food take center stage, make New York what it is.
Benny’s had character and building character takes time.
The reality is that the city changes and we want it all – the new and the old. It’s sort of a paradox, isn’t it? New Yorkers are totally obsessed with newness – clothes, food, music – but gripe when change occurs to our New York. We feel protective over our visions of the city and the places within them that feel like home. For many people that cheap Mexican spot on Avenue A was one of those places, so despite more than 20,000 other New York restaurants and countless other burrito joints, it’s impossible not to feel loss.
Bye-bye, Benny’s. Your margaritas were strong and your guac not particularly memorable. But you’ll live on in my idea of New York, the one I’ll hold dear when I’m older and reminiscing about the city “back then.” I’ll remember the tequila bliss and late night chatter, the contagious laughter of a few good friends sitting on worn vinyl bar stools. I’ll remember it was you, Benny’s, even though it could have been anywhere.
November 28, 2014 February 28, 2016 Sara F. Tagged benny's burritos, burrito joints, mexican food, nyc 3 Comments
The Rookie At Bat
LIFE, MISCELLANEOUS
I remember first hearing the term “rookie” when I was five years old at a Yankees game with my dad.
Derek Jeter was at bat and the late Bob Sheppard’s voice boomed over the loudspeaker. For the most part I didn’t pay much attention to what Sheppard was saying, but when I heard him say “rookie” I perked up.
“Dad, what does ‘rookie’ mean?”
“It means it’s his first year playing baseball here. He’s the new guy on the team.”
A future Hall of Famer with just days left in his career, the Yankees captain is a long way from being the new guy on the team. But to this day whenever I hear the word “rookie” I think of the 21-year-old Derek Jeter. Even though 19 years and five World Series championships later, he’s become a legend. Even though Jeter’s entire career passed during the time I grew up, went to college and got my first job, he’s still immortalized as that guy at bat the summer of ’95.
It’s a good reminder that even the best of the best were rookies, once.
Watch Jeter’s touching tribute to fans in this Gatorade ad.
September 18, 2014 February 28, 2016 Sara F. Tagged derek jeter, farewell tour, rookie, yankees 4 Comments
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Turns Out You Can't Count on 'Centrist' Democrats for a Goddamn Thing
Katherine Krueger
Filed to: Chuck SchumerFiled to: Chuck Schumer
A lesson Chuck Schumer is quickly learning, if he hadn’t already: He won’t be able to count on “centrist” (read: right-leaning) Democrats to help him sink Donald Trump’s newest nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh.
That much was made unduly clear in a Politico story published Friday morning, in which multiple red state Democrats, who are in a particularly vulnerable position ahead of the midterms, basically told the Senate minority leader to fuck off if he thinks he can “whip” them—that is, dictate how they should vote—on Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
“I’ll be 71 years old in August, you’re going to whip me? Kiss my you know what,” Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia told the site when asked if Schumer could influence which way he’ll vote.
Manchin, along with Senators Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana, all voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s first selection for the high court, last year. All three also told Politico that there’s not a goddamn thing Schumer can do about their votes on Kavanaugh, with Donnelly saying, “My decision won’t have anything to do with Chuck Schumer,” and Heitkamp vowing “to vote the way I’m going to vote regardless of what the leader says.”
That rebellion in the ranks extends beyond the Gorsuch-supporting senators. Senator Claire McCaskill, of Missouri, who’s facing a tough re-election race, told Politico that “Chuck knows better” than to try to influence which way she’ll vote.
“He doesn’t come to me and say: ‘You’ve got to vote with us on this.’ He knows I’ll tell him to take a flyin’ leap,” McCaskill said. “I’m going to do what I think is right. It has nothing to do with the party.”
OK, great! No one can be counted on to do this simple correct thing, which is fighting this confirmation tool and nail, even if they don’t have the votes to stop it. (Schumer knows intimately what a thin margin for error he’s dealing with: To sink Kavanaugh, he needs all 49 of the Senate’s Democrats to vote “no” while also getting at least one moderate Republican to break rank.)
We already knew that making concessions to Republicans (which are made very politely but carry serious real-world implications for people who aren’t elected officials) is absolutely no assurance that they’ll be reasonable or do the right thing down the road.
So color me shocked that after years of scare tactics about the party being dragged too far to the left, Schumer finds that the rarest beast of all—the “centrist”—isn’t much help at all in his moment of need. It’s worth remembering who our fair-weather friends are in the months ahead, when we finally get the chance to pick our allies more wisely.
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Daesh terrorist group has lost 56 percent of its territory in Iraq and 27 percent of its Syria holdings to local forces backed by the US-led coalition, the Department of State said in a press release on Monday.
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California Earthquake Expert: Public Must Be Prepared for the Big One
© AFP 2019 / Richter magnitude scale
California scientists are saying that a massive earthquake is certain to happen on the US West Coast, it's only a matter of when. They are urging the public to resist being paralyzed by fear and instead get informed and motivated to protect themselves, their families and their property.
There are already cities in the Golden State requiring that vulnerable buildings be retrofitted, and next year scientists with the US Geological Society are set to reveal the first stage of an early warning system for earthquakes that would notify people of an incoming tremor through their personal electronic devices.
In a recent speech to the Japan Geoscience Union and American Geophysical Union, seismologist Lucy Jones said there needs to be fundamental change in the way experts communicate to the public about earthquakes.
Jones reasoned that the usual vague analysis that estimates the probability of a quake striking sometime over the course of a few decades leads to a public that’s largely complacent and passive about earthquakes, ultimately leaving them unprepared for the inevitable.
© Flickr/ Matt Katzenberger
Magnitude 5.8 Earthquake Strikes Pacific Coast of Mexico – US Geological Survey
She pointed to the preparedness of Chinese officials, who ordered evacuations ahead of a 7.3 magnitude temblor in 1975, predicted by way of the 500 “foreshocks” they sensed before the massive quake occurred.
"The prediction did not happen because the Chinese knew more than we do about foreshocks," Jones said, according to the Los Angeles Times. "They used the basic principle … quantified more than a century ago: One earthquake makes another earthquake more likely, and guessed that having a swarm of over 500 events made a big earthquake even more likely."
She explained that risking a false alarm was much less dangerous than allowing people to remain in buildings not equipped to withstand earthquakes.
California has missed the mark on this before. Scientists projected a 95 percent chance that a magnitude 6.0 earthquake would hit between 1988 and 1993, but the next quake did not come until 2004.
© AFP 2019 / PEDRO PARDO
Second Powerful Earthquake Hits US-Canadian Border – US Geological Service
Jones emphasized that reporting the probability of a temblor striking in the future doesn’t make people safer. For her, the solutions is for scientists to communicate what they are sure of, rather than what they are unsure of.
She suggested informing property owners who would be responsible for costs associated with retrofitting – or repairing or replacing fallen buildings.
She said, "By emphasizing the financial aspects, I moved people away from fear that can paralyze decision-making … I showed them that they were going to have to pay for the earthquake, one way or another. Either now or after it happens. It was just a matter of when."
Jones also emphasized the importance of community, saying that one collapsed building often affects another. "Someone’s decision not to be ready increases the chances that others will suffer," she said.
© REUTERS / Anthony Phelps
Changing Course: US Warship to Help New Zealand Earthquake Victims
In 2015, this led to Los Angeles passing the most wide-ranging retrofitting laws in the nation.
She told the scientists, "Remember that society wants our help, needs our help to save people’s lives and their livelihoods.
"As a scientific community, I believe we should, as a moral duty, be fostering the creation of information that can be used to make a safer society."
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Dragons’ Den: Series 12, episode 8
How the threat of an Apple lawsuit failed to dissuade Bannatyne and the pitch that saw Jones and Meaden accept previous business failings
by Henry Williams
Updated: Feb 16, 2015 Published: Feb 2, 2015
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This week on Dragons’ Den a part time actor failed to draw any investment with his caricatures, while young inventor Rajan Jerath secured a £75,000 investment from Duncan Bannatyne for his iGlove – despite claims from Peter Jones that Apple could sue them out of existence.
Elsewhere a mother and daughter duo received a co-investment from Jones and Deborah Meaden to relaunch their 23-year-old children’s rainwear business, Baggers Originals.
Charlie Anderson
Company: Charlie’s Cartoons
Concept: Bespoke, hand-drawn caricatures
Investment sought: £40,000 for 20% equity
Investment received: None
The Pitch:
Trained actor Charlie Anderson was first in the spotlight with a clear passion for his product, but one the Dragons regrettably did not share.
After silently unveiling ‘personalised cartoon portraits’ of all the Dragons, Anderson took centre stage and launched into his pitch with breathless exuberance. Anderson and his team of three cartoonists, trained in the house style, use information and photographs to create personalised caricatures of friends or relatives. In four years he claimed he’d achieved a turnover in excess of £200,000 from selling 1,200 units.
Deborah Meaden was keen to get down details. The actor explained the company also offered cheaper and more simplistic digital prints, but the £140 hand drawn caricatures accounted for 90% of its sales.
Admitting she’d never liked caricatures, Kelly Hoppen concluded the product was too niche and she could never see it as a big business – a sentiment most of the Dragons seemed to share.
However, Anderson was impervious, and with one final push for the investment claimed that under one art director you could have five artists, producing seven cartoons a week, equating to 35 cartoons a week and producing £300,000 turnover a year. Upon being asked by Piers Linney for his five-year plan, the entrepreneur speculated that by taking the business internationally he could achieve £1.5m turnover.
Meaden was sceptical and first to drop out, signing off with: “you’re very endearing but you drive me mad”.
In response to Linney asking “what if I don’t like it?” Anderson claimed that 95% of his customers are happy at the draught stage. But even that wasn’t enough to convince the trained lawyer who believed the remaining 5% would kill the business.
Duncan Bannatyne thought it would be too labour intensive to maintain, and Hoppen – though impressed by his enthusiasm – just couldn’t see there being a big enough market for it to scale up.
This just left Jones, who initially appeared to take genuine offence at his portrait. He admitted he admired Anderson for juggling an acting career and a business but in the end the product wasn’t for him.
Start-up business lesson: Remember the delivery of your pitch and creating a connection is as important as the content. Take your time, relax and focus on conveying the essential information concisely and clearly.
Rajan Jerath
Company: iGlove
Concept: Touchscreen gloves for smartphones
Investment received: £75,000 for 40% equity dropping to 30% when targets met
Despite almost coming un-stuck on a potentially fatal trademark issue, Bannatyne was suitably impressed with Rajan Jerath’s quietly confident pitch to make him an offer.
In stark contrast to his theatrical predecessor, Jerath’s delivery was understated and effective. The young entrepreneur remained calm and collected as he explained the history of the company and demonstrated the gloves’ touchscreen capabilities, before rattling off some impressive sales statistics. After starting in 2009 the business sold 15,000 units in the first year, and by the third sold 80,000 achieving a gross profit of £60,000 with a net profit of £45,000. He went on to say the name had a registered trademark in the UK and a patent pending for the technology.
Linney was first to voice his concerns. To his credit, Jerath described in detail how the gloves use a unique 7% silver composition to allow heat transfer to the screen, allowing the tips to stay tonal, where competitors are forced to use different colours. He admitted there are cheaper alternatives but where it has the edge is in name, packaging and quality.
As if he hadn’t impressed enough the precocious businessman revealed a second product in the range – a Bluetooth glove with a microphone in the pinky and a speaker in the thumb. Hoppen volunteered to test the product and during a somewhat awkward demonstration was astonished to find herself in conversation with Jerath, who had stepped out of the den, through the glove.
Despite the novelty factor Hoppen wasn’t convinced the product had a target market. But the ever polite Jerath thanked her for the question and casually explained that House of Fraser – who had previously stocked the product – thought it would be good for ladies pushing prams, people who didn’t want to advertise their expensive phone to potential muggers or even runners and cyclists.
Seemingly satisfied with this response, Meaden asked whether it was just a seasonal product. He conceded that yes they were generally a stocking filler but claimed he’d also sold 4,000 to someone in Australia.
With the Dragons quietly impressed it seemed he was headed for victory, until telecommunications expert Jones piped up with what looked like a fatal concern. He claimed the trademark on his name was meaningless, with Apple’s 20-year use of the prefix “I” they could stop him with “one lawyer’s letter”. However, Bannatyne was quick to intervene, rebuffing Jones’ claim and personally looking over the documents detailing the terms of the trademark and patent.
Jones was the first to drop out on those grounds, followed by Hoppen, who though very impressed with his pitch and product, was not willing to take the risk of a lawsuit. Meaden again was impressed, but also concerned over future complications arising from the name. Linney was next though with a different tack; citing the possibility of competitors making small changes to the technology and undermining the business.
Bannatyne described Jerath as “a super entrepreneur” and “exactly what the country needs” before – to the other Dragons gob smacked disbelief – making him an offer for the full £75,000 but for 40% equity.
Jerath looked equally surprised and tentatively suggested he could go down to 30% when the business hits its targets. Bannatyne considered and asked what his targets were. He claimed in three years he’s estimating to have achieved £200,000 in gross profit and £130,000 in net profit. The Scottish businessman seemed pleased with this and confirmed the offer with a brisk handshake and a cool, “no problem”.
Start-up business lesson: Don’t be afraid to negotiate for a better deal on your investment. As long as it’s reasonable, an investor may well agree.
Angela McLean and Jessica McCarthy
Company: Baggers Originals
Concept: Children’s’ Rainwear with an attached bag
Investment sought: £100,000 for 25% equity
Investment received: £50,000 each from Deborah Meaden and Peter Jones for 30% shared equity.
Mother and Daughter duo Angela McLean and Jessica McCarthy entered the den hoping two particular Dragons would team up and help them relaunch their 23-year-old family business. Thanks to a solid pitch, and some impressive statistics they got exactly what they wanted.
Perhaps in an attempt to disarm the ever fierce panel, the entrepreneurs walked on hand in hand with children (and siblings) Josh and Camilla, who modeled the titular product.
The pair went on to explain the fraught history of Baggers originals – begun in the early 1990s with a pair of waterproof trousers made by McLean for her daughter, the business grew too big too quickly and was forced to cease trading. The product – a range of colourful rainwear with an attached pocket to carry the garments when wet and muddy – is copyrighted and the name carried a trademark. They claimed to have sold 300 units to customers and small retailers in Ireland and had secured a trial order with high street retailer Monsoon.
After a flawless pitch, the kids were back in the lift and it was time to get down to business. Linney was curious about the company’s previous life. McLean claimed they achieved a £1.2m turnover in two years, and even Disneyland was interested, but admitted her lack of business experience and cashflow problems proved her undoing. She was keen to add that she’d learnt some valuable lessons from the experience. McCarthy followed with the excellent point that children who wore the clothes back then are now having their own children so there is already a brand awareness.
Hoppen asked if there are any competitors, they said there were but none that have the bag attached. Meaden quizzed them on costs and discovered they were made in China for £6.20 and sold for £24.99 and that they are the first branded product in Monsoon in 40 years. Jones moved the conversation onto the business’ financial affairs and was very impressed when they revealed they had £30,000 worth of stock, £10,000 in the bank and a £100,000 investment from two entrepreneurs in Newcastle who own 13% of the business each.
Bannatyne was the first with any doubts, wondering why they chose the Dragons’ Den instead of the original investors. He subsequently bowed out on the grounds that he didn’t feel he could offer the business anything. Hoppen, with design credentials, followed suggesting it just wasn’t quite exciting enough for her.
Jones was clearly very keen but concerned about the number of similar and cheaper products available. But upon likening the product to a successful range of high quality kids backpacks that he and Meaden had an investment in, hinted at a possible co-investment opportunity.
Meaden jumped on this. She offered £50,000 for 15% equity. Jones said he had been hoping for 20% but eventually agreed to match Meaden’s offer. Linney said he would definitely match their offers but had to admit that with their experience, his peers could do a lot more for the business.
The reserved mother and daughter duo revealed that the pairing was exactly what they’d wanted and without need for further discussion or negotiation wholeheartedly agreed.
Start-up business lesson: A previous business failure does not make you a failure. Use what you’ve learnt to avoid the same mistakes and come back stronger.
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City Police Warn Carnival Revellers Against Urinating In Public
Sign in Castries
The City Police Department has warned that it will be cracking down on carnival revellers who choose to urinate in public.
“The City Police will be out in full force over the carnival season and will be on the lookout for persons committing violations against section 503 of the criminal code,” the department said in a release to St Lucia Times.
The release made special mention of individuals who use the area of the Dennery bus stand as a ‘urinal zone”.
This week a 42 year old male construction worker pleaded guilty to the offence of indecent exposure on Carl Crescent Street and was fined $500 when he appeared in the First District Court, it was reported.
According to the City Police, the accused was given two months to pay the fine and in default, one month in prison.
Earlier this month, the City Police announced that they had recorded a total of fifty arrests for indecent exposure in the Saint Lucia capital between March 2018 and June 2019.
Indecent exposure accounted for most of the arrests followed by 28 cases of the possession of dangerous weapons and 26 for disorderly behavior, the law enforcement officials stated.
Martin Sampson July 12, 2019 at 1:26 pm
The city police are supposed to carry buckets for the revellers. Each city police suppose to have a bucket so when the revellers want to pee they can use it. Peterson should have one too.
Junior July 12, 2019 at 2:35 pm
Please list the permanent public urinals in Castries and any temporary urinals to be provided for Carnival week.
Nash July 12, 2019 at 3:13 pm
Martin fools like u alone that will make stupid comments i want to know where u leave and will come urinate straight on the pillar of your house or yard
DON July 12, 2019 at 3:22 pm
SILLY rabbits.Revellers just pee on themselves. Everyone knows that
They full of themselves. You have thousand of people in bacchanal you have hundreds of toilets for them ? I will be there Monday and Tuesday if I want to pee I going and pee.
pisonit! July 12, 2019 at 4:14 pm
City police has a case if it can prove that there are enough toilet facilities available for 4,000+ revelers AND 8,000+ spectators!!!
According to the WHO for Mass Crowd Events ISBN 978 92 4 156493 9 “Separate toilets should be provided for men and women, with at least one toilet seat for every 200 females and at least one toilet seat for every 300 males.”
Assuming 4000 revelers has a 1:2 male to female ratio, somebody has to provide (2/3 * 4000)/200 = 13 toilets for females and 7 for males
Assuming 8000 onlookers has a 1:2 male to female ratio, somebody has to provide (2/3 * 8000)/200 = 26 toilets for females and 14 for males. That is 13+7+26+14 = 60 Toilets ( water closets). FEEL WE STOOPID? We jumping up- a mess a mess a mess a messs………..lol
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You are here: Home / Big wind industry / ‘Wrap-Up’ on Reign of Wind Farm Terror: Blades Buckle and Turbines Tumble in Michigan
‘Wrap-Up’ on Reign of Wind Farm Terror: Blades Buckle and Turbines Tumble in Michigan
February 28, 2016 by stopthesethings 9 Comments
Is there anything that can be said for a medieval power source that was abandoned Centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons?
Pointless it most certainly is. But, along with that lack of justification on any level, comes a form of danger never seen before at any time in history: 10 tonne blades (with their outer tips clocking 350kph) being thrown hundreds of metres in all directions; and whole 300 tonne turbines thundering back to earth – splattering themselves all over the countryside – threatening the lives of neighbours and passing motorists. It’s a nightmare, to be sure.
Here’s the latest take on wind power’s unstoppable reign of terror from Michigan.
Wind turbine blade breaks in Sigel Township
Huron Daily Tribune
Chris Aldridge
SIGEL TOWNSHIP — A 160-foot, 7-ton blade on one of DTE Energy’s wind turbines has been damaged near Section Line and Finkel roads.
Crews are on site to investigate what happened, said Jennifer Wilt, lead communications specialist at DTE.
Wilt says DTE noticed a turbine fault while monitoring from its Cass City location at about 3:15 p.m. They got a call from a landowner at about the same time, she said.
Wilt said the turbine automatically shut down after the incident.
Crews have closed the access road leading to the turbine. There are no other road closures, Wilt said.
Southwest winds will gust 45 to 50 mph this evening, with some gusts nearing 55 mph between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., according to a special weather statement from the National Weather Service.
Dennis Buda, operations manager at DTE Energy, said turbines are programmed to automatically shut down and enter an idle state if winds blow 42 mph or more for a period of 15 minutes. Blades start turning again after wind speeds measure below 42 mph for that same period.
Blades breaking aren’t an anomaly in Huron County.
In March 2013, a turbine blade, also in Sigel Township, broke because of a manufacturing defect, according to General Electric. In September 2013, a turbine near Minden City owned by Exelon Energy lost a blade after a lightning strike.
Buda, who once called Huron County a “mecca for lightning,” said in August 2014 the utility had almost 17 blades that had been struck by lighting. Strikes continued in 2014, causing land and crop damage and forcing wind park owners to replace blades.
Turbine Blade Separation Reported in Sigel Township
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Ralph Iden
DTE Wind Energy crews are on the scene of a blade separation at the Sigel Township wind park near the corner of Section Line and Finkel Roads.
Spokesperson Jennifer Wilt said the access road to Sigel Wind Turbine Number 29 has been closed but traffic on the two roads is not affected. No one was injured when one blade fell off the turbine at about 3:15 p.m. The land owner notified the Wind Energy crews. Cause of the incident has not been determined.
Wilt said the team’s first priority is safety and security. When necessary steps have been taken to satisfy those needs, the investigation into the cause will begin.
The wind turbines are designed to shut down automatically which Sigel 29 did. The shutdown will have no impact on the company’s ability to meet the State 10 percent renewable energy requirement.
Sigel Wind Park is one of three which comprise the Thumb Wind Park. The other two are McKinley and Minden.
Photographs submitted to WLEW News by Kelly Zurek appears to show that at least a portion of the blade did not fall to the ground but instead partially wrapped around the turbine possibly damaging the turbine housing.
While in one part of Huron County one of these things was left to untangle itself, in another, gravity did its worst …
400-foot wind turbine falls in Huron County
OLIVER TOWNSHIP — A nearly 400-foot, 485,000-pound wind turbine has fallen down on a farm field at the site of the state’s first utility-scale wind project.
Oliver Township Supervisor Larry Krohn said it came down at about 5:20 a.m. in the middle of the field.
“He just heard a noise and it sounded like a tree cracking or something and a little rumble of thunder when it hit the ground,” Krohn said of the resident’s account of the situation.
The fallen turbine is part of Exelon Wind Generation’s 32-turbine Harvest Wind Farm, the first utility-scale wind project built in Michigan. It began operation in 2008.
Krohn says he hasn’t seen any damages other than to the wind turbine itself. He says he hadn’t heard from Exelon Wind Generation as of 12:30 p.m.
The turbine’s tower is made of steel with three fiberglass blades, according to Exelon. It came down near the Berne and Gagetown roads intersection in Section 6, the northwest corner of the township.
“An incident like this has not happened at an Exelon wind farm,” said Kristen Otterness, communications manager for Exelon, which has 47 wind projects across the country in 10 states.
There were no injuries to employees or the public, Otterness said. She says the area around the turbine has been roped off and is in a safe and secure condition.
Otterness says Exelon is looking into the cause of the fall. The company notified the sheriff’s office and landowners, she said.
“We do have employees out there right now,” she said.
She said she can’t speculate as to Exelon’s plan or next steps but will know more after crews inspect the scene.
“We’re going to wait to get a response from Exelon before we do anything,” Krohn said.
Readers called the Tribune on Thursday morning reporting a turbine had fallen to the ground.
The fall marks the second incident in less than a week in which a wind turbine has failed.
Crews are still investigating how a 160-foot, 7-ton wind turbine blade broke in eastern Huron County, leaving it dangling like a shoelace and torqued around the structure. The damaged blade is on one of DTE Energy’s 40 turbines in Sigel Township, near Section Line and Finkel roads. DTE says it happened at about 3:15 p.m. Friday.
DTE says the turbine automatically shut down after the incident. The utility expects an “extended outage” for the turbine during repairs and while “extensive top to bottom inspections of the entire turbine are conducted.”
Meanwhile, in another part of the County ….
Strong winter storm may be to blame in collapse of wind turbine
Terry Camp
HURON COUNTY (WJRT) – (02/25/16) – The strong winter storm may have been the cause for the collapse a wind turbine in Huron County.
The turbine collapsed Thursday morning at the Harvest One wind farm on M-142 near Pigeon.
It is believed to be the first wind farm that went online in the Thumb area, so these are some of the oldest turbines in the state.
Just last week, the blades of a wind turbine were damaged at another Huron County wind farm, but Thursday, the whole thing pretty much came down. Just the base of the wind turbine is still standing.
This is on a farm field and there was no one hurt when it collapsed.
From the tip of the blade, these wind turbines stand about 440 feet.
This turbine was one of 32 that are part of the Harvest One wind farm, which is operated by Exelon Generation, out of Iowa. The energy produced here is purchased by Wolverine Energy out of Cadillac.
“What could happen if somebody was farming around it, I don’t know, but, it’s obviously something you don’t hear much about it and the company has verified that this is a rarity,” said Huron County Sheriff Kelly Hanson.
The Huron County sheriff and Exelon officials were keeping people off the property while the company tries to figure out what happened. A spokesperson says it operates 47 wind parks like this across the country, and this is its first collapse of this kind. The company says the wind park has been shut down for now and it’s not clear when it will operate again.
Exelon operates four wind parks in the thumb area and two others in Gratiot County.
The construction of the wind parks has been controversial in the Thumb area, with some people complaining about the noise they make, a flickering of light effect at night and safety concerns. Hanson says there have been three incidents where blades have been damaged at various Huron County wind parks, but nothing like this.
“There’s a concern here, and there is going to be a bigger concern as they sort out what happened here. I mean, there is going to be a lot of people watching this,” Hanson said.
Exelon Generation is working on the permitting process of putting up another wind park in Sanilac County.
County Sheriff, Kelly Hanson will never be confused with Sherlock Holmes when she says “the company has verified that this is a rarity”. Kelly might like to take what wind power outfits say with more than just a grain of salt; and start looking for ‘clues’ – starting with our wrap ups on flying blades and tumbling turbines here:
Wind Industry Claims Flying Blades & Crashing Turbines a ‘Landmark & Tourist Attraction’
290 Tonne Vestas Wind Turbines Dropping Like Giant Wounded Flies
Happenstance or Enemy Action? Giant Wind Turbines Collapsing with Alarming Regularity
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A more common sight than Unicorns …
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We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
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Please pass it on , I’m sure they would appreciate all the ‘friends’ they can muster up at this point. Thanks!
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Let me fix that for ya DTE,
The turbine did not shut down, because frankly who the heck see’s a turbine spinning out of control during a white out snow storm when people aren’t traveling down impassable country side roads. It exploded, while travel conditions where ZERO visibility. DTE’s extended outage will last as long as it takes to clean up the oil in the field, which is leaking into the ditches and then pick up the blades that are the furthest away first. We promise to cover up all the facts right away.
Upon the landscape North winds doth blow
the natural breeze of heavy snow
no passing cars
no passing birds
no passing animals along the verge
whipping heavy no scene to see
North winds doth blow their wild sights unseen
it whirls about with no brakes leashed
and crashes down with utter ease
blades fly high abound by naught
no one shows the distance span
of blades dispersed upon these lands
the oil spills unleashed on soils
is hidden in the victors spoils
Oh Come Doth Winds!
Show your Might !
Blow Hard Blow Fierce
Throughout the Night!
Blow I say and Blow Unleashed
Take back Your Lands with Utter Ease !
If a blade or tower were to break off or collapse at some of the turbines of the Portland Wind Energy Project, and to hit the very close and supposedly barely operating Aluminium Smelter, then all hell would break loose. Planning Ministers and local Councils are supporting and deliberately and knowingly approving the construction of wind turbines posing a likely hazard to private and public property; to homes, care centres, schools and businesses in built up areas, and on farms and country roads.
With extremely high green energy costs and enormous taxpayer subsidies and an inability to produce energy on a full-time basis or be stored, why should this ineffective, expensive climate band-aid continue to be supported by our government and public? Backwoods ignorance of the hazards and facts is one thing but for policy makers to deliberately support ongoing wind farm harm to our rural environments and inhabitants is criminal.
More and more facts constantly come to light. Additives are put in the water used during wind farm construction to keep the dust down which leads to an important question in a drought ridden country-side, how much water IS used on a 10 or 100 turbine site? What ARE these additives? What IS the cost? How many additives and how much water will be used by wind energy producers to meet the RET? Wind energy producers, (with foreign ownership becoming the norm), are permitted to build thousands more turbines and bases and roads with NO transparent Government inspection of the extra or hidden costs to the taxpayer.
Where are our local media and intrepid reporters??
With Michigan’s fans tearing themselves apart with alarming regularity the neighbours are becoming nervous, and with good reason. Ernie Cameron lives within blade and or ice throw distance of one of these dervishes.
Marshall Rosenthal says:
This video breaks my heart.
Hi Stt, there is an article written in the Tuscola County Advertiser by Andrew Dietderich, Editor.
I receive our ‘paper’ subscription by snail mail. Although I subscribe to the paper, I do not have online access.
I believe you might want to read this article, opinion, that probably won’t make the main stream.
Here are a few paragraphs from Mr. Dietderichs article entitled;
“No story here – except there usually is ”
As Tuscola County has about 200 of the things scattered around, we have a duty as your newspaper to see what’s up and ask the questions that need to be asked. Stuff like : How could this have happened?
The Media department for NextEra Energy Resources Inc. – which has about 200 turbines in Tuscola County and wants to add a bunch more- didn’t even bother to return phone calls placed by The Advertiser on Thursday and Friday.
“Surely, you don’t think THIS is a story? ( Slight laugh) You guys MUST be really desperate for stories.”
But don’t worry, we plan to continue asking questions about this, and any other, “non-story” – and especially in this case as it appears more and more turbines will be popping up around you.
Andrew Dietderich is the editor of The Tuscola County Advertiser and can be reached at
andrew@tcadvertiser.com
If you need a photo of the article I can provide that, Thanks, Ella
Anyoldiron says:
THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED.
Imposing in there hundreds,
Such an army on display,
Those alien grey metal monsters
I saw while on my way.
Aliens on our shores have landed,
So tall, backs straight and true,
At night they watch through flashing eyes
Of red, at me and you.
Some have scaled the mountains,
Others near schools and homes,
Of one thing I am certain,
Those aliens have no souls.
No “whispering” from their ranks at all,
An unearthly sound they make,
It envelops each and everyone,
No more can humans take.
Three giant arms revolving,
Enveloping all around,
They’re here to ‘save the planet’,
The biggest “con” I have found.
Such hideous tall grey monsters,
Invade green and pleasant lands,
To stay for generations,
Unless the people make a stand.
These aliens feed on power and wind,
Without either, they will die,
They’re NOT environmental friendly,
They’re for profit, (at a cost), that’s WHY.
Crispin Trist says:
And you can add turbine number 1 at Cape Bridgewater to that list STT! The blade was split at the tip by lightning and is seen in the video below at the 3m 40s mark.
And to think they want to build thousands more of these things!
What a bloody mess.
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Cajamarca Tour impressive 5 days 4 nights
Known for its colonial and baroque architecture
1: CITY TOUR
2: WINDOWS OF OTUZCO
3: CUMBE MAYO
4: COLPA LLACANORA BAÑOS DEL INCA
5: DEPARTURE
Santa Apolinia
1 CITY TOUR
Reception and transfer to the selected hotel
Tour of the Plaza de Armas, Church of San Francisco the Cathedral, Bethlehem, colonial hospitals, Museum of religious art, Ethnographic, crypts, Chapel of the Sorrowful Virgin, Rescue room of the Inca Atahualpa, Santa Apolonia Hill with the chair of the Inca. Overnight
Visit from 09:30 am. At 1:00 p.m. And from 15:00 pm. at 19.00pm.
Ventanillas de otuzco
2 WINDOWS OF OTUZCO
Visit to the Ventanillas de Otuzco or Pre-Inca Necropolis of the Cajamarca Culture, then continue to the Garden of the Hydrangeas, founding three mills and the farm where the Alps are made Dairy Products (Tasting) and observation of the breeding of horses. Overnight
Cumbemayo
3 CUMBE MAYO
Place where is the best work of hydraulic engineering of the pre-Inca period. Acueducto worked in volcanic rock managing to pass, The water of the slopes of the Pacific to the slopes of the Atlantic. In addition you can enjoy a beautiful panorama of rocks that acquire capricious forms of Fraylones and other Figures. On our tour we will visit the Sanctuary with recordings of Petroglyphs, Ceremonial Altars, Stones of sacrifice, Bellavista, Layzón and forest park of the UNC.
Visit from 09:20 am to 1:30 pm. Overnight
4 COLPA LLACANORA BAÑOS DEL INCA
Visit of the Ex-hda. The Colpa place where the cows are called by name for milking, then the typical village of Llacanora, Callacpoma Caves (Rock Art), Baños del Inca, the Perolitos thermo medicinal sources and Pozo del Inca. Visit from 3:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Overnight
At the appropriate time transfer to the airport or bus station.
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Wildflower Featured in NetworkNewsWire Publication Discussing Opportunity in the CBD Rush
April 1, 2019 Asianet Pakistan Asean, PRESS RELEASES
NEW YORK, April 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NetworkWire — Wildflower Brands Inc. (CSE: SUN) (OTCQB: WLDFF) today announces its placement in an editorial published by NetworkNewsWire (“NNW”), a multifaceted financial news and publishing company for private and public entities.
To view the full publication, titled, “CBD Going Mainstream amid Flood of New Products, Celebrity Endorsements, and Emerging Consensus about Benefits,” visit: http://nnw.fm/5xAwt
Many analysts are saying that the CBD rush is just getting started. One recent estimate indicates that the CBD market alone could eclipse the entire remainder of the cannabis market combined. Wildflower can apparently read the handwriting on the wall and intends to apply the $1.882 million in proceeds from the company’s recent, oversold private placement to good use.
A reputable brand whose stated mission is to connect people to the healing power of plants via the company’s increasingly sophisticated line of CBD vaporizers, capsules, tinctures, soaps and topicals, Vancouver-based Wildflower Wellness packs its extracts with essential amino acids and beneficial terpenes.
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Bombardier Signs Firm Purchase Agreement for Six Q400 Turboprops
Philips introduces DreamWisp to growing portfolio of sleep solutions
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Damien Wilkins on surprise in-game gender reveal
When Damien Wilkins looked up during a timeout and saw his fiancée Jasmine Mitchell on the court, he assumed she was there for a Pacers trivia thing that they did with fans or something.
So, he ignored what was happening and went back to focusing on what his coaches were saying about the game.
But then, he saw a sign that said ‘it’s a boy.’
It took a second to sink in.
In the video posted by the Pacers he can be seen glancing at the screen, looking away and then doing a hilarious double take.
“I was totally caught off guard,” he said. “She did a good job with that one. That was impressive.”
But when it did, as everyone was still talking basketball around him?
“I was like ‘oh (expletive)’. That’s us! The video gets my reaction totally perfectly. My reaction said it all.”
Despite the life-changing news, Wilkins said he managed to stay locked into the game. But he of course couldn’t shake the feeling of being excited and nervous after the surprise reveal.
“Yesterday morning she told me she had a dentist appointment at 9 a.m. so she left the house and me presumably thinking she’s going to the dentist. But she (went) to the ultrasound.”
Mitchell gave the gender results to the Pacers’ director of player development, who set the reveal at the game – where they both learned they were having a baby boy.
Wilkins isn’t the only NBA player to have a creative gender reveal this week. Langston Galloway dunked a basketball in front of his teammates – with his wife watching – to reveal that he was also having a boy.
Wilkins said he had spoken with his fiancée about a gender reveal, but hadn’t been sure about the whole thing – even if it’s trendy right now.
“But I was super happy,” he said. “We’re blessed.”
BY Nina Mandell / PUBLISHED December/28/2017 / USA TODAY
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/12/damien-wilkins-gender-reveal
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Friday theme: Prison
16:00 – Attica: 40 years later (18min) – USA – English (2012)
Former national guardsman Tad Crawford and former Attica prisoners Carlos Roche and Joseph “Jazz” Hayden recount what happened during the Attica prison uprising on September 9, forty five years ago, and the repercussions still being felt from the uprising.
16:30 – Picco (1hr 45min) – GERMANY – Deutsch (2010)
A drama based on real events, about the experience of a newcomer in a youth prison.
18:30 – Louie Theroux Behind Bars san Quentin (1hr) UK – English (2008)
For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison and talks with the guards and the inmates. The guards escort him, tell him what their job is all about and how the prison is subdivided while the inmates tell him there’s a segregation of races that can’t be undone.
19:45 – Australia’s shame (1hr) – AUSTRALIA – English – German Subs? (2016)
An episode from Four Corners reveals the shocking truth about the treatment of children behind bars, where young offenders have been stripped naked, assaulted and tear gassed.
(30 min discussion indigenous imprisonment Australia/worldwide.)
20:15 – Charlies Country (1hr 45min) – AUSTRALIA – English (2013)
Displeased with the intervention of whitefella laws, Charlie takes off to live the old way and sets off a chain reaction of enlightening difficulties.
22:00 END
Saturday theme: Queer/Trans* in Prison
14:00 – Cruel and unusual (1hr 3min) USA – English – (2006)
An unflinching examination of transgender women in men’s prisons. Ashley, Linda, Anna, Yolanda and Ophelia describe their experiences undergoing inhumane and humiliating treatment including rape, violence, solitary confinement and denial of medial care.
15:15 – Out in the Night (1hr 22min) USA – English (2014)
A film about the New Jersey 4, women who where branded a “Gang of Killer Lesbians” by the media, after defending themselves against sexual assault on the street.
16:45 – Last Rescue in Siam (10min) THAILAND – English/Thai (2012)
The first film ever made by sex workers in Thailand. It is a short black and white movie inspired by the tradition of the old silent movies. The film accompanies the Empower research report “Hit & Run” available onwww.facebook.com/LastRescueInSiam
(Discussion or pause)
17:30 – Criminal Queers (1hr 10min) – USA – English – German Subs (2016)
Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. This film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation.
19:00 – Leonera (1hr 53min) – ARGENTINA – Spanish – English subs – (2009)
A film addressing maternity, jail and Justice; confinement, guilt and solitude; as the main character, Julia raises her son Tomas inside an Argentinean prison.
Sunday theme: Borders and detention
16:00 – Tasting Freedom (52min) – UK – English (1994)
Tasting Freedom’ documents the struggles of asylum seekers in Britain for recognition of their basic human rights and investigates abuses on asylum seekers in detention centres and prisons. The documentary closely follows the struggles of the detainees including hunger strikes, revolts and uprisings.
17:00 – Deine Freiheit, Meine Freiheit (1hr 24min) – GERMANY – Deutsch
(30 min discussion – Women in prison)
19:00 – Campsfield House (23min) – UK – English (2014)
This documentary aims to tackle the lack of public engagement with the reality of immigration detention. By speaking with people about their personal experiences of Campsfield, it gives a look behind the statistics that characterise mainstream media and politicians’ reports on immigration.
19:30 – Working illegally (29min) – UK – English (2015)
Working Illegally, looks behind politicians’ rhetoric, the closed walls and barbed wire of UK border enforcement, to expose the reality of immigration detention, raising pressing questions concerning its nature and purpose. Told primarily through detainees’ testimonies.
20:15 – Nowhere Line:Voices from Manus Island (16min) – AUSTRALIA – English (2015)
An animated short film, narrated by two asylum-seeking men detained in Australia’s Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre, recounting the dangerous journeys that brought them to the island and their memories of the riot that erupted in 2014.
(30 min discussion refugee detention in Australia)
21:00 – Crulic (1hr 13min) – ROMANIA/POLAND – Romanian – English Subs (2011)
‘The animated feature-length “Crulic – The Path to Beyond” tells the story of the life of Crulic, the 33 years old Romanian who died in a Polish prison while making hunger strike.
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Could increased axial wall stress be responsible for the development of atheroma in the proximal segment of myocardial bridges?
Pierre-André Doriot1Email author,
Pierre-André Dorsaz1 and
Jacques Noble1
© Doriot et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2007
A recent model describing the mechanical interaction between a stenosis and the vessel wall has shown that axial wall stress can considerably increase in the region immediately proximal to the stenosis during the (forward) flow phases, so that abnormal biological processes and wall damages are likely to be induced in that region. Our objective was to examine what this model predicts when applied to myocardial bridges.
The model was adapted to the hemodynamic particularities of myocardial bridges and used to estimate by means of a numerical example the cyclic increase in axial wall stress in the vessel segment proximal to the bridge. The consistence of the results with reported observations on the presence of atheroma in the proximal, tunneled, and distal vessel segments of bridged coronary arteries was also examined.
1) Axial wall stress can markedly increase in the entrance region of the bridge during the cardiac cycle. 2) This is consistent with reported observations showing that this region is particularly prone to atherosclerosis.
The proposed mechanical explanation of atherosclerosis in bridged coronary arteries indicates that angioplasty and other similar interventions will not stop the development of atherosclerosis at the bridge entrance and in the proximal epicardial segment if the decrease of the lumen of the tunneled segment during systole is not considerably reduced.
Wall Shear Stress
Left Anterior Descend
Axial Force
Axial Stress
Proximal Segment
The existence of myocardial bridges is known since more than a century. The interest for these anatomical particularities of coronary arteries has remained, however, very modest until the development of dynamic coronary angiography in the sixties. This new imaging modality allowed for the first time to see the compression of the tunneled vessel segment during systole ("milking effect", Fig. 1). Since that time, myocardial bridges are increasingly suspected of inducing severe ischemiae in the associated myocardial territories, and even infarcts and sudden deaths [1–5].
Angiographic images showing a bridge on the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) in a male patient of 65 years. A1) Right anterior oblique view taken at end systole. The compressed vessel segment is indicated by the two arrows. B1) Left anterior oblique view taken nearly at the same instant. A2) Same view as in A1, but taken 133 ms later. The tunneled segment is no longer compressed. B2) Same view as in B1 but 133 ms later.
At necropsy, myocardial bridges are a common finding [6–8]. In the literature, the percentages vary, however, greatly but this is most probably due to differences between the definitions used by the investigators [6–9]. The left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) is the most frequently concerned vessel [7, 10, 11], whereby the bridge is usually situated on the middle segment. Loukas et al. found that the presence of bridges in the adult human heart is related to coronary dominance, particularly in the left coronary circulation [12]. With angiography, the detection rate is much lower than at autopsy because only bridges having a marked compressive effect are identifiable [13–16]; it was also found that only LAD bridges are detected [17].
Bridged LAD are particularly prone to become atherosclerotic. Most authors (except for instance Edwards [7]) agree on the fact that atheroma and stenoses are frequent in the proximal adjacent vessel segment, practically inexistent in the tunneled segment, and rare in the distal one [4, 9–11, 14, 18–23]. The reasons of this particular distribution have been studied by different authors. Ge and co-workers performed intravascular ultrasound and pressure measurements in patients and came to the conclusion that bridges augment systolic pressure and wall shear stress (WSS) in the proximal vessel segment [9, 14, 15]; they postulated that this induces wall damages. Möhlenkamp and co-workers thought, on the contrary, that the formation of atheroma proximal to the bridge is due to low WSS [5]. More recently, Bernhard et al. designed a mathematical-physical model to investigate the relative importance of several physical parameters involved in the hemodynamics of myocardial bridges [24]. They found that WSS and WSS oscillations are maximal in the entrance region of the bridge, and they stated that the proximal segment is more susceptible to develop atherosclerosis firstly because the pressure is increased in that segment, and secondly because WSS and WSS oscillations are maximal. With regard to the tunneled segment, they thought that it is relatively spared because WSS fades towards the end of the bridge. Concerning the distal segment, they explained that it is not exposed to the same risk because WSS is very low, and negative in the regions exhibiting flow separation; furthermore, the bridge reduces systolic pressure. Many authors assume that the tunneled segment is protected against atherosclerosis because the bridge reduces circumferential wall stress, especially during systole. This explanation is, of course, not applicable to the distal segment.
In the present contribution, we propose a different explanation for the higher susceptibility of the bridge entrance for atherosclerosis. It is based on the concept that a severe lumen reduction can generate, during the forward flow phases, a considerable increase in axial wall stress in the vessel segment situated immediately upstream of the obstruction. This concept has been described in detail elsewhere [25–27].
We begin below with a brief recall of the definitions of wall stresses. Then, we describe in a simplified manner the mechanism by which an arterial stenosis may increase axial wall stress (More detailed explanations are given in the Appendix). After a section summarizing the particularities of bridged coronary arteries, the relevance of the concept of increased axial wall stress for myocardial bridges is examined and a numerical example is calculated.
Definitions of wall stresses
The mechanical state of a vessel at any particular location inside or on the wall is usually described by the values of circumferential, axial (also called "longitudinal"), and radial stress at that location. These stresses are defined as "force pulling perpendicularly at (or pushing perpendicularly on) the considered surface" divided by "the area of that surface" (Fig. 2). As zero-reference of stresses, one chooses usually the atmospheric pressure (A consequence of this convention is that all forces due to the compressive action of the atmospheric pressure are ignored). If the force is pulling at the considered surface, the stress is tensile, and positive by convention. If the force is pushing, the stress is compressive, and negative by convention. The three stresses are orthogonal and express the tractions the wall "material" experiences at the considered location in the circumferential and axial directions, and the compression it experiences in the radial direction. For a complete description of the mechanical state of the wall at the considered location, one needs, in principle, also the values of the circumferential, axial, and radial shearing stresses at that location; these stresses were shown, however, to be quantitatively negligible (This also holds for the well known WSS at the lumen surface of the wall). Thus, if all forces acting on and inside an excised, unloaded vessel segment are exclusively due to the atmospheric pressure, all stresses are zero by convention. In excised, unloaded vessel segments there are still small forces that are not due to the ambient pressure but to residual constraints in the "material". These forces are responsible for the well known residual stresses that can be removed by a radial cut of the vessel segment.
Definition of circumferential, axial, and radial wall stress (perspective view). Division of the circumferential force Fc by the area S of the cube face it pulls at yields the circumferential wall stress σc = Fc/S. Division of the axial force Fa by the area S of the cube face it pulls at yields the axial wall stress σa = Fa/S. Division of the radial force Fr by the area S of the cube face it pushes on yields the radial wall stress σr = Fr/S. These three orthogonal stresses are used to describe the mechanical state of the vessel wall at the considered location. The average axial wall stress over a wall cross-section is equal to the quotient "force pulling axially at that cross-section, divided by the area A of that cross-section" (A = π (Ro2 - Ri2)).
Blood vessels being not rigid bodies, an increase of circumferential or axial stress at a particular location is always accompanied by an elongation of the wall "material" in the corresponding direction and at that location. Thus, an increase of axial wall stress in a particular wall cross-section is always accompanied by an axial elongation of the vessel in that region.
Due to its direct relationship with the intravascular pressure, circumferential stress has always received a lot of attention, while axial and radial stresses were practically ignored. Since a few years, however, biological processes induced in arterial walls by axial stress changes are increasingly studied [28].
Effect of a stenosis on axial wall stress
In this section, we explain in a simplified manner how stenoses may increase axial wall stress in the proximal segment during the (forward) flow phases, particularly in the segment just upstream of the entrance cone; more detailed explanations can be found in the Appendix and in references [26] and [27]. Any moderate or severe stenosis produces a decrease of the intravascular pressure in the distal segment during the flow phases, due to the pressure drop across the obstruction (Fig. 3). The magnitude of the pressure drop depends on the stenosis severity and on the instantaneous flow (among else). The difference between the pressures in the entrance and exit cones of the stenosis generate, together with the drag of the blood in the stenosis throat, an axial force. Spatially, this force is maximal in the wall cross section situated just upstream of the entrance cone (cross-section x = 0 in Fig. 3). Since the vessel is more or less tethered to the surrounding tissues, the local wall elongations induced by this force generate in turn retaining forces in these tissues. The resulting effect of all these forces is a cyclic, supplementary axial stress that is maximal in the wall cross-section x = 0. This supplementary stress adds to the "normal" axial wall stress, which is here the stress that stretches the vessel to its in vivo length, and also the axial stress one would measure in the wall during the zero-flow phase.
Schematic representation of a stenosed, non bridged coronary artery: a) When flow is zero, the intravascular pressure p exerts two axial, opposite, equal forces (Fo and Fo) in the constriction and expansion cones, respectively. The vertical equidistant slashes indicate that the vessel wall does not pull (axially) at the surrounding myocardium. b) When blood flows through the stenosis, the proximal pressure pp is greater than the distal pressure pd, and the sum of the two forces pulling in downstream direction (F1 and F2, see Appendix) is greater than the sum of the two forces pulling in upstream direction (F3 and Ftissues). If flow and proximal pressure do not reach their maximum simultaneously, the net force F = F1 + F2 - F3 - Ftissues is not necessarily maximal when flow or proximal pressure are maximal. The oblique slashes show where the vessel wall will elongate axially and pull at the myocardium.
As the numerical examples given in reference [25] show, the supplementary stress induced in the cross section x = 0 strongly depends on the degree of stenosis (and on instantaneous flow, among else). If the stenosis is tight, this increase of axial stress may be greater than the "normal" axial wall stress of the cross-section x = 0. It is reasonable to think that arteries that do not experience axial stress variations when they are still non diseased (e.g. intact coronary arteries) are not able to resist strong, cyclic increases of axial stress without damages. In the last ten years, deleterious effects induced by axial overstretching of the vessel wall have indeed been increasingly reported (e.g. circular tears of the endothelium, or direct induction of pathologic reactive processes inside the wall).
Particularities of bridged coronary arteries
Before examining the relevance of the mechanical model described above for bridged coronary arteries, it is necessary to recall first the morphologic and hemodynamic particularities of these arteries. They can be summarized as follows [4, 5, 9, 14, 21, 29, 30]. - Length and thickness of muscular bridges are quite variable. - The wall of the tunneled vessel segment is usually thinner than the walls of the proximal and distal segments; this is often due to less intima thickening, but it may also be due sometimes to a thinner media, which is perhaps a consequence that circumferential wall stress is reduced by the surrounding myocardium, particularly during systole. - During systole, the lumen of the tunneled segment is smaller than the lumens of the proximal and distal segments, and the blood velocity is greater [29]. - During diastole, the lumen of the tunneled segment often remains smaller than the lumen of the proximal segment; sometimes, it also remains smaller than the lumen of the distal segment (at least in symptomatic patients [30]). - Diastolic flow begins with a sharp flow velocity spike, which is followed by a dome-shaped pattern [9, 14]; this particular picture of flow velocity is sometimes called "finger tip". The spike is due to the rapid release of the constriction inside the myocardium at early diastole when the intravascular volume of the tunneled segment is still minimal. - Antegrade systolic flow is most often reduced or absent [14]. - Retrograde flow in the proximal segment may be present during systole [29], and thus also in the tunneled segment (or in a part of it), especially after an intracoronary injection of nitroglycerin [9]. In this case, the pressure is higher in the bridge than in the proximal segment during systole [29], and it produces a transient increase of the pressure in the proximal segment. More information on the cyclic increases and decreases of pressure in the proximal, tunneled, and distal segments can be found in the article of Bernhard et al. [24].
The locations at which atheroma or stenoses are frequently encountered are usually described in the literature by "proximal to the bridge" or "on the proximal LAD segment". Some authors are more precise and specify "immediately proximal to the bridge", or "just before the bridge", or "at the entrance to the tunneled segment" [5, 8, 20, 31, 32]. A reason why the location of the lesions is not always precisely specified is probably that this point is considered to be of minor interest. For explaining the atherogeneicity of myocardial bridges it is, however, important. Anyway, several other observations confirm this particularity of bridges. For instance, Polacek found intima thickening in the segment immediately proximal to the bridge (and sometimes also behind the bridge) [8]. Similarly, Ishii et al. observed that the ratio "intima thickness to media thickness" is higher immediately before the bridge than at any other site when the bridge is situated on the proximal LAD segment [31]. Boucek et al. used the level of incorporation of 35SO4 into glycosaminoglycans (GAG) to identify the sites of accentuated stress in coronary arteries of dogs; they found that the metabolism of GAG was higher in the epicardial segments, particularly in the segment immediately proximal to the bridge [33].
Concerning the severity of the atherosclerotic lesions, Ge et al. have pointed out that proximal stenoses can be quite important (mean area stenosis: 45%) [9]. Bridged coronary arteries can also be "angiographically normal" at end-diastole [1, 34] but this does not mean, of course, that they are non diseased.
Proposed explanation for the atherogeneicity of myocardial bridges
Based on the facts mentioned in the preceding sections and on further considerations that will be developed in this section, our proposition is that cyclically excessive axial wall stress at the bridge entrance is responsible (at least partly) for the great susceptibility of bridged coronary arteries for atherosclerotic degradations in this region.
A first, evident case in which axial wall stress cyclically increases in the proximal segment is, of course, that the tunneled segment pulls axially at that segment during systole, due to strong morphologic changes in the bridge region during the heart contraction (e.g., deeper dipping of the tunneled segment into the myocardium during systole). Atherosclerotic degradations may then be expected at the entrance of the bridge, and possibly further upstream of the entrance. If the distal segment also experiences such a cyclic pulling, degradations may also be expected at the bridge exit.
A second, less obvious possibility for cyclic increases of axial wall stress originates in the hemodynamic changes that occur in bridged coronary arteries during the cardiac cycle. Basically, the mechanical model used in the present study predicts a cyclic increase of axial wall stress there where the flowing blood encounters a severe lumen reduction. Since bridged arteries are not quite comparable to coronary arteries with a permanent stenosis, we have to consider two cases. It is assumed that cyclic morphologic changes in the previously mentioned sense are negligible in both cases.
Case 1) In this first case, the lumen of the tunneled segment shall be smaller during the whole cardiac cycle than the lumen of the proximal adjacent segment [29, 34]. As soon as blood flows (forward), an axial force F appears, due to the unbalance between the axial force F1 + F2 pulling in downstream direction (see Fig. 3b) and the axial force F3 + Ftissues opposing the force F1 + F2 (F = F1 + F2 - F3 - Ftissues; see Fig. 3b and Appendix). The force F1 is due to the pressure pushing in the entrance cone of the bridge; F2 is the force generated by the drag of the blood in the tunneled segment; F3 is due to the pressure pushing in upstream direction in the exit cone of the bridge, and Ftissue is the retaining axial force provided by the myocardial tissues surrounding the artery distally of the cross section x = 0. In the following, we mainly consider the effect of these four forces in the wall cross section x = 0. In that cross section, the force F = F1 + F2 - F3 - Ftissues produces a cyclic increase of axial wall stress (This effect is, of course, not limited to the cross section x = 0; it is in fact present in all cross sections situated upstream of the exit cone of the bridge, but with attenuated magnitude because "abnormal" axial wall forces are transmitted to the surrounding myocardial tissues via the axial displacements/elongations of the vessel they induce. For instance, if the proximal segment were not tethered to the myocardium, the force F would be present with full magnitude in that segment).
The spatial maximum of the force F is always in the cross section x = 0. Of great importance is further the magnitude of the temporal maximum of F, because the supplementary axial wall stress generated in the entrance region of the bridge and the resulting axial wall stretch are proportional to F. At which precise time point the force F reaches its maximum is, in se, not important. It may be when the contracting myocardium abruptly reduces diastolic flow (early systole), or rather at the time of the "finger tip" (flow velocity spike at early diastole), or at some other time during the flow velocity "dome". The determination of this time point would require the use of a sophisticated hemodynamic model for bridged LAD arteries.
Case 2) In this second case, the lumen of the tunneled segment during diastole shall be nearly equal to the lumen of the proximal segment. The force F present in the wall just upstream of the bridge entrance is perhaps maximal at early systole when the contracting myocardium abruptly reduces the lumen of the tunneled segment, but it is also conceivable that F is maximal at the time of the "finger tip" (provided that such a flow velocity spike is present), or at a particular time point of the "dome" phase.
In bridged coronary arteries, the lumen of the distal (epicardial) segment remains usually at least equal to the lumen of the tunneled segment throughout the cardiac cycle. Thus, the flow never encounters a decrease of the lumen area at the bridge exit. As a consequence, there is never a cyclic increase in axial wall stress due to flow, and the development of atheroma should therefore not be promoted at this site.
With regard to the well known risk factors of atherosclerosis (hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, etc), it seems obvious that these factors play the same aggravating role as in non bridged arteries.
Numerical example
To qualitatively illustrate the effect a bridge may have on axial wall stress in the entrance region of the bridge, we consider a 3 mm (lumen diameter) LAD with a 12 mm bridge at the end of the first segment. The vessel diameter of the tunneled segment during diastole shall be 3 mm. In order to calculate the pressure drop across the bridge as a function of the percent diameter reduction (DS) jointly defined by the tunneled segment and the proximal segment, we have to choose values for the proximal pressure and the flow. According to a study of Ge et al. [14], myocardium contraction begins to reduce the end-diastolic flow through the bridge practically at the time of maximum aortic pressure. For the pressure at the bridge entrance (proximal pressure), which is nearly equal to aortic pressure, we choose therefore 120 mmHg. Based on the same study we assume next an instantaneous flow velocity of 7 cm/s in the proximal segment (average value over the lumen). This yields an instantaneous flow of 1 ml/s (These choices do not imply that the force F is necessarily maximal at the time of aortic maximum pressure). Using the formulas given in [25], we calculate then the pressure drop across the bridge for the DS range 1% to 99%. In the computer algorithm, flow is automatically reduced at high DS values in such a way that the distal pressure does not fall below a chosen limit (see Appendix). The rationale of this is that in case of severe (conventional) stenosis a minimal diastolic distal pressure of about 10 mmHg is needed to push some blood through the fully dilated arterioles and the capillary bed. Although this value may be less founded for bridges, we use it as lowest limit for the pressure at the bridge exit. Thus, the algorithm reduces the chosen flow value (1 ml/s) at high DS values to a level such that the pressure drop across the bridge does not exceed the proximal pressure minus 10 mmHg.
For the computation of the axial force F that pulls at the cross section x = 0 at the DS values 1% to 99% (see Fig. 3), we assume for simplicity (and arbitrarily) that the drag force F2 that pulls at the inner surface of the tunneled segment is exactly compensated by the retaining axial force Ftissues provided by the surrounding tissues downstream of the bridge entrance (see Appendix). Since the bridge is rather short (12 mm) and the flow reduced at high DS values, this simplification has not a great impact. The supplementary axial force F that pulls cyclically in the vessel wall just ahead of the bridge entrance is thus exclusively due to the forces F1 and F3 exerted by the blood onto the inner surfaces of the constriction and expansion cones: F = F1 - F3 (see Appendix). Having calculated the values of F for the DS range 1% to 99%, we assume then a relative wall thickness tr of 1.15 at the cross section x = 0 (tr = Do/Di, where Di = 3 mm and Do = Di tr = 3.45 mm are the inner and outer diameters of the proximal LAD segment at x = 0) and calculate the resulting supplementary axial stress values at x = 0 as F/[0.25 π (Do2 - Di2)].
In order to obtain the value of axial wall stress at x = 0 at a particular DS value, we have to add the corresponding, supplementary axial wall stress generated by the force F to the "normal" axial stress of the proximal LAD segment. This "normal" axial stress is the stress needed to stretch the artery to its in vivo length. In epicardial coronary arteries of adults (except perhaps in aged individuals), it can be assumed to have roughly the value one would reach by inflating an excised, occluded segment of the considered artery with a pressure equal to the mean in vivo intravascular pressure [25]. Choosing 84 mmHg for this mean value, we obtain, with Di = 3 mm and tr = 1.15, a "normal" stress value of 34.6 kPa. Adding this "normal" axial wall stress to the computed values of the supplementary axial stress generated by the force F yields the curve depicted in Fig. 4. The flattening of the curve at high DS values (80, 85, 90, 95, and 99% in this example) is due to the previously mentioned flow reduction at high DS values, but not to the chosen limit of 10 mmHg (Setting 0 mmHg instead of 10 mmHg did not markedly modify the curve).
Axial wall stress (y-axis) at the entrance of the bridge considered in the numerical example versus diameter reduction values (DS; x-axis). The stress values are the sum of "normal" axial wall stress (see text) and supplementary axial stress generated cyclically by the pressure drop across the bridge. The flow was set to 1 ml/s as long as the distal pressure did not fall below 10 mmHg. At high DS values (80, 85, 90, and 99%), it was appropriately reduced in order to respect this 10 mmHg limit. Axial stress begins to increase markedly at a DS value of approximately 60%; this corresponds to a lumen area reduction of roughly 80%.
As Fig. 4 shows, axial wall stress at the bridge entrance does not increase appreciably as long as DS < 60%, but at values greater than 80% it has more than doubled. Since increases in axial wall stress and resulting axial elongations are proportional (in first approximation), a stress increase of 100% results in a local axial elongation of roughly 100%. For comparison, if one assumes for simplicity that the diameter of a coronary artery does not greatly increase if systolic pressure doubles, a 100% increase of circumferential stress corresponds roughly to an increase of systolic pressure from, for instance, 140 mmHg to 280 mmHg. Since coronary arteries are not primarily structured to cope with great variations of axial wall stress, it is likely that increases of axial stress of 20% or more at the bridge entrance might be the main reason why this region often exhibits atheroma, or even a conventional stenosis. It must be underlined, however, that this result does not allow to exclude high or low WSS at the bridge entrance from the culprit list [cf. [24]].
Since the first segment of the LAD is rather straight and not very rigidly attached to the myocardium, it is conceivable that the axial force generated by the bridge is not very efficiently absorbed by the myocardial tissues. As a consequence, the cyclic increase in axial wall stress present in the cross section x = 0 may also be present farther upstream, although with attenuated magnitude. This might explain why the segment upstream of the bridge is more prone to become atherosclerotic than the same segments of non bridged arteries. Similarly, the fact that the supplementary axial force generated in the wall upstream of the bridge entrance decreases with increasing upstream distance from the bridge entrance might explain why the first segment of a bridged LAD artery is more prone to become atherosclerotic when the bridge is situated at the end of this segment than when it is situated at the end of the second or third segment.
The explanation proposed in this article for the fact that in bridged coronary arteries atherosclerosis develops mainly at the bridge entrance is based on the concept that axial wall stress becomes cyclically excessive at this site, and that this abnormal stress induces wall damages. The underlying postulate that cyclic axial overloads are less well tolerated than the cyclic increases in circumferential stress generated by the normal pressure pulses is based on the fact that the structure of arterial walls is mainly circumferential, and that the axial sections of the vessel are less coupled. The effect of axial wall stress is therefore of much more interest for wall damages than circumferential stress, which is present during the cardiac cycle.
In vessel modeling one has to simplify many things and to make assumptions. The numerical results presented in the preceding section can therefore not be accurate to a few percents. Nevertheless, they clearly indicate that axial wall stress may considerably augment in the segment immediately proximal to the bridge entrance in the course of each cardiac cycle. Due to the variability of the many parameters involved (pressures, flow, bridge morphology, compression strength, etc), the cyclic stress increase exhibits most probably a considerable inter-individual variability; in some bridges, it will perhaps be greater than 100% while in other ones it will be much less. Furthermore, the magnitude of axial wall stress, and of increases of this stress, along a vessel segment also depends on the action of the tethering forces exerted by the surrounding tissues. But the increase in axial stress will be maximal at the bridge entrance because, further upstream, the cyclic axial wall force F is progressively absorbed by the surrounding tissues.
According to Fig. 4, axial wall stress becomes clearly excessive only at high DS values. As a consequence, the proximal segment of bridged arteries in which the lumen of the tunneled segment is not strongly reduced during systole should exhibit less atherosclerosis than the proximal segment of bridged arteries in which the tunneled segment undergoes a strong compression.
The proposed concept of excessive axial stress does not apply to the tunneled segment itself. For this segment, one can make the following considerations. If the tunneled segment is firmly attached to the myocardium, axial forces of hemodynamic origin cannot induce appreciable cyclic variations of its length. If the axial forces generated by the deformation of the myocardium in the region of the bridge are, moreover, also negligible, then axial wall stress remains constant, irrespectively of the actual wall thickness of the segment. Thus, atherosclerotic modifications of the wall, if any, should not be due in this case to excessive variations of axial wall stress. This is independent of the actual value of axial stress, which may be lower, equal, or higher than in the proximal and distal epicardial segments. The actual stress value cannot be predicted; one can presume, at most, that it is comparable to the "normal" axial wall stress of the proximal and distal segments.
If the tethering forces acting axially on the tunneled segment are, on the contrary, negligible, as it is possibly the case when the segment is embedded in a thick layer of fat and thus not firmly attached to the myocardium, then the axial wall stress of the tunneled segment will be greater than in the proximal and distal epicardial segments if the diastolic lumen area of the tunneled segment is equal to (or smaller than) the lumen area of the proximal and distal segments, and the wall thinner (Thereby, constant length of the tunneled segment and wall incompressibility are assumed). But this difference in axial stress will be permanent because it is due to the smaller lumen and/or the smaller wall thickness of the tunneled segment. Since the SMC inside the wall of the tunneled segment are in this case not submitted to axial wall elongations induced by cyclic increases of axial stress, this permanent stress difference has (presumably) no deleterious effects Pathologic modifications that are exceptionally found well inside the tunneled segment [5, 7] may therefore be due to excessive shear stress inside this segment during systole or early diastole, or to a cyclic elongation of this segment due to morphologic changes in the bridge region.
If there is a lumen reduction at the bridge exit during diastole (which does not mean that such cases really exist), and if the tunneled segment is embedded in a thick layer of fat, then a cyclic elongation of the arterial wall of the tunneled segment is possible, particularly just proximal to the bridge exit. This prediction is consistent with the fact that pathologic wall modifications are more frequent when the fat layer around the tunneled vessel segment is thick [11].
The concept of cyclically excessive axial stress appears to be also consistent with results published by different authors. For instance, Ishikawa et al. studied 108 rabbits fed with a cholesterol diet (ChoR) and 29 control rabbits (ConR) [23]. In the rabbits they used, a part of the LAD is always tunneled. Groups of ChoR were sacrificed at 1 week intervals up to the 20th week, and groups of ConR were sacrificed after 1, 8, and 20 weeks. The last 3 mm segment immediately proximal to the tunneled LAD (called EpiLAD) and the first 3 mm of the tunneled segment (MyoLAD) were examined. The tunneled segment appeared to be still normal in the ChoR and the ConR. The EpiLAD of the ConR were also normal but 1A4 (alpha smooth muscle actin, Dakopatts, Denmark) was found in the cytoplasm of smooth muscle cells of the media. In the EpiLAD of the ChoR, raised lesions grew very rapidly after the 10th week. If one considers that cholesterol played in that study the role of a "marker" of favorable conditions for atherosclerosis, then the results show that such conditions are totally absent in tunneled segments but fulfilled in the EpiLAD of the ChoR, and probably in the EpiLAD of the ConR, too. Since the endothelial cells had different shapes in the MyoLAD and the EpiLAD, Ishigawa attributed the different behavior of MyoLAD and EpiLAD to shear stress differences. However, one can as well come to the conclusion that the observed differences were due to excessive axial wall stress in the arterial segment immediately proximal to the tunneled segment. One can, of course, not exclude that also circumferential stress increased too much during early systole. Distal segments were not examined. Boucek and co-authors found that the metabolism of glycoaminoglycan (GAG) is much higher in the segment immediately proximal to the bridge than in the tunneled segment [33]. This is also an important observation because it shows that increased GAG metabolism is indeed found there where increased axial stresses can be expected. Of note is, moreover, that they attributed this phenomenon to axial stress, which is quite unusual in the literature about atherosclerosis. Their findings are thus in agreement with our concept. The same applies to the results of Polacek who found intima thickening in the segment immediately proximal to the bridge [8].
A further observation that supports the concept of excessive axial stress is that atheroma at the bridge entrance is more severe when the fat layer between myocardium and tunneled segment is thick [11]. This observation is easily explainable by the fact that in this case the force Ftissues (see Appendix) is weaker.
Like non bridged coronary arteries, bridged ones can be angiographically normal during diastole [34]. This does not prove, however, that they are free of atherosclerosis because uniform intima thickening is seldom detectable angiographically. Inversely, our concept does not exclude that some bridged arteries may be non diseased. This might be the case for instance when there is no great diameter differences between epicardial and tunneled segments during diastole.
As previously mentioned, cyclic increases of axial wall stress may also be due to morphologic changes in the bridge region. The tortuosities observed by Klues et al. and Channer et al. [29, 35] at bridge entries or exits during diastole may be a consequence of such a cyclic axial pulling at the tunneled segment.
The mechanical model used in the present contribution was originally developed for conventional stenoses affecting conductance or distribution arteries [25]. It was shown later to be consistent with published observations about radioactive stents, catheter-based brachytherapy, and conventional stents [36, 37]. The explanation of atherosclerosis in bridged coronary arteries proposed in this article is quite different from the one proposed by Ge and coauthors [15] who suggested increased circumferential and WSS as probable reasons. It is also different from the ones of Klues and coauthors [29] and of Bernhard and coauthors [24] who also incriminated WSS. It must be underlined, however, that our concept cannot invalidate these different explanations (and inversely). In fact, it is quite compatible with these explanations. It is also possible that excessive axial wall stress and WSS have a combined causal action. On the other hand, the concept of excessive axial wall stress provides also an explanation for the fact that the intensity of atherosclerotic developments in the proximal LAD segment is greater when the fat layer between tunneled segment and myocardium is thick [11] or when the bridge is situated on the upper segment of the LAD [4, 11, 30]. This fact may not be easily explainable by excessive shear or circumferential stresses [15, 29].
Cyclically excessive axial wall stress at the entrance of myocardial bridges appears to be a possible explanation for the great susceptibility of this site to become atherosclerotic. With regard to clinical implications, the proposed explanation suggests that reduction or suppression of a (conventional) stenosis at the bridge entrance by angioplasty, followed or not by stenting, may temporally reduce ischemia but not solve the problem once for all if the underlying cause of the atherosclerotic evolution subsists, which is the cyclic diameter reduction of the tunneled segment. This view may not be shared by all cardiologists [38, 39] because one can object that the stent is implanted in such a manner as to cover also the whole tunneled segment. But stenting of bridges was shown to be associated with high restenosis rates [5, 40–42]. Thus, it might turn out in the future that only surgery can suppress both ischemia and the progression of atherosclerosis in the proximal epicardial segment.
The mechanism by which arterial stenoses may increase axial wall stress in the segment immediately proximal to the constriction cone has been described elsewhere [25–27]. It can be summarized as follows. In a stenosed vessel (see Fig. 3), the blood exerts forces onto the inner surfaces of the constriction and expansion cones, and in the throat of the stenosis. We consider only the axial components of these forces. When flow is zero, the two forces pushing in the cones (Fo and Fo, see Fig. 3a) compensate each other and there is also no drag in the stenosis throat. The net force F generated in the wall cross section of interest (x = 0) is thus zero. During the (forward) flow phases (Fig. 3b), the situation is different. Because of the pressure drop across the stenosis the axial force exerted on the inner surface of the constriction cone (F1) is greater than the force exerted on the expansion cone (F3). Furthermore, a force F2 due to the drag of the blood in the stenosis throat pulls at the vessel in downstream direction. Most often, there is also a fourth force, Ftissues, which is the retaining force opposed by the tissues surrounding the vessel downstream of the cross section x = 0 to axial displacements of the vessel wall with respect to the myocardium (see Fig. 3b). The supplementary axial force appearing cyclically in the wall cross section x = 0 is thus: F = F1 + F2 - F3 - Ftissues. This force is, of course, time varying but it has always its spatial maxima in the cross section x = 0.
The forces F1 and F2 increase with the degree of stenosis, the proximal pressure, and the flow rate (among else). The force F3 increases first with stenosis severity but decreases then when the pressure drop across the constriction becomes important.
In stenosed, non bridged coronary arteries, the force F = F1 + F2 - F3 - Ftissues is zero at zero-flow, and high at peak flow (diastole). The maximum value reached by the force F1 + F2 - F3 during the cardiac cycle can be estimated in the way described in [26] by using hydraulic formulas provided by Back et al. [43]. Effects due to the cyclic movement of the heart, as studied by Moore et al. for instance [44], are not included in the model.
In bridged arteries, which are arteries with a variable "stenosis", the situation is somewhat different because it is not possible to say when the force F reaches its maximum without the help of a dynamic model. If one assumes instantaneous values for flow, pressure, and diameter reduction percent (DS), the force F1 + F2 - F3 can nevertheless be estimated in the same manner as for constant stenoses. In the numerical example given in the text, we have assumed a flow of 1 ml/s and a proximal pressure of 120 mmHg. We have then calculated the force F for a DS range of 1% to 99%, under the simplifying assumption that F2 was exactly compensated by Ftissues, irrespective of the actual DS value.
Since imposing a proximal pressure and a flow can result, at high DS values, in a calculated pressure drop that exceeds the proximal pressure (which is, of course, impossible), it is necessary in these cases to reduce the chosen flow value appropriately. This can be done as follows. If we sum algebraically the different equations that yield the different pressure drops and pressure recovery occurring across the stenosis, we obtain the total pressure drop on one side, and a function of Q, Q2, DS, and other parameters on the other side. We have then simply to impose the maximally admissible pressure drop (e.g., pproximal, or pproximal - 10 mmHg), and to solve for Q. If the obtained flow value is smaller than the chosen one (1 ml/s in our example), it is used in place of the chosen one for the computation of the forces F1, F2, and F3.
If the force F is not transmitted to tissues surrounding the vessel upstream of the stenosis (see Fig. 3b), then it will be present with full magnitude in the proximal vessel segment up to the region where it can be transmitted. The transmission can, of course, also be partial; in this case the supplementary axial force present in the wall decreases with increasing upstream distance from the stenosis.
Division of the supplementary axial force cyclically generated by the obstruction at a particular axial location by the area of the wall cross-section at that location yields the supplementary axial wall stress at that location. This supplementary, cyclic wall stress adds to the (practically constant) "normal" axial stress of the vessel wall. In an epicardial coronary artery (as in many other conductance arteries with constant length), the "normal" stress can be assumed to have roughly the value one would obtain by inflating an excised segment of the artery with a pressure equal to the mean in vivo pressure at rest. It is thus practically equal to the axial stress in situ or in vivo, whereby the vessels of interest here are assumed to have no tone variation capabilities in axial direction so that "normal" axial stress and the length of the considered arterial segments are temporally constant.
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PA Doriot and PA Dorsaz designed the mathematical-physical parts of the study. J Noble worked out the medical aspects. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
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WorldQuant completes international Quant Championship designed to simulate best algorithms
WorldQuant, the global quantitative asset management firm, announced the completion of its inaugural International Quant Championship, a competition designed to simulate the best algorithms with over 11,000 participants from more than 1,000 universities across 80 countries. The 47 finalists traveled from 15 countries for the ultimate competition in Singapore, following regional finals where over 500 teams competed in Bangkok, Beijing, Hanoi, Moscow, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore and Taipei.
“The scale and success of our competition cement our philosophy that talent is distributed globally and there remains an untapped pool of extremely smart data scientists seeking professional opportunities that can be delivered virtually. Our vision remains to further scale WorldQuant’s virtual network to bring opportunity to any individual with the interest and ability to put their expertise to use,” said Igor Tulchinsky, Founder, Chairman and CEO of WorldQuant.
The International Quant Championship builds on the 20 competitions that the WorldQuant Virtual Research Center has hosted over the past five years to uncover talent globally, foster interest in quantitative finance and allow participants to compete with top quantitative minds. Participants come from various disciplines, including computer science, engineering, physics, finance, business administration and mechanics, and are evaluated on a range of skills, including the use of operators and datasets and the understanding, selection and execution of high-quality algorithms.
“Academic theory does not directly teach the discipline of quantitative finance, so it is up to industry to build up the skills required by individuals to become successful quants and creating practical algorithm simulations is an essential part of that process. We are also pleased that over a quarter of our International Quant Championship contestants were women, including the winning team of three Russian women living in France,” said Nitish Maini, General Manager of WorldQuant Virtual Research Center.
WorldQuant Virtual Research Center has more than 70,000 users from 180 countries and over 2,000 universities who are given the opportunity to learn about quantitative finance, build financial models, participate in global competitions and be considered for research consultant positions. WorldQuant has discovered over 1,000 consultants through the Virtual Research Center and users have collectively run over 93 million simulations on the Virtual Research Center’s online platform.
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Channel : Movies OK
Launched Date : 6 May 2012
Network : Star India
Picture Format : 576i (SDTV), HDTV 1080i
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Location : Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
About Movies OK
Movies OK is a Hindi movie television channel broadcast in India. It is owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels. The channel was launched on 6 May 2012. It is Star’s second Hindi movie channel, the first being STAR Gold which was launched in 2000. It is also the second channel to be branded under the OK brand rather than the STAR brand after Life OK, a general entertainment channel which was launched in December 2011 to replace STAR One. Before the launch of Movies OK, STAR acquired Viacom 18’s movie portfolio, paving the way for the launch of the new channel. From OK Series Of Flagship Channel – Life OK.
Canadian media company Asian Television Network rebranded its ATN Zee Cinema channel into a domestic version of the channel titled ATN Movies OK on 25 July 2012, under a brand licensing agreement with STAR.
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Tag Archives: Where was Death Wish filmed
Culture Snappin’ USA – Part 3 – Death Wish (1974): Filming Locations
Posted on January 10, 2016 by theeasternterraces
“We were driving to Kennedy airport in 1973 to shoot the last scene of The Stone Killer, the third film we made together, when Charlie asked me what we should do next. I told him I had this script about a man whose wife and daughter are mugged and then the man goes out and shoots muggers. I mentioned that I’d had it for five years but no one seemed interested. Charlie said, ‘I’d like to do it.’ I said, ‘What, you mean you want to do this movie?’ And Charlie replied, ‘No, I’d like to shoot muggers”.
Michael Winner – Director of Death Wish
Michael Winner’s 1974 film ‘Death Wish’ rarely sits upon any film guide’s top ten and yet it is one of the more referenced and controversial films of its era. Providing the same kind of view of the big apple that the Dirty Harry films had of San Francisco, the film shows muggers, hoods and rapists lurking around every corner and the thin blue line too powerless or apathetic to make any difference.
Enter one lone individual with a loaded gun and a sense of frontier justice and a franchise is born.
Following on from both the amazing Dirty Harry (1971) and the frankly pretty shit, Walking Tall (1973), Death Wish helped usher in a wave of vigilante films and was based upon Brian Garfield’s identically titled 1972 novel. Garfield reportedly having left a party on the upper west side of Manhattan (coincidently where Bronson’s character lives in the film), came back to find his car window broken and his coat stolen. Thinking to himself how he would’ve killed the perpetrator if he had caught him in the act, Garfield conjured the idea of a twisted avenger, an accountant no less, taking revenge on any scumbag that crosses his path in the wake of his wife’s murder.
Like the protagonist of First Blood by David Morrell, which was later turned into the first Rambo movie, this character was damaged and becomes increasingly more so though out the course of the story. The film’s main character Paul Kersey however, like the cinematic version of John Rambo, was seen as a hero at the time of the film’s release with his psychopathic actions ignored or downplayed. Echoes of the psychosis may be seen in Bronson’s stony faced performance, but whether by Winner’s design or Bronson’s lack of ability, they remain only that.
Michael Winner & Charles Bronson On Set. Ronald Grant Archive
The book was purchased by a film production duo, who after commissioning several drafts, on sold it to the Italian movie magnate Dino de Laurentiis, who hired Michael Winner, who in turn cast Charles Bronson with whom he had previously worked. Filmed on location in New York City in January 1974, Bronson, as Vincent Carnaby memorably describes in his contemporary review, “…roams the night time streets of New York, which… are so filled with vandals, would-be muggers, rapists and the like that Charlie never goes home without scoring. On streets, in parks, on subway platforms, in subway cars. It’s like shooting ducks in a bird sanctuary”.
In the face of such criticism, producer de Laurentiis stated, “Violence is not typical of New York alone. All big cities are jungles. New York is a symbol of all the metropolitan areas of our planet”.
Certainly, along with the previously noted The Warriors (1979), Taxi Driver (1976), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Coogans Bluff (1968) and The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 (1974), this was a film that perversely made me want to visit New York City. An urban nightmare on the edge of insanity, an asphalt playground where anything went, New York seemed a million miles away from where I grew up watching it from the comfort of a VCR. Thankfully though, it was not like that when I visited and I was able to walk in Paul Kersey’s footsteps without fear of having to clock a mugger with a sock full of pennies.
Charles Bronson And His Sock Full o’ Pennies. Screenshot by Author
As it was filmed in winter, many of the places I visited looked much the same 41 years later. The night before searching the locations, I watched a copy of the film from my base at the St James Hotel, itself featured in a number of films, notably Maniac (1980), Big (1987) and Cruising (1980).
St James Hotel. Diptych by author
Over the course of the next afternoon/evening, I managed to find the D’ Agostino market featured prominently in the film, Kersey’s uptown apartment, the stone steps he walks down to shoot his first mugger (coincidently also used in The Warriors) and the midtown café where he lures two heist men to their doom. The café, although shuttered, still has the same neon sign it had in 1974, but midtown itself no longer has the scary vibe shown in Taxi Driver or Maniac. The closest thing I saw to crime was when some guy tried to sell me weed on the street.
72nd Street Station. Diptych by author
Kerseys Building/ Sidewalk. Diptych by author
Kersey’s Building / Sidewalk. Diptych by author
Apartment Service Entrance. Diptych by author
Riverside Park Steps. Diptych by author
Where Kersey Gets Off The Bus. Diptych by author
8th Avenue Subway. Diptych by author
The results of this exploration may be seen in another shakily filmed clip below. In my own defence, it was freezing when I shot this footage and every removal of my gloves almost resulted in frostbite.
Almost a decade later Winner resurrected Paul Kersey for the incredibly scuzzy Death Wish II (1982) and the so bad, it’s downright awesome, Death Wish III (1985). Indeed Death Wish III has to be seen to be believed. Its cardboard characters are so caricatured as to almost be rendered as a live action cartoon.
Speaking of which, the 1974 Mad Magazine satire of Death Wish is pretty funny and I’ll close out this post with some selected panels. New York based William Gaines & Co. were on a streak between 1965 and 1985 that no other publication has ever matched.
Death Wishers – Copyright E.C. Publications 1974
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Maine to allow over-the-counter meds in vending machines
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) _ Maine will allow the sale of non-prescription drugs in vending machines under a bill signed by the Democratic governor.
Gov. Janet Mills' office says she signed the bill Friday. Maine in September would move to allow the sale of medications, including the emergency contraception pill known as brand name Plan B, in vending machines.
The new law calls for the state pharmacy board to adopt regulations to allow a pharmacy to seek a license to sell or distribute nonprescription drugs through a vending machine.
Lawmakers amended the bill to prevent such vending machines from being located in schools and child care facilities.
Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund Vice President Nicole Clegg says the law will help rural Mainers more quickly access emergency contraception along with pain relievers and allergy medication.
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This artist paints Chinatown and Etobicoke in the style of the Old Masters
By Jessica Bloom | February 14, 2018
By Jessica Bloom | 02/14/2018
Image courtesy of Nicholas Metivier Gallery
In his new exhibition, Light Passage, painter Keita Morimoto turns Toronto’s cityscapes into uncanny alternate realities. His works look like someone else’s dream—you recognize the pho shops and graffitied buildings, but they seem softer and warmer. Each painting shows affection for downtown’s gritty scenes, finding romance in the ugliest parts of city life: cold walks home, gas stations, underground parking. The scenes are rare, quiet moments without the distractions of traffic or crowds.
Morimoto, a Japanese-born, Toronto-based artist, is known for his classical style and theatrical use of light. He begins his process by creating abstract inkblot sketches in his studio, before hunting for real-world settings that seem to mirror the sketches in composition. From there, he photographs the scene and paints it, using the image as a reference. Separately, he photographs his friends in his studio and paints them into the scene as well.
We asked Morimoto about some of our favourite paintings in the show, on display until March 3 at Nicholas Metivier Gallery.
This scene at Spadina and Dundas brought to mind one of Morimoto’s inkblot sketches perfectly. “The streetcar came, and the door opened, and it was the perfect scene. The colour relationships and the light silhouetted the streetcar—to me, it was a moment that I had to capture.”
Morimoto tries to avoid putting logos in his work. He removed the brand of this gas station, located at Islington and Dundas, which would have had a prominent place in this piece. “I once left a McDonald’s logo in another piece because it was so small and abstract, though.”
Night Shrine
Morimoto was driving around Mississauga when he found this shrine in a strip mall complex. “There were strange rock sculptures,” he says. “It looked like a horror movie scene with no one in the parking lot.”
The three subjects in this piece are all Morimoto’s friends: the painter Megan Ellen MacDonald, Morimoto’s partner, is in the foreground. They were all superimposed onto the background scene of Pho Hung, in Chinatown, which Morimoto liked because it looked like the diner in Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks.
The small silhouette figure is meant to be Morimoto’s friend, who was with Morimoto in Chinatown when he took the photo. “I don’t know if this store was open, but it looks like you’re not supposed to enter, even though there’s a sign to get dim sum. The building seems haunted.”
“When I finished this painting, I really liked the busy look,” he says. At the time, he was obsessed with Jeff Wall’s photography and busy Chinatown signs, and he wanted to achieve that cluttered quality in this scene, Pho Pasteur at Dundas and Spadina. “I tend to simplify images so that they flow more naturally and it’s easier to look at, but for this image I wanted to create decrepitness.”
This is a cheap parking spot on Dundas, just east of Spadina, hidden underground. “Chinatown is chaotic—colourful with random city planning. I wanted to capture that quality in paintings.”
Half Light
This is an abandoned house next to Kipling Station. “No one goes in or out. It’s just standing there, and looks very beautiful when the sun is setting.” Like the shrine, it gave Morimoto a horror-movie vibe. “In Toronto, so many buildings are being demolished and condos are going up, but this house has survived.”
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Andy Gray Claims Mauricio Pochettino Should Alter His Ambitions With Tottenham
News Tue 27 Nov 2018
Football commentator and pundit Andy Gray has stated that Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino should realign his greater targets with the club.
Speaking to BeIn Sports, Gray said that it was unwise to target the Premier League and Champions League, and instead feels that the Spurs manager should focus more on the domestic cups.
Tottenham have started the season in relatively strong fashion and find themselves still in the running for all four major trophies available to them this campaign.
Despite the club’s early season form, Gray believes that the club should focus on the lesser, domestic trophies as opposed to going all out for the more esteemed and harder to achieve rewards of both the Champions League and Premier League respectively.
“I said at the weekend that I think Pochettino has targeted two competitions, in the Premier League and the Champions League,” Gray said (via BEIN Sport). “I think he’s paid little attention to the FA Cup and the League Cup.
“If I was Pochettino, I would try to win a cup, I really would. It would just get the club going, get the fans going, and makes things a little bit easier. It also stops people like us talking about the fact he has not won a trophy yet.”
The London club have not won a major tournament since 2008, when they lifted the League Cup. Despite their transformation into one of the league’s stronger outfits in recent seasons, they still have no silverware to show for their growth.
Currently, they sit third place in the Premier League but look unlikely to top the likes of Manchester City or even Liverpool in this season’s title race.
Things don’t look much more promising in the Champions League either. Placed in a tough group with the European giants of both Barcelona and Inter, it was always going to be a big ask for Spurs to make the next round of the tournament. Right now it looks more likely that they will be playing Europa League football in the new year.
Consequently, Gray may have a point when he says Pochettino’s men should focus on a smaller trophy. In particular, the Lilywhites could target the Carabao Cup considering that they are already in the deeper stages of the tournament – a win over rivals Arsenal would see them into the semis.
Before that though, they must face Inter in a Champions League clash which they must win if they want to have any hopes of staying in the competition.
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Exhibit: “Is there a Doctor in the House?
Laurel Historical Society, 817 Main Street, Laurel, MD, 20707, United States, Laurel Historical Society, 817 Main Street, Laurel, MD, 20707, United States + Google Map
Feb. 3 – Dec. 22, 2019Exhibit: “Is there a Doctor in the House? Laurel’s Healthcare Stories” Laurel Historical Society Museum, 817 Main Street, Laurel, MD 20707 Explores the pharmacies, hospitals, medicines and people who have cared for Laurel for the past 200 years. Free and open to the public. Wednesday & Fridays 10-2, and Sundays 1-4. Experience. Expand. Explore!Just minutes…
Manistee’s Sesquicentennial
MI, United States, MI, United States + Google Map
2019 marks the 150th anniversary (or sesquicentennial) of this event and to mark the celebration, the Manistee County Historical Museum, along with other area businesses and organizations, is hosting a variety of events throughout the year that will help in honoring the past 150 years. Wednesday, February 27, 2019 – “Fun with the Founding Fathers”Where: Elks Lodge (located at 432 River…
Exhibit: Whitewater State Park Turns 100
March 1 - June 7
Winona County History Center, Winona County History Center + Google Map
Whitewater State Park is nestled in the Whitewater river valley between St. Charles and Elba, Minnesota. The Park was established in 1919 and has a vast and interesting history that includes a CCC camp, floods, WWII German POWs, and much more. Explore the park’s past in this exhibit and join in the fun of the park’s celebrations all year! Join…
Highway 50 Association’s Annual Wagon Train – South Lake Tahoe
Zephyr Cove Resort & Marina, 760 U.S. Hwy 50, Zephyr Cove, NV, 89448, United States, Zephyr Cove Resort & Marina, 760 U.S. Hwy 50, Zephyr Cove, NV, 89448, United States + Google Map
The Highway 50 Association promotes the only bi-state historic event of the Highway 50 Wagon Train!! A great way for the family to relive history together!Route: South Lake Tahoe to Placerville, California* ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST REGISTER Who Qualifies?Any experienced rider who owns a horse or borrows one.Any experienced teamster with a Team and Wagon or Buggy (must be an authentic…
Canyonlands Jet Boat Tour
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Led by David Bailey, Curator of History The three-hour jet boat trip will travel through 2,200-foot canyon walls on the Colorado River. The group will take a short hike to a petrified forest and a fossilized sea bed. The tour will continue down river and see wonderful views of the arches, petroglyphs, and a unique view of prehistoric granary. The…
ALABAMA MILITARY HALL OF HONOR MUSEUM
September 4, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - December 14, 2019 @ 4:00 pm UTC+0
Alabama Military Hall of Honor, 1101 Washington Street, Marion, AL, 36756, Alabama Military Hall of Honor, 1101 Washington Street, Marion, AL, 36756 + Google Map
The Alabama Military Hall of Honor is located on the beautiful campus of Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama. Our hours of operation for the academic year are as follows: Monday thru Friday, 2:00pm-4:00pm and by appointment. Please call 334-302-1038
Open Mic Sundays in Poipu
March 10 @ 4:30 pm - December 29 @ 7:00 pm UTC+0
Paco’s Tacos Cantina Poipu, Paco’s Tacos Cantina Poipu + Google Map
Open Mic every Sunday in Poipu 4:30 to 7:00 pm at Paco’s Tacos Cantina. More info www.openmickauai.com
Sequim Farmers Market
May 4 @ 9:00 am - October 26 @ 3:00 pm UTC+0
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Unique handmade & homegrown gifts and produce from local artisans and farmers.
Lihue Sunshine Market
June 7 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm UTC+0
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Local products, fruits and flowers.
Kealia Farm Market and Tours
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The farmers at Kealia offer their produce and products under a covered lanai at Kealia Farm. Visitors can take a wagon ride to tour the farm and waterfall during the market.
Hanapepe Friday Night Festival & Art Walk
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Come join the festivity! Every Friday evening, Old Town Hanapepe is bustling with fun & activity! With a wide variety of shopping, local crafters, several excellent restaurants, a dozen art galleries, stilt walkers, classics cars, live music and entertainment, there is always something for the whole family to enjoy!
Pau Hana Trivia Night
Anaina Hou Community Park, 5-2723 Kuhio Hwy., Kilauea, HI, 96754, United States, Anaina Hou Community Park, 5-2723 Kuhio Hwy., Kilauea, HI, 96754, United States + Google Map
Every First Friday of the month is Pau Hana Trivia Night at at Anaina Hou Community Park from 6-8pm. Come start the weekend with us in the beautiful Porter Pavillion. There are food trucks, beer, wine, and trivia with Katie, Kauai’s “trivia girl”. Bring the kids! There’s a big lawn for the keiki to run around on and/or board games…
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Are Polls The Biggest Joke In Politics?
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Source: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File
President Donald J. Trump shocked many with his 2016 victory, particularly those who believed the polls that the mainstream media continuously pushed as proof there was simply no way that the real estate mogul could knock off the self-appointed heir-apparent Hillary Clinton for the presidency. However, he did win and did so in a dominating fashion. The polls were wrong in large part, Trump's 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale argues, because the polling methodology is outdated and cannot capture the diversity of opinions through the American electorate.
"The country is too complex now just to call a couple of hundred people and ask them what they think. There are so many ways, and different people that are gonna show up to vote now," Pascale told CNS News Washington Chief Correspondent Major Garrett in an exclusive interview. "The way turnout now works, the abilities that we have to turn out voters – the polling can't understand that. And that's why it was so wrong in 2016. It was 100% wrong. Nobody got it right. Not one public poll."
Recently, several polls show that President Trump would lose to numerous Democratic candidates if held today. "None of these polls mean anything," Parscale rebutted. "It's the biggest joke in politics. It's the fakest thing. It's the fakest thing."
Internal campaign polls as well showed that the president was losing to current 2020 Democratic primary candidates, but campaign spokespeople clarified these were "worst case scenario" polls and also outdated. Spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told "Fox & Friends" that "those numbers were accurate," but "they were from three months ago, they were pre-Mueller report, they were the worst-case scenario and the most unfavorable turnout model."
"All news about the president's polling is completely false," Parscale said in a separate interview. "The president's new polling is extraordinary and his numbers have never been better."
Whatever the current polling, President Trump surely does not seem to be lacking enthusiasm from his base. As Townhall covered earlier, the incumbent president raised an astounding $24.8 million yesterday and attracted more than 100,000 supporters to his Orlando re-election rally.
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Three Music Podcasts You Should Be Listening To In 2019
Posted by K-K Bracken On January 04, 2019 0 Comment
On their surface, Heat Rocks, Dissect, and Hit Parade are all similar podcasts. The hosts analyze music and the culture around it with an unabashed love and bias for their subject matter. When you look closer, each of these productions has something unique to offer, especially when you listen to them all together.
Of the three podcasts, Dissect has the most hyperfocus. Each season, host Cole Cuchna features a single album and, well, dissects it, song by song. Season one was Kendrick Lamar’s third studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly. Season two was Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and season three focused on Frank Ocean’s Blonde. Most recently, Dissect offered a mini-series on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
The respect Cuchna has for these artists is palpable with every lyric interpretation, every chord explanation, every deep dive into an archived interview. He does not shy away from Kendrick’s checkered past, Kanye’s troubled present, Ocean’s impact as an out man in the industry. He tells us clearly that these are modern Mozarts, and that their music is worthy of the same respect as any classical composer studied in the hallowed halls of music schools. It is a delightful opportunity to connect with musicians you like (or maybe don’t like!) on a deeper level than a Spotify playlist, and it’s wonderful.
Zooming out in scope to an album an episode is MaxFun’s Heat Rocks. Hosts Morgan Rhodes and Oliver Wang interview a third party about a personal “heat rock,” an album they love deeply, for whatever reason that may be. This leads to all kinds of variety, from Prince to DMX to William Onyeabor to Kraftwerk to the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. The variety isn’t just notable in the album choices; it’s the guests as well. Writers, musicians, DJs, other podcasts hosts: they all have different perspectives on the music they love and even if the music isn’t my favorite, I always appreciate someone who can wax poetic on pop culture with any kind of authority. The hosts of Dissect and Hit Parade have both been guests on Heat Rocks, and their episodes were both amazing!
I despaired my lack-of-knowledge of albums from before approximately 2010 would hinder my enjoyment of Heat Rocks when I started listening. At first, it did. Then I remembered Spotify exists, and now I listen to the album before the podcast episode, and it’s delightful. I still don’t like Bjork, but now I know how much I love Cameo, so it evens out.
The appeal of Rhodes and Wang cannot be overstated. She, a satin-voiced Californian with a penchant for songs that are sexy without being oversexual. He, a certified cutie chock full of scholarly insight, unafraid to admit when something isn’t his bag. I adored their special “Women Behaving Boldly” series, examining six albums by women across the decades who changed music with their daring.
Last, but certainly not least, is Slate’s Hit Parade. Chris Molanphy hosts this monthly podcast, which takes the widest view of music of the three, analyzing pop chart history throughout the decades. Despite the broadness of subject matter, Molanphy often weaves history and analysis of a special time or place or genre in music through a focused story of one or two artists. Episodes include “The Imperial Elton and George Edition,” comparing the careers of Elton John and George Michael, and “The Give Me a Sign Edition,” tracking Swedish contributions to pop music through the lens of Britney Spears.
As someone who enjoys learning about the human condition through pop culture history, Hit Parade is my personal podcast catnip. Each episode might seem like a standalone, but the more you listen, the more you see Molanphy’s larger narrative, how pop charts affect the world and vice versa, how artists like Prince and Tom Petty can be more similar than you could ever imagine.
Whether you’re looking for music recommendations, pop culture analysis, or just some darned good podcasting, give Dissect, Heat Rocks, and Hit Parade a listen.
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Rachel Cusk, Kudos
Author: Rachel Cusk
Title: Kudos
Rachel Cusk’s works are important pieces of literature, in fact so important that they are the kind of books that could stand the test of time. Kudos is the third and final instalment in the trilogy that began with Outline.
In this book we find Faye, the protagonist, travelling to an unnamed Southern European country to attend yet another literary festival. Like in the first novel, Outline, the passenger next to her on the plane begins to narrate his recent life events. From then onwards a “Sebaldian” unravelling of stories occurs, narrated by the number of people she comes across on her way to the festival.
“Cusk has refined her style so as to reach new heights of asceticism.”
The lack of toponyms and the uncanny way the characters reveal glimpses of their personality are to some extent themes of Cusk’s writing: dislocation, memory vs factual narration, real and invented identities, masked emotional motives.
Part of the setting means most, if not nearly all, of these characters Faye comes across are intellectuals, hence the high-brow, intellectualist prose that is revealed through their discussions. However, the writing is not heavy-handed at all — on the contrary Cusk has refined her style so as to reach new heights of asceticism.
Nearly plotless, adventurous, full of eclectic and often witty dialogue, actionless but at the same time forward-moving, emotionally detached in a way that is emotionally fulfilling, Cusk’s trilogy is bare bones fiction that is a highly rewarding experience for the true literature aficionados.
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As with past editions, Final Draft 10 handles all the standard script protocols and odd nuances that will mark your work as the product of someone in the know, including pagination, stage directions and other formatting issues that can trip up the screenwriting newbie.
But where Final Draft 10 really blows away its competition is with some of its new organizational and workflow tools. With Story Map, you not only have the power to outline scenes, but it allows you to view each individual script scene as part of the whole work. A visual representation of the script will show you if your major plot point is coming too early in the work or if the scene (or any scene) is running too long.
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A Medieval Walled Town in Lombardy
June 4, 2016 / 3 Comments
There is something so charming about medieval walled towns. If you are a history buff, you can immediately imagine a well-to-do town which would have required protection from marauders. In the posh region of Lombardy, a throwaway distance from Milan, is the medieval walled city of Bergamo. It is a place oft overlooked in by most in their zeal to discover some of northern Italy’s other destinations.
At the edge of the Alps, Bergamo with its enviable perched-up position, is the perfect place to while away time in a deliciously idyllic manner.
I had landed at the airport near Bergamo and taken the bus to Milan. It wound through the beautifully lit up city at night and piqued my curiosity.
On another spring morning, a swift train ride from Milan and I found myself in the two-tiered city that is Bergamo.
Its name was derived from the word ‘berg-heim’ meaning hill-town. Julius Caesar is said to have granted it the status of Municipium (Latin for town or city) in 49 BC and Bergamo was home to Roman military forces for some time.
But the Roman town plan of Bergamo was overridden by the Venetians when they made it a part of the Venetian State in 1428. For over three centuries, Bergamo was a part of the Serenissima (Most Serene) Republic of Venice. The Venetians left behind a legacy that till today gives Bergamo an ancient atmosphere. They constructed the Cinta Muraria di Bergamo, megalithic walls, in the 16th century to defend the city – yet ironically enough the walls were never used for military purposes, just for romantic strolls.
A funicular links the lower and upper parts of Bergamo during summer. But it was the fag end of winter and I had to make my way to Città Alta (meaning Upper City where ‘città’ is pronounced as cheetah with an emphasis on the ‘t’) on foot along the winding axial road of Viale Vittorio Emanuele II. The moustachioed presence of Victor Emmanuel II is all over northern Italy. He was the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century.
Città Bassa
Church of St Mary of the Graces, Citta Bassa.
While still in Città Bassa (Lower City), I passed the Porta Nuova (‘New Gate’). If it were the old days and I was carrying goods, there would have been a tax to pay before the erstwhile iron gates would have opened up for me. The gate was erected within the defensive walls that ran through lower town as well and was built in 1837 to mark the occasion of the grand entrance of Ferdinand I, emperor of Austria, to the city. It was subsequently torn down when it stopped serving its purpose as customs border.
Ahead of me lay a charming tableau from a postcard – a hill crowned by domes, campaniles, palaces and towers. In the early 20th century, an architect had purposefully kept the height of the buildings in Città Bassa low. The Città Alta had to stand tall proudly above.
Walking along the Venetian walls, I entered Città Alta through one of its four Venetian gates, the Porta di Sant’Agostino. From atop it, a winged lion known as the Lion of St. Mark and carved in sandstone, proclaimed that the Venetians were here. The ascending road unfolded a town below that was nestled into a valley networked with sloping velvet greens, orchards and a gaggle of villas. In the backdrop were the Bergamasque Alps or the Orobian Alps which are part of the Central Eastern Alps.
In the heart of medieval Bergamo, I got conned by my rumbling stomach into an expensive lunch of soup in a café. Thereafter, all kinds of delectable, baked goodies and polenta sweets mocked at me from bakery windows. In a rueful state of mind, I found myself in Piazza Mercato delle Scarpe (Shoe Market Square), an old square that was supposed to be the city’s market during Roman times. Through it ran Via Gombito, the main road in the centre of the upper city.
Porta di Sant’ Agostino
Torre del Gombito
The bastions and old Venetian walls
A tall tower, that you can climb in a matter of 180 steps – the 12th-13th century Torre del Gombito/ Gombito Tower – stood by Via Gombito declaring its exalted status. During the medieval ages such towers implied power. The bird’s eye view of the city that Torre del Gombito offers is not exclusive to it – the Torre Civica/Civic Tower and a castle too promise spectacular views over the city. Not feeling particularly well (if I were in my elements, I would have climbed all three), I dragged myself up a steep ascent to the castle. The Funicolare San Vigilio takes you to straight to the Castello di San Vigilio, but it was not in operation. Yet when I stood atop the ruins of the castle – the views of the vineyards, villas clinging to the hills, a golden statue on a grey dome down in Città Alta glinting in the evening rays of the sun – it drove away all cares from my mind.
Now, the nerve centre of Bergamo is Piazza Vecchia. In pre-Venetian days, the piazza used to host a grain and fodder market but the Venetians brought down the medieval structures and supplanted them with their own architectural vision.
Piazzas always overwhelm me, in terms of the fact that I never can decide which building should receive the first sigh of appreciation. The Piazza Vecchia is, however, dominated by Torre Civica (Civic Tower) which snags the onlooker’s attention by the virtue of its campanile (bell tower). At the centre of the square stood a fountain that was donated to the city by a podesta (high officials in Italian cities from the late Middle Ages onwards) in 1780. Next to the campanile was the 12th century Palazzo della Ragione, the city’s seat of administration in times past. On the palazzo’s façade, I met our old winged friend, the lion of St. Mark, all over again, but this was only a 20th century replica of the original 15th century carving which was destroyed when Napoleon invaded the city.
Piazza Vecchia with Torre Civica rising above it
Cappella Colleoni
The steep climb to Castello di San Vigilio
The views on the way to the castle are your reward
The sweeping vista of Bergamo from the castle
Directly opposite stood the white porticos of the Palazzo Nuovo/Biblioteca Angelo Mai, which was a town hall in earlier times and a library since the 1870s while northwest of the square was an impressive frescoed building, the Palazzo del Podestà, home traditionally to the Venetian Podesta.
This was definitely a piazza to confound the senses with the amount of buildings it offered up for the senses.
My vote went to a chapel, the façade of which seemed to be almost woven richly in white and red Italian marble. The Cappella Colleoni (Colleoni Chapel) is a masterwork of Renaissance architecture. It houses the tombs of the condottiere (military leader) Bartolomeo Colleoni, captain-general of the Republic of Venice during the 1400s, and his daughter Medea. I could quite forgive Colleoni for bringing down the sacristy that had stood at the spot where he built his mausoleum.
The highlight of my trip was walking the narrow alleys of Bergamo, flanked by houses with slatted windows, at the end of which almost always stood out the dome of the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, a campanile or the spire of a church. From the beautiful boutiques and shops in Bergamo, it is easy to figure out that it is a town with taste. And taste can sometimes come at a hefty price. Bergamo does require deep pockets.
Post my wanderings in Città Alta, I climbed higher above Bergamo and entered a village, clustered with beautiful old villas and a church at the end of the road. It was quiet village with a few people wandering out from a trattoria after clearly a good meal. Food can do wonders at any given time.
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Quiet churches in equally quiet villages above Bergamo
Rich chocolate pastries
Venetian gates and Roman aqueducts
A day of exploring the ancient walled town demanded a rich chocolate pastry and tea, after which I made my way back to lower Bergamo, past the old Roman aqueduct. The area around the aqueduct is said to be scattered with caves, secret passages and underground cisterns. A bit of mystery and romance was added to it all when I heard locals speak of the possibility of stashes of the Venetians’ treasure buried somewhere in the caves. Point to ponder. Should I have stayed behind to lay my hands on those hoards?
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Charity Mutio
Oh my my! I’m speechless! This is the most BEAUTIFUL place I’ve ever seen!! I’d do anything to get here. How did you even discover such a treasure!!! If I get here, I’m never going home.
And the pictures, girl, you are amazing!! You capture everything so wonderfully.
& the point to ponder…..You should have definitely stayed behind and roamed the secret passages for about a century?
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Nova Scotia hangs off of Canada’s eastern coast, almost entirely surrounded by the sea. At the northeastern end of this small province, Cape Breton Island is a world of towering cliffs, wild shorelines, and Gaelic ancestry. From one of the world’s most beautiful road trips to marine wildlife to outdoor pursuits, and from local crafts to excellent seafood, Cape Breton feels like a well-deserved retreat in a largely untouched region of Nova Scotia. Here’s how to enjoy it.
1. Drive one of the world’s most spectacular roads.
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After flying into Halifax, you’ll drive about three hours before crossing over the unassuming Canso Causeway onto Cape Breton Island. Soon you’ll hit the John Cabot Trail. Named after explorer John Cabot, the 185-mile-long Cabot Trail hugs most of the island’s coastline, cutting across the north end of Cape Breton alongside Cape Breton Highlands National Park. It’s rightly regarded as one of the most stunning roads you can drive.
The choice is yours to drive the Cabot Trail clockwise or counterclockwise. The trail can be driven in eight hours, but depending on how much hiking and sightseeing you opt for along the way, consider taking three to four days. That gives you plenty of time to explore the fishing communities, sample variations of the island’s seafood chowder, pursue outdoors activities, and gaze at the amazing views.
2. Go whale watching.
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Prime whale watching, some of the best in Nova Scotia, is found in this region. Zodiacs piloted by Captain Mark’s Whale & Seal Cruise often deliver close encounters with these behemoths, and come equipped with a hydrophone to hear whales sing — conditions permitting. Spectacular coastal views of Cape Breton Highlands National Park are an added bonus.
Summer into fall is peak whale-watching season with most cruises sighting a whale, although it’s not guaranteed. In July, pilot whales migrate through Nova Scotia’s waters in large numbers, staying until October. Late August through September, humpbacks and dolphins come close to the shoreline following the fish. Be forewarned, though: Due to Transport Canada’s strict wind regulations, in some instances cruises may be canceled up to the time of departure.
3. Walk the Skyline Trail.
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Driving clockwise and just north of Chéticamp, you’ll enter Cape Breton Highlands National Park. About 20 minutes later, the road turns inland and you’ll reach the turnoff for one of Cape Breton’s most-photographed spots, the Skyline Trail. The easy, four-mile loop ends at wide, wooden steps leading down to a series of platforms and an overlook perched far above the highway.
Take in the bird’s-eye panorama and the Cabot Trail’s ribbon of road as it hugs the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It’s worth lingering here, so allow some extra time. Besides the Skyline Trail, the park touts 25 hiking trails, from easy to difficult, that showcase spectacular views, waterfalls, salmon pools, and Boreal forests. And, if you’re lucky, you might spot a moose.
4. Teleport to Scotland.
Photo: Margaree Highland Games/Facebook
Celtic music in North American was born in Cape Breton, and the ceilidh — pronounced “kay-lee” and meaning “party” in Scottish Gaelic — lives on with Scottish traditions and music. Festivals include summer’s eight-day Kitchenfest! featuring the island’s top Celtic talent, with over 150 musicians performing in pubs, ceilidhs, and restaurants; the Margaree Highland Games; and autumn’s Celtic Colours International Festival.
In this corner of the world, history and culture intertwine at the recreated Highland Village above Bras d’Or Lake. The Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site celebrates where the renowned inventor built his estate and called it Beinn Bhreagh, meaning “beautiful mountain” in Gaelic, as the area reminded Bell of his native Scotland. The site displays a fascinating and surprising mix of Bell’s inventions.
5. Head to the links or out on a kayak.
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Hugging the cliffs in the tiny town of Inverness, the Resort at Cabot Links claims two world-class golf courses. Even if you’re not into golf, The Links course touts hole number 16 on its own peninsula, one of the world’s most-photographed par-three holes. Sea kayaking is available, as are hourly SUP rentals out of Margaree Harbor just 30 minutes away.
On the Murray River, River Nest Wilderness Cabins (think teeny houses without a kitchen and flush toilets out back) offer fine art craftsmanship and river views. The owner operates North River Kayak, and paddling on St. Ann’s Bay to a waterfall and small beach makes for a satisfying afternoon.
Further east along on the cape, at Ingonish Beach, the Keltic Lodge at the Highlands commands its own peninsula with cliff-top views, a par-72 golf course, and the forested Middle Head trail head, which leads to a rock-strewn headland overlooking the ocean, the perfect spot for a picnic lunch. End the day at the lodge’s exceptional Arduaine Restaurant while the sun sets over North Bay.
6. Admire the work of local artisans.
Photo: Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design/Facebook
For centuries, artists have found inspiration and solitude on Cape Breton. The Artisan Trail offers a glimpse into their working studios and galleries. Near Indian Brook, Piper Pewter’s gallery displays beautifully hand-cast and lead-free pewter jewelry created in the attached workshop — in both Celtic and contemporary designs.
Just down the road, a cabin above the highway houses Leather Works by Jolene. You’ll find a rainbow of sumptuously dyed leather totes and purses, as well as dog collars, men’s belts, and wallets. All are hand sewn. Watch the purses being cut and crafted in the workshop just behind the displays. At The Gaelic College, weavers and kilt-makers create custom kilts, ties, ponchos, and other apparel, all crafted from colorful plaids made on site.
7. Feast on lobster, and wash it down with a crisp local white .
Photo: Elizabeth Hey
No visit to Cape Breton is complete without cracking open a fresh lobster. Between the late 1800s and into the early 1900s, Nova Scotians considered lobster “junk food.” During lobster season, farmers would gather the crustaceans and plow them into their fields for fertilizer. Inmates were fed lobsters in what was considered cruel and unusual punishment of the day.
Today, lobsters pulled from the ocean are served hours later at classy restaurants and ma-and-pa establishments. For the ultimate feast, pair it with the province’s signature Tidal Bay wine, the first appellation given to the Cape Breton’s regional wines. Each winery creates its own version of this crisp white, influenced by the coastal climate, using different blends of 100 percent Nova Scotia-grown grapes.
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Back at it as Public Editor
Diversity in student journalism
By Sophie Borwein
Published: 3:03 am, 31 July 2017
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It was an interesting summer for journalism.
Declining trust in the media continued to be a hot topic. I’ve written about the issue at length before, and I won’t belabour it again here. But it was front of mind for me earlier this summer when The New York Times hastily announced it was eliminating its public editor position one year into incumbent Liz Spayd’s two-year contract.
The move was most likely a cost-cutting measure. The Times’ publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., nonetheless argued that the newspaper no longer needed a public editor because its social media followers and online readers now acted as effective substitutes in demanding transparency and accountability in the Times’ reporting.
I think Sulzberger is wrong. And I’m heartened to think that — from its decision to keep on a public editor this year — The Varsity’s Board of Directors agrees.
The Varsity’s readers are impressive watchdogs on social media. They let us know when they think we’ve screwed up.
But for every thoughtful and challenging comment left on our Facebook, Twitter, or website, there will no doubt be another misogynistic, racist, or generally incoherent one.
On their own, online commenting platforms aren’t great accountability mechanisms. They’re more useful when paired with a public editor or ombudsman, if for no other reason than to have somebody to filter out the real concerns from the anonymous trolling. Still, by design, these platforms privilege provocative opinions over measured responses and “hot takes” over careful analysis. No wonder the most challenging complaints I receive mostly come to me via email — a medium more encouraging of carefully crafted, sometimes lengthy critiques.
No matter their design, social media and other online forums are not real substitutes for the authority afforded to the public editor by virtue of their privileged position operating alongside — but not reporting to — the newspaper’s editors.
Responding to the Times’ decision, CBC Ombudsman Esther Enkin summed up why we should be skeptical: “The social media space is characterized by heat and little light, angry assertions and not as many facts. It is the very fact that the [public editor] office is embedded within the news organization that gives it its power… We are the ones that know where to look, what to ask, to pull back the curtain and give members of the public an understanding of the way a news organization works.”
Sulzberger is right about one thing: readers are fundamental to holding newspapers accountable. We at The Varsity all bring to our jobs our own sets of blinders, and we depend on readers to expand our perspectives.
As we start the new academic year, I’ve been setting out my priorities as public editor.
I’ll be watching in particular for The Varsity’s commitment to diversity in its newsroom and reporting. I hope readers will be watching with me.
This past summer’s ‘cultural appropriation prize’ debacle, which saw some of Canada’s most prominent journalists advocate for cultural appropriation, was another reminder of something of which we shouldn’t need reminding — the painful lack of diversity in Canadian media.
The Varsity’s Editorial Board criticized the prize in a piece emphasizing the media’s power in “choosing what stories are told.” Lived experience, the piece argued, matters for authentic reporting. Stories that need telling go untold — or are poorly told — when only the priorities of a narrow segment of the population are written about in a newspaper’s columns.
Does The Varsity live up to the principles that it champions?
Media outlets are often least diverse at the top of the decision-making chain. The Varsity bucks this trend. As Editor-in-Chief Jacob Lorinc pointed out to me, more than half of his masthead members are non-white, split nearly 50-50 between genders.
But diversity should permeate throughout the newspaper. This year, I hope to see a range of voices and experiences represented, not just within the leadership but also among our contributors in all sections of the paper — from News to Sports, Comment to Design.
I’ll also be looking at how the paper selects its sources. Newspaper stories are shaped by the people that help tell them. When The Varsity’s journalists write stories about labour strikes on campus, U of T’s divestment policy, or the surprising popularity of a new TV show, they do so with the help of expert sources on the topic.
Research tells us the experts we reach out to are most often men. Common sense tells us that women, people of colour, Indigenous people, and other minorities also know things. This year, I’ll be looking to hear from the latter voices as often as the former.
I get that this can be hard. Unequal power structures in society mean white men sit at the top of most professions and act as our thought leaders. But there is a wealth of expertise, too often unrecognized, outside of this group. The choices a newspaper makes about whose voices to include speaks volumes about whose perspectives it thinks matter.
All of this is to say, while I’ve set my agenda for this year, I’m assigning tasks to readers. I want to know: are we tapping into the different views that exist on campus? Are we asking the people who really know? Whom are we missing?
Send me your thoughts. You can find me at publiceditor@thevarsity.ca.
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Celebrity and athlete endorsements are without question some of the most useful marketing tools that a brand can use. The way fans idolize their favorite athletes allows brands to capture those positive feelings by using those athletes to endorse their products. With many products that use athlete endorsers, the suggestion that the average person can jump higher or run faster by using a particular product makes the endorsement all the more powerful.
While there are literally hundreds if not thousands of brands that have partnered with athletes over the years, there are several products and campaigns that have stuck with us through the years. These particular brands managed to use their athlete endorsers to not only help sell products at that moment in time, but to
also create a lasting image that garnered positive feelings for that brand long after that commercial or campaign had been shelved.
Today, we’re going to take a look at a handful of those campaigns, and what common themes they utilized to make their ad campaigns iconic, much like their spokesmen.
MEAN JOE GREEN DRINKS COKE
This commercial debuted during the 1980 Super Bowl, and ever since then, it has ended up near the top of every list of the best Super Bowl commercials ever. Besides using an iconic pitchman like Mean Joe Green, the real key here is the juxtaposition of the tough football player and the young generous boy. The message here is pretty strong – the implication is that drinking a Coke can improve anyone’s mood – as Mean Joe becomes a nice guy after drinking the Coke. While the jingle itself isn’t that catchy, the end catchphrase of “Have a Coke and a Smile” works because it’s easy to remember, and fits into everyday conversations. But what really sells this commercial is the young boy’s reaction when Mean Joe goes from hard-ass football player to a giving soul. His face lights up, and we get the secondary catchphrase, “Thanks Mean Joe!” That’s the lasting image from this commercial – and over 30 years later it still gets replayed every February when everyone is talking about Super Bowl commercials. For that, this campaign ranks among the best ever.
TIGER WOODS GOLF – NIKE
At the end of the millennium, no question existed as to who was the best golfer in the world–Tiger Woods. He was in the process of obliterating the course record at the Masters and was already anointed as the one who would pass Jack Nicklaus, even though he had only won a few majors at that point. Nike had launched its entire golf product line by partnering with Woods, and instantly gained credibility in the market. And while that probably would have happened regardless of their ad campaign, one commercial served as the catalyst for Nike Golf, and Tiger Woods.
Unlike the other campaigns on this list, there was no catchy jingle, no catchphrase, nor any additional celebrities. Instead, it consisted of Tiger Woods bouncing a ball on his golf club without it hitting the ground, using the club to toss the ball into the air, and then taking a half golf swing and crushing the ball into the distance. The message was what we already knew; that there were things Tiger Woods could do on a golf course that nobody else was capable of. The key was that you had to see it to believe it, so people made a point to see it.
The other advantage this campaign had over others was that it happened in the internet era. While YouTube wasn’t in place, this ad and campaign still spread like wildfire. And it’s still a popular view today, with almost 1.8 million hits on YouTube. It’s so popular that the bloopers from that commercial shoot have over 1.1 million views. It’s easily the most popular golf ad ever and certainly ranks in the Top 5 of most powerful sports endorsement campaigns ever too.
ITS GOTTA BE THE SHOES – NIKE AIR JORDAN
While some of the other campaigns Michael Jordan has been involved with may have been more memorable, he’s still best known as the original, and really the only, spokesman for Nike’s Air Jordan Brand. Starting in the mid-80’s, Jordan was synonymous with basketball, dunking, and Nike. While there were many great commercials involving Jordan, the signature campaign included Jordan and a loud, scrawny character named Mars Blackmon, played by rising director and actor Spike Lee.
While Jordan dribbled, shot and dunked, Mars asked Jordan what made him the best basketball player in the world. Jordan never gave a definitive answer, while Mars continually asked what became a rhetorical non-question: “It’s gotta be the shoes?!” And even if nobody really believed that Nike’s shoes made Jordan as good as he was, kids playing basketball across America eagerly pointed to their shoes after a made shot or dunk and repeated the phrase.
In the end, the name Mars Blackmon may have been more popular than the phrase itself, as the new Nike ads with Spike became highly anticipated events themselves. But the combination of Jordan, the phrase and Mars Blackmon is something that every male teen and pre-teen of that era remembers.
BE LIKE MIKE – GATORADE
By 1992, there was no bigger star in sports than Michael Jordan. He was far and away the best player in all of basketball. He had already won his 1st NBA Championship, was well on his way to his 2nd and he was about to lead the Dream Team to a Gold Medal in the 1992 Olympics. Anything he endorsed on or off the basketball court was going to turn to gold too. But Gatorade managed to take the icon to another level with its Be Like Mike ad campaign. The visuals of the commercial itself aren’t anything spectacular – just Jordan doing what Jordan does. But the message couldn’t have been any clearer – if you drink Gatorade, you will BE LIKE MIKE.
The catchphrase itself was enough to create a national word of mouth campaign, but what made this campaign one of the best ever was the jingle written by Bernie Pitzel and composed by Ira Antelis and Steve Shafer. As a 13 year old, I memorized the lyrics, which I still know today. I even bought a CD with the song on it. If iTunes had been around back then, it easily would have moved a million units. The jingle was that popular then, and for those individuals who came of age in the early 90’s, it’s still synonymous with Gatorade.
Sometimes I dream
That he is me
You’ve got to see that’s how I dream to be
I dream I move, I dream I groove
If I could Be Like Mike
Again I try
Just need to fly
For just one day if I could
Be that way
I dream I move
I dream I groove
*For the full story on how the Be Like Mike campaign came into existence, check out Darren Rovell’s First in Thirst: How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat Into a Cultural Phenomenon.
BO KNOWS – NIKE
Much like the Be Like Mike campaign, Nike’s Bo Knows campaign originated in the early 90’s. It centered around the greatest athlete of his time, Bo Jackson – the superhuman running back and baseball player for the Los Angeles Raiders and Kansas City Royals. While there were several different commercials associated with the Bo Knows campaign, the most memorable one was probably the Bo Diddley version, which in fact featured Blues legend Bo Diddley.
The concept was creative yet relatively simple – Bo Jackson is a great football player and baseball player, but what else does he “know”? Utilizing athletes and legends from every other major sport, including the likes of Wayne Gretzky and John McEnroe, Nike used celebrities and the catchphrase “Bo Knows” to create a memorable ad campaign. Certainly the presence of other athletes gave
the campaign credibility, but the often repeated phrase of “Bo Knows” is what
sets this ad apart. The icing on the cake was Bo Diddley telling Bo Jackson, “Bo, you don’t know Diddley!”—a phrase that made its way into the American lexicon for several years. It even served as the title of Bo’s autobiography
“Bo Knows Bo”.
Subsequent versions of this campaign featured a similar theme of Bo Jackson, the super athlete, competing in every sport, and even a cameo from Sonny Bono poking fun at the Bo Knows campaign.
In the end, Bo’s injuries and shortened career took him out of the spotlight sooner than expected. But if you mention his name to anyone of the age range 25-40, they will ineveitably make some mention of Bo Knows.
So as a brand looks to partner with an athlete for a national campaign, what kind of lessons can they learn from the Cokes, Gatorades and Nikes of the world?
The first lesson is to secure A+ talent. With the possible exception of Mean Joe Green, the other athletes used were the absolute best at what they did at the time. If you’re trying to convince people to use your product, you have to be able to convince them that the best athletes in the world use your products. And if you have the budget to bring in other celebs or athletes, do it. They don’t have to be the principal endorser, but they’ll help provide that extra oomph.
The second lesson is to find a catchphrase that resonates outside of the commercial. Be Like Mike and Bo Knows caught on not because of the 30 second spot, but because of the two and three word phrases that kids and adults repeated over and over again. Use the athlete’s name, keep it short, and make it repeatable.
The third lesson is to think bigger than the 30 second spot. 3 of the 5 campaigns on this list weren’t one-off advertisements, but rather a series of ads based around the same theme. Mars Blackmon was a running theme for Nike Air that spanned several years. Bo Knows included several ads that all focused on the Bo Knows themes, but were different variations in their own right. Be Like Mike not only served as a jingle for the Gatorade commercial, but it became its own revenue stream when the company began selling the single.
Finally, be original. For instance, (i) the reason the Be Like Mike ad succeeded was because nobody saw it coming from Gatorade; (ii) an acclaimed director/actor playing a central role in a basketball shoe commercial had never been done before Nike did it; (iii) Tiger Woods bouncing a golf ball on his golf club was an unconventional way to show his skill; (iv) Mean Joe Green was one of the first athletes used in a Super Bowl commercial like that; and (v) Bo Knows was one of the first commercials to use several other athletes and celebrities to sell a product primarily marketed by another athlete.
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Welcome to your Friday Morning Workout, THIRDandFOUR’s new weekly post for those of you who missed the week’s news concerning sports law, sports business, sports media, or sports public relations. Dig in and make sure you break a sweat!
Selig fully supports David Einhorn’s purchase of one-third of the Mets from principal owners Fred Wilpon and family, notwithstanding the $1-billion plus lawsuit that has been brought against the Wilpons by Trustee Irving Pickard on behalf of victims of Bernard Madoff’s ponzi scheme. The Court recently granted the Wilpons’ motion to move the case from the bankruptcy court to a federal district court, where Judge Rakoff likely will limit the plaintiffs’ recovery based on a theory that the Wilpons’ failure to investigate Madoff’s investments did not constitute “willful blindness” or culpable intent. Read more.
Erin Andrews opens up about her stalker. Read more.
The assistant to Canadian sports doctor Anthony Galea claims that though the doctor treated Tiger Woods after his 2009 knee surgery, he did not inject Woods with any illegal substances. Read more.
Shaquille O’Neal decides to join TNT’s NBA Coverage. Read more.
Former Cowboy’s wide receiver and sports commentator Michael Irvin appears shirtless on the cover of the gay men’s magazine Out, where he explains that his passion for marriage equality is a direct result of his relationship with his gay brother who died from cancer in 2006. Read more.
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The NFL and the NFL Players Association project that they will ratify a new CBA by July 21, 2011 in order to save the entire NFL pre-season. The most complex issues yet to be resolved through negotiations are veteran free agency and the rookie wage system. Read more.
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The NFL salary cap will undoubtedly be lower than before once a CBA is adopted. With a hypothetical $120 million cap, the following six teams already exceed it: (1) the Dallas Cowboys; (2) the Oakland Raiders; (3) the New York Giants; (4) the Pittsburg Steelers; (5) the Minnesota Vikings; and (6) the Indianapolis Colts. Read more.
CNBC’s SportsBiz expert Darren Rovell provides 100 rules for using Twitter. Read more.
Pursuant to the 1999 NBA collective bargaining agreement, the NBA withholds 8% of player salaries and places it into escrow each season to ensure that these salaries do not exceed 57% of league revenues. Unlike every other season, the NBA will soon return this year’s money to the players due to increased revenue throughout the 2010-11 season—a welcome surprise for certain players and fuel to the players’ argument that the League does not need to overhaul the current financial system. Read more.
Julie Roe Lach, the NCAA’s Vice President of Enforcement, has made it clear that the NCAA is not done investigating Auburn with respect to its dealings with Cam Newton. Read more.
ESPN initiates suit against Ohio State University, accusing the school of violating the state’s public records law by denying requests for information concerning the NCAA’s investigation of Tressel and Pryor. Read more.
Despite Prince Fielder’s displayed adoration for his sons during the MLB All-Star festivities this week (a true image booster), he has no intentions of rebuilding the torn relationship between him and his father, former all-star first baseman Cecil Fielder. Read more.
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The Omega Experiment – The Omega Experiment
Posted by Phil Blaney | Feb 25, 2013 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |
The opening two minutes of the new, self titled album from Michigan prog metal newcomers The Omega Experiment really made me sit up in my chair. The sweep-picking, the soaring keyboards, the confident drumbeat and an opening riff that fitted in perfectly with the uplifting vocals, all served as encouraging signs of good things to come.
Lets deal with the elephant in the room first, the Devin Townsend shaped elephant waving his trunk at us. They obviously take heavy musical influence from Devin and do nothing to hide the fact, stating in interviews and band blurb that they are big fans. This goes both ways as the man himself has endorsed them with a glowing recommendation.
All of this is good in my book, it is the natural progression of things. If you grow up listening to X,Y and Z then it is fair to assume your music will be influenced by those artists. We are in a place now where Devin has been contributing for so long and to such an extent that we are starting to see that coming through in the next wave of bands. Anyway, I can think of worse influences than Devin Townsend!
Incredibly this album is the work of just two people, Ryan Aldridge on keyboards/samples and everything else coming from Dan Wieten. What the duo produce between them is startling and exciting, the album takes you on a real journey but unlike some progressive music it isn’t an arduous task, this is music that sucks you in and keeps you interested. At times epic, at times joyful but with introspective and challenging moments as well to give balance.
There are nods towards the heavier end of the spectrum with Gojira-esque riffs and movements coming into play, especially on the track ‘Furor’, a real beast of a song that shows the extent of the talent these guys have to show. There are hints of Dream Theater as well, especially with regards the keyboard and they way it is utilised in the songs, nice to see that we have a new Jordan Rudess on the horizon, no mean feat in itself.
They understand the need for space in a record as well which is rare thing to find on a debut album, these passages give the listener time to absorb and take on board what they are hearing before the next installment comes and takes them to another place entirely.
I did wonder how the pair could replicate the album in a live environment but a quick look on YouTube proved my fears unfounded as they have employed musicians to fit in around them and produce an exciting live set that delivers without being a clinical performance.
If prog metal is your thing then I recommend you check out The Omega Experiment, they are bringing a breath of fresh air to a genre that can at times seem stuffy. The album is out on Monday 25th February through Listenable Records.
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TRAILS Shares Gritty Yet Uplifting New Track “Learn To Love Me” Ft. JABS
Jake Nixon | Jun 2, 2019 ||News
TRAILS has made a number of appearances on TSIS over the years for his talented productions like his most recent future bass single “DMMH.” Now the German producer has impressed us yet again with his original track “Learn to Love Me” featuring the vocals of JABS. On this new one TRAILS showcases his blend of organic instrumentation and electronic production in the best way.
There’s a guitar riff that’s abrasive in the best way as the song’s highlight while layers of other instrumentation and production compliment each other effortlessly. TRAILS sets the stage for JABS vocals to soar atop and we’re loving it. Enjoy!
TRAILS – Learn To Love Me (Ft. JABS)
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VIRUDHUNAGAR: The fireworks industry in Virudhunagar district, which has become non-functional due to the Supreme Court ban, is now mooting a proposal to boycott the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, if the demands are not met and factories reopened.
Thousands of workers, manufacturers, fireworks traders and suppliers of chemicals began an indefinite protest at Thiruthangal grounds in Sivakasi on Monday and raised slogans demanding that the units be reopened immediately to protect their livelihood.
“Neither the state nor the central governments are worthy of my vote and hence I will vote for NOTA this year,” said secretary of the Fireworks and Amorces Manufacturers Association (TANFAMA), K Mariappan,while addressing the protest.
Mariappan said the livelihood of eight lakh people - three lakh directly employed and five lakh indirectly employed - had been lost and the governments have not taken any steps to protect them.
Raja Chrandrasekar of the Federation of Tamil Nadu Fireworks Traders said that various sections were expressing views on how to react to the situation, as the industries had been shut for the 100th consecutive day till Sunday. “One of the opinion is boycotting the ensuing elections,” he said.
“We heard that deputy speaker M Thambi Durai has taken up our cause in the Parliament on Monday and the chief minister has announced a relief of Rs 2,000 to the workers, so we will take a decision on it (boycott) three days later,” he said.
Fireworks industries have remained closed ever since the Supreme Court ordered a ban on barium nitrate used in the manufacture of fireworks and suggested manufacture of green fireworks to prevent environmental pollution. The court had also specified timings for bursting fireworks during festivals.
As the court proceedings continued to prolong, hundreds of workers who staged a protest in Sivakasi said that their livelihood had been affected, and that they were finding it difficult to meet their daily needs.
Sivakasi RDO Dhinakaran had also said that steps would be taken to protect their livelihood and that efforts would be made through the local minister K T Rajendra Bhalaji to pass a special resolution in their favour in the assembly session. But, as it did not happen, the workers decided to launch their protest from Monday.
Manikandan, a worker, said that his family was finding it difficult to have a proper meal as he and his wife both who were working in a factory had lost their jobs.
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The idea for this post was born from my overall dissatisfaction towards the BUTAOTOME albums (the ones with new vocal material, so no Guerrilla, the Nekokenbans, etc.) released since C94. This includes Epitaph’s XFD and the Haru no Yuki live performance. Now I just hope the three good songs from the XFD will be able to save it (the slow songs and the Pap-arranged one). But I want to save any further talk about it for the Reitaisai 16 albums review.
There have been some albums in the past I wasn’t happy about to the point that I wasn’t in the mood to review them. But were those albums really that bad? In this post, I want to revisit them. I want to explain why I didn’t like them back then and I will try to find their great qualities. Starting with…
Sachlich, or Sachligh, as they wrote on iTunes/Google Play/Booth. Because it’s cool to write things in a language you don’t know, isn’t it? Things aside, this is probably one of the most overlooked BUTAOTOME releases, for multiple reasons.
First of all, it was released on March 26th, 2017, as a release for the Kyoukai kara Mieta Keshiki event, an event solely dedicated to the Hifuu Club. An album that is released on a non-Comiket/Reitaisai event is generally a minor release. But what, in my opinion, really hurt this album’s visibility was the timing of its release, 11 days after Furubokko, which was the first major release. Furubokko was in the spotlight for the entire first half of the year, while Sachlich hardly got any mention from BUTAOTOME themselves after the release, and they never played any song from it live (not even one of the instrumentals as a random interlude).
Another thing that probably turned off a lot of people was the idea of having Ranko no Ane sing. Considering that the albums with Paprika and Comp singing are pretty much “fun releases that aren’t supposed to be taken seriously” and that “animals can’t sing” (oh wait…), having another non-singer take a vocal role doesn’t sound really exciting. The main difference is that, unlike I LOVE RED/I LOVE CHERRY, Ane’s vocals are not the main focus of this album. She only gets 3 tracks out of 8 and the disc is not labelled as “BUTAOTOME feat. lazy bunny” or something like that.
The Sis’ singing voice is not that bad, but she doesn’t have the range of a proper singer and sounds like a Paprika with a lower pitch.
Now that we have analyzed all of Sachlich’s main “issues”, does this album have any redeeming qualities? Well… Actually yes. The arrangements are very good! Each one of them is quite different and there is a good “classic” feel in the album, while keeping a great variety. Asa no Bebedor is a nice harmonica-based piece, reminiscent of Futatsu no Cinema and co.. Arifureta Gitai is swingy rock. Salon de Anonymous sounds like something fitting for an old-styled inn in a videogame. Shin’ya no Café Terrace is a ’20s American-style piano tune. Toki wo Miru Hito is a good, typical Paprika instrumental track. Maybe a couple of tracks could benefit from some vocals… But anyway, I’m also glad that a couple of them are in Yuusei Hakurankai. The vocal tracks are also great, if you can get over Ane’s singing. M no iru Heya is a Paprilicious piano piece with a classical influence, other instruments kick in very late into the song. Mystery wa Kichi no Soto is a jazz song that I wish would get a Ranko version. Mugen Tajuu Curtain has a quite ominous and tragic feeling.
In my opinion this is an experiment that wasn’t able to fully express its potential – a release that was made solely for the Hifuu-only event, and was fated to be overshadowed. I think it would have been much more interesting if they worked on Ane’s vocals in another way (like making a drama CD, because her talking voice is good) and maybe added some more tracks.
However, if you are a Hifuu fan who is not ultra nitpicky, or you aren’t a BUTAOTOME purist who just wants Ranko stuff, I can recommend you this album.
Now, to the next album!
Ayakashi Yokochou
Ayakashi Yokochou was released in December 2017, for Comiket 93. I wasn’t really happy about it ever since the album’s web page was published. I think this release was a victim of overhype for me. Comp talked about the upcoming album having “the most variation” and Ranko was really excited on Twitter. I never saw her that happy for an album ever since Kyou ga Saigo no Ichinichi, in Spring 2016. And Ichinichi is in my top 5 albums! Buuuut an album that sounded like it tried too much to be a new Shoujo Rengoku, with two remake tracks, more Cirno pandering and some arranges of themes already made in the past that sounded too similar to the previous ones (but those were just a bad impression from the XFD) wasn’t exactly the thing I was expecting from “the next masterpiece”. This is why I wasn’t a big fan of it at the beginning.
The album kicks off with Mesen, a track that has been talked about a lot. Unlike pretty much anything released post-2010, it managed to become a strong live staple, rivaling the Undroppable GenSate in the 2018 live counts. And all of this without getting any other type of official support (PV, appearance in music game/karaoke services, etc.)!
It’s just one of the perfect live tracks that you need to experience at least once (boyfriend confirms). It’s also a refreshing take on Aun’s theme, not too overly faithful to it, and it’s one of the few arranges that is not a cute wan wan moe thing. But I admit one thing: I used to think the pan pan parts were kinda irritating and didn’t make me enjoy the song as much as I wanted.
Half of the album is arranged by Comp, the other one by Paprika, and their tracks alternate in the tracklist, like a colorful match. Other than Mesen, the bear delivers us Dare ni mo Ienai Blues and Inzen (and the Koi no Yamai remake). The first is like… a very unique song, not just in the entire repertoire but also probably in the entire Touhou fanmusic world. Even though it’s Cirno (2017 was her year), it’s still appreciable. The second is a simply marvellous and catchy jazz rock piece, and my personal (and Ranko’s) favorite of the album.
This album also shows how Paprika evolved in her way of arranging vocal songs. She has 4 songs (including the Utakata remake), and they show different shades of her talent. I swear Tanin no Kao (a swingy piece that is like Towa no Maigo, but without the angriness) and Hitokakera (a nice orchestralish tune) sound like something Comp could have done. Utsukushii Hito is there if you want something more standard from her.
I think a malus of this album is the presence of two rearrangements of old songs, instead of just one. They give me the feeling of “filler” songs made just to reach the 8-track quota (a feeling I only got with those two and with Ima Narabe on Daifugou). The Rojiura versions of Koi no Yamai and Utakata aren’t particularly exciting remakes, Utakata is a pure piano + vocals rearrange that removes what made that song so unique and popular. I think they would have shined more in an actual album of re-arranges.
Overall, this is an album that aimed to go in the same direction as Shoujo Rengoku 3 (which was a departure from the first two albums of the series, as well as the actual fourth one), with a more jazz/old-school approach, but I think it lacked of something. Still, it has the BUTAOTOME music members at top of their form and at least one track will satisfy the tastes of every Piggy!
And that’s all for this post. Thanks for reading! Now I kinda want to review some other old BUTAOTOME albums! Maybe after the Reitaisai 16 releases…
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No Mr. Trump, the ‘Squad' Doesn't Bother Israel
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In part of his latest Twitter barrage, President Donald Trump has been accusing four first-term congresswomen of infecting the Democratic Party with anti-Israel bias. His rant has left Israelis scratching their heads.Referring to Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, four women of color collectively known as “the Squad,” Trump accuses the Democrats of using “foul language & racist hatred” in an effort to delegitimize the Jewish State. “I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S.,” he tweets.Nothing could be further from the truth. Israel has never felt less abandoned by the U.S. and Trump knows it. He is, after all, the president whose policies have turned America’s historic bi-partisan embrace into a big bear hug. Like most Israelis, I appreciate Trump’s willingness to stand up for Israel in international forums, his decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty in the Golan and the long overdue relocation the American embassy to Jerusalem. I approve of his disinclination to fall for the Palestinian narrative of the conflict at face value.But it seems the president would like to foment a civil war among Democrats, using Israel as a wedge. Donald Trump knows full well that the Democratic Party is not about to turn into a hotbed of leftist anti-Semitism and Israel bashing like Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. Yes, they tend to be more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause than do Republicans. But, according to the latest Gallup Poll, Americans in general prefer Israel to the Palestinians by a 3-to-1 margin. This simple arithmetic explains why Congressional party leaders are solidly pro-Israel. You can’t win a national election in the U.S. by running against Jerusalem. And if Democrats are not great fans of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, you can hardly blame them. Bibi is a Republican in all but party registration. But if opposing Netanyahu and his right-wing brand of politics is a hate crime, nearly half of Israeli voters – and two-thirds of American rabbis – would be guilty. In truth, criticism of Israel by Democrats is usually undertaken in a tone of a wise friend advising a misguided mate to steer clear of temptation. This was the tone used by former President Barack Obama when he advised Israel to accept the U.S.-brokered Iran nuclear treaty and a two-state agreement with the Palestinians. Mainstream Democratic critics do not customarily go beyond this warmed over version of party doctrine. This has frustrated Trump, which is why he has so eagerly jumped on the Squad. “So sad,” he tweets, “to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion.”A fair reading of the Squad’s criticisms of Israel does not come close to revealing passionate hatred. If you want to see what that looks like, read the recent statement of a Hamas leader in Gaza calling on his followers to murder Jews wherever they are found. The anti-Israel rhetoric of Tlaib and Omar is more militant than that of their progressive sisters, but none have come close to expressing open support of Palestinian terrorism or for the genocidal threats by the regime in Tehran. When they have gone beyond the boundaries of good taste or credibility (Omar intimating that American Jews are loyal to Israel, Tlaib falsely claiming that Palestinians welcomed Jewish holocaust survivors in 1948) they have pleaded ignorance or fudged their remarks. Trump wants more -- and less. In one of his tweets, he called for the progressives to apologize to Israelis. This is intended to provoke an intraparty donnybrook. Israel has no interest in that, any more than it requires an apology from the congresswomen. Nothing they say about this country will be any worse than the things you can hear in Israel’s own legislature, the Knesset, every day.To contact the author of this story: Zev Chafets at zchafets@gmail.comTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Therese Raphael at traphael4@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Zev Chafets is a journalist and author of 14 books. He was a senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the founding managing editor of the Jerusalem Report Magazine.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg•6 hours ago
Kamala Harris Raises Nearly $12 Million in 2Q: Campaign Update
(Bloomberg) -- California Senator Kamala Harris raised $11.8 million in the second quarter, putting her fifth in fundraising among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who filed campaign finance reports with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.Harris reported that 45 percent of her contributions came from low-dollar donors of $200 or less, and she spent $7.4 million during the quarter, leaving her $13.3 million cash on hand as of the end of June, according to her filing.South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is the surprise leader with $24.9 million after beginning his campaign with little name recognition, followed by former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.The California senator’s campaign said it had raised $2 million after her appearance in the Democratic debate on June 27, when she challenged Biden over his record on school desegregation as a Delaware senator in the 1970s. Her campaign said she raised $3.2 million in the final three days of the quarter.Biden’s Fundraising Haul Trails Only Buttigieg’sFormer Vice President Joe Biden raised $22 million in his first two months in the 2020 Democratic presidential race, lagging the $24.9 million in second-quarter fundraising reported by upstart South Bend, Indiana Mayor Peter Buttigieg.Biden’s report with the Federal Election Commission showed that 38% of his contributions came from small-dollar donors of $200 or less. The frontrunner raised more money per day than any rival, his campaign said when it announced his fundraising numbers July 3. He spent about half of his contributions -- leaving him with $10.9 million cash on hand at the end of June, according to his FEC report.Biden, who kicked off his campaign on April 25, didn’t take any contributions toward the general election -- which campaigns can accept and hold in reserve, according to his campaign. He also reported contribution refunds of more than $540,000.Big Donors Help Fuel Trump Second-Quarter Fundraising SurgePresident Donald Trump’s campaign and joint fundraising committees reported raising a total of $68 million in the second quarter, and ended June with $80.2 million in the bank, as bigger donations began to supplant Trump’s small-dollar support, according to their filings with the Federal Election Commission.Grassroots donors, those contributing $200 or less, supplied 35% of Trump’s haul, down from 56% in January-March. Small-dollar donations totaled $23.7 million to the three committees, with the bulk, $19.5 million, received by Trump Make America Great Again Committee, which benefits the president’s campaign and the Republican party.The $108 million figure reported earlier Monday included money raised by the Republican National Committee, which doesn’t report its fundraising to the FEC until Saturday.Trump Victory, which focuses on big donors, raised $29.1 million, just shy of $30.2 million Trump MAGA tallied. Joseph Nakash, chief executive officer and co-founder of Jordache Enterprises, donated $250,000, the biggest political contribution he’s made and his first to Trump. Billionaire Phil Ruffin gave $255,200 while his wife, Oleksandra Nikolyenko-Ruffin, gave $244,800. Marvel Entertainment chairman Isaac Perlmutter and his wife, Laura, each gave $360,000.Longtime GOP donors supported Trump as well. Roofing supply billionaire Diane Hendricks gave $360,000 as did Marlene Ricketts, wife of TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts. Trump’s first pick to head the Small Business Administration, Linda McMahon, gave the same amount, as did Robert “Woody” Johnson IV, the current U.S. ambassador to the U.K.Some of that money was earmarked for the Republican National Committee. The RNC announced it raised $51.3 million.Buttigieg Money Haul in Second Quarter Tops Democratic RivalsPete Buttigieg raised $24.9 million in the second quarter, the most of any candidate who has announced fund-raising totals for the period, and had $22.7 million cash on hand as of June 30 to cement his status as a top-tier 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.The fundraising haul more than tripled the amount the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, raised in the first quarter, in which he reported $7.4 million in campaign donations, according to his finance report filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission.Buttigieg’s campaign held 70 fundraisers in the second quarter, most of which focused on high-dollar donors. But he also staged events catered to grassroots supporters and generated 44 percent of his total contributions from small-dollar donors of $200 or less, according to his reportHollywood Women Donate to Warren Who Swears Off Big DonorsElizabeth Warren is attracting a host of big names in Hollywood -- even though she swore off taking money from big donors.Entertainers Jane Fonda, Scarlett Johanssen, Bette Midler and Barbra Streisandeach gave the Massachusetts senator $2,800 -- the maximum amount a donor can give to a primary campaign. Comedian Amy Schumer gave $5,600, including an additional $2,800 for the general election, should Warren win the nomination. Prolific Democratic bundler Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks Animation and his wife Marilyn Katzenberg each gave Warren got $2,800 checks.Still, small-dollar donors, those giving $200 or less, fueled 67% of Warren’s fundraising. That was just behind Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who got 70% of his haul from grassroots donors in the second quarter.Beto O’Rourke’s Fundraising Collapses as Poll Numbers RecedeFormer Texas Representative Beto O’Rourke’s fundraising dwindled to $3.6 million in the second quarter from $9.4 million in the early days of his presidential run, his campaign said, when he seemed like a rising star.Unlike other top 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, O’Rourke waited until Monday’s filing deadline to disclose his figures -- fueling speculation that the numbers wouldn’t be good. South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden reported early second-quarter fundraising totals of $24.8 million and $21.5 million, respectively.O’Rourke’s campaign said he received 119,888 donations with an average contribution of $30. He has met the 130,000 unique donor requirement for the fall primary debates set by the Democratic National Committee. However, his poll numbers dropped before and after a shaky performance in the June 26 debate and stand at less than 3% in recent surveys compiled by RealClearPolitics.Sanders’ Money Haul Slips in June, Claims He Has ‘More People’Senator Bernie Sanders had $27.3 million cash on hand at the end of June after raising $18 million for his Democratic presidential bid in the second quarter, slipping to fourth place from his perch as the biggest fund raiser among the 2020 contenders, according to totals the candidates have announced and campaign reports.The Vermont senator got almost 70 percent of his contributions from small-dollar donors of $200 or less, according to his report filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission, and almost all of the contributors gave $100 or less, his campaign said. Sanders also transferred $6 million from other accounts during the period.Sanders’s total roughly matched what he took in between January 1 and March 31, which had him leading the pack of Democratic candidates then in the race. But this time he’s trailing Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.Sanders’s campaign sought Monday to differentiate his fundraising from that of his rivals, saying in an email to supporters that he’s backed by contributors that are teachers, students and workers at Walmart, while other Democrats are being funded by pharmaceutical executives, lobbyists, hedge-fund managers and “many of the people we are fighting against.”“The truth is, those folks out-raised us by a bit this time around,” the campaign said in the email. “But there’s a limit to the number of rich folks out there who can give large donations to beat us. They may have the big checks, but we have more people.”Warren’s Second Quarter Fundraising Puts Her in Third PlaceElizabeth Warren raised $19.1 million in the second quarter, putting her in third place behind Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, according to totals the candidates have announced and campaign reports filed so far.Warren, who spent $10.5 million in the quarter, still had $19.8 million cash on hand as of June 30. Warren’s second-quarter funds came from 384,000 people, 67% of whom were small-dollar donors of $200 or less, according to her campaign and filing with the Federal Election Commission. Her fundraising surged from the $6 million the Massachusetts senator raised in the first quarter, when she spent $5.2 million.The senator’s intake compared with the surprise $24.8 million haul by Buttigieg, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor who began his campaign with little name recognition. Biden, the former vice president, raised $21.5 million since entering the race in late April.Biden Leads Close Contest in New HampshireA new survey of New Hampshire Democrats finds former Vice President Joe Biden in a close contest for the lead with Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.Biden had 20.8%, Harris had 17.5% and Warren had 16.7% in the poll conducted by St. Anselm College. All the results were within the margin of error of plus or minus 5.2 percentage points, meaning the three candidates are in a statistical tie.Behind them was South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg with 11.5%. Senator Bernie Sanders had 9.9% in New Hampshire, which he won in the 2016 primary.The poll suggests that the first-in-the-nation primary is wide open as Harris and Warren gain on front-runner Biden after strong debate performances.Former Representative Beto O’Rourke plummeted to 0%, according to WMUR, which reported on the survey.Gillibrand Fundraising Dipped to $2.3 MillionDemocratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand took in $2.3 million in the second quarter, down from $3 million in the first three months of the year, according to her filing with the Federal Election Commission.The New York senator, who has struggled in the polls since entering the race, ended June with $8.2 million in the bank after spending a total of $4.2 million. In addition to the money she’s raised for her presidential bid, she transferred $9.6 million from her Senate campaign in the first quarter.Gillibrand’s campaign said in an email that 65% of its online donors identified as women. The campaign said it is still on pace to hit the 130,000 donors needed to qualify for the third set of debates in September. -- Bill Allison and Mark NiquetteJulian Castro Raises $2.8M in Second QuarterFormer Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, hoping to emerge in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential field after a strong debate performance last month, reported raising $2.8 million during the second quarter -- more than double the $1.1 million he raised in the first three months of the year.That still puts him well behind the Democrats who have announced their second-quarter totals so far: South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg at $24.8 million and former Vice President Joe Biden at $21.5 million.Castro’s filing with the Federal Election Commission showed that almost 75% of his contributions came from donors giving $200 or less. He reported $1.1 million in the bank as of June 30. Monday is the deadline for presidential candidates and committees to report their second-quarter fundraising and spending. -- Bill AllisonTrump, RNC Raise $108M in Second QuarterPresident Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $108 million and have $123.7 million cash on hand, according to revised figures announced Monday. That’s more than the top five Democratic campaigns combined.“Yet another record-shattering fundraising haul gives us a major advantage over the crowded field of Democrats as the RNC continues investing in our world-class field program and growing our incredible grassroots army,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said.Trump’s campaign committee and two joint fundraising vehicles, Trump Victory and Trump Make America Great Again, raised a combined $56.7 million, and ended June with $80.2 million in the bank. The RNC brought in $51.3 million, preliminary numbers showed, with $43.5 million in the bank.The top five Democrats running to replace Trump -- former Vice President Joe Biden, Senators Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg raised a combined $95.4 million so far.Candidates must officially report second-quarter fundraising totals to the Federal Election Commission on Monday. Campaigns voluntarily announce the amounts they raised ahead of the deadline as a demonstration of the extent of support.Last week, the Trump campaign announced fundraising figures of $105 million for the second quarter and $100 million cash on hand.Trump’s campaign had over 957,000 individual donations, of which 98% were $200 or less, with an average donation of $41.48. -- Bill AllisonDemocrats Support Work Stop by Amazon WorkersDemocratic presidential candidates are supporting a work stoppage by Amazon warehouse workers in Minnesota who are protesting working conditions during the online retailing giant’s Prime Day sale.“I fully support Amazon workers’ Prime Day strike,” tweeted Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts senator who has proposed breaking up Amazon. “Their fight for safe and reliable jobs is another reminder that we must come together to hold big corporations accountable.”Julian Castro, a former Housing and Urban Development secretary from Texas, also took to Twitter to express solidarity. “A company worth $1 trillion can absolutely afford to provide reasonable conditions for its employees,” he wrote.Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who has co-sponsored legislation that would tax Amazon, Walmart Inc. and other big employers to compensate for the federal benefits received by their workers, also jumped in.After the bill was introduced last year, Amazon announced that it would raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour.“A higher wage is only one component of the fight for workers’ rights,” Sanders wrote Monday. “Amazon workers deserve safe working conditions, fair scheduling, and reasonable production demands.”Workers at Amazon’s Shakopee, Minnesota, warehouse -- one of 100 sorting and fulfillment centers it operates nationally -- planned to walk off the job Monday on one the company’s busiest days. Amazon has become a frequent target of Democratic candidates, who have used it as an emblem of income inequality. -- Gregory KorteTrump Crushes Democratic Contenders on TwitterRetweets are not endorsements, and neither are Twitter followers. But if they were, President Donald Trump would be winning the Twitter primary.Nineteen percent of adult Twitter users in the U.S. follow @realDonaldTrump on Twitter, compared to 14% who follow one or more of his Democratic rivals, according to a new analysis by the Pew Research Center.Perhaps not surprisingly, more Republicans (31%) follow Trump than Democrats (13%). And those who follow Trump on Twitter are more likely to approve of his job performance (54% approval) than those who don’t (24%).One defining characteristic of Trump’s tweets is that he often uses the social media platform to make inflammatory or controversial statements. Over the weekend and into Monday, for example, he let loose a torrent of posts going after four Democratic lawmakers of color, at one point suggesting that the women, all but one of whom was born in the U.S., should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”The Pew analysis is based on a representative sample of U.S.-based Twitter users and doesn’t include overseas, spam or bot accounts. Trump has 61.9 million Twitter followers in all. The top candidate for the Democratic nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, has 9.4 million. -- Greg KorteDemocratic Field Turns Out for Iowa AARP ForumsNineteen Democratic presidential candidates descend on Iowa this week for five days of forums hosted by the AARP and the Des Moines Register.“Older voters turn out in force in every election, so any candidate who wants to win in 2020 needs to focus on soaring prescription drug prices and other issues they care about,” John Hishta, senior vice president of campaigns for the lobbying group for older Americans, said in a statement.Monday: former Vice President Joe Biden, Senators Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper in Des Moines.Tuesday: Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris, and former HUD secretary Julian Castro in Davenport.Wednesday: Representatives Tim Ryan and Tulsi Gabbard, and Senator Michael Bennet in Cedar Rapids.Friday: Senator Elizabeth Warren, author Marianne Williamson, former Representative Beto O’Rourke and tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang in Sioux City.Saturday: Senator Bernie Sanders, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Montana Governor Steve Bullock and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in Council Bluffs.\-- Tyler PagerO’Rourke Reveals His Family Owned SlavesDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, who’s said he supports studying reparations for African Americans as a means of addressing the legacy of slavery and legal discrimination, now says the issue has become personal. His ancestors include slave owners.In a new Medium essay, O’Rourke said his great-great-great grandfather Andrew Cowan Jasper, in the 1850s owned two women named Rosa and Eliza, according to documents he was recently given. Another ancestor, Frederick Williams, “most likely” owned slaves in the 1860s, O’Rourke said, adding that his wife, Amy, is also a descendant of a slave owner.“Something that we’ve been thinking about and talking about in town hall meetings and out on the campaign -- the legacy of slavery in the United States -- now has a much more personal connection,” the former U.S. representative from El Paso, Texas, said in the post dated Sunday.The revelation follows an NBC News report citing U.S. Census records that found Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is also a descendant of slave owners. McConnell said he opposes government reparations because slavery “happened 150 years ago” and nobody living today is responsible.O’Rourke looks at the situation differently. “They were able to build wealth on the backs and off the sweat of others,” and those benefits ultimately passed to O’Rourke and his own children, he said. -- Terrence DoppSanders, Biden Intensify Fight Over Health Care (6 a.m.)Democrats are headed into a week of sparring over health care as two leading presidential contenders prepare to intensify their fight over the issue.On Monday, front-runner Joe Biden will unveil a plan that relies heavily on defending the Affordable Care Act enacted in 2010 when he was vice president. It would give Americans the choice of a Medicare-like, public option for insurance while increasing the value of tax credits, lowering the cap on the cost of insurance and offering coverage to 4.9 million Americans in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid under Obamacare. the proposal would cost an estimated $750 billion in its first decade.Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who champions a “Medicare for All” government-run insurance system, plans a Wednesday speech in Washington to “confront the Democratic opponents of Medicare for All and directly challenge the insurance and drug industry.”After months of maintaining a steady grip on second place behind Biden in polls, Sanders has slid to third or fourth in some surveys, and his advisers have encouraged him to take on Biden more directly.Biden, seeking to move past missteps in the past few weeks, has become increasingly aggressive in warning that Medicare for All – also supported by two other top rivals, Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren – would mean giving up on the hard-fought gains of Obamacare and starting from scratch.“I admire the rest of the field, from Bernie to Elizabeth to Kamala who want, you know, Medicare for All, but let me tell you, I think one of the most significant things we’ve done in our administration is pass the Affordable Care Act,” Biden said Saturday in New Hampshire. “I don’t know why we’d get rid of what in fact is working and move to something totally new.”Biden also highlighted over the weekend that Medicare for All would need to be funded with tax increases for middle-income Americans, something that Sanders openly acknowledges. But Sanders maintains that his plan would ultimately save consumers money because they’d no longer have to pay other costs.“Obviously what Biden was doing is what the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industries, Republicans, do: ignoring the fact that people will save money on their health care,” Sanders said in an interview with the New York Times published Sunday. “They will no longer have to pay premiums or out-of-pocket expenses. They will no longer have high deductibles and high co-payments.” -- Jennifer EpsteinCory Booker Unveils Health Care PlanSenator Cory Booker rolled out a plan Monday to expand Medicaid long-term care services to those with assets up to $200,000 and income as high as 300% of the federal poverty level.People above those thresholds would also be allowed to buy into the program, an initiative aimed at allowing every American to live at home while aging, according to a white paper from his presidential campaign.The proposal, which Booker is set to discuss at an AARP forum in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, would include raising Medicaid funding for direct care workers and paying them at least $15 per hour.“In one of the richest nations in the world, no person should ever go broke or have to quit their job to afford long-term care or to take care of a loved one,” Booker said.Health care is a focal point of the Democratic policy debate as candidates clash over bigger ideas like Medicare for all and offering a “public option” for insurance, both of with Booker has endorsed as ways to expand coverage. -- Sahil KapurComing Up This Week:Nineteen of the two dozen or so Democratic candidates will participate in AARP’s five forums in Iowa between Monday and Saturday.The Tuesday event in Davenport will feature Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris, and former HUD secretary Julian Castro.The Wednesday event in Cedar Rapids will feature Representatives Tim Ryan and Tulsi Gabbard, and Senator Michael Bennet.The Friday event in Sioux City will feature Senator Elizabeth Warren, author Marianne Williamson, former Representative Beto O’Rourke and tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang.The Saturday event in Council Bluffs will feature Senator Bernie Sanders, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Montana Governor Steve Bullock and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.\--With assistance from Sahil Kapur, Jennifer Epstein, Terrence Dopp, Tyler Pager, Gregory Korte and Bill Allison.To contact the reporters on this story: Mark Niquette in Columbus at mniquette@bloomberg.net;Bill Allison in Washington DC at ballison14@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Wendy Benjaminson at wbenjaminson@bloomberg.net, Sara Forden, John HarneyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Google Protest Leader Meredith Whittaker Is Leaving the Company
(Bloomberg) -- Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over the search giant’s military work, artificial intelligence and policies, is leaving the company.A Google spokeswoman confirmed Whittaker’s departure after another Google worker tweeted about the move on Monday. Whittaker didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment."Today is @mer__edith’s final day at Google. Watching her experience as a whistleblower at Google and a victim of retaliation cannot signal good things for how AI institutions will react to negative criticism. NotOkGoogle," Chris Lu, a software engineer at Google, wrote on Twitter.Over the past year, some staff at Alphabet Inc.’s Google have erupted in protest, prompting the company to drop a Pentagon AI contract and a search project in China. Whittaker, who led Google’s Open Research group, was one of the most outspoken voices. She was one of six women who organized massive walkouts after reports that Google paid handsome sums to executives accused of sexual harassment.While at Google, Whittaker also served with AI Now, an ethics organization affiliated with New York University that she co-founded. The group often criticizes businesses and government agencies for using AI systems, like facial recognition, in policing and surveillance. Whittaker also publicly denounced some Google decisions, including the appointment of Kay Coles James, a conservative think tank leader, to an AI ethics board. Google soon nixed the board."People in the AI field who know the limitations of this tech, and the shaky foundation on which these grand claims are perched, need to speak up, loudly. The consequences of this kind of BS marketing are deadly (if profitable for a few)," Whittaker wrote on Twitter on Sunday.In April, about six months after the big employee walkout, Whittaker and another protest leader, Claire Stapleton, said the company was retaliating against them for their role in the activity. In an email to colleagues, Whittaker said her Google manager told her to "abandon [her] work on AI ethics" and blocked a request to transfer internally. At the time, Google denied it retaliated against Whittaker.To contact the reporters on this story: Mark Bergen in San Francisco at mbergen10@bloomberg.net;Joshua Brustein in New York at jbrustein@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jillian Ward at jward56@bloomberg.net, Alistair BarrFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Reuters•12 hours ago
House Intelligence chief presses social media companies on deepfake policies
U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Monday pressed major social media companies on how they plan to handle the threat of deepfake images and videos on their platforms ahead of the 2020 elections. The Democratic congressman wrote letters to the chief executives of Facebook Inc , Twitter Inc and Google, which owns YouTube, asking about the companies' formal policies on deepfakes and their research into technologies to detect the doctored content. Facebook spokesman Andy Stone confirmed the company had received the letter and said it would respond to Schiff accordingly.
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Bloomberg•15 hours ago
Facebook’s Crypto Woes Deepen as Mnuchin Joins Parade of Critics
(Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. faced its latest Washington crisis Monday, with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin joining a parade of policy makers and politicians who’ve bashed its proposed cryptocurrency, demonstrating the hurdles the company must overcome to ever make the token a reality.Speaking from the White House, Mnuchin said he has serious concerns about the national security implications of Facebook’s coin and other virtual currencies. He said the potential for money laundering and other illicit activities is high, and vowed that Treasury would crack down on law breakers when it finds them.“This is indeed a national security issue,” Mnuchin said in a briefing for reporters at the White House. “We will not allow digital asset service providers to operate in the shadows.”Bitcoin pared an earlier decline after Mnuchin’s comments, and was down 9.6 percent to $10,765.78 at 2:42 p.m. in New York.Many CriticsHe is far from the first official to express skepticism. President Donald Trump took to Twitter July 11 to criticize Facebook’s effort, saying he’s not a fan of Bitcoin and that cryptocurrencies are often used to facilitate “unlawful behavior.” And some of Trump’s staunchest foes in Congress, including Representative Maxine Waters, have also faulted Facebook, going so far as to demand that the company halt all work on the coin, called Libra.Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell chimed in last week, telling lawmakers that he has “serious concerns’’ about the token and cast doubt on Facebook’s timeline for launching it by next year.The opposition from both Republicans and Democrats might put fresh pressure on Facebook -- already under fire in Washington over scandals tied to data privacy -- to assess whether its cryptocurrency is worth it. The fireworks will start again tomorrow when the company faces a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee followed by another Wednesday before the House Financial Services Committee.In prepared remarks before the Senate panel, the top Facebook executive working on Libra, David Marcus, went further than the company has previously to try to assuage policy makers’ concerns that the coin could be a threat to the financial system.Read More: Facebook’s Crypto Plan Unites Trump and Democrats in DisdainMarcus said the token won’t launch until regulatory questions are fully addressed and he added that Facebook will get “appropriate approvals.” He said the coin isn’t isn’t intended to compete with countries’ sovereign currencies and won’t interfere with central banks on monetary policy.“The time between now and launch is designed to be an open process and subject to regulatory oversight and review,” Marcus wrote. “We know we need to take the time to get this right. And I want to be clear: Facebook will not offer the Libra digital currency until we have fully addressed regulatory concerns and received appropriate approvals.”In his remarks, Mnuchin said that Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network “will hold any entity that transacts in Bitcoin, Libra or any other cryptocurrency to its highest standards.” He broadly criticized cryptocurrencies, echoing Trump, who said in his series of tweets last week that they are “not money.”“Bitcoin is highly volatile and based on thin air,” Mnuchin said. “We are concerned about the speculative nature of Bitcoin and will make sure that the U.S. financial system is protected from fraud.”Crypto AnxietyMnuchin said he would address the issue with the finance ministers from other major global economies at a Group of Seven summit in France this week. He’s also discussed the issue “extensively” with the Fed’s Powell, he said.The sentiment poses risk for the broader digital coin industry. In the run-up to this week’s hearings, a number of competing digital coin companies are distancing themselves from Facebook. Some industry groups are also conducting briefings for congressional staff, pointing out that Facebook’s plan is light on details and not necessarily representative of all tokens.For Facebook, Mnuchin indicated that U.S. approvals may take a while.“They and others have a lot of work to do before they get us comfortable,” he said. But he said the company is “being very candid with the administration and where they are.”Trump said four days ago that companies issuing cryptocurrency, including Facebook, should be subject to banking regulations.Mnuchin said the president has “legitimate concerns.” He advised investors to “be careful” before purchasing Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. “There’s a lot of good things to invest in,” he said.“I have no idea why Bitcoin trades where it is,” Mnuchin said. “I’m not commenting whether it’s high or it’s low.”\--With assistance from Robert Schmidt, Austin Weinstein and Ben Bain.To contact the reporters on this story: Josh Wingrove in Washington at jwingrove4@bloomberg.net;Margaret Talev in Washington at mtalev@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Alex Wayne at awayne3@bloomberg.net, Jesse Westbrook, Jillian WardFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
JPMorgan, Jefferies Foresee Limited Upside for Global Stocks
(Bloomberg) -- Stocks may not have more room to run going by the way investors are placing their bets, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. The view is shared by Jefferies, which recommends investors pause for a breather.Global equities could climb as much as 8% if bond valuations remain where they are and investors become the most overweight since September, JPMorgan strategists led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote in a note July 12. That’s likely true even if the Federal Reserve cuts rates by more than what markets have factored in, as occurred in 1995 and 1998, they said.“Our position-based analysis points to limited upside for equities from here even if the 1995/1998 insurance-rate-cuts scenario plays out over the coming months,” the strategists wrote. “And any equity upside would become even more limited if bond markets fail to sustain their H1 gains.”Comparing global M2, or the cash balance of non-bank investors, with equity and bond holdings held by them, reveals a 20.8% bond allocation that’s above the post-Lehman Brothers historical mean, the strategists wrote. The exposure to stocks at 43.6% is higher than the post-Lehman collapse average of 40%.“Investors globally are rather overweight equities especially compared with the post-Lehman period,” the strategists wrote.Jefferies notes that recent flows into equity funds have been almost absent and earnings revisions haven’t bottomed out. Those factors may cause this year’s rally to pause, global equity strategist Sean Darby wrote in a note dated July 15.Equity investors have enjoyed strong gains so far in 2019, with the S&P 500 up 20% and the MSCI All-Country World Index gaining 16% through July 12, as the Fed pivoted to dovishness, and recently signaled likely rate cuts. Also, investors’ worst fears about trade tensions haven’t yet been realized and the American economy is still showing some strength. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield is down more than 50 basis points this year. It was at 2.09% as of 1:40 p.m. in New York, while the S&P 500 was little changed at 3,011.26.While a 25-basis point reduction by the Fed has been priced in, the move “will accomplish nothing aside from temporarily sating market expectations and quieting the White House Twitter account,” Darby said. “The weaker parts of the U.S. economy – fixed investment and manufacturing – are being affected by trade tensions.”Jefferies said a self-reinforcing feedback loop has emerged, where markets are leading central bankers rather than the other way round.“The bottom line is that we would issue a ‘pause’ on the risk rally,” Darby wrote.(Updates market moves in seventh paragraph.)To contact the reporters on this story: Joanna Ossinger in New York at jossinger@bloomberg.net;Gregor Stuart Hunter in Hong Kong at ghunter21@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christopher Anstey at canstey@bloomberg.net, Ravil ShirodkarFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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Cruz, Hawley Want the FTC to Probe Social Media Content Curation
(Bloomberg) -- Two key Republican senators pressed the Federal Trade Commission to investigate how Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Twitter Inc. decide what content appears on their social media platforms, calling the companies’ power a potential threat to democracy. Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri made their demand in a letter sent to the FTC on Monday, a day before a hearing by a Senate panel into social media bias that will feature testimony from a top Google executive. The letter and hearing come just days after President Donald Trump aired similar grievances at a White House summit of conservative tech critics, fringe social media voices and GOP lawmakers including Hawley. “Big tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter exercise enormous influence on speech,” the two Republican senators wrote in the letter, which Hawley’s office provided. “They control the ads we see, the news we read, and the information we digest. And they actively censor some content and amplify other content based on algorithms and intentional decisions that are completely nontransparent.”The request comes as Republicans increasingly allege that the companies engage in systematic anti-conservative bias, an unsupported claim. But the possibilities for abuse “are alarming and endless,” including potentially swaying elections, the senators said.Like Trump, both senators have been vocal about claims that social media silences conservatives. Cruz, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday on Google’s “censorship.” The company’s global policy chief, Karan Bhatia, will testify, he said in a Monday opinion piece.“We go to extraordinary lengths to build our products and enforce our policies in such a way that political leanings are not taken into account,” Bhatia wrote in Fox News.All three companies have previously said they don’t make content decisions based on politics, though they have acknowledged occasional mistakes in taking down or limiting the reach of content or accounts of conservatives.“Importantly, these mistakes have affected both parties and are not the product of bias,” Bhatia wrote in his opinion piece. Spokesmen for Facebook and Twitter declined to comment on Monday.Cruz has said his views are based on anecdotes rather than rigorous data, which he blames on the opaque nature of the companies’ decisions regarding content.Hawley has previously proposed legislation that would require tech platforms to prove to the FTC that they’re politically neutral in their content decisions if they want to keep a key liability shield that protects them from lawsuits over content that third parties post on their platforms. Hawley was the featured speaker during Trump’s summit, during which the president called his bill “very important.”Almost 65% of Republicans or those who lean Republican believe big tech companies support liberal views over conservative ones, and 85% think it’s at least somewhat likely the companies are intentionally censoring political viewpoints, according to a Pew Research Center survey from last year.The FTC has authority to collect non-public information from companies and study matters related to competition and consumer protection, even if the issue isn’t related to a law enforcement matter. It has opened an investigation into how Internet service providers collect and use consumer data, and the agency has also started a task force to probe potentially anti-competitive conduct by tech giants.The Justice Department and FTC also have taken the first steps toward specific investigations of four big tech firms for antitrust violations. The Justice Department has taken responsibility for Google and Apple Inc., while the FTC will oversee Facebook and Amazon.com Inc.(Updates with Google response from fifth paragraph)\--With assistance from David McLaughlin.To contact the reporter on this story: Ben Brody in Washington at btenerellabr@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Sara Forden at sforden@bloomberg.net, Mark Niquette, Linus ChuaFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Trump Continues Attack on Congresswomen After Telling Them to ‘Go Back’
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump continued his attack Monday on four female Democratic lawmakers, led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, after his call for them to “go back” to where they came from was met with outcries of racism by Democrats -- and pushback from several Republicans.Three of the four women Trump was apparently referencing were born in the U.S.; none is white. The comments came as U.S. authorities prepared raids to round up undocumented immigrants for deportation.Republicans largely remained silent on the issue. Representative Chip Roy, a Texas Republican, said on Twitter that Trump “was wrong” to make the remark. One of Trump’s key allies in Congress, GOP Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, offered his own advice to the president. “Mr. President you’re right about their policies, you’re right about where they’ll take the country. Just aim higher,” Graham said on Fox News.Senator Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, said Trump’s statement was “wrong.” “We should defeat their ideas on the merits, not on the basis of their ancestry,” Toomey said in a statement.The tweets from Trump started Sunday and continued Monday morning and seemed aimed at first-term Representatives Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. “The Squad,” as the progressive quartet is known, has been engaged in an intra-party dispute with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.Trump said the lawmakers “originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and should go back and help fix the countries and “then come back and show us how it is done.”Trump later returned to Twitter to say it was “sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel.”On Monday, Trump said in a tweet the “Radical Left Congresswomen” should apologize to “our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said.”Trump on Monday told reporters at the White House his comments were “not at all” racist. Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said on Twitter that the president “loves this country & doesn’t like it when elected officials constantly disparage it & spew anti-Semitic rhetoric” and called on Democrats to get rid of “anti-Semitism in their ranks.”Trump’s comments come as U.S. immigration officials prepare to conduct raids in about ten cities around the U.S. to round up individuals who’ve received deportation orders, and as reports continue to circulate about poor conditions for migrants in U.S. detention facilities on the U.S. border with Mexico.The Trump administration also said Monday that it was going to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants who cross the U.S. southern border.In response, Pelosi called the president’s tweets “xenophobic comments meant to divide our nation,” and Democratic Representative Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico decried “a racist tweet from a racist president.”Ocasio-Cortez sent four tweets of her own, saying Trump was “angry” because he doesn’t “believe in an America” where women like those in the Squad are elected to Congress.“You are angry because you can’t conceive of an America that includes us. You rely on a frightened America for your plunder,” she said.Pressley said on Twitter “THIS is what racism looks like. WE are what democracy looks like. And we’re not going anywhere.” Omar said Trump was “stoking white nationalism bc you are angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda.”Tlaib was also blunt: “Want a response to a lawless & complete failure of a President?” she tweeted. “He is the crisis. His dangerous ideology is the crisis.”Democratic presidential hopefuls also weighed in. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said that “unfortunately, there’s an American tradition of telling people to go back to where they came from” and that Trump was trying to “gin up his base” by keeping Americans divided.“You don’t expect to hear it from the president of the United States,” de Blasio said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.Lujan, assistant Speaker and a member of the Hispanic Caucus in the House, became emotional on “Fox News Sunday” when shown Trump’s tweet. “That is a racist tweet. Telling people to go back where they came from? I think that’s wrong,” he said.Representative Brendan Boyle, a Pennsylvania Democrat, noted in a tweet that “I’m young, from an immigrant family, also very critical of Trump. Funny thing though, he never tells me to ‘go back where I come from.’ Hmm I wonder why?”Republicans mostly tried to stay out of the fray.Graham, on Fox, encouraged Trump to “aim higher,” but went on to call the agenda of the four lawmakers “disgusting” and label them “communists,” “socialists” and “anti-Semitic.”Pelosi last week told the New York Times that the vocal freshmen lawmakers were just “four people” among the Democratic House majority after a party split over a $4.6 billion border funding bill.Among the lawmakers implied in Trump’s tweet, only one -- Omar, 37 -- was born outside the U.S. She migrated as a young girl with her Somalian family after spending four years in a refugee camp. Tlaib, 42, the first Palestinian-American woman elected to Congress, was born in Detroit.The 45-year-old Pressley, an African-American, was born in Cincinnati and raised in Chicago. Ocasio-Cortez, 29, was born in New York to parents of Puerto Rican origin.Trump’s comments echo the bigoted shouts that minorities hear daily to “go back where you came from,” said Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.“If Trump shouted the same thing at a Muslim woman wearing hijab in a Walmart, he might be arrested,” Awad said in a statement.Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, defeated by Trump in 2016, also responded to Trump’s tweet: “They’re from America, and you’re right about one thing: Currently their government is a complete and utter catastrophe.”(Updates with Trump comments in ninth paragraph.)To contact the reporters on this story: Margaret Talev in Washington at mtalev@bloomberg.net;Ros Krasny in Washington at rkrasny1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Craig Gordon at cgordon39@bloomberg.net, Elizabeth Wasserman, Kevin WhitelawFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Bitcoin Tumbles as Trump Critique Tests Stellar Run for 2019
(Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin slumped briefly below $10,000 on Monday, following another weekend sell-off that saw some digital tokens plunge by more than 20%.The largest cryptocurrency fell as much as 17% from Friday before paring its drop to 11% at $10,571 as of 11:50 a.m. in New York, according to Bloomberg composite pricing. Other highly traded coins also retreated: Ethereum declined 17% and Litecoin fell 13%.The tumble comes days after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized digital coins on the heels of this year’s stellar rally. Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday that he is “not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air,” adding that “Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity.”Read about weekends as the “Wild West” for Bitcoin.Bitcoin “continues to trade lower as comments from President Trump put downward pressure on the cryptocurrency,” said Alfonso Esparza, senior market analyst at Oanda Corp. in Toronto. Drawing Trump’s ire means “it could fall further to $8,000, giving back all the gains made in June.”Bitcoin initially climbed after Trump’s comments, but has since more than erased the gains.Technical indicators were ominous, too. The GTI Vera Convergence Divergence indicator, which detects positive and negative trends, flashed a sell signal as Bitcoin hovered around $10,000.Though it remains the key support line for the coin, a sustained break below that threshold could signal further losses ahead. The last time the indicator flashed a sell signal -- in early June -- Bitcoin dropped about 10% over the subsequent two trading sessions.(Adds GTI Vera indicator paragraphs.)\--With assistance from Todd White, Olivia Rinaldi, Vildana Hajric, Brendan Walsh and Kenneth Sexton.To contact the reporter on this story: Joanna Ossinger in Singapore at jossinger@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christopher Anstey at canstey@bloomberg.net, Adam Haigh, Yakob PeterseilFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Facebook's Crypto Plan Unites Trump and Democrats in Disdain
(Bloomberg) -- It’s long seemed that nothing could unite President Donald Trump and Democrats on Capitol Hill. Then Facebook Inc. decided to create a cryptocurrency.Washington’s bipartisan distrust of the social-networking giant will be on display this week as it defends the digital-money proposal in two congressional hearings. In a sign that the testimony is likely to be an ordeal for Facebook, Trump took to Twitter on Thursday to bash the effort.The presidential lashing was just the latest setback for Facebook, which rolled out its plan for a token called Libra in June –- a move that many policy makers called hubristic and ill-timed, considering the political turmoil that continues to swirl around the company. Last week, Facebook agreed to pay about $5 billion in a record privacy settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.Facebook’s traditional pre-hearing courtesy visits to discuss Libra in the House and Senate aren’t going well, according to interviews with lawmakers and congressional staff. While the company has taken pains to describe its initiative in utopian and futuristic terms, lawmakers have been more interested in data security, the company’s awesome market power and why it decided to base the operation outside the U.S.Facebook’s Libra Crypto Coin: 5 Things We Know, and 5 We Don’t“Look at their arrogance, look at their role in the 2016 presidential campaign, look at the fact that they’ve rarely shown any contrition on much of anything,’’ Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the Banking Committee’s top Democrat, said in an interview. “There’s going to be a group of us that’s going to demand some real information.’’Complaints about Libra haven’t just come from politicians. Trump-appointed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told lawmakers last week he has “serious concerns’’ about the token and cast doubt on Facebook’s timeline for launching it by next year. He also warned that the U.S. regulatory system may not be equipped to handle the enormous digital payment system envisioned by Facebook, which has more than 2 billion users.Democrats, including Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters of California, have already demanded that the company put its plans on hold while Congress investigates. Republicans, though less vocal, also haven’t been supportive.Power to DominateThe controversy around the project, however unwanted by Facebook, nevertheless highlights the company’s power to dominate policy debates and, to some extent, set the agenda in Washington. Until Facebook jumped in a few weeks ago, cryptocurrency was more of a fringe issue that attracted an unusual crowd of libertarians, speculators and blockchain geeks. Many in Congress were uninterested.The stakes are high for both Facebook and the broader digital coin industry as David Marcus, a top executive at the company, prepares to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday and the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday.In his prepared remarks, released by the Senate panel Monday, Marcus acknowledged the extensive criticism and pledged to work closely with regulators and governments across the globe. He also addressed one of Washington’s top concerns, saying Libra isn’t intended to compete with national currencies or interfere with central banks on monetary policy. “We know we need to take the time to get this right,” Marcus said in the testimony. “And I want to be clear: Facebook will not offer the Libra digital currency until we have fully addressed regulatory concerns and received appropriate approvals.”Existing LawsMarcus, whose preparation has included a mock hearing, also told the senators that while Facebook has spearheaded the Libra project, it’s not acting alone. The company has said that it envisions a governing body that would include at least 100 organizations. There are currently 28 listed as founders for the Libra Association, although none has paid the $10 million entrance fee.Libra, he added, will help consumers across the world transfer money much more efficiently and cheaply. And, Marcus warned that if “we fail to act, we could soon see a digital currency controlled by others whose values are dramatically different.” Though he didn’t offer specifics, the People’s Bank of China has already said it’s developing a digital currency.Facebook has been making similar arguments in briefings with lawmakers and congressional aides, according to interviews. The major companies that have partnered with Facebook on the project, including Mastercard Inc., Visa Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc., have been mostly silent about Libra and largely absent from the lobbying effort.Few details on Libra have been disclosed beyond a 12-page white paper issued in June, which said Libra will be built on a new blockchain infrastructure accessible from anywhere in the world. Facebook and its partners have set up a non-profit organization in Switzerland to oversee the payment network. The token will be backed by a reserve of bank deposits and short-term government securities.Trump, in his tweets last week, said he’s “not a fan” of digital coins in general because of their potential use in criminal activity. As for Libra, Trump wrote that it “will have little standing or dependability.” He added that if Facebook really wanted to get into finance it should become a bank -- and be regulated like one.Though the price of Bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies has gained on the surge in mainstream interest in the concept, a number of competing digital coin companies are distancing themselves from Facebook. Some industry groups are also conducting briefings for congressional staff, pointing out that Facebook’s plan is light on details and not necessarily representative of all tokens.Libra is more of a “company-issued asset” rather than than a true cyptocurrency like Bitcoin, said Coin Center Executive Director Jerry Brito, who’s been involved in some of the meetings on Capitol Hill. A key complaint among purists has been that Libra isn’t decentralized. “There is no company that issues Bitcoin,” Brito added.$5 Billion SettlementBlockchain Association Director Kristin Smith, whose group represents several large crypto companies, said she’s generally not opposed to Facebook’s entrance into the market. She acknowledged, however, that there’s a lot of potential risk.“It’s mixed,” she said. “We certainly don’t want the whole industry to become associated with some of the issues that Facebook has had as a company in the past.’’Along with complaints that it allowed Russia to hijack its platform to support Trump’s election campaign, the company has also drawn fire for numerous consumer privacy breaches. The $5 billion FTC settlement, which still needs final approval from the U.S. Department of Justice, resolves an investigation stemming from Facebook’s involvement with Trump campaign consultant Cambridge Analytica.Need to ClarifySmith attended a news conference at the Capitol last week with four moderate Democratic and Republican members of the House who are strongly supportive of the financial technology industry. They, too, weren’t leaping to endorse the Libra project.Representative Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat who sits on the financial services panel, said at the event that he hopes the focus on Facebook’s proposal will prompt lawmakers to consider legislation that clarifies the regulatory landscape. Some of the laws governing digital currency, he noted, go back to the 1930s.“We have to have the conversation,’’ he said. “I don’t want to lose the jobs and innovation elsewhere.’’Gottheimer plans to strike a similar theme at the Facebook hearing this week, but it’s not clear how many other members of the House panel will be interested in the finer details of Libra or digital payments.Some lawmakers predicted that the hearing may quickly devolve into a series of anti-Facebook rants, on issues like fake news in the 2016 campaign, data protection, the company’s market dominance and the FTC settlement. Those topics are often easier to understand for some members of Congress who are decidedly not techies.In what may be a harbinger, Financial Services Committee member David Scott, a Georgia Democrat, mistakenly referred to the digital token Libra as Libor, an interbank lending rate, while questioning the Powell last week. The Fed chief didn’t bother to correct him.(Updates with Marcus testimony beginning in 10th paragraph.)\--With assistance from Lydia Beyoud, Austin Weinstein and Julie Verhage.To contact the reporters on this story: Robert Schmidt in Washington at rschmidt5@bloomberg.net;Ben Bain in Washington at bbain2@bloomberg.net;Kurt Wagner in San Francisco at kwagner71@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jesse Westbrook at jwestbrook1@bloomberg.net, Gregory MottFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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President Donald Trump saddled with ‘racist in chief’ hashtag after his latest tweetstorm
Donald Trump took to Twitter early Sunday morning to tell Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressleyto to “go back” to their countries ”fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Populist Voters Don’t Mind Putin’s Help
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the nationalist-populist League party, is having a hard time waving off accusations that one of his close aides plotted to get Kremlin funding for the political force. It should be clear by now that such aid is readily available to European populist parties. If voters don’t see it as a deterrent – and so far they don’t – then it’s only going to become more brazen. The first report of a Moscow meeting between Gianluca Savoini, Salvini’s former spokesman, and some Russians with high-level government contacts appeared in the Italian magazine L’Espresso in February. At the meeting, an oil deal was supposedly discussed: The Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft would sell some Russian diesel fuel to an Italian intermediary at a discount; the intermediary would then sell it on to Italy’s Eni SpA and use the profit to fund the League.Last week, Buzzfeed published what it said was the transcript of a secret recording of that meeting. It contains some titillating details about how the proposed deal would be structured to hide the Russian involvement, the amount of fuel to be sold (250,000 tons a month for a year), the size of the discount (4%) – and a Russian demand for a kickback. Buzzfeed calculated the Italians stood to receive about $65 million so the League could “sustain a campaign.”As in February, there’s still no evidence that the deal actually took place, that the League received any Russian money or that Salvini even knew about the negotiations. An Italian lawyer, Gianluca Meranda, has since come forward claiming that he’d been present at the meeting and that the transaction hadn’t been completed. And Salvini has said that he’s “never taken a ruble, a euro, a dollar or a liter of vodka in financing from Russia.”As Samuel Greene, director of the Russia Institute at King’s College London, pointed out in a recent Twitter thread, it’s natural for Putin to offer enticements to potential allies, and he doesn’t much care about European laws (or Russian ones, for that matter). “What should be much more surprising and troubling,” Greene wrote, “is the increasing number of players in our own political establishments who are willing to sell out -- politicians and voters who no longer think our own rules matter. That's the threat.”As I’ve written before, European populists are perfectly aware of the toxicity of accepting Russian money in any form. In some countries, Italy among them, political slush funds are not unheard of – but Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election has drawn so much attention, including from intelligence services, that accepting the Kremlin’s financial aid increases the probability of getting caught. That explains Salvini’s obvious caution – and that of Brexit campaign funder Arron Banks, who apparently turned down offers of lucrative Russian deals. And yet the aftermath of the sting operation that brought down the Austrian government just before the European Parliament election in May suggests voters may increasingly be willing to shrug off such Russian involvement. Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, then leader of the Freedom Party, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, was recorded holding talks with a woman he thought was a Russian billionaire’s niece. He discussed a plan to buy Austria’s biggest tabloid newspaper to ensure favorable coverage for his party and told her she could make an illegal donation to the party through a special foundation. Then-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz forced Strache to resign and dissolved the coalition. But the Freedom Party’s support didn’t collapse. In the European Parliament election, it won 17.2% of the vote, less than the 20.5% it garnered in the 2017 national election but still a surprisingly high percentage under the circumstances.Strache himself received the second highest number of votes among Freedom Party candidates and won one of the party’s three European Parliament seats. He refused to take it, saying he didn’t want to move to Brussels. Indeed, he only paid a political price because his coalition partner, Kurz, used the scandal to shake off an uncomfortable alliance with the far right. The Freedom Party is polling close to 19% in the run-up to the national election in October.The League’s polling numbers are on the rise despite the Russia scandal. It’s conceivable that populist voters simply don’t care about the Kremlin scare, either because they’re generally sympathetic toward Russian President Vladimir Putin (who cleverly echoes hard right rhetoric as he seeks allies in Europe) or because they write off media reports of Russia scandals as fake news. The more Russia scandals hatch and pass without consequences, the more the latter perception will be reinforced: one can’t cry wolf too many times. Voters also know these parties have a harder time gaining funding and may simply be willing to ignore such freelancing if it helps their larger anti-establishment cause. It has long been clear that legal forms of aid, such as French nationalist Marine Le Pen’s Russian bank loans, are fine with such politicians’ supporters. The Brexit Party’s voters have also brushed off concerns about Russian interference in the 2016 referendum. Ultimately, if voters keep showing they don’t mind politicians’ Kremlin links, all the politicians need to do is set up legal structures to receive Putin’s aid with a minimum of risk. That may not be straightforward, but it’s more a technical task rather than a political one.So far, the European establishment has failed to impress on a significant number of voters the idea that Putin is a threat. That’s part of its general vulnerability. Whether or not the Kremlin may becomes an agenda-setting player in European politics, the record so far suggests it will continue to look for open doors and increasingly find them. To contact the author of this story: Leonid Bershidsky at lbershidsky@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Therese Raphael at traphael4@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Leonid Bershidsky is Bloomberg Opinion's Europe columnist. He was the founding editor of the Russian business daily Vedomosti and founded the opinion website Slon.ru.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- As he has so many times since bursting onto the presidential stage in 2015, Donald Trump played the race card on Sunday. He launched nearly three dozen broadsides on Twitter throughout the day, but a trio of his tweets stood out because they demonstrated how casually he likes to uncork his venom and how unwilling the Republican Party is to contain him.Here are all three of those Trump tweets, which he published at 5:27 a.m. on Sunday, pulled together:So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!Trump was targeting four new Democratic congresswomen of color (nicknamed “The Squad”) who have become ubiquitous advocates for progressive policies and occasional thorns in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s side: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.Omar is from Somalia. The other three women were born in the U.S. Pressley is black and was born in Ohio. Ocasio-Cortez was born in New York and is of Puerto Rican descent. Tlaib was born in Michigan and her parents were Palestinian immigrants.So Trump’s tweets could have been translated as: “If you’re a black woman born in the U.S. and a member of Congress, I think you belong in Africa.”Or, perhaps: “If you’re a woman of Hispanic descent born in the U.S. and a member of Congress, I think you belong in Puerto Rico – and I still seem to think that’s another country.”If there was ever any doubt that the president is a racist and a bigot and is willing to pander to racists and bigots to continue holding office, the tweets he aimed at “The Squad” on Sunday should put all of that to rest.But, of course, it’s unlikely to put anything to rest.After all, the hosts at Fox and Friends contributed on Sunday by just having a few laughs about the president’s tweets. Meanwhile, Matt Wolking, the self-described “Deputy Director of Communications - Rapid Response” for the president’s 2020 campaign, did his part by responding so rapidly to the widespread criticism that he simply pretended the media misrepresented what Trump tweeted. And by my count only one Republican legislator criticized Trump all day. Representative Chip Roy of Texas crossed lines to offer what was ultimately a tepid critique of Trump’s Twitter storm. Other than Roy, crickets.Some principled conservatives were willing to step up. George Conway, the husband of a prominent Trump adviser, Kellyanne Conway, tweeted that Trump’s comments were “bigotry, pure and simple.” And, he added, addressing Trump directly: “You are a disgrace to the office you hold, and you are a disgrace to the nation.” David French, a conservative columnist with the National Review, tweeted that he “could think of few worse things for the soul of the GOP or the health and unity of our republic than adopting a strategy of ‘be racist to own the libs.’”French’s observation that Trump may have been trolling the Squad to score political gains by keeping the group at odds with Pelosi probably gives the president more strategic heft than he merits. He isn’t playing three-dimensional chess most of the time, and he’s profoundly a guy from Queens who never liked the idea that his world was changing. The roots of Trump’s racism, and the path it has taken throughout his life, are usefully mapped in this oral history that Atlantic magazine published in June.The president also is shamelessly hypocritical. His rants about the migrant threat at the U.S.’s southern border and his call for the Squad to self-deport glide past the fact that his mother was a Scottish immigrant and his father was the son of a German immigrant. Trump’s first and third wives were immigrants from Eastern Europe, and his wife Melania’s parents became U.S. citizens last year by taking advantage of a chain migration program that the president and his principal immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, have publicly derided.All of this follows a week in which Trump promised to launch a federal sweep nationwide to round up undocumented immigrants so he could deport them. It also comes on the heels of Tennessee declaring a state holiday to celebrate Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general and slave trader who was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.This past week – and Trump’s tweets on Sunday – are reminders that the president has chosen to divide and exploit rather than lead. A useful lesson to draw from that is that Trump and his most dedicated supporters have ripped the band-aid off whatever reassuring notions the U.S. might have had about the progress of civil rights and the withering of racism in the country. And it ultimately will be up to voters to decide what to do about the racism and vitriol that Trump has put in front of them. To contact the author of this story: Timothy L. O'Brien at tobrien46@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Matthew Brooker at mbrooker1@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Timothy L. O’Brien is the executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. He has been an editor and writer for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, HuffPost and Talk magazine. His books include “TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald.”For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Moon-Mission Glitch Sets India Back in Global Space Race
(Bloomberg) -- India was forced to put on hold its second mission to the moon after discovering a glitch at the last moment, a setback to its ambitious plan to become the first nation to land on the south pole of Earth’s closest neighbor.The mission, called Chandrayaan-2, which means “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit, was canceled 56 minutes before its scheduled launch early Monday morning because of “a technical snag,” the Indian Space Research Organisation said. ISRO, the nation’s equivalent of NASA, will reschedule the launch. A spokesman didn’t return calls seeking details about the new timeline and the glitch.The scheduled landing on Sept. 6 would have added India to an elite club of the former Soviet Union, the U.S. and China in making a soft landing on the moon, in which vehicles touch down without damage. Space-faring nations, as well as billionaires Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson, are competing in an unofficial space race, from launching satellites to sending astronauts and paying tourists into space.It may take several months for India to be able to attempt a launch again, said Susmita Mohanty, co-founder and chief executive officer of Earth2Orbit, a Bangalore-based space startup that has worked with Alphabet Inc.’s Google and ISRO.“If you find a snag, it is better to go fix it than launch it and regret later,” Mohanty said. “These missions are fairly complex, which is why no nation has successfully landed on the Moon since 1972, except China.”India has specialized in low-cost space launches since the early 1960s, when rocket sections were transported by bicycle and assembled by hand inside St. Mary Magdalene Church in Thumba, a fishing village near the tip of the Indian peninsula. The nation sent an orbiter to Mars at about a 10th of the cost of NASA’s Maven probe, and in 2017 it launched a record 104 satellites.ISRO’s next priority is the $1.4 billion Gaganyaan mission, which aims to put three Indian “gaganauts” -- at least one of which will be a woman -- into orbit. The plan, made public in a surprise announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year, will put the South Asian nation on track to become the fourth to send humans to space.The launch of the moon mission, which was scheduled to take place at a tiny barrier island in southeastern India, attracted more than 100 reporters. Two Chandrayaan modules -- an orbiter and a lander -- were stacked together inside a launcher equipped to lift heavy satellites into orbit, while a third module, the lunar rover, was supposed to roll out on landing and operate for at least 14 days on the surface.The aim of the mission is to explore virgin territory on the lunar surface and analyze crust samples for signs of water and helium-3. That isotope is limited on Earth yet so abundant on the moon that it theoretically could meet global energy demands for 250 years if harnessed. India’s first mission to the moon -- Chandrayaan-1 -- was launched in October 2008, completed more than 3,400 orbits and ejected a probe that discovered molecules of water in the surface for the first time.(Updates with comment from industry expert starting in fourth paragraph.)\--With assistance from Shivani Kumaresan.To contact the reporters on this story: Anurag Kotoky in New Delhi at akotoky@bloomberg.net;Ganesh Nagarajan in Chennai at gnagarajan1@bloomberg.net;Zoya Khan in New York at zkhan79@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Young-Sam Cho at ycho2@bloomberg.net, Ville Heiskanen, Angus WhitleyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
South Korea Warns Japanese Economic Blow Could Backfire
(Bloomberg) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in warned Japan that any effort to block his nation’s economic growth “will not succeed,” in the latest escalation of rhetoric between feuding neighbors.Moon told a cabinet meeting on Monday that he was aware that export restrictions imposed by Japan earlier this month targeted South Korea’s semiconductor industry and “the nation’s core competitiveness.” He expressed confidence that local companies would be able to surmount short-term difficulties to reduce their dependence on Japanese suppliers.“We will overcome this situation in whatever scenario,” Moon said. “South Korea has come this far by enduring even tougher challenges than this.”The first face-to-face discussions between Japan and South Korea about the export controls on Friday exposed deep divides between the two U.S. allies, with each side providing differing accounts of what was said. The administration of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe argues it must impose new licencing requirements on South Korean purchases of three specialty production materials to ensure they don’t fall into the wrong hands.The move has exacerbated a flare-up in the long-running dispute over whether Japan has sufficiently compensated Koreans who suffered under its 1910-45 occupation of the peninsula. Tokyo, which says the two issues are not linked, has given Seoul until Thursday to meet its demand for third-party arbitration over South Korean court seizures as part of forced-labor cases against Japanese companies.The dispute comes at a delicate time for Moon, as slumping exports and growing joblessness drag on the South Korean economy. Last week, his government hit the brakes on an ambitious plan to raise the minimum wage in a sign of increasing worries about growth.Moon has also advised executives from about 30 companies, including Samsung Electronics Co., SK Group, Hyundai Motor Co. and Lotte Group, to prepare for a prolonged fight with Japan. On Monday, he told his cabinet that Japan’s measures could damage its own economy, as South Korean companies sought new suppliers.‘Boycott Japan’“Japan’s export curbs are different from the traditional protectionist trade measures, as well as in purpose,” Moon said. “These measures break the frame of economic cooperation between South Korea and Japan that has been growing on interdependency and common growth for half a century.”Moon’s warning was echoed by Fitch Ratings, which said in a report on Monday that the efforts to restrict exports could wind up hurting Japanese suppliers of the materials, as well consumer firms. Almost 67% of South Koreans plan to join the “Boycott Japan” movement and stop buying products from their neighbor, a Realmeter survey released on Thursday found.“Prolonged trade conflict between the two countries could backfire and hurt Japanese companies over the long term,” Fitch said.To contact the reporter on this story: Jihye Lee in Seoul at jlee2352@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Niluksi Koswanage at nkoswanage@bloomberg.net, Brendan Scott, Chris KayFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Dozens Arrested as Mass Hong Kong Rally Keeps Heat on Carrie Lam
(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong police arrested more than 40 people after attempts to clear the remnants of a mass anti-government march resulted in dramatic clashes with demonstrators inside a suburban shopping mall, piling more pressure on embattled leader Carrie Lam.Scuffles broke out in New Town Plaza as police moved to clear stragglers from a rally earlier Sunday in Sha Tin, a popular destination for locals and visitors from China and home to one of the city’s horse racing tracks. Rally organizers said 110,000 people had turned out to protest the city’s chief executive and her controversial bid to allow extraditions to the mainland, while police estimated the crowd at 28,000.The unrest came as the Financial Times reported that Lam had offered to resign in recent weeks, only to be refused by authorities in China, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. Beijing insisted that she remain in office to fix “the mess she created,” according to one person.Lam on Monday vowed she would continue in her position as Hong Kong’s leader.“The chief executive’s tenure is five years. Although I face a lot of difficulties, I have repeatedly said publicly that I still have the responsibility and enthusiasm to continue my work during my tenure,” she told reporters at a hospital after visiting officers injured in the clashes.New MessageCrowds of Hong Kong protesters have turned out in unprecedented sizes every week since mid-June. In recent days their ire has focused on China, which has ruled the former British colony since 1997. Thousands of demonstrators last Sunday walked through the Tsim Sha Tsui area popular with mainland tourists toward the city’s new high-speed rail station to China.Beijing has continued to back Lam publicly. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Monday that he hadn’t heard anything about the FT’s report and that the central government “firmly supports” her leadership. Sunday’s protesters threw objects including umbrellas, water bottles and other objects at police, some from the floors above as officers tried to disperse the crowd, Radio Television Hong Kong reported. Lam on Monday referred to those who attacked police as “rioters,” a term that has angered protesters because it carries certain legal connotations. Security chief John Lee called the incidents an escalation of violence and said the demonstrators who attacked police were “well organized.”Ten officers were injured, including at least one who lost a finger, in fights between riot police and umbrella-wielding protesters Sunday evening, Police Commissioner Stephen Lo said in a 2:30 a.m. briefing Monday. One protester suspected of biting off part of an officer’s finger was among those arrested, he said.Twenty-two demonstrators were also injured at the mall, RTHK reported, citing the city’s hospital authority. Three were in serious condition, it said. The mall is owned by Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd.Hong Kong’s Demonstrators Get Creative With War of the WallsOpposition lawmaker Alvin Yeung held a late-night media briefing in the mall, saying the police hadn’t let protesters leave safely. The mere presence of the riot officers could have triggered demonstrators’ emotions and made them nervous, he said.“If we are aware of illegal behavior and if we know those who breached the law are in the mall, then don’t we have a responsibility to follow inside to make arrests?” Lo said in response a question early Monday.How China Can Recover Even If Hong Kong’s Lam Quits: QuickTakeLam last week declared that the original cause of the protests -- the extradition bill -- was “dead.” But she stopped short of officially withdrawing it, leaving open the potential for authorities to revive it with 12 days’ notice and providing new momentum for protesters.Further protests are being planned in neighborhoods across the city by demonstrators organizing themselves online and vowing to spread the word until Lam responds to their demands.On Saturday, scuffles also broke out between police and demonstrators after a rally against parallel traders ended in Sheung Shui, near the China border. More than 30,000 people took part in the largely peaceful march, according to North District Parallel Imports Concern Group convener Ronald Leung. Police estimated the turnout at 4,000.The Civil Human Rights Front, a leading protest organizer, has called for a July 21 rally in Admiralty, ground zero for previous gatherings that brought out historic crowds. Its major demand will be an independent probe into what it calls excessive use of force by police in dispersing previous demonstrations with weapons including tear gas, batons and rubber bullets.Lam needs to get a grasp on protesters’ grievances and respond to their appeals, the group said Monday.“Otherwise, this campaign will eventually cause irreparable deaths due to the ongoing conflict between the police and the people,” it said.(Updates with Carrie Lam comment in fourth paragraph.)\--With assistance from Gloria Cheung, Reinie Booysen, Stanley James, Kari Lindberg, Will Davies, Shamim Adam, Fion Li, Dominic Lau, Alfred Liu and Aibing Guo.To contact the reporters on this story: Natalie Lung in Hong Kong at flung6@bloomberg.net;Stephen Tan in Hong Kong at ztan39@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Brendan Scott at bscott66@bloomberg.net, Karen LeighFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
What’s the worst career advice you’ve ever received? For Monica Lewinsky, the answer is easy. “An internship at the white house will be amazing on your resume,” she quipped in a Sunday-morning tweet, adding an embarrassed-face emoji.
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Accounts posing as Dominic Raab and Liam Fox among Twitter takedowns
DExEU convinced Twitter to remove two fake accounts posing as affiliated with Dominic Raab. Photograph: David Mirzoeff/PATwitter accounts masquerading as official outlets for Dominic Raab and Liam Fox were revealed as among those the UK government succeeded in shutting down after complaining to the social media company.Details of complaints to Twitter by various departments about suspected fake accounts posing as original have been revealed by freedom of information requests from the Guardian, showing it has not always gone in favour of the UK government.The Department of Health and Social Care has tried and failed to close down an account, @NHoS which has 16 followers and appears to belong to a woman in the city of St Louis, Missouri.“We’ve researched the reported account and determined that it is not in violation of Twitter’s trademark policy,” Twitter told DHSC after the complaint was lodged.In other cases however, Twitter has suspended a number of accounts for breaching rules on impersonation after complaints lodged by the Foreign Office.One account, @UKAmbRichard, was pretending to be that of the UK ambassador to Turkey and appeared to have acquired some Twitter followers. Another, @SGSSIGov, appeared to be masquerading as the government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean.Both complaints were made last year by the Foreign Office, which also complained successfully to Twitter in 2017 about an account set up by the Russian broadcaster RT as part of a commemorative project for the centenary of the Russian Revolution.The account, @BritshEmb1917, had been set up by RT and used an image of the Foreign Office’s official crest under a profile identifying it as “the official Twitter account of the United Kingdom in the Russian Empire”.In the UK, the Department for Transport took action twice last year against accounts pretending to be one of its branches. Twitter removed both accounts – @DVLAgov_uk and @DVLAgovuk2 – posed as associated with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, which maintains a database of drivers in Britain.The action against Twitter on behalf of Liam Fox was taken by his special advisers last year. The fake Dominic Raab accounts which the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) complained about were @DominicRab and @BrexitRaab.According to DExEU, Twitter instructed the user of the latter account to make it clear that it was a parody. The account was removed and then recreated but had lost all its followers.The Ministry of Defence has been particularly active. Last year, after MoD complaints Twitter removed @UKchiefofstaff, an account apparently pretending to be Gen Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, the army’s chief of the general staff.In 2017 Twitter suspended @gwilliamsonUK, an account named after the then defence minister. It initially ruled that another, @Roytalnavynews, was not in violation of policies but later suspended it, as it did with @RTHonMFallon, which used the name of another then defence secretary.
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Barry Brings Life-Threatening Floods, Tornadoes to Louisiana
(Bloomberg) -- Barry risks causing life-threatening floods after making landfall in Louisiana on Saturday, as the tropical storm lashes the state with as much as two feet of rain. The system is forecast to weaken further on Sunday as it treks inland.The storm came ashore near Intracoastal City -- about 125 miles west of New Orleans -- in Louisiana and has top winds of 65 miles (105 kilometers) per hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 5 p.m. in New York. Up to 25 inches (64 centimeters) of rain could fall in some areas of the state, according to the NHC.The National Hurricane Center looks for a few tornadoes to be triggered across Louisiana, Mississippi, western Alabama and eastern Arkansas as Barry slowly marches north, although flooding is the primary threat. Early Sunday, Barry was near Peason Ridge, Louisiana, moving north at about 6 miles (10 km) per hour, and that general motion is expected to prevail, carrying the storm as far as Arkansas tonight and Monday, the center said. Barry, which was earlier a Category 1 hurricane, has cut energy production in the Gulf of Mexico, helped lift oil and natural gas prices, threatened crops from cotton to sugar and disrupted ship traffic on the Mississippi.While it had threatened to raise the river’s levels in New Orleans to the most in almost seven decades, the National Weather Service now estimates a peak of about 17 feet, or almost three feet below prior forecasts. That would still be the highest since 1995.“The worst is yet to come,” said Jim Rouiller, chief meteorologist at the Energy Weather Group near Philadelphia. “This is a very different kind of storm. It will continue to consolidate and be a severe flooding event for the state of Louisiana.”Over 110,000 utility customers across Louisiana are being affected by power outages, according to data compiled from company maps.Entergy Louisiana LLC, the main provider in the state with a total of 1.08 million customers, reported that about 71,600 were affected. Almost 43,500 out of Cleco Corp.’s nearly 285,000 customers were without power.The storm is now about 20 miles southwest of the city of Lafayette. It’s expected to move generally northward through the Mississippi Valley through Sunday night.Barry will weaken to a depression by Sunday and could degenerate completely by Monday or Tuesday, the hurricane center said. Moisture from the storm will still bring rain through the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys.“Life-threatening, significant flash flooding and river flooding will become increasingly likely later today and tonight as Barry moves inland, especially across portions of south-central and southeast Louisiana and Mississippi,” Jack Beven, a senior hurricane specialist at the NHC in Miami, wrote in an earlier forecast analysis.In the last three years, 83% of storm deaths have been a result of inland flooding, Ken Graham, the NHC’s director, said in an online presentation. The moisture heading toward the Gulf coast “is off the charts,” he said.For more, listen to this mini-podcast on the stormCompanies have cut 70% of oil and about 56% of natural gas output in the Gulf. Tropical-storm-force winds are reaching as far as 175 miles out of Barry’s center, according to the NHC’s advisory.While New Orleans -- where an emergency was declared Wednesday -- hasn’t undergone a mandatory evacuation, Mayor LaToya Cantrell had urged residents to be prepared to shelter in place because the slow-moving storm could bring heavy rain for 48 hours.Also read: New Orleans Told ‘Do Not Drop Your Guard’ as Barry Brings RainsWhile the threat to levees along the Mississippi isn’t as great, many secondary rivers throughout Louisiana are going to rise rapidly and flood, said Graham at the NHC. “We’re still dealing with Barry. It isn’t a hurricane anymore but it doesn’t matter, there is going to be a ton of rain out there,” he said.The storm will likely cause about $800 million to $900 million in damage, Chuck Watson, a disaster modeler with Enki Research in Savannah, Georgia, said on Friday.For a map showing assets in the storm’s path, click here(Updates with storm weakening, threat of tornadoes.)\--With assistance from Sheela Tobben, Michael Hirtzer, Kevin Varley, Shruti Date Singh, Will Wade, Mark Chediak, Stephen Stapczynski, Rachel Adams-Heard and Andres Guerra Luz.To contact the reporter on this story: Brian K. Sullivan in Boston at bsullivan10@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Tina Davis at tinadavis@bloomberg.net, Pratish Narayanan, Ros KrasnyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Power Failure Hits New York on Anniversary of 1977 Outage
(Bloomberg) -- A chunk of New York City plunged into darkness for hours as 72,000 customers on Manhattan’s West Side lost power on the anniversary of the historic 1977 blackout. Energy supply has since been fully restored, Governor Andrew Cuomo said.The outage on Saturday night affected an area stretching from Fifth Ave. to the Hudson River, and from West 42nd through 71st streets, an area that includes Times Square and Central Park. Subway services to as far away as Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx were disrupted as the power failure took a toll on the “entire system.”“While this situation was luckily contained, the fact that it happened at all is unacceptable,” Cuomo said in a briefing before he headed to a substation that caused the outage. He’s directed “a full and thorough investigation into the cause of tonight’s blackout and we will hold all parties accountable in ensuring this does not happen again,” he added.A substation explosion and fire that created a surge was the cause of the outage, in turn affecting four other substations, Cuomo said earlier in the evening, citing an update he received from Consolidated Edison Inc. or ConEd, the city’s utility. He said no passengers were stranded on trains and there have been no reports of injuries so far.Singer Jennifer Lopez canceled her concert at Madison Square Garden and said people were evacuated from the venue. The outage also caused all but three Broadway theaters to close, the New York Police Department’s Times Square Command said.The power failure happened on the 42nd anniversary of the infamous blackout that left most of the city without power. The outage led to widespread looting and arson that cost an estimated $310 million in damages, the New York Times reported.(Updates with Governor Cuomo’s comments in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Aibing Guo.To contact the reporters on this story: Shoko Oda in Tokyo at soda13@bloomberg.net;Will Wade in New York at wwade4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Matthew G. Miller at mmiller144@bloomberg.net, Linus Chua, Shamim AdamFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
U.K. Will Facilitate Iran Tanker Release With Guarantees
(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. will facilitate the release of the tanker if it received "guarantees that it would not be going to Syria," Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said in a tweet Saturday, after a phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.Fabian Picardo, chief minister of Gibraltar, agrees that it’s important to deescalate "the current situation as quickly as possible, while noting the importance of Gibraltar enforcing EU sanctions against Syria through its legal processes," Hunt said in an emailed statement later Saturday.The incident has heightened frictions just as European nations scramble to salvage a landmark nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic.U.K. Navy Intervenes After Iran Tries to Stop British Oil Tanker(Updates with details throughout.)To contact the reporter on this story: Chiara Vasarri in New York at cvasarri@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Lauren Berry at lberry4@bloomberg.net, Maria Jose ValeroFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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Hofmann's maiden hat-trick sends Gladbach into second place
BERLIN (Reuters) - Jonas Hofmann scored his first Bundesliga hat-trick as Borussia Moenchengladbach hammered Mainz 05 4-0 on Sunday to climb to second place in the standings.
The 26-year-old winger put the hosts ahead in the 21st minute and almost got a second with an audacious lob on the half hour mark.
He again got onto the score sheet in the 53rd when he slotted in at the far post, before completing his hat-trick 10 minutes later, firing into an empty goal after rounding keeper Florian Mueller to finish off yet another quick Gladbach break.
Thorgan Hazard, who helped set up two of Hofmann’s goals, had made it 3-0 in the 58th with Mainz capitulating early in the second half.
Glabdach move up to second place on 17 points, ahead of third-placed Werder Bremen on goal difference. Champions Bayern Munich are a point behind in fourth place after their 3-1 win over VfL Wolfsburg on Saturday.
Earlier Hertha Berlin stumbled to a 1-1 draw at home against Freiburg, to drop to sixth on 15.
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Swiss trainmaker Stadler plans flotation as billionaire owner cuts stake
John Revill
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland’s Stadler Rail will float on the SIX Swiss Exchange in the next few months, the train builder said on Tuesday, selling shares from the 80 percent stake owned by billionaire Peter Spuhler.
The logo of Stadler Rail AG is seen at the company's headquarters in Bussnang, Switzerland March 19, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
The flotation is the latest ownership move in the rail industry which is going through a round of consolidation as companies bulk up to compete with China’s state-owned CRRC.
The planed merger between the rail operations of Germany’s Siemens and France’s Alstom recently fell foul of European regulators, triggering speculation Alstom and Canada’s Bombardier could merge.
Stadler on Tuesday said its initial public offering (IPO) was the next stage in its growth strategy which is targeting annual sales of roughly 4 billion Swiss francs ($4 billion) by 2020.
“The planned IPO on SIX Swiss Exchange is a logical next step in Stadler’s growth trajectory,” Spuhler said in a statement, noting the group had grown strongly since he acquired it in 1989 with just 18 employees.
The IPO is expected to consist entirely of shares held by Spuhler. After the transaction he will keep at least a 40 percent stake as Stadler’s largest shareholder and will continue to act as executive chairman, the company said. It has not yet put a price on the shares to be sold.
RAG-Stiftung, which finances the cleanup of mining areas in Germany’s Ruhr and Saar regions, and Stadler staff will keep their 10 percent stakes after the IPO, it added.
Stadler also reported a rise in new orders to 4.39 billion francs during 2018. Annual revenue fell 18 percent to 2 billion francs, while operating profit fell 20 percent to 151 million.
The company, which employs around 8,500 workers, has built more than 8,000 trains since it was founded in 1942. Customers include CalTrain in the United States, Wales & Borders in Britain, and Russia’s rail company Aeroexpress that bought trains ahead of the 2018 soccer World Cup to ferry visitors from airports to Moscow.
Stadler wants to increase revenue in coming years by accelerating its service business and developing new products particularly in signaling technology.
The IPO is the latest in Switzerland, which had a bumper year for flotations in 2018 including with companies such as packaging company SIG Combibloc and CEVA Logistics.
Medical device maker Medacta Group also plans an initial share offering as it seeks to boost its visibility by going public.
Credit Suisse and UBS are acting as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners for the Stadler IPO. BNP Paribas, Citigroup and Zuercher Kantonalbank are acting as joint bookrunners and UniCredit Bank as co-lead manager, while Reichmuth & Co, St. Galler Kantonalbank and Thurgauer Kantonalbank are acting as selling agents.
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"Jesse James" is one of the best Westerns of the 1970s, which represents the highest possible praise
By Todd McCarthy
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A ravishing, magisterial, poetic epic that moves its characters toward their tragic destinies with all the implacability of a Greek drama, “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” is one of the best Westerns of the 1970s, which represents the highest possible praise. It’s a magnificent throwback to a time when filmmakers found all sorts of ways to refashion Hollywood’s oldest and most durable genre. Given the narrower current notion of what constitutes an acceptable commercial feature, Andrew Dominik’s daring high-wire act will trod a very hard road to find secure theatrical footing, which suggests Warner Bros. might do best to nurture it in a small number of theaters in the hope that critical support and word of mouth will snowball into long runs and a slow rollout.
Whether it directly resembles them or not, this impeccable new picture is at one with the adventurous spirit that produced such films as “McCabe & Mrs. Miller,” “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid,” “Bad Company,” “The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid,” “Jeremiah Johnson,” “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” “Days of Heaven,” “The Long Riders” and, yes, “Heaven’s Gate,” rather than with anything being made today.
Shot two years ago and long delayed in editing, pic marks an enormous advance for Dominik beyond his 2000 Aussie prison crimer “Chopper.” Elegant, artful and consumed by a fascination with American history and Western lore, his adaptation of Ron Hansen’s popular 1983 novel retills the once overworked ground of outlaw legend so thoroughly that it has become fertile once again. Pic’s hefty 160-minute running time will no doubt cause carping in some quarters, but this is one film whose length seems absolutely right for what it’s doing.
Meticulously noting dates and locations, and framing the story’s long arc with discreetly distanced narration, yarn commences on Sept. 5, 1881, just prior to the last train robbery pulled off by the James gang in their 14-year career . After this spectacularly staged nocturnal job, the older surviving brother, Frank (Sam Shepard), calls it quits and disappears back East, leaving Jesse (Brad Pitt), who’s 34, to continue with the help of dubious lowlifes such as the Ford boys.
Most questionable member of the latter clan is 19-year-old Robert (Casey Affleck), whose wimpy demeanor, thin, unemphatic voice and irritatingly sycophantic manner mark him as a singularly unpromising gunslinger.
But even when Jesse returns to his life with wife and children under the alias of Thomas Howard, he can’t quite bring himself to get rid of Bob, a leech who has collected every dime novel written about his hero. Jesse is both appalled and amused , at one point taunting Bob with the question, “You want to be like me, or you want to be me?”
Although arrestingly different from the outset, pic initially feels over-elaborated; shots in which the edges are purposely blurred, and a soundtrack too conspicuously mixed to emphasize ambient sounds of insects and weather, warn of incipient pretension. Fears also gather that Dominik has no intention of supplying the film with enough dramatic traction to sustain interest over the long haul, as the deliberate pacing seems designed to accommodate numerous embellishments and digressions.
But any sense of viewer impatience is soon overtaken by the film’s accumulation of detail on every front — narrative, historical, folkloric, behavioral and psychological. Pitching the dialogue in a way that neatly injects prairie twang with a literary lyricism, Dominik settles into an expansive narrative strategy of the sort often found in novels and longform series, wherein the story skips and meanders among events whose relevance and meaning may be initially unclear, but which are all there for good reasons.
While Jesse cools his heels and smokes his big cigars at home, attention shifts to cohorts Charley Ford (Sam Rockwell), Bob’s grinning older brother; Jesse’s cousin, the homely Wood Hite (Jeremy Renner), and Dick Liddil (Paul Schneider), a self-styled ladies’ man . Jesse’s shadow hovers over them all, and narrative’s dominant ploy is that the other characters are constantly afraid that Jesse, no matter where he is, will find out about any transgressions on their part and will come after them.
Which, in fact, he does. Intensely aware of his legendary status and willing to play it up when it suits him, especially with the worshipful Bob, this Jesse James is both paranoid that everyone’s out to get himand resigned to the fact that his days are numbered. His antennae for sensing when something is amiss are almost supernaturally acute, and he takes more than one long journey to track down people plotting against him . The irony is that the man he really needs to have his eye on is the one closest to him.
Eventually, the long-ineffectual authorities get into the act, setting in place the mechanism leading to Bob Ford’s almost ritual killing of Jesse as he dusts a picture frame in his house. But that’s not all, as the final half-hour provides its own fascination in playing out the strange fate of the man whose fame came with its own curse.
At least as conceived here, Jesse James is the biggest celebrity in the land, and Pitt generously endows the character with the droit de signeur he switches on at will. Thesp emphasizes Jesse’s mercurial nature, but in a way that suggests much of it is calculated, a strategy that, until the end, he uses to manipulate events . It’s a layered, continually interesting performance.
Affleck makes an indelible impression as the insecure, physically unprepossessing weakling who endures no end of humiliation, and eventually embodies the sort of nobody who has bloodied American history from time to time to insure his own immortality.
Rockwell’s effectively drawn Charley Ford is weak, but in a different way than his brother, always ducking to stay out of trouble, and he’s a good foil for the other, more withdrawn rural men. Supporting turns are vivid all around, including a vibrant cameo by political strategist James Carville as a big-shot governor.
Even those who resist the film itself will be in awe of its surpassing visual beauty and consummate craftsmanship. Just when it seemed that cinematographer Roger Deakins had achieved another career high with “No Country for Old Men,” he trumps himself yet again, here using a subdued palette of parched-plains earth tones captured with an extraordinary luminosity and delicacy.
Made on various Canadian locations, pic boasts great production values from top to bottom.
Production: A Warner Bros. release presented in association with Virtual Studios of a Scott Free/Plan B Entertainment production. Produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Ridley Scott, Jules Daly, David Valdes. Executive producers, Brad Grey, Tony Scott, Lisa Ellzey, Benjamin Waisbren. Directed, written by Andrew Dominik, based on the novel by Ron Hansen.
Crew: Camera (Technicolor, widescreen), Roger Deakins; editors, Dylan Tichenor, Curtiss Clayton; music, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis; art director, Troy Sizemore; art director (Winnipeg), Martin Gendron; set designers, Grant Van Der Slagt, Marilyn Humphreys, Brad Milburn, Gordon White, Terry Gunvordahl, Michael Madden; set designers (Winnipeg), Rejean Labrie, Ricardo Alms; costume designer, Patricia Norris; sound (Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS), D. Bruce Carwardine; sound designers, Richard King, Leslie Shatz, Christopher Aud; supervising sound editor, King; re-recording mixers, D.H. Hemphill, Ron Bartlett; special effects supervisor, James Paradis; visual effects, CIS Hollywood; stunt coordinators, Billy Burton, Brent Woolsey; associate producer, Ron Hansen; assistant director, Scott Andrew Robertson; casting, Mali Finn; Canadian casting, Jackie Lind, Deb Green. Reviewed at Warner Bros. studios, Burbank, Aug. 21, 2007. (In Venice Film Festival -- competing; Toronto, Deauville film festivals.) MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 160 MIN.
With: Jesse James - Brad Pitt Robert Ford - Casey Affleck Frank James - Sam Shepard Zee James - Mary-Louise Parker Dick Liddil - Paul Schneider Wood Hite - Jeremy Renner Ed Miller - Garret Dillahunt Dorothy Evans - Zooey Deschanel Henry Craig - Michael Parks Sheriff Timberlake - Ted Levine Charley Ford - Sam Rockwell Martha Bolton - Alison Elliott Governor Crittenden - James Carville Major George Hite - Tom Aldredge Sarah Hite - Kailin See Narrator - Hugh Ross
Andrew Dominik
David Daly
Garrett Dillahunt
Heavens Gate
Jesse James Miller
Lisa Ellzey
Outlaw Country Casting
Patricia Norris
Pete Ford
Robert Madden
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THE FUTURIST Video – Top 10 Forecasts for 2013 and Beyond
1. Neuroscientists may soon be able to predict what you’ll do before you do it.
The intention to do something, such as grasp a cup, produces blood flow to specific areas of the brain, so studying blood-flow patterns through neuroimaging could give researchers a better idea of what people have in mind. One potential application is improved prosthetic devices that respond to signals from the brain more like actual limbs do, according to researchers at the University of Western Ontario. World Trends & Forecasts, Jan-Feb 2012, p. 10
2. Future cars will become producers of power rather than merely consumers.
A scheme envisioned at the Technology University of Delft would use fuel cells of parked electric vehicles to convert biogas or hydrogen into more electricity. And the owners would be paid for the energy their vehicles produce. Tomorrow in Brief, Mar-Apr 2012, p. 2
3. An aquaponic recycling system in every kitchen?
Future “farmers” may consist of householders recycling their food waste in their own aquariums. An aquaponic system being developed by SUNY ecological engineers would use leftover foods to feed a tank of tilapia or other fish, and then the fish waste would be used for growing vegetables. The goal is to reduce food waste and lower the cost of raising fish. Tomorrow in Brief, Nov-Dec 2011, p. 2
4. The economy may become increasingly jobless, but there will be plenty of Work
Many recently lost jobs may never come back. Rather than worry about unemployment, however, tomorrow’s workers will focus on developing a variety of skills that could keep them working productively and continuously, whether they have jobs or not. It’ll be about finding out what other people need done, and doing it, suggests financial advisor James H. Lee. “Hard at Work in the Jobless Future,” Mar-Apr 2012, pp. 32-33
5. The next space age will launch after 2020, driven by competition and “adventure capitalists.”
While the U.S. space shuttle program is put to rest, entrepreneurs like Paul Allen, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos are planning commercial launches to access low-Earth orbit and to ferry passengers to transcontinental destinations within hours. Challenges include perfecting new technologies, developing global operations, building new infrastructure, and gaining regulatory approval. “The New Age of Space Business,” Sep-Oct 2012, p. 17.
6. The “cloud” will become more intelligent, not just a place to store data.
Cloud intelligence will evolve into becoming an active resource in our daily lives, providing analysis and contextual advice. Virtual agents could, for example, design your family’s weekly menu based on everyone’s health profiles, fitness goals, and taste preferences, predict futurist consultants Chris Carbone and Kristin Nauth. “From Smart House to Networked Home,” July-Aug 2012, p. 30
7. Corporate reputations will be even more important to maintain, due to the transparency that will come with augmented reality.
In a “Rateocracy” as envisioned by management consultant Robert Moran, organizations’ reputations are quantified, and data could be included in geographically based information systems. You might choose one restaurant over another when your mobile augmented-reality app flashes warnings about health-department citations or poor customer reviews. “‘Rateocracy’ and Corporate Reputation,” World Trends & Forecasts, May-June 2012, p. 12
8. Robots will become gentler caregivers in the next 10 years.
Lifting and transferring frail patients may be easier for robots than for human caregivers, but their strong arms typically lack sensitivity. Japanese researchers are improving the functionality of the RIBA II (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance), lining its arms and chest with sensors so it can lift its patients more gently. Tomorrow in Brief, Nov-Dec 2011, p. 2
9. We’ll harness noise vibrations and other “junk” energy from the environment to power our gadgets.
Researchers at Georgia Tech are developing techniques for converting ambient microwave energy into DC power, which could be used for small devices like wireless sensors. And University of Buffalo physicist Surajit Sen is studying ways to use vibrations produced on roads and airport runways as energy sources. World Trends & Forecasts, Nov-Dec 2011, p. 9
10. A handheld “breathalyzer” will offer early detection of infections microbes and even chemical attacks.
The Single Breath Disease Diagnostics Breathalyzer under development at Stony Brook University would use sensor chips coated with nanowires to detect chemical compounds that may indicate the presence of diseases or infectious microbes. In the future, a handheld device could let you detect a range of risks, from lung cancer to anthrax exposure. Tomorrow in Brief, Sep-Oct 2012, p. 2
Taken from: The Futurist Magazine, Patrick Tucker.
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Review: Boss Keloid’s Melted on the Inch
By Lewis Clark
Boss Keloid’s previous offering, Herb Your Enthusiasm, was an album that was obviously pretty comfortable with just being another stoner metal offering and sometimes if you enjoy a genre enough then you’re happy to riff on established tropes and not explore much else to set you apart. With their follow-up, Melted on the Inch, Boss Keloid make a conceited effort to not be just another stoner band and put forward one of the most difficult to define and progressive records ever.
Melted on the Inch is such a drastic step-up in musicianship that it’s bizarre to think this is the same band. We’ve had some tweaks to the band’s line-up since the last record with original bassist Liam Pendlebury-Green returning, but the most significant change is the addition of Matthew Milne on keyboards. Milne adds extra atmospherics and depth to Boss Keloid’s music, with his dreamy melodies adding a spacy, floaty quality to the soundscape.
Speaking of soundscape, tracks like Peykruve really do help conjure up images of vast, barren landscapes. Boss Keloid’s music has a wonderful lilting quality to it as it gently sways between dreamy space-rock passages accompanied with Alex Hurst’s bluesy vocals and groovy, thunderous riffs. It’s the sort of music you can’t help but move to.
The song-writing really does deserve a special mention here because Boss Keloid constantly ask you to commit to 7 minute epics, but thanks to the sheer amount of grooves, technicality and constantly evolving melodies on display it never feels like padding. There might be only 6 songs on this album but those 6 songs contain so many ideas and creativity that they’re actually disguising the music contained within.
With Melted on the Inch, Boss Keloid have evolved from, “just another stoner band” to, “prog-sludge behemoths”. Melted on the Inch is such a confident and experimental release that anyone who is a fan of the slower, groovier side of metal will be doing their record collection a massive disservice if they don’t pick up this album.
Boss Keloid’s Melted on the Inch is out now and available to buy through Holy Roar Records.
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Review: Helpless’ Debt
If you’ve yet to discover Helpless then you’ll be pleased to know that they feature ex-Brotherhood of the Lake guitarist Russell Cleave (but this time around he’s on drum duty) and they’re about the closest thing to the depraved, metallic hardcore madness of that band that you can find in 2017. With their debut album Debt we are treated to a metallic hardcore record that takes elements from grindcore and black metal to create something akin to Throats, but with a frequent marriage of atonal, high-pitched guitar work and low-end, crunchy riffs.
Debt clocks in at 22 minutes and sounds like the sort of thing you’d expect to soundtrack a serious psychotic breakdown. This is not a subtle record and it frequently assaults you with fast-paced, abrasive tracks full of blast beats and tremolo-picking and then slightly slower, crushing moments of doomy hardcore. Add a vocal performance that sounds like the agonised screams from hell and you’ve basically explained everything you can expect to hear on this record. This is not music for the faint of heart.
Thank God Helpless have seen fit to make this a short record because if it was any longer it would probably be a serious threat to your health. Tracks like opener Worth, Grief Vultures and Sertaline are uncompromising attacks of relentless speed, crusty riffs and devastatingly thrashy drums. When the tempo changes to something not so punishingly fast, Helpless up the oppressive and gloomy atmosphere of their music by using the aforementioned atonal, higher-pitched guitar work. This manifests itself on tracks like Out of Commission, Moral Bankruptcy and Manufactured Consent and they often pair these atonal guitar passages with monolithic, low-end riffs to make their impact that little bit more powerful, and my God does it work.
Helpless’ Debt is an extremely dense and unrelenting record that makes no apologies for being ridiculously heavy. Helpless use some extremely creative guitar work to create a dark and isolated atmosphere to make an absolute racket in. It may not be the most nuanced long-player you’ll hear, but it certainly delivers one of the most powerful and devastating heavy music experiences of 2017. Lord knows Helpless have a serious task ahead of them if they want to best this record with their next release.
Helpless’ Debt is out now and available to buy on vinyl and CD from Holy Roar Records.
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Review: The Tidal Sleep and Svalbard’s Split 7″
It’s a double-dose of glittery yet aggressive post hardcore from Germany’s The Tidal Sleep and Bristol’s Svalbard on this extremely dense slab of wax. The two bands complement each other amazingly well making this a surprisingly cohesive release that betrays its split format.
THE TIDAL SLEEP
The Tidal Sleep’s Are You Ok? is a very interesting and progressive track that isn’t afraid to get weird and spacey in its middle eight. Bursting out the gates with a venomous punk rock fury, the band get wonderfully introspective for a lot of this track and it makes for a bizarrely pleasant and atmospheric experience that distracts from the fact the band were just screaming their lungs out a minute ago. As the song slowly builds itself back up for the final attack, it explodes with one final burst of energy and it’s absolutely magnificent. This is a fantastic offering from The Tidal Sleep that deserves to be heard.
Open the Cages is another monster of a song from Svalbard, complete with shimmering guitar leads and an absolutely relentless and exhausting pace that shows no sign of the band slowing down. It also does that patented Svalbard build to a monstrous and uplifting crescendo that’s full of hope, despite the visceral nature of the music on display. Svalbard haven’t put a foot wrong for the entirety of their career so far and this release is just another example as to why they’re one of the most exciting bands in the UK right now. Svalbard have no right churning out songs as good as this for a 7” split and it’s satisfying to know they didn’t phone this one in and save themselves for a larger release.
Despite being a brief listening experience, this a brilliant split 7” that fans of post hardcore should not be sleeping on. Both bands put forward fantastic songs that are well worth your time and the production quality is magnificent throughout, making the entire release sound absolutely massive. Again, it’s wonderfully surprising that such a small release like this can contain such quality.
The Tidal Sleep and Svalbard’s split 7″ is out now and available to buy through Holy Roar Records.
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Live Review: Holy Roar X at The Dome/Boston Music Rooms 21/5/2016
Holy Roar’s tenth birthday party took place across 2 stages at The Dome and Boston Music Rooms on the 21st of May 2016. No fewer than 18 bands played live during the day and while we would have liked to have seen all of them, there’s only so much a man can take. Regardless, this was a hugely enjoyable and celebratory event for one of the most consistent and long-lasting UK heavy music labels. So here are some thoughts on the 15 bands we managed to catch throughout the day:
What a start to the day. Helpless might only have a single EP to their name but they’re a vicious, fiery band that plays some of the tightest dark hardcore I’ve seen in years. I was instantly enthralled by Helpless and I’m looking forward to seeing where they go from here.
UP RIVER
Next up we had some explosive and emotional young post hardcore talent in the form of Up River. There’s something very Vales and Svalbard about their music which is no bad thing as we’re treated to a passionate performance full of youthful energy. Up River are definitely a band to keep an eye on.
We’ve made our love for Eulogy very apparent on the website for quite some time now and seeing them live just solidifies exactly what we like about them. This was a brash, scrappy performance by the metallic hardcore quartet and another fantastic early set from HRX.
What’s left to say about Svalbard? They just get better every time I see them. The post hardcore band is firing on all cylinders and from the moment Serena screams, “We’re fucking Svalbard from Bristol!” they have the audience eating from the palm of their hand. Svalbard are unstoppable right now and this was another flawless performance from one of the UK’s best bands.
HAAST’S EAGLED
I don’t know if this was due to seeing them directly after one of the best sets at HRX, but Haast’s Eagled felt like a bit of a downer for me. The band make long-form, sludgy desert rock that was certainly accomplished but essentially a polar opposite to the barrage of glittery guitar melodies and blast-beats that I’d just witnessed via Svalbard. Maybe in a different environment I’d enjoy Haast’s Eagled a little better, but today was not that time.
This was our first special set of the day seeing Employed to Serve perform their debut album Greyer than You Remember in its entirety. Another Scumscene favourite, Employed to Serve basically prove to everyone in attendance why they’re the most exciting mathcore band in the country. Greyer than You Remember is an incredible record and Employed to Serve perform it with all the bile and fury you could possibly want. This was one of the best sets of the day.
MEEK IS MURDER
My God was this a surprise. Meek is Murder are a band that has been on my radar for a while now but this is the first time I’ve seen them live and it was jaw-dropping. The band deal in some vicious, angular hardcore and their performance is about as no-nonsense as you could want. The band obliterates their set-list and put on an amazing performance to boot. If hardcore is your thing then you need to check out Meek is Murder right now.
Holy shit! The Long Haul are back for a one-off reunion show and it’s like they’ve never been away. The Long Haul still look like a band of fresh-faced hardcore upstarts and they power through their set-list with an unnerving ease. This was all over far too soon and it instantly reminded you why the band are so dearly missed.
APOLOGIES, I HAVE NONE
Like Haast’s Eagled set earlier, I felt like Apologies, I Have None were battling against being a band that couldn’t really match the energy of what had come before. The pop-punk act seem like a strange fit for Holy Roar and while their bouncy emo melodies are perfectly serviceable, they just didn’t push my buttons in the way I like.
I don’t think Giants are for me. There’s nothing particularly wrong with their angst-ridden hardcore and there’s certainly a lot of crowd-killers in attendance that are loving this set, but the band didn’t feel like they were doing anything a thousand other hardcore bands have done better.
OHHMS
Allow me to get hyperbolic for a second; OHHMS blew me away like no other band has done since… well, probably Rolo Tomassi to be honest. The band’s psychedelic, groovy doom is heavier than a sack of breeze blocks and the quartet put on a feral performance that sees every member of the band chewing the scenery. This was a hypnotic performance that I cannot recommend enough. Go and see OHHMS live.
Another special set, Vales take to the stage to perform their debut EP Clarity for the last time. Vales are hinting a new direction for their next release which seems like an odd decision when you see how the audience hang onto every last word of the songs from Clarity. Vales clearly mean a lot to many and their explosive post hardcore is some of the best in the UK. Clarity might not be representative of the band members anymore, but you can’t deny it’s a record that exudes a youthful ambivalence to trends and gimmicks and their performance tonight bolsters that sentiment perfectly.
SLABDRAGGER
My notes for Slabdragger’s set simply read, “The heaviest band” and I’m quite inclined to leave it at that, but I’m not going to because I want to tell you how incredible Slabdragger are live. Fucking incredible. The room explodes as the band unleash an onslaught of monolithic riffs. Nobody can compete with Slabdragger and this was probably my favourite set from HRX. Slabdragger; you beautiful bastards.
Speaking of bastards, it’s time for Hang the Bastard to play Hellfire Reign in its entirety and with original vocalist Chris Barling making his first appearance in four years. The sludgecore giants suffer some technical difficulties throughout their set but this doesn’t bother anyone in attendance because the room felt like it might explode with the amount of energy the band were creating. I thought Hang the Bastard’s performance tonight was a bit sloppy in places but I suppose that’s to be expected when you summon a mosh-pit as violent as this.
ROLO TOMASSI
In the words of Holy Roar’s own Alex Fitzpatrick, “Only Rolo Tomassi could headline” and he’s not wrong. The band power through a set list that sees the band cherry-pick a few songs from each of their releases in chronological order and it never lets up. Rolo Tomassi are one of the most unique and important UK mathcore bands and even if their change in sound in more recent years has polarised you, their performance tonight can’t be denied. Rolo Tomassi are still one of the most enthralling live acts around and this is a fitting end to an incredible day of music. Happy birthday, Holy Roar. Here’s to 10 more years.
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Review: Slabdragger’s Rise of the Dawncrusher
It’s been a long time coming, but Slabdragger are back in action with their sophomore album Rise of the Dawncrusher; a massive, sludgy, behemoth of a concept album that improves on their debut in every conceivable way. Got your attention?
Slabdragger were already a force to be reckoned with and their debut album Regress showcased their ultra-dense grooves and long-form song structures in a fantastic way, but with Rise of the Dawncrusher, everything is now even heavier without sacrificing melody and it’s just glorious. Genuinely glorious. I felt like I was having a metal epiphany listening to this record. I imagine if Hendrix was into Black Sabbath, this is the sort of thing he’d make.
Opening with the 11 minute beast that is Mercenary Blues, Slabdragger put their quite brilliant guitar work front and centre and it makes for a seriously punishing yet hugely memorable experience that will keep fans of all things slow and groovy extremely satisfied. The amount of amazing riffs in this song should be illegal and they all deserve to be included in ‘Top 10 Riffs of All Time’ articles.
It doesn’t end there. This record is an absolute monster from start to finish. Slabdragger follow up the opening track with the unashamedly ripping Evacuate!; one of the most disgustingly noisy things Slabdragger have ever concocted. Then it’s back to the groove with the monstrous Shrine of Debauchery; a song with a title so metal it’s probably chrome-plated.
Look, I realise this review is big on the hyperbole, but it’s not often I’m given a record so delicious and as utterly mouth-watering as Rise of the Dawncrusher. It’s everything I want from a sludge record and more and it’s honestly quite difficult to believe it actually exists.
The UK is spoilt for great sludge as Slabdragger are competing with other brilliant acts like Limb, Gurt, Monolithian and Opium Lord, but Rise of the Dawncrusher sets a new standard for UK sludge metal. Slabragger have written a follow-up so utterly devastating that it demands your attention. Slabdragger, man; what a band.
Slabdragger’s Rise of the Dawncrusher is out now and available to buy on CD and vinyl from Holy Roar Records.
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Review: Eulogy’s Eternal Worth
Stallone have returned under a new name as Eulogy and Eternal Worth marks a distinctive stylistic shift from the band’s previous material. While previous records Cardiac Black and Mire sat more comfortably in the mathcore category bringing in comparisons to bands like Palm Reader, Eternal Worth takes a more direct approach to its song-writing that results in a more metallic hardcore sound akin to bands like Old Skin.
While this is still very much heavy music in the hardcore mould, you definitely notice Eulogy’s music spends less time noodling around with complex structures and more time beating you into submission with a massive groove. This is the clear distinction between the Eulogy of old and the Eulogy of now; the riffs are placed front and centre. While Mire would often get bogged down (no pun intended) in technical wizardry, songs like Deaf Cult clearly favour melody. That nasty, stomping riff that kicks everything off is certainly proof of that.
This shift in structure means Eulogy sound doubly pissed off as a result. The opening one-two of Doubt Shadows and Deaf Cult deal in some of the most disgustingly bile-ridden screams we’ve heard from the band and there’s some liberal use of blast-beats to make this the most metal-sounding Eulogy record to date.
What this change in song-writing also enables Eulogy to do is work with songs in a longer format that don’t outstay their welcome. Closing track Beyond the Skin is still as hate-fuelled and metallic as everything else on Eternal Worth, but now the band can explore more atmospheric lead guitar work and moments of haunting respite that create a considerably bleak vibe. There’s more to this song than your standard mosh-a-long anthem.
Eulogy have hit their stride on Eternal Worth. This is a record that doesn’t mess about and gets straight to the point. This is a laser-focussed metallic hardcore assault that is big on groove and if the name change wasn’t a big enough indicator, it marks an important step up for Eulogy as a band.
Eulogy’s Eternal Worth is out now and available to buy on limited edition one-sided vinyl with screenprinted b-side direct from the band or from Holy Roar Records.
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Review: Svalbard’s One Day All This Will End
Post hardcore stalwarts Svalbard have finally seen fit to write and record their debut album after three years of EPs, splits and singles and their tried and tested formula of glittery post punk mixed with hardcore is still as beautiful and engaging as ever. The only difference is now the band have the room to really let loose and One Day All This Will End takes the listener on one of the most emotional journeys heavy music has to offer.
Opener Perspective really does exactly what it says on the tin by giving the listener an introduction to what the band is all about. This is a wonderfully progressive journey that ebbs and flows between gorgeous melody and heart on sleeve aggression. Vocalist and guitarist duo Serena Cherry and Liam Phelan deliver an almost entirely screamed vocal performance throughout but compliment the lack of vocal melodies by showcasing their talents via their fantastic guitar work which straddles the fence between beautiful, sparkling guitar leads and devastating, stompy riffs.
Svalbard are a band with a sound that is surprisingly approachable and anyone looking to get into hardcore punk will have a fantastic jump-on point with this record. For every burst of vicious aggression there is a beautiful melody to wrap your ears around and that’s the real masterstroke of Svalbard’s sound.
Despite the heavy focus on soaring guitar melodies, some of Svalbard’s heaviest work is also featured on One Day All This Will End. Songs like Disparity and Expect Equal Respect are the closest things to no-nonsense punk that Svalbard have ever concocted and having them sandwiched in between these gorgeous moments of emo-esque respite makes their impact even greater. Enough can’t be said about the way this albums moves in such a wonderfully natural way.
By the end of the closing moments of Lily, Svalbard have taken you on a post hardcore journey like no other. One Day All This Will End is one of the best punk releases birthed in the UK and Svalbard have mastered an amazingly eclectic sound that’s equal parts angry, beautiful and forlorn. One Day All This Will End is essential listening to fans of post hardcore and a welcoming introduction to anyone looking to explore the more progressive side of hardcore.
Svalbard’s One Day All This Will End is out now and available to purchase through Holy Roar Records.
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Review: Down I Go’s You’re Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You
Alt rockers Down I Go have an interesting and surprisingly long-lasting career that has seen them break up and now reform after being offered an opportunity to record a new album in Iceland. The band have also managed to achieve this with all 3 members now residing in Toronto, Stockholm and Chicago respectively. They’re third album You’re Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You is the culmination of their time in Iceland and it sounds like a mad combination of early Biffy Clyro wrestling with Between the Buried and Me.
Before we start our analysis of this record, I’m going to let you in on a little secret; I hold music against two main points of criticism. The first is the music has to be interesting and the second is the music has to be memorable. If you nail them both then you’re onto a winner but if you only achieve one then I personally think the music falls a little flat as a result. Down I Go’s music can definitely be described as interesting but an awful lot of You’re Lucky God simply goes through the motions without any melodies that really stick with you.
Down I Go manage to meld a wonderfully progressive, almost mathcore sound with some beautiful and uplifting vocal melodies that would happily lend themselves to alternative or post rock. Not only that but Ben Standage and Pete Fraser put their trombone and saxophone experience from previous band Jesse James to good use by flourishing the music with wonderful little bursts of brass. Their sound is bizarre and unique and the band have to be commended for making something sound so different.
What’s really strange about this record is how it manages to be incredibly brash and noisy but lack a lot of that power that makes heavy music so exciting to listen to. There’s a very stripped-back sound to You’re Lucky God and that means it often feels a bit lacking. The bass doesn’t beef the band’s sound up in the way it really should and despite the razor-sharp guitar work that could have been taken from a tech metal release, the guitar tone is just a bit tinny for something so fundamentally angry.
The real disappointment is that there are no real outstanding riffs or melodies that will lodge themselves in your psyche. You’re Lucky God plays out like one extended piece of music with many movements but the angular guitar work doesn’t generate riffs and the mainly screamed vocals also lack melody. When the vocals do move into sung territory they often have a drawn-out, lazy drawl to them that also fails to generate any memorable moments.
The most memorable moment from the record comes from its introduction, Mother in the Pen which sounds like nothing else on the record with its minimalist focus on melody that feels more like a Mogwai track. It also returns for a reprise that makes the whole album into a charming cyclical experience.
You’re Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You is an ambitious album with a wonderfully unique sound that doesn’t really allow Down I Go to work with any melodies or riffs that could really set the whole experience off. This whole record made me feel somewhat hollow as it often showcases a band who have mastered their craft but their craft is unfortunately lacking in melody.
Down I Go’s You’re Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You is out now on 12″ white vinyl through Holy Roar Records.
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Review: Rolo Tomassi’s Grievances
Rolo Tomassi have changed. I mean, of course they have; 3 of their original 5 members have left and the entirety of their rhythm section has been changed out. Their last album Astraea at least maintained the same drummer as their first 2 records but Grievances doesn’t even have this luxury.
So as you can expect the dynamic of the band has shifted significantly and this was also apparent on Astraea. Not only had the guitar work moved away from technical punk flourished with jazz in favour of a more traditional mathcore sound, but the song structures were considerably more rigid as a result. This has only become more apparent on the band’s 4th album Grievances.
Grievances follows a more solid foundation that doesn’t see the tempos change mid song like the Rolo Tomassi of old. This has the unfortunate effect of making the band more predictable. Some listeners may prefer this more focussed and direct Rolo Tomassi but for me part of the band’s appeal was always how utterly bat-shit insane their song-writing was. Grievances is tame in comparison.
Tame is a strong word. Rolo Tomassi are still a very aggressive and very progressive band with a huge sound. If you’re a fan of mathcore then songs like Estranged and The Embers will instantly appeal as they’re considerably well put together, it’s just they don’t sound like they come from the same band. It’s this notion that will greatly affect the appeal of the record. Rolo Tomassi fans of old will likely feel like something is missing while new fans will have a perfectly serviceable mathcore record to sink their teeth into.
If we take the album at face value then there is still plenty to enjoy. The guitar work is a wonderfully technical blend of dense riffs and noodly moments of guitar prowess. The drums hit you straight in the chest with a gloriously satisfying punch and the performances are tighter than a kitten stuck in a drain-pipe. Vocalist Eva Spence puts forward a dazzling display of throat-tearing aggression backed with some wonderfully introspective moments of haunting melodies. James Spence continues to move away from his chiptune-style keyboard effects in favour of more subtle sounds that help create some wonderful texture. The core mechanics of this album are expertly delivered and like I’ve already said, if you like mathcore then you can do no wrong than giving this album a listen.
But if you’re already a Rolo Tomassi fan then you’re bound to notice some of the magic has been lost. Grievances is not the frankly bizarre drug-trips of Hysterics and Cosmology and if you want to hear the band continue down that road of agitated punk crossed with jazz and chiptune sounds then you’ll be sorely disappointed. Rolo Tomassi have changed and whether that’s a good or a bad thing depends exactly on your familiarity with the band.
Rolo Tomassi’s Grievances is out now and can be ordered from Holy Roar Records.
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Review: Employed to Serve’s Greyer than You Remember
Employed to Serve have fucking arrived. Going from a 2 piece studio project to full blown metallic hardcore band has been a long journey and while the band’s previous EP Change Nothing, Regret Everything hinted at greatness, nothing could have prepared us for Greyer than You Remember.
Greyer Than You Remember marks Employed to Serve’s first foray into the world of long players and the moment Live Without bursts out the gate you’re instantly bludgeoned with some of the most devastatingly dense hardcore this side of a Converge record. Employed to Serve are clearly cut from the same sort of cloth as metallic hardcore’s finest like the aforementioned Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Coalesce but this is a band born and bred in the UK’s hardcore scene and you can hear shades of Throats and Pariso running through their veins.
So let’s talk about the music because my God there’s a lot to dissect. Employed to Serve have given up on singing entirely in favour of sounding like a tornado is ripping through your home. Justine Jones’ vocal performance is nothing short of terrifying and she’s managed to evolve into one of the leading female screamers this country has to offer. Sammy Urwin continues to floor the opposition with as many riffs as he can produce and if anyone’s familiar with his work in either Oblivionized or Regurgitate Life you’ll know exactly what madness this man can achieve.
These two elements are bolstered by additional guitar work by James Jackson and bassist James Venning who give the record that devastating thickness. Tying everything together is a drum performance by Robbie Black who should probably be having a hard time keeping up with his band-mates but there are no such worries here. The drums have that wonderfully enormous live quality to them that producer Lewis Johns is so magnificent in capturing. Employed to Serve sound like a fucking rampage.
The band does manage to muster a few moments of melody like on the Vales-esque Bones to Break. These moments act as a temporary reprieve from the onslaught contained in the rest of the record and they show a wonderfully introspective side to the band that manages to add some real texture to the record.
It’s impossible to justify any criticism towards this record. Employed to Serve have absolutely mastered their craft and if dense, bastard-heavy hardcore is your thing than Greyer than You Remember is filled wall-to-wall with some of the genre’s finest moments. The album barely gives you a moment to breath in favour of demanding you mosh harder and it’s almost euphoric in its density.
Employed to Serve’s Greyer than You Remember is out now and available to order from Holy Roar Records.
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Ethiopia – Fact Check
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Ethiopia – Fact Check Where gods reposed and poets marveled
The small city of Gondar, 2,300 meters high amid the beautiful Simien Mountains near the shining waters of Lake Tana, was once the artistic and cultural heart of Ethiopia.
Julio Etchart
According to Homer, this is where the Greek gods went to rest and reflect. Gondar now is a busy, dust-colored town of concrete buildings, tin roofs and potholed roads, where the only color is the bright Chinese plastics and spices for sale in the local market. Tailors work foot-powered Singer sewing machines, laughing market women display a few piles of fruit and tiny children furrow their brows at the sight of this odd white-skinned visitor.
It is a strong contrast to the romantic history. From the early 1600s onwards, the Ethiopian Emperor Fassilidas and his sons built their capital here, with 12 imperial castles, one for each of the 12 Apostles, a library, sauna baths and, of course, a church.
Glowing red in the evening light, the four-story main castle looks like an illustration from a book of fairytales, its soft, rounded battlements conjuring up images of knights, damsels in distress and fire-breathing dragons.
The reality was almost as fabulous. The castle was described as finer than the House of Solomon, decorated in ivory, mirrors and frescoes, with its ceiling covered in gold leaf and precious stones. For 200 years, Gondar was a site of religious learning, music, dance, poetry and art. The names hint at what was: the Temple of Love, the House of Songs, and the Paradise Gardens. A poet wrote: Gondar, seat of prosperity and of savoury food! / Gondar, which emulated the City of David! / She will be a myth unto eternity!
In 1885, a Muslim army sacked the city, destroying 40 of the 44 ancient churches and countless priceless objects. Happily, however, yet another wonder survived destruction in this country of surprises, protected from the invaders by the Archangel Michael, flaming sword in hand, and a miraculous swarm of bees. The Church of Debra Berhan Selassie, the Light of the Trinity, lies a few kilometers from the town center, surrounded by high walls with, once again, 12 towers. It is a plain, thatched, rectangle but, inside, the walls are a kaleidoscope of Ethiopian church art, including a magnificent red and gold painting of St George, the country’s patron saint, prancing on a white horse and slaying his dragon.
But the greatest sight is the ceiling, where some hundreds of wide-eyed angel faces, all different, smile down from on high with wide Byzantine eyes and African features. While the soaring arches and bright stained glass of the cathedrals of Europe intimidate with the power of their architects and patrons, this simple roof brings a smile to the lips and a sense that heaven might actually be a place of fun, rather than dull and serious piety.
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Google, Lenovo Unveil First Project Tango Smartphone at CES 2016
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Google and Lenovo in collaboration announced their first consumer-targeted product with Project Tango technology at the ongoing CES 2016 trade show – smartphone. The Chinese tech firm plans to launch the smartphone “this summer” with a “less than $500” price tag.
Lenovo demonstrated some applications of Project Tango at its joint event, showcasing the indoor area mapping that’s possible with the 3D machine vision technology. Three vertically stacked lenses in the smartphone camera will deliver colour and depth information, while a fisheye lens is supposed to give a wide-angle peripheral vision around the device. All the data gathered by the camera are then compiled by the Lenovo smartphone’s processor, about which the company failed to give details, to build a 3D map of the area. The technology will allow near real-time mapping, with measurements down to the centimetre.
The Lenovo-made Project Tango-based handset will run on Android OS and will feature a display size that will be less than 6.5-inches. As for the developers, they can submit their Project Tango application ideas to Google until February 15. Selected developers will get funding for their idea, and their apps will be preloaded on the Lenovo smartphone. The search giant will be shipping the smartphone to select developers based on their app ideas.
“This was not designed as a niche device,” said Lenovo vice president Jeff Meredith. “We want this to be accessible to a large audience,” he added.
Project Tango leader Johnny Lee, who joined in the Las Vegas announcement, said the technology “transforms the smartphone into a magical window on the world.”
Lee, who demonstrated various uses of the technology, said it could help consumers find their way in a large hotel or mall, or take precise measurements of a room before shopping for furnishings.
He showed how to get instant measurements of ceiling height, square footage and more, and then tested how certain furniture pieces would look in a room.
Project Tango is an imaging technology that uses a combination of various sensors to view the environment around you and generate spatial awareness for your phone. Developed by a team led by former Kinect lead Johnny Lee, Tango was created by Google’s Advanced Technology And Projects group, and uses a number of different sensors on your phone or tablet to create a sophisticated picture of the world around it.
An infrared emitter and infrared camera act as a range-finder to measure the distance between your phone and various objects, allowing them to be mapped in three dimensions. A wide angle camera adds details about the location, and other phone sensors including accelerometers, gyroscopes, and barometers combine to help Tango calculate not just what is around your phone or tablet, but also the angle at which you are looking at an object, how far away it is, and what it looks like. Project Tango partners include Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Intel.
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I really would like to give this place better reviews, but the service is SO BAD. I came twice, once during lunch and again during breakfast (but early, so it wasn't even crowded). Both times I sat outside, and both times the service was inexcusably bad. At breakfast, my husband never got a refill on his coffee. Both times I sat for so long that I wasn't sure if I was supposed to get up to place my order at the counter (I wasn't).
The instructions say to warm up the waffle iron on heat setting 7, but there is no heat setting 7. The waffle iron has a knob on top numbered 1 through 6. I can't actually rotate the knob to numbers 5 and 6 though; the knob is physically stopped from rotating at 4. When I rotate the knob the other direction, I can rotate past 1 almost a full 360 degrees (stopping just before I reach 6 from the opposite side). The iron seems to heat up as soon as it's plugged in regardless of how the knob is rotated, so as far as I can tell there is no "off" setting even if I've rotated the knob to well below 1. Since I can't tell how the knob actually maps to heat settings (if the knob even does anything at all) I'm afraid to even try actually poring waffle batter onto the thing..
Our biggest criticism was one of consistency: some batches turned out strong, but others showed signs of uneven heating or inefficient steam release. Some waffles had over-crisped spots while others were golden on the bottom but soggy and undercooked on top, as though they came from two different irons. Still, the Krups was a solid performer, especially given its capacity, reasonable price, and rave reviews from other testers—it was the #1 pick from the Wirecutter and has over 240 five-star reviews on Amazon. We feel confident recommending it as a wallet-friendly alternative to the All-Clad.
No, this waffle maker cannot compete with the All-Clad, but at about a quarter of the price, the Krups sure gives it a respectable run for its money. The build isn't as solid—there's some plastic, no 18/10 stainless here—but like the All-Clad, it is generously proportioned to yield four tall, deeply grooved Belgian-style waffles per batch and, with an adjustable dial for cook control and an audible chime that signals doneness, it doesn't skimp on extra features. It does best the All-Clad in one regard: its non-stick plates not only release cooked waffles easily, they pop out for easy cleaning and are dishwasher safe. That's a game changer right there.
Bella's rotating waffle maker bakes one round traditional waffle in less than 3 minutes, making it one of the quickest-to-cook models we tested. It received near top performance scores amongst traditional waffle makers tested, producing perfectly tender waffles from both a mix and from scratch and evenly browned 'em, too. Little ones helping cook breakfast will love flipping the waffle maker over after you add the batter.
Making Belgian waffles has never been easier with the Bella Rotating Waffle Maker. The waffle maker's rotating function and browning control knob ensure even and controlled cooking. The nonstick plates make it easy to remove waffles without an issue and allow for easy cleaning. The space-saving design with folding handle allows for convenient storage.
After putting in a total of 63 hours on research, talking with four experts, and testing 21 models, we highly recommend the Krups GQ502D Belgian waffle maker for most people. It consistently delivers perfect-looking, crispy-on-the-outside, tender-on-the-inside waffles, no matter what kind of batter you use. The nonstick grid releases waffles easily, and the dishwasher-safe plates pop out of the machine for effortless cleaning. A numbered dial allows you to control browning, and a loud beep with a green light tells you when your waffles are ready.
Like most electric waffle irons, the Cuisinart WMR-CA waffle maker isn't meant to be submerged, and the waffle plates are built right into the machine, so you can't remove them for a good scrubbing. Surprisingly, removable plates are relatively rare, especially in the American/traditional waffle maker category. But the Black and Decker G48TD (Est. $40) has them, which makes it very convenient to use. Not only do the non-stick waffle plates pop out for easy cleaning, they also have a completely flat reverse side (also non-stick). Flip the plates to their flat side and open the G48TD's lid all the way, and you have yourself a mini griddle for cooking things like pancakes and bacon; or close the "floating" hinged lid and use it to toast sandwiches.
Most modern waffle makers run on electricity and can be adjusted to produce lighter or darker waffles. Many, but not all, have indicator lights and audible beeps to cue you through the preheating, battering and cooking stages. Even more important, the waffle maker should maintain consistent, even heat to make sure your waffle isn't overcooked on the outside and mushy on the inside, or cooked in some places but not in others.
What we didn’t like: This is a big and bulky unit, making it a difficult fit in small spaces. Without a drip tray, there is potential for mess. (However, because it's a flip model, you need less batter to fill up the iron, so drips are also less likely.) There was some unevenness in cooking, with the edges browning a touch faster than the rest. The deep wells and fixed plates make cleanup difficult.
In 1887,Thomas Edison built a research laboratory to be devoted to the "rapid and cheap development of inventions." Eventually, about 200 scientists, engineers, and technicians were employed there to invent to order, “useful things that every man woman and child wants… at a price they can afford to pay.” The "Edicraft" line came close to fitting this paradigm -- it was developed in the late 1920s when electric appliances were a growing industry that generated high profits. The "Edicraft" line included a clamshell type toaster, a sandwich grill, a waffle iron [below], a combination grill/waffle iron and a coffee urn/water heater (the “Siphonator”.) The entire line was of high quality but were expensive, on the order of $25 per unit -- equivalent to $800 in 2011! The Edison Company stopped production of appliances in 1934.
This waffle maker will make 4 waffles at once, which will get you to the kitchen table faster – and that’s always appreciated. The settings on this waffle maker are so simple that there’s no training necessary; you just slide the control to select how brown you’d like your waffles, and it will let you know when the they’re done with a green indicator light. It’s just like a toaster.
This illustration anthropomorphizes the Twin-O-Matic and notes that post-war demand for small appliances will be a "half billion dollars" (about $100 billion in 2005 dollars), and encourages dealers to sign up to sell Manning-Bowman appliances. This is actually a very sad artifact, because the Manning-Bowman company was in deep financial distress because they could not get materials -- particularly chrome -- during World War II. This was an attempt to sign up dealers so that credit and financing could be obtained to last out the materiel shortages imposed by the War. It did not work, and soon thereafter, Manning-Bowman sank into a sea of red ink. The company's assets, including its spectacular Art Deco designs, were sold to the Bersted Corporation of Fostoria, Ohio. Berstead watered down the designs and made low-priced "drug store" versions of many Manning-Bowman appliances. (The Sandwich Grill on our Kitchen Aplliances page is a good example of this "cheapening" process.) Alas, Manning-Bowman met an inglorious end, but it was merely a foretaste of the vast wave of shoddy appliances made in faraway dictatorships that suffocate the American marketplace today.
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Life Lessons in Angel Square
Angel Square is a classic coming-of-age story, adapted for the stage from the novel of the same name by Ottawa writer Brian Doyle.
DEC. 3 TO 20 The year is 1945. The Second World War has only just ended, and racial tensions are still present in the streets of Ottawa. Tommy, a young boy living in the seedy, multi-ethnic neighbourhood of Lowertown, is on a mission: to find the perpetrator of a savage crime against his best friend’s father. He conducts his investigation in Angel Square, where French, Irish Catholic, and Jewish kids constantly duke it out. Based on the beloved novel by Brian Doyle, this play tackles some difficult issues — namely, the dangers of racial prejudice, the struggles of the working class, and the awkward transition from childhood to adolescence. But at its heart, it’s about learning to understand one another. —Amy Allen
•The Great Canadian Theatre Company, 1233 Wellington St. W., 613-236-5196. gctc.ca
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August 17, 2011 August 17, 2011 James Turner General
The Crime Scene’s first-ever Golden Crown award
(The Golden Crown)
In homage to my Twitter pal @Tombrodbeck of the Winnipeg Sun, I give my faithful followers the first-ever installment of what will be now be known as “the Golden Crown award” — handed out to some of the best examples of Manitoba Prosecutors trying to deter and denounce unlawful conduct.
This illustrious award’s first recipient comes after a court hearing today where a Winnipeg mom of nine was spared jail after she drunkenly crashed her car and abandoned her five-year-old daughter inside, only to be arrested minutes later in her home, passed out on the couch and with another child screaming at the top of its lungs in the background.
Two hours after the crash, the woman — who has no prior record — blew a breathalyzer reading of .17 — more than twice the legal limit — and was charged with child abandonment and impaired driving (there were no injuries serious enough to bump it up to impaired causing bodily harm). The charge was referred to today in court as “Impaired Driving Simplicitor” — a charge that somehow nets everybody a fine upon a first conviction for it, at least according to one top Manitoba judge.
And here’s why Manitoba Crown attorney Lisa Cupples is this illustrious award’s first recipient.
She asked Judge Ray Wyant to send the woman to jail for the crime. She didn’t say how long, just that she be locked up to send her — and others — a message.
She even presented case law to back up why she should be locked up as a way to denounce not only her conduct — but deter others from drinking and driving. They’re two of the main sentencing principles enunciated by Parliament.
And what’s more, former Provincial Court Chief Judge Ray Wyant almost did send her to the clink — but ultimately ruled that it wouldn’t be in society’s (or the offender’s) interest to do so, for various reasons (see below).
But without a doubt, Cupples’s request clearly had Wyant thinking — and thinking out loud at that. He told her in his experience, no prosecutor had ever proposed such a thing.
Here’s his comments to her on her argument for jail, verbatim, from today’s hearing:
I have to say it’s the first time that I can recall — not necessarily a bad thing — but the first time I’ve heard a Crown attorney, at least in my experience, ask for jail on an impaired simplicitor where there were no injuries at least that justified the laying or the proceeding of impaired causing bodily harm.
I have to say I’ve seen countless cases — far too many sadly — of people driving at high rates of speed and blitzed, hitting cars and smashing whatever and — I appreciate you don’t speak for others — but I don’t think I ever recall anything but the Crown saying, ‘well take into account the seriousness of this, but because it’s a first offence, she should receive a fine.”
[Snip … to later in his reasons]
I commend the Crown for bringing that factor to the court’s attention. Often times we may get into the situation where we just have standard sentences for certain offences. ‘First time impaired simplicitor? — gotta be a fine.’
And a range of fine perhaps dependent on the existence or lack of aggravating circumstances: ‘what was the (breathalyzer) reading?,’ ‘Was there property damage?,’ ‘Was there a high rate of speed?,’ ‘Was there the potential for injuries?’ — That kind of thing, where the person has no record — and I think the Crown’s position reflects the fact that each individual case has to be looked at seriously, and that just because it’s an impaired simplicitor and just because the person has no prior record that doesn’t automatically mean that they get a fine.
And it shouldn’t mean that.
[Snip …]
Drinking and driving is rampant and it doesn’t appear that we’ve been able to abate the carnage on our highways in spite of the education and in spite of the increased penalties.
I think we all know that if the police were probably given more resources to go out and nab impaired drivers, we’d see a lot more in here and that’s sadly something I think we all see too often.
Wyant then went on to give his rationale for why jail in this case was inappropriate (mom had just gotten all her kids back, was 1 year sober, had been actively participating in rehab and AA etc.).
But he complemented Cupples for raising jail as an option.
As we all should.
Ms. Cupples, keep up the good work. People notice.
Tagged case law, Crown attorney, drunk driving, golden crown award, impaired driving, justice, Lisa Cupples, Manitoba Justice, police, sentencing, winnipeg
3 thoughts on “The Crime Scene’s first-ever Golden Crown award”
william burr says:
But why jail her when she had just been making all that progress? I feel it would damage her kids more than it would help society (not knowing all the details of the case though).
James T says:
Funny you should say that, Mr. Burr. More to come shortly — maybe even this afternoon.
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For the Record: Fort Rouge arson-prevention meeting
Winnipeg’s deadliest day of the week (So far)
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Benzos becoming a choice drug for teens, NJ drug advocates warn
David Matthau
Drug experts are now warning of a dangerous new health problem involving medications like Valium and Xanax that are typically prescribed for anxiety and insomnia.
It turns out benzodiazepines, commonly referred to as benzos, are increasingly being used and abused by teens and 20-somethings to treat nervousness and for recreational purposes.
“We need to ring the alarm bell loud and clear that this is a major problem,” said Angelo Valente, the executive director of the Partnership for a Drug Free New Jersey.
“Just recently there was a study that showed there’s been an 830% increase, from 1999 to 2017, in overdose deaths involving the drugs that are commonly called benzos," he said.
"This spike was only surpassed by overdose deaths involving synthetic opiates or heroin, so there’s no question this is an alarming statistic.”
According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, 10,600 people died from benzo overdose in 2016. In 1999, that number was about 1,100.
So why is this happening?
“Certainly we see there are many more young people that are being prescribed these medicines for anxiety and insomnia, depression," Valente said.
He pointed out in some cases teens and 20-somethings are being prescribed benzos along with opioids, which can be extremely dangerous if amounts of these drugs are abused.
At the same time, teens may take benzos for fun, helping themselves to drugs they find in the family medicine cabinet that were prescribed for someone else.
Valente said there are alternatives for treating depression and insomnia that young adults and their parents should be aware of.
“Benzos are generally safe when they are taken occasionally over a few weeks, but the brain quickly accepts and adapts to the medicine and certainly that is something very alarming.”
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Speak for Wolves: Yellowstone 2014
Brett Haverstick has been busy. Not only is he the Education and Outreach Director for Friends of the Clearwater in Moscow, Idaho but he’s also the primary organizer for the Speak for Wolves: Yellowstone 2014 event. Brett holds a Masters degree in Natural Resources from the University of Idaho and is a man devoted to wolves. When I ask why, he explains his desire to redeem the mistake of past generations who exterminated wolves from the landscape.
June 28-29 are the dates when folks will gather near Yellowstone to speak up for for the vital protection of Canis lupus. With our support, Speak for Wolves has the potential to be the largest and most vocal happening for wolves so far, a time when we can raise a unified voice, network with other advocates from across the globe, and educate ourselves as well. Here are the details, in Brett’s words…
An opportunity for the American people to unite and demand wildlife management reform and restore our national heritage
On June 28-29 2014, Americans of all-walks-of-life will meet in Arch Park in Gardiner, Montana to tell our elected leaders that we need to reform wildlife management, at both, the state and federal level. Approximately, 3000 grey wolves have been killed in the northern Rockies and Great Lakes region since they were delisted from the Endangered Species Act. There are currently hunting and/or trapping seasons in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
We must stop the wolf slaughter that is currently taking place across the United States. We must address the root-cause(s) of the wolf slaughter, however, and the killing of other predators, as well as bison, wild horses and other members of the animal kingdom. The status quo for wildlife management in America is broken and it must be fixed.
5 Keys to Reforming Wildlife Management in America
1. Restructuring the way state Fish & Game Departments operate
Western governors currently appoint agency commissioners, which essentially, tell the state Fish & Game Departments what to do. This is cronyism at its worst. State Fish & Game Departments are mostly funded by the sale of hunting/trapping/fishing licenses. These agencies are bound into serving the interest of “sportsmen” because it’s the hand that feeds them. Modern funding mechanisms, application of the best-available science and genuine public involvement in decision making are sorely lacking in these institutions and it must be addressed. Another option would be to empower the federal government to manage all wildlife on federal public lands.
2. Removing grazing from all federal public lands
The “control” of native wildlife to benefit the livestock industry is ground zero for the badly-broken wildlife management status quo. For more than a century, the livestock industry has single-handedly transformed the once-wild west into a tamed pasture of cows and sheep, resulting in the reduction of native wildlife populations that compete with habitat and forage. It is also well documented the damage that grazing causes when livestock infests federal public wildlands. Livestock are non-native and largely responsible for soil compaction, a decrease in water retention and aquifer recharge, erosion, destruction of wetlands and riparian areas, flooding and a net-loss of biodiversity. Grazing enables invasive plant species to proliferate, which greatly affects the West’s historic fire regime.
3. Abolishing Wildlife Services
Hidden within the US Department of Agriculture, is a rogue agency that is essentially, the wildlife killing-arm of the federal government. This federal tax-payer-supported agency works with the livestock industry to kill native wildlife like wolves, coyotes, black bears, cougars and many other non-predator species. Over the past century, Wildlife Services is responsible for the death of tens-of millions of native wildlife. Methods of killing include trapping, poisoning and aerial gunning. At the very least, the predator-control segment of Wildlife Services must be terminated.
4. Banning trapping/snaring on all federal public lands
We must evolve as a society and move away from this barbaric, unethical, cruel and torturous method(s) of killing native wildlife. Leg-hold traps, conibear traps and other devices are indiscriminate killers. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of dogs caught/killed by traps on public lands in states like Idaho. It’s only a matter of time before a child or adult steps into one of these bone-crushing devices. Some states currently require individuals to check their traps once every 72-hours, while other states do not require trappers to check them, at all.
5. No killing of predators, except for extreme circumstances
The best available science suggests that predators, including wolves, are a self-regulating species. In other words, predators don’t overpopulate, nor do they kill for “fun”. Instead, their populations naturally fluctuate, as do prey or ungulate populations. We need to better understand and embrace the trophic cascade effect predators have within ecosystems. Non-lethal measures should be implemented in rare instances where there are actual human/predator conflicts. For example, an aggressive and/or habituated bear may need to be killed after non-lethal measures have failed.
Speak for Wolves: Yellowstone 2014 is a 2-day celebration of predators and our national heritage. It will feature prominent speakers, live music, education booths, children’s activities, food/drink vendors, local wildlife photography and more. The event will feature the screening of two Predator Defense documentaries: The Imperiled American Wolf and EXPOSED: The USDA’s Secret War on Wildlife.
The festival-type event is family-friendly, educational, and non-confrontational. There is no admission fee. Arch Park is a public venue adjacent to the northwest entrance of Yellowstone National Park (Mammoth Hot Springs). We are encouraging folks to not bring their dogs/pets for crowd-control and safety reasons.
To learn more go to speakforwolves.org and follow us on facebook.com/speakforwolvesyellowstone2014.
Hope you can make it and howl with us!
Brett Haverstick
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11 thoughts on “Speak for Wolves: Yellowstone 2014”
jaelledragomir says:
Thanks, Beckie. As always inspiring and thoughtful. So sad about the recent Idaho massacre of wolves. Love, Jaelle
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Wolves and Writing wrote:
> Beckie Elgin, Freelance Writer posted: “Brett Haverstick has been > busy. Not only is he the Education and Outreach Director for Friends of the > Clearwater in Moscow, Idaho but he’s also the primary organizer for the > Speak for Wolves: Yellowstone 2014 event. Brett holds a Masters degree in > Natural”
Barbara Joy says:
Brett is amazing…those in his inner circle working with him are just as amazing. This is going to be an AMAZING event!!! Thank you for writing this!
Brett Haverstick says:
We’re working hard together,that’s for sure Barbara!
Thank you so very much Beckie for blogging about this event and all the good work you do for canis lupus.
Thanks, Brett, for the post and for all you do. “Amazing” only touches the surface!
Hope you will consider coming to the June 28-29, 2014 event Bonnie!
Wow. Thank you very much Nancy!
Elisabeth Dicharry says:
We plan to be there BUT we really hope wildlife killing contests and completely unprotected species such as coyotes will be a specific part of the agenda. Wildlife killing contests target many animals but coyotes, prairie dogs, and other completely unprotected unregulated species are especially in the cross-hairs of these barbaric competitions. Penning, hounding, and coursing are other forms of contests. Literally hundreds of killing contests take place every year all across North America. In my own town here in NM, we have had at least 4 killing contests in just over a year as well as the World Coyote Killing Championship a couple of years ago. So I know personally the devastation these contests cause. For years, these contests flew under the radar and they have grown like a malignant cancer: There are TV shows, media, and an entire weapons/weapons related industries surrounding and promoting these contests. Currently, both New York and California have legislation/proposals on the table to ban these contests. Here in NM, on our first attempt to get a statewide ban, we lost by a vote of 30-38. Also Dr. Robert Crabtree of Yellowstone is a well-known wildlife biologist with expertise in coyote/predator science. I hope he can be a part of your event. Please message us.
Elisabeth thank you so much for being excited about making the trip from NM. I’m speaking with Camilla Fox from Project Coyote right now about speaking and/or viewing her film Cull of the Wild. We will be screening 2 Predator Defense films and so it would be a natural fit. Hopefully she can attend!
jasmine olson says:
Hey stop it, you hunters are absolutely behaving insidious, with terrible cruelty. You’ve done enough evil chasing to break the status quo, this instant tell wolf sanctuaries how come you’ve treated their lovely brave packs so selfishly, how come! YELLOWSTONE tells the truth when they say the nasty ways you hunters hurt the most needed ecosystem helpers, (the wolves) it’s totally true you can scare your own domestic dogs the very same ways. HRR- RARR, ADMIT IT! How come you’re so conceited you’ve unbalanced Earth’s nature, quit this abuse, to the wolf packs and the wolf sanctuary workers you’re being terribly offensive, to both halt hunters, I feel like telling you all to exile, I hate you hunters! Dear wolves I love you all, you’ve helped me feel whole emotionally, and I’m compassionate. I’ve studied enough science and spiritual stuff to understand your lifestyle it’s your language of wolf communication I’d need to learn, you’re deep in my heart. I’m not sure if I would have discovered who I really was inside without your help dear wolves, thanks.
And hey you who don’t trust disabled people this is a autistic girl speaking for the wolves and she’s only 24 years old. serious quit harming the disabled, BUT QUIT HARMING THE BEAUTIFUL HELPFUL WOLVES TOO, THIS INSTANT APOLOGIZE TO BOTH GROUPS!!!!! DISABLED PEOPLE AND WOLVES WE’RE MORE THAN YOU THINK!!!!!!
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Louise Giovanelli
January 25 - March 2, 2019
An Ex III, 2019
66 7/8 x 47 1/4 in
Preview: Thursday 24 January 2019, 6 - 8pm
Workplace Foundation is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of Manchester based artist Louise Giovanelli in the Northeast of England.
Louise Giovanelli makes intense, luminous, paintings that refer both to art history and contemporary mechanics of viewing and consuming imagery. Cropped and isolated images gleaned from historical painting are repeated and restated throughout several works, dislocated from their origin and repositioned within a rhizomatic sequence of artworks. Giovanelli employs a layering technique to build works that simultaneously composite multiple modes of representation and painterly lexicons of flatness, translucence, abstraction and realism.
A new body of black monochromatic paintings derive from Giovanelli’s studies of the Acanthus leaf and its use as ornament throughout classical art. Hand modelled by Giovanelli in shallow black plasticine relief, her Acanthus sculptures are manipulated and folded to form deep linear ‘X’ shaped creases that run diagonally from corner to corner. These are then painted to create dark abstractions that assert both the obliterative and the decorative; the ‘X’ functioning both as an authoritative crossing out and as a flirtatious kiss.
Emphasised by underpainting revealed beneath and below the image; and finished with gestural glyph-like inscriptions on top of the illusionistic surface, Giovanelli’s works flit restlessly through a multiplicity of painterly strategies bringing together interruptions, false starts, and obfuscation into a corrupted yet beautiful polyphonic totality.
Louise Giovanelli was born in London in 1993 and lives and works in Manchester UK. She completed her BA in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art in 2015, and is currently studying at Städelschule in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.
Her work was recently featured in The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting published by Anomie Press. Forthcoming exhibitions include a solo show at Manchester Art Gallery and recent solo exhibitions include A Throw to the Side, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery; Slow to Respond, Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale; From Here to Here, Part 1 & 2,The Grundy Gallery, Blackpool.
Giovanelli’s work is in numerous museum collections including: The University of Salford Art Collection; The Grundy Gallery Collection; Manchester Art Gallery Collection; Warrington Museum and Art Gallery Collection; Touchstones Gallery Collection; and Private Collections in U.K., USA, Canada, China, Slovakia, Germany, and Italy
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Bankruptcy, Self Managed Superannuation Funds and the Loss of Control
The use of self managed superannuation funds (“SMSF”) has been steadily growing over the years with more people, particularly business owners, choosing to control the destiny of their superannuation rather than relying on third party fund managers. The ATO indicates that in 1999 there were around 187,000 SMSFs in existence with assets of around $61 billion, in ten years this has grown to more than 400,000 SMSFs with assets of around $326 billion.
For a superannuation fund to be classed as a SMSF, all the individual members of the fund must either act as a trustee of the fund or be a director of the corporate trustee of the fund. In a typical mum and dad SMSF established by a small business owner, mum and dad would be the members of the SMSF and also the directors of the corporate trustee of the SMSF.
Disqualified persons
Many advisors and clients to not know that when an insolvent person becomes bankrupt or enters into a personal insolvency agreement with their creditors so as to avoid becoming bankrupt, these insolvent persons may lose control of their SMSF in which they are a member because they become a “disqualified person” under the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act (the SIS Act). When control is lost because an insolvent person becomes a disqualified person, then all members of the fund (even those who are not insolvent) may lose control of their members entitlements in that SMSF.
A disqualified person cannot act as trustee of a SMSF or as a director of the SMSF’s corporate trustee. The rationale behind this disqualified person rule is to protect superannuation assets from being used to resolve a disqualified person’s financial difficulties – such use would be contrary to the SMSF’s intended purpose which is to fund its members’ retirement.
A “disqualified person” is defined to include an “insolvent under administration”. An “insolvent under administration” includes not only bankrupt individuals but also persons who have entered into personal insolvency agreements under Part X of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 so as to avoid bankruptcy, where such persons have not yet received a section 232 certificate from their trustee indicating that all their obligations under the personal insolvency agreement have been discharged.
Where a member of a SMSF becomes a disqualified person, and they remain in the role of trustee or director of the corporate trustee of the SMSF, the trustee is required by law to notify the ATO immediately in writing of this occurrence. Failure to do so is an offence punishable by a fine. If a member of a SMSF is not a trustee or a director of a SMSF trustee company for a period exceeding 6 months, then control of the Fund will have to be yielded to an external registered superannuation entity (“RSE”) licensee (i.e. a government approved trustee). When a RSE is appointed the fund converts from being a SMSF into what is known as a small APRA fund.
Consequences of a SMSF having a qualified person
May lose concessional super fund tax status
If a disqualified person continues to act as a SMSF trustee or as a director of a SMSF trustee company, then this is a contravention of the SIS Act and can lead to the SMSF losing its complying super fund status. If this was to happen then there would be disastrous financial consequences for the fund and its members. If a SMSF becomes non-complying it loses the benefit of tax concessions available to complying superannuation funds (e.g. the concessionary 15% tax rate). Additionally, loss of complying status triggers a significant tax liability for the SMSF – this tax liability claws back all the tax concessions which the SMSF received whilst it was a complying superannuation fund. Loss of complying status is by far the biggest penalty of all.
A punishable personal offence is also committed
It is an offence punishable by a fine or gaol for a person to become a trustee of a SMSF or a director of a SMSF’s corporate trustee, or to continue in these roles, where they know that they are a disqualified person. Additionally, it is also an offence for a corporate trustee to knowingly allow a disqualified person to become a director of the corporate trustee or to remain in that role.
Most SMSF trust deeds automatically remove a member as trustee (or as a director of the corporate trustee) where that member becomes a disqualified person. This prevents the member committing an offence.
Automatic removal does not solve the issue that to remain a complying SMSF, all members of the fund must either be trustees of the fund or a director of its corporate trustee. The disqualified person is still a member of the SMSF after their removal from their trustee role.
Possible solutions to protect innocent and solvent fund members
The disqualified persons rule means that every time a small business owner runs into financial difficulties they need to consider whether their SMSF needs to be restructured if they become bankrupt (and hence a disqualified person). For a typical mum and dad SMSF, the disqualified persons rule means that if dad becomes bankrupt the SMSF will either have to be split with dad having to roll his superannuation benefits out of the SMSF or control of the SMSF will have to be yielded to an external RSE licensee.
Members of a SMSF have 6 months from the time when a member becomes a disqualified person to take the necessary steps before their superannuation investment becomes controlled by a n RSE licensee.
Many fund members who are being innocently affected by the presence of a disqualified person may choose to exit their membership of the SMSF by rolling their individual member superannuation benefits out of the SMSF that has the disqualified into either a new, sole member SMSF or alternatively, into an externally managed independent retail superannuation fund.
Alternatively it may be better for the disqualified to exit their member form the SMSF fund by rolling over their membership benefits into an externally managed independent retail fund – but not into a new sole member SMSF because the disqualified member cannot be a trustee or director of that sole member SMSF.
Both of these alternatives will allow the innocent member to maintain control of their superannuation if they so choose but the disqualified person will effectively lose the day to day control of their superannuation.
Whether a particular solution is appropriate for a SMSF depends on the fund’s particular circumstances. If a SMSF has more than one member there may be some leeway in dealing with this disqualified person problem. For instance, continuing on with our mum and dad example, if dad can sort out his bankruptcy issues within 6 months, then all that may be required is that dad be removed from his role as a director of the corporate trustee during the period of his bankruptcy and be quickly re-appointed within the 6 month period, once he ceases to be bankrupt. Where the SMSF contains only one member, then appointment of a RSE licensee or a rollover of benefits will be required because there will be no one else who can act as a director of the SMSF’s corporate trustee during the member’s bankruptcy. In the mum and dad example, mum still remains a director of the corporate trustee.
Further complications will arise if the SMSF has illiquid assets, complex binding death benefit nominations or has entered into an instalment warrant borrowing arrangement since rolling over a disqualified person’s superannuation benefits may not be practically feasible. Additionally, there may be resistance from an external RSE licensee in taking over the role of trustee because of these complex arrangements.
The harsh penalties that can be imposed and the potential loss of complying SMSF status means that a person who has a SMSF and finds themselves facing bankruptcy should seek expert superannuation advice to deal with this disqualified person problem.
By Peter McCrohon and Dung Lam, MBP Legal, Sydney – Telephone: (02) 9220 9600
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Eat It, Virginia!
Worker’s legs severely injured in rail yard accident at Gerdau Steel Mill
Posted 6:49 pm, September 16, 2014, by Wayne Covil, Updated at 06:47AM, September 17, 2014
DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. -- An industrial accident at one of Dinwiddie County's largest employers has left one man in the hospital in serious condition.
The accident happened at the Gerdau Steel Mill Monday just before noon in the northern part of the county.
A news release from the company confirms the employee was injured in an incident in the rail yard.
Sources told CBS 6 News that the young man had both his legs severely injured in the accident.
LifeEvac was brought in to transport the man to VCU Medical Center.
A company spokesperson says the last "Lost Time Accident" at the Dinwiddie facility was in December 2011. Before that, it was 2009.
CBS 6 News has reached out to the Virginia Department of Labor to see if they are conducting an investigation, but they had not returned our calls as of 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Gerdau, which is the largest tax payer in Dinwiddie County and ranks in the top five for employment and ranks as one of the top recyclers in the Commonwealth, operates 17 steel mills in the U.S. and Canada, as well as facilities in countries around the world.
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Special - Season 1 Episode 4
A gay man with mild cerebral palsy decides to rewrite his identity as an accident victim and finally go after the life he wants. ..
A gay man with mild cerebral palsy decides to rewrite his identity as an accident victim and finally go after the life he wants.
Ryan O'Connell, Samantha Lee
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Sites Unseen: A journey
How and why I do what I do in paint and in drawing.
#painting #drawing # exhibitions
June 2018 – Update
A month in residence at Queen’s House, Hull 16.5.2018 – 15.6.2018.
Queen’s House showcase exhibition gave me the opportunity to both curate and invigilate while being a sort of ‘artist in residence’. My working title, ‘Sites Unseen’, an exhibition of 39 paintings and framed and unframed drawings is inspired by Hull’s tenfoots – alleyways that run in between and behind the suburban housing of the city, some being laid out as early as the 1860s, but most during Hull’s 1930s expansion westward. These mostly unseen and unvisited urban routes allow access for the refuse collection wagons, and also as a site for residents to now dump their white goods, unfashionable furniture and building waste from the household. My paintings and drawings for ‘Sites Unseen’ can be viewed at my website. They are uniform in size and medium as I hope you will see, and reflect a fairly forensic examination of the subject matter in oil paint on wood boards.
The Queen’s House opportunity had to be more than just paintings on walls though as I was given the space to showcase my artwork and practise whilst the artist was present. This came about as part my business mentoring by CreativeENRG and my mentor, Gill Hobson PhD, this during Hull’s first year as UK City of Culture. Gill encouraged and then advised me to apply for funding. As well as providing much needed funds to develop new work, for public engagement for better access and understanding to my work, and promoting the activity, Arts Council England and Hull City Council logos are important on promotional material as it validates exhibitions and associated events. So achieving a successful ACE and Hull City Council funding application is crucial at this stage of my career.
I decided to engage visitors to Queen’s House by not talking initially about my artwork but rather to the common ground we all share in Hull, that of Hull’s Tenfoots. As I welcomed visitors into the gallery I would indicate to a wall hung map of Hull with its collage of images and photographs (of Hull’s Tenfoots). To provide another aspect of the tenfoots I commissioned a local Hull musician, Graham Graham Beck, to create ‘The Sound of the Tenfoots’. This sound piece was influenced and took inspiration from both my artwork and the tenfoot soundscape, this accompanied my film of single photographed images merged on a TV monitor. Graham Graham Beck’s CD’s were available on the Queen’s House front desk, these alongside copies of my ‘The Journey’ a handout which abridged my walking experiences in Hull’s tenfoots with anecdotal memes and quotes about walking and art.
Public engagement plays an important part of current funding criteria (probably an understatement), and was successfully included in my ACE application as well as to the Hull City Council Grants to the Art fund. With this in mind I programmed set talks every Wednesdays at Queen’s House. Visitors mainly ignored the set times and arrived as and when. I quickly found my talks quickly were end to end. I also designed The Tenfoot knitting project, this to involve potentially sixty five participants. This was the public engagement element funded by Hull City Council. I visited six Hull knitting groups to gain outworkers and invited them to Queen’s House. The aim of the project was to knit strips which would then make up a maze like design, a nod to the corridor like structure of the tenfoots. I choose a colour palette that both reflected my artwork and the colours found in the tenfoots. To be inclusive of all creative abilities I provided both card templates and an overall full sized template. The wall-hanging creation became a social focus for many knitters, especially as tea, coffee and biscuits were always available with a warm welcome.
Talking about your work on a daily basis becomes onerous and tiring but at least it sharpens how you talk about the work to a variety of audiences and visitors. Queen’s House also provided the opportunity to both curate and consider my exhibition space. It meant I was responsible for promoting the event in local media – radio and local news, as well as posting on social media platforms. This gave me control, as far as was possible, of how my work and ideas were disseminated and the content. It was a steep learning curve, but worth it as I now have good media links. There is a reciprocal respect once the reporter/interviewer knows you give a good interview with local human interest.
The success of an Arts Council England Grants for the Arts application last year meant that I could approach Newcastle based artist Narbi Price for artistic mentoring. The CreativeENRG mentoring is more business orientated rather than artistic, so for me to progress and develop I had included in the ACE application funds for artistic mentoring fees. I was aware of Narbi’s paintings having seen his work in the 2012 John Moore Painting Prize exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. After further research and watching Narbi’s YouTube interviews I felt that we had some common ground in subject matter and that he would understand my work and perhaps my aims. Narbi visited my exhibition at Queen’s House and then my studio to critique and assess ‘where I am at this point in time’. Also, to start our dialogue for my future plans. I see the mentoring process as a healthy and important evaluation of current work, challenging and thought provoking, and for me a way forward in my practice as this expands the dialogue beyond my home city. Presently I am faced with questions put to me by Narbi following his initial visit. These are invaluable and insightful and have got me really having to question my practice, of what I am doing and how, and what materials are best suited. To further help our dialogue I visited Narbi’s current exhibition Narbi Price: The Ashington Painters at the Woodhorn Museum. The viewing of work first hand is obviously invaluable and essential for any understanding of an artist’s work, from whichever side of the dialogue one is coming from.
As an aside, at the start of the year, and ahead of the Queen’s House ‘residency’ the Studio Eleven Gallery offered me a joint exhibition. This is an independent arts space in Hull located in the newly regenerated part of the city known as the Fruitmarket. From this opportunity came sales and an introduction to the local radio interviewer who I was able to contact again for the Queen’s House project. It also meant that I could experiment with hanging arrangements. Very important.
So where next for exhibiting my current artwork? Well, my next exhibition is a group show opening at the end of August called The Politics of Beauty at the Corke Art Gallery in Liverpool, and is part of the Independents Biennial 2018. I will be showing with artists Josie Jenkins, Paul Collinson and John Elcock.
This blog will become more a means of reminder and prompt for future evaluation, and aide memoir, and history rather than of something that may be of interest to the passing internet reader. Although I hope it is of interest of course in content and style.
Chrissy Collinson
The Politics of Beauty
painting drawing exhibition
The inspirational buzz of this year’s John Moores Painting Prize exhibition and opening of the Independents Biennial 2018 provided another opportunity to explore Liverpool’s cultural melée, this with the added bonus knowing I would be part of the IB18 at the Corke Gallery at the end of August in the exhibition called The Politics of Beauty in Liverpool when I would be exhibiting with artists Josie Jenkins, Paul Collinson and John Elcock.
Our preview on the evening of August 28th flew by in conversations, meeting new friends and old alike. Here was my first opportunity to introduce and test out how my theme of Hull’s tenfoots would be understood outside Hull, here in Liverpool, where alleys, ginnels and passages are more familiar and commonplace.
Nic Corke, the gallery owner, added a new aspect to the way my artwork is viewed, not only by myself but also the gallery visitor. This was by way of hanging the thirty two of my 20cm x 15cm paintings in a group format: this approach adds impact to the overall view of exhibition. I had previously exhibited my work in double rows or smaller groups so having another’s take on the installation was welcome for me.
We, as artists, are familiar with our own work, we title our work with little consideration to how others, curators, gallery owners, will then interpret works with similar titles and numbers (as in series). My well-intended system has thrown up a few issues, all of which I thought I had resolved by way of a detailed consignment list of paintings and drawings by using a multipage document of colour thumbnail images, measurements and prices. Firstly, the thumbnails were resized to suit the document e-mailed ahead, and as a printed out format to travel with the exhibition for the physical check on delivery at the gallery. However, also, for my own future reference I will also include with the online consignment list larger file images for catalogue and any marketing media.
Sometimes plans can be unraveled by ambition and inexperience, but this is valuable experience and learning.
During my previous exhibition in Hull at Queen’s House my challenge and aim was to present a visual and audio landscape of the tenfoots I know from experience. I collated three hundred of my photographs taken over a four year period, these documenting my many walks throughout Hull’s tenfoots. By using the PowerPoint I compiled the finished film, or so I thought, only to discover that the PowerPoint required transformation from an MP3 to MP4 format. This film played throughout the Sites Unseen show on a digital TV screen. I commissioned local Hull musician, Graham Graham Beck, to create ‘The Sound of the Tenfoots’. This sound piece was influenced and took inspiration from both my artwork, paintings and photography and the tenfoot soundscape. In Queens’s House the film and audio played out separately on a digital screen whilst the audio played from a CD player. My limited technical experience was outmatched by the extent of my plans! I sought advice from many quarters. In the end this was resolved by the endeavours of both Sue Butler and Graham Graham Beck bringing Graham’s sound piece and my film together. This can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wdKESiF0LQ&t=111s and will be on view at future exhibitions.
Meanwhile, back in the studio I continue to make best use my two year funding. To recap, I received my Arts Council England grant in January 2018, as well as funding the time, materials and logistics for five exhibitions, it also enables continuing professional artistic mentoring from Newcastle based artist Narbi Price.
In October Narbi will once again visit Hull for his next assessment of my new work, this spurred on after our last meeting during my month in residence at Queen’s House throughout June this year. Narbi encouraged my work to take on a larger scale and by employing Ampersand boards instead of my usual gesso prepared MDF.
So with my order of new Ampersand boards delivered I tentatively approached the flawless white expanse of these boards. I initially to tested out new ideas, techniques and compositions on oil paper. An interesting test in itself as I found the oil paper to prove appealing by way of texture and the way it holds the paint, be it in washes or opaquely applied. I look forward to our continuing conversation and new challenges that are thrown into the mix.
In August BBC TV journalist Victoria Holland visited me in the studio visit to interview me for our local BBC Look North as part of an article regarding the history and culture of Hull’s Tenfoots. Word has got round Hull that I am the Tenfoot artist in residence.
Unofficial artist-in-residence for Hull Tenfoots
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American researchers unveil the world’s first liquid computer chip
By Matthew Griffin Computing 11th February 2019
As our understanding of computing improves, it is clear that the post-silicon computing era will be anything but dull.
Over the past few years there have been a growing number of experts voicing concerns that Moore’s Law, and the age of silicon computing, is coming to an end as it gets more difficult and more expensive to grind out smaller and smaller transistor sizes. And that’s despite the fact that we already have 5nm, 1nm, 0.5nm and even virus sized and single atom sized transistors being developed in the labs.
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However, despite all the doom mongers about the end of the “golden age of computing” coming to an end there are new staggeringly powerful computing technologies already emerging including quantum computers, that are 100 million times faster than today’s computers, neuromorphic computers that can pack all the power of today’s supercomputers into a package the size of a fingernail and revolutionise AI by learning for themselves, as well as more exotic biological, chemical, DNA computers that have been shown capable of packing the power of all of today’s global computing power into a test tube, and liquid computers. And all that’s for starters.
It’s the latter type of computing that’s the subject of another breakthrough that I’m going to discuss in this article, and be warned, it gets techy very fast. In 2017 I wrote about the development of the world’s first liquid transistor, and now a little over a year later another group in the US have created the world’s first “liquid computer chip.”
Invigorating the idea of computers based on fluids instead of silicon, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown how “computational logic operations could be performed in a liquid medium by simulating the trapping of ions in graphene floating in a saline solution.” Outside of the computing realm the new discovery might also be useful in applications such as water filtration, energy storage and even sensor technology.
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The idea of using a liquid medium for computing has been around for decades, and among their many advantages liquid computers would require very little material and space, and their liquid components could assume any shape, for example, within the human body where they could tag team with DNA computers to help turn the human body into disease fighting supercomputers. And yes, that’s a real thing – already.
NIST’s ion-based transistor and logic operations prototypes are simple in their design and, most crucially, showed for the first time that a special film immersed in liquid can act like a traditional solid silicon-based semiconductor like the hundreds of billions of computer chips used in all of today’s computing devices and gadgets.
As an added benefit the new material can even act like a transistor, the switch that carries out digital logic operations in a computer, and researchers demonstrated that the film could be switched on and off by adjusting the voltage levels in the fluid like those induced by salt concentrations in biological systems.
“Previous devices were much more elaborate and complex,” said NIST theorist Alex Smolyanitsky who led the ground breaking research. “What this ion-trapping approach achieves is conceptual simplicity. In addition the same exact device can act as both a transistor and a memory device – all you have to do is switch the input and output. This is a feature that comes directly from ion trapping.”
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The NIST team used a graphene sheet 5.5 by 6.4nm in size that had small holes lined with oxygen atoms in it. These pores resemble something known as “crown ethers” – electrically neutral circular molecules that trap metal ions, while the graphene sheet itself was made up of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons, similar in shape to chicken wire, that conducts electricity and could be used to build electrical circuits. It was this hexagonal design that gave the team the breakthrough they needed and allowed them to create the pores they needed.
The graphene was suspended in water containing potassium chloride, a salt that splits into potassium and sodium ions, and the crown ether pores were designed to trap potassium ions, which have a positive charge and trapping a single potassium ion in each pore prevented the penetration of additional loose ions through the graphene sheet, furthermore that trapping and penetration activity could be tuned by applying different voltage levels across the membrane, which helped the team create logic operations with 0s and 1s – also known as binary operations which are the basis of all today’s computing platforms.
The input-output relationship between these operations also let the team create a NOT logic gate or operation, where the input and output values are reversed. If 0 goes in, for example, then 1 comes out, and vice versa, and by using two graphene sheets rather than just one the team were also able to create an OR (XOR) logic operation.
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Furthermore when the team applied just small variations in voltage across the membrane they were able to demonstrate a phenomenon known as “sensitive switching” which meant that it might even be possible to use the ion trapping crown pores to store information and perform sophisticated logic operations in what they called “nanofluidic” computing devices – or what I’ m going to simply call Liquid computers.
With all these advances in computing technology it is also becoming absolutely clear that the end of the silicon computing age is something to be celebrated not feared. And that’s before I tell you about how in 2020 Microsoft will start letting you store your information in DNA storage in the cloud, and how scientists last year managed to store and replay videos from living biological bacterial computers… In the future “computers” won’t just be everywhere, they’ll be powerful on a hitherto unimaginable scale.
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Discounted MetroCard proposal for low-income NYers gets support from city unions
A half-priced MetroCard proposal for low-income New Yorkers is now getting support from the city's unions. Photo Credit: Credit: Charles Eckert
By Vincent Barone vin.barone@amny.com Updated January 27, 2017 12:01 AM
Leaders of the largest unions in the city support a proposal to provide half-fare MetroCards to low-income New Yorkers.
Union heads representing retail, health care and transit workers, as well as the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), are announcing support for such a plan on Friday.
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Singer-songwriter and broadcaster to deliver the Denver hits at the Town Hall Theatre
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Marc Roberts.
HE WOULD never have cut it as Henry John Deutschendorf jr, but as John Denver, he charmed the world with 'Take Me Home, Country Roads', 'Annie's Song', 'Rocky Mountain High', and 'Thank God I'm a Country Boy' - all of which are undisputed classics.
Indeed the Colorado state legislature adopted "Rocky Mountain High" as one of its two state songs in 2007, while in Ireland, singer-songwriter and broadcaster Marc Roberts has earned critical and public acclaim for his A Tribute To The Music of John Denver, which he brings to the Town Hall Theatre on Friday November 30.
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15 October, 2017 - 02:04 Rob Mcroberts
Do the Four Rivers Lead Us to the Garden of Eden?
In the Biblical Book of Genesis, chapter 2, the description of the Four Rivers of Eden provides clues for locating the lost garden of paradise. Following these clues leads to a connection between the lost city of Akkad and Eden.
The Nature of Eden’s River
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.
Modern readers of the Bible often mistake the phrase “from thence it was parted and became four heads” to mean that the headwaters of four rivers originated in Eden. In fact, the exact opposite is indicated. From Eden one river flows into four rivers, including the Tigris and Euphrates, these rivers then go outward to become separate rivers, each forming its own head. Simply put, a river, flowed through or near the garden and then joined four separate rivers.
In verse 10, although the writers had many words available to denote a river, the ancient Hebrew word used is nahar which generally refers to a large river like the Nile or Euphrates, but can also mean the sea.
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A map of the Tigris – Euphrates in the area of ancient Babylon ( CC BY-SA 2.5 )
Another common error that is made in identifying these rivers is our modern perspective that a river begins at its source and then ends where it disperses into the sea. For an ancient riverine people, who had never seen a picture of their world from a satellite view, a river was a course you could travel. As indicated by the use of the word nahar a river could also be the sea. Once you emerged into a sea from a river you were still traveling on a nahar.
In antiquity the Tigris and Euphrates were connected by multiple canals effectively uniting the two rivers into one vast watery network. Also in ancient times the two great rivers entered the Persian Gulf separately. For a person standing along an irrigation canal that connected the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the region of Babylon, the waterways available to you would indeed head off in four directions.
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11 The name of the first is Pishon; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
The name Pishon comes from the root puwsh , which means to grow fat, spread out, or be scattered. If a traveler went south on the Tigris this is exactly the condition they would find as the river gives way to marshland.
12 and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Following the river into the sea and continuing along its eastern bank will take a traveler around the harsh deserts of southern Iran and Pakistan. Indeed the word Havilah can be traced to the root chuwl which means circular, to twist or whirl, or writhe in pain and the root chowl which means sand.
The identification of Havilah as a source for bdellium, a resin for incense making, and onyx further points to Iran and Pakistan. The Greek writer Theophrastus, and Pliny the Elder both identified areas in Afghanistan as the source of bdellium and even today Pakistan is one of the few suppliers of Onyx.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon; the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.
Gihon comes from the root giyach, which means to gush forth. This may well have described how an ancient traveler would experience the mighty Euphrates as it finally emptied into the Persian Gulf. By following the western bank of this course the traveler would eventually find themselves rounding the Arabian peninsula and encountering Africa wherein lies the expected land of Cush, ancient Ethiopia.
The Tigris River in Êlih-Hafizbiniyan ( CC BY-SA 3.0 )
14 And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is it which goeth toward the east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Modern maps still show how the Tigris River follows the eastern flank of the land known as Assyria by the Greeks and Ashur by its inhabitants. The Euphrates was presumably so well known that it needed no appellation. This leaves us with four rivers that are joined by canals forming a large x-shaped river network.
Do the Rivers Lead us to Eden?
So where does this place the garden? If we look for a river that flows out of the steppe and enters near the joint course of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers the eye cannot help but be drawn to the Diyala River in eastern Iraq. Even today Iraq’s Diyala Province is known for its oranges and boasts one of the largest olive groves in the region.
The Four Rivers of Eden -Arianna Ravenswood (Source: theancientneareast.com)
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it .
The description of the garden frames it as being the center of a trade network. Locating the Garden of Eden based on the worldview of merchant trade coincides with the actual term for garden in the ancient text which is gan. The word gan specifically refers to a fenced in area that was likely used to corral animals as well as to secure property, in this case presumably as tribute or for trade.
The Akkad Connection
An ancient text, "The Cursing of Akkad," tells of the times following the fall of Akkad, ca 2000 BC, when amidst the Gutian invasions the land was so overcome by chaos and violence that the gardens needed to be placed behind the walls of cities.
The introduction of man into the garden to “dress and keep” further reveals the language of commerce. The term “dress” is abad in Hebrew. Abad means to serve as a laborer or in this case perhaps as a husbandman. This meaning is reinforced by the word “keep” which in the ancient text is shamar, a word that means to stand guard over.
The records from ancient Iraq are replete with contractual arrangements between landlords who owned large herds and groves and the shepherds and guardsmen who tended their flocks and foodstuffs as specialized laborers. The advent of large scale animal husbandry and irrigated agriculture together with the connection to the world by vast trade networks is part of the legacy of Mesopotamia. Fenced in groves and secure animal pens would have been commonplace and well known in Babylonia at the time of the Hebrew Captivity when it is possible the Genesis accounts were written. During this time Akkad and the Akkadian Empire would have been remembered in legends of a golden age that ended due to the sins of its rulers.
The Garden of Eden by Erastus Salisbury Field 1860 ( Public Domain )
Akkad, a known trading center, was likely in or near the Diyala Province of Iraq. Placing it East of Babylon. This matches the claim of Eden being a garden eastward. For over two thousand years the commercial center of the world was Babylonia, where, for a time, the Jews languished in exile. Here kings claimed dominion over the four quarters of the Earth. The Earth’s markets could be reached by following one of its four great waterways to the North, South, East and West and on the eastern side of those rivers was a fertile steppe land that is replete with gardens to this day.
Top image: The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens, ( Public Domain )
By Robert McRoberts
Dalby Andrew, Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices , British Museum Press, 2000
Pliny, Natural History
Roux, Georges, Ancient Iraq , Penguin Books, London, 1992
Strong, James, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Nelson, Nashville, 1990
Santag, A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2004
Robert F McRoberts
Robert McRoberts is a graduate of UCLA with degrees in Ancient History and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. He has a lifelong interest in History and Mythology and has published a number of articles with a focus on the ancient... Read More
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John Petersen wrote on 12 November, 2018 - 02:43 Permalink
Interesting article, but it is all meaningless. Did you forget about the flood? I think that would pretty much ruin any theory of current rivers being the same rivers as mentioned before the flood. So it would be an essentially meaningless study. Any river existing today of the same name would simply be a re-use of a well-known river before the flood, just as we reuse names today, for example, there are many cities and rivers, etc named after their European counterpart.
Karl Goldman wrote on 19 October, 2017 - 00:19 Permalink
Thanks for your feedback. Excellent Article by the way. Recently a researcher pulled the LanSAT satellite images for the area. This satellite is capable of basically imaging 30 ft (by what is released to the public) below ground (it merges a few techs ground penetrating radar and multi spectral imaging). One researcher in the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzwCSpl4Liw link at about 34 min (the rest is hype) basically has found the riverbeds of the ancient rivers. Saudi was much wetter during 6,000 years ago. One of the misconceptions is that it could be referring to the merging by the sea not further in land (I believe you pointed that out too). Just additional information. Your conclusions seem well founded also.
Rob Mcroberts wrote on 16 October, 2017 - 04:10 Permalink
Thanks for the feedback Karl. I am familiar with the two wadis you reference. However I have seen nothing that indicates that these were actually navigable waterways and they don’t come close to reaching Cush or Pakistan. This theory also supposes that Iron Age Biblical writers were hearkening back to a prehistoric primal habitation of Neolithic people. I am proposing that they were instead referencing a Bronze Age empire of which some legend and story was known to them. My thinking is that the latter is much more likely. This is especially the case given the particular terminology I mention in the article such as gan as the word for garden which indicates a walled enclosure. If a primal habitation was being referenced the Genesis writers would have likely used a word such as midbar which is frequently used to indicate a wilderness. The name Eden itself likely refers to a steppe land or an irrigated land (as will be discussed in my next article on the subject) and neither of those connects with a Neolithic dwelling near the shore of the Persian Gulf. There are in fact many more points of connectivity between Eden and Akkad to be revealed so stay tuned.
RF McRoberts
Not sure how old your data is, but new satellite images have found an ancient river bed believed to be Pishon and Gihon and based on the data Eden is located below water.
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ABS-CBN Digital terrestrial channel YeY to air My Hero Academia
Filipino-dubbed version confirmed in a social media post by it's dubbing director, also hints at Season 2 for next year.
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ABS-CBN’s digital terrestrial channel YeY is set to air the sci-fi action anime My Hero Academia for the first time in Filipino, according to a social media post by its dubbing director.
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Cariño is a veteran voice actor and dubbing director who worked on several anime shows, including Azumanga Daioh and Lucky Star,
My Hero Academia Season 1 last dubbing day! Thank you God for this project & for these talented creatures🙏🏻😍Thank you DTT/Abs Cbn. See you guys next year for Season 2! Yey?…Yey!!!👍🏻❤️#MyHeroAcademia #dubbing #dubbingdirector #dubbers #anime
A post shared by Daisy May Cariño (@daisycarino) on Nov 20, 2017 at 5:50am PST
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Mankind has developed superpowers known as “Quirks” with 80% of the population having some kind of superpower. These new abilities see the rise of both superheroes and villains. A prestigious school known as the The Hero Academy trains superpowered hopefuls into the heroes the world needs. Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he’s part the 20% without a Quirk. Unwilling to give up his dream, he plans to take the exam and be accepted into a high school for budding heroes. Through a series of serendipitous events, he catches the eye of the greatest hero, All Might, who agrees to train him. (Synopsis from Anime News Network)
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