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#369461 - 03/10/2017 07:38 Re: I made a Bluetooth interface. [Re: larry818]
Unfortunately that's not a hobbyist reseller that will send me only the 1 or 2 units I need. Still looking for a supplier that I can actually buy one from.
#369462 - 03/10/2017 09:48 Re: I made a Bluetooth interface. [Re: FieroSTi]
larry818
Loc: Fullerton, Calif.
Ask for a sample?
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
WT32i? No experience with them, but one I had as a bookmark.
https://www.silabs.com/products/wireless...th-audio-module
Not sure how you'll go using it as the dev board looks a little hard to get. You want a dev board type unit to make it easier to connect to, power etc right?
Edited by Shonky (04/10/2017 10:08)
#40104192 120Gb (no longer in my E36 M3, won't fit the E46 M3)
#369495 - 05/10/2017 23:41 Re: I made a Bluetooth interface. [Re: Shonky]
Thanks, Shonky, I'll have a closer look at that one too.
#369496 - 06/10/2017 00:04 Re: I made a Bluetooth interface. [Re: tfabris]
Current status of support for RN-52 chip:
Have managed to get the ground loop noise fixed by being more careful about power and grouding in my breadboard layout, and also by specifically grounding the "Mic -" connections.
There is still a problem with the gain settings on the chip. The empeg line level outputs are way overdriving the RN-52 inputs and making them clip by a large amount.
Trying to solve the gain problem:
- Turning down the Empeg's volume helps, but not completely. Can't turn it down quiet enough to stop it from clipping.
- There is discussion of the mic/line gain here: http://www.microchip.com/forums/m770128.aspx which says "The microphone gain can be changed from -3dB to 42dB in linear steps. If the gain is set to less than 24dB using the ‘SM’ command the line in mode is automatically entered."
- There is indeed an "SM,xxxxxxxx" command which is supposed to adjust the microphone gain, but it does nothing, no matter what I set it to the gain never changes. I can set it to all zeroes and reboot the unit and... still the same volume, gain still clipping.
- Datasheet on the chip says "MIC_BIAS requires a minimum load to maintain regulation. MIC_BIAS maintains regulation within 0.199 and 1.229 mA. Therefore, if you use a microphone with specifications below these limits, the microphone output must be pre-loaded with a large value resistor to ground." - I tried a 10k ohm resistor from Mic_Bias to ground, no change.
- This page: http://www.microchip.com/forums/m843896.aspx hints that there is an "SL" command to set line level to go with that "SM" command but I cannot get it to work, even based on the information that the person in that thread said to set it to. I try to do a "GL" command and it just says "ERR", and all variants of the "SL" command that I try give me "ERR".
- There is also at that same page http://www.microchip.com/forums/m843896.aspx a schematic for converting speaker level to line level using a couple of resistors. I may try that. But I feel like I shouldn't have to if the chip is supposed to support it directly.
Though the speaker-to-line circuit (with the 10k and the 1k resistor) seems to work to reduce the gain, I'm concerned about overall quality of doing that. Basically now I'm still using the chip at mic-level and bringing down the empeg's output to match. I still have the keep the empeg down at about -15db to keep it from overdriving the RN-52 input even with that circuit.
As long as the input impedance of the device is high enough, a resistor divider should be fine but you're right regarding the gain settings that should work and you shoudl be using the line level inputs and you shouldn't have the bias issues as it really should be simple voltage output from the empeg into a high impedance line level input
However you say -3dB to +42dB "gain" which is basically an amplifier. You're saying the empeg is overdriving by some 15dB so -3dB isn't going help that enough.
There's an empeg setting to limit the output isn't there?
Yes, there's an empeg setting to limit the output, but my idea is that I want the best audio quality so I want everything to be at line level with the correct dynamic range. My feeling is that I should be able to set the empeg at 0db and then control the gain at the bluetooth chip's input. So I'm not sure what to be expecting from this thing.
0dB at the empeg is referenced against what it considers maximum output. 0dB on its own means not a lot. Was that 4Vpp lineouts? RMS? I don't remember
What is the input maximum for the device? It won't be 4V pp
or RMS.
It's unlikely you'll be able to input a high signal and have a significant negative internal gain as the input circuitry will still need to accept the higher input. So you'll ultimately need to limit or reduce the output of the empeg.
Yes it's best to have the highest output possible, particularly in car audio, but you're not going to hear (or lose) any significantly quality IMO between running the empeg at full and reduce it vs running it at a lower level *unless* the cable between the empeg and the BT device are picking up significant noise.
mlord
Loc: Canada
Yeah, the audio out through the dock connector should be a different level than that on the RCA line-out jacks. Tried the former yet?
Thanks for that information, Shonky!
Currently what I'm trying is a circuit like this, except where it says "speaker" it's the empeg line outs, and where it says "line out" is where I'm plugging it into the RN-52 chip. (obtained from here.)
Do you think that would work, or do you think there is a better way?
Maybe I should really just put a variable stereo pot on it so that I can adjust the attenuation?
Something else I noticed that I'm wondering about...
I think the RN-52 might have some sort of "auto gain" on its mic input that I need to figure out how to turn off. For example, on a song that fades out, it appears to be playing the music at full volume all the way to the very end of the song.
Regarding the Silicon Labs WT32i, I found this interesting thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVwzLz0dO1w
This looks real interesting to me. Look at all that audio I/O on that dev board. Haven't looked up pricing on it yet, but wow.
http://www.semiconductorstore.com/cart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=49919
https://www.ebay.com/i/263156265565?chn=ps&dispItem=1
I think I'm going to abandon the RN-52 and try that BlueGiga WT32i module. I've ordered one of those fancy reference kits with all the RCA plugs.
I figure that the RN-52 seems to have had only one firmware release of the "Source" mode firmware, and that firmware is really half baked. Their gain control command doesn't do anything. Also I noticed that the command reference has no way of entering track metadata at runtime in source mode, so I wouldn't ever get to have track data in there.
So I think I have a better bet with that BlueGiga module since clearly their refernce kit has RCA inputs and it's intended to be a high quality audio interface.
Despite my fear that doing literally anything to improve my car will surely result in its death, one of these would probably convince me to figure out how to dissemble the dash and get the empeg in... and probably replace the dead speakers too.
#369531 - 09/10/2017 18:07 Re: I made a Bluetooth interface. [Re: Daria]
Cool, thanks! This is encouraging. I'm hoping to get the prototype working, and then refine it into an easy-to-duplicate kit. Maybe Stu would want to sell the kits once it's ready?
I'm deeply disappointed that I'm now on my third bluetooth chipset trying to get this thing working. Should have had it done by now. Honestly that BC127 should have done the trick if it didn't have that weird bug where it's incompatible with my car stereo.
I have high hopes for the BlueGiga chip set based on how audio-focused that dev board looks. The datasheet and docs are also very audio-quality focused, down to the level of describing how to run the audio/ground traces for the best noise rejection. So, crossing my fingers.
I made some good breakthroughs with the BlueGiga development board today. It initially had some of the same problems as the other two chipsets, but it has a much more complex and flexible commandset, so I was able to fix them the right way with the right commands.
This one doesn't have dox about how to set the Track Metadata on the A2DP/AVRCP channel (it shows how to receive that data but not how to set it). I haven't experimented with that yet but that's the last hurdle. Crossing my fingers.
More later. Optimistic about this one.
I'm just waiting on deck for this to go through! I want to try the same in the new Subaru.
#369566 - 16/10/2017 10:06 Re: I made a Bluetooth interface. [Re: mlord]
Sorry it's taking so long. :-)
I hope to have finished example Arduino code, prototype assembly instructions, and prototype bill of materials within the next week or so if I'm lucky. That might be enough on its own to get you going.
Then after that, the next step is a custom "sandwich" PCB board to connect all the parts, instead of using a bunch of jumper wires, and a custom housing box for housing all the parts, to turn it from a messy prototype assembly into a buildable kit.
First version of the firmware will be Bluetooth A2DP audio and AVRCP controls, but no track titles on the car's screen yet.
Assuming that everything above works, and I can find the correct commands to get this chipset to send track titles to the car screen, would you be interested in helping with the necessary empeg-side code to get it to spit out parseable track metadata on the serial port? I think you'd be able to do that part much faster than me.
I would likely be inclined to skip the Arduino and just have the empeg talk directly to the BT adapter. In which case I'll add a "BT mode" to the existing Hijack menu for the Serial Port, along with anything necessary to make it work there.
Mostly just need to know if it really can do track data on the HU display or not.
That makes sense. I have a lot of information about how this thing works, and also a lot of information about things that are still not working about it, I could send you what I've got privately.
I'm finding that there are quirks about its initial handshaking with a device right after you pair with it, and it may work fine on one device and not on another, and I'm trying to figure out how to configure and program the thing so that it works in all cases. This is really tricky.
Example: I found that if I pair up with my car stereo and wait for the pairing to complete, I get a certain set of messages on the console. It doesn't work properly until after I issue an "A2DP STREAMING START" command to the chip, at which point everything works well. Except unless I get the timing wrong of exactly when I send that command. If I send it too soon then it has the old "30 seconds delay" problem on the steering wheel controls. But if I send it later it still has the same problem. And there's no documentation telling me how to do the initial handshaking. Also on my bluetooth headset, audio doesn't stream until I issue the "CALL <btaddr>" command but on the car stereo it streams fine and the "CALL" is automatic. Issuing the CALL command on the car stereo doesn't fix any issues.
Another example, the docs for the A2DP/AVRCP communication seem like they have a lot of good syntax examples, but in practice none of the examples work as expected and the entire system is almost completely inscrutable: https://www.silabs.com/documents/login/application-notes/AN986.pdf (link won't unlock for you until after you sign up for an account at their web site).
For instance, in the document linked above, for the track titles, it looks like what you are supposed to do is register with the headunit to respond to notifications where it requests to get the track titles from you, and then you respond with the track titles. But the syntax is poorly documented and only a single non-working example is given for doing it.
So I'm pulling my hair out on this one. :-)
Mark, here's my current information about the BlueGiga WT32i board, all contained in comments within my work-in-progress code.
https://create.arduino.cc/editor/tfabris/4c5eea9a-1462-45d7-908d-81a5bb6b0d90/preview
If you're planning to connect one of thse WT32i ports directly to the empeg serial port, and write all the code on the empeg, then all you'd need is:
- RCA cables to the Line In ports of the WT32i.
- 5v power to one particular pin of the WT32i.
- Ground (of course).
- Serial RX and TX in a crossover configuration to the WT32i's RX/TX pins.
- The latter will have to go through the one of those usual RS-232 chips that allows you to connect a UART to an RS-232 cable. I forget what you call that thing. In my case, I'm using an RS-232 shield for the Arduino that has that little chip in it. I expect you'd roll your own there.
I have it paring and working on the following things:
- My Honda car stereo.
- A plantronics mono headset/earpiece.
- A cheap third party stereo bluetooth headset.
With the BlueGiga WT32i development board, the audio quality from the empeg is immaculate. Playing the same song direct-digital from my phone to the car stereo, versus playing the song through the empeg using the line-inputs on that BlueGiga WT32i board (into its ADC and then to the car stereo), the audio quality of those two sources are indistinguishable from each other. I have to strain to hear any differences at all, and then I can't tell which one is objectively "better". Also: No detectable ground loop noise that I could hear (but I don't have my power supply working yet so maybe that'll come later).
It processes play/pause/next/prev commands from the bluetooth devices (ie the car stereo screen or steering wheel, or the pushbuttons on the headsets) and changes the tracks on the empeg as expected. That's enough to get me going, but not quite everything that we want yet...
I haven't been able to get track titles to work yet. In theory the car stereo should be querying my bluetooth chip for the track titles, and then my code is supposed to respond, but it doesn't seem to do that: I don't see the query for the track titles ever showing up on the bluetooth chip's serial port. There must be some configuration tweak that I'm missing.
Sometimes (not always) the car stereo will query for other data unrelated to the track titles. But I can't even seem to get those queries to show up reliably, even when I try. (Right now my code tries to shut off the queries but I'm not even sure about those.)
Their documentation supports it all though:
Command reference: https://www.silabs.com/documents/login/reference-manuals/iWRAP6-API-RM.pdf
AVRCP command reference: https://www.silabs.com/documents/login/application-notes/AN986.pdf
(You have to set up and log in to an account at the silabs web site to get those files.)
From their docs:
6.4.2 Examples
Controller asks for three 3 attributes of the current song: 1 (the title), 2 (artist) and 3 (album). Target responses with track details:
Controller (ed: That's the car stereo asking):
AVRCP 0 PDU_GET_ELEMENT_ATTRIBUTES 3 1 2 3
Target (ed: That's me, that's my bluetooth chip supposed to be responding):
AVRCP RSP 3 1 “Some Title” 2 “Some Artist” 3 “Some Album”
The problem is knowing how to configure the chip so that the car stereo even knows to send the queries in the first place. Not sure how to do that, the documentation is extremely hard to follow. Maybe you can look at those docs and see how it's done?
I'm in Ohio for several days and I'll come back to this late next week.
Documents are not protected by a login.
Have you played around a bit with the arguments for the commands:
SET PROFILE AVRCP TARGET 7
SET BT CLASS 280428
I suspect you need to enable a bit in the second one. Maybe just try setting all the bits? The car audio system will/should probably only look for ones it cares about.
You've selected "Car Audio" but that's not what *your* device is so sounds a bit strange but I'm not an expert.
Very cool, and very generous of you Tony!
I'm actually not quite ready for it on this end -- techie things are indoor winter projects up here, so not until January most likely.
Meanwhile, I am hunting for the A/C clutch relay in my new 2018 XV Crosstrek, so I can wire up a kill switch for the A/C. Unfortunately, nobody seems to know where such relay is located on the vehicle, or even if it exists. The service documentation shows a location clearly labelled as "A/C relay", but in fact that slot in the relay box is empty from the factory. Duh..
Shonky, those are excellent suggestions, I'll give that a shot.
Mark, good luck with finding that info about the relay. :-)
Did you check your compressor to see if it even has a clutch? A lot of new cars don't, they have a modulating valve built into the compressor and just allow it to bypass when not needed.
Originally Posted By: larry818
Dunno, but it could be something like that. Just weird that the factory service manual at the dealership shows a (non-existent) relay.
The compressor has two electrical connectors attached to it. One has two wires, the other has three wires. Both disappear into a massive wiring harness.
EDIT: Ah, found this description:
No clutches in the newer compressors. They are "variable displacement". The compressor pistons are moved by a "wobble plate" attached to the input shaft which is driven continuously by the accessory drive belt. When the AC is off, the plate is perpendicular to the input shaft; it spins with the shaft but the compressor pistons don't move. The spinning shaft and wobble plate put little or no load on the engine. When the AC is turned on, a solenoid in the compressor assembly, controlled by the ECU, moves the plate so that it's no longer perpendicular to the shaft. This causes it to "wobble" as it rotates. This wobbling causes the pistons to move back and forth in their cylinders, compressing the refrigerant. The solenoid can vary the degree to which the plate wobbles, and therefore, the amount of compression. This allows the compressor load on the engine to be better matched to the AC need and engine operating conditions.
Apparently some Subaru vehicles began using those in 2010, though my deceased 2013 Impreza still had a clutch. Looks like perhaps the new Crosstrek has one of these newfangled beasts. Effectively, the "clutch relay" equivalent is built-in, so I just need to figure out which wires for for that part, and install my kill switch onto one of those.
EDIT2: Yup. Denso TSE14F: ECV Compressor. Thanks for the hint!
EDIT3: Good description: https://axleaddict.com/auto-repair/Variable-Displacement-Compressors
Edited by mlord (20/10/2017 12:15)
In the early days of the variable displacement compressor, some still had clutches. My '06 Volvo is that way, the clutch engages just once, the first time the compressor is needed, and stays on 'till you turn off the car.
The variable compressor is a "first world" thing, probably in other markets they use the simpler old stuff, which is why you would still have a place for the relay.
Given this new info, do you still think you need a kill switch?
Yes. Like most other vehicles of this era, the car automatically turns on A/C whenever I direct internal air flow at the inside of the windshield. On most of the planet, this is an okay idea.
In Canada, in winter, at -20C, it is a very bad idea. We need hot air directed at the windscreen to melt the friggin ice, snow, and freezing rain while driving. If the A/C is cooling that heated air by 5-10C, then the system cannot keep up with ice accumulation, and visibility suffers.
Having A/C on in the dead of winter gives another problem too: damp air in the ventilation system after A/C has been on and the ice it created has melted. Next time one starts the car, this damp air blows onto the windshield and instantly freezes, icing up the inside of the window. Which then requires running the A/C to get rid of it, thus perpetuating the cycle.
My old Honda would default to turning on the compressor in defrost mode, but I could turn it off with a single button press. The new one, I honestly haven't had a chance to even think to try yet. Hasn't been cold enough in Seattle this year yet.
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The long road to Marokie
July 17, 2014 Sarah Bell Leave a comment
Wednesday May 26th, 2014
When we woke up we ate some hard boiled eggs before a few students joined Nate on his tour of the sanctuary of Tacugama. I decided to stay behind and enjoy the peace that came with an empty bungalow in the middle of a rainforest. It was such a beautiful place to be with your mind, that I couldn’t bring myself to sacrifice the time I could be alone to wander through the sanctuary surrounded by people.
There are ancient trees here, covered in spots of lichen and orchids. While Lungi was hot and miserable, Tacugama is shaded and stays a pleasantly warm temperature all day, and even cool enough at night for a sweater.
I can see several stag horns growing low on a young tree. I enjoy watching the ants go about their business as huge bumblebees buzz past and birds flit from branch to branch.
Soon we will load our packs into the cars and pile on top of each other and begin the two hour drive to Marokie village. I just hope I can one day return to this magical place. It is hot and so humid, everything feels damp and every insect wants to bite you. But when the breeze rustles the tree tops and the chimps call in the distance none of that matters. You only feel the age and experience of the arty around you. And everything is good.
The dreaded moment when the pavement ends
There were seven people in each of our two cars, which only had five seats each. This meant I had to sit on Nate’s lap with my back bent over, pressed up against the ceiling. This was a particularly miserable spot on the way down from Tacugama as the sun blazed down on my legs making me sweat and the car bounced up and down in the many potholes causing my head to smack repeatedly against the ceiling or window.
The air was buzzing with anticipation. We were on our way to Marokie, the village we had heard so much about and that would be our home for the next two and a half weeks. After 45 minutes of bouncing and sweating in the car we pulled over in a town called Waterloo where we were to pick up our guide from the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone, Papanie.
Once in Waterloo we were able to wrangle another car, so I moved over to sit four to a bench seat rather than continue to sweat on poor Nate’s lap.
Saying farewell to the chimpanzees at Tacugama
There was a PhD on our trip who was looking into our field site. Dr. Catherine Bolten has worked in Sierra Leone since she finished her MPhil at the University of Cambridge and the war ended in 2002. She worked mostly in the town of Makeni and wrote the book I Did it to Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone (If you want to know more about it, here is a review I found that I like, I haven’t gotten a chance to read it but will post a review as soon as I’m finished). She was fluent in Krio and I spent a good portion of this second leg of our trip asking her to translate the things we saw into Krio. I was mildly disappointed at how many words sounded just just like English, only with a heavy accent. She laughed as she told me ‘banana’ was ‘banana’ and ‘road’ was ‘road’ (although after further research, the spelling is different).
Once I moved cars I left the familiar driver Hassan behind. Our new driver was young and pompous. He refused to listen to me when I wanted my window rolled up or down, and I had to ask Dr. Andrew, who was seated next to him, to turn and ask the driver to roll the window down. Cat later explained that this was because I was a woman, and he wouldn’t do anything I asked.
He sped down the road, nodding every time Andrew asked if he was sure he knew where he was going. About an hour later, just before we reached the town called Mile 91 he sped up and passed Hassan’s car. We were weary, but trusted that he knew where he was going.
“We make a turn just after Mile 91,” Andrew assured us, as we sat sweaty and uncomfortably close in the car. Ben had even resorted to sticking his legs out the window for intervals, just so he was able to stretch them.
But our driver drove straight through Mile 91 and well beyond it, still saying “yes, yes, up ahead” whenever we asked if he was sure he knew where he was going.
An hour and a half later and Papanie and Hassan were no longer behind us. The sun was starting to set. We were lost.
Our driver had gone so far he had taken us out of Tonkolili and to a completely different district.
Finally we convinced him to turn around, and drive an hour and a half back the way we had come. We were hot, tired and angry. And hungry. More than anything we were hungry.
The children the next morning, since it was to dark to take pictures when I arrived.
By the time we made it to Marokie it was not the excited arrival I had been imagining. As soon as I stepped out of the car 20 tiny hands immediately grabbed at my shirt, hands and breasts.
“Apoto Apoto!”
“Asha Asha!”
The children cried out words that had no meaning and I looked around desperately for the people who had arrived hours ago, knowing they would have water. But it was not so easy to disentangle myself from the hoard of excited children.
Finally I made my way to Brielle and Ryan, who had saved me a space to set my tent up next to theirs. Once my tent was erected and my bags packed safely inside I took a deep breath. I had made it.
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CANNIBAL OX - The Cold Vein
By codotusylv on Monday 26 December 2016, 12:43 - Permalink
The Cold Vein was the first important album released by Def Jux, and the first El-P, the label's founder, had entirely produced since Company Flow broke up. In addition, it had been heralded by two striking singles, "Iron Galaxy" and "Straight off the D.I.C.". Due to this, it had been expected with lots of hope and anxiety by the underground sphere. And it would not disappoint it. Actually, this record would be the very climax of the indie rap movement. By 2001, after lots of stirring in the shadows, this kind of hip-hop had finally reached a certain amount of visibility and interest, in the media. And music critics would love the first album of Cannibal Ox.
Definitive Jux :: 2001 :: buy this record
The Cold Vein had a key strength: it was able to captivate all of the very diverse – and sometimes antagonistic – tribes the indie world was made of. For the purists, those who refused the death of New-York's hardcore rap, Cannibal Ox offered a way to pursue their journey: the lyrics of these two Black men from Harlem were still deeply rooted in the street. They opted for the cold violence and blackness of Mobb Deep. Their paranoia, fantasies and abstraction reminisced of the weirdest moments of the Wu-Tang Clan, some of these days critics would rightfully notice.
Those horrified with the materialistic excesses of mainstream rap, who expected from indie rap some more mature and socially conscious postures, would like their lyrics fully devoid of sexism and bling-bling. Vordul and Vast Aire, indeed, cared about the outcast and the underprivileged, they would compare to pigeons on the homonymous track – maybe the best on the record. And when they talked about drugs, it was to depict its dangers and deadlocks; on "Painkillers", indeed, narcotics were the dreadful remedy the deprived used, to fight a greater evil.
To those nostalgic of subtle and virtuoso lyrics, Vordul offered acrobatic rhymes. And though his delivery was slower, Vast Aire was even more impressive, with his warm voice, and his talent for abstraction. Both men, actually, liked concepts and figures of speech, for example when the bird metaphor of "Pigeon" was followed with another one, a bonus track the tradition has named "Scream Phoenix", and which was its complete opposite: inspirational, ambient, and electronic, while the previous one was more pessimistic, bitter and largely influenced by rock music.
Weird electronic music, or abrasive rock guitars: the prog rap style of El-P offered all of this to The Cold Vein. And hipsters - people who like hip-hop only when it complies to its own terms - just loved it. They were fascinated by Cannibal Ox. The duo, actually, had the largest and most diverse audience ever captured by indie hip-hop, before the genre broke up and disappeared. Consequently, The Cold Vein's few flaws and boring moments didn't really matter. It may not be the best album of the indie rap era, but it is more than that: it is the indie rap era itself.
In which year was Illmatic released?
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Filed under: Talking Theatre (Reviews) — Fergal Casey @ 11:52 am
Tags: A Mother, A Painful Case, Alice in Funderland, An Encounter, Annie Ryan, Clay, Commedia Dell'arte, Conan, Corn Exchange, Counterparts, Derbhle Crotty, Dublin Theatre Festival, Dubliners, Eveline, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, James Joyce, Janice Byrne, Joe Vanek, Mark Lambert, Mark O'Halloran, Michael West, Ruth McGill, Stephen Jones, Ted Turner, The Boarding House, The Dead, The Lass of Aughrim, Two Gallants, Two Sisters, Will Forte
Corn Exchange’s flagship production of Dubliners at the Gaiety for the Dublin Theatre Festival was desperately uneven as overplayed slapstick often trounced Joyce’s muted epiphanies.
Performed under heavy face-paint on a minimalist set by Joe Vanek (that relied on expressive lighting and shadows) the show distractingly had characters narrate their own dialogue, drowning conversations with endless, unnecessary, and literal instances of he said/she said. In its defence this strategy allowed the narrator of ‘Two Sisters’ to deliver Joyce’s delicate prose, and he was cleverly also made the narrator of the next vignette, ‘An Encounter’. But the encounter is with a paedophile, played with malicious suavity by Mark O’Halloran, and the commedia dell’arte exaggerations deployed to create a crippled predator resulted in the unnerving spectacle of the audience of Joyce newcomers laughing heartily at this creation before being audibly horrified as they realised he’s not a mere eccentric. This misjudgement presaged later missteps but the painful yearning of ‘Eveline’ expertly played by Janice Byrne quickly dispelled any misgivings, and ‘Two Gallants’ saw Stephen Jones on fine swaggering form, which he continued in the ‘The Boarding House’ as the landlady’s menacing son. O’Halloran was on top comedic form opposite him as the rent-skiving actor, while the heightened slapstick style elevated the black comedy of Joyce’s hapless lodger Doran being trapped into proposing onto a much funnier plane.
After the interval that slapstick approach was imposed on stories that it defiantly did not suit. ‘Counterparts’ was rendered as stark nonsense. It was amusing to see O’Halloran never finish a sentence and dash about panic-stricken as the chief clerk, but there are things that one must not do to get a laugh, and among these is going so far over the top as to end in low-earth orbit. At first I was prepared to grant Mark Lambert as domineering lawyer Mr Alleyne the same privileges of blustering abusiveness as Will Forte as Ted Turner on Conan, but when he actually chicken-stepped around the stage in a comic fury at a slight from his subordinate I had exhausted any possible exculpatory comparisons. This was too OTT to amuse, but not his fault. Ruth McGill as his secretary used the same leer as she did as The Duchess in Alice in Funderland, and if the same expression can find equal purchase in Alice in Funderland and an adaptation of Joyce then it’s a sure sign that the adaptation of Joyce by Michael West and director Annie Ryan has strayed farcically far from the ‘scrupulous meanness’ and understated compassion of Dubliners.
Which leads one to conclude that Mark O’Halloran as an actor is truly immense. By sheer force of personality he dismissed ‘Counterparts’ to make the audience feel the tragedy of ‘A Painful Case’ as his fastidious Duffy sabotaged a relationship with Derbhle Crotty’s neglected housewife. O’Halloran made you so empathise with this cold character that when he spoke the final words of Joyce’s narration you could hear a pin drop, and hearts break. But then ‘A Mother’ painfully wasted the great Crotty’s talents by piling on the excessive slapstick to produce a painfully protracted skit devoid of any dramatic momentum, though at least it lacked the cognitive dissonance of the bungled traumatic ending of child abuse after clowning of ‘Counterparts’. ‘The Dead’ began with McGill’s performance of ‘The Lass of Aughrim’ as the story was pared down to Greta’s revelations after a party that leave her husband Gabriel stunned at how his wife was loved before she met him. O’Halloran’s delivery of the famous closing monologue ended the play on a triumphant note, and highlighted O’Halloran’s towering pre-eminence in the ensemble, the emotional power of Joyce’s material, and the frustratingly inconsistent fidelity to Joyce which held back the show.
Throughout, actors delivered their dialogue to the audience and then looked at the actor they’d been addressing, a technique Corn Exchange use in rehearsal; which made this feel like a quasi-workshop. Replacing ‘Counterparts’ and ‘A Mother’ with ‘Ivy Day in the Committee Room’ and ‘Clay’ would immeasurably strengthen reprises…
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EPJ A Highlight - The power of resolution in charge-exchange reactions
Spectra of the 76Ge(3He,t)76As reaction unveiling an enormous number of resolved states at low excitation energies. Five color-coded spectra are stacked on top of each other showing the angular dependences. The isobaric analog state (IAS), GT resonance (GTR) and spin-dipole resonance (SDR) are indicated.
This review highlights the extraordinary power of the hadronic charge-exchange reactions at intermediate energies and at highest spectral resolution, as exemplified by the (n,p)-type (d,2He) and the (p,n)-type (3He,t) reactions. The review shows how areas of nuclear physics, astrophysics and particle physics alike benefit from such enhanced resolution. A major part of this review focuses on weak interaction processes in nuclei, especially on those, where neutrinos play a pivotal role like in solar neutrino induced reactions or in ßß decay. Unexpected and even surprising new features of nuclear structure are being unveiled as a result of high resolution. (See figure).
High resolution proves to be of equally high importance in areas where this would not immediately be expected. This is outlined in the chapters dealing with the neutron-neutron scattering length, with the properties of halo-nuclei or with the explosion dynamics of supernovae. Finally, the review portrays how high-resolution charge-exchange reactions connect to the symmetry energy and the nuclear equation-of-state or to processes involving ordinary capture of muons by nuclei. Clearly, the insight into the physics, which is made possible with high-resolution charge-exchange reactions, could not possibly be more diverse.
D. Frekers, M. Alanssari (2018), Charge-exchange reactions and the quest for resolution, European Physical Journal A 54: 177, DOI 10.1140/epja/i2018-12612-5
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Project acronym BRAINPOWER
Project Brain energy supply and the consequences of its failure
Researcher (PI) David Ian Attwell
Summary Energy, supplied in the form of oxygen and glucose in the blood, is essential for the brain s cognitive power. Failure of the energy supply to the nervous system underlies the mental and physical disability occurring in a wide range of economically important neurological disorders, such as stroke, spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy. Using a combination of two-photon imaging, electrophysiological, molecular and transgenic approaches, I will investigate the control of brain energy supply at the vascular level, and at the level of individual neurons and glial cells, and study the deleterious consequences for the neurons, glia and vasculature of a failure of brain energy supply. The work will focus on the following fundamental issues: A. Vascular control of the brain energy supply (1) How important is control of energy supply at the capillary level, by pericytes? (2) Which synapses control blood flow (and thus generate functional imaging signals) in the cortex? B. Neuronal and glial control of brain energy supply (3) How is grey matter neuronal activity powered? (4) How is the white matter supplied with energy? C. The pathological consequences of a loss of brain energy supply (5) How does a fall of energy supply cause neurotoxic glutamate release? (6) How similar are events in the grey and white matter in energy deprivation conditions? (7) How does a transient loss of energy supply affect blood flow regulation? (8) How does brain energy use change after a period without energy supply? Together this work will significantly advance our understanding of how the energy supply to neurons and glia is regulated in normal conditions, and how the loss of the energy supply causes disorders which consume more than 5% of the costs of European health services (5% of ~1000 billion euro/year).
Energy, supplied in the form of oxygen and glucose in the blood, is essential for the brain s cognitive power. Failure of the energy supply to the nervous system underlies the mental and physical disability occurring in a wide range of economically important neurological disorders, such as stroke, spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy. Using a combination of two-photon imaging, electrophysiological, molecular and transgenic approaches, I will investigate the control of brain energy supply at the vascular level, and at the level of individual neurons and glial cells, and study the deleterious consequences for the neurons, glia and vasculature of a failure of brain energy supply. The work will focus on the following fundamental issues: A. Vascular control of the brain energy supply (1) How important is control of energy supply at the capillary level, by pericytes? (2) Which synapses control blood flow (and thus generate functional imaging signals) in the cortex? B. Neuronal and glial control of brain energy supply (3) How is grey matter neuronal activity powered? (4) How is the white matter supplied with energy? C. The pathological consequences of a loss of brain energy supply (5) How does a fall of energy supply cause neurotoxic glutamate release? (6) How similar are events in the grey and white matter in energy deprivation conditions? (7) How does a transient loss of energy supply affect blood flow regulation? (8) How does brain energy use change after a period without energy supply? Together this work will significantly advance our understanding of how the energy supply to neurons and glia is regulated in normal conditions, and how the loss of the energy supply causes disorders which consume more than 5% of the costs of European health services (5% of ~1000 billion euro/year).
Project acronym BrainReadFBPredCode
Project Brain reading of contextual feedback and predictions
Researcher (PI) Lars Muckli
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), LS5, ERC-2012-StG_20111109
Summary We are currently witnessing a paradigm shift in our understanding of human brain function, moving towards a clearer description of cortical processing. Sensory systems are no longer considered as 'passively recording' but rather as dynamically anticipating and adapting to the rapidly changing environment. These new ideas are encompassed in the predictive coding framework, and indeed in a unifying theory of the brain (Friston, 2010). In terms of brain computation, a predictive model is created in higher cortical areas and communicated to lower sensory areas through feedback connections. Based on my pioneering research I propose experiments that are capable of ‘brain-reading’ cortical feedback– which would contribute invaluable data to theoretical frameworks. The proposed research project will advance our understanding of ongoing brain activity, contextual processing, and cortical feedback - contributing to what is known about general cortical functions. By providing new insights as to the information content of cortical feedback, the proposal will fill one of the most important gaps in today’s knowledge about brain function. Friston’s unifying theory of the brain (Friston, 2010) and contemporary models of the predictive-coding framework (Hawkins and Blakeslee, 2004;Mumford, 1992;Rao and Ballard, 1999) assign feedback processing an essential role in cortical processing. Compared to feedforward information processing, our knowledge about feedback processing is in its infancy. The proposal introduces parametric and explorative brain reading designs to investigate this feedback processing. The chief goal of my proposal will be precision measures of cortical feedback, and a more ambitious objective is to read mental images and inner thoughts.
We are currently witnessing a paradigm shift in our understanding of human brain function, moving towards a clearer description of cortical processing. Sensory systems are no longer considered as 'passively recording' but rather as dynamically anticipating and adapting to the rapidly changing environment. These new ideas are encompassed in the predictive coding framework, and indeed in a unifying theory of the brain (Friston, 2010). In terms of brain computation, a predictive model is created in higher cortical areas and communicated to lower sensory areas through feedback connections. Based on my pioneering research I propose experiments that are capable of ‘brain-reading’ cortical feedback– which would contribute invaluable data to theoretical frameworks. The proposed research project will advance our understanding of ongoing brain activity, contextual processing, and cortical feedback - contributing to what is known about general cortical functions. By providing new insights as to the information content of cortical feedback, the proposal will fill one of the most important gaps in today’s knowledge about brain function. Friston’s unifying theory of the brain (Friston, 2010) and contemporary models of the predictive-coding framework (Hawkins and Blakeslee, 2004;Mumford, 1992;Rao and Ballard, 1999) assign feedback processing an essential role in cortical processing. Compared to feedforward information processing, our knowledge about feedback processing is in its infancy. The proposal introduces parametric and explorative brain reading designs to investigate this feedback processing. The chief goal of my proposal will be precision measures of cortical feedback, and a more ambitious objective is to read mental images and inner thoughts.
Project acronym BRAINSHAPE
Project Objects in sight: the neural basis of visuomotor transformations for actions towards objects
Researcher (PI) Peter Anna J Janssen
Host Institution (HI) KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Summary Humans and other primates possess an exquisite capacity to grasp and manipulate objects. The seemingly effortless interaction with objects in everyday life is subserved by a number of cortical areas of the visual and the motor system. Recent research has highlighted that dorsal stream areas in the posterior parietal cortex are involved in object processing. Because parietal lesions do not impair object recognition, the encoding of object shape in posterior parietal cortex is considered to be important for the planning of actions towards objects. In order to succesfully grasp an object, the complex pattern of visual information impinging on the retina has to be transformed into a motor plan that can control the muscle contractions. The neural basis of visuomotor transformations necessary for directing actions towards objects, however, has remained largely unknown. This proposal aims to unravel the pathways and mechanisms involved in programming actions towards objects - an essential capacity for our very survival. We envision an integrated approach to study the transformation of visual information into motor commands in the macaque brain, combining functional imaging, single-cell recording, microstimulation and reversible inactivation. Our research efforts will be focussed on parietal area AIP and premotor area F5, two key brain areas for visually-guided grasping. Above all, this proposal will move beyond purely descriptive measurements of neural activity by implementing manipulations of brain activity to reveal behavioral effects and interdependencies of cortical areas. Finally the data obtained in this project will pave the way to use the neural activity recorded in visuomotor areas to act upon the environment by grasping objects by means of a robot hand.
Humans and other primates possess an exquisite capacity to grasp and manipulate objects. The seemingly effortless interaction with objects in everyday life is subserved by a number of cortical areas of the visual and the motor system. Recent research has highlighted that dorsal stream areas in the posterior parietal cortex are involved in object processing. Because parietal lesions do not impair object recognition, the encoding of object shape in posterior parietal cortex is considered to be important for the planning of actions towards objects. In order to succesfully grasp an object, the complex pattern of visual information impinging on the retina has to be transformed into a motor plan that can control the muscle contractions. The neural basis of visuomotor transformations necessary for directing actions towards objects, however, has remained largely unknown. This proposal aims to unravel the pathways and mechanisms involved in programming actions towards objects - an essential capacity for our very survival. We envision an integrated approach to study the transformation of visual information into motor commands in the macaque brain, combining functional imaging, single-cell recording, microstimulation and reversible inactivation. Our research efforts will be focussed on parietal area AIP and premotor area F5, two key brain areas for visually-guided grasping. Above all, this proposal will move beyond purely descriptive measurements of neural activity by implementing manipulations of brain activity to reveal behavioral effects and interdependencies of cortical areas. Finally the data obtained in this project will pave the way to use the neural activity recorded in visuomotor areas to act upon the environment by grasping objects by means of a robot hand.
Project acronym BRAINSIGNALS
Project Optical dissection of circuits underlying fast cholinergic signalling during cognitive behaviour
Researcher (PI) Huibert Mansvelder
Host Institution (HI) STICHTING VU
Summary Our ability to think, to memorize and focus our thoughts depends on acetylcholine signaling in the brain. The loss of cholinergic signalling in for instance Alzheimer’s disease strongly compromises these cognitive abilities. The traditional view on the role of cholinergic input to the neocortex is that slowly changing levels of extracellular acetylcholine (ACh) mediate different arousal states. This view has been challenged by recent studies demonstrating that rapid phasic changes in ACh levels at the scale of seconds are correlated with focus of attention, suggesting that these signals may mediate defined cognitive operations. Despite a wealth of anatomical data on the organization of the cholinergic system, very little understanding exists on its functional organization. How the relatively sparse input of cholinergic transmission in the prefrontal cortex elicits such a profound and specific control over attention is unknown. The main objective of this proposal is to develop a causal understanding of how cellular mechanisms of fast acetylcholine signalling are orchestrated during cognitive behaviour. In a series of studies, I have identified several synaptic and cellular mechanisms by which the cholinergic system can alter neuronal circuitry function, both in cortical and subcortical areas. I have used a combination of behavioral, physiological and genetic methods in which I manipulated cholinergic receptor functionality in prefrontal cortex in a subunit specific manner and found that ACh receptors in the prefrontal cortex control attention performance. Recent advances in optogenetic and electrochemical methods now allow to rapidly manipulate and measure acetylcholine levels in freely moving, behaving animals. Using these techniques, I aim to uncover which cholinergic neurons are involved in fast cholinergic signaling during cognition and uncover the underlying neuronal mechanisms that alter prefrontal cortical network function.
Our ability to think, to memorize and focus our thoughts depends on acetylcholine signaling in the brain. The loss of cholinergic signalling in for instance Alzheimer’s disease strongly compromises these cognitive abilities. The traditional view on the role of cholinergic input to the neocortex is that slowly changing levels of extracellular acetylcholine (ACh) mediate different arousal states. This view has been challenged by recent studies demonstrating that rapid phasic changes in ACh levels at the scale of seconds are correlated with focus of attention, suggesting that these signals may mediate defined cognitive operations. Despite a wealth of anatomical data on the organization of the cholinergic system, very little understanding exists on its functional organization. How the relatively sparse input of cholinergic transmission in the prefrontal cortex elicits such a profound and specific control over attention is unknown. The main objective of this proposal is to develop a causal understanding of how cellular mechanisms of fast acetylcholine signalling are orchestrated during cognitive behaviour. In a series of studies, I have identified several synaptic and cellular mechanisms by which the cholinergic system can alter neuronal circuitry function, both in cortical and subcortical areas. I have used a combination of behavioral, physiological and genetic methods in which I manipulated cholinergic receptor functionality in prefrontal cortex in a subunit specific manner and found that ACh receptors in the prefrontal cortex control attention performance. Recent advances in optogenetic and electrochemical methods now allow to rapidly manipulate and measure acetylcholine levels in freely moving, behaving animals. Using these techniques, I aim to uncover which cholinergic neurons are involved in fast cholinergic signaling during cognition and uncover the underlying neuronal mechanisms that alter prefrontal cortical network function.
Project acronym BRAINSTATES
Project Brain states, synapses and behaviour
Researcher (PI) James Poulet
Host Institution (HI) MAX DELBRUECK CENTRUM FUER MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN IN DER HELMHOLTZ-GEMEINSCHAFT (MDC)
Summary Global changes in patterns of neuronal activity or brain state are the first phenomenon recorded in the awake human brain (1). Changes in brain state are present in recordings of neocortical activity from mouse to man. It is now thought that changes in brain state are fundamental to normal brain function and neuronal computation. Despite their importance, we have very little idea about the underlying neuronal mechanisms that generate them or their precise impact on neuronal processing and behaviour. In previous work we have characterised brain state changes in a well characterised model for neuroscience research the mouse whisker system. We have recorded changes in the brain state in mouse cortex during whisker movements (2). In this proposal, we aim to use the mouse whisker system further to investigate the mechanisms and functions of changes in brain state. First we will use state of the art techniques to record and manipulate neuronal activity in the awake, behaving mouse to investigate the network and cellular mechanisms involved in generating brain state. Second we will use 2-photon microscopy to investigate the impact of brain state on excitatory and inhibitory synaptic integration in vivo. Finally we will use behaviourally trained mice to measure the impact of brain state changes on sensory perception and behaviour. This proposal will therefore provide fundamental insights into brain function at every step: mechanisms of changes in brain state, how neurons communicate with eachother and how the brain controls sensory perception and behaviour. References 1 Berger H (1929) Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten 87:527-570. 2 Poulet JFA, Petersen CC (2008) Nature 454:881-885.
Global changes in patterns of neuronal activity or brain state are the first phenomenon recorded in the awake human brain (1). Changes in brain state are present in recordings of neocortical activity from mouse to man. It is now thought that changes in brain state are fundamental to normal brain function and neuronal computation. Despite their importance, we have very little idea about the underlying neuronal mechanisms that generate them or their precise impact on neuronal processing and behaviour. In previous work we have characterised brain state changes in a well characterised model for neuroscience research the mouse whisker system. We have recorded changes in the brain state in mouse cortex during whisker movements (2). In this proposal, we aim to use the mouse whisker system further to investigate the mechanisms and functions of changes in brain state. First we will use state of the art techniques to record and manipulate neuronal activity in the awake, behaving mouse to investigate the network and cellular mechanisms involved in generating brain state. Second we will use 2-photon microscopy to investigate the impact of brain state on excitatory and inhibitory synaptic integration in vivo. Finally we will use behaviourally trained mice to measure the impact of brain state changes on sensory perception and behaviour. This proposal will therefore provide fundamental insights into brain function at every step: mechanisms of changes in brain state, how neurons communicate with eachother and how the brain controls sensory perception and behaviour. References 1 Berger H (1929) Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten 87:527-570. 2 Poulet JFA, Petersen CC (2008) Nature 454:881-885.
Project acronym BRAINSTRUCT
Project Building up a brain: understanding how neural stem cell fate and regulation controls nervous tissue architecture
Researcher (PI) Jean Livet
Host Institution (HI) SORBONNE UNIVERSITE
Summary The brain is an extraordinary complex assembly of neuronal and glial cells that underpins cognitive functions. How adequate numbers of these cells are generated by neural stem cells in embryonic and early postnatal development and how they distribute and interconnect within brain tissue is still debated. In particular, the potentialities of individual neural stem cells, their potential heterogeneity and the mechanisms regulating their function are still poorly characterized in situ; likewise, the clonal architecture of mature brain tissue and its influence on neural circuitry are only partially explored. Deciphering these aspects is essential to link neural circuit development, structure and function, and to understand the aetiology of neurodevelopmental disorders. We have recently established transgenic strategies to simultaneously track the lineage of multiple individual neural stem cells in the intact developing brain and experimentally perturb their development. We will use these approaches in combination with recent large-volume imaging methods for high-throughput analysis of individual neural and glial clones in the mouse cortex. This will allow us to assay neural progenitor potentialities and equivalence, characterize developmental changes occurring in the neurogenic niche, describe the clonal organization of the mature cortex and study its link with neural connectivity. To decipher intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms regulating neural progenitor activity and understand how they produce appropriate numbers of cells, we will assay the outcome of functional perturbations targeting key steps of neural development, introduced in precursors or in their local environment. These experiments will reveal how neural stem cell output might be regulated by cell interactions and intercellular signals. This multidisciplinary project will set the basis for quantitative analysis of brain development with single-cell resolution in normal and pathological conditions.
The brain is an extraordinary complex assembly of neuronal and glial cells that underpins cognitive functions. How adequate numbers of these cells are generated by neural stem cells in embryonic and early postnatal development and how they distribute and interconnect within brain tissue is still debated. In particular, the potentialities of individual neural stem cells, their potential heterogeneity and the mechanisms regulating their function are still poorly characterized in situ; likewise, the clonal architecture of mature brain tissue and its influence on neural circuitry are only partially explored. Deciphering these aspects is essential to link neural circuit development, structure and function, and to understand the aetiology of neurodevelopmental disorders. We have recently established transgenic strategies to simultaneously track the lineage of multiple individual neural stem cells in the intact developing brain and experimentally perturb their development. We will use these approaches in combination with recent large-volume imaging methods for high-throughput analysis of individual neural and glial clones in the mouse cortex. This will allow us to assay neural progenitor potentialities and equivalence, characterize developmental changes occurring in the neurogenic niche, describe the clonal organization of the mature cortex and study its link with neural connectivity. To decipher intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms regulating neural progenitor activity and understand how they produce appropriate numbers of cells, we will assay the outcome of functional perturbations targeting key steps of neural development, introduced in precursors or in their local environment. These experiments will reveal how neural stem cell output might be regulated by cell interactions and intercellular signals. This multidisciplinary project will set the basis for quantitative analysis of brain development with single-cell resolution in normal and pathological conditions.
Project acronym BRAINSYNC
Project Brain-environment synchrony and the auditory perception problem
Researcher (PI) Molly HENRY
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), SH4, ERC-2018-STG
Summary Synchronization of brain rhythms to the rhythms of sounds is a foundational mechanism for auditory perception. However, we know very little about why brain–environment synchrony might fail, leading to auditory perception problems like impaired speech comprehension that negatively impact quality of life. The proposed research program fills this knowledge gap in three stages: 1) Predicting auditory perception, and individual differences thereof, from the fit between neural dynamics and environment; 2) Perturbing the relationship between brain and environment to experimentally test the limits of and protective factors for brain–environment synchronization; 3) Translating gained knowledge to understand age-related dysfunctions in brain–environment synchrony and auditory perception. Stage 1 uses behavioural and neural properties of neural oscillators – brain regions and networks that generate rhythmic neural activity – to predict individual differences in brain–environment synchronization. Stage 2 assesses when and why auditory perception fails, and how auditory perception might be insulated by good brain–environment fit and neural flexibility, by challenging the brain’s ability to adapt to auditory rhythms. Stage 2 has strong potential to provide insight into compensatory listening strategies that may be adopted when neural entrainment is effortful or impossible. Stage 3 places special emphasis on listening difficulties that develop with age, and tests the hypotheses that 1) speech comprehension difficulties stem from reduced neural entrainment in older age, and 2) reduced entrainment for older adults results from age-related changes to neural flexibility. Noninvasive brain stimulation will be used to temporarily remedy these deficits by improving brain–environment synchrony. The research program will account for much currently unexplained individual variance in auditory perception, and will inspire novel interventions to support auditory perception in advancing age.
Synchronization of brain rhythms to the rhythms of sounds is a foundational mechanism for auditory perception. However, we know very little about why brain–environment synchrony might fail, leading to auditory perception problems like impaired speech comprehension that negatively impact quality of life. The proposed research program fills this knowledge gap in three stages: 1) Predicting auditory perception, and individual differences thereof, from the fit between neural dynamics and environment; 2) Perturbing the relationship between brain and environment to experimentally test the limits of and protective factors for brain–environment synchronization; 3) Translating gained knowledge to understand age-related dysfunctions in brain–environment synchrony and auditory perception. Stage 1 uses behavioural and neural properties of neural oscillators – brain regions and networks that generate rhythmic neural activity – to predict individual differences in brain–environment synchronization. Stage 2 assesses when and why auditory perception fails, and how auditory perception might be insulated by good brain–environment fit and neural flexibility, by challenging the brain’s ability to adapt to auditory rhythms. Stage 2 has strong potential to provide insight into compensatory listening strategies that may be adopted when neural entrainment is effortful or impossible. Stage 3 places special emphasis on listening difficulties that develop with age, and tests the hypotheses that 1) speech comprehension difficulties stem from reduced neural entrainment in older age, and 2) reduced entrainment for older adults results from age-related changes to neural flexibility. Noninvasive brain stimulation will be used to temporarily remedy these deficits by improving brain–environment synchrony. The research program will account for much currently unexplained individual variance in auditory perception, and will inspire novel interventions to support auditory perception in advancing age.
Project acronym BRAINVISIONREHAB
Project ‘Seeing’ with the ears, hands and bionic eyes: from theories about brain organization to visual rehabilitation
Researcher (PI) Amir Amedi
Host Institution (HI) THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
Summary My lab's work ranges from basic science, querying brain plasticity and sensory integration, to technological developments, allowing the blind to be more independent and even “see” using sounds and touch similar to bats and dolphins (a.k.a. Sensory Substitution Devices, SSDs), and back to applying these devices in research. We propose that, with proper training, any brain area or network can change the type of sensory input it uses to retrieve behaviorally task-relevant information within a matter of days. If this is true, it can have far reaching implications also for clinical rehabilitation. To achieve this, we are developing several innovative SSDs which encode the most crucial aspects of vision and increase their accessibility the blind, along with targeted, structured training protocols both in virtual environments and in real life. For instance, the “EyeMusic”, encodes colored complex images using pleasant musical scales and instruments, and the “EyeCane”, a palm-size cane, which encodes distance and depth in several directions accurately and efficiently. We provide preliminary but compelling evidence that following such training, SSDs can enable almost blind to recognize daily objects, colors, faces and facial expressions, read street signs, and aiding mobility and navigation. SSDs can also be used in conjunction with (any) invasive approach for visual rehabilitation. We are developing a novel hybrid Visual Rehabilitation Device which combines SSD and bionic eyes. In this set up, the SSDs is used in training the brain to “see” prior to surgery, in providing explanatory signal after surgery and in augmenting the capabilities of the bionic-eyes using information arriving from the same image. We will chart the dynamics of the plastic changes in the brain by performing unprecedented longitudinal Neuroimaging, Electrophysiological and Neurodisruptive approaches while individuals learn to ‘see’ using each of the visual rehabilitation approaches suggested here.
My lab's work ranges from basic science, querying brain plasticity and sensory integration, to technological developments, allowing the blind to be more independent and even “see” using sounds and touch similar to bats and dolphins (a.k.a. Sensory Substitution Devices, SSDs), and back to applying these devices in research. We propose that, with proper training, any brain area or network can change the type of sensory input it uses to retrieve behaviorally task-relevant information within a matter of days. If this is true, it can have far reaching implications also for clinical rehabilitation. To achieve this, we are developing several innovative SSDs which encode the most crucial aspects of vision and increase their accessibility the blind, along with targeted, structured training protocols both in virtual environments and in real life. For instance, the “EyeMusic”, encodes colored complex images using pleasant musical scales and instruments, and the “EyeCane”, a palm-size cane, which encodes distance and depth in several directions accurately and efficiently. We provide preliminary but compelling evidence that following such training, SSDs can enable almost blind to recognize daily objects, colors, faces and facial expressions, read street signs, and aiding mobility and navigation. SSDs can also be used in conjunction with (any) invasive approach for visual rehabilitation. We are developing a novel hybrid Visual Rehabilitation Device which combines SSD and bionic eyes. In this set up, the SSDs is used in training the brain to “see” prior to surgery, in providing explanatory signal after surgery and in augmenting the capabilities of the bionic-eyes using information arriving from the same image. We will chart the dynamics of the plastic changes in the brain by performing unprecedented longitudinal Neuroimaging, Electrophysiological and Neurodisruptive approaches while individuals learn to ‘see’ using each of the visual rehabilitation approaches suggested here.
Project acronym BRAVIUS
Project Brain-viscera interactions underlie subjectivity
Researcher (PI) Catherine Tallon-Baudry
Host Institution (HI) ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE
Call Details Advanced Grant (AdG), SH4, ERC-2014-ADG
Summary Subjectivity defines the subject who is perceiving, feeling, thinking, acting, and is essential to understand the conscious mind from the inside. However, subjectivity, or non-reflective first-person perspective, is not identified as a core concept in cognitive neuroscience and its neural basis remain largely unknown. BRAVIUS offers a unified framework to appraise both the concept and the neural mechanisms generating subjectivity. The hypothesis relies on two vital organs that generate their own rhythmic electrical activity, the stomach and the heart, and therefore constantly send information up to the neocortex, even in the absence of bodily change. Cortical responses to those visceral organs would define the organism as an entity at the neural level, and create a subject-centered referential from which first-person perspective can develop. In other words, the cardiac and gastric pacemakers could feed the brain with self-specifying inputs. BRAVIUS builds on previous theories and studies on visceral states but focuses on ascending information, from viscera to brain, and does not require visceral states to change nor to be consciously perceived. Experimentally, BRAVIUS measures the understudied neural response evoked by heartbeats and introduces a new measure, the electrogastrogram, to quantify the slow gastric pacemaker. BRAVIUS will test with magneto-encephalography (MEG) the role of neural responses to ascending visceral signals in generating subjectivity by cutting across domains of cognitive sciences and exploring diverse paradigms where subjectivity is engaged: perceptual consciousness, self-consciousness, emotions and decision making. BRAVIUS will further explore how cardiac and gastric ascending signals shape the temporal (MEG) and spatial (fMRI) organization of spontaneous brain activity. The project outcome is a detailed mechanistic neural account of the most private part of the human mind, and a unified concept of subjectivity across cognitive domains.
Subjectivity defines the subject who is perceiving, feeling, thinking, acting, and is essential to understand the conscious mind from the inside. However, subjectivity, or non-reflective first-person perspective, is not identified as a core concept in cognitive neuroscience and its neural basis remain largely unknown. BRAVIUS offers a unified framework to appraise both the concept and the neural mechanisms generating subjectivity. The hypothesis relies on two vital organs that generate their own rhythmic electrical activity, the stomach and the heart, and therefore constantly send information up to the neocortex, even in the absence of bodily change. Cortical responses to those visceral organs would define the organism as an entity at the neural level, and create a subject-centered referential from which first-person perspective can develop. In other words, the cardiac and gastric pacemakers could feed the brain with self-specifying inputs. BRAVIUS builds on previous theories and studies on visceral states but focuses on ascending information, from viscera to brain, and does not require visceral states to change nor to be consciously perceived. Experimentally, BRAVIUS measures the understudied neural response evoked by heartbeats and introduces a new measure, the electrogastrogram, to quantify the slow gastric pacemaker. BRAVIUS will test with magneto-encephalography (MEG) the role of neural responses to ascending visceral signals in generating subjectivity by cutting across domains of cognitive sciences and exploring diverse paradigms where subjectivity is engaged: perceptual consciousness, self-consciousness, emotions and decision making. BRAVIUS will further explore how cardiac and gastric ascending signals shape the temporal (MEG) and spatial (fMRI) organization of spontaneous brain activity. The project outcome is a detailed mechanistic neural account of the most private part of the human mind, and a unified concept of subjectivity across cognitive domains.
Project acronym BRISC
Project Bounded Rationality in Sensorimotor Coordination
Researcher (PI) Daniel Alexander Braun
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAET ULM
Summary Despite their many successes and great computational power and speed, why are machines still so blatantly outperformed by humans in uncertain environments that require flexible sensorimotor behavior like playing football or navigating a disaster zone? Answering this question requires understanding the mathematical principles of biological sensorimotor control and learning. Over the recent years Bayes-optimal actor models have widely become the gold standard in the mathematical understanding of sensorimotor processing in well-controlled laboratory tasks. However, these models quickly become intractable for real-world problems because they ignore the computational effort required to search for the Bayes-optimum. What is therefore needed is a framework of sensorimotor processing that takes the limited information-processing capacity of bounded rational actors into account and that explains their robust real-world performance. It is the aim of BRISC to establish such a framework by drawing out theoretical predictions and gathering experimental evidence in human motor control, in particular to understand (i) how single bounded rational actors deviate from Bayes-optimal behavior in motor tasks, (ii) how multiple bounded rational actors organize themselves to solve motor tasks that no individual can solve by themselves and (iii) how this drives the emergence of hierarchical control structures that simultaneously process multiple degrees of abstraction at different time scales. Understanding how abstract concepts are formed autonomously from the sensorimotor stream based on resource allocation principles will establish an essential missing link between high-level symbolic and low-level perceptual processing. These advances will provide a decisive step towards a framework for robust and flexible sensorimotor processing, which is not only essential for understanding the fundamental principles of intelligent behavior, but it is also of potentially great technological value.
Despite their many successes and great computational power and speed, why are machines still so blatantly outperformed by humans in uncertain environments that require flexible sensorimotor behavior like playing football or navigating a disaster zone? Answering this question requires understanding the mathematical principles of biological sensorimotor control and learning. Over the recent years Bayes-optimal actor models have widely become the gold standard in the mathematical understanding of sensorimotor processing in well-controlled laboratory tasks. However, these models quickly become intractable for real-world problems because they ignore the computational effort required to search for the Bayes-optimum. What is therefore needed is a framework of sensorimotor processing that takes the limited information-processing capacity of bounded rational actors into account and that explains their robust real-world performance. It is the aim of BRISC to establish such a framework by drawing out theoretical predictions and gathering experimental evidence in human motor control, in particular to understand (i) how single bounded rational actors deviate from Bayes-optimal behavior in motor tasks, (ii) how multiple bounded rational actors organize themselves to solve motor tasks that no individual can solve by themselves and (iii) how this drives the emergence of hierarchical control structures that simultaneously process multiple degrees of abstraction at different time scales. Understanding how abstract concepts are formed autonomously from the sensorimotor stream based on resource allocation principles will establish an essential missing link between high-level symbolic and low-level perceptual processing. These advances will provide a decisive step towards a framework for robust and flexible sensorimotor processing, which is not only essential for understanding the fundamental principles of intelligent behavior, but it is also of potentially great technological value.
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Project acronym 100 Archaic Genomes
Project Genome sequences from extinct hominins
Researcher (PI) Svante PÄÄBO
Summary Neandertals and Denisovans, an Asian group distantly related to Neandertals, are the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans. They are thus of direct relevance for understanding the origin of modern humans and how modern humans differ from their closest relatives. We will generate genome-wide data from a large number of Neandertal and Denisovan individuals from across their geographical and temporal range as well as from other extinct hominin groups which we may discover. This will be possible by automating highly sensitive approaches to ancient DNA extraction and DNA libraries construction that we have developed so that they can be applied to many specimens from many sites in order to identify those that contain retrievable DNA. Whenever possible we will sequence whole genomes and in other cases use DNA capture methods to generate high-quality data from representative parts of the genome. This will allow us to study the population history of Neandertals and Denisovans, elucidate how many times and where these extinct hominins contributed genes to present-day people, and the extent to which modern humans and archaic groups contributed genetically to Neandertals and Denisovans. By retrieving DNA from specimens that go back to the Middle Pleistocene we will furthermore shed light on the early history and origins of Neandertals and Denisovans.
Neandertals and Denisovans, an Asian group distantly related to Neandertals, are the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans. They are thus of direct relevance for understanding the origin of modern humans and how modern humans differ from their closest relatives. We will generate genome-wide data from a large number of Neandertal and Denisovan individuals from across their geographical and temporal range as well as from other extinct hominin groups which we may discover. This will be possible by automating highly sensitive approaches to ancient DNA extraction and DNA libraries construction that we have developed so that they can be applied to many specimens from many sites in order to identify those that contain retrievable DNA. Whenever possible we will sequence whole genomes and in other cases use DNA capture methods to generate high-quality data from representative parts of the genome. This will allow us to study the population history of Neandertals and Denisovans, elucidate how many times and where these extinct hominins contributed genes to present-day people, and the extent to which modern humans and archaic groups contributed genetically to Neandertals and Denisovans. By retrieving DNA from specimens that go back to the Middle Pleistocene we will furthermore shed light on the early history and origins of Neandertals and Denisovans.
Project acronym 14Constraint
Project Radiocarbon constraints for models of C cycling in terrestrial ecosystems: from process understanding to global benchmarking
Researcher (PI) Susan Trumbore
Call Details Advanced Grant (AdG), PE10, ERC-2015-AdG
Summary The overall goal of 14Constraint is to enhance the availability and use of radiocarbon data as constraints for process-based understanding of the age distribution of carbon in and respired by soils and ecosystems. Carbon enters ecosystems by a single process, photosynthesis. It returns by a range of processes that depend on plant allocation and turnover, the efficiency and rate of litter decomposition and the mechanisms stabilizing C in soils. Thus the age distribution of respired CO2 and the age of C residing in plants, litter and soils are diagnostic properties of ecosystems that provide key constraints for testing carbon cycle models. Radiocarbon, especially the transit of ‘bomb’ 14C created in the 1960s, is a powerful tool for tracing C exchange on decadal to centennial timescales. 14Constraint will assemble a global database of existing radiocarbon data (WP1) and demonstrate how they can constrain and test ecosystem carbon cycle models. WP2 will fill data gaps and add new data from sites in key biomes that have ancillary data sufficient to construct belowground C and 14C budgets. These detailed investigations will focus on the role of time lags caused in necromass and fine roots, as well as the dynamics of deep soil C. Spatial extrapolation beyond the WP2 sites will require sampling along global gradients designed to explore the relative roles of mineralogy, vegetation and climate on the age of C in and respired from soil (WP3). Products of this 14Constraint will include the first publicly available global synthesis of terrestrial 14C data, and will add over 5000 new measurements. This project is urgently needed before atmospheric 14C levels decline to below 1950 levels as expected in the next decade.
The overall goal of 14Constraint is to enhance the availability and use of radiocarbon data as constraints for process-based understanding of the age distribution of carbon in and respired by soils and ecosystems. Carbon enters ecosystems by a single process, photosynthesis. It returns by a range of processes that depend on plant allocation and turnover, the efficiency and rate of litter decomposition and the mechanisms stabilizing C in soils. Thus the age distribution of respired CO2 and the age of C residing in plants, litter and soils are diagnostic properties of ecosystems that provide key constraints for testing carbon cycle models. Radiocarbon, especially the transit of ‘bomb’ 14C created in the 1960s, is a powerful tool for tracing C exchange on decadal to centennial timescales. 14Constraint will assemble a global database of existing radiocarbon data (WP1) and demonstrate how they can constrain and test ecosystem carbon cycle models. WP2 will fill data gaps and add new data from sites in key biomes that have ancillary data sufficient to construct belowground C and 14C budgets. These detailed investigations will focus on the role of time lags caused in necromass and fine roots, as well as the dynamics of deep soil C. Spatial extrapolation beyond the WP2 sites will require sampling along global gradients designed to explore the relative roles of mineralogy, vegetation and climate on the age of C in and respired from soil (WP3). Products of this 14Constraint will include the first publicly available global synthesis of terrestrial 14C data, and will add over 5000 new measurements. This project is urgently needed before atmospheric 14C levels decline to below 1950 levels as expected in the next decade.
Project acronym 2D4QT
Project 2D Materials for Quantum Technology
Researcher (PI) Christoph STAMPFER
Host Institution (HI) RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN
Summary Since its discovery, graphene has been indicated as a promising platform for quantum technologies (QT). The number of theoretical proposal dedicated to this vision has grown steadily, exploring a wide range of directions, ranging from spin and valley qubits, to topologically-protected states. The experimental confirmation of these ideas lagged so far significantly behind, mostly because of material quality problems. The quality of graphene-based devices has however improved dramatically in the past five years, thanks to the advent of the so-called van der Waals (vdW) heteostructures - artificial solids formed by mechanically stacking layers of different two dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides. These new advances open now finally the door to put several of those theoretical proposals to test. The goal of this project is to assess experimentally the potential of graphene-based heterostructures for QT applications. Specifically, I will push the development of an advanced technological platform for vdW heterostructures, which will allow to give quantitative answers to the following open questions: i) what are the relaxation and coherence times of spin and valley qubits in isotopically purified bilayer graphene (BLG); ii) what is the efficiency of a Cooper-pair splitter based on BLG; and iii) what are the characteristic energy scales of topologically protected quantum states engineered in graphene-based heterostructures. At the end of this project, I aim at being in the position of saying whether graphene is the horse-worth-betting-on predicted by theory, or whether it still hides surprises in terms of fundamental physics. The technological advancements developed in this project for integrating nanostructured layers into vdW heterostructures will reach even beyond this goal, opening the door to new research directions and possible applications.
Since its discovery, graphene has been indicated as a promising platform for quantum technologies (QT). The number of theoretical proposal dedicated to this vision has grown steadily, exploring a wide range of directions, ranging from spin and valley qubits, to topologically-protected states. The experimental confirmation of these ideas lagged so far significantly behind, mostly because of material quality problems. The quality of graphene-based devices has however improved dramatically in the past five years, thanks to the advent of the so-called van der Waals (vdW) heteostructures - artificial solids formed by mechanically stacking layers of different two dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides. These new advances open now finally the door to put several of those theoretical proposals to test. The goal of this project is to assess experimentally the potential of graphene-based heterostructures for QT applications. Specifically, I will push the development of an advanced technological platform for vdW heterostructures, which will allow to give quantitative answers to the following open questions: i) what are the relaxation and coherence times of spin and valley qubits in isotopically purified bilayer graphene (BLG); ii) what is the efficiency of a Cooper-pair splitter based on BLG; and iii) what are the characteristic energy scales of topologically protected quantum states engineered in graphene-based heterostructures. At the end of this project, I aim at being in the position of saying whether graphene is the horse-worth-betting-on predicted by theory, or whether it still hides surprises in terms of fundamental physics. The technological advancements developed in this project for integrating nanostructured layers into vdW heterostructures will reach even beyond this goal, opening the door to new research directions and possible applications.
Project acronym 2DMATER
Project Controlled Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Energy Storage and Conversion
Researcher (PI) Xinliang Feng
Host Institution (HI) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), PE5, ERC-2012-StG_20111012
Summary "Two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets, which possess a high degree of anisotropy with nanoscale thickness and infinite length in other dimensions, hold enormous promise as a novel class of ultrathin 2D nanomaterials with various unique functionalities and properties, and exhibit great potential in energy storage and conversion systems that are substantially different from their respective 3D bulk forms. Here I propose a strategy for the synthesis and processing of various 2D nanosheets across a broad range of inorganic, organic and polymeric materials with molecular-level or thin thickness through both the top-down exfoliation of layered materials and the bottom-up assembly of available molecular building blocks. Further, I aim to develop the synthesis of various 2D-nanosheet based composite materials with thickness of less than 100 nm and the assembly of 2D nanosheets into novel hierarchal superstrucutures (like aerogels, spheres, porous particles, nanotubes, multi-layer films). The structural features of these 2D nanomaterials will be controllably tailored by both the used layered precursors and processing methodologies. The consequence is that I will apply and combine defined functional components as well as assembly protocols to create novel 2D nanomaterials for specific purposes in energy storage and conversion systems. Their unique characters will include the good electrical conductivity, excellent mechanical flexibility, high surface area, high chemical stability, fast electron transport and ion diffusion etc. Applications will be mainly demonstrated for the construction of lithium ion batteries (anode and cathode), supercapacitors (symmetric and asymmetric) and fuel cells. As the key achievements, I expect to establish the delineation of reliable structure-property relationships and improved device performance of 2D nanomaterials."
"Two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets, which possess a high degree of anisotropy with nanoscale thickness and infinite length in other dimensions, hold enormous promise as a novel class of ultrathin 2D nanomaterials with various unique functionalities and properties, and exhibit great potential in energy storage and conversion systems that are substantially different from their respective 3D bulk forms. Here I propose a strategy for the synthesis and processing of various 2D nanosheets across a broad range of inorganic, organic and polymeric materials with molecular-level or thin thickness through both the top-down exfoliation of layered materials and the bottom-up assembly of available molecular building blocks. Further, I aim to develop the synthesis of various 2D-nanosheet based composite materials with thickness of less than 100 nm and the assembly of 2D nanosheets into novel hierarchal superstrucutures (like aerogels, spheres, porous particles, nanotubes, multi-layer films). The structural features of these 2D nanomaterials will be controllably tailored by both the used layered precursors and processing methodologies. The consequence is that I will apply and combine defined functional components as well as assembly protocols to create novel 2D nanomaterials for specific purposes in energy storage and conversion systems. Their unique characters will include the good electrical conductivity, excellent mechanical flexibility, high surface area, high chemical stability, fast electron transport and ion diffusion etc. Applications will be mainly demonstrated for the construction of lithium ion batteries (anode and cathode), supercapacitors (symmetric and asymmetric) and fuel cells. As the key achievements, I expect to establish the delineation of reliable structure-property relationships and improved device performance of 2D nanomaterials."
Project acronym 2D–SYNETRA
Project Two-dimensional colloidal nanostructures - Synthesis and electrical transport
Researcher (PI) Christian Klinke
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG
Summary We propose to develop truly two-dimensional continuous materials and two-dimensional monolayer films composed of individual nanocrystals by the comparatively fast, inexpensive, and scalable colloidal synthesis method. The materials’ properties will be studied in detail, especially regarding their (photo-) electrical transport. This will allow developing new types of device structures, such as Coulomb blockade and field enhancement based transistors. Recently, we demonstrated the possibility to synthesize in a controlled manner truly two-dimensional colloidal nanostructures. We will investigate their formation mechanism, synthesize further materials as “nanosheets”, develop methodologies to tune their geometrical properties, and study their (photo-) electrical properties. Furthermore, we will use the Langmuir-Blodgett method to deposit highly ordered monolayers of monodisperse nanoparticles. Such structures show interesting transport properties governed by Coulomb blockade effects known from individual nanoparticles. This leads to semiconductor-like behavior in metal nanoparticle films. The understanding of the electric transport in such “multi-tunnel devices” is still very limited. Thus, we will investigate this concept in detail and take it to its limits. Beside improvement of quality and exchange of material we will tune the nanoparticles’ size and shape in order to gain a deeper understanding of the electrical properties of supercrystallographic assemblies. Furthermore, we will develop device concepts for diode and transistor structures which take into account the novel properties of the low-dimensional assemblies. Nanosheets and monolayers of nanoparticles truly follow the principle of building devices by the bottom-up approach and allow electric transport measurements in a 2D regime. Highly ordered nanomaterial systems possess easy and reliably to manipulate electronic properties what make them interesting for future (inexpensive) electronic devices.
We propose to develop truly two-dimensional continuous materials and two-dimensional monolayer films composed of individual nanocrystals by the comparatively fast, inexpensive, and scalable colloidal synthesis method. The materials’ properties will be studied in detail, especially regarding their (photo-) electrical transport. This will allow developing new types of device structures, such as Coulomb blockade and field enhancement based transistors. Recently, we demonstrated the possibility to synthesize in a controlled manner truly two-dimensional colloidal nanostructures. We will investigate their formation mechanism, synthesize further materials as “nanosheets”, develop methodologies to tune their geometrical properties, and study their (photo-) electrical properties. Furthermore, we will use the Langmuir-Blodgett method to deposit highly ordered monolayers of monodisperse nanoparticles. Such structures show interesting transport properties governed by Coulomb blockade effects known from individual nanoparticles. This leads to semiconductor-like behavior in metal nanoparticle films. The understanding of the electric transport in such “multi-tunnel devices” is still very limited. Thus, we will investigate this concept in detail and take it to its limits. Beside improvement of quality and exchange of material we will tune the nanoparticles’ size and shape in order to gain a deeper understanding of the electrical properties of supercrystallographic assemblies. Furthermore, we will develop device concepts for diode and transistor structures which take into account the novel properties of the low-dimensional assemblies. Nanosheets and monolayers of nanoparticles truly follow the principle of building devices by the bottom-up approach and allow electric transport measurements in a 2D regime. Highly ordered nanomaterial systems possess easy and reliably to manipulate electronic properties what make them interesting for future (inexpensive) electronic devices.
Project acronym 2O2ACTIVATION
Project Development of Direct Dehydrogenative Couplings mediated by Dioxygen
Researcher (PI) Frederic William Patureau
Summary The field of C-H bond activation has evolved at an exponential pace in the last 15 years. What appeals most in those novel synthetic techniques is clear: they bypass the pre-activation steps usually required in traditional cross-coupling chemistry by directly metalating C-H bonds. Many C-H bond functionalizations today however, rely on poorly atom and step efficient oxidants, leading to significant and costly chemical waste, thereby seriously undermining the overall sustainability of those methods. As restrictions in sustainability regulations will further increase, and the cost of certain chemical commodities will rise, atom efficiency in organic synthesis remains a top priority for research. The aim of 2O2ACTIVATION is to develop novel technologies utilizing O2 as sole terminal oxidant in order to allow useful, extremely sustainable, thermodynamically challenging, dehydrogenative C-N and C-O bond forming coupling reactions. However, the moderate reactivity of O2 towards many catalysts constitutes a major challenge. 2O2ACTIVATION will pioneer the design of new catalysts based on the ultra-simple propene motive, capable of direct activation of O2 for C-H activation based cross-couplings. The project is divided into 3 major lines: O2 activation using propene and its analogues (propenoids), 1) without metal or halide, 2) with hypervalent halide catalysis, 3) with metal catalyzed C-H activation. The philosophy of 2O2ACTIVATION is to focus C-H functionalization method development on the oxidative event. Consequently, 2O2ACTIVATION breakthroughs will dramatically shortcut synthetic routes through the use of inactivated, unprotected, and readily available building blocks; and thus should be easily scalable. This will lead to a strong decrease in the costs related to the production of many essential chemicals, while preserving the environment (water as terminal by-product). The resulting novels coupling methods will thus have a lasting impact on the chemical industry.
The field of C-H bond activation has evolved at an exponential pace in the last 15 years. What appeals most in those novel synthetic techniques is clear: they bypass the pre-activation steps usually required in traditional cross-coupling chemistry by directly metalating C-H bonds. Many C-H bond functionalizations today however, rely on poorly atom and step efficient oxidants, leading to significant and costly chemical waste, thereby seriously undermining the overall sustainability of those methods. As restrictions in sustainability regulations will further increase, and the cost of certain chemical commodities will rise, atom efficiency in organic synthesis remains a top priority for research. The aim of 2O2ACTIVATION is to develop novel technologies utilizing O2 as sole terminal oxidant in order to allow useful, extremely sustainable, thermodynamically challenging, dehydrogenative C-N and C-O bond forming coupling reactions. However, the moderate reactivity of O2 towards many catalysts constitutes a major challenge. 2O2ACTIVATION will pioneer the design of new catalysts based on the ultra-simple propene motive, capable of direct activation of O2 for C-H activation based cross-couplings. The project is divided into 3 major lines: O2 activation using propene and its analogues (propenoids), 1) without metal or halide, 2) with hypervalent halide catalysis, 3) with metal catalyzed C-H activation. The philosophy of 2O2ACTIVATION is to focus C-H functionalization method development on the oxidative event. Consequently, 2O2ACTIVATION breakthroughs will dramatically shortcut synthetic routes through the use of inactivated, unprotected, and readily available building blocks; and thus should be easily scalable. This will lead to a strong decrease in the costs related to the production of many essential chemicals, while preserving the environment (water as terminal by-product). The resulting novels coupling methods will thus have a lasting impact on the chemical industry.
Project acronym 3-TOP
Project Exploring the physics of 3-dimensional topological insulators
Researcher (PI) Laurens Wigbolt Molenkamp
Host Institution (HI) JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBURG
Summary Topological insulators constitute a novel class of materials where the topological details of the bulk band structure induce a robust surface state on the edges of the material. While transport data for 2-dimensional topological insulators have recently become available, experiments on their 3-dimensional counterparts are mainly limited to photoelectron spectroscopy. At the same time, a plethora of interesting novel physical phenomena have been predicted to occur in such systems. In this proposal, we sketch an approach to tackle the transport and magnetic properties of the surface states in these materials. This starts with high quality layer growth, using molecular beam epitaxy, of bulk layers of HgTe, Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3, which are the prime candidates to show the novel physics expected in this field. The existence of the relevant surface states will be assessed spectroscopically, but from there on research will focus on fabricating and characterizing nanostructures designed to elucidate the transport and magnetic properties of the topological surfaces using electrical, optical and scanning probe techniques. Apart from a general characterization of the Dirac band structure of the surface states, research will focus on the predicted magnetic monopole-like response of the system to an electrical test charge. In addition, much effort will be devoted to contacting the surface state with superconducting and magnetic top layers, with the final aim of demonstrating Majorana fermion behavior. As a final benefit, growth of thin high quality thin Bi2Se3 or Bi2Te3 layers could allow for a demonstration of the (2-dimensional) quantum spin Hall effect at room temperature - offering a road map to dissipation-less transport for the semiconductor industry.
Topological insulators constitute a novel class of materials where the topological details of the bulk band structure induce a robust surface state on the edges of the material. While transport data for 2-dimensional topological insulators have recently become available, experiments on their 3-dimensional counterparts are mainly limited to photoelectron spectroscopy. At the same time, a plethora of interesting novel physical phenomena have been predicted to occur in such systems. In this proposal, we sketch an approach to tackle the transport and magnetic properties of the surface states in these materials. This starts with high quality layer growth, using molecular beam epitaxy, of bulk layers of HgTe, Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3, which are the prime candidates to show the novel physics expected in this field. The existence of the relevant surface states will be assessed spectroscopically, but from there on research will focus on fabricating and characterizing nanostructures designed to elucidate the transport and magnetic properties of the topological surfaces using electrical, optical and scanning probe techniques. Apart from a general characterization of the Dirac band structure of the surface states, research will focus on the predicted magnetic monopole-like response of the system to an electrical test charge. In addition, much effort will be devoted to contacting the surface state with superconducting and magnetic top layers, with the final aim of demonstrating Majorana fermion behavior. As a final benefit, growth of thin high quality thin Bi2Se3 or Bi2Te3 layers could allow for a demonstration of the (2-dimensional) quantum spin Hall effect at room temperature - offering a road map to dissipation-less transport for the semiconductor industry.
Project acronym 3D Reloaded
Project 3D Reloaded: Novel Algorithms for 3D Shape Inference and Analysis
Researcher (PI) Daniel Cremers
Host Institution (HI) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Summary Despite their amazing success, we believe that computer vision algorithms have only scratched the surface of what can be done in terms of modeling and understanding our world from images. We believe that novel image analysis techniques will be a major enabler and driving force behind next-generation technologies, enhancing everyday life and opening up radically new possibilities. And we believe that the key to achieving this is to develop algorithms for reconstructing and analyzing the 3D structure of our world. In this project, we will focus on three lines of research: A) We will develop algorithms for 3D reconstruction from standard color cameras and from RGB-D cameras. In particular, we will promote real-time-capable direct and dense methods. In contrast to the classical two-stage approach of sparse feature-point based motion estimation and subsequent dense reconstruction, these methods optimally exploit all color information to jointly estimate dense geometry and camera motion. B) We will develop algorithms for 3D shape analysis, including rigid and non-rigid matching, decomposition and interpretation of 3D shapes. We will focus on algorithms which are optimal or near-optimal. One of the major computational challenges lies in generalizing existing 2D shape analysis techniques to shapes in 3D and 4D (temporal evolutions of 3D shape). C) We will develop shape priors for 3D reconstruction. These can be learned from sample shapes or acquired during the reconstruction process. For example, when reconstructing a larger office algorithms may exploit the geometric self-similarity of the scene, storing a model of a chair and its multiple instances only once rather than multiple times. Advancing the state of the art in geometric reconstruction and geometric analysis will have a profound impact well beyond computer vision. We strongly believe that we have the necessary competence to pursue this project. Preliminary results have been well received by the community.
Despite their amazing success, we believe that computer vision algorithms have only scratched the surface of what can be done in terms of modeling and understanding our world from images. We believe that novel image analysis techniques will be a major enabler and driving force behind next-generation technologies, enhancing everyday life and opening up radically new possibilities. And we believe that the key to achieving this is to develop algorithms for reconstructing and analyzing the 3D structure of our world. In this project, we will focus on three lines of research: A) We will develop algorithms for 3D reconstruction from standard color cameras and from RGB-D cameras. In particular, we will promote real-time-capable direct and dense methods. In contrast to the classical two-stage approach of sparse feature-point based motion estimation and subsequent dense reconstruction, these methods optimally exploit all color information to jointly estimate dense geometry and camera motion. B) We will develop algorithms for 3D shape analysis, including rigid and non-rigid matching, decomposition and interpretation of 3D shapes. We will focus on algorithms which are optimal or near-optimal. One of the major computational challenges lies in generalizing existing 2D shape analysis techniques to shapes in 3D and 4D (temporal evolutions of 3D shape). C) We will develop shape priors for 3D reconstruction. These can be learned from sample shapes or acquired during the reconstruction process. For example, when reconstructing a larger office algorithms may exploit the geometric self-similarity of the scene, storing a model of a chair and its multiple instances only once rather than multiple times. Advancing the state of the art in geometric reconstruction and geometric analysis will have a profound impact well beyond computer vision. We strongly believe that we have the necessary competence to pursue this project. Preliminary results have been well received by the community.
Project acronym 3D-FNPWriting
Project Unprecedented spatial control of porosity and functionality in nanoporous membranes through 3D printing and microscopy for polymer writing
Researcher (PI) Annette ANDRIEU-BRUNSEN
Host Institution (HI) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT
Summary Membranes are key materials in our life. Nature offers high performance membranes relying on a parallel local regulation of nanopore structure, functional placement, membrane composition and architecture. Existing technological membranes are key materials in separation, recycling, sensing, energy conversion, being essential components for a sustainable future. But their performance is far away from their natural counterparts. One reason for this performance gap is the lack of 3D nanolocal control in membrane design. This applies to each individual nanopore but as well to the membrane architecture. This proposal aims to implement 3D printing (additive manufacturing, top down) and complex near-field and total internal reflection (TIR) high resolution microscopy induced polymer writing (bottom up) to nanolocally control in hierarchical nanoporous membranes spatially and independent of each other: porosity, pore functionalization, membrane architecture, composition. This disruptive technology platform will make accessible to date unachieved, highly accurate asymmetric nanopores and multifunctional, hierarchical membrane architecture/ composition and thus highly selective, directed, transport with tuneable rates. 3D-FNPWriting will demonstrate this for the increasing class of metal nanoparticle/ salt pollutants aiming for tuneable, selective, directed transport based monitoring and recycling instead of size-based filtration, accumulation into sewerage and distribution into nature. Specifically, the potential of this disruptive technology with respect to transport design will be demonstrated for a) a 3D-printed in-situ functionalized nanoporous fiber architecture and b) a printed, nanolocally near-field and TIR-microscopy polymer functionalized membrane representing a thin separation layer. This will open systematic understanding of nanolocal functional control on transport and new perspectives in water/ energy management for future smart industry/ homes.
Membranes are key materials in our life. Nature offers high performance membranes relying on a parallel local regulation of nanopore structure, functional placement, membrane composition and architecture. Existing technological membranes are key materials in separation, recycling, sensing, energy conversion, being essential components for a sustainable future. But their performance is far away from their natural counterparts. One reason for this performance gap is the lack of 3D nanolocal control in membrane design. This applies to each individual nanopore but as well to the membrane architecture. This proposal aims to implement 3D printing (additive manufacturing, top down) and complex near-field and total internal reflection (TIR) high resolution microscopy induced polymer writing (bottom up) to nanolocally control in hierarchical nanoporous membranes spatially and independent of each other: porosity, pore functionalization, membrane architecture, composition. This disruptive technology platform will make accessible to date unachieved, highly accurate asymmetric nanopores and multifunctional, hierarchical membrane architecture/ composition and thus highly selective, directed, transport with tuneable rates. 3D-FNPWriting will demonstrate this for the increasing class of metal nanoparticle/ salt pollutants aiming for tuneable, selective, directed transport based monitoring and recycling instead of size-based filtration, accumulation into sewerage and distribution into nature. Specifically, the potential of this disruptive technology with respect to transport design will be demonstrated for a) a 3D-printed in-situ functionalized nanoporous fiber architecture and b) a printed, nanolocally near-field and TIR-microscopy polymer functionalized membrane representing a thin separation layer. This will open systematic understanding of nanolocal functional control on transport and new perspectives in water/ energy management for future smart industry/ homes.
Project acronym 3D_Tryps
Project The role of three-dimensional genome architecture in antigenic variation
Researcher (PI) Tim Nicolai SIEGEL
Host Institution (HI) LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), LS6, ERC-2016-STG
Summary Antigenic variation is a widely employed strategy to evade the host immune response. It has similar functional requirements even in evolutionarily divergent pathogens. These include the mutually exclusive expression of antigens and the periodic, nonrandom switching in the expression of different antigens during the course of an infection. Despite decades of research the mechanisms of antigenic variation are not fully understood in any organism. The recent development of high-throughput sequencing-based assays to probe the 3D genome architecture (Hi-C) has revealed the importance of the spatial organization of DNA inside the nucleus. 3D genome architecture plays a critical role in the regulation of mutually exclusive gene expression and the frequency of translocation between different genomic loci in many eukaryotes. Thus, genome architecture may also be a key regulator of antigenic variation, yet the causal links between genome architecture and the expression of antigens have not been studied systematically. In addition, the development of CRISPR-Cas9-based approaches to perform nucleotide-specific genome editing has opened unprecedented opportunities to study the influence of DNA sequence elements on the spatial organization of DNA and how this impacts antigen expression. I have adapted both Hi-C and CRISPR-Cas9 technology to the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei, one of the most important model organisms to study antigenic variation. These techniques will enable me to bridge the field of antigenic variation research with that of genome architecture. I will perform the first systematic analysis of the role of genome architecture in the mutually exclusive and hierarchical expression of antigens in any pathogen. The experiments outlined in this proposal will provide new insight, facilitating a new view of antigenic variation and may eventually help medical intervention in T. brucei and in other pathogens relying on antigenic variation for their survival.
Antigenic variation is a widely employed strategy to evade the host immune response. It has similar functional requirements even in evolutionarily divergent pathogens. These include the mutually exclusive expression of antigens and the periodic, nonrandom switching in the expression of different antigens during the course of an infection. Despite decades of research the mechanisms of antigenic variation are not fully understood in any organism. The recent development of high-throughput sequencing-based assays to probe the 3D genome architecture (Hi-C) has revealed the importance of the spatial organization of DNA inside the nucleus. 3D genome architecture plays a critical role in the regulation of mutually exclusive gene expression and the frequency of translocation between different genomic loci in many eukaryotes. Thus, genome architecture may also be a key regulator of antigenic variation, yet the causal links between genome architecture and the expression of antigens have not been studied systematically. In addition, the development of CRISPR-Cas9-based approaches to perform nucleotide-specific genome editing has opened unprecedented opportunities to study the influence of DNA sequence elements on the spatial organization of DNA and how this impacts antigen expression. I have adapted both Hi-C and CRISPR-Cas9 technology to the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei, one of the most important model organisms to study antigenic variation. These techniques will enable me to bridge the field of antigenic variation research with that of genome architecture. I will perform the first systematic analysis of the role of genome architecture in the mutually exclusive and hierarchical expression of antigens in any pathogen. The experiments outlined in this proposal will provide new insight, facilitating a new view of antigenic variation and may eventually help medical intervention in T. brucei and in other pathogens relying on antigenic variation for their survival.
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Project acronym EVOMESODERM
Project The evolution of mesoderm and its differentiation into cell types and organ systems
Researcher (PI) Andreas Helmut Hejnol
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN
Summary Mesoderm, the embryonic germ layer between ectoderm and endoderm, gives rise to major organs within the circulatory and excretory systems and to stabilizing tissues (muscles, bones, connective tissue). Although mesoderm is a key-innovation in evolutionary history, its origin and further diversification into the different organs and cell types of a broad range of animals has not been elucidated. Our knowledge of mesoderm development is mainly based on work performed in prominent model systems including vertebrates (fish, frog and mouse) and invertebrates that are distantly-related and considered to be highly derived (Drosophila and C. elegans). The project proposed herein aims to study mesoderm development in a variety of highly informative animal taxa and trace its differentiation into cell types and organs, with the ultimate aim of reconstructing the history of mesoderm during animal evolution. Our approach combines advanced bioinformatics, live-imaging and molecular methods, and will be carried out in nine representative species belonging to under-investigated animal groups. We will describe the morphological and molecular development of mesoderm in these species, and the differentiation of two important mesodermal cell types: nephridia and blood. Using this information we will be able to infer the embryology and mesodermal cell type composition of ancestors at six important nodes in the animal tree of life. We will also be able to comprehend when shifts in mesoderm development have occurred and how these shifts have remodeled the animal body plans. Further, our implementation of advanced methods in under-studied species will provide new model systems and a more comprehensive framework for further studies in evolutionary developmental biology as well as in other research fields.
Mesoderm, the embryonic germ layer between ectoderm and endoderm, gives rise to major organs within the circulatory and excretory systems and to stabilizing tissues (muscles, bones, connective tissue). Although mesoderm is a key-innovation in evolutionary history, its origin and further diversification into the different organs and cell types of a broad range of animals has not been elucidated. Our knowledge of mesoderm development is mainly based on work performed in prominent model systems including vertebrates (fish, frog and mouse) and invertebrates that are distantly-related and considered to be highly derived (Drosophila and C. elegans). The project proposed herein aims to study mesoderm development in a variety of highly informative animal taxa and trace its differentiation into cell types and organs, with the ultimate aim of reconstructing the history of mesoderm during animal evolution. Our approach combines advanced bioinformatics, live-imaging and molecular methods, and will be carried out in nine representative species belonging to under-investigated animal groups. We will describe the morphological and molecular development of mesoderm in these species, and the differentiation of two important mesodermal cell types: nephridia and blood. Using this information we will be able to infer the embryology and mesodermal cell type composition of ancestors at six important nodes in the animal tree of life. We will also be able to comprehend when shifts in mesoderm development have occurred and how these shifts have remodeled the animal body plans. Further, our implementation of advanced methods in under-studied species will provide new model systems and a more comprehensive framework for further studies in evolutionary developmental biology as well as in other research fields.
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Moralities of Everyday Life
Universidad de Yale
How can we explain kindness and cruelty? Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? Why do people so often disagree about moral issues? This course explores the psychological foundations of our moral lives.
Philosophy, Psychology, Social Psychology, Moral Universe
Excellent course! It not only explained the different influences on morality but empowered us by explaining how can we use reason to become better persons. A BIG thank you to Prof. Paul Bloom!
Brilliantly taught and eye-opening content. I've bought the books and am engaged in follow-up self-study. Thank you Professor Bloom for helping me understand the world in a new way!
What is morality, anyway? What are the big debates in the field of moral psychology?
What is Morality?20:49
Philosophical Approaches20:30
Paul Bloom
Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University
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I'd like to welcome everybody to the first week of Moralities of Everyday life.
Here's how the week will go.
In this first lecture, I want to talk about what morality
is, what it does for us and why it's interesting to study.
Then in the second lecture, I'll
turn to philosophical approaches, study of morality.
And in the third lecture I'll introduce, a debate that many of us are interested in.
Concerning the role of
emotion versus the role of reason, in
our moral, judgement and moral decision making.
That is, how much of morality comes from the
heart And how much of morality comes from the head.
Then I want to present three case studies, which
I think are just amazing, showing some really
weird and unusual and powerful effects on our
gut feelings on how we think about morality.
finally I'll end with the seventh lecture talking about some
big questions in the study of morality, big questions That
as this course progresses we will dove into, we will
deal with, and I hope in some extent we're going to answer.
Now, you might imagine that I'll begin this course by
defining morality, by saying what is morality and providing a definition.
I'm not going to do that.
And I'm not going to do that for two reasons.
The first is there's no definition of morality that people agree on.
So the philosopher Stephen Stich points out that
philosophers have deep differences over what morality is.
There was a book published in 1970 called Definitions of Morality.
And in that book.
13 of the best philosopher's in the world. Philosopher's like
Elizabeth Anscombe, Peter Strawson and Philippa Foot.
Provided their definitions of what morality is.
And Stich points out these definitions had very little in common.
People had very different views.
It doesn't get any different when you look at psychologists.
So the very prominent psychologist, Elliot Turiel, who's done significant work in
the psychology of morality, defines morality in a pretty narrow way in
terms of justice, rights, and harm.
For him, something only counts as immoral if there's a victim, if someone suffers.
In contrast, Jonathan Haidt, whose work
we're going to talk about throughout this course.
Has a much broader definition of morality.
For him, anything that suppresses self-interest and
makes cooperation possible is part of morality.
So for Haidt, a religious
ritual might be part of our moral psychology, part of our moral life.
For Turiel it wouldn't be.
So given the sort of disagreement, it would be arbitrary for me
to pick out a single definition of morality and go with that.
Also, my view is that beginning with a definition is
never a good idea when you're dealing with scientific questions.
So forget about morality a bit.
Imagine we were
talking about diseases and syndromes and
problems like cancer or diabetes or autism.
You don't start studying these things by having firm definitions.
This is cancer, this is diabetes, this is autism.
And then Continuing from there.
Rather what you do is you begin with a rough idea
of what you're talking about, and then you're understanding what counts
as falling within that domain shifts as a result of your understanding.
So you might say, you know, we used to think
that this was cancer, but now we know it isn't.
This didn't look like diabetes, but now as we develop a more
of an understanding, we realize this really is a type of diabetes.
We might think autism is just one thing, but then study it and learn
it's many different things, some which are not maybe very related to one another.
I think the same thing holds for morality.
I think if we ever get a definition of
morality, it means we're kind of finished, the study of it.
And we're nowhere near that point now. We're just beginning.
Still, in order to study anything, you need a rough idea what you're studying
and so I want to begin with, by talking about what counts as a moral violation.
What counts as something wrong?
In the initial lecture, I gave
the example of Mary Bale.
And the cat, that she threw into a dumpster,
and said, that was an example of something wrong.
Now I want to give you a different example.
And this is also taken from YouTube. It's also an example from London.
And it was taken it's a video immediately after some riots.
It involves how some people treat this injured man.
So you watch the video, and as you watch it, you'll also hear.
That the person taking the video commenting on
what he's seeing. >>
>> Are they actually helping him up.
They're going through his bag?
He just took something from his, his bag. Dickhead.
>> So, we see this as sort
of signature properties that are associated with morality.
it, it's related mor, a morals violations way to harm, to helping, to pain,
to pleasure. And in this case somebody is harmed.
It's related to notions of reward and punishment.
Good things are rewarded and bad things are punished and
it's related to emotion such as guilt, shame anger and gratitude.
the, the person taking the film makes a
comment that suggests he is full of moral indignation.
He says dickhead.
And if you go to the Youtube video, you'll see much worse comments about
these people's behavior.
The behavior strikes us in a sort of significant way as wrong.
And because it strikes us as wrong, It, it evokes certain emotional responses.
Now, this is a simple example of moral violation.
Obviously not the worst thing you could imagine, but a sort of simple and direct.
But, there are other moral violations that don't quite fit this mould.
So for one thing, you don't have to, make physical contact to somebody,
in order to do something wrong.
Most of us would believe it's wrong to shout a racist insult
at somebody, or threaten to kill them, or spread lies about them.
You could harm people in ways that aren't physical.
You could be immoral by negligence.
So, if after the filming of this lecture I get together
with the gentlemen operating the cameras, we all get roaring drunk.
And I get back into my car and start to drive home.
Most people say I'm doing something wrong.
Not because I have any ill feelings not because I've hurt anybody,
but because I'm, I'm foolishly acting in a way which could harm people.
And so it's, it's a bad thing.
You could be immoral in some cases by not doing anything at all.
So if I choose not to feed my dog, then my dog starves to death.
That's awful.
If I choose not to feed my child, my baby,
that's even more awful. That's murder.
Because I have obligations to those individuals that
require, that morally require, that I do things.
Now there are some cases where What counts
as immoral is different from what counts as
illegal and these cases are particularly salient with
regard to issues of when you should do something.
So the law often tells you, you shouldn't
do something, the law very rarely requires you to do something in, in a
criminal and, and, and, and there's criminal
penalties when you fail to do something.
And, in this way, sometimes the law differs from morality.
So I'm thinking particularly of an example.
A few years ago, these two guys Jeremy Strohmeyer and
David Cash Jr., they go into a casino in Nevada.
And Jeremy Strohmeyer sees this little girl.
Gets her to come with him into the women's bathroom, and molests and murders her.
He is later caught, you know, charged, sentenced.
Plainly what he did was terrible.
But I'm more interested here in what his friend did, which is nothing.
His friend sort of said, half-heartedly, tried to get
Strohmeyer to stop, got bored, and went for a walk.
Now it turns out he didn't do anything legally wrong.
At the time in Nevada it's not a crime to allow somebody else to do a crime.
And in fact, so, so he wasn't charged with anything.
And in fact he didn't really feel wrong about what he did.
He was later interviewed on the radio.
And, and when he was asked his feelings, he said he said this.
The simple fact remains I don't know this little girl.
And then he, he said more generally, I don't know people in Panama
or Africa who are killed every day, so I can't feel remorse for them.
And he went on, why should I feel remorse for this girl?
I didn't do anything wrong.
Other people disagreed.
And although he was never charged with a crime because he
didn't commit the crime, there were protests, there were, there were people.
He was a student at University of California at Berkeley,
and people protested, demanded that he get thrown out of school.
For what he did.
And even now, years later, if you look up
his name online you'll see there are people stalking him.
They don't know him.
But they'll stalk him.
They want to make sure that, that everybody
knows what he did, and that he suffers for what he did.
And this is another, this is a way in which morality can have broad scope.
Another sort of example. Is that not all moral violations.
Involve victims.
Or least they don't always involve victims in clear and obvious sense.
I have here a list of some things. Most of which are illegal in the
Homosexuality used to be illegal in the United States.
There were sodomy laws that were applied almost exclusively to homosexuals.
Now, due to a Supreme Court decision, it's no longer illegal.
The rest are still, in various forms, illegal,
and they're illegal in other countries as well.
Now your mileage may vary.
Some people will look at this list and say,
I don't see anything wrong with all of that.
I mean, I don't want to indulge in any
of this, but what consenting adults do is fine.
It doesn't bother me.
Others will see some of these as morally wrong.
And you might see some of these as morally
wrong because you believe there really is a victim.
You might think that although prostitution involves, on
the face of it, consenting adults and so
on, Still, the institution of prostitution is
coercive and really does make people's lives worse.
Or, you might think that these are wrong, not so
much because they harm somebody but simply because they're wrong.
Take consensual cannibalism.
Somebody dies, and in their will they say, after I'm dead someone else could eat me.
It's all consent, and so on.
But some people say that's just not right. I don't care if nobody's harmed.
We shouldn't be doing that, to one another.
And this is part of the scope of morality.
You, you also get cases where, there isn't apparent harm, and it
seems wrong, even when it doesn't rise to the level, of a crime.
Suppose I get together with my friends, say fellow Yale professors.
Suppose we are sitting in a club, we're sipping sherry,
and we're all white males.
And we start enga-, telling jokes, and we say, you know,
sexist jokes and racist jokes, the most foul jokes you could imagine.
We're having a terrific time. Now none of this would be true.
I don't, I don't, I don't drink sherry.
But still, we're telling, we're telling the jokes and
we leave and we're happier than when we came in.
And nobody hurts and nobody's feelings were hurt.
But still,
there is the intuition in at least some of us that, that was wrong.
You know, you shouldn't be doing that sort of thing.
So, the scope of morality is broad.
I'm trying to sort of persuade you that what
counts as right and wrong has, has broad scope.
Morality is everywhere.
A lot of my examples involve sex, and clearly, many,
there are certain acts of sex that most everybody find wrong.
You,
people find it wrong, the idea of sex with a young child.
Certainly sex that involves coercion is wrong.
People have different attitutes about promiscuity,
virginity, heterosexuality, homosexuality bisexuality.
Bestiality, masturbation, fetishes. And these differences
are profound.
What counts as a, a moral violation for one
person could be a point of pride for another.
This guy walks into a church.
And he goes to a confessional booth.
And he immediately says, Father, I'm 70 years old.
And I have sex. I have had sex with two 20 year olds.
And the priest is kind of stunned.
And says, how long has it been since your last confession?
And the guy says,
I've never been to confession before. I'm not Catholic.
And the priest says, so why are you telling me this?
And the guy says, I'm telling everybody.
What could be a point of pride to one could be a point of disgust to another.
Most people have some moral restrictions on what to eat.
For some of us, these moral restrictions are grounded in religion.
We, we are, we believe that, that God does not
want to eat this, he wants to eat that instead.
Does not want us to eat this at that time, but instead we can eat it at another time.
Other people have more restrictions on what they can
eat because of concerns about the suffering of animals.
Or worries about damage to the ecosystem.
The most obvious cases of morality, involve family and friends.
So, we feel moral obligation towards our family and friends, we, we
feel gratitude when people do right by us, betrayed if they don't.
The most obvious example is the obligation that
a mother or father has towards a child.
But these obligations extend.
They extend towards siblings.
They extend towards people who aren't related but
are married, are close friends and so on.
Morality applies to strangers as well.
Many of us give to charity and many of us give to charity
to help people we don't know and who will never help us back.
Even if you don't give this to charity,
you believe you have some moral obligations to strangers.
You can't kill them, for instance.
You can't make
them suffer. Politics is full of morality.
Now, I don't want to, I don't want to overstate this.
There are some political differences that people have that.
Aren't moral.
You may, you and I may share the same goal.
We might want to say, lower unemployment in our country.
And we might have different ideas as to how to do it.
What should you do with the interest rates?
What you should do with the tax code.
And those aren't instinctively moral differences.
We agree on the morality.
Now we're sort of struggling with this, with the question of how to do it?
But a lot of the questions that occupy us
politically, that, that, that change, that, that influence who we
vote for, and what policies we support are moral
questions like, abortion, capital punishment, gay marriage, the tax code.
What's a fair code for taxation?
Foreign policy.
As I'm giving this lecture, the United States is currently in, the United States
Congress is currently debating over whether to allow Obama to bomb Syria.
Now, there's a lot of practical issues here,
but a lot of those questions fundamentally moral?
To, to, to initiate bombing of another
country, an act will for surely kill innocents?
Is it right to do nothing,
and then let a dictator who commits acts
of chemical warfare to go free, to go unpunished?
And people have very different intuitions.
And again, some of the intuitions are instrumental.
Instrumental meaning that we agree on the goals,
we're just trying to figure how to satisfy them.
But some of them are more moral.
Honest to God disagreements over what the right thing is to do.
My final example of the scope and
importance of morality comes from a lovely and quite weird
study done in the 1930s by the American psychologist, Thorndike.
Thorndike asked people different questions about different activities.
And, he asked them questions.
How much money would I have to pay you to do this activity?
Now some, some of the activities.
They were all unpleasant.
But, they were different kinds of unpleasant.
So, some were unpleasant just because they were painful,
or degrading, or, or, or awful in some way.
How much would I have to pay you to eat a live earthworm, was one of his questions.
Or here's another one.
How much would I have to pay you to have
one of your front teeth removed with a pair of pliers?
No anesthesia.
That's one of his questions. He also
asks questions about moral violations.
How much would he have to pay you to do something bad?
And, and it's not physically painful, but they're bad.
So, one of his answers was, one of his questions was, how much
would I have to pay you to strangle a cat with your bare hands?
Here are his answers for those two items.
I've taken his answers, he, he got answers, of course in the 1930s dollars.
I've translated them, translated them into the money that you'd have to pay now.
For the tooth, its an average of 74,000 dollars.
For the cat, it's 164,000 dollars. Over twice as much.
And that tells us something.
That tells us about the pull that morality has.
That, that it matters so much that we want to be good people.
We don’t want to do this bad thing.
That, that we would have to, we
would rather have an experience of excruciating pain.
So, that's morality as we see it.
That, that’s just our starting point. How do we study it?
How do we approach it?
Well, I want to take my lead here from one of my favorite philosophers, my favorite
philosopher, Adam Smith.
One of the heroes of the Scottish Enlightenment.
And in a wonderful discussion, he draws the distinction.
He says, in treating of the principles of
morality, there are two questions to be considered.
So here's his first question. Wherein does virtue consist?
What is the tone of temper and tenor
of conduct which constitutes the excellent and praiseworthy character?
The character
which is the natural object of esteem, honor, and approbation.
Now, the language is of course old-fashioned.
But the point is pretty clear.
He's asking a question.
Which we would now says is a philosophical question.
A normative question.
How should we live? What is it to be a good person?
What is it to be a virtuous person?
And then he distinguishes this from a second question.
By what power of faculty
in the mind is it that this character, whatever it be is recommended to us.
Or in other words, how and by what means does it come
to pass that a mind prefers one tenor of conduct to another?
Denominates the one right and the other wrong.
Considers the one is the object of approbation on
a reward and other of blame center and punishment.
But this is a different question. Now he's not asking what is the good.
Now he's asking what's going on
in our minds, and our brains.
That causes us to say, that's good, and that's bad.
That's the right way to live, and that's the wrong way to live.
And throughout this course we're going to deal with both questions.
We're mostly interested in a psychological question.
We're mostly interested in how people think about morality.
What, what governs people's choices?
What governs people's intuitions? But in order to do so, we need to get a
philosophical foundation going. And this is the topic of the next lecture.
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Works are now underway to establish the construction site at Forrestfield. This is the first step in preparing for the arrival of the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) mid next year.
Once this is completed you will begin to see a lot more activity onsite, including the construction of the dive structure, in which the TBMs will be assembled and begin the journey towards Bayswater.
Over the next six months construction will start across all the major construction sites, following the path of the TBMs with works focusing at Forrestfield and then moving towards Bayswater. This includes construction works beginning at Perth Airport later this year to make way for the new Airport Central Station to be built.
PTA has completed a range of forward works in preparation for construction, the last being road works along Central Avenue in Redcliffe which are due for completion in November.
Site establishment begins at Forrestfield
The Forrestfield construction site, between Dundas and Milner roads, will be the base for key infrastructure for the Forrestfield-Airport Link project, and the launch site for the TBMs in mid-2017.
A Development Application (DA) for Early Works has been submitted to the Shire of Kalamunda by Salini Impregilo-NRW Joint Venture (SI-NRW). The DA, when approved, will set out conditions for the construction of key infrastructure needed to support the tunnelling project, and the operation of the site over the next four years.
The WA Planning Commission is now reviewing submissions received during the public comment period, and a final decision is expected mid-October.
To prepare the site for Early Works, a demolition program is currently underway to remove buildings within the construction site, followed by perimeter fence installation, testing of bores, site clearing and power supply.
For more information about these works view the dedicated fact sheet.
Road works progressing well at Central Avenue
Road works along Central Avenue are progressing well, with kerbing now in place and the road once again able to be driven on. With this milestone achieved, construction works will shift to reinstating driveways and shared paths, and installing street lighting and landscaping. As these elements are added, the road will become increasingly functional and visually more amenable.
Works along Central Avenue are due for completion mid-November. At this time Central Avenue will also be connected to Dunreath Drive in preparation for the upcoming staged closure of Brearley Avenue in January 2017.
Reminder to register your interest to work on the Forrestfield-Airport Link
SI-NRW is now looking to fill a number of key procurement packages for works starting this year.
Following the Aboriginal Business Briefing held in June, the Noongar Business Working Group has continued to meet and discuss how these procurement opportunities could be maximised for Aboriginal businesses. An Aboriginal Engagement Strategy has been developed for the project to ensure there are real, on the ground opportunities for Aboriginal participation on the Forrestfield-Airport Link project and SI-NRW is committed to directly engaging with the Aboriginal Business Community.
The jobs portal link is now live on the SI-NRW website and provides further information about the prequalification and tendering process, as well as early works packages available through the project. Click here to lodge your Supplier Prequalification Application. For further information email enquiries@si-nrwjv.com.au.
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Tunnelling operations have paused on the Forrestfield-Airport Link after a section of piping servicing one of the tunnel boring machines (TBM) dislodged in Tunnel Two, causing a slurry spill.
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Premier Mark McGowan and Transport Minister Rita Saffioti today welcomed the arrival of TBM Grace to the Redcliffe Station construction site, as the State Government highlighted the significant investment in METRONET as part of this week's State Budget.
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Read all about it: Xi visit on Pyongyang front pages - just
AFP June 18, 2019
Xi Jinping's visit was the fourth item on the front page of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper
Xi Jinping's visit was the fourth item on the front page of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper (AFP Photo/Ed JONES)
Chinese President Xi Jinping's forthcoming visit to North Korea this week was in the news in Pyongyang Tuesday, but in the country where Kim Jong Un comes first, it only just made the front page.
The Rodong Sinmun newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the ruling Workers' Party, made it the fourth item on page one, in a highlight box but without a picture.
"Xi Jinping to visit DPRK", read the headline, using the North's formal name.
The one-sentence story said that Xi would be making a state visit "at the invitation of Kim Jong Un", giving both men's national and party titles.
The trip by the leader of the North's key diplomatic ally and main provider of trade and aid has long been awaited, and comes after Kim travelled to China four times for meetings with Xi.
But the Rodong Sinmun's top item is always about Kim, and it led Tuesday with news that the Venezuelan city of Naguanagua had awarded him its top honour to mark the one-year anniversary of his Singapore summit with US President Donald Trump.
Nuclear negotiations with Washington have since stalled, with a second summit in Hanoi breaking up as the two sides disagreed over the extent of sanctions relief and what the North would be willing to give up in return.
Analysts say that Xi's journey is intended as a signal to Trump –- with whom he is embroiled in a separate dispute over trade –- of his backing for Kim and influence with him.
In Pyongyang, commuters waiting for their trains read about the visit in newsstands at subway stations.
The city's metro system is one of the deepest in the world, intended for use as a shelter in the event of nuclear war.
The stations have names such as Victory, Glory and Reunification, and some are ornately decorated with marble columns and mosaics of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, or scenes of development, and mainstays of tourist itineraries in the capital.
Many of the travellers Tuesday wore wellingtons for protection against the heavy rain that was falling in the capital -- after months of drought, the North has seen significant precipitation this month.
Each morning subway staff insert the latest edition of the paper in the station displays - one of the main ways ordinary citizens can access the publication, which is always uniformly supportive of the authorities and the Kim family.
Its second item Tuesday was on the many books written by Kim's father and predecessor Kim Jong Il.
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Wall Street is getting conflicting signals about how investors feel
Dion Rabouin
Yahoo Finance February 2, 2018
Traders Gregory Rowe, left, and Thomas Donato work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Two of Wall Street’s biggest players can’t seem to agree on whether investors are nervous or euphoric about the markets.
“Talking to our clients, we still find risk aversion and hesitance about the impact of fiscal reforms and political developments (e.g., midterm elections, Nunes memo, etc.),” JP Morgan’s Marko Kolanovic said in a note to clients on Thursday.
Kolanovic’s clients were asking if the market was “de-risking” itself, or selling off riskier assets like stocks. It wasn’t simply the slide in equities, however, he said. There was also concern that U.S. Treasury yields had jumped, moving the benchmark 10-year note to a level the bank had said just a few years ago would become an issue for equities – above 2.75%.
On the other end of the spectrum, a note from Morgan Stanley to clients reported that there may be too much excitement about the market.
“[W]e can definitely say we have entered the zone where emotions have swung toward the euphoric end,” Morgan Stanley’s Michael Wilson said. “This euphoria is also now evident in the press and media, where negativity had dominated the conversation for years.”
The two notes paint an interesting picture of the financial markets. While economic indicators continue to support broad-based economic strength around the globe, investors are still sending ambiguous signals.
But most agree that the memory of financial crisis is still fresh. The unexpected market crash in 2007-2008 has given investors a new sense of incredulity and even today’s bull market remains widely distrusted, Wilson said, an aftereffect of the financial crisis.
Since 2009, “Investors often looked for or even manufactured reasons why they remained underinvested and were holding so much cash,” Wilson added.
“However, there are fundamental reasons to be more positive,” he continued. “Economic conditions have rarely been better and now we have corporate tax cuts driving earnings estimates much higher than even we expected.”
Dion Rabouin is a markets reporter for Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter: @DionRabouin.
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Waste Connections (WCN) Q1 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
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Waste Connections (NYSE: WCN)
Q1 2019 Earnings Call
April 25, 2019 8:30 a.m. ET
Prepared Remarks
Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Greetings and welcome to the Waste Connections' first-quarter 2019 earnings conference call. [Operator instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded, Thursday, April 25, 2019. I would now like to turn the conference over to Worthing Jackman, president. Please go ahead.
Worthing Jackman -- President
OK. Thank you, Melissa, and good morning, everyone. I'd like to welcome everyone to this conference call to discuss our first-quarter 2019 results and provide a detailed outlook for the second quarter. I'm joined this morning by Mary Anne Whitney, our CFO; and other members of our senior management team.
Our CEO, Ron Mittelstaedt, remains on a leave of absence and is not able to join us today. As noted in our earnings release, we are extremely pleased with the strong start to the year, which, along with the expected sequential improvement in volumes and recently completed acquisitions, positions us well for the remainder of 2019. Continuing strength and solid waste price growth, once again drove underlying margin expansion and better-than-expected financial results in the quarter enabling us to overcome weather-related impacts across multiple markets and further declines in recycle commodity values. Adjusted free cash flow of almost 20% of revenue in the quarter, puts us solidly on track to achieve our full-year outlook of $950 million.
In addition, year to date, we have signed and closed acquisitions with total annualized revenue of approximately $100 million, putting us on pace to potentially deliver another outsized year of acquisition activity. Before we get into much more detail, let me turn the call over to Mary Anne Whitney for our forward-looking disclaimer and other housekeeping items.
Mary Anne Whitney -- Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Worthing, and good morning. The discussion during today's call includes forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. Actual results could differ materially from those made in such forward-looking statements due to various risks and uncertainties.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ are discussed both in the cautionary statement on Page 2 of our April 24 earnings release and in greater detail in Waste Connections' filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the securities commissions or similar regulatory authorities in Canada. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and information as there may be additional risks of which we are not presently aware or that we currently believe are immaterial, which could have an adverse impact on our business. We make no commitment to revise or update any forward-looking statements and information in order to reflect events or circumstances that may change after today's date.
On the call, we will discuss non-GAAP measures such as adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income attributable to Waste Connections on both a dollar basis and per diluted share and adjusted free cash flow. Please refer to our earnings releases for a reconciliation of such non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measures. Management uses certain non-GAAP measures to evaluate and monitor the ongoing financial performance of our operations. Other companies may calculate these non-GAAP measures differently.
I will now turn the call back over to Worthing.
Thank you, Mary Anne. In the first quarter, solid waste price plus volume growth was 4% in line with our guidance. That said, total price of 5.2% exceeded the high end of our outlook for the quarter and was our highest reported price in over 10 years, up 90 basis points year over year, reflecting the impact of the additional price increases we implemented in mid-2018 in response to accelerating cost pressures and lower recycle commodity values. Moreover, the total price was up 40 basis points sequentially from Q4 2018.
As we've noted in recent quarters, our pricing strength reflects the differentiation of our market model and intense focus on execution and accountability. In Q1, our pricing ranged from approximately 3.5% in our more exclusive markets in the Western region to an average of over 5.5% in our more competitive regions. Reported volume growth in Q1 was negative 1.2%, slightly lower than expected due to an estimated 50 basis points impact to volume growth from harsh winter weather conditions. Persistent and severe weather-related impacts in several markets resulted in facility closures and delayed special waste projects in certain markets, most notably in our Central region, which includes, Minnesota, Illinois and Colorado, among the states hardest hit by prolonged severe winter weather.
As expected, about 50 basis points of negative volume was due to the purposeful shedding of poor quality revenue primarily the impact of the New York City Department of Sanitation marine terminal operations contract for the third party. As noted on prior calls, we expect to fully anniversary the impact of shedding later this year. As a result, we estimate that underlying volumes were about flat in the period, and the quarter ended with improving trends as special waste jobs and other activity picked up with improving weather in many markets. This sets us up for about 150 basis points sequential increase in volumes and positive volume growth on a reported basis in Q2 sooner than we had expected in the year.
Looking at year-over-year results in the first quarter by line of business on a same-store basis, commercial collection revenue increased approximately 5.5% mostly due to price increases. Roll-off revenue increased approximately 3% on higher pulls and revenue per day -- revenue per pull. In the U.S., pulls per day increased about 1% and revenue per pull was up about 4%. In Canada, pulls per day were about flat or an increase in revenue per pull of about 6.5%.
Solid waste landfill tonnage increased about 1% on increases in MSW tons, up about 4%, led by increases in the Northeastern California and C&D tons, up 7% on increases in several markets, led by the mid-Atlantic and Colorado. Special waste tons were down about 9% in Q1, on tough comps and weather impacts in several markets as noted earlier, including Minnesota and Colorado. Recycling revenue, excluding acquisitions, was about $17 million in the first quarter, down $5.5 million or approximately 25%, which was worse than expected on continued deterioration in pricing for old corrugated containers or OCC and mixed paper. OCC prices in Q1 averaged about $77 per ton, which was down 24% from the year ago period and down 17% from Q4 2018.
OCC prices exited the quarter at their lowest levels during the period and have continued to weaken in Q2 as demand from China remains muted and domestic mills are mostly full. Mixed paper revenue, ex acquisitions, declined approximately 65% year over year with values less than zero in many markets, currently averaging around a negative $7 per ton. We believe that the flow-through from changes in recycling revenue was similar to prior quarters with decremental margins of approximately 95% due to the combination of lower fiber values and higher recycling processing costs, resulting in an impact of over $5 million in EBITDA and about $0.015 per share of EPS in Q1. OCC prices currently average between $60 and $65 per ton, down another 15% to 20% from Q1 and down about 30% to 35% from last year's average of $95 in the second quarter.
We see no emphasis for improvement in recycle commodity values at this time, which reinforces our conservative approach to full-year guidance back in February. Looking at E&P waste activity. We reported $63.1 million of E&P waste revenue in the first quarter, up about 14% year over year. In addition to the Permian, which continues to be our largest basin, we are seeing tick up in activity, both on and offshore in Louisiana, and in Q1, we commenced operations at our new E&P waste landfill in Wyoming's Powder Basin where we expect to have activity to begin to ramp during Q2.
Looking at acquisition activity. Year to date, we've signed or closed acquisitions with total annualized revenue of little over $100 million, including three new market entries in Colorado, Illinois and Iowa, and tuck-ins in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, New York and Wyoming. The majority of this activity completed year to date closed in April, including American Waste & Recycling, a leading independent provider of solid waste collection in Colorado, which serves over 100,000 customers in the north central mountains in Denver markets. And we also acquired Lewis Clark Recycling and Disposal, an integrated solid waste company with operations in southern Illinois, Iowa and the greater Omaha area.
These acquisitions along with a robust pipeline and active dialogue put us on pace to deliver another outsized year of acquisition activity. Given the strength of our balance sheet and free cash flow generation, we remain well-positioned for continued above-average acquisition activity. Now I'd like to pass the call to Mary Anne to review more in depth the financial highlights of the first quarter and provide a detailed outlook for Q2. I will then wrap up before heading to the Q&A.
Thank you, Worthing. In the first quarter, revenue was $1.245 billion, about $5 million above our outlook and up $104.5 million over the prior-year period. Acquisitions completed since the year-ago period contributed about $75.4 million of revenue in the quarter or about $69 million net of divestitures. Adjusted EBITDA for Q1, as reconciled in our earnings release, was $385.7 million or almost $3 million above our outlook for the period due to higher-than-expected revenue and margins.
Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue was 31% in Q1, about 10 basis points above our margin outlook in spite of the headwinds of lower recycle commodity values and weather-related impacts as noted earlier. And the margin dilutive impact of acquisitions completed since the prior-year period. Excluding the impact of acquisitions and the decline in recycled commodity values, adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue was of up approximately 45 basis points year over year. Moreover, underlying year-over-year margins increased 80 basis points when further adjusted for the incremental costs associated with our improved 401(k) match and stronger stock market performance in the quarter, which resulted in a 20-basis-point increase to deferred compensation cost.
Fuel expense in Q1 was about 3.6% of revenue, and we averaged approximately $2.66 per gallon for diesel in the quarter, which was down about $0.02 from the year-ago period and up $0.01 sequentially from Q4 2018. Depreciation and amortization expense for the first quarter was 14.3% of revenue, up 30 basis points year over year due to higher capital expenditures, as well as increased amortization expenses associated with acquisitions completed since the year-ago period. Interest expense in the quarter increased $4.9 million over the prior-year period to $37.3 million due to higher outstanding debt and increased interest rates as compared to the prior-year period. Net of interest income from invested cash balances, interest expense increased $2.8 million year over year.
Debt outstanding at quarter end was about $4.2 billion, about 21% of which was floating rates. And our leverage ratio, as defined in our credit agreement, was about 2.4 times debt to EBITDA with cash balances of almost $500 million. Since quarter end, we have increased our fixed-to-floating debt ratio to approximately 90% as we completed a public offering of $500 million of senior notes on April 16 with most of the proceeds directed to floating-rate debt repayment. Our current weighted average cost of debt is approximately 3.6%.
Our effective tax rate for the first quarter was 18.2%. The Q1 rate, as expected, included a benefit to the provision related to excess tax benefits associated with equity-based compensation. Regarding tax rates, we noted a number February call that late in December 2018, the IRS released proposed regulations associated with the Tax Act that we believe if finalized as drafted could impact our current effective tax rate of approximately 21.5%. We indicated at that time that, depending on the final form of any proposed regulations, our estimated resulting effective tax rate for 2019 could range between 21.5% and 26.5%.
For the full year, our outlook assumed that some form of the proposed rates would be enacted and therefore, reflected the midpoint of our expected range or a 24% effective tax rate. The proposed regulations are still anticipated to be finalized no earlier than June, if they do indeed get approved as final. And that timing will impact our effective tax rates from quarter to quarter during the year. As we noted, our first-quarter tax rate in 2019 was not impacted from these proposed rates.
Similarly, our second-quarter tax rate in 2019 is not expected at this time to be impacted since the regulations remain in proposed form, and therefore, should be about 22% in the period. However, if the proposed regulations are enacted during Q2 as drafted, there would be a true-up to our tax rate in the period, which we expect would increase the rate to approximately 26.5% in Q2, resulting in about a $0.03 earnings per share impact for the period. We will provide a further update during our second-quarter earnings call. GAAP and adjusted net income per diluted share were $0.48 and $0.62 respectively in the first quarter.
Adjusted net income in Q1 primarily excludes the impact of intangible amortization and other acquisition-related items. Adjusted free cash flow in Q1 was $246.3 million or 19.8% of revenue. Given our strong start to the year, adjusted free cash flow is solidly on track to achieve our original outlook of $950 million for 2019. I will now review our outlook for the second quarter of 2019.
Before I do, we'd like to remind everyone once again that actual results may vary significantly based on risks and uncertainties outlined in our safe harbor statement and filings we've made with the SEC and the Securities Commissions or similar regulatory authorities in Canada. We encourage investors to review these factors carefully. Our outlook assumes no change in the current economic and operating environment. It also excludes any impact from additional acquisitions or divestitures that may close during the remainder of the year and expensing of transaction-related items during the period.
Turning now to our outlook for Q2 2019. Revenue in Q2 is estimated to be approximately $1.360 billion. We expect price growth for solid waste to be in the range of 4.5% to 5% in Q2 with volume in the range of flat to up 50 basis points, a sequential increase of about 1.5%, reflecting the pickup in special waste and other activity noted earlier. Adjusted EBITDA in Q2 is estimated to be approximately 31.9% of revenue or about $434 million in spite of margin dilutive acquisitions completed since the year-ago period and lower recycled commodity values.
Depreciation and amortization expense for the second quarter is estimated to be about 13.7% of revenue. Of that amount, amortization of intangibles in the quarter is estimated to be about $32.5 million or $0.09 per diluted share net of taxes. Interest expense net of interest income in Q2 is estimated to be approximately $36 million. Our effective tax rate in Q2, as noted earlier, is estimated to be about 22%, subject to change in the event that the proposed tax regulations as drafted are enacted during the quarter.
As noted earlier, we estimate that the Q2 rate would increase to approximately 26.5% in the event that the proposed regulations as drafted are passed in June, which would result in an impact of approximately $0.03 per share in the quarter. And finally, noncontrolling interest is expected to reduce net income by about $200,000 in the second quarter. And now let me turn the call back over to Worthing for some final remarks before Q&A.
Thank you, Mary Anne. Again, we are extremely pleased with our start to the year. Strength in solid waste pricing, improving solid waste volume trends and further growth in E&P waste activity position us well for the remainder of the year. Year-to-date acquisition activity and ongoing dialogue are already indicative of another potential outsized year for acquisition activity.
And as noted earlier, adjusted free cash flow is expanding solidly on track to achieve our original $950 million outlook for the full year. That all said, we believe it's appropriate as in prior years to wait until our Q2 earnings release to update our outlook for the full year. We appreciate your time today, I'll now turn this call over to the operator to open up the lines for your questions. Operator?
Questions and Answers:
Thank you. [Operator instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Michael Hoffman with Stifel. Please proceed.
Michael Hoffman -- Stifel Financial Corp. -- Analyst
Thank you very much. When you look at the solid waste business and all the talking heads would go, "We're 10 years into an economic recovery, how can this possibly continue, we got to be into a recession eventually." What are you seeing that would tell us that you're wrong, that things are stable, low growth healthy economy?
Well, I think you just answered your own question because I'd agree with you, kind of slow and steady seems to be kind of the path over the past decade versus a bubble that gets popped and that they could still be proven right that slow and steady could come to an end, but we're not seeing any signs of that, Michael. In fact, we're presently surprised at the earlier ramp and volume activity versus what we had expected in February. But clearly, it's been a longer road for recovery, it's been a slow and steady. But again, we're not seeing any signs of a slowdown at all.
OK. And then, the ADSW transaction, presuming that they're going to have sell stuff, is there anything from a Hart-Scott standpoint that would prevent you from being able to buy any or all of that based on what you know...
Not to our knowledge, Michael. Not to our knowledge.
So that's an attractive future potential opportunity for you as well then?
OK. And then within the context of recycling model itself, has the lower prices helped accelerate the pace to which the market model is changing? Or are we just still on a slow and steady -- it's contract cycles and you got to plow through it?
You got to plow through it. I mean look this has been an ongoing effort over the past a year and a half to two in some cases. It's a market-by-market kind of whack a mole that you have out there depending upon what's happening unique in the market, including third-party or other facility closures that disrupt recycling. Obviously, you've got some independence that are in financial straits that might be shutting down, that disrupts the market further.
You got contracts that have different termination dates on it that give you different opportunity to renegotiate it. So clearly, it's -- I think the industry has made a lot of progress on this, significant amount of progress over the past year and a half or two, but again, it's not fully done.
OK. Thank you very much. Congratulations on the quarter. Thank you.
Our next question comes from Hamzah Mazari with Macquarie Capital. Please proceed.
Hamzah Mazari -- Macquarie Group -- Analyst
Good morning. My first question is on pricing. Worthing, you mentioned pricing of 5% -- a little over 5% is close to the 6% that you saw mid-2008. I know you are giving quarterly guidance on price, but if you look over a multiyear time frame, assuming the economy holds up, do you expect to surpass the 6% pricing level just given that the sector is a lot more consolidated than we saw back in '08 and potentially a lot more disciplined? Any comments?
No. Look Hamza, I know we've been fairly consistent. And pricing is linked to CPI and underlying cost. That's clear is that we're saying, on average, we're getting around 150 to 200 basis points right now over CPI in this environment.
You tell me what CPI is and we'll tell you where our pricing might end up. And so I wouldn't -- obviously, we're not saying 5.2% is going to 6%, we're saying 5.2% will go to probably 4.5% to 5%, likely be upper end of that range for Q2. But that's more just the fact that some price increases we put in place last year in response to inflation pressures we saw in the first four months of last year, as well as the decline of recycling commodity values early last year that really started this trend. Those interim price increases were put place are anniversarying.
So we'll stay right now in this environment, we'll stay in that 4.5% to 5% for the full year unless we see something in the underlying cost side that causes us to need more.
Got it. And for my follow-up question, could you maybe frame for investors what the leadership team is doing to substitute in Ron? Or how you are handling the burden of his leave of absence? Specifically, is it preventing you from doing much larger transactions? I know you've done some transactions that you highlighted, new market entries, etc., but curious does his absence prevent you from doing multibillion dollar deals in the near term? And then maybe for investors what is the leadership doing to sort of step in for him?
Well, I hope you see in the performance in Q1 at every level whether it'd be top line growth, execution in the middle of a P&L, the underlying margin expansion that Mary Anne laid out for you that's exceeded 80 basis points year over year reflective of a strong price. I think you see the -- as we talked about the execution and accountability that our culture -- it's the foundation of our culture. So I think you've seen all of that in play in play in Q1. I think you see in our guidance it continuing, you see the acquisitions that we've gotten done year to date, as well as what we'll continue to get done during this quarter.
Shows you that we haven't skipped a beat. And it really is a testament to the longevity of the management team and a team from top to bottom, really meaning throughout the organization. It's been together for a long period of time. It's a testament to the strength of the culture that's been purposeful that we've been driving through organization for the past 12 to 14 years.
So again, I don't think -- I won't say anyone's skip any beat. I would say, our decentralized model, which puts a lot of decision making at the front level in the local markets that's supported by an operating model that's a strong DVP and RVP model, shows you that the execution doesn't slip. So I'd tell you that from our seat right now, we're quite pleased with how things have stepped up. Obviously, Ron stays in our mind just from a care and concern for him and his family, but again, I think you see it's a testament to the organization that he is put together that you see in the results that we're printing right now.
Our next question comes from the line of Brian Maguire with Goldman Sachs. Please proceed.
Brian Maguire -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Good morning. Ron, if you're listening, best wishes to you. Yes, I think Michael and Hamza sort of danced around this question a little bit. I just wanted to ask a little bit more directly.
If -- given you can borrow at 3.6% sort of weighted average debt, what is it about the Advanced transaction that made you guys a little bit hesitant to pull the trigger on it or get involved in? Any comments you can kind of have as to your activity in that asset as it came up for sale?
Sure. Well, nothing prevents us from writing checks of that size, nothing would prevent us from doing a large transaction to Hamza's question of writing a multibillion dollar check. So there is nothing organizationally, balance sheet or any other constraints that prohibits us from doing that. Obviously, every acquirer sees something different in a target, we're no different.
How Waste Management is looking at the Advanced acquisition is for the next call at to be discussed, so I wouldn't want to weigh in on how they view Advanced. Obviously, we've had our own view of that acquisition over the years, we put it up and benchmarked it next to the Progressive acquisition that we completed in 2016. And the metrics are different as we see them, but again that's just from our approach. So I agree with you.
I mean there's nothing that prohibits us from doing it. Obviously, as we've always said it's not just the markets you enter, it's the price you pay to get into them. And from our standpoint, we wish Waste the best, it's -- this is not something we believe we missed. Obviously, we hope to hang around the room and pick up any divestitures potentially that come out of that transaction.
OK. That makes a lot of sense. Can you comment on the sort of related question on the $100 million of acquisitions you've closed on, sort of how much of that was sign during the period? It does sound like most of it was in April, but just the cadence of when it'll come into the earning? And then sort of how the multiple year paying on those compares to what you've been paying on transactions in the last year or two.
Sure. Well, why don't I start with the first part of that and then turn it over to Worthing. So in terms of the $100 million signed or closed, about $10 million of that closed during Q1, about $80 million closed in Q2. So that tells you, in April, the majority of its gotten done and there's still about $10 million left to close.
So that's the breakdown. And then if you look -- if you're adding that into your model for subsequent quarters, it's about $22 million per quarter is the way to think about the incremental contribution from acquisitions.
And the cadence on activity here, well, just because we're on this call today doesn't mean we're done with acquisitions for the period. Obviously, we've got a full quarter in front of us in Q2. I suspect you'll see a handful of additional transactions that sign or close in the period, that could by midyear take us up to what we call an average year of $125 million to $150 million of acquired revenue done by midyear, which leaves half the year left over for what we would call an above average amount of activity. And again, that would exclude any divestitures because we don't know the timing of the Waste and Advanced deal.
And they've already highlighted that's probably an early 2020 transaction. So as we've said before, the pipeline's robust, dialogue is active, and the cadence of what we're doing has continued unabated. With regards to multiple, again, guys, we've talked in the past, look high quality, larger, meaning $40 million, $50-plus million type revenue acquisitions, attractive franchises, integrated models, markets, things like that. Those multiples are going up about one time to one and a half times.
Those are running anywhere from nine and a half to 10 times EBITDA right now. Obviously, smaller market tuck-ins are running right now still in that for four to six times. And kind of collection only smaller transactions could be running in that six to eight times, depending upon the market. Everything we do is, again, cash on cash, so what I'm giving you is just the output of an NPV and what we're willing to pay divided by what the EBITDA is.
Yes. That makes sense. Just One last one for me. On the volume pickup you're seeing in 2Q, I was wondering, it's -- I know it's hard to quantify this, but is it possible that some of that is just the positive giveback of the 1Q weather-related issues? And then this bounce that we're seeing in Q2 may not be sustainable? Or do you feel like this is actually a good trend kind of heading into the back half of the year?
I think it's a good trend because, again, in February, we had mentioned that we thought the volumes would turn positive in the second half of the year. And that's not changed. The fact that we're turning positive in Q2 earlier than expected doesn't pull forward anything that we're seeing in the second half of the year into Q2. But to your point, wherever weather broke, will it be the second, third or fourth week in March, volumes improve dramatically.
Now the weather hasn't broken everywhere, but where that breaks in other markets, we expect to see a continued increase. As you look at Q2, again, Central region we noted before, which was negative in Q1 mostly due to weather, turns nicely positive in Q2. And obviously such economic and weather. East Region as well, I mean, East Region, we also expect to be positive.
And of course, the West has been the largest area for volume growth for the company as well. And again, as we've continued to push through the purposeful shedding and get to the end of that, you're seeing the impact of that abate in the -- what I would call the legacy more progressive-type markets in Canada and the South Region.
All right. Appreciate it. Thanks.
The next question comes from Tyler Brown with Raymond James. Please proceed.
Tyler Brown -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Hey, good morning. Congrats on the start to the year. Mary Anne, thanks so much for unpacking the margins, but I want to make sure that I've got it. So total margins were down, say 30 basis points ex 30 -- or down 30 basis points, but excluding M&A and recycling they were up 45, is that right?
That's correct. That's 50 basis points...
OK. And then...
Sorry, 50 and 25.
OK. And -- OK, 50 and 25, great. And then they were up 80 if you take out the 401(k) in stock comp.
That's correct. Yes.
Yes. That would put reported -- that would've put consolidated margins, again, in excess of 32% in period.
OK. Now I know you play an outdoor sport, but any thoughts on what weather did on margins maybe specifically at the leachate level?
Well, we did note that leachate was up year over year and weather is part of that reason. I would say, when we think about the weather impact and the incremental volume loss associated with weather, if you say that's 50 basis points, does not have a big margin impact from that because of course, as Worthing noted in his remarks, in some cases actually facility closures that happened during weather impacts. And so it's really more about the volumes and not a big margin impact there. There are some costs that -- cost increases and leachate was one of them and part of that is weather.
And Tyler, as you know, I mean -- Tyler, as you know, EBITDA before expenses is called revenue, right? And so if we're starting at a 100% margin, there are ins and outs throughout the P&L. So if we start isolating all of the bad things, we're not recognizing good things as well. So our believe is that what we should really be focused on is simply just the impact of recycling because that episodically can move the needle. Obviously, recycling has been a topic de jure and so we've highlighted that.
The deferred comp -- while deferred comp is a -- as the market goes up is a really mark-to-market hit from a margin standpoint on EBITDA, it doesn't hit earnings per share because you see that impact come back in other income and because we've invested in -- we've restricted cash to mirror the deferred comp liability, and so the income on that comes back in other income. Again, the 401(k) just one-year item for us because we'll anniversary that next year.
Everything else -- it's not highlighting one thing here, one thing there, one extra day, one less day, I mean, it's just -- this just starts getting confusing.
Yes. No, I hear you. But very strong that's the key message there. OK, so Mary Anne, on the -- so I think going into the year you were guiding to, call it, a 4% revenue contribution from M&A.
So basically at this point, you're not going to get the full 100%, but say you maybe add another 1% to 2% to that 4%? Is that the right way to think about it for the full year?
Sure. As I said, there is about between $65 million and $70 million of what's closed year to date that will contribute in 2019. That's where the, call it -- between $20 million and $25 million, $22 million, $23 million per quarter incremental to what you already had rolling in.
OK. Perfect.
Put simply. I mean Ron last year when he talked about what could happen in 2019, we talked about 8% to 10% top-line growth. We came in the year with 8% already in the bag. What you're hearing now is the march up toward 10% as transactions continue to close.
Again, so I think what you're seeing is the execution that backs up what we had expected for the year last year.
OK. And were -- you noted some new market entries, but were there some disposal assets in the mix in that $100 million?
Yes. One of the markets is integrated. And in terms -- if you're thinking about the margin contributions -- excuse me, two -- there are two landfills coming in the mix. And if you're thinking about the margin impact, I think about it the same way for the full-year guidance, the 30 basis points dilutive impact, it wouldn't be materially different with these incremental acquisitions.
And as noted in Q2 when we talk about the cadence of acquisitions, there could be another one or two landfills that we execute on in Q2.
OK. Great. And then on the assets that are potentially coming to market. Is it safe to assume that you would have interest in both, call it, selected small container and landfill? Or would you favor maybe one over other? Or is everything at play?
I'll tell you everything is in play.
OK. And then maybe my last one here, Worthing. So you guys are putting up great pricing, your large peer is putting up great pricing. And I'm curious about what's going on deeper in the industry particularly at the mom and pop level.
So what would you attribute this breakout in price, too? Is it simply that everybody is full? Or do you think that the mom and pops who seem to set the marginal price in the industry are really getting crushed on recycling and other cost pressures, and it's just forcing them to make big price increases? And I'm curious if you're seeing that as you do due diligence on those small guys.
Absolutely. I think what you -- you just answered your question in that. Look if you came into '17 and '18 living on lower collection margins, trying to subsidize it with recycling, well, again, you went from getting paid for recyclables to getting charged $120 to $180 a ton depends on where you are in the marketplace. That was a dramatic reversal for folks that were trying to give away recycling from a collection -- pricing standpoint and trying to avoid a landfill cost from a disposal standpoint.
And so that alone was a major impact to those companies. And as well they're seeing the same labor pressures, fuel pressure, third-party logistics pressures that we saw last year. And so -- just a combination of that forced everyone really to go back in to get pricing. And what you said is true on diligence.
I mean look if the companies that we're looking at and the few that we have bought went in middle of last year and put incremental 6% and 7% price increases on top of their traditional 4% price increases, and basically we're putting 10% to 11% price increases in place last year to offset everything we just talked about. So without doubt, it's a period of time meaning last year and then roll over that into this year that folks have had to pursue price to offset what hit them. So it is a unique time with regards to both those things hitting simultaneously.
Yes. That's very helpful. Thanks, guys.
Our next question comes from Derek Spronck with RBC. Please proceed.
Derek Spronck -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Good morning. Thank you for taking my questions. Just sticking with the pricing thematic. Are you getting any pushback from customers around the absolute pricing level? And how are the customer churn levels?
No. I would say, coming into the quarter, we guided to 4% to -- excuse me, 4.5% to 5% and we delivered higher than that. So what that tells you is the retention rates were better than we expected coming into the quarter. And again, as Worthing said, some of what you're seeing in reported price is the rollover contribution from last year, so those were already in place.
And actually a disproportionate amount of PIs were in place coming into the year because of that. Our typical model, we put our prices then in Q1. And so you're seeing the benefit of the rollover and current retention rates being a little higher than expected.
And we've seen no notable change in churn rates.
OK. Great. Just on the E&P capex. I believe you indicated you were -- you're marking around $15 million, but you had some optionality that you would decide whether to deploy the full $15 million, any update there?
Yes. I mean we're still pursuing the same projects we've been talking about before. Obviously, the timing of those expenditures are really now in the hands of contractors and their ability to mobilize to work in our projects. It's -- these basins are labor constrained, they're contractor constrained.
Some cases most labor has been sucked into pipeline construction and other areas and diverted away from traditional -- or movement in other construction. So we're at the mercy right now of contractors for the timing of what we get done in those areas. I say the good news is E&P is -- it's trending at or above where we expect it for the year now with crude coming at $65 as we sit here today, and M&A activity picking up in E&P land. We feel pretty good about where we sit looking at the balance of the year.
Is the 50% EBITDA margin a good run rate margin? And would you still assume there is significant operating leverage if volumes were to pick up in E&P?
OK. And then just one more for myself. SG&A expenses were down on a net basis nicely. I thought that there was around a $6 million legal expense that rolled off, I believe.
Does that -- should we assume that is sustained, and therefore, we should appropriately take down our SG&A expense over the next few quarters with the -- roughly the same number?
No. I mean look with 85% of our revenue sitting in the U.S., and 150% of our litigation sitting in the U.S., legal does not -- legal is a growth expense not something that's shrinking. So no, it's just -- it's timing of ins and outs based on what was in prior year. As further my point before, we start trying to add back every cost that went up, you're missing some cost that goes down, right? And so it's like any portfolio of items, some go up and some go down.
But I wouldn't extrapolate Q1 into future periods.
OK. Fair enough. Thanks for taking my questions. I'll turn it over.
Our next question comes from Mark Neville with Scotiabank. The line is open. Please proceed.
Mark Neville -- Scotiabank -- Analyst
Hi. Good morning. The $5 million impact to recycling -- or from recycling in Q1, is it a similar type hit in 2Q and through this back half? Or is it more normal in the second half?
No. As we described, what we've seen since Q1 is continued deterioration of recycle commodity prices. So even though last year the commodity prices stepped down a little between Q1 and Q2. I would say, you'll see at least the same kind of impact in Q2.
That -- the decrements continue to be in that 95% range from the deterioration.
But probably a little less punitive in the second half of the year just given the declines we saw throughout 2018.
But Q2, I think similar is right way to think about it.
OK. OK. When you touched on this, the E&P, it's up nicely in activities since you're picking up. I guess is the thought there now that's maybe a little better than flat I think that was the previous expectation?
Well, again, we'll give our thoughts for the full year in July. But obviously, we printed north of 60% in Q1, we're trending again north of 60% in Q2. So if you annualize just that first 6 months, you're getting to at least flatter or better than flat year over year . But let's wait till Q2 is in the bank.
Sure. And maybe just to clarify Mary Anne, the -- this $22 million from M&A, that's starts in Q2?
That's correct.
OK. Thank you. I'll pass it over to someone else.
Our next question come from the line of Sean Eastman with KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please proceed.
Sean Eastman -- KeyBank Capital Markets -- Analyst
Thanks for taking my questions. I just wanted to go back to the volume outlook. Last quarter, you guys messaged a kind of a flat underlying volume trajectory for the full year. Obviously, we started the quarter with some weather impacts, but it seems like sort of the earlier-than-expected ramp in 2Q is maybe a more meaningful data point there.
So maybe -- I know we're waiting til next quarter, I'm just wondering if you could comment on the bias toward that flat underlying outlook based on what you've seen so far in this kind of initial 2Q ramp up?
Sure. I would say, we're certainly encouraged by what we've seen. I mean some of it is -- it's a sharper increase, which you would expect with a prolonged winter and longer downs are going to make for a sharper ramp compared, but we're encourage just looking at one-time jobs and the pace of those coming in not just timing related but bigger -- some incremental jobs there. We've had some nice wins.
So there's a number of factors that are supporting not just the seasonal pickup but some improving trends. So I would just say, in general, we're encouraged. As Worthing said, we'll look in the middle of the year to communicate what we think the full year looks like, but we're certainly encouraged by what we've seen thus far in 2Q.
And even on more longer-term municipal contract wins, our win-to-loss ratio is up nicely relative to where it'd been in the prior several quarters. So to Mary Anne's point, we are encouraged.
OK. That's great, very helpful. And it's been asked a couple of times on recycling and I realize it's a small business, but I was wondering just -- if there is maybe a more concrete number around how we should think about the revenue which translates into EBITDA essentially, sensitivity to like a $10 change in that underlying basket. Just to the extent maybe we see further declines through the year having a better idea of exactly what that means for you guys would be helpful.
Well, sure. I mean if you just look last year, we did around $88 million in recycled commodities. And so a 10% move is about $8 million -- $8.8 million in that example, and we're telling you the decrements, it would be almost that amount going to the EBITDA line. So you tax effect that and convert that and you get at least $0.01 per share per quarter.
And what we're talking about here is really how you see it come through the P&L on a consolidated basis right? Obviously, to the extent that we're putting tip fees in, in our company through our own collection operations for the true processing cost of recycling. That can do a left pocket to right pocket and make recycling look a lot better within our own P&Ls. But on consolidated basis moving tip fees from our cost from a recycling facility into your own collection operation doesn't move the consolidated needle, it just makes recycling look in isolation a little bit better year over year. But frankly, on a consolidated basis, you got to think about it and that's what Mary Anne is laying out for you.
OK. That's helpful. And then just last one for me on recycling. You guys just seem a little less enthusiastic about sort of the pace at which this kind of challenged model is shifting toward something more sustainable.
Just wondering, kind of, a longer-term, five-year outlook for recycling. How do you position around that sort of time frame for recycling? How might that business look long term for Connections? I'm just curious, kind of, higher-level, long-term view there for that business.
Look we're making investments in recycling where it makes sense to make investments in recycling, make no mistake in looking at other alternative technologies to further our sustainability initiatives as well. But I'll tell you, look recycling is something that we're getting close to the wash-out, meaning, look, the synergy of wash-out, right? It's easy to go up. And what I mean by that, look as additional mills start to open in North America that will accept recycling feedstock as the input, that will put a better bid to the underlying commodity, fiber in this case, which will help turn the tide for the commodity value. Obviously, last year, you saw about four mills get purchased for such repurposing as those come online, and if others come online, you will see the tide turn.
Is that second half of 2020 or early 2020, one can't tell you, but if you question over the five-year horizon, this will definitely become a better business as you play this thing out. Now again, what this is also suggesting is an understanding by regulators, which is difficult, and others that diversion is not recycling. Diversion -- which people thought is diversion from landfills really meant divert to Asia, and that game is over. And so you have to as an industry and as the economy be sustainable within our shores to handle the recycling feedstock and deal with the discards and the contamination coming out the back end within our own landfills.
So a five-year horizon, obviously, it'll be better than it is today. Obviously, last week's data, we saw OCC just move up $1, so maybe we've hit the bottom, not sure, but clearly, at 60% to 65%, it feels pretty close, but again this is a domestic answer to the issue not offshore.
Very helpful. Thanks for the time.
Our next question comes from Chris Murray with AltaCorp Capital. Please proceed.
Chris Murray -- AltaCorp Capital -- Analyst
Thanks. Good morning. Just looking longer term, you've talked a bit about your revenue numbers might be a bit better on some better-than-expected volume. But I'm just looking at your free cash flow conversions.
So we're getting up to around 20% and you're still kind of talking about $950 million number, which -- at the rate you're at least seeming to be running seems to be a bit light. Just wondering if there is something that we should be thinking about in terms of the free cash flow conversion rate that maybe is thinking that you're going to be a little more conservative. Is there something in these tax changes that could be hitting you? Or is there something that we're maybe missing? Or should we be thinking that maybe your free cash flow number might be moving a bit higher over time?
Again, we've guided to $950 million and that's the spike. What we talked about in February that $20 million of cash flow that we expect in this year just happened to clear the banks on December 31, we don't control that. So really $950 million could've been $970 million. Look I think we need to play the long game on cash flow generation, maintain -- make sure we maintain cushion year in and year out for the things that surprise -- could surprise us or market visions that could materialize.
So I wouldn't get over my skis on sitting here today trying to looking at promising more than $950 million. Obviously, if recycling turns and E&P takes off and acquisitions go well above what we're talking about, certainly, I would expect $950 million to go higher. But -- and with regards to taxes, obviously, we've always talked about with cash taxes that we expect over time to move up from that 60% or 65% range into that 80% to 90% range. Obviously, the way U.S.
tax law is instructed right now and bonus depreciation peels off in 2022, every company will see an increase in cash taxes in 2023 as a big spike that year, then they'll start coming down again after you start putting that in the rearview mirror. But again, I'd own us for what we say we can do and there is no impetus for us to just artificially try to deliver something above and beyond what is sustainable.
The other thing that I would add, Chris, would just be a reminder that you can't generalize from Q1, it's always our strongest free cash flow quarter given the timing of taxes payments and interest. And so important to recognize that it is a strong start, but keep that in mind.
We always tell people don't annualize Q1.
Fair enough. I guess what I'm trying to figure out though is you've got a -- you basically have a 30 basis point increase in EBITDA, 50 basis point in free cash flow margin. Just trying to think about whether or not there is something in the system that's letting you do that other than just the scale of growth -- the scale and growth that you're seeing?
It's just timing. Again I wouldn't -- let's get the -- if you ask me that after us putting that five consecutive quarters, I'll give you a different answer. But as we're -- to make an extrapolation of one quarter I think would be premature.
All right. Thanks, folks.
[Operator instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Noah Kaye with Oppenheimer.
Noah Kaye -- Oppenheimer -- Analyst
Thanks so much for getting me in. I guess just on margins kind of guiding flat for 2Q year over year and despite the headwinds. I just wanted to understand how we should think about cadence for the next couple of quarters? I mean basically does the incremental from recycling preclude you from getting that sort of 30 bps margin expansion for the full year? Or let's just say recycling plus a little bit more acquisition spend?
Again, from a margin -- obviously, we said, we'll update full-year guidance in July. Obviously, if E&P comes in better, that's got nice incrementals, recycling is little worse, that's got high decrementals. Acquisitions can come in normally on a -- as we as caution you, on a margin dilutive basis. It depends on the type of deal we're doing, so let's see what we have done by July to give you a better insight on the impact of acquisitions for the full year.
Obviously, the stock market is melting up, that could have some margin pressure based on deferred comp, but that's not earnings pressure, right? Because it comes back in other income. So again, let's get til -- let's get to July to get a full picture on not only margin but more formally dollar EBITDA and dollar revenue because obviously, we're trending well in those areas.
Yes. Makes sense. And then just on your point around potential E&P upside. I mean not only getting to the higher oil prices but we've even seen consolidation or shall we say acquisitions by probably some more disciplined operators in the relevant basins.
What are you see on pricing in the E&P space? And how does play into potentially better leverage for your assets?
I'd say that's a customer-by-customer, rig-by-rig discussion. Without a doubt the trend in pricing in many cases is higher. But obviously, volume also plays a big role in that dialogue, obviously, capacity at each landfill, the water content within the solid waste stream can play a role in that discussion as well. We're not seeing pricing pressures.
The overall and the underlying tone is flat to higher, in most cases it's higher.
Great. Thanks so much.
There are no further questions at this time.
Thank you, Melissa. Well, if there are no further questions, on behalf of our entire management team, we appreciate you listening to and interest in the call today. Mary Anne and I are available today to answer any direct questions that we do not cover, that we're allowed to answer on the Reg FD, Reg G and applicable securities laws in Canada. Thank you again.
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We need to talk about Negroni
June 1, 2015 June 6, 2015 ~ fishmandeville
The people’s flag is Campari red, it shrouded oft our martyred dead—what mass agitation for Campari Week might look like. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
They appropriate everything I’ve ever loved. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
This is the third annual Negroni Week. From 1–7 June, that is. I suppose it’s possible that it began in Gruppo Campari’s marketing department, rather than as a popular clamour in the pubs, bars, fields, taverns and mean streets of the world, but for Campari, I don’t mind. Partly because I love the stuff—you can read my piece on that here—and partly because for years few others I knew liked it; they groaned, mocked, doubted and feared, even if many of them know better now. I always had a sense of Campari being friendless, beleaguered, unloved, neglected, and that lingers. It was always preposterous, given its mighty popularity in parts of the world, and is now much more so as the artisans and hipsters have taken it up. Anyhow, here’s to the noble Negroni, one of the best and strongest of cocktails, and a prime way to drink Campari.
Negroni basics
Gin, sweet dark vermouth and Campari served in an old fashioned/rocks glass. Possibly with ice and an orange twist. Perhaps invented by Count Negroni.
This is how they usually tell it. In the 19th century the Milano–Torino (Milan/Turin) was a popular mixed drink in Italy; it was made up of Campari (from Milan), sweet vermouth (from Turin) and soda. After the First World War it became popular with the many visiting Americans and was renamed the Americano. In his Hemingway cocktail companion, Philip Greene speculates that Americans had developed a liking for Campari during Prohibition; it was classified as a medicinal product by the US government and was available by doctor’s prescription—Campari’s flavour does carry a suggestion of the apothecary, after all. Count Camillo Negroni found the Americano a little tame and asked Fosco Scarselli, a bartender at the Caffe Giacosa in Florence (still open), to swap the soda for gin. Other drinkers started to ask for the Count Negroni … and so it went on. This may or may not be true, but it’ll do for me.
There’s some variation, but the traditional Negroni is equal parts London dry gin, sweet vermouth and Campari (a trademarked recipe/brand), mixed by stirring rather than shaking. My colleague (and Alderman Lushington co-founding editor) Andy Hamilton says:
There is a good reason why the Negroni is known as the bartender’s cocktail; like a drunken argument, it’s full of fighting contrasts and ends in a harmonious love-in. The sweet Italian vermouth battles the bitter orange, reaching a perfect compromise, both losing their edges without losing their character, while the gin cuts through the two like a friendly onlooker making peace by force. Campari, of course, fights itself.
My Negroni
I’ve been using Tanqueray, Casa Mariol and … Campari.
The Negroni requires balance, but it’s not the balance of strong flavours being tempered by milder ones, it’s a balance of big flavours smashing into each other and reaching a sort of exciting peace. This means that a good, robust, orthodox London dry gin is generally called for. I usually go for Tanqueray or Beefeater, good gins both, and neither is shy. The more diffident notes of floral gins like Hendrick’s can be brushed aside by the Campari and vermouth. At the moment, I’m working through a bottle of Tanqueray.
Some recommend stronger gins, and that’s something I can live with. Andy Hamilton plumps for the power and complexity of Blackwoods Vintage Dry Gin (special edition, 60% by volume), while Michael Dietsch suggests Perry’s Tot Navy Strength (57%).
If you use Cinzano or Martini Rosso for your vermouth, you won’t be overwhelmed by disaster, even if some wretches sneer at you. The vermouth I’ve been using is Casa Mariol Vermut, a rare Spanish/Catalan vermouth (vermut), and while I’d like to pretend that I discovered it in a small taberna in a hidden Catalan valley or as the culmination of years of research, in fact I just asked my local merchant, Corks in Bristol, for a good Negroni vermouth and they suggested this. It has been superb, just right. It’s also very reasonably priced at £16.99 for a litre. Andy Hamilton, something of a vermouth connoisseur, suggests using Cocchi Vermouth Torino—which also keeps the original Milano–Torino connection. (The Cocchi vermouth is stocked by Corks, too, at £22.99; they have an excellent range.)
Vermouth zealots like to point out that it’s a fortified wine, not a spirit, so it doesn’t keep indefinitely and should be refrigerated and consumed briskly after opening. This is true, and the flavour does become thinner, diminished, with time after opening, but few of us drink enough of it to be finished after a few days; keeping it longer won’t ruin your Negronis, not quite. Most vermouths are around 20% by volume.
Campari is Campari; there’s no alternative. It’s an alcoholic liqueur, a brand of aperitivo bitters. It’s powerfully bitter, inimitable and >20% by volume. Read about it here.
Blessed Campari. The lurid, sweet-seeming colour makes the bitterness even more unexpected. I like it. Credit: Wikimedia. ‘Two Camparis at the Florian, Venice.’
I tend to follow the traditional equal parts formula, although I will sometimes add more gin (see below). My technique is simple: add the three ingredients to a good, heavy old fashioned/rocks glass (by preference; I sometimes use a stemmed cocktail glass and it doesn’t seem to hurt—the old Savoy Cocktail Book uses one) with one large or a couple of decent-sized ice cubes (small ones melt too quickly and store bought ice is the devil’s work, flighty and fast-melting); stir for around thirty seconds; add a bit of orange peel. You can make a twist from the peel, but it’s ticklish and I’m lazy and inept. The peel does add something, it’s not just for show. I tend to favour leaving the ice in as I like the way it slowly softens the Negroni.
Some other Negronis
Michael Jackson (this one), whose laconic, authoritative pocket bar book was my first booze guide, suggests two parts gin, one part vermouth and one part Campari. Which is a heady blend, but a good one, though I wouldn’t use overproof gin for it. He also says to use an orange slice, which again is agreeable enough, if not so rich in the oils you get from the peel. Finally, he recommends a ballon wine glass.
In To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, Philip Greene gives two alternatives. The first is similar to mine, while the second is served straight up, without ice. Stir everything but the garnish in a mixing glass with ice and then strain into a cocktail glass and add the orange. It’s a nice variation and one I’ve been served often; it’s also the method given in the Savoy Cocktail Book. (Greene also notes that Hemingway got his Negroni wrong in Across the River and Into the Trees, confusing it with the Americano; it’s hard to see Hemingway forgiving someone else that mistake.)
In Everyday Drinking, Kingsley Amis is vague about preparation, but he does nod approvingly:
This is a really fine invention. It has the power, rare with drinks and indeed anything else, of cheering you up. This may be down to the Campari, said by its fans to have great restorative power.
Which brings us on to drinking the thing.
Serving the Negroni
Crostini. These are topped with spinach, which would either match the bitterness of the Negroni or make it unbearable. I’d give ’em a go. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
The Negroni is intended to be an aperitif, but it can also make a good sunny afternoon or late night drink. Although it seems like it might be over-strong, being treble-shotted undiluted booze, its pungency means that you’re unlikely to throw it down, so it may even slow your intake. Nevertheless, it’s no bad thing to eat some food at the same time, and salty bits and pieces food goes well with a Negroni. In Italy they’re often served with crostini (wee bits of toasted bread with topping), olives, nuts and crisps (potato chips, my Yanqui friends). Fiona Beckett suggests canapés topped with smoked duck or crostini with duck pate, which sounds the ticket; smoked slightly gamey fattiness would be set off the alcoholic bittersweetness nicely and fortify the stomach.
Are these Negronis?
Fooling with the beautiful simplicity of the Negroni seems redundant, and for the most part I’d be shy of it, but there are some interesting derivations. Here are two: the Boodles gin Salted Negroni (a sort of Americano hybrid, with soda—and grapefruit juice) and Eeyore’s Requiem from The Violet Hour bar in Chicago (extravagantly bitter and exotic). There’s also the more traditional Negroni Sbagliato (the ‘bungled Negroni’; it’s said that a barman invented it accidentally by reaching for the wrong bottle), with one part Campari, one part sweet vermouth and one or two parts sparkling wine. It doesn’t have the grandeur of the original, but it’s good and refreshing.
Paul Fishman (Bristol, June 2015)
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RC in the 20th Century (and the early days of foam
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Piotrsko
Bunch of you aren't old enough but in '76 the 'MURICANS had a 200 th anniversary. For the Brits, kinda like just last week.... some comedian nick named it The Bison toenail instad of bicentennial. A place that sold hobby stuff called hobby shack decided to build a cheap entry plane and partner it with a cheap 3 channel radio called the Cirrus. (Basically a repackaged futaba system in a plastic case). The glider is The Spirit of 76. (Still available on e bay) the Futaba 6 next to it was state of the art with lots of nifty features: Nicads in the transmitter (OMG, heresy) instead of 12 aa batteries. Changeable crystals, a full watt and a half transmitter output, closed gimbals maybe 10 different servo styles from mini to monster and included a "brick".
Changeable crystals because when you went to the local flying field in the LA Area, there were usually 5 people on your chosen frequency, brown/ white, red/white, yellow/white. There were 15 FCC allocated radio control channels, 10 of which were aircraft only. So, for $9.95 a pair, you could have any channel you wanted. I had 5 channels, or 8 sets total. Tiny little problem: at 1 1/2 watts with a transmitter tuned for lower part of the band, they were noisy as heck on the 75 mhz channels, bleeding over onto the public service bands. Iirc, there was a recall to reduce power to 1/2 watt and fix the bleed over issues with soldered crystals. Mine is still stock. Finally, this the first series that had a plug for a buddy box so anybody using a Futaba that had the plug could, theoretically, fly with a teacher. I say theoretically, because it was difficult in practice. Both transmitters had to be on that same channel, no more than 6ft apart, and the trainer had to have the disarm button on their transmitter. I still use this system in the FT Bronco I am building..
The glider pictured isn't the actual sold in '76, it is the second run in 1980. The kit had build issues and wasn't really good at anything but crashing. They were noted for wing folding on high start, however heavy and low performance, particularly after a couple of crashes. But they were cheap @ 19.95 each and it is an example of what earliest foamie trainers were. Note the Pilot, Jack, before they blew him up.
Fixes were: bunch more diehederal, stop to stop rudder throw with some added area so it would eventually turn, nylon tape in the center section and gluing in the horizontal stab so it wouldn't wobble.
I was going to make mine powered with the Cox .09 medallion, but Cox was bankrupt at that time and I couldn't get a glow plug.
I still fly it slope, typically waiting for the wind to pick up enough to fly my ZAGI
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Tezcat
Yeah he did have Scorpions there. Actually only the last few bands on that list were actually power metal, the rest were Dio, Scorpions, Judas Priest and so forth.
If it is for the 'dungeons & dragons / sword & sorcery' influence in its lyrics, I can understand Dio's inclusion on power metal as a pioneer and/or influential figure of the genre, but... Scorpions?
:::Non Serviam::::
UndeadLegend wrote:
I see he's doing the next episode on thrash. If Venom isn't in that, I have no respect for him
Dunn has Anvil and Pantera on his list of thrash metal bands.
I could see Anvil as an early influence on thrash metal, even some of the Big 4 have Anvil as their influence. And I know this is not the general consensus in MA, but there's a lot of people out there who consider Pantera as a thrash metal band.
On the subject of thrash, Dunn should definitely make a reference to Venom, since "Welcome to Hell" is regarded as the first thrash metal album ever and a definitive influence in the development of the genre. I think my expectations on Dunn's approach are still a bit high, perhaps... :S
godsonsafari
Location: Sparty's Land Grant University, USA
I'm doing my best to not be combative about this. I swear to god. Most forums this post would take me to full bore troll mode. But look - if Sails of Charon isn't heavy metal, then there is no such thing as heavy metal pre-1980.
"It's not some safe thing like Fugazi where everyone sits down and eats their tofu and goes 'wow man, that's revolutionary' " - Jerry A of Poison Idea
godsonsafari wrote:
Now that's a good point you have there...
He's not saying Scorpions isn't metal, he's questioning whether they're power metal...
csehszlovakze
This is funny... I heard a Scorpions interview on our national radio (Kossuth Rádió) the other day (about future disbanding and farewell tour). They got also mentioned here, and now I just checked for pure curiosity if they're on MA: yes, they are, I'm impressed. :)
halfformedfetus wrote:
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Nolan_B
Tezcat wrote:
since "Welcome to Hell" is regarded as the first thrash metal album ever.
By who? It's definitely an important influence on the development of thrash and extreme metal, but the first thrash metal album? Welcome to Hell is simply a black and evil NWOBHM record, a more raw version of bands like Bitches Sin, Tank, Raven, and Holocaust. Venom went unmentioned in the NWOBHM episode, so don't expect them in the thrash episode. They will almost certainly be mentioned if there is a black metal episode.
https://fervorblackmetal.bandcamp.com/album/fervor
Nolan_B wrote:
By who? It's definitely an important influence on the development of thrash and extreme metal, but the first thrash metal album? Welcome to Hell is simply a black and evil NWOBHM record, a more raw version of bands like Bitches Sin, Tank, Raven, and Holocaust.
This, pretty much. Arguably, the first thrash record is Metallica's Kill 'em All, and even then it's more of a speed/thrash hybrid so you have to take that with a grain of salt. Also:
Venom went unmentioned in the NWOBHM episode, so don't expect them in the thrash episode. They will almost certainly be mentioned if there is a black metal episode.
Which I really doubt. This is mainstream TV people, so do you realistically expect bands like Mayhem or Emperor to appear there?
PS: Just to clarify; that last part wasn't aimed at you, Nolan.
absurder21
You guys are silly, if there's a Power metal episode then there's definetly going to be a Death and Black episode, especially since those genres are so popular, much more then power as well as being quite notorious. I highly doubt Blues is popular amongst people who watch VH1 as well, so really it's not that hard to grasp. I think he added Grunge, Shock Rock, Blues and Nu-metal to this first season because if he threw in Doom, Death, Black, Stoner, Gothic all together he wouldn't get renewed becuase then he'd have to go into the more obscure stuff. This season doesn't have Punk(they we're mentioned in the NWOBHM ep but he featured it in Headbangers journey), hardcore punk or Prog rock which are things he generally talks about as well so I rate we'll see some combination of these for a second season and maybe even he'll stretch out whatever he can for a third season. Although, this doesn't mean he'll butcher those like he has most of the other episodes so far.
You guys are silly, if there's a Power metal episode then there's definitely going to be a Death and Black episode,
The episode guide for the show is already out, and it doesn't exist. He did get episodes for Progressive and Power Metal greenlit.
The episode list for the first season. I've seen it as well. They aren't going top have a list for season 2 for awhile considering they're only half way through season 1. Logic!
absurder21 wrote:
You're making the very big assumption that there's going to be a Season 2.
dtfan08
I don't know if anybody else knows this, but in my country of Canada, the station it's on (Much More Music) actually gets this series 8 days before the episode airs on VH1. Just this week, I've been seeing commercials for the Grunge episode. For anybody that wants to see the Thrash episode, here it is: http://www.muchmore.ca/category/shows/metal-evolution/
Of course it may not work, but I haven't checked, so make sure you get some weird IP tool for that. And no, for those wondering, I don't recall Sam Dunn giving Anvil any good time in that episode.
If it's successful why wouldn't they?
Well, given the fact that Dunn managed to come up with 26 subgenres, and this "first season" has... 11 episodes? Perhaps... just perhaps they will give him another season but I don't see that happening
Perhaps not by today's standards, but I remember back in 1990, when a third generation of thrash metal bands were realising albums everywhere, the Big 4 were well established and touring all over Europe and North America, "the lesser six" destroyed everywhere and trehre was this fuzz about the "New Wave of Florida Death Metal" and the Scandinavian Metal Gods (yeah, from all the countries of the region) were about to take over and turn asunder the metal world, the scarce heavy metal press you could find in those days (Metal Hammer, for an instance) were picking what they considered at the time the 10 most important / influential thrash albums of the decade... and these were the chosen few...
1. Venom - Welcome to Hell
2. Metallica - Kill'em All
3. Slayer - Show No Mercy
4. Exodus - Bonded by Blood
5. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
6- S.O.D. - Speak English or Die!
7. Slayer - Reign in Blood
8. Metallica - Master of Puppets
9. Death - Leprosy
10. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Now, you may or may not agree with the previos list (S.O.D.'s started the "funcore" trend, the riffs in Death's "Leprosy" are quite thrashy, and Morbid Angel's marked the end of an era and the rise of Death Metal, and those were the reasons why they included "Altars...") but that was basically the general consensus back then. Too bad I didn't preserve those magazines, scanning them would have been great.
I know this is quite off-topic, but since you ask me...
blodiapunchingjin
So anyone else just finish watching the thrash metal episode? In all honesty, it was what I expected: almost exclusively focused on American bands, specifically ones from the Bay Area, but I didn't think it was too bad...
Until Dunn tried to tie thrash to Swedish Death Metal/Gothenburg??? What the...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Entombed and other early Swedish death metal bands influenced by Swedish punk, Floridian death metal and England's grindcore movement? And then Carcass took influence from that, which ultimately resulted in Heartwork, then Entombed made Wolverine Blues, At The Gates released Slaughter Of The Soul, In Flames and others jumped on, and the American Metalcore movement mixed that with Iron Maiden and "pop-y" punk/hardcore?
It's just... je-ge-wha??? How does Darkness Descends play into all that? We're going to connect these two and ignore Teutonic Thrash, Sepultura and American death metal?
...Weird.
"Listening to Meshuggah is like having vaginas hit my ears."
-Paraphrasing some guy at a party
I thought the thrash episode was mostly pretty good. I know that people will be mad that Dunn didn't name a lot of bands they think he should mention, but I thought he did a pretty good job doing an overview of the rise and fall of thrash, and it makes sense that he'd sort of focus on 2 of the biggest bands that travelled separate routes, with Metallica going more commercial and Slayer sticking to what they do best. I was a bit surprised that he didn't mention Pantera at all, considering that they are on his "Thrash" chart. I know a lot of people don't like them around here, but back when they hit big, which was more or less at the end of the thrash golden era, everyone that I knew who liked thrash became Pantera fans. I'm also surprised that he didn't mention more about death metal. Sure, he could do a whole show just on death metal (although, it seems unlikely that VH-1 wants one), but he sort of glossed over it really fast and then jumped to the Gothenburg scene, which I always considered rising more from death metal than thrash (I could be wrong, as I'm not a fan of the Gothenburg sound so I haven't paid tons of attention to it).
I was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of Testament and Death Angel clips. And showing melodeath groups like At the Gates and Arch Enemy on prime-time TV is pretty ballsy.
(...) And showing melodeath groups like At the Gates and Arch Enemy on prime-time TV is pretty ballsy.
Not to be a dick Zelkiiro, but don't you remember that Carcass and Morbid Angel used to appear on MTV?
Old-school MTV wasn't targeting 30-50 year old conservatives. :V
As of right now, I've recorded the Grunge episode before its premiere and have it in a video format. For anybody that wants to know, the last part of the episode has Sam looking at the post-grunge genre and interviewing Chad Kroeger. Just asking, is it against the rules to link to a stream of this episode that I uploaded?
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Is that really MTV's targeting audience now? Because I actually thought it was composed exclusively of brain dead teenagers.
No, my post is about VH1's target audience--VH1 being the channel airing this series.
Okay, I agree with you in that aspect.
You know, if this guy linked thrash metal with the Gothenburg scene, I bet he will dare to link shock rock with black or death metal... gods forbid!
The connection was just something like "Thrash died in the 90s and this made people upset, and one reaction was a surge of extreme metal in Sweden."
americanholocaust
Location: FUCK YEA!!
The thrash episode was the first one I watched of the series, and it wasn't bad. Exactly what I had figured it'd be. A commentary on the big four mainly, a few other commercially successful groups, and the later bands that got influence from it. It was cool as fuck to see Gary Holt a little more than I had expected. I wish they would have focused a little more on the more underground European bands and how they influenced several subgenres after them. Hopefully when and if (I haven't seen the episode list) they touch on death and black metal, they will give more mention to bands such as Sodom, Kreator, Destruction, atleast more in this episode where they just did a two second name dropping of them. The only real European genre they touched on was swedish melodeath, which was a disappointment. Also, I don't see why Celtic Frost got a mention, I never thought them to be considered thrash metal.
But ultimately, you go to see the flagship personalities of the genre, exactly the way you always do. Lars was full of himself, Dave was making weird as fuck comparisons, Gary Holt talked about killing shit, etc.
I'm so stoked someone finally called me a Nazi for my modding. That's an achievement on the Xbox version.
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GTog
The thrash episode confirmed a lot of what I thought back in '89 or '90. Or at least, Dunn came to some of the same conclusions. Metal, the underground movement, moves into the mainstream once the Big Four get their major label deals, and the major labels instantly ruin it. Gary Holt openly laments ever writing for the label rather than staying true to himself. Chuck Billy cites it as a bad time for Testament. the Death Angel guys kind of shale their heads, and Dave Lombardo all but spits directly in Metallica's faces. Sam Dunn describes the morphing of thrash into modern rock as a "betrayal", which is exactly the right word.
Dunn needs to spend more time on how metal apparently needs to be underground. It doesn't work in the mainstream. Some goddamn big label pushes for crowd friendly and radio friendly tracks and poof, it ain't metal anymore. Metal then goes where the viable subculture is, i.e. Gothenburg.
Grunge is worth mentioning just for that aspect, but a whole episode on it, while there seemingly isn't one planned for death metal for christs sake, is a waste.
Unfortunately tonight is the only time I'll be able to see an episode, since I'm home from school, and it's the Nu-Metal episode.
With that said, I'm really happy with the opening where Dunn says that Nu-Metal seems to be against everything he loves about Metal and he questions whether or not it deserves to be a part of Metal. I have the feeling he has no interest in doing this episode...
Location: New England, USA
GTog wrote:
i really liked that part of the episode where the big thrash bands talked about the commercial pressures to alter their aggressive style or more radio friendly songs especially gary holt he really looked pissed/sad about that time. the best was dave though when he talked about throwing the black album down the stairs. the thing that pissed me off was when lars said selling out was staying the same and giving fans what they wanted
So I just watched the Nu-Metal episode on Much More. It starts off with Sam going to Nokia Theater to get Linkin Park's new album. Interestingly enough, even though he said that it pushed the boundaries of metal, even he said he couldn't stand it.
It then features an interview with Scott Ian of the influence of Bring The Noise, then an interview with the bassist of Faith No More, I believe. Then it went into this section on Rage Against The Machine saying that they were the right mix of groove and heaviness. Then they said that Pantera would help others get into nu-metal because they had their own groove. Then he interviewed Jonathan Davis from Korn saying they were the first true nu-metal band. They were also explaining how drop-d tuning and strings with more guitars helped experiment. After that, it was Deftones, saying the turntable was made into an instrument with that band, making soundscapes. And then they say that nu-metal wasn't truly a genre until Sepultera's album Roots because they wanted to try something different like every album.
Then they were talking about Limp Bizkit's origins, nothing I couldn't find on Wikipedia. It was really boring, talking about the Family Values and how it appealed to the mass audience and stuff. Then it was a section of Woodstock '99 and the participants' memories of the festival, showing Fred surfing on plywood, and how he realized that there were riots going on, not for fun. Fred still says it was the greatest concert they ever did. Then they were saying how nu-metal became so popular, it eventually came to Slayer infusing the genre in there music. Cue this second wave of nu-metal, first up, Disturbed. Then they said that the most commercially successful of these are Linkin Park (obviously). He now realizes nu-metal made a bigger impact than he ever imagined.
If anybody wants to download this episode, I'll upload it for you guys. I just want to make sure it's okay with the forum guys here.
brandon1986 wrote:
Hah! Yeah, typical Lars-esque assholery. Playing what the record company tells you so you can have videos on MTV isn't selling out. Playing what the fans clearly like because you had sold 11 million albums of it up to that point, that's selling out. Sure.
dtfan08 wrote:
Well, at least...
He now realizes nu-metal made a bigger impact than he ever imagined.
Perhaps but, fortunately, it doesn't mean that he (or anyone else) has to like that crap
Hey, fine by me. Out of curiosity, was the grunge episode any good?
Grapist
VH1 is run by a bunch of trolls, so I take anything they say with a grain of salt. Seriously, anyone who can claim that the death of G.G. Allen was less shocking than Fergie wetting herself onstage with a straight face is clearly fucking with us.
"TOO SMOOTH, HE SAYS!" Colin Jones
I think this whole episode needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I'm surprised they even let him say he doesn't like the music. His statement at the end about it being clear that Nu-Metal is important to Metal (or something like that) is the kind of statement VH1 would force him to make. He knows that whole episode was not about Metal.
One part in particular: One of the Nu-Metal bands mentioned how down-tuning was so important and I think it was one of the sociologists (the guy with the Slayer shirt) said that down-tuning became associated with that Nu-Metal sound. Meanwhile, Autopsy had tuned down to B on Severed Survival (and countless other bands have done it too), and I know Dunn was well aware of that fact. I can only imagine how much he must have been cringing.
Wait, so, "Metal" Evolution..."grunge"? Is Metal Evolution alt rock next? lol Grunge has used metal elements, but it's more of a devolution than an evolution.
Grunge is worth exploring, but they're going to spend three (four, if you're technical and count the pre-metal episode) episodes on non-metal genres and hasn't even mentioned death or black? haha
Well I just watched the Thrash ep, first one I've watched of the show because, hey, I've seen the origins of other genres a hundred fucking times. Overall it was pretty good, only really falling over in the last 10 minutes where he makes some weird points or fails to explain them well. Firstly the melodeath link isn't really there, apart from the Slaughter of the Soul song (An album which I consider more thrash than death actually) which they play none of the things they reference sound like thrash at all. It's as if he'd seen a few songs or albums, like SotS which do have thrash running through them, and tried to shoehorn it into a point spanning a lot of shit that doesn't fit. Also the evolution is more thrash->death->Melodeath so it's a pretty big link to miss out on. Along with that his claims that death and black metal are totally devoid of melody is pretty dismissive, particularly of the later. After that the odd choice to mention Lamb of God and Lamb of God only as a huge carrier of the torch is just confusing, not just due to the minimal thrashiness of the sound, but also due to completely ignoring the half-thrash style they' come out of, and ignoring the genuine new thrash bands.
Oh and one last gripe, the guy at the end who says something along of the lines of "As long as there are kids who are angry, rebellious and confused and want a way to express that anger, there will be a need for thrash" I hate that mind set, I hate metalheads being described as angry angsty kids, it's a horrible image and stereotype, Kerry Kings description of it was far better.
Folez
Crimson III wrote:
I thought Global Metal was a travesty.
At least M:AHO was a decent primer for beginners.
Really I though Global Metal was great, it looked at practically the first metal scene in India, and the violence surrounding Iran and political/religious associations with artist in the Phillipines, I though were very interesting.
On another note, I would of loved to have seen Dunn explore Stoner and Doom metal and an episode on folk metal would be interesting since it is fairly relevant in the modern day, with the popularity of band such Eluveitie and Finntroll. Regardless i still thinks it's an awesome show.
However I will be angry if Djent isn't covered in the progressive, since it's probably the first example of a metal genre becoming gaining a lot of fans through the internet and not through TV (i.e Bulb's soundcloud.)
Xytras71
ld50 wrote:
This! The funny thing is that Dunn's episodes on Glam and Nu-Metal started with his statement of disliking both sub-genres. Yet he spent the whole hour wanking around on each, yet a majority of metal fans around the world would dismiss the whole notion of those two subs even being a part of a true metal.
And on the other hand the most extreme subs (DM, BM) are not even have their own episode. What a joke that guy is. Though in all honesty I think that Much Music has something to do with that. However that does not excuses the fact that Dunn obviously dislikes DM and BM even more than Glam and Nu. Hi is just like that moronic writer Martin Popoff who has spent his whole life listening (and writing about) stadium rock and claiming that what Metal is.
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Machine_Dead wrote:
Why does he even need a financial boost, can't he just go visit some band members of a couple of important extreme bands in the US and/or go on holiday to Europe to visit some shows there and so some spontaneous interviews.. Half of his footage is archive material anyway, maybe for the better, 'cause it's not like we need to see more video footage of him watching shows or anything... -_-
He'd have to pay for his travel, he has to pay his crew,and he has to pay to use archive material (unless it's material he actually owns).
The Prophet Muhammad
Joined: Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:46 am
I see Sam dunn around occasionally. He seems well versed enough on his metal. Its probably more that he is being told what to do his shows about. He should have stopped after Headbangers Journey, to be honest. Watching Dunn walk into a Mosque in Indonesia preaching about peace and love was pretty sickening to say the least. That being said, I have never even heard of this show. I'll have to take a gander or several.
Metal Evolution is broken down into episodes about a different piece of metal history. The series includes interviews with and about Alice Cooper, Slash, Lemmy, Rob Zombie, members of Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Slayer, Judas Priest, Van Halen, Def Leppard, The Stooges, ZZ Top, Soundgarden, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, Korn, Lamb of God and more.
Very exciting shit. I really hope the "and more" section can live up to the widely-acclaimed and enormously coveted reputations of such talented metal acts as Korn, Lamb of God, and Rage Against the Machine
Several edits on this post here..
I will not be checking this shit-show out. The episode breakdown looks absolutely repulsive, false, misleading and .. just plain awful. Episode titles: Glam, Thrash (big 4), Grunge, Nu-Metal, Shock Rock, Power Metal, Progressive Metal. I would have assumed he was doing it chronologically, if not for the inclusion of Nu metal right in the middle of the first season. Where is the fucking black metal, I ask? I must have missed that Korn album that came out before Under the Sign of the Black Mark.
I was shocked enough that VH1 even allowed At the Gates and Arch Enemy to make appearances, and you think they could get away with showing straight-up black metal?
I would watch it. Yes, they damn well could.
Ancient_Mariner
Its a decent enough show but I will watch most metal related stuff. I don't expect it to spend time on underground black metal bands or stuff like that. It is VH-1 after all and that means sticking to the more mainstream stuff. The Power and Prog episodes didn't even get on TV in the US as far as I know.
Ritual_Suicide
Ancient_Mariner wrote:
The Power and Prog episodes didn't even get on TV in the US as far as I know.
They have shown them in the US and those were easily the worst episodes of the series that deal with actual metal. The power metal episode in particular was just hilarious.
http://www.last.fm/user/Toxic_Griever
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Sanctium
Location: Tenenesse
Its a decent enough show
I enjoyed it enough to watch but to each their own.
VirginSteele_Helstar
That "power metal" episode of course included interviews with HammerFall and Kai Hansen and people like that but said absolutely nothing about USPM save for Manowar (but he didn't say where they were from!)
Apparently power metal is *girlish* and built on *simple melodies* that anyone can easily join in and sing along to and that is its major distinctive feature.
The prog episode has Mastodon as the leading band of the whole "prog revival".
Some guy from Classic Rock magazine is the only one who mentioned the word "sludge" in connection to the band, something Sam Dunn seemed totally oblivious to.
I haven't had the time to watch the whole thing and I doubt I will. It is misleading crap from a guy who should just hole up in his basement and explore more metal than he obviously listens to.
"...in some dark distant future you'll meet my presence in a song..."
-David DeFeis
"...unto the end I shall lead all into my darkness..."
-James Rivera
Most of the very early metal songs that weren't by Sabbath were by Purple. Fucking deal with it.
The SHM
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:33 pm
I was leary about this show from the start, mainly due to the fact that, even though VH1 Classic is a metal band's best friend on basic satellite TV these days, the only 'metal' it seems to know is late '80s glam.
The doc was OK. I was bummed that they didn't expand on thrash, power metal, and completely ignored doom metal (isn't that the most primordial metal genre to begin with?) while taking the time focusing on grunge, nu metal, and shock rock.
BUT, this is about the evolution of metal, and I suppose: grunge, nu, and shock all had some value that forced some development unto the metal world; talking about doom would've been reiterating most of Classic UK/NWOBHM.
You say "Justin Bieber", I say... OK. So?
92% of teens have cleanly divided themselves according to genres. If you're part of the 8% that doesn't give a shit why others listen to their music, then I don't care. Just enjoy the damn music.
EmeraldEdge9832
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:49 pm
I don't see what grunge has to do with metal, and I thought it was pretty retarded they devoted an entire episode to grunge and even post-grunge. They even took the time to interview Nickelback and Creed. I thought it was pathetic.
Nhor
Well in case there is any confusion about the motives of Vh1 it is much like the motives of your typical misunderstood, 15 year old boy or girl: Getting everyone's attention.
Person 1: Whoa! My rough and tough boyfriend listens to that Nickleback, maybe I should take some notes from Mr. Dunne.
Troubled mother: Hmm, my daughter listens to this "Disturbed" band and she calls me a whore periodically every day...
Typical mouth breathing American: They spell "New" with a "U"!
ENKC
I've seen the whole series now and I must say I enjoyed it thoroughly. Sometimes in the intended way, and sometimes in the 'bad movie' kind of way.
The grunge episode hilarious. It felt like Sam started with "I don't think grunge is metal, so here's 10 minutes of a bunch of people saying it isn't metal although some of them kind of like Black Sabbath a bit." <interviews> "But what I still don't understand is, what makes grunge metal?" I'm not sure what purpose was served by the Chad Kroeger interview, but he seemed very unapologetic and comfortable with Nickelback's status as a mainstream act earning bazillions of dollars. And why should he be otherwise?
Power metal was just cringe inducing in its presentation. I can't for the life of me work out why Sam portrayed it as something so utterly "mysterious" and "foreign" to him. I mean, he's an Iron Maiden fanboy and power metal is just traditional metal with certain elements emphasised (lyrical and visual themes, keyboards etc). What on earth is 'mysterious' about Hammerfall or Helloween to a trad metal fan? I also got some chuckles out of Joey DeMaio refusing an interview.
Shock rock I thought was genuinely good. He immediately faced up to the fact that he was discussing bands loosely associated by performance styles rather than actual musical commonality. It gave him scope to discuss some truly diverse acts from the 50s to the modern day. If that's what he had to do to squeeze Venom into the series, then I'm okay with it. I even liked the interview with Clown from SlipKnot. But does Sam interview Alice Cooper once a week or what?
Prog seemed to be the most 'on the mark' of the lot, provided you weren't expecting anything obscure. It's hard to go too far wrong drawing the line from 70s English prog rock (mentioning Yes every couple of minutes), fellating Rush, then through to Queensryche and Dream Theater. I remain to be convinced of how important Mastodon, DEP and Meshuggah really are, but I was pleasantly surprised he didn't spend the last 20 minutes on Opeth. And yes, Fates Warning could have done with some air time.
Overall I have to say I liked the glam episode most. I can't quite put my finger on it. Perhaps it most the most 'grounded' of the lot in that it showed the reality of the guys still making a living off it after their fifteen minutes of fame. I liked the pragmatism of them, especially Rikki Rockett. He seemed to be completely switched on to the fact that they're a nostalgia act earning money off old songs, and that that won't last forever. It's a surprising level of maturity from guys who were once reckless young rock stars without a care in the world.
Oh yes, and Sam has been hanging around on reddit a bit lately. He seems really keen to push this project for the 'extreme metal' episode. I'm still not convinced he understands that isn't one genre, though. Hell, he could do a lengthy series on black, death, doom, grindcore, industrial, maybe even folk. Oh well, let's see how it goes.
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Nhor wrote:
Nu- is a real prefix. It basically means something is an updated or modern version of something old. Nu-metal isn't the only music genre that uses it either. http://rateyourmusic.com/genre/nu+jazz
I don't believe I suggested otherwise
For those who haven't seen it already.
http://www.indiegogo.com/ExtremeMetal
Some of those donation offers look crazy! And what's strange is that, there are buyers for such things!
Is there an option to take money away from the campaign? It makes me irrationally angry every time I see them use the umbrella term, "extreme metal."
Cinerary
Fuckin' killed a guy
If something so unimportant and trivial makes you "angry", you might as well tap out now, because life is gonna kick your ass.
I'm a fluke in the world.
truvelocity
Location: Egypt
I have started watching the episodes. He really does go back a bit into things doesn't he. I never thought MC5 and Iggy. let alone Ted Nugent would be legitimately related to heavy metal in any sense and yet here we are drwaing all manner of comparisons, tracing all kinds of lines. Will hang with it for a few, see how it all turns out.
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:55 pm
There's definitely traces of heavy metal in Ted Nugent. I didn't think there was till I heard him play live. He really kicks ass, period.
Cinerary wrote:
I was kind of serious, but it was slightly in jest.
This kind of after-school special thinking that life is so hard is why people can't understand someone getting mad about metal related things and think it only goes as far as an audio experience.
Asmodeus8797
It's a fairly entertaining show overall, but I'm certainly not rabidly craving the extreme metal episode, and that's my favorite metal genre. It's nothing groundbreaking.
Extreme metal isn't a genre.
enigmatech
Apparently it is. Who cares? Seems like a stupid thing to worry about, honestly.
I don't like extreme metal, it's defined by the harsh vocals, so I think it's fine to put those bands under a single label. That's how I see it at least.
EmeraldEdge9832 wrote:
Harsh vocals are a big addition, but you could make extreme metal without harsh vocals.
enigmatech wrote:
Apparently it is. Who cares? Ad hominem
No, it is an umbrella term and I, among others that understand the purpose of genres, care because it is extremely vague and causes confusion.
Riffs
Location: Montréal, Québec
I, among others that understand the purpose of genres
The purpose of genres is mostly to bicker and nitpick with hardcore fans who also find genres extremely important, as demonstrated in this very thread.
The funny thing is, the more these unique snowflakes find that genres serve a purpose, the more they have their own precise definitions of how to label bands and argue with the other asshole next to them who is also into wasting time figuring out where exactly this or that artist fits within those ridiculously narrow niches.
mjollnir wrote:
Noble Beast's debut album is way beyond MOST of what Priest did in the 80s.
Were you "confused" by what he said? I understand that extreme metal is an umbrella term and not a genre all it's own, but bothering to correct such a small and meaningless mistake seems kind of ridiculous. I highly doubt that Asmodeus8797 meant that he thought extreme metal is it's own genre, and was just using the term in relation to the title of the episode.
No, it's just annoying and I see it too often to ignore it. Asmo said extreme metal was his favorite genre so I have no idea how you could interpret that any other way than extreme metal is a genre that he likes more than any other.
Riffs wrote:
Genres are very useful in describing a band or bands to another person who hasn't heard that band(s). Genres also serve a big purpose when searching for more music in the same vein. Hardcore has little to do with describing the vast amount of metal styles. So, no, demonstrating metal's apparent superiority over hardcore is not even close to the main purpose of categorizing metal by genres.
No one's worried about it, we're just pointing out that extreme metal isn't a genre and you've taking that out of context.
I can think of countless genres of metal with harsh vocals that are vastly different. Labeling them as one genre is entirely ignorant.
I didn't say label them as one genre (it would be sub-genre anyway, not genre), I said I have no problem using the umbrella term to place all bands with harsh vocals under it, since it distinguishes for me bands that I don't like from bands that I do like. I know that there are lots of different types of metal that have harsh vocals, but for me those vocals are very distinct and separate from other forms of metal.
Extreme metal (and again, this is just how I see it) is death metal, black metal, grindcore, as well as bands in different styles that use harsh vocals (such as lamb of god, machine head, etc.).
Metal is certainly a genre of music, and within it are several main sub-genres. Again, extreme metal is not a sub-genre, but a somewhat inaccurate umbrella term for many different types of sub-genres of metal. I personally don't care if it's used in such a way. And so I agree with those who say it's not a sub-genre, but I'm not angered or upset by its usage either, simply because extreme metal bands are not my thing.
Shadoeking
I have completely missed this show. I was not aware it even existed. I might have to check it out just for my own morbid curiosity. I did actually like A Headbanger's Journey, not to say I did not have any problems with it.
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How new are you to music? If you seriously have overlooked the fact that the reason for labeling anything is to separate x from y then you have no business discussing the matter in the first place.
BlackMarketVinyl
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:44 am
This show is made for mallcore teens or those who don't know anything about metal.
Any true metalheads would consider the show utter rubbish.
Yes, because "mallcore teens" really care about the extensive interviews done with Diamond Head, King Crimson, Alice Cooper and so on.
The thrash episode doesn't even mention Lamb of God until nearer the end.
Kveldulfr
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:21 am
@Emerald, grindcore is NOT metal.
@Riffs: subgenres and tags are necessary and used for everyone when it comes to briefly describes what a band plays, to make recommendations... in short, to talk about a certain group of bands that happens to feature stylistic similarities.
People saying ' I listen music, not genres' is full of bullshit and it's a lie.
Btw, Dunn also said his fav 'genre' was extreme metal. The guy just happen to know a bunch of bands, but I doubt he has a real deeper understanding of the subgenres.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 1:33 pm
"People saying ' I listen music, not genres' is full of bullshit and it's a lie."
I agree. They just say that because because they don't yet know how to identify genres. They'll often say something like, "What genre is this band, you can't tell me!!" And within seconds I'm able to tell them the exact genre.
And I meet people who say stuff like "There's way too many sub-genres of metal! They take it too seriously! Like, what's the difference between thrash metal and death metal?"
And I say to them, you mean to tell me you can't hear a difference in style between Metallica and Cannibal Corpse?
Nah way bruh. I'm so diverse and ecliptic. I like Rap, Techno, Death Metal like Slipknot. Lol. Cuntry is for loozers though.
LOL I even know an Industrial band. FROM GERMANY. how cool is that.
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GameMain. Everything about Games from making them to playing them.
Pong, One Game to Rule Them and from the Past Inspire Them.
September 11, 2018 Jason Farber Vintage Video Games
Played the first truly global video game phenom, Pong was originally manufactured by Atari and released it in 1972. Allan Alcorn created Pong as an task assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. One of the first games to truly have skill component to it, the controls were some what clunky compared to what we have now being just a knob. You could add “English” to the blip by sliding the paddle on contact with the pong and could even get it two twist (was able to pull that off while playing in the video below). Simple yet addictive even today, this game made a lot of money and inspired a lot of knock offs. Many new games today contain and owe some of their game elements to Pong. I still like the game and think one that used a mobile phone where tilting the phone to move the paddle might be interesting to play.
Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games. It is a table tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. The game Bushnell based the idea on an electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey, which later resulted in a lawsuit against Atari. Surprised by the quality of Alcorn’s work, Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney decided to manufacture the game.
Atari’s classic video game Pong.
The game was originally manufactured by Atari, which released it in 1972 and was the first truly successful arcade video game being able to stand along side profitable pinball machines.
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May 10, 2019 Video Games
How Minecraft Built a Bedrock Foundation
Beautiful Minecraft by James Delaney, Published by No Starch Press — Click the image to buy a copy.
Minecraft has been through a lot — a meteoric rise to success, a shaky sale to Microsoft, a fade into obscurity, and finally a recent explosion back into popularity. Minecraft is like a phoenix; t always seems to come back. But why is that? What makes Minecraft so unique when similar games with more in-game content disappear forever? We’re going to talk about what made everybody’s favorite cubic building game special, why it’s beloved to this day, and why it has the insane staying power that most indie devs can only dream of.
The beginnings of Minecraft are humble: a small project by a man named Markus Persson, under the name Cave Game. It wasn’t publically available, and it wasn’t anything special. It’s bizarre to think that this very early pre-alpha proto-game would become a multimillion-dollar money printer. Then came the classic (and my introduction to the game). I was but a child at the time, and that was when the addiction started.
You see, Classic Creative was free on the web. There was a selection of blocks, and the ability to build. You could create by yourself or with others and generally have a fun, creative time. Then a bunch of new blocks were added, like ores, wools, flowers, gold, etc. The best thing about Classic Creative was the fact that walking caused your arms to flail about wildly. Then came the survival test, which added in health, enemies, more blocks, TNT, and some enemies and NPCs that have since disappeared.
The Rise of Minecraft
And just like that, it started. Lightning struck. The Minecraft Alpha became available, and the game that we know today began to take shape. More everything? More everything sounds good! Then, all of a sudden, Beta hits. There’s a new logo, achievements, creative mode, weather, more trees, better lights, explosions, bubbles, strongholds, and villages. Hunger is now a factor; the reception is mixed. You suddenly had to eat to survive, which is realistic but sometimes limiting.
However, that’s not what made the Beta the fan favorite that it would become. The two big things that I can attribute to that were the addition of Creative Mode and a brand new terrain-spawning algorithm. Let me digress to tell you just how influential Creative Mode was, because this is one of the critical factors that allows Minecraft to stand the test.
Creation by Minecraft Forum user MisterPink
I had a roommate in college. Nice guy, really creative — which makes sense, as we were going to an art school. Every night I’d see him on an old laptop with his trackball mouse resting on his leg. Eventually, I asked him what he was doing on that beat up old laptop — I knew he had a stronger one for work in his room. He told me he had a Minecraft world and was afraid of losing it in a transfer. So he just opted to work on it on this old, chunky laptop.
He would eventually send me this world; the culmination of almost six years of work put in from high school into college. Sprawling Viking villages, gigantic ships, a cathedral the size of mountains, underground temples — everything you could imagine was here in this world. Everything was connected and notarized with sign blocks telling you where to go, and what path to take to get to where you wanted to be.
This creativity was part of the big draw people had to Minecraft. There weren’t a lot of things to do in the game do besides survive and build. But you could build, and build, and build. Your creativity was almost completely unbound. The new terrain allowed the hardcore survival players to have a new and fresh experience traversing the wild and crazy shaped mountains, or the lush rolling fields, which completely revitalized their experience. New food was added for them to grow, new features and structures for them to explore; it was an excellent time to be a builder or a survivor.
Then the game released. Mojang added a definite end to Minecraft housed in the new boss, the Ender Dragon. But that’s not what made the release so special. The release came with something new and bold. In 2012, something amazing happened — mods came to Minecraft.
The community put its collective heads together and began making their own content for the game. Sure, you could end your gameplay in a fight against the Ender Dragon, diamond armor and diamond sword in hand. But what if you wanted to become a Techno-Wizard wearing power armor, dual-wielding enchanted desert eagles that fire chickens? You could do that, too. What if you wanted to travel to an ethereal sky dimension inspired by Greek myth, complete with sky whales, or go to an enchanted woodland controlled by Liches and infested with beasts of myth? You totally could. The sky was the limit with mods, and some even pushed past that by allowing you to go to outer space.
The already high replayability of Minecraft had increased exponentially. And to be real, this is why I personally still play. There’s always a new experience waiting beyond the launcher. The community built around mods, both supporting and creating these fantastic works of fan content is honestly some of the most encouraging I’ve seen in a long time.
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It was about this time that YouTubers began to pick up the Redstone torch and play some mods on their channels. Tobuscus, CaptainSparklz, and if I recall, even Pewdiepie himself all enjoyed a bout of Minecraft on their channels. (In fact, the Minecraft Alpha is Pewd’s first video. Go figure.) These YouTubers bolstered the Minecraft community, both for playing mods in multiplayer, but also with their general interest in Minecraft. These big (at the time) names coming up and showing hundreds of thousands of children and adults alike everything that Minecraft had to offer ended up having a considerable effect. The community was active. Pre-rendered Minecraft music videos and animated shorts were appearing at a breakneck pace. Entire careers were built around playing Minecraft because it had that much to offer.
It was about this time something horrifying happened. Mojang sold Minecraft to Microsoft. Mojang was allowed to keep making the game, so what happened? Original Minecraft was created on Java; it was a chunky, bumpy, and laggy experience. A fan-made performance enhancement mod, Optifine, was one of the most downloaded mods for this very reason. Microsoft saw this and said that it could be better, and thus they began making the new Bedrock edition.
A remade version of Minecraft appeared that ran on different code languages for speed and performance. Gone was modding support, gone was the ability to change your Minecraft skin for free to whatever you want. Here now is microtransaction currency, here to stay are onslaughts of skins for money. Minecraft Mobile became the priority, and the Java edition died. Microsoft took it down, and made it disappear.
The community was afraid and on fire. The game spread to phones, every console under the sun, and on toward its future. The fear people experienced, and the bitterness over Minecraft getting microtransactions was enough to drive many people away. The game started to get a new reputation as a “child’s game” and “cringy,” for no reason other than people feeling as though they had outgrown the game.
The Return to the Block
So how did Minecraft and Microsoft redeem the game? Why are people so into Minecraft again? What changed? Honestly, not a lot. Microsoft might have had some blunders at the start, but they didn’t do anything completely irredeemable. The thing is, people outgrew outgrowing Minecraft. There will forever be thirty-nine-year-old balding men with dubstep CGI intros for their Minecraft Mod Reviews, and forever be kids with poorly edited Minecraft Let’s Plays. But people simply stopped letting that get to them.
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Cringe culture as a whole has been slowly dying, which is awesome because it allows people to like things again. Since the community at large didn’t leave, the people returning to Minecraft have been welcomed back with open arms. The modding scene has gotten even more insane, and the YouTubers have evolved their content.
Ice and Fire: Dragons Mod – Click the image to download it for your server!
This community that stayed is what kept Minecraft alive, even when it was at its lowest. The community that this game had built ended up being beyond bedrock solid. Sure, there were subsets — the players, the builders, adventurers, modders and meme lords. But they all came together to form one tight-knit community of genuinely passionate people. Even when Minecraft fell out of fashion for a bit, it still kept going strong with player numbers that most companies would sacrifice every limb on their metaphorical body for.
Its revival is due in no small part to this incredible community. But it’s also due to the YouTubers who have come back after years of absence. YouTubers are picking Minecraft up by its bootstraps to craft new and engaging experiences. The game is so simple that everybody exposed to it can pick it up and understand building and playing almost inherently. That makes Minecraft’s influence so powerful. Combine that with people just getting nostalgic for Minecraft, Twitter memelords using the game for their memetic medium, and so much more. Heck! You can even play Minecraft in VR with mods, which is just insane!
It’s Minecraft’s 10th anniversary this month, which means there’s no better time for us to think back and realize how much fun there still is to have. The funny block game we all used to play way back in the day is still waiting for us. So the only thing I have left to ask you is, have you gone back yet?
Have you recently returned to Minecraft, or did you never leave? Come talk to me about it in Gemr’s Video Game Club — it’s the best place to meet fans and collectors!
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?
BBC Television, 10 December 1953 22.15
A fortnightly programme in which a panel of experts is challenged to identify a series of unusual objects.
The Experts include:
Sah Oved
Thomas Bodkin, Former Director of the Barber Institute and Professor of Fine Arts at Birmingham University
v. The Challenger: The Burrell Collection, Glasgow
Chairman, Glyn Daniel, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge
Expert: Sah Oved
Expert: Thomas Bodkin
Chairman: Glyn Daniel
Presented by: David Attenborough
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Nominations are now open for the 2019 GirlBoss Awards, which aim to recognise incredible young Kiwi women (aged 11-18) who are defying stereotypes and shaping the future of New Zealand, says GirlBoss founder Alexia Hilbertidou.
"There are some outstanding young girls out there who are finding new ways to protect our planet, inventing the next life saving device, helping their community and launching the next multi-million dollar enterprise. They are contributing fresh ideas and new ways of thinking," she explains.
"The GirlBoss Awards are about inspiring and motivating the next generation to become leaders in their industry and community."
TradeMe has again teamed up with GirlBoss to celebrate the awards.
Trade Me's head of data and insights Dr Kathryn Hempstalk says diversity is a big challenge facing the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) industries and as a large technology employer, Trade Me wants to help change that.
"We're stoked to be working with Alexia on this fantastic initiative. We hope to encourage young Kiwis to dream big and show them how STEM careers can align with their interests, values and desire to make an impact," she says.
In 2018 the GirlBoss Awards recognised six inspiring young leaders including;'
Rahiri Makuini Edwards-Hammond (Hawke's Bay) took home the supreme Trailblazer award for her work developing young Maori leaders
17-year-old Mikayla Stokes (Auckland) walked away with the STEM award for inventing a pollution sensor
13-year-old Greer Wilson (Auckland) received the Emerging Leader award for raising awareness about adolescents and the mental health system
This year there are eight categories: Innovation, STEM, Community, Emerging Leader, Online Impact, Sustainability, Arts and Culture, and the Trailblazer.
Along with Trade Me, Method, Delta Insurance, Air New Zealand, Internet NZ, Auckland Council, Grandkid Power and Vector are each sponsoring an award category.'
Nominations are now open for females aged 11-18 at www.girlbossawards.co.nz and close on 9 August. The winners will be announced on 17 September.
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The headphones include SmartSound that automatically adjusts the sound and noise cancelling based on the user’s environment.More
Scam warning: Fake Google reviews and business listings targeting the vulnerable
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SmartPhones Today Have All The Same Flaws
Gadgets Repair General Discussions
Flaw 1: Smartphones just aren't durable enough
Look around next time you're in an airport, on a train, or at a Starbucks. I bet almost everyone in your field of vision has a case on his or her phone.
Of course, there's a class of confident souls who carry their phones naked, sans case. Many never have a problem. Others aren't so lucky, as evidenced by the number of people I see riding the New York City subway using case-less phones with cracked screens.
Cars have bumpers on them. Smartphones don't. Which is why we put our own bumpers on them. And screen covers. Both cottage industries are flourishing.
Compare that to 10 or 15 years ago -- I bet your old flip phone or old-school BlackBerry could take a beating and come back for more.
Insurance is an option. But who wants to pay even more money for a phone that already costs too much to begin with. And AT&T, for example, has a $200 deductible for any higher-end phone you insure. So a case seems like the most cost-effective protection solution, and if it helps keep your device in pristine condition, you might get more money for it on eBay or a trade-in down the road when you buy your next $750 phone.
Speaking of pristine, the other problem with today's smartphones is that the sleeker they are, the worse they look with any sort of blemish. Drop your iPhone 6 or 6 Plus the right way and you may just end up with a dented corner because metal dents, it doesn't break. But there's no body shop to take your iPhone to. The dent stays. Some can live with it. Others decide to hide it with a case.
A handful of more rugged phones exist, including those in Samsung's Galaxy Active line. And Samsung's standard Galaxy S5 could withstand a full dunk underwater, a feature the company decided to leave off the S6 and S6 Edge (perhaps a theoretical "S6 Active" will have it). However, a lot of these "tough" models are only marginally more rugged than their non-rugged siblings (and to be clear, Samsung doesn't describe its Active line as "rugged").
Who knows what we can expect from the future? Apple's rumored Sapphire-screen iPhone didn't materialize (yet), but Corning is launching its Project Phire Gorilla Glass by the end of 2015. Whether it will be truly unbreakable or not under normal wear and tear is anybody's guess.
Flaw 2: Lackluster battery life
The typical high-end smartphone is supposed to have enough battery life to get you through a full day -- at least with moderate use. But over time a lot of people find their phones want to take a siesta by mid afternoon.
The Geniuses at your local Apple Bar sometimes chalk that up to human error. Battery life can be reduced by the way you operate your phone. Some people are able to run it more efficiently than others. There are apps you can turn off, settings to tweak, tricks you can learn.
And that's not the only battery is bad. Introduce streaming video, gaming or excessive camera use, and you might not even last a few hours. Which leaves you with a few choices: charge your phone the old-fashioned way (use a wall charger); charge it with an external battery option; or keep your phone in a battery case that gives you extra juice on demand, in many cases doubling the battery life you'd normally get.
GALAXY S5 GALAXY S6
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1. Design – Premium Build Quality Without Compromise
Samsung wisely upgraded the build quality of the Galaxy S6, but it did so by compromising features Galaxy S5 users love: the removable battery and expandable storage.
The downside? Both the Galaxy S6 and G4 lack the S5’s water resistance. In addition the G4 is notably bigger than the Galaxy S6.
2. Camera – Brilliant Meets Even Better
Galaxy S5 – 16 megapixel Samsung ISOCELL F2.2 sensor, DIS, LED flash, 4k video. Front facing 2MP camera, 1080p video
Galaxy S6 – 16 megapixel Sony IMX240 sensor, F1.9, OIS, LED flash, 4K video. Front facing 5MP camera, 1080p video
LG G4 – 16 megapixel sensor, F1.8, OIS, Dual LED flash, 4k video. Front facing 8MP camera, 1080p video
You’re going to be thrilled with both cameras, but early impressions are the LG G4 will take the prize.
3. Battery Life – An Easy Win
The Galaxy S5 had excellent stamina, but the S6 compounded its decision to ditch the S5’s removable battery by also shrinking its battery capacity. Neither are mistakes LG has made:
Galaxy S5 – 2800 mAh capacity battery
LG G4 – 3000 mAh capacity battery
Conclusion – Love The Galaxy S5? Buy The LG G4
let’s immediately get something out of the way: the Galaxy S6 is a brilliant phone. For me a better phone than the Galaxy S5.The problem is it doesn't feel like a Galaxy S5 successor. It ditches the S5’s trademark flexibility and practicality for style and it becomes a better rival to the iPhone 6.
So while Samsung is busy trying to win over iPhone owners with the Galaxy S6, I’d like to think LG is quietly winning dissatisfied Galaxy S3, S4 and S5 customers from Samsung…
source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/04/30/galaxy-s6-vs-lg-g4-best-galaxy-s5-successor/
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Prosecutor’s Decline to File Charges in Baby’s Shooting Death
Posted 4:12 PM, February 24, 2016, by Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Prosecutors have declined to file charges against a man arrested on suspicion of firing into a Compton house, killing a 1-year-old girl as she slept in the crib.
Instead, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office on Wednesday asked the sheriff’s department to further investigate Autumn Johnson’s shooting death.
Records show 23-year-old Ray Howard Patterson, who was taken into custody on Monday, remains jailed without bail.
Authorities believe a man walked up to a converted garage the evening of Feb. 9 and opened fire, striking the baby in the head, before getting into a Chevrolet Impala, which drove away.
Investigators said they believe the gunman was targeting the baby’s father, who is an acknowledged gang member.
Investigators were still looking for the car’s driver.
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3 things to know after Liverpool's incredible Champions League win
Reds achieve what many thought was impossible by coming from 3 down to beat Barcelona
Georginio Wijnaldum celebrates after scoring Liverpool's third goal. Image Credit: AFP
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Liverpool: Liverpool reached the Champions League final with a remarkable 4-0 thrashing of Barcelona in Tuesday’s semi-final second leg.
Here are three things we learned from one of Anfield’s greatest European nights.
1) Incredible Liverpool make history
Given the size of the task seemingly facing Liverpool, it was no surprise to hear Jurgen Klopp had warned his wife not to expect a celebration when he returned home from Anfield.
“I don’t tell my missus ‘wait for me at home, we will have a party after the game because we’ll win it’. We have to work for it,” Klopp had said when asked about the 3-0 first leg deficit.
Yet, against all odds, Klopp’s side will face Ajax or Tottenham in the final after one of the greatest nights in their glorious history.
Liverpool, five-time European champions, are only the third team in the history of the European Cup/Champions League to come from three goals down after the first leg of a semi-final and progress to the final, following in the footsteps of Panathinaikos in 1970-71 and Barcelona in 1985-86.
Only Deportivo La Coruna in 2004, Barcelona in 2017 and Roma in 2018 had overturned a three-goal first leg deficit to win Champions League knockout ties.
Yet, with Barca so fragile at the back, the writing was on the wall from the moment Divock Origi slotted home from close-range in the seventh minute.
The previous three teams to score in first seven minutes of Champions League games against Barca went on to score three or more goals and Liverpool’s relentless pressure ensured they had emulated that achievement by the 56th minute.
It was an even more jaw-dropping achievement given Liverpool were playing without injured trio Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Naby Keita.
The astonishing revival will now forever be mentioned in the same awed tones as Liverpool’s never-to-be-forgotten ‘Miracle of Istanbul’ when Steven Gerrard and company recovered from 3-0 down at half-time to beat AC Milan on penalties in the 2005 Champions League final.
2) Super-sub Wijnaldum
For 42 years, David Fairclough held a special place in Liverpool’s history as the club’s unparallelled super-sub, but Georginio Wijnaldum’s incredible contribution may have surpassed even his illustrious predecessor.
When Fairclough came off the bench to score Liverpool’s winner with just minutes left in the 1977 European Cup quarter-final against Saint-Etienne, he ensured he would be cherished forever at Anfield for the goal that sparked the team’s run to win the tournament for the first time.
Now Dutch midfielder Wijnaldum has joined Liverpool’s European hall of fame with two quick-fire goals after coming on as a half-time replacement for the injured Andrew Robertson.
Turning in Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross in the 54th minute, Wijnaldum put Liverpool two up before rising highest to head in Xherdan Shaqiri’s cross two minutes later.
Among all the great moments in Liverpool’s glittering history, Wijnaldum’s was among the most unexpected, but his dynamic display was about far more than his crucial goals as he drove Barca to distraction with his pressing.
Incredibly, Wijnaldum went into the match with only three club goals this season, while all the 28-year-old’s Champions League goals in his Liverpool career have come in the semi-finals after he also netted against Roma last season.
3) Feeble Barca stunned by Liverpool fireworks
In a familiar story for Barcelona, the Spanish champions crumbled under pressure in the most feeble fashion.
Significantly for Liverpool, Barca had collapsed against Roma just last season when the Italians recovered from a 4-1 quarter-final first leg loss at the Camp Nou to go through on away goals after a 3-0 win.
In the last five seasons alone, Barca had lost knockout games on the road to Roma, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Once again the Catalan giants, who last won the Champions League in 2015, wilted when the stakes were highest.
Showing a lack of appetite for the physical challenge posed by Liverpool, Ernesto Valverde’s side let themselves be bulled into submission far too easily.
Their defending was horrific from the moment Jordi Alba’s misplaced header set up Liverpool’s opener and their finishing wasn’t much better as chances for a priceless away goal were squandered.
Perhaps it didn’t help that cheeky Liverpool fans set off fireworks at four in the morning outside the Barcelona team hotel in a bid to give Lionel Messi and his team-mates a sleepless night.
But that alone was no excuse for the timid way Barca allowed themselves to be ripped apart by Liverpool in one of the most wretched results in the club’s history.
“We’re talking about Busquets, Suarez, Pique and the best player I’ve ever seen, Messi, and they could not handle the pressure,” former England captain Alan Shearer said.
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Decimals: What’s the Point?
Monday September 24, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
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First it was whole numbers, then it was fractions, and now there are decimals. Clearly, we’re going from a “rational” number system to an “irrational” one! But why?
In this edWebinar, Drew Corley, PhD, Senior Learning Scientist at Amplify Education, navigates the growing number system as experienced by elementary- and middle-school students, with an emphasis on vertical alignment and pedagogical content knowledge. Several fun and engaging activities that can be used to foster rich discourse in the classroom will be presented as examples.
The content addressed will span grades four to eight: from introducing decimals as numbers; to comparing and operating with decimals; to relating and converting between fractions and decimals, including both terminating and repeating decimals; and all the way up to the introduction of irrational numbers. The presentation will be centered around tasks for the classroom. Some critical moments will include: discussing decimals as notation for privileged fractions that fit nicely into the base-ten number system; exploring the pros and cons of using decimals and fractions in different scenarios; and leveraging learning about comparing and operating with decimals to bolster fraction understanding through backwards transfer.
Teachers, coaches, and specialists working with grades four through eight will benefit from watching this recorded session.
Drew Corley, PhD is a senior learning scientist at Amplify Education, where he and his team have developed Amplify Fractions—an adaptive, story-driven approach to mathematical instruction. Drew is a former NBPTS certified teacher in mathematics (EA) with seven years of classroom experience at the high school and collegiate level. During and after graduate studies, Drew has focused heavily on the topics of assessment, and upper elementary- and middle-grades students’ learning and understanding of mathematics, particularly in the rational number domain. He received his BS in mathematics and MT in secondary mathematics education from the University of South Carolina, and went on to earn his doctorate in mathematics education from North Carolina State University.
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Amplify Fractions is a digital learning program, laser-focused on fractions. It’s where adaptive learning meets great storytelling, giving students personalized instruction, feedback and practice—all in an animated story-driven environment. Students don’t just learn fractions, they learn to make sense of fractions.
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Video Overview: The enclosed video is part of ReGen: The Curriculum for Christ- centered Living. It is the first curriculum of its kind, written by someone who has been to prison and is now doing well, specifically with the following audiences in mind: those at-risk of going to prison, first offenders, those on probation, in prison—and especially in a faith-based dorm, in aftercare facilities or on parole. For additional information or to browse our other resources, please visit our website at: www.HopePrisonMinistries.org Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible® (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.Used by permission. All rights reserved.
What Is Faith? quantity
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This video introduces the doctrine of faith. Contrary to popular belief, faith is a noun, not a verb. First, it is knowledge. It is knowledge of the system of doctrine drawn from sound biblical interpretation. It is NOT a magic wand or wishful thinking based upon scripture that is misinterpreted or misapplied. Second, True biblical faith requires assent, our agreement. Third, the faith that saved also requires our trust, commitment to an action upon what we say we believe.
This video is part of a larger series entitled ReGen: The Curriculum for Christ Centered Living. Upon the completion of the series it will include 130 lessons on DVD with corresponding written material, and a study guide. Each lesson stands alone and may be purchased separately or together with other lessons from the curriculum.
It is the first curriculum of its kind, written by someone who has been to prison and is now doing well. The curriculum is written specifically with the following audiences in mind: those at-risk of going to prison, first offenders, those on probation, in prison—and especially in a faith-based dorm, in aftercare facilities or on parole. For additional information or to browse our other resources, please visit our website at: www.HopePrisonMinistries.org
Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible® (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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A mythological story about a goddess who created the entire universe. The plot revolves around the consequences when humans build a temple for her first-born.
Rahi Anil Barve
Adesh Prasad
Mitesh Shah
Sohum Shah
Jyoti Malshe
Dhundiraj Prabhakar Jogalekar
Cameron Anderson
Ronjini Chakraborty
Anita Date
Deepak Damle
I can sometimes be a person who over-exaggerates, perhaps leaning toward the melodramatic at times.
I acknowledge that, and have made peace with it.
But I can say (knowing full well that there are just under two months left in the year – time to see plenty more horror flicks) that the film I screened at the 18th Annual Screamfest in Los Angeles, is the best horror film of the year.
And let me reiterate this point: so far. But oh, how the remaining screenings of 2018 have their work cut out for them.
In other words – GUSH, GUSH, GUSH!
And it’s not common for me to love a film so thoroughly. Like the hunt for treasure so important to this film’s plot, I’m always on the lookout for something special, something unique and powerful – the stack of gold coins as far as cinematic achievement.
With Tumbbad (an Indian import), “X” marks the spot. The film will quite simply blow your mind.
It did mine, and even now, weeks since screening the film, I’m not even sure what I should say, or how I should say it. But as this is my job, I’ll do my very best to make sure my avid readers of 4 fully understand how important it is that they see this film.
Told in three chapters – each about 15 years apart on the timeline – you’ll follow the lives of a poor family in the rural stretches of India – near the village of Tumbbad (hence the title). Preteen Vinayak (Dhundiraj Prabhakar Jogalekar) and his younger brother Sadashiv live with their mother (Jyoti Malshe) in a rundown home in the country. They care for a literally ancient grandmother (from their father’s side). She must be kept asleep at all times, and fed on a regular schedule. If she awakens at any time, there is the potential for danger. During a family crisis, Vinayak is left alone to tend to the bedridden and unconscious crone. But when she wakes up…
It is here where Vinayak (and the audience) learns of an enduring family secret – with the promise of riches beyond his wildest imagination. Every 15 years in the film’s story-line, we find Vinayak (Sohum Shah) older, smarter (but not necessarily wiser)… and eventually, he’ll pass along the family secret to his own son (Mohammad Samad).
The film’s score is absolutely lush, perfectly appropriate to every moment – whether it’s a tense, horrific scene or a mystical, magical moment filled with awe. I don’t say this often, but if/when the score by Jesper Kyd is released to the public – I’ll be the first in line to pick it up. It’s one of those soundtracks with which you’d gladly sit back, close your eyes and find escape – conjuring up all of the visions of the film itself, but standing on its own as a glorious piece of art.
It’s sometimes an uphill battle for a film to get continuity just right. And if your film is set in three separate times – fifteen years apart – your audience will expect some dust, some decay and a marked difference in the appearance of props and sets. Now – usually if you’re watching a film, you probably won’t be paying special attention to such details, but I was personally taken by the impressive change in the central locations as time goes by in the story – overgrown greenery, rotten wood and collapsing ceilings. But nothing can top Vinayak’s return to his childhood home, where we last saw his ancient grandmother. Not only is the continuity amazing, but it adds a deliciously strange plot point – and a simply masterful piece of set design. Seriously, wow.
Across the board, the performances are insanely good. In supporting roles, Jyoti Malshe is spectacular as young Vinayak’s mother. Of note was one harrowing scene surrounding a devastating accident. And as Vinayak’s son (in the third act), Mohammad Samad delivers one of the best performances from a young actor – this side of the teen cast of Stand By Me. Deep, believable and sympathetic.
In appearance (perhaps it’s the moustache) and in just plain charisma and talent – lead actor Sohum Shah (who also produced here) reminded me of a young Omar Shariff. Having to play Vinayak at various ages – you’ll never find fault with his growth as a person (physically and mentally). He’s as easy an actor to fall in love with as one could hope for, and so despite some of the character’s more dangerous (and fool-hardy) choices, your sympathy and concern for this character will never, ever falter. It’s a truly exceptional and engaging lead performance.
There are far too many stunning moments (and surprising turns) throughout Tumbbad, to properly catalog all of them here. However, the suspenseful introduction to “grandmother” in Chapter One and the introduction to the “treasure” are jaw-dropping and stunning set-pieces. And on the note of the “treasure” reveal: once you realize where the film has taken you, you’ll certainly gasp – I did.
And another, “Oh my, I see what they’re doing” arrives at the very beginning of the third act – as it becomes clear what Vinayak’s son is up to in the scene’s opening moments.
I’ve often said that for a film to attain a perfect, 5-star rating from me, that there must be some semblance of an almost transcendental reaction on my part.
Look – if at any point during a film, I say to myself, “I friggin’ love this film”, then I know the filmmakers have hit pay dirt.
Tumbbad is everything you want out of a movie. It’s emotionally resonant (most prominently in the father/son relationship of the film’s third act). It’s a visual masterpiece. It’s absolutely terrifying, harrowing, gut-wrenching and most of all – touching.
From the sometimes devastating performances from an expert ensemble cast, to the terrifying make-up effects and gorgeous cinematography, to a wholly original premise, Tumbbad is a perfect film – through and through.
And I must add this… my husband and I communicate via film and television quotes. So I believe that ultimate praise for any movie, would be if I were to adopt dialogue from the film and add it into my everyday vernacular. In the case of Tumbbad, the phrase (prominent in the film) “Sleep, or Hastar will come for you”, will be added to my daily life – used when appropriate – perhaps if myself or my husband are dealing with a bout of insomnia – or whenever else it might be deemed useful.
In other words, if I’m quoting dialogue from your film, you’ve made it.
Tumbbad’s screening at Screamfest marked the film’s West Coast Premiere. In my wrap-up article of the festival (check that out here), the film took the top spot in my “Best of Fest” listing – for the feature film offerings. It also found a place in my “movie props/costumes/set pieces” I’d love to add to my vast nerd collectibles. Those majorly important “dough-boys” or perhaps some of the central-to-the-plot gold coins would be a welcome addition to my overflowing shelves.
And finally, at Screamfest, the film took home trophies for Best Feature Film and Best Visual Effects.
The film is still playing the festival circuit, so stop traffic, cut in line and reschedule any hair appointments – but do whatever is within your power to take in this perfect cinematic experience.
At press, there is no word on a wider US theatrical, DVD or VOD release.
Evil from Hell, Gore, Horror Reviews, Monsters, Paranormal, Possession, Psychological Thrillers, Supernatural, Witches/ Occult
2018Adesh PrasadAnand GandhiAnita DateCameron AndersonDeepak DamleDhundiraj Prabhakar JogalekarJyoti MalsheMitesh ShahRahi Anil BarveRonjini ChakrabortyScreamfestSohum ShahTumbbad
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The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC) take pride in our passionate, dedicated, and diverse employees.
As NHMLAC initiatives continue to expand in fulfillment of our vision, we are constantly searching for new talent to join our three museums—the Natural History Museum, La Brea Tar Pits, and the William S. Hart Museum.
Opportunities at our museums vary from entry level to executive, from interfacing with our guests or educating students, to building our walls, or researching in the field, and include many positions that are an exciting mix of everything in between. As we begin to grow and expand our reach throughout the Los Angeles community, our museums have partnered with various schools to provide opportunities with internships, work study, and volunteer programs.
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Football Defeated by Gallaudet's Second Half Performance
Gallaudet (1-2) 0 7 0 22 29
Pa: Alex Cohen - 147
Ru: Jalin Hudson - 66
Rec: Marcelino Da Veiga - 80
Pa: Timel Benton - 72
Ru: Cassmeir Hutchinson - 151
Rec: Damonte Bray - 41
PAXTON, Mass: The Anna Maria Football team fell to the Bison of Gallaudet this afternoon in conference action 29-9 on AMCAT Field.
The Bison (1-2, 1-0 ECFC) were led in passing by Senior Quarterback Timel Benton who finished the contest 5-11 for 72 yards and one touchdown through the air, along with 34 yards on the ground. LJ Watson was on the receiving end of Benton's touchdown pass, as he caught 2 for 29 yards. Gallaudet's steady run game production came from Cassmeir Hutchinson who had 150 yards on just 10 attempts. Hutchinson was able to break away in the 4th quarter with an 80 yard play as he beat the AMCAT defense down the sideline for a score. RJ Randle also put up 69 yard on the rush with only getting 7 attempts.
The AMCATS (0-5, 0-1 ECFC) passing attack came from freshmen Quarterback Alex Cohen (Plymouth, Mass.) as he completed 17-of-31 for 147 yards and one score, he also had 2 interceptions. Jalin Hudson (Syracuse, N.Y.) compiled 66 yards on 16 attempts. Anna Maria sophomore receiver Marcelino Da Veiga (Central Fall, RI) tallied 8 catches for 80 yards and was on the receiving end of Cohen's touchdown pass.
Gallaudet's Lorenzo Fuller led the defense with an interception that he returned for 31 yards, to set up his offense with great field position. Fuller also totaled 4 tackles in the contest. Demontrai Lewis also contributed an interception for the Bison Defense. Lewis compiled 7 total tackles and was tied for the team high with Christopher Webb.
Anna Maria's Aiden Folster (Wappingers Falla, N.Y.) led the AMCATS defense with 14 total tackles in the ball game with 12 coming on solo efforts.
The Bison will be back on the field October 13th at 12:00 PM as they will take on ECFC opponent Castleton University.
The AMCATS will be back on the road this coming week to face off against Castleton University on the 6th of October at 2:00 PM in conference action.
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Hammer reveals how he used to discipline Sarkodie, Edem, Kwaw Kese and co. - GhanaSummary News
Hammer reveals how he used to discipline Sarkodie, Edem, Kwaw Kese and co.
Popular music producer turned business man Hammer has made some revelations concerning how he used to discipline his artistes.
Hammer has dropped a secret concerning how he used to put his artistes in check anytime they misbehave.
According to the ace producer, he used to go to the extent of letting his artistes kneel down and raise their hands as a sign of discipline.
In a report sighted on Ghbase.com, Hammer shared his experience concerning how he used to discipline musicians.
"It was a boot camp in the studio premises. you can come to the studios to see artistes kneel down in the studios with their hands up for fighting," he noted.
"When my boys get somewhere they feel invincible. What can you do? The way I have drilled them there is nothing that you can do that they haven’t faced," he added.
Hammer went on to reveal that he never condoned indiscipline since discipline help people to become successful.
Deducing from his comment, it meant that muscians like Sarkodie, Obrafour, Edem, Kwaw Kese, Tinny among others went through same ordeal.
"I used to punish my artistes anytime they misbehave because at the time I don't tolerate indiscipline," he noted.
Hammer, born Edward Nana Poku Osei is undoubtedly one of Ghana's most prolific music sound engineers to have made a mark in the industry.
Over the years, Hammer recorded and produced hit songs for top artistes like Obrafour, Sarkodie, Edem among others.
He literally groomed and made most of the top rappers that Ghana has ever seen as he was the king of hiplife beats.
However, Hammer is no more producing beats as he had announced the end of his music production career.
He noted at the time that music production was no more profitable enough to sustain him, thus going on a long break.
Currently, Hammer has gone into entrepreneurship as he is part of the management of FIAT Africa as well as manufacturers of A1 bread.
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Go Back to Basics: Put Your News in an Email
By Amina Boubia | May 11, 2018
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العربية, Français, Русский, Español
Email? Really? To those of you accustomed to sending out newsletters to subscribers, the benefits may sound obvious. Yet the newsletter is making a healthy comeback, to the surprise of many journalists and media professionals.
So why has the humble newsletter endured and why is it becoming popular again?
In a digital world all too often dependent on adjustable, difficult-to-read algorithms, email turns out to be a relatively stable and easy way to reach your audience. Unlike a post on your website or social media, your email will land for certain in your readers’ inbox – and therefore will most probably be seen by them.
But this great opportunity to have a direct relationship with your audience should not be taken for granted. Like many transformations brought on by digital technologies, newsletters are also subject to the two-way rule: subscribers have more control over what they receive, and crucially, over what they do with your email. With more power in their hands, they can unsubscribe from a mailing list if they dislike its content or frequency, or, worse case scenario, they could mark it as spam, thus banning the sender from their lives.
During a recent International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) panel about newsletters, Fernando Rodrigues, founder of Poder360 in Brazil, explained how he managed to set up the sustainable daily Drive Premium. Targeting corporate clients, this Brasilia-based paid newsletter provides original policy-focused content to its subscribers, who can also choose to receive alerts via WhatsApp or Telegram.
Asking your subscribers for feedback will help you improve and get to know them better.
In a way, the newsletter is your readers’ local or national newspaper 2.0 delivered to their doorstep; a reliable friend keeping them posted about what matters and what is of interest to them. The newsletter allows us to re-create a “habit of news,” with the advantage that it is compatible with mobile and multimedia.
More than that, beyond your readers opening, skimming, or reading parts or all of your email, strive for them to find it so worthwhile that they would forward and recommend it to friends and colleagues. Another bonus of sending newsletters is that it allows you to engage with your readers using a personal tone. It could be in the way you start and end your mailer, use emojis, or feature quotes. According to the newsletter platform Revue, editorial mailers simply perform better, especially when they speak of photography, sports, government and religion – while commercial newsletters have the lowest open rates.
Besides the writing style, the strength of a newsletter lies in its design, in how you present your content to deliver your message. In short, it’s your product’s brand. Think formatting. Are you using a specific set of colors or fonts? Do you want to insert pictures or videos to illustrate your point? Having different landing spots using text and visual content is a clever method to catch your readers’ eye when they scroll through it. Reflect also on the frequency and timing. Do you want your email to be a morning brief, a weekly round-up or a deep-dive newsletter?
Likewise, tracking your data (subscriber numbers, opening rates, click-through rates, time spent reading) and using tools that show which parts of the newsletter your readers focus on longest (“heat maps”) are a must – but not enough. Plan re-engagement campaigns by including short surveys to get a sense of your readers’ views about your work. Aim for a community of readers you can rely on as you refine your newsletter. Asking your subscribers for feedback will not only help you improve and get to know them better. Listening to them will also make them feel empowered and encourage them to get involved.
Lastly, think through the business model and monetization avenues. In particular, are you opting for a massive free newsletter to attract advertising and sponsorship? Or would your readers pay for a newsletter if you provided premium content or other benefits?
The newsletter is your readers’ reliable friend keeping them posted about what matters and what is of interest to them.
Ultimately, the answers to these questions depend on the type of media you run and the message you want to convey. If you focus on a niche subject, try to grow a core group of fans, a so-called “tribe,” and know why they are passionate about a specific topic, then consider expanding to the broader public. And here’s one of the most important elements for a successful newsletter: Whether you are on your own or supported by a team, make sure you end up with a quality product both in terms of expertise and design.
While thinking about all this, it is worth noting what The New York Times found out about their newsletter subscribers: They read twice as much content as non-subscribers and are twice as likely to pay for good expertise.
So, be creative, experiment and get inspired by some of the examples below.
Useful Tips to Create or Improve your Newsletter
Want to start a newsletter? Read this first.
And do the “Newsletter Identity Exercise” by NPR Training.
Catch up on a recent ISOJ panel titled “How email, a 50-year-old technology, has become the next big thing for organizations.”
Chaired by Sara Fischer, media reporter at Axios, the panel gathered Elisabeth Goodridge, editorial director of newsletters and messaging at The New York Times; Mónica Guzmán, co-founder and director of The Evergrey; Dheerja Kaur, head of product and design at theSkimm; and Fernando Rodrigues, founder and editor of Drive Premium/Poder360 in Brazil. Here’s the video to it (session starting at 54 minutes).
Watch the webinar by MediaShift on “How To Get Better Newsletter Metrics.“
Held in February, all you need to access the recording is to register. The panelists are: Clare Carr, who leads the marketing team at Parse.ly; Lindsay Goddard, product manager on the New York Times’ email team; and Brady Pierce, senior manager of digital marketing at Greentech Media.
Learn from Revue’s masterclass about editorial newsletters.
As part of the last NewsRewired conference that took place in March in London, the newsletter platform Revue gave a workshop during which they shared best practices of some of their most successful users on how to write an editorial mailer. By popular demand, they made the slides publicly available, and you can check them out here.
A Good Example of (Re-)Engagement
The Splice Newsroom‘s style.
In their newsletters focusing on Asia’s latest media trends (Splice Slugs) and all matters at the intersection of media and design (Splice Frames), The Splice Newsroom uses different techniques to (re-)engage their audiences, among which are an informal tone, emojis and short surveys.
Insightful Research Findings
In the Shorenstein Center’s Guide to “Using Data Science Tools for Email Audience Analysis,” you’ll find out:
Why the value of email lies in the fact that it is “the single most reliable digital channel for building a ‘habit of news.’”
That “among all the potential uses of smartphones, reading and writing email is the third most popular activity after text messaging and web surfing — it even tops listening to music.”
That “email is a crucial vehicle to drive major revenue streams.”
This piece originally appeared in the May 2018 newsletter of the Open Society Foundation’s Program on Independent Journalism and is reprinted with permission. OSF is a funder of GIJN.
Dr. Amina Boubia is a London-based consultant, researcher, lecturer and journalist specializing in arts and culture, politics and international relations, the Middle East and North Africa and intercultural relations between the east and west.
Pactio: Where Loyal Readers Follow — and Fund — Their Favorite Reporters
There’s a new funding strategy in the works, built around the idea that quite a few reporters have loyal followings and their readers just might be willing to chip in a few bucks to keep them in the news business. But as more organizations turn to reader support for revenue — whether framed as memberships or as subscriptions — they might face stiff competition for their individual crowdfunding model.
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Our winning idea!
We're thrilled to announce that HI was selected as a winner of Amplify's Disability and Inclusion Challenge!
Deymar, 21, is a member of our inclusive livelihoods project in Bolivia | © J. Tusseau/HI
THE CHALLENGE: How might we reduce stigma and increase opportunities for people with disabilities
OUR SOLUTION: A global toolbox for inclusive workplace adaptions that can be used in developing countries
With support from the HI team, Angela Kohama, our talented inclusive livelihoods policy officer, submitted the idea of a global toolbox that will assist employers in creating workspaces, tools, and work methods that are accessible for people with disabilities.
Globally, people with disabilities are underemployed, at staggering rates. We know that often very simple changes or adaptions make it easy for a worker with a disability to thrive. We want to ensure that employers have the tools they need to make their offices, factories, bakeries, and more, accessible for their workers.
HI already has effective advocacy tools to convince employers and entrepreneurs that employing disabled people benefits everyone in a community and is particularly important in low and middle income contexts. However, employers and entrepreneurs often need support to adapt the work environment to ensure everybody can thrive and realise their potential at work. That's where we step in!
The toolbox can be organised as a phone or web-based application. The person using the toolbox application is presented with a wide selection of employment opportunities or training options, contextualised to developing countries.
The user selects the profession or training, and is brought to the next page: disability type. The user selects the type of disability (all disabilities will be included). The application then returns a tailor-made page offering comprehensive information about how to adjust the tools, work methods and environment based on the type of impairment recorded and the specific work opportunity selected. This will not be prescriptive – Handicap International believes people with disabilities can enter any job, given the right preparation and accommodation.
The user of the application can combine these suggestions with local resources to create contextually relevant workplace adaptions. In addition, as the end users identify new solutions for reasonable accommodation, they can upload them in the application - ensuring even more people can benefit.
Learn more about our winning idea!
MANY THANKS TO AMPLIFY FOR SUPPORTING OUR INNOVATIVE IDEA!
Amplify is a series of innovation challenges bringing increased collaboration and a human-centered design approach to early stage solutions addressing some of the world’s toughest problems. Amplify is a joint initiative of OpenIDEO, IDEO.org and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). It is made possible through DFID funding.
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UN Security Council recognises the rights of people with disabilities in armed conflicts
For the first time ever, the United Nations Security Council has adopted a Resolution on persons with disabilities in armed conflict. This represents a significant step forward for people with disabilities, who are particularly at risk in crisis situations and often overlooked in humanitarian assistance.
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Interview with Black Honey:
3. November 2017 in Zurich
In Interviews by indiespect 5. November 2017
Black Honey are currently supporting their Brighton mates from Royal Blood. Before their planned gig in Zurich I had the chance to chat with the four-piece. The concert later that evening had to be cancelled and rescheduled due to food poisoning within the Royal Blood crew. The show will now take place on the 19th December this year. At the time the interview took place everybody was optimistic that the concert would take place as planned.
Black Honey Are:
Izzy Baxter (vocals, guitar)
Chris Ostler (guitar)
Tommy Taylor (bass)
Tom Dewhurst (drums)
Indiespect: Your mates from Royal Blood cancelled all of their interview slots today because they don’t feel well. Do you know what happened to them?
Tommy Taylor: I think the other guys have food poisoning. They went to a really nice restaurant somewhere in Milan yesterday.
Chris Ostler: They had oysters, didn’t they? Oysters are always a bit dodgy.
Indiespect: But they don’t have to cancel the show, do they?
Izzy Baxter: No, nothing has stopped the show. The show must go on.
Indiespect: I heard you just got up?
Izzy: Yes, we haven’t even showered. So sorry! We had a bit of a big one last night. After the show Ben and Mike came out to our bus to have a few drinks and then we got pretty drunk. Then we decided to drive across Milan to visit our friends Slaves in their Raddison Blu hotel. It was really posh and we had to be really settled when we arrived in this huge bus. As we were getting out of the bus Chris kind of fell out.
Chris: Face first.
Indiespect: I wouldn’t be as fit as you if I had such a wild night out. Did you learn that on tour?
Tommy: Yes, we get really good at it.
Izzy: Ben and Mike would train us through a lot of paces. We’ve been through a boot camp.
Indiespect: Are they worse than you?
Izzy: Yep!
Tommy: Oh yeah. Or better. It depends which way you look at it.
Indiespect: What’s the best part of being on tour with Royal Blood?
Tom Dewhurst: I think them. The two guys. I like hanging out with them. They’re funny.
Izzy: They feel like part of the family. Because they’re from Brighton as well. They just come in our bus or our dressing room. It feels like they could be in our band. It feels really close. They could be the next two members.
Indiespect: Where did you get to know each other in the first place?
Izzy: In Brighton. I remember seeing Mike and Ben at one of our really early gigs in our studio. It was a tiny gig, about the size of this dressing room. That was just before they kind of exploded. Ben also was a really really good friend of a guy who used to put on a really horrible pop club night called bars and pop where everyone went to. It has always been trashy pop music, it was the best. We went there every Thursday. I remember Ben was giving everyone stamps at the door.
Indiespect: I have to admit that I didn’t know you before you were announced as support act of Royal Blood. Then I checked you out and I saw that you already have quite a lot of songs out. All of them are really great. But there is still no album around. And since over a year you tell everybody that you want to grow a bigger fanbase and to wait on the right moment to come out with it. Do you know when you will release your debut by now?
Izzy: We can officially tell you that our album is coming out next year. We’re aiming for summer. And we’re definitely back in Switzerland before that. We played our first ever festival in Switzerland this summer at Openair Gampel which was amazing. An incredible thunderstorm came in. We were on stage watching Seasick Steve. And it was the sunniest hottest day ever. It was beautiful and we had the best time in the mountains. And minutes later literally the heaven opened. The whole main stage was rattling and all of the flags got blown over. It was sideways rain. Crazy shit – it was biblical. We had eight portions of raclette that day which was probably my highlight.
Indiespect: So you’re also having fondue or raclette for dinner today?
Izzy: We hope so. If not we will melt some cheese in the van in the microwave.
Indiespect: Since a few days you are teasing the fans on your Facebook page with the words RIP and the date 10.11.17. What is this all about?
Izzy: Yeah, we’re breaking up.
Indiespect: So you return to Switzerland in spring just to eat cheese?
Izzy: Oh, you got us there. Basically our next single is called Dig. It’s a death theme single. Not in a morbid way. More like thinking about death makes you challenge your own experience of life. We talk about death imagery and religious imagery in a lot of our songs. Having the challenge of the narrative of death and the way it’s glamourous. Death is part of the cycle we live in. For example the death of the leaves. Everything recycles itself in the whole experience of the universe. Really deep. (laughs)
Chris: Sooo… Cheese! (laughs)
Indiespect: Your song ‘Spinning Wheel’ sounds like a perfect Tarantino tune. It’s a mixture of Dick Dale and Nancy Sinatra. Did you want to catch his attention with that one?
– Izzy shows her Quentin Tarantino shirt –
Izzy: I mean if you could give him a ring…
Chris: Maybe he can do the video.
Indiespect: If he would call, how would you react?
Tommy: Silence, I think. I like to think we would be really cool, but we wouldn’t.
Izzy: I think I would cry.
Indiespect: I found several interviews with you, all of them in English. Also the written ones. So I’d like to present you to the German speaking readers as well. May you tell me something about your band history? How did everything start?
Chris: We all met a long time ago. We’ve been friends for years and years. And we’ve all been into the same music. We lived in Brighton. We’ve done various different projects before. Black Honey didn’t fall out of the sky. We made a lot of mistakes before in our other bands and learned from them. And three years ago it fell into place.
Tommy: We all played in different bands for a while. Then this one happened and it stuck.
Chris: Something went right, didn’t it?
Indiespect: You have the same vision as a band? You want to take your time before releasing an album.
Tommy: We didn’t think there is too much point until you have an audience that wants to hear it. We never wanted to put the first ten or twelve songs we’ve written onto an album.
Chris: You only got to do your first album once. So you want it to be the best you can make.
Indiespect: I heard that you’ve got already about 80 songs that you recorded?
Izzy: We’re maybe topping a hundred now.
Chris: Maybe a thousand. Two thousand. Easy.
Indiespect: When you release your album next summer, will it contain the songs you already recorded or is it all new stuff?
Izzy: We’re gonna make a deluxe. So it will be a mixture of new stuff and some of our favorites of all time on the main album. And the deluxe is gonna be like everything we’ve released. Some exclusives and some really fun stuff in it.
Indiespect: My next question you answered already in the beginning of the interview. You said that you will come back to Switzerland after your show with Royal Blood. This will be next year?
Izzy: Next year. Nothing is in the calendar yet but we’re hoping to get on the road in spring. We also have plans to go more international. We will go to America next year, go back to Japan again…
Indiespect: Japan is a good keyword. It seems that every band loves Japan. What does this country make so special?
Izzy: Japan loves bands. That’s the thing, isn’t it? They’re just so good. The record stores are also very dedicated to British indie rock music. They’re just mental and it’s great fun.
Indiespect: They also give a lot of gifts to bands. Have you also received something special?
Izzy: We didn’t get so much. We got a few drawings and stuff at our club show in Harajuku. But I think next time we go it will be different since we play festivals. People just take photos of you in the streets just for being blonde.
Tommy: We also sign a lot of weird things. In Korea as well. We were signing expensive handbags and phones. The actual phone not the case. Weird.. but kinda cool!
Izzy: Half of the people don’t know who you are. They’re just getting stuff signed because everybody else does.
Tommy: We just love it. The culture is so different and it’s such an experience. As soon as you get off the plane it’s like a whole other world.
Indiespect: So maybe you have to release a special Japanese version of your album with bonus tracks like all the other bands do.
Tommy: Maybe our normal album will be the Japanese version so that everybody can get all the tracks.
Indiespect: It was planned that I have an interview with Mike from Royal Blood afterwards. Do you know anything I could ask that he doesn’t expect.
Tom: Ask him if he thinks they sound like White Stripes
– Everybody laughs –
Indiespect: He seems not to like this question. But today I will not get the chance to ask him anything because the cancelled all the interviews.
Izzy: Everybody in their crew has got really sick. There’s been a bug going round.
Chris: We’ll ask a question for you. Should we interview them with your questions and film it?
Izzy: They would hate you soo much!
Indiespect: We don’t have to be afraid that the show won’t happen? Or otherwise you’ll fill out the headline slot with all of your songs?
Tommy: That was our plan. We poisoned them. A real masterplan.
Indiespect: Any last words?
Izzy: Our new single comes out on November 10th. And it will be available on all streaming, social platforms in the internet.
Indiespect: Thank you so much for your time.
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Our book Innovating Minds: Rethinking Creativity to Inspire Change, published by Oxford University Press, is now available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Oxford University Press, and other booksellers.
A strong review of Innovating Minds —in the American Psychological Association’s journal PsycCRITIQUES (February 2016). Written by Professor Liane Gabora, an expert in creativity research, here are a few of her review comments that really popped out for us:
“. . . an exciting new framework for thinking about creativity and fueling innovative change in the world.”
“Although the basic concept of adaptively moving in abstraction space is not new, the authors do an unprecedented job of exploring its implications for fostering creative thinking and bringing about innovative change.”
“. . . the authors do an excellent job of coming up with interesting and potentially effective exercises for altering and playing with the way in which you think about creative problems and tasks.”
“. . . because of its readability, I would also recommend it highly for anyone with an interest in how the creative process works or for someone who wants to kickstart his or her own creative juices.”
In the February 2016 issue of Choice, published by the American Library Association, Professor Bernard Beins of Ithaca College recommends our book and begins his review: “In judging whether creative problem solving is inborn or learned, Koutstaal (Univ. of Minnesota) and Binks (a specialist in organizational innovation) come down firmly on the side of learned.” And he concludes: “Ultimately, this book is useful for identifying a mosaic of creative approaches rather than suggesting that there is a single simplistic, but unrealistic, formula.”
“Eminent psychologist Koutstaal and organization consultant Binks team up to present a program to enhance creativity based on neurobiology and psychological experimentation. The result is a five-part ‘thinking framework’: change the level of detail; attend to competing thoughts; allow room for both spontaneity and deliberateness in thinking; use sensing and feeling as well as cognition; and capture thoughts in some physical form.”— Library Journal
ADVANCE PRAISE
Here’s some advance praise for the book:
“I love this book. It is intellectually satisfying, eminently practical, and beautifully presented. I cannot think of another book that appreciates how much of creativity is due to individual and institutional choice. That choice is to engage in specific, well-founded strategies that increase the chances of success. Instead of succumbing to the belief that creativity is the province of exceptional individuals, the authors deliver scientifically tested strategies we can all use. Even better, they explain why the strategies work. Readers will be able to generate their own creative ways to increase their creativity. It is hard to do better than that.”
DANIEL SCHWARTZ, Nomellini and Olivier Professor of Educational Technology, Stanford University
“Innovation is central to implementing corporate responsibility, sustainability, and change leadership. Societies and organizations direly need new theories and action to make real progress on persistent wicked problems. The new integrative framework in this stimulating book, incorporating the latest insights and research from fields ranging from neuroscience to empathic design, will be as useful to start-up and multinational businesses as it will be to non-profits and governments searching for creative solutions to ongoing challenges. I could have used it in my own prior leadership activities, and certainly will use it in my current activities and teaching.”
CHIP PITTS, Former Chief Legal Officer of Nokia, Inc. and Former Chair of Amnesty International, USA
OVERVIEW (COURTESY OF OUP)
An overview of the book, courtesy of Oxford University Press:
“From entrepreneurs to teachers, engineers to artists, almost everyone stands to benefit from becoming more creative. New ways of thinking, making, and imagining have the potential to bring about revolutionary changes to both our personal lives and society as a whole. And yet, the science behind creativity has largely remained a mystery, with few people aware of the ways we can optimize our own creative and innovative ideas.
Innovating Minds: Rethinking Creativity To Inspire Change offers a perspective, grounded in science, that allows us to achieve both individual and collective creative goals. Wilma Koutstaal and Jonathan Binks draw upon extensive research from brain, behavioral, and organizational sciences to present a unique five-part “thinking framework” in which ideas are continually refined and developed. Beyond scientific research, Innovating Minds also describes the everyday creative challenges of people from all walks of life, offering insights from dancers, scientists, designers, and architects.
The book shows that creativity is far from a static process; it is steeped with emotion and motivation, involving the dynamic interactions of our minds, brains, and environments. Accordingly, it challenges readers to put its material into use through thinking prompts, creativity cross- checks, and other activities.
Vibrant and engaging, Innovating Minds reveals a unique approach to harnessing creative ideas and putting them into action. It offers a fascinating exploration of the science of creativity along with new and valuable resources for becoming more innovative thinkers and doers.”
OUR SUMMARY
And here’s a summary of the book:
What is creative and innovative thinking really all about? How do we discover promising new ways of making, imagining, and adeptly moving toward our creative goals, whether working on our own or together with others?
Innovating Minds offers us a science-grounded perspective for realizing our individual and collective creative goals. In this book, we learn a unique 5-part “thinking framework” in which ideas continually form and re-form within the dynamic interplay of our minds, brains, and environments.
Drawing on research findings ranging from brain networks to individuals in interacting groups, to organizations that span continents, Innovating Minds illuminates the real-world creative challenges of people in all walks of life, from dancers to designers, from artists to architects, from scientists to software developers, and more. We discover that creativity and innovation are profoundly iterative. Ideas are in our minds, but are deeply inter-steeped with emotion and motivation, with perception and with action, with continual support from our environments, in all their social, physical, and symbolic complexities.
The thinking framework asks us five questions: 1. What ideas are competing for your attention and awareness—and how are you helping to form and re-form them? 2. Are you aptly zooming in and zooming out? 3. Do you allow room for both spontaneity and deliberateness in your thinking? 4. Are you thinking using the full power of concepts, together with sensing, feeling, and well-chosen action goals? 5. How do you ask your environments and your “thinking tools” to creatively partner with you?
Throughout, Innovating Minds invites us to actively explore and put to use what we are learning through thinking prompts, creativity cross-checks and queries, and thought boxes. The broadly integrative brain, behavioral, and organizational sciences based thinking framework gives us all new and enduring resources for becoming more innovative thinkers and doers.
WHAT’S UNIQUE?
The “thinking framework” approach we take is unique in four interrelated ways. First, it emphasizes the dynamic interplay of mind, brain, and environment in forming and re-forming our creative ideas, in a continual cycle of making and finding. Innovating Minds reveals how individual and collective creativity and change emerge from an ongoing process of “making and finding” in which we repeatedly cycle between what we intend to “make” and what our intended actions help us “find.” Second, we insist throughout that optimizing our creatively adaptive thinking requires jointly taking into account the need for contextually modulated variation in both detail stepping (levels of abstraction) and control dialing (degrees of mental control). Third, the book underscores the pervasive, under-appreciated, and poorly understood multi-faceted contribution of goals — including our open goals — to individual and collective creativity. Fourth, the framework encourages long-term retention and use of new concepts and principles through asking the reader to actively think throughout the book by using numerous and varied thinking prompts, creativity cross-checks and queries, and thought boxes. We know of no other book that has taken this empirically grounded, broadly integrative brain, behavioral, and organizational sciences based approach to innovation and constructive change.
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Paul Dini Approves of Dustin Nguyen’s Lil Gotham
Matt Graham | October 31, 2012 | News | No Comments
It’s taken five long years, but iconic Batman artist Dustin Nguyen’s Lil Gotham (with co-writing by Derek Fridolfs) is finally being released as a digital first comic today. The out-of-continuity take on Batman his family and foes has been a pet project has “…been a passion project of mine for some time now, and for anyone that’s followed my work, I’m sure it’s more of an ‘its about time!’ explained Dustin Nguyen to The Source.
“The look and style is a slight departure from my usual (think the exact opposite of serious), but the idea has always been the same—to take our favorite existing Gotham characters, place them in fun scenarios without having to be tied to just one continuity or look and feel. It’s basically a Batman book for fans, by two huge fans.”
Dustin’s stylized watercolor Gothamites have been a fan favorite on his art gallery and prints and commissions. The cast had a trial run in a special issue a few months back and is now a digital first series that, like another Batman tale, celebrates the holidays of every month. Editor Sarah Gaydos explained: . “Tying each story to that month’s holiday gives us a really fun opportunity to play with the themes and traditions of each holiday,” she said. “Dustin and Derek bring something special to each and every page. There are SO many ‘Easter eggs,’ so make sure to keep your eyes peeled!”
What can we expect? Dustin has represented everybody in the announcement art, among them Nightwing back in blue, Barbara Gordon as Oracle, Zatanna, The Carpenter, Kathy Kane, Stephanie Brown as Batgirl, Cassandra Cain, and Tim Drake in his classic outfit.
The first issue debuts it’s Halloween them today, October 31, 2012. And if all of that doesn’t convince you, Nguyen posted on his Facebook:
“[G]ot the nod/blessing from Paul Dini this morning on our new Batman series, makes up for all the foreseeable headaches to come 😀 if it were ENTIRELY up to me, i’d have called it Little Streets of Gotham.”
Tags: Batgirl, Batman, cassandra cain, DC Comics, Dustin Nguyen, Gotham City, Paul Dini, Stephanie Brown
Source: The Source
Matt Graham
Matt Graham is a freelance contributor when he's not writing and illustrating for himself and others. A screenwriter and illustrator with experience in nearly every role of comic and film production, he spends most of his time rationalizing why it's not that weird to have a crush on the female teenaged clone of the hairiest, barrel chested man in comics.
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Chris Brown Expecting Baby No. 2 with Ex-Girlfriend Ammika Harris
posted by Taylor Fields - Jun 14, 2019
Chris Brown is gonna be a dad for the second time! According to Page Six and Us Weekly, sources have confirmed that the singer/dancer is expecting a baby with his ex-girlfriend Ammika Harris.
The source tells Us of Brown and Harris' current relationship status, "Chris isn't dating her and they broke up a few months ago." Page Six had broken the baby news, and also reported that Brown and his most recent girlfriend, model Indyamarie, had broken up because of the pregnancy news.
Apparently, Brown had hinted at the pregnancy last month when he left a comment on one of Ammika's posts on Instagram (from May 8th); a picture of her playing a basketball arcade game. Chris wrote "Yup" and "BM BAD" with a kiss face emoji — the "BM" presumably standing for "baby mama."
Just a few days before that photo was posted, Ammika shared a pair of PDA Polaroid pictures of she and Chris for his 30th birthday. She wrote along with them, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SCHATZ!!! Dirty 30 huh, handsome old man."
Brown is already a father to his five-year-old daughter Royalty, who he shares with Nia Guzman. He has yet to comment on his new baby on the way.
On her own Instagram, Ammika has shared a few sentiments that could be related to the pregnancy. In one photo, she is looking down in the direction of her belly and she captioned it, "It's just us against the world." Many fans began to comment speculating that she was talking about her and her baby. Then, in her Instagram stories, she shared, "A lot of conversations need to be had in person. Tones need to be heard, facial expressions need to be seen," followed by a close-up photo of pink roses.
Meanwhile, Chris Brown also made headlines this week for calling out ex-girlfriend Karreuche Tran and her boyfriend Victor Cruz (and his clothes) on Instagram. Brown made comments about the way Cruz was dressed writing, "No shade boo, BUT PLEASE STYLE HIM. He looks like he’s shopping off the manikin and trying to bargain with the sales manager. Retired wrestler spanks." He then later added, "Nothing bad or major. UPGRADE HIM SIS. I'll take him around to style him. NOT HATE. He just need some game spirit [...] Peace love and joy. JUST PLEASE UPGRADE YA MAN BOO."
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Drums Along the Potomac - Clarice Feldman
A revolutionary war is being fought again in New York and D.C.
Watching the events of last week online I’m reminded of Drums Along the Mohawk a story about a couple in New York’s Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. The New York frontier settlers fought off Tories, Indians, the British with a small militia, muskets, and grit until peace was restored and they could return to farming.
A revolutionary war is being fought again in New York and D.C., this time between the administration’s corrupted Department of Justice, the compliant press and the Democratic Party on one hand, and the New York Police Department, the U.S. Attorney Preet Bahara, and the FBI on the other. The issues at stake are not all that different: the right of free people to govern themselves. The weapons are not muskets, but the Internet.
Background: The Wheels Coming Off the Hillary Bus
We’re just 2 days away from the election and having worked at times in bureaucratic organizations I can imagine the turmoil in the vast Clinton machine. The constant releases of hacked emails by Wikileaks in such a top-down operation surely has hamstrung their work. People who work there are either searching frantically for their names in the emails, gossiping among each other about what is found there and worrying about what is to come. The head of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was replaced, only to find the new head Donna Brazile was herself the subject of scandal -- leaking debate questions she learned were going to be asked of Hillary. It’s not only Wikileaks -- Project Veritas’s exposure of the Creamer-headed vote-rigging and thuggery operation must have put a crimp in its 50-year-long Midwestern vote-stealing scheme. People who worked for him have to be unsure of their next steps and with the Wisconsin attorney general promising an investigation, it must be harder still to operate as usual. Huma Abedin, Hillary’s right-hand gal of many hats, is on the sidelines as her husband’s computer with its 650 thousand emails is being examined by local cops and the FBI for evidence of child pornography and national security leaks. The Clinton Foundation slush fund is under scrutiny for pay-to-play corruption and tax fraud and their many employees, recipients, and donors must be scouring their records and getting unwelcome law enforcement inquiries.
Steve Pieczenik Throws some Ammo on the Fire
Pieczenik, a smart man, once on the Council of Foreign Relations and other high positions, who lately has a spotty history of accuracy, transmitted a video in which he charged that the Clintons had effected a silent coup d’état, corrupting and coopting all the normal checks and balances. He said various intelligence agencies have been working with Julian Assange to carry out a counter-coup online to “stop the Clintons” and prevent Obama from pardoning them for their crimes.
Days later he offered up another video. This time more sensational. He claimed that both Clintons had been part of the Jeffrey Epstein “Lolita express” to his compound on Little St. James island and the NYPD had a record of the Clintons and other of their coterie involved in pedophilia. He claims the Intelligence Community has a lot of evidence of these illegal activities.
If true, then for a public long inured to the usual Clinton political corruption, this at last would grab their attention. Surely, true or not, such charges would most certainly have given Comey good reason to reopen the investigation and Attorney General Lynch and her cohorts at the Department of Justice reason to pull back and keep their mitts off the FBI’s reopened investigation.
Like clockwork, less well-known websites started publishing related accounts.Typical of these is this:
According to NYPD sources, files found on Weiner’s newly found laptop which he shared with his wife Huma Abedin, show evidence of a political pedophile ring operating within Washington, involving members of Congress as well as numerous top Clinton aides and insiders.
According to reports, a folder on Weiner’s laptop named “life insurance” contains explicit evidence that both Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin helped run and cover-up a Washington pedophile sex ring.
Truepundit.com reports:
NYPD sources said these new emails include evidence linking Clinton herself and associates to:
Sex crimes with minors (children)
Pay to play through Clinton Foundation
Other felony crimes
NYPD detectives and a NYPD Chief, the department’s highest rank under Commissioner, said openly that if the FBI and Justice Department fail to garner timely indictments against Clinton and co-conspirators, NYPD will go public with the damaging emails now in the hands of FBI Director [snip] The new emails contain travel documents and itineraries indicating Hillary Clinton, President Bill Clinton, Weiner and multiple members of Congress and other government officials accompanied convicted pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein on his Boeing 727 on multiple occasions to his private island in the U.S Virgin Islands, sources said. Epstein’s island has also been dubbed Orgy Island or Sex Slave Island where Epstein allegedly pimps out underage girls and boys to international dignitaries.
Both NYPD and FBI sources confirm based on the new emails they now believe Hillary Clinton traveled as Epstein’s guest on at least six occasions, probably more when all the evidence is combed, sources said. Bill Clinton, it has been confirmed in media reports spanning recent years, that he too traveled with Epstein over 20 times to the island.
Bill Clinton’s travels with Epstein were confirmed long ago. The rest of the charges about pedophilia have not been confirmed to my knowledge. However, Reddit participants scouring through Wikileaks found accounts of Hillary helping Laura Silsby escape punishment for her trafficking of children from Haiti.
And there was earlier a report -- later scrubbed -- by the Inspector General of the Department of State indicating Hillary had tried to block an investigation of pedophilia by a U.S. ambassador and an ambassador-designate:
The Washington Examiner published an expose on June 17 that reveals portions of an Inspector General report on how Hillary Clinton’s State Department sought to block an investigation of a U.S. Ambassador and an ambassador-designate who was accused of pedophilia.
The IG’s report was later scrubbed of this information by Clinton operatives.
The Examiner, however, obtained several drafts of the IG report and published those portions.
A draft dated November 16, 2012 notes:
“Sources reported that a senior ‘7th Floor’ Department official ordered [diplomatic security] to stop the investigation of an ambassador accused of pedophilia, and another such senior official had [diplomatic security] stop an investigation of an ambassador-designate.”
Another deleted part of the IG report states that the Bureau of Diplomatic Security was caught “circling the wagons to protect favored… rising [stars ] from criminal charges or from embarrassing revelations that could harm a promising career.”
Hillary has been willing to cover up for Bill’s adulterous relationships – and even rape charges – in order to achieve and maintain power. So, covering up for a pedophile isn’t any big deal to her.
I have no idea if these charges about the contents of Weiner’s computer are true or not, though it seems obvious that whoever is leaking this information is doing it to let Lynch and others know who else may be implicated just in case they try once again to shut down the investigation.
An Inside Voice
Thomas Lipscomb posted a missive purportedly from inside the counter-coup which despite its dubious provenance and obvious creativity details the operation’s means and objectives:
As you know, what you are seeing is the resolution of an attempted coup d’état sprung by the Obama/Hillary cabal and we are winning so far.
Fortunately, this is the first attempt at a digital coup d’état and it is still bloodless.
Unlike a banana republic, where the trick for the rebels is to get the Air Force first and bomb the Presidential Palace and then take over the national radio, in a digital society we are winning by superior communications.
Ironically this is an attempted coup by the current Obama government against the electoral system itself. Having mustered the support of core Federal agencies like the CIA, Homeland Security, DOJ, and without interference from the supine press, the Obama/Hillary transition team were initially stunned by the statement we pressured out of Comey last Friday which we were only able to get because it was becoming clear to all Trump was winning.
We have DOD, NSA and strong points in various security agencies like the FBI and local police which make it possible to force them to allow the electoral process to continue.
But by Tuesday, Loretta Lynch was building a case in her DOJ issued statement by Kadzik for “a parallel DOJ investigation of the Weiner email” treasure trove that would enable her to make her own “more objective interim statement” tomorrow [Friday.November 4] that so far, “there was no indication that any of the new emails would occasion any additional action by DOJ, although the process had not been completed.”
She made the fatal mistake of leaving the totally compromised Kadzik in charge of her operation, but with things happening fast, that weakness might not have mattered compared to the PR effect of her support on behalf of Hillary’s staggering campaign.
Fortunately, while Obama was able to keep Loretta Lynch from empanelling a grand jury, and hence denying Comey any ability to get proper subpoenas and bring an indictment and the same could have been the net effect of his current investigation as well, this time DOJ is not the controlling legal authority.
This investigation is being conducted by the NY Police Department as a sex crimes pursuit of the evidence on the Weiner case regarding sexual child abuse. It has its own time clock and its own validity. And the “accidental” discovery of the implication of the Clinton Foundation and key individuals in it and the Democrat Party may be pursued without regard for the concerns of DOJ. It is under the supervision of an ambitious and able US Attorney for the Southern District appointed to office by Obama himself, who also sees the likelihood of a Trump win.
Former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova should certainly be considered a messenger of the counter-coup if there really is one taking place.
Agents within the Federal Bureau of Investigation want to take down the personnel at the top of the Justice Department, according to a former D.C. based U.S. Justice attorney.
“Just think of the FBI as the Vietcong. That’s what they are. They are digging tunnels under the Justice Department. They are going to sink that place,” Washington attorney Joe DiGenova told the Daily Caller Thursday.
DiGenova, who has bureau sources close to the FBI investigation, named Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, Assistant Attorney General Peter [Kadzik], Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin, and Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell as senior level staff at DOJ have who have “done something that they are going to regret.” As a result of the obstacles thrown in their way, DiGenvoa says the agents within the bureau have gone “rogue” and any upper level bureaucrat that gets in their way from investigating Clinton could be exposed.
“Even though this is technically under the auspices of the bureau, nobody is going to control these agents,” he said.
His charges are less sensational than Pieczenik’s and other digital sources in that he claims the Weiner computer contains evidence of Hillary’s perjury, not pedophilia, but he underscores what Pieczenik and multiple websites are reporting: there was silent coup led by the Clintons and there’s now a counter-coup led by local police and members of the various intelligence communities, including most specifically the FBI, and it will not be stopped by Lynch or the president or anyone else.
Meantime a lot of people are looking for lawyers and writing their résumés. Or they should be.
Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/drums_along_the_potomac.html
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John Taggart
Echo Locution: Aural - Environment - Body - Poetics Part 3 / November 10, 2014 by James belflower
Maryam Parhizkar, David James Miller, & James Belflower
At the Disembodied Poetics Conference: Writing/Thinking/Being at Naropa University, in October, 2014 David James Miller, Maryam Parhizkar, and myself discussed the influence of music on our critical and creative writing practices in a panel titled "Echo Locution: Aural / Environment / Body / Poetics." The conversation afterward was very rewarding and there were many questions about the various textual and musical sources referenced. To say thanks, and to keep that conversation going, we've posted a brief summary of our talks and a list of resources from our papers. This is the final installment in a three part series. We hope you enjoy!
Echo Locution
David James Miller
How might poetry of attuned attention function—connecting the deliberate act of listening inwardly to the self with listening outwardly to the environment? As in some experimental music, listening is somatic in such poetry, where one becomes open and receptive to dialogue between the self and the larger environment. Pauline Oliveros describes this as: “listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds.” Her improvised, collective compositions (with Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis) perform such attuned attention deep in an empty, underground military reservoir 70 miles north of Seattle. Likewise, the music by Taku Sugimoto and other so-called ‘Onkyo’ musicians, performing at the Tokyo performance space Off-Site at the turn of the millennium, enact a similar listening experience. Emphasizing a “conscious recognition of the reverberation of sound (oto no hibiki)” (Plourde), their performances are often almost completely-silent, resulting in music of an interactive dynamic, highly attuned to tensions between the material, sonic performance and the unplanned sonic experiences from the immediate environment. This recalls, for me, John Cage's statement that “the sound experience I prefer to all others is the experience of silence... and the silence almost everywhere in the world now is traffic.” This also recalls writing by Leslie Scalapino and John Taggart—poets whose writing connects (the body of) the self and sound, with the body of the many social, political, spiritual, and psychological environments we inhabit.
http://www.naropa.edu/about-naropa/events/upcoming-events/disembodied-poetics.php Poetry, Music, conferences, Theory disembodied poetics conference: writing/thinking/being, david james miller, john cage, Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis, Taku Sugimoto, Onkyo Group, Off-Site, oto no hibiki, Leslie Scalapino, John Taggart, poetry, poetics, Naropa University March 10, 2015
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jamessloanmusic.com
The Official Website of James Sloan
My music, would be classed as “roots music”. I have ballads soft and sweet, Country rock, blues both soft and raunchy. I write all over the map. When it comes into my head it gets written. I have songs like “Remember Them Well” that I wrote for specific events. That song was written for a remembrance day service my students and I performed at four years ago. We have done it every year since. Last year I added “ While I’m Gone” . This song is about a young man telling his family that he has decided to go over and fight in the war.
I try very hard to put a message into each song. The funny thing is Different people get different messages. From the feedback of different fans I have learned that music triggers different reactions and as long as it isn’t taken as evil or derogatory I can live with that. As long as my fans feel good after one of my shows or after listening to a CD of mine then I feel good. I have done what I started out to do. Make people feel good. About themselves, about life, and especially about watching or listening to me perform.
**Official Online Webpages** (To navigate to these pages, click on the links below.)
Official Myspace Page
Official Reverbnation Page
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Trump warns North Korea: 'Gotta behave'
Apr. 18, 2017 06:55 am JST May 2, 2017 | 12:03 am JST
By Ken Thomas
© Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Apr. 18, 2017 07:18 am JST
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black !
CrazyJoe
This is what happens when you give 2 children real guns. They point them at each other and pull the trigger. North Korea is run by one child and we have another. Impeach this fool GOP before he pulls the trigger.
7 ( +10 / -3 )
There is a photo of a family togetherness. NOT !!!! It is about time the fat fella standing next to the bunny(there`s an irony there) started to behave.
-1 ( +2 / -3 )
Northernlife
Idiot...
PTownsend
U.S. will follow the line that President Trump repeatedly voiced during the election campaign."
Fred Wallace
Puleeeeze this isn't iraq boyo. Any attempts to use force will be nothing short of suicidal!!
This is the other reason :
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-the-us-got-to-20-trillion-in-debt-2017-03-30?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo
serendipitous1
The Easter Bunny would be a better POTUS.
Easter Bunny, "You're fired!"
Seriously, what kid wouldn't have nightmares seeing this thing deliver your eggs.
On second thought, it would fit right in in Akihabara.
Scrote
If North Korea gave up its weapons the US would start bombing them with impunity, just like they did in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan etc. The only thing stopping the US from piling in is the threat of Seoul being reduced to rubble.
zichi
If only Kim Jong Un learnt to play golf.
Ah - "iron-clad and immutable." Perhaps he missed that rock-bottom definition of diplomacy - as stated by Kissinger (though many have noted this before): "America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests."
Cool jacket, though. Bet it was bulletproof.
mrtinjp
Apr. 18, 2017 12:46 pm JST
Does Trump even know what the the US Airforce did in N Korea in the early 1950's, this time exchange will be though mutual. Below from washington post.
The story dates to the early 1950s, when the U.S. Air Force, in response to the North Korean invasion that started the Korean War, bombed and napalmed cities, towns and villages across the North. It was mostly easy pickings for the Air Force, whose B-29s faced little or no opposition on many missions.
The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless, even by the assessment of America’s own leaders. “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984.
Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.”
After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops.
I COULD BE WRONG BUT IF SOMEONE SAYS THEY ARE WILLING TO GO TO WAR IF PROVOKED ITS PROBABLY BEST TO LEAVE THEM ALONE INSTEAD OF TAKING AN AGGRESSIVE STANCE TOWARD THEM.
This topic is the same as every other topic. If he tries to do something, he is ridiculed or criticized. But if he does nothing, everyone is like why didnt he doooooo something.....? I literally saw the Facebook of people crying out that something needed to be done about the Syrian gas attacks. But then when he did, they took those pictures down and starting complaining that he was a warmonger just like Hillary and that it was done to distract from this Russia collusion nonsense.
Something has to be done about North Korea. They cannot continue to just test missiles every week until they actually perfect one.
"This topic is the same as every other topic. If he tries to do something, he is ridiculed or criticized. But if he does nothing, everyone is like why didnt he doooooo something.....? "
Reminds of that time, remember? When Obama was president for eight years and the right wrote the book on criticizing no matter what?
"Something has to be done about North Korea. They cannot continue to just test missiles every week until they actually perfect one."
Yeah, can't be having them do what America does. That's just unreasonable. Definitely not right to not do what America says and only does.
These are things that NEED to be done. Important things. Even more so because Obama didnt do them. (Red Line in Syria, stop North Korea, defeat ISIS, etc) As I remember, the things Obama did were the things people DIDNT want done, like the Iran deal, giving foreign aid/weapons sales to our enemies, Obamacare mandatory premiums, not enforcing immigration laws and more.
So yes, I understand why Obama was criticized when he did things no one wanted and didnt do things that people did want. This does not apply to Trump as he now must do something about all of these left over problems, he has little choice to do nothing.
"I understand why Obama was criticized when he did things no one wanted and didnt do things that people did want."
Change 'Obama' to 'Trump', and your understanding of the world will increase by one notch.
Oh, so you seriously are ok with North Korea testing nuclear capable missiles just because the USA has them? Difference is that North Korea is threatening their peaceful neighbors with theirs.
No, you cant have it both ways. People WANTED Trump to do something about the Syrian gassing. People WANT him to do something about North Korea. People WANT him to bomb ISIS. Obama was the one who would do nothing that people actually wanted and everything that they didnt.
Everything Trumo is doing in the last 2 weeks is against what the people who elected him want, but he is doing it anyway because it has to be done.
"Oh, so you seriously are ok with North Korea testing nuclear capable missiles just because the USA has them?"
I think no one should have them.
And in all honesty, I think there is a higher likelihood of Trump using them than Kim.
"Difference is that North Korea is threatening their peaceful neighbors with theirs."
And Trump is threatening the neighbor of those peaceful neighbors with his.
"No, you cant have it both ways. People WANTED Trump to do something about the Syrian gassing. "
And people wanted Obama to create Obama care, to give a path to citizenship to legals, and to not attack places in the middle east. You claim you can't have it both ways, then go on to try to have it both ways.
"People WANT him to do something about North Korea."
You were just complaining about people giving him a hard time about N. Korea. Now you're saying it's the opposite.
"People WANT him to bomb ISIS."
You were just complaining about people giving him a hard time about bombing the Middle Ast.
"Obama was the one who would do nothing that people actually wanted and everything that they didnt."
mmwkdw
N.Korea announced that if there was the sign of them being attacked that they would take preemptive action in their own particular style.
Given that they're presumably all stark raving mad, then it would be more than likely that they would launch some form of Nuclear attack. They have at least 6 submarines capable of subsurface launches of Nuclear capable Missiles.
Makes for some interesting / worrying reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukkuksong-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
bass4funk
North Korea is run by one child and we have another. Impeach this fool GOP before he pulls the trigger.
So what should TRUMP do? Leave them alone and hope the problem will go away? OBAMA tried that and well, you can see the results of that.
gcbel
This topic is the same as every other topic. If he tries to do something, he is ridiculed or criticized.
Get used to it. You can thank Trump's breathtaking incompetence on virtually any topic. No exception here. Truly and deeply out of his depth. Amazing the amount of damage this clown can cause.
1glenn
The psychopathic American is telling the psychopathic North Korean to behave. Oh, this may not end well.
Too bad Obama didn't deal properly with North Korea. They have to be dealt with now.
The Era of Strategic Patience is Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLwdO2zHUN8
Steve Anderson
There is a war monger in Asia and it is not North Korea. It is a flotilla or American war ships sent to threaten the people of North Korea. North Korea has been pushed by years of continuous threats against it by the US of Terror and her Asian partners. The only way to protect themselves was to arm themselves, and arm themselves they have. America's push for a world war has failed in Syria, their false flag gas attack now proven. I hope that the Asian nations that have supported and indulged the US of Terror now reap what they have sewn. I wonder how the US of Terror would respond if North Korea was in the Gulf of Mexico with war ships..
Steve... Watch the link I just provided - you might learn something.
Blacklabel Today 03:28 pm JST
No, you cant have it both ways. People WANTED Trump to do something about the Syrian gassing. People WANT him to do something about North Korea.
Syrian comment first. So the US of Terror bombed the Syrian airbase. That was a nice helping hand to your Terrorists, wasn't it? Sorry, I meant to say, moderate rebels. My bad. So now that you know, as was the fact in 2013, that Assad did not gas anyone, and that it was your Western backed Terrorists, what are you suggesting happen now? A war criminal trial for Trump? Yes? He did attack a country for no reason.. Or was his daughter crying reason enough, do you think?
Now to North Korea. Why do "people" want Trump to do something about N. Korea? Who are these "People"? Has North Korea threatened another country with attack? By attack, I am not talking about defending themselves from countries that have threatened to attack them either.
I ask you specifically because you seem to be well versed on this subject and I just want to learn.
"So what should TRUMP do? Leave them alone and hope the problem will go away?"
What problem? They're saber rattling, same as they've done for 60 years. Why is that a problem? Who does saber rattling hurt?
OBAMA tried that and well, you can see the results of that.
Yeah - no war. That's the ideal result. Not war.
Serrano Today 07:36 pm JST
Sorry mate, I'd rather read and know history than watch a purpose made youtube video of a "blind patriot" spew bullsh!t all over the place.
You cannot threaten a country for decades and expect it to sit in wait for the bombs to drop now, can you!!!
Now do some real research and then come back and apologise for being who you are.
You can start here.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea%E2%80%93United_States_relations
"Sorry mate..."
Your loss. The guy who uploaded this video knows a lot more about this situation than you do, for sure. Apologize for being who I am, eh? I don't think so, mate.
....and as a result of his usual weak-spine he so ofthen showed us, LIL KIM Iis still trying to develop nules and test them, sending a middle finger to the world and to the US. We dont have to go to war, just find someone that can do the same thing to him what he did to is brother.
toshiko
Only Trump ows how to talk to a person with unpredictable behavior. His advice may work.
What are President Trump's options to take on North Korea?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl1miNNlPO0
"....and as a result of his usual weak-spine he so ofthen showed us, LIL KIM Iis still trying to develop nules and test them, sending a middle finger to the world and to the US. We dont have to go to war, just find someone that can do the same thing to him what he did to is brother."
The Kim's announced they had developed a nuclear weapon in the early 2000s (2002 if I recall correctly). That was early in Bush's presidency.
So it would be accurate to say that you think Bush had a weak-spine right, since he didn't take care of Kim at the time.
I sure wish Bill Clinton hadn't given over $4 billion of the taxpayers' money to N Korea.
North Korea are a false enemy. A fake enemy.
Without provocation, they aren't going to be a threat. It would suck to live there, but they aren't going to attack anyone.
The US are trying to start a war. Rogue state.
N Korea announced it will test every week. Japanese people needs to stop playing pachinko.
SuperLib
Blacklabel: As I remember, the things Obama did were the things people DIDNT want done
Obama's approval ratings are in the 60% range. Trump's are in the 38% range. When you say, "people," I'm assuming you mean the minority that lives in your bubble.
As for the North Korea problem, it's been a problem for decades. Laying it Obama's feet is just partisan politicas from the Right. Trump and his fans will soon learn that there aren't many options on the table, including a military options, but we'll need to let the "blame Obama for being weak" chants to run their course.
Is Trump's strategy working? Have his approval ratings gone up since he started threatening war?
Next week Trump is sending the American carriers USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz into the Japan Sea to join the carrier USS Carl Vinson
The subject of the bombing of North Korea in the Korean War has been brought up. It is interesting to compare how the US bombed in World War II, and how it bombed in the Korean War.
In WWII, only German and Japanese cities were bombed, on the justification that they had committed the same acts when they were the aggressors in WWII. For the most part we did not attack Italian cities, even when they were a part of the Axis. Perhaps the justification was that they had used poison gas and carpet bombing only against third world peoples. The fact remains that carpet bombing was used against NK cities, resulting in the killing of about 20% of the NK population, and the pretty much total destruction of their infrastructure. While there is no doubt that NK attacked South Korea in 1950, starting the war, killing 20% of the population of NK, at the same time that so many of them were trying to escape from the brutal dictatorship by moving to SK, makes no sense, militarily or morally.
BTW, MacArthur tried to force Truman to use nuclear weapons against the Chinese and NK forces, and that is largely why he was removed from power. Political leadership would put up with carpet bombing, but not the use of nuclear weapons.
On wasn't ruling the country then and his father was way more pragmatic.
NOT AT ALL, but Kim Jong IL wasn't as crazy or suicidal as his son.
60 years ago, we didn't have a suicidal loon running the country, that's the difference.
Sonetimes you need war to ensure the peace.
Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it.
The US is also objecting to nuclear testing and missile testing by NK, but people seem to forget, or just accept, that the US tested the equivalent of one 'Little Boy' bomb (Hiroshima) at Bikini Atoll every day for 12 years post WW2. Left the place completely uninhabitable.
To me it leaves them with no moral or political standpoint of any kind to object to others doing the same, in fact, really the opposite is true - it set a precedent of sorts. But we just kind of sit around and accept their rhetoric that they can't allow others to test or have nuclear weapons (which they themselves continue to do to this day of course). Why do we do that?
The US has around 1000 military bases in foreign countries, and we just seem to accept that. Why? North Korea have precisely none, and yet they are the ones that have to 'behave'? Huh?
The US is an aggressive, imperialist nation that are almost out of control, and yet other countries are the ones that have to 'behave'.
I'm not defending North Korea, by the way. They warrant absolutely no defense. But US aggression is going to result in a lot of deaths in Asia if things aren't toned and scaled back.
Commander-in-Chief does not know what his military is doing. As the White House was talking about sending a naval "armada" to the Korean Peninsula, the very ships in question were on their way to participate in military exercises in the Indian Ocean, some 3,500 miles in the opposite direction.
On April 14 the USS Carl Vinson and its fleet were sailing in the Indian Ocean on a previously scheduled military exercise.
The news that the fleet was sent to the Japan Sea sends out a very confusing message to the families of the crews, the American public and peoples of Korea, Japan and China.
Well lets see, who are these people who wanted North Korea taken care of? How about these people back even in 2013? Over 80%.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/160541/say-north-korean-nukes-critical-threat.aspx?g_source=NORTH_KOREA&g_medium=topic&g_campaign=tiles
Also Japan Times recently said 64% of Japanese would like the US to take action on their behalf. But Obama did nothing and now it is up to Trump.
Who were the people who wanted something done about the Syria gassings? Over 60%, basically everyone except the people who voted for Trump who seemed to dislike it. Nearly every liberal and MSM outlet both TV and newspaper were in full support.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/10/politics/syria-bombing-assad-poll/
Mr. Noidall
North Korea needs to be dealt with swiftly and harshly. If you've read any of the many horror stories from defectors and escapees of NK (Escape From Camp 14, for example) then you know that the Kim regime is an abomination and an assault on all human decency and rights. No human on this planet has a right to do what the government there is doing to its people.
Accordingly, the international community has applied sanctions against the evil regime; however, the NK regime wants nuclear weapons as a tactic against economic sanctions placed against it. There will be a day, when NK is fully nuclear, when NK will use the threat of a nuclear attack to thwart any attempt at sanctions against it. Therefor, NK needs to be put to bed now.
elephant200
The North Korean missiles in parade Saturday were dummies except the 1960s soviet Scuds,SA5..were real stuffs! North Korea is no where to wage any wars except propaganda wars!
"But Obama did nothing and now it is up to Trump."
Korea first announced it had nuclear weapons in the early 2000s - 2002 if I recall correctly.
So you'd agree that long before Obama 'did nothing', Bush 'did nothing' right?
Of course, you kind of have to forgive Bush, as he was off searching for WMDs that didn't exist, rather than dealing with the ones that did, right?
There was ONE failed nuclear test during the Bush Administration in 2006. He tried to get strict sanctions from the UN but was blocked for lesser ones. The rest of the nuclear tests were during the Obama administration, This was definitely his issue to resolve and he had 8 years to do it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/14/a-timeline-of-north-koreas-five-nuclear-tests-and-how-the-u-s-has-responded/?utm_term=.3404c95206a8
Kim Jong Il wasn't going off the rails purposely trying to provoke Japan and threatening the US with a preemptive strike.
I would agree BUSH didn't have to deal with a crazy Kim Jong On, OBAMA did.
I was never angry at BUSH, it wasn't actually his fault, I blame the faulty intelligence on the Pentagon, Russians, British, Israeli's and the French, everyone had their hand in the stew believing the intelligence they had was sound.
"There was ONE failed nuclear test during the Bush Administration in 2006."
And: "Kim Jong Il wasn't going off the rails purposely trying to provoke Japan and threatening the US with a preemptive strike."
Ahh, it must be nice to live in a bubble.
January 10, 2003 - North Korea announces it will withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
February 5, 2003 - North Korea says it has reactivated its nuclear facilities
February 24, 2003 - North Korea fires a missile into the sea between South Korea and Japan.
March 10, 2003 - North Korea fires a second missile into the Sea of Japan
April 24, 2003 - American officials say Pyongyang has told them that it now has nuclear weapons
May 12, 2003 - North Korea says it is scrapping a 1992 agreement with the South to keep the peninsula free from nuclear weapons
June 9, 2003 - North Korea says publicly that it will build a nuclear deterrent, "unless the US gives up its hostile policy".
And yet, Bush did absolutely nothing. Instead of dealing with the WMDs N. Korea was actually developing, he went after WMDs tha didn't even exist in Iraq.
N. Korea's WMDs were Bush's issue to resolve, and he had six years to do it.
"I was never angry at BUSH, it wasn't actually his fault, I blame the faulty intelligence on the Pentagon, Russians, British, Israeli's and the French, everyone had their hand in the stew believing the intelligence they had was sound."
Is that what the so-called "non-partisan historians who praised Bush's presidency" told you?
Korea first announced it had nuclear weapons in the early 2000s - 2002 if I recall correctly
Except North Korea's first nuclear test was 2006, so they didn't have nuclear weapons in 2002? Nuclear explosion does not mean it has a viable weapon and during have no way to deliver one on a missile.
"Except North Korea's first nuclear test was 2006, so they didn't have nuclear weapons in 2002?"
They announced they had a weapon in 2003. They were working on their weapons program from at least that point. So whether they actually had the weapon or not, they were testing missiles, developing a nuclear weapon, and being threatening, all under Bush's watch - contrary to what some poster above have claimed.
I said NUCLEAR testing. Not missiles, not a fledgling weapons program, not development of missiles to carry nukes if they ever got any, but actual testing of nuclear weapons. Bush could ignore NK, because they were talking about things they wanted to do or things they wanted to have. But from that first successful test in 2009, that changed everything.
The only successful nuclear tests were during the Obama administration and he did nothing. That was his go to method of not being blamed or being held responsible for anything. Easy to stay popular and get reelected if you do nothing controversial. (Proven by his comments to the Russian ambassador that he would be more flexible to Putin's point of view AFTER the election. Proven by the blaming YouTube for Benghazi coverup that bought him enough time to get reelected as well)
Most of his presidency was just a placeholder until the next person had to deal with it. (pay off Iran, dont stop ISIS, dont stop illegal immigration, dont do anything about Syria, or NK, Obamacare not financially sustainable past this year, etc.)
"They announced they had a weapon in 2003. They were working on their weapons program from at least that point. "
So any country can say it has nuclear weapons but until one is tested then the claim is mute too. The test in 2006 failed. Missile and nuclear bombs are separate issues until it can put a nuclear warhead on one.
Some experts have claimed some of the missiles displayed in the "Day of the Sun" parade were fakes, made from recycled paint cans.
My point is simply that Trump has reached out to China and made it worth their while to help us resolve this issue for the entire world. Obama told the UN in Sep 2016 that there should be sanctions on NK being able to sell coal to other countries as one of their punishments. Did China ever stop buying it until Trump got involved a couple of weeks ago? No it didnt, but now it rejected the shipment and is even open to buying coal from the USA.
So even when China resolves this with Trump's urging, it is another positive thing that he will get no credit for. Other side will just start complaining that Trump and his team are 'colluding' with China now as the Russia thing has now died.
They didn't just say it - they were actively developing them, and that was according to the US
Nice try blacklabel, but it you're going to argue that things are the way they are due to Obama letting them fester, then by that same logic they were given to Obama that way because Bush let them fester
But I applaud your attempts at keeping your cake while you have a bite in your mouth
Obama got the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for this (Nuclear Security)......yet did nothing. He said the China relationship with the USA was the most important bilateral relationship the USA had, yet he was too scared to ask them to help control NK?
The fourth was to advance global issues, including promoting a nuclear-free world and tackling climate change. The progress in global cooperation on climate change should be largely attributed to China’s support. Nuclear security has been one of the tenets espoused by Obama, for which he was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Despite the progress on Iran’s nuclear program, the deadlocked nuclear issue on the Korean peninsular has weakened his performance.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/america-china-relationship/
Other side will just start complaining that Trump and his team are 'colluding' with China
I'm sure it must be frustrating watching the left use the right's tactics against the right as the Russia thing has now died.
Gotta give Trump credit for deflecting attention away from that with the attack on Syria, and ramping up aggression towards NK
There is nothing to deflect away from, these were real world happenings that needed to be dealt with. If its deflection, why were all the liberals so happy both of those things were done? North Korea threatening a weekly missile launch until they get it right cannot be allowed to happen. Luckily we have a man of action in charge now who wont get the Nobel Peace Prize for 'doing nothing'.
Meanwhile, the FBI not releasing documents about unmasking and hey look, someone on Trump team for a short time was 'wiretapped' based off PAID political opposition research. But wait, there was no political motive to any of this, and there were no FISA warrants requested much less approved, and there were no 'wiretaps' of anyone last time I heard....This Russia stuff coming back to bite all of the people who pushed it as the only actual evidence of money or collaboration has come back to the Clinton and Podesta families.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/us/politics/carter-page-fisa-warrant-russia-trump.html?_r=0
Naumov Danila
Should not America behave as well? 80% of existing territorial conflicts have roots in America's prolonged unsophisticated, inhumane activity all around the Earth. But when some retards start flying their pre-historic nuclear rockets "Oh it's them bad guys we are there to protect everyone". Hypocrisy or ignorance? No one but they themselves know.
"There is nothing to deflect away from, these were real world happenings that needed to be dealt with."
And Bush didn't deal with him - and as I said before, to be fair he didn't have the resources to do so since he was so busy chasing non-existent Iraq WMDs.
"If its deflection, why were all the liberals so happy both of those things were done?"
I don't know of which liberals you speak, as I'm a liberal, and I'm not happy with the bombing of Syria, nor with the anti-NK aggression. I think you're misdiagnosing 'liberal' when in fact it's 'American'.
"there were no 'wiretaps' of anyone last time I heard"
Trump only claimed that Trump tower was wiretapped, not anywhere else. Do you have some evidence that Trump tower was in fact wiretapped? If so, impressive, as literally no one else has come up with a single thing to suggest it was.
"This Russia stuff coming back to bite all of the people who pushed it as the only actual evidence of money or collaboration has come back to the Clinton and Podesta families."
I can't be bothered to look up the specifics of each case right now, but just off the top of my head, are you trying to claim Flynn never met with the Russians?
There was ONE failed nuclear test during the Bush Administration in 2006."
"A failed test," but Kim Jong IL wasn't threatening to vaporize the US.
You libs are free to come out and leaveit whenever it suits you.
That's making an announcement.
One of many and none where he went rabid and threatened to annihilate the US or even japan.
We all knew that was a crock.
Build is different from threatening to do a preemptive strike first.
And yet, Bush did absolutely nothing.
He didn't have to at that point. Kim Jong Il wasn't a basket case. Sure, the man was shrewd, wanted concessions, but announcing a possible nuclear attack, that didn't happen.
Instead of dealing with the WMDs N. Korea was actually developing, he went after WMDs tha didn't even exist in Iraq.
Wait, had Bill Clinton not boast or bragged that that in 1994 his deal with NK was a success and been more hard on the rhetoric, things might be very different. He was the one that drafted this plan, he was the one that was confident about it, initiated it and it all fell apart.
On Oct. 18, 1994, Clinton approved a plan to arrange more than $4 billion in energy aid to North Korea over the course of a decade, in return for a commitment from the country’s Communist leadership to freeze and gradually dismantle its nuclear weapons development program, according to The New York Times. The “complex” deal was to de-escalate the situation on the Korean peninsula, where the two Korean nations never negotiated a peace treaty after the Korean War ended in armistice in 1953. “This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world,” said Clinton in 1994. “It’s a crucial step toward drawing North Korea into the global community.” The drawing-in never happened. North Korea has become more isolated and dangerous. And after years of furtive activity in North Korea, attempts to placate the Communist state seem to have only encouraged its dangerous leaders.
Sure, but at the time, they weren't being as hostile, belligerent or threatening as they are today and didn't have a crazy kid that wants to prove something back then.
No, just historical facts did.
ThePBot
The carrier fleet Trump said was heading to the Korean Peninsula was heading away from it. Trump administration in a nutshell. Literally and figuratively.
I dont know which one is the biggest raving lunatic, DT or KJU.
The only successful nuclear tests were during the Obama administration and he did nothing.
Obama's course of action was to try to hack into their systems and cause havoc. You might have noticed that the current administration declined to say whether hacking was involved in the latest failed nuclear test. If there was, you can thank Obama for it. Saying he did nothing is a result of the right-wing media saying he did nothing and the right wing base not getting their news from anywhere else so they end up repeating it.
Trump has done nothing but release some statements and praise the 10 minutes of conversation with the Chinese where he "learned a lot," which is embarrassing for a US president to say since he obviously didn't take the time to learn about the issue before meeting with the Chinese. He's sending ships to the area (maybe?) that were there last month and releasing a lot of statements. But he's already backed off of his tough talk with China, especially their currency manipulation, so his actions don't match his words.
The military option is still tricky because South Korea and Japan will bear the brunt of the NK response, and I've yet to hear anything from Trump and his fans about how they will get around that issue.
If there was, you can thank Obama for it. That is exactly why people dislike Obama and his supporters. If something good happened, thank you Obama. But if something bad happened...just ignore it, say he didnt know or pass the blame. Maybe Obama axctually did do nothing and Trump's people figured out how to hack the missiles? But no, that would never be considered.
Everytime Trump does something good, does he get thanks? No, anything good that has happened is still credited to the leftover effect of Obama or some nonsense.
If there was, you can thank Obama for it.
(Sorry the quote function still doesnt work right)
That is exactly why people dislike Obama and his supporters. If something good happened, thank you Obama. But if something bad happened...just ignore it, say he didnt know or pass the blame. Maybe Obama axctually did do nothing and Trump's people figured out how to hack the missiles? But no, that would never be considered. Everytime Trump does something good, does he get thanks? No, anything good that has happened is still credited to the leftover effect of Obama or some nonsense
"You might have noticed that the current administration declined to say whether hacking was involved in the latest failed nuclear test."
I think you mean failed missile test, not a failed nuclear test, and if so, the North Koreans don't need any help with their failures.
It's preparing for another nuclear test which will be the 6th.
Russia veto's an UN statement condemning North Korea's nuclear tests.
Everytime Trump does something good, does he get thanks?
Let us know when he does something right, and we'll tell you.
As the world waits to see if a 6th nuclear test will happen, a secretive U.S. Air Force complex at the Patrick Airforce base in Florida is monitoring the situation in North Korea. The AFTAC operating on all seven continents the $3 billion surveillance network of more than 3,600 high tech sensors monitoring.
Blacklabel: Maybe Obama axctually did do nothing and Trump's people figured out how to hack the missiles?
Why would you say that? There were reports a short while ago about Obama telling Trump that his course of action was related to hacking, which is the same approach Obama successfully used to curb Iran's nuclear program. I'll need more than some, "Maybe Obama did nothing and Trump did everything" guess/speculation by a Trump fan. You can start by doing research on your own and reporting back to us.
The most corrupt president in the history of the United States, still in his first 100 days, is warning another head of state to "behave." Oh yeah, that is going to end well. If the North Korean dictator would just buy a Maralago membership, he could suddenly be best buds with Trump.
nishikat
thank you Obama
When can we thank Trump for the wall (that Mexico will pay for)?
Probably never, since even he is not that retarded to pull the prank of the century.
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South Florida Caribbean News: “Commissioner Monestime Urging Trump Administration To Extend TPS For Haitians”
May 10, 2017 /in News & Updates /by Team Monestime
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Jean Monestime issued a statement on the Trump administration’s investigation of the Haitian community’s criminal history as part of its deliberations over whether to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the 58,000 Haitian nationals allowed in the U.S. following the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
“I am flabbergasted and this unusual exercise would only serve to send a message to the rest of the world that America is departing from its moral responsibilities.
We as a country have always extended a helping hand to the most vulnerable and seeking to penalize a majority over the mistakes of a few is un-American and I hope the administration understands that.
The hunt for evidence of possible crimes committed by Haitians before deciding about TPS is unorthodox and inconsistent with American historical and traditional values.
Haiti is still trying to recuperate from the devastating 2010 earthquake; a recovery that was made even more difficult by the introduction of cholera from the UN peacekeepers and exacerbated by hurricane Matthew last October.
Haiti is still in a state of crisis and sending 58,000 people back to a country that is still in turmoil would not only be inhuman but un-American. This move is shortsighted and would only serve to further destabilize the country and lead to another mass exodus.
I urge the Trump administration to put an end to the uncertainty for thousands of hard-working, law-abiding Haitian nationals who have been contributing to the US economy.
I also join my voice with many others and ask that the Trump administration extend Temporary Protected Status for those 58,000 Haitian nationals living in constant fear,” Commissioner Monestime said.
Read the original article here.
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South Florida Caribbean News: “Chairman Jean Monestime Announces South Florida Haiti Relief Group”
October 11, 2016 /in News & Updates /by Team Monestime
Chairman Jean Monestime created the South Florida Haiti Relief Group in order to provide coordinated and transparent relief efforts to Haiti in response to the outpouring of support and solidarity after Hurricane Matthew made landfall on Haiti’s southwestern peninsula and the northwestern coast on Oct. 4.
Based upon preliminary assessments, the group decided to focus on three areas vital to recovery in the wake of a Category 4 hurricane.
These areas are: health, education and small business recovery (primarily farmers and mom and pop operations).
The group agreed that Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center will serve as fiscal agent to receive donations in a specially designated account for this relief effort. Sant La is a community-based organization which is trusted for its transparency and accountability.
The donation may be made via checks payable to Sant La for South Florida Haiti Relief Group and mailed to 5000 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Florida 33137 or using a credit card via PayPal through Sant La’s website www.santla.org.
The mobile giving option is texting the word HAITI to 52000; a $10 fee will be deducted.
Sant La will provide a full accounting of funds collected and distributed.
“Please rest assured that your donation is tax-deductible and will be directed exclusively to relief efforts in Haiti,” said Chairman Monestime. “Also, your donation will be distributed to the most accountable organizations working in the most devastated regions of Haiti.”
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WLRN: “Commissioner Jean Monestime Talks State Of Black Miami”
April 10, 2016 /in News & Updates /by Team Monestime
By Nadege Green
Miami-Dade County Commission Chairman Jean Monestime recently hosted a summit called “The State of Black Miami”
The summit addressed economic opportunities and quality-of-life issues.
Here is an edited excerpt of his conversation with WLRN’s Nadege Green about the state of black Miami:
What is the state of black Miami as you see it in 2016?
Access to education, economic empowerment…For the past five years we’ve gotten information that less than 2 percent of county contracts are given out to black businesses. Maybe the county is not making enough of an effort to give a bigger piece of the pie to black businesses. Maybe we need more qualified black contractors or business people.
If it’s the latter, we definitely have to do a better job of getting contractors trained, registered and certified to do business with government.
But if it’s the former, if it’s that because there are biases, I think a bigger political push has to be made to let the establishment understand that you know what we are here too.
There is an ongoing conversation happening right now about contracts at the Miami International Airport and whether black-owned businesses like Jackson Soul Food and Chef Creole are getting equal treatment compared to Cuban-owned businesses.
Which communities here have more clout?
I’m sure everybody listening to this interview knows which community has more clout. It appears based on what the conversation is today that there has not been a level playing field. It could have been mistakes that have been made, but if it’s deliberate we definitely have to fix it one way or another.
The county recently bailed out the Frost Museum after it failed to secure enough financing for construction. You were critical of the $49 million bail out—even though you voted for it. You said there have not been similar bail outs for cultural institutions in the black community, but for affluent communities, “We find ways to solve problems.”
Can you give me an example of one of those institutions that needed a bailout but didn’t get it.
I don’t think it matters to go into the details. But what I wanted to convey is at times when mistakes are made in the less affluent community we look at this community as a failure. But when the same mistakes take place in the affluent communities we quickly find solutions.
I just want us to understand that this is a very diverse Miami-Dade County we all are part of this great mosaic of culture, of people. We need to be sensitive to one another. We need to pull each other up instead of pushing each other down.
Being black myself, being Caribbean American, Haitian American, I think it’s important we sit as a family trying to understand the issues that face us and what policies can be brought forth to address some of these problems.
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Miami Herald: “County commission elects first Haitian American chairman”
August 26, 2014 /in News & Updates /by Team Monestime
By Patricia Mazzei
Jean Monestime, who left Haiti alone at age 17 to move to the United States and went from washing floors at a doughnut shop to running his own real-estate business, was elected Monday as the first Haitian American chairman of the Miami-Dade County Commission.
His colleagues chose him by acclamation, voting unanimously in what they said was a show of unity for a board sometimes pulled apart by ethnicity and race. Monestime represents one of the poorest commission districts, a Northeast Dade corridor that includes portions of Little Haiti, Liberty City, North Miami, North Miami Beach and Biscayne Gardens.
“What an honor this is,” the 51-year-old Monestime said, his voice breaking. During his two-year term as chairman, which will begin Jan. 1, he promised to “allow our diversity to strengthen our community instead of divide us.”
Esteban “Steve” Bovo, 52, was elected, also unanimously, as the commission’s vice chairman. He represents areas of Hialeah, Miami Lakes and Palm Springs North.
“Our actions today show that the American Dream … continues to live on,” said Bovo, who is Cuban American. “Many have come from abroad to establish themselves in this community.”
The two men are part of the commission’s newer wing. Monestime became Miami-Dade’s first Haitian American commissioner in 2010. Bovo took office after a 2011 special election. Some of their fellow board members have been around since the 1990s.
Monestime and Bovo will replace outgoing Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa, who will remain on the board as a commissioner, and former Vice Chairwoman Lynda Bell, who lost reelection in August.
Though commission positions are nonpartisan, both Bell and Sosa are Republicans. So is Bovo, but Monestime is a Democrat. The last Democrat to lead the commission, Dennis Moss, ended his chairmanship four years ago. Six commissioners are Democrats, six are Republicans, and one is independent.
The commission chair’s power, however, does not usually come from partisan ties but from the discretion over the agenda — and, crucially, over the leadership and membership of committees that can block proposed legislation. Commissioners are scheduled to meet next month to decide how many committees, and which ones, it should have. Monestime will appoint members, chairpersons and vice chairpersons.
Though all commissioners are eligible to chair the full board, the only candidates nominated Monday were Monestime and Audrey Edmonson. Edmonson, however, declined the nomination.
“I think, for once, this commission needs to move forward without us competing against each other,” she said.
Commissioners praised Edmonson’s move as gallant. No vote had been taken, but it appeared clear that she would not have had a majority of votes to win anyway. Bovo was the only vice chair nominee. Commissioner Barbara Jordan was absent due to her mother’s recent death.
While commissioners are not allowed to speak to each other about board business outside public meetings, lobbyists and political consultants are known to count votes behind the scenes and rally support for their preferred chair candidate for weeks before the election takes place. By the time the day comes, the result can be a foregone conclusion — though insiders were jockeying for votes as late as this weekend.
Prior orchestration appeared evident Monday when Sosa asked Monestime, fresh from hugging and shaking hands with his colleagues, to hold off on his acceptance speech. She called on a man in the audience to congratulate him. It was Daniel Supplice, who presented Monestime with a poster signed by Haitian President Michel Martelly. Supplice is the former minister for Haitians living abroad.
But Sosa denied any preordination, telling the Miami Herald later that she did not invite Supplice to the ceremony. She found out in the morning that Supplice was on hand and, though she could not rework the agenda for his presentation, said she would allow it once the ceremony was over. The perfect moment presented itself after the chair vote, she said.
Monday seemed to go Monestime’s way from the start. Before the chair vote, commissioners held a symbolic ceremony for their five reelected members, most of whom were formally sworn in last week. Monestime was one of them. So was the only new commissioner, Daniella Levine Cava. Monestime’s two sons, Clarence and Darnell, had been listed in the program as the ceremony’s national anthem singers.
Yet at the appointed time, neither son walked to the stage. Monestime stepped down from the dais, took the microphone and explained that one son was in school taking a test. The other, he would explain later, had lost his voice over the weekend.
So the commissioner himself sang instead.
The rest of the commission, and the audience in the standing-room-only chambers, joined him.
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Why Are Major Movies So Obsessed With Disguising Black Actors?
Stassa Edwards
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Over at Vulture, Kyle Buchanan asks an interesting question: “Why Won’t Hollywood Let Us See Our Best Black Actors?” Buchanan argues that the few black actors that are cast in big summer movies—namely science fiction and action franchises—are hidden from sight, either lending their voice or hidden beneath layers of makeup and prosthetics:
Idris Elba is in four major studio films this year, but you won’t see his face in any of them. Three of those high-profile jobs are voice roles: In addition to playing Chief Bogo in Zootopia and Shere Khan in The Jungle Book, Elba has a supporting part in Pixar’s upcoming Finding Dory. His only live-action role in the lot is playing the villainous Krall in Star Trek Beyond, where he’s buried under so many facial prosthetics that he’s more than unrecognizable — he’s a different color entirely.
[...] And now that Elba has become something of a sci-fi staple in films like Prometheus and Pacific Rim, perhaps it was inevitable that he’d don makeup for a franchise like Star Trek. But as one of the few black leading men in Hollywood, Elba means something. So what does it say when we see so little of him?
Buchanan notes that Lupita Nyong’o’s major roles post-Oscar win for 12 Years a Slave have followed a similar pattern. In Star Wars: The Force Awakens Nyong’o’s Maz Kanata was a CGI character and, like Elba, she also lends her voice to The Jungle Book. Zoe Saldana, one of sci-fi’s current golden girls, has had a bit more luck, landing the role of Uhura in the Star Trek reboots. But even Saldana has worn quite a bit of skin-covering makeup, from her turn as a blue Na’vi in Avatar to her starring role as the green-skinned Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy (and even, uh, Nina).
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In comparison, Buchanan argues that white actors are far less likely to completely alter their appearance to land a role, “but this color-changing gambit has practically become required of black dramatic actors who want to appear in big-budget movies.”
This seems largely true when taking a cursory glance at major franchises. There’s Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique in X-Men—though, as the piece notes, Lawrence’s iteration of Mystique spends less on-screen time in full blue body paint and more time looking like, well, Jennifer Lawrence. And there’s Paul Bettany’s Vision, too. But, with a few exceptions, like Halle Berry’s Storm, Buchanan’s observation holds true. He writes:
And yet, when these are the only big roles available, who can blame these actors for taking them? When black actors want to play human beings or lead a film themselves, they’re continually forced to work outside the major studio system or in independent film.
There is, perhaps, a glimmer of hope in the future. Will Smith and Viola Davis will helm this summer’s Suicide Squad and Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther will finally make his appearance in the upcoming Civil War, with his own film scheduled for release in 2018.
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Everyone is doing great.
But certainly it speaks to a perception of actors and actresses of color that still underpins major studio films; namely, that despite their critical successes, black actors are still treated as a liability. This conservative approach to casting is a recurring problem in these major films—certainly the recent casting of Scarlett Johansson and Tilda Swinton was a stark reminder of that—and it would be nice to see these franchises make bolder decisions.
It’s worth reading Buchanan’s piece in full.
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Tajik president condoles Iranian counterpart on plane crash
| Feb 19, 2018
Baku, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon on Monday offered condolences to President Hassan Rouhani over a deadly plane crash in Iran which reportedly killed all 66 passengers and crew members on board.
According to Tajikistan Presidential Website, in his message, the Tajik president expressed deep sorrow over the incident and sympathized with the brotherly and friendly nation of Iran particularly the bereaved families of the victims.
The passenger plane 'ATR' belonging to Asseman Airline crashed in the outskirts of Semirom city, south of Isfahan province, on Sunday morning. The debris of the plane has not been found yet, but all the 66 passengers and crew were reportedly killed.
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Notre Dame 99-to-2: No. 23 Litchfield Ajavon, four-star safety, freshman
By Douglas FarmerJun 28, 2019, 6:00 AM EDT
Listed Measurements: 6-foot, 185 pounds.
2019-20 year, eligibility: A freshman, Ajavon has all four seasons of eligibility remaining, including 2019.
Depth chart: The Irish safety situation is top-heavy, which puts Ajavon immediately into the two-deep conversation along with classmate Kyle Hamilton and sophomores Derrik Allen and D.J. Brown, the latter of which is a converted cornerback.
Recruiting: The rivals.com four-star and No. 9 safety in the country chose Notre Dame instead of Clemson, Georgia and Michigan, to name a few.
The most-applicable thought to date regarding Ajavon came from Irish defensive coordinator Clark Lea at the end of spring practice. Throughout most of the spring, the lack of depth at safety was hardly discussed, simply because senior starters Alohi Gilman and Jalen Elliott provide such peace of mind for Notre Dame. Eventually and understandably so, though, Lea was asked if Hamilton might come in and immediately be ready to play. Lea did not focus simply on the higher-profile safety recruit.
“I’m interested to see what Litchfield does,” Lea said. “What he can come in and do.”
It should often be assumed the assistant coach will be inclusive when discussing prospects not yet even on campus, but at safety, the need for able bodies is so stark, Lea’s point held a bit more weight than it usually might.
WHAT WAS SAID WHEN AJAVON’S NATIONAL LETTER OF INTENT ARRIVED
“Ajavon will need to improve on his coverage skills, but that is somewhat typical of high school players accustomed to being the best athlete on the field in just about every game, and that seemed to be the case for Ajavon. He can already deliver a wallop, if nothing else.
“… Notre Dame’s back line of defense has done a 180 since Ajavon’s initial recruitment, now returning two established starters in Alohi Gilman and Jalen Elliott. Thus, do not expect to see much of Ajavon on defense in 2019, though his playing style screams special teams ace.”
If Ajavon is to prove Lea right and crack the two-deep this season, he will need to show improved coverage abilities in the preseason. Lacking those along the defensive backline is too severe a liability, and one Irish fans are still familiar with from not-so-distant history.
Ajavon’s high school film showed a physical player with the wont to deliver a hit. That alone could earn him a spot on special teams coverage units, although burning a year of eligibility on just those would be a bit of a surprise.
Lacing up his gloves and entering the ring for the Fighting Irish is @litch_ajavon.
The Virginia native comes with a grit and demeanor that Coach Joseph loves.#GoIrish ☘️ #FightClub19 pic.twitter.com/ARVdEtZjRe
Elliott’s collegiate career will end after this season and there is a good chance Gilman jumps to the NFL with a year of eligibility remaining. That will leave an unproven and still-shallow grouping of safeties, one in which any of the four underclassmen could earn a starting role in 2020 based on reserve moments in 2019.
If Ajavon plays in more than four games this coming season, it may be as a test run for a more prominent gig next fall. The Irish will need someone to step forward, and it may as well be the Ghanan immigrant.
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StarCraft Was Rebooted Over a Giant Lie
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As we've seen, StarCraft as we know it today isn't how the game was originally conceived. Once much closer to WarCraft in design, it was only when Blizzard saw how far ahead its competition was that it was motivated to transform the game into the RTS giant it would eventually become.
StarCraft Was Once a Busted Pile of Crap
Blizzard isn't just famous for its games, it's famous for a lengthy and considered…
So you can understand the weird feelings at Blizzard HQ when, a few years later, they found out one of those competitors had been a big fat phony.
As former Blizzard exec Patrick Wyatt notes on his blog, the one game that did more damage to the StarCraft team's spirits than any other was Dominion Storm (pictured above), by Ion Storm. While StarCraft in its original form was looking like something from the early 90s, at a 1996 CES showing Dominion Storm looked like something out of the next millennium.
It made the StarCraft team "lick our wounds and plan for the future", he writes, and resulted in not just big changes for the game, but for Blizzard's development process as a whole.
Imagine their surprise, then, when after Ion Storm closed up a few former employees came to work at Blizzard and spilled the beans on Dominion Storm's CES demo.
"At some point I talked with Mark and Patrick about how Dominion Storm knocked us on our heels", Wyatt says, "and they let us in on Ion Storm's dirty little secret: the entire demo was a pre-rendered movie, and the people who showed the "demo" were just pretending to play the game! It would be an understatement to say that we were gobsmacked; we had been duped into rebooting StarCraft, which ultimately led it to be considered 'the defining game of its genre'."
A silly move on Ion Storm's part, then, but one we should all be thankful for. Without that kick in the pants who knows how StarCraft would have ended up?
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Iowa mother battling breast cancer has a message about the need for affordable child care
Posted 10:57 am, May 30, 2019, by Tribune Media, Updated at 10:56AM, May 30, 2019
DES MOINES, Iowa - Jennifer Harris, a Des Moines mother, said Wednesday that her breast cancer has spread. Her chemotherapy isn't stopping it. She can't work because of her illness. And she can't afford childcare.
Her situation became so desperate that she recently had to bring her 3-year-old son along with her for her treatment because she had no one to care for him.
"My cancer has spread," Harris said at a news conference Wednesday inside the Children and Families of Iowa Child Development Center in Des Moines, "That's scary."
Harris hopes her story demonstrates the need for more affordable childcare. "My son has to go with me to chemo," she said, "That's very sad."
More than four in ten Iowa child care centers closed over the past five years, putting more strain on lower-income Iowans who already face a host of other challenges.
Harris joined members of the Children's Policy Coalition, a group of 20 child advocacy organizations in the state, that launched The Caucus for Kids campaign. The group released a poll by Selzer & Company of 500 Iowans who voted in the 2016 and/or the 2018 election and the results show that 80 percent of people mentioned the overall well-being of children as a top priority.
Organizers said the campaign will not push for specific issues or changes and will leave that up to presidential campaigns. But they do hope to do live discussions on Facebook with candidates to take questions from families on their needs.
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Congress in the Classroom–2013
Bringing Procedure to Life
In this clip from Dec. 1963, Johnson complained about being outmaneuvered by Louisiana congressman Otto Passman on the level of foreign aid appropriations. A Passman amendment to cut foreign aid spending by almost 33 percent passed, thanks to votes from five conservative Texas congressman. The President made clear to Austin representative Jack Brooks that he would remember who stood with him.
https://allthewaywithlbj.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/lbj_brooks_20dec63_on-otto_passman.mp3
President Johnson: You want to know honestly how I feel?
Jack Brooks: Yeah.
President Johnson: I’m really humiliated that I’m President, and I’ve got a friendly Speaker, and I’ve got a friendly Majority Leader, and I’ve got a friendly Albert Thomas, I’ve got a friendly Jack Brooks, and Otto Passman is king. I think that’s disgraceful in this country.
Because I want to tell you when I see you the next time—confidentially—
Brooks: Mm-hmm.
President Johnson: —what we’re looking at in the world. And it’s a hell of a lot worse than it was last year. And you’re giving us 3 billion [dollars] to deal with, and you gave Kennedy 3.9 [billion dollars].
And I don’t think that’s fair, and I don’t think it’s right. I think it’s awful that a goddamned Cajun from the hills of Louisiana has got more power—
Brooks: He’s no Frenchman, though!
President Johnson: —has got more power than all of us. I just think that’s awful.
Brooks: Yes.
President Johnson: But that’s what you’ve got to do. And some day we’ll get our way, and if I ever walk up in the cold of night and a rattlesnake’s out there and about ready to get him, I ain’t going to pull him off—I’ll tell you that.
Brooks: No, I understand.
President Johnson: Now, you remember that.
Brooks: I want you to remember it. We’ve got some people from—
President Johnson: I remember it. Now, you just go and tell all these Texans that want to hit Russia that I want to put those sons of bitches in uniform.
Brooks: They ought to be.
President Johnson: Let ’em go fight the Communists for a while. They like to talk a big game—
Brooks: Yeah.
President Johnson: —but they don’t want to do a damn thing about it.
Brooks: I’m with you.
President Johnson: OK.
Brooks: Good night. Bless your heart.
The Johnson Treatment
In contrast to the caricature of LBJ as a bully, the President knew that different approaches worked best on differing members. In this late 1967 conversation, he employed shameless flattery in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to persuade Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee to give up his seat in the Senate and accept the UN ambassadorship.
https://kcjohnson.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/mcgee-track-17.mp3
President Johnson: I’m thinking about what’s best for the country.
Gale McGee: Well, that would be—
President Johnson: And I don’t know of a human that I think is as knowledgeable in this general field, that is not New York-oriented, that is as articulate, that I think makes as good impression on TV. And I’ve watched them all.
I think you have a little of the mold of a Wilson and a Lincoln combination. I think you have a little of the George Marshall and Sam Houston. I think you look a little bit frontier, and pioneer, and a fellow that’s pulled himself up by his bootstraps. But I think you have enough sophistication and articulation that you’re effective as hell.
Now, that’s my type of man. I don’t want one of these Adlai Stevensons. I liked him, but he’s not—to me, I always kind of felt like he had to squat to pee.
[Arthur] Goldberg, on the other hand, is the best negotiator I have ever known.
McGee: Yes.
President Johnson: He does just absolutely have hydrophobia [excessive leaking].
McGee: Yes
President Johnson: And he talks a good deal when he ought to be listening.
McGee: Mm-hmm.
President Johnson: Now, you’ve got the great problems of the Middle East—and that’s the most dangerous thing. Vietnam is just chickenfeed compared to what the Russians are doing over there, and what may happen there. You’ve got this Cyprus thing that’s rough and tough.
[Break.]
President Johnson: Now, I wouldn’t agree, and I wouldn’t imply, and I’d think of several people if something happened to Rusk as secretary of state.
President Johnson: But I would say right in the beginning that one of the three names I would think of would be yours.
McGee: Oh, my.
President Johnson: And I know you never have thought in those terms—
McGee: No.
President Johnson: But that’s the way we think.
President Johnson: I don’t want that to enter into it, and I don’t want it to be an implication, because I just very likely would appoint somebody else.
President Johnson: But that’s what we think.
The “Johnson treatment” sometimes could be forceful indeed, as in this March 1965 clip between Johnson and Harlem congressman Adam Clayton Powell, who chaired the House Education and Labor Committee.
https://kcjohnson.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/lbj-powell.mp3
President Johnson: Hello?
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell: How’s my friend?
President Johnson: [stonily] Fine, Adam.
What the hell’s been happening to your [Education and Labor] Committee? I thought you told me two months ago that you were going to pass a [education] bill for me.
Powell: That’s right. Well, what happened: all hell’s broken loose, because—
President Johnson: Well, now, what the hell are you blackmailing me on a—
Powell: That’s not—
President Johnson: —four hundred . . . Well, hell, you didn’t—[because] you want a $400,000 appropriation for you, we couldn’t pass a billion, two hundred million [dollar funding bill] for the schoolkids.
Now, you know I’m for you, and you know that I’m going to help you any way I can. I’ve got nothing to do with what you’re doing in the House investigation [of Powell’s personal finances]. But you damn near defeated the best education bill I’ve got. And I hope you’re going to be proud of it.
Powell: No. Now, you know in your Appalachia bill, that there is—
President Johnson: Well, now, Appalachia ain’t got a damn thing to do with you. If you handle your committee and let us handle the other one!
Powell: Yeah, but there’s a clause in there, Mr. President—
President Johnson: There’s a clause that’s been in there for a long time.
And if you’re going to let [Ohio congressman William] Ayres [the committee’s ranking Republican] and [Oregon congresswoman] Edith Green [a conservative Democrat] lead you off the reservation, well, then I ran for nothing last year—
Powell: No—
President Johnson: [continuing] With 15 million votes. If you’re going to tie up this Congress, and screw it up—which you’ve done for three weeks, by running off [to Bimini, in the Bahamas] till you got a 400,000 [dollar] appropriation—why, we never can get anywhere.
And you defeat this [bill], and you hold it up, and you delay it, and you get us in this kind of shape, why, we can’t pass anything.
And that’s all right. But I think you’ll beat a hell of a bunch of your liberal Democrats [in the 1966 midterm elections]. I’m going to be here—it’s not going to bother me. But I just sure thought I had better leadership on that committee than what I’ve got without even talking.
Powell: Well—
President Johnson: And I’m awfully disappointed. Just very disappointed.
Powell: Now, Mr. President, don’t you think I have an entitlement to—
President Johnson: [forcefully] No, I don’t think you’re entitled to a damn thing that you did.
I think you told me, and looked me straight in the eye—
Powell: Mm-hmm.
President Johnson: [continuing] And said, “I’ll report this bill, and I’ll get it on the floor.” And you didn’t do it.
Powell: [By] March 1st.
President Johnson: And you did not do it.
Powell: It was [by] March 1st, because—
President Johnson: Well, Adam—
Powell: It was March—
President Johnson: [voice rising] No. Oh, hell no, you didn’t say till March 1st. You told me you were going to do it. And then you ran off for three weeks and they couldn’t even locate you . . . And your people [African-Americans] are being damn well taken care of in it [the bill].
With Powell’s return, the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act sailed through. But a parliamentary logjam caused by the immigration bill, the farm bill, and the higher education bill involved Powell again–and Johnson’s Senate bete noire, Oregon senator Wayne Morse, who by this point had emerged as a fierce administration critic on foreign policy but was the floor manager for the Senate bill. Here LBJ functions as a de facto prime minister.
https://kcjohnson.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/albert-aug65legislation.mp3
President Johnson: We got a chance to make the greatest record in the history of the world! [Albert concurs.] All right. Now, I’ve given you all a list for three weeks, and you haven’t knocked a bill off of it. So I want to really pass ‘em!
Carl Albert: We had a really bad week this last week.
President Johnson: You didn’t do a damn thing.
Albert: We didn’t do a thing except civil rights.
President Johnson: [The] interest equalization [bill] is all you passed.
Albert: Well, we had civil rights.
President Johnson: Well, they had a conference report, but that ain’t . . .
Albert: We’re going to—
President Johnson: But I don’t count conference reports.
Albert: We’re going to pass one of the big ones next week.
President Johnson: What’s that?
Albert: We should have passed higher education, if [Adam Clayton] Powell had been here. And Powell’s got to take responsibility for not being—
President Johnson: Well, we got him back, though. We got him all the way from Puerto Rico, and we raised hell with him, and he agreed to come back. But by the time he got back, you all had flown the coop. Next time, you all tell me if you can’t get him—
Albert: –trying to do when we’ve been—
President Johnson: No, you ought to have called me up and said, “Mr. President, your higher education [bill] ought to have come up Monday and I can’t get Powell.” Then I’ll say, “OK, let me get him.”
Albert: Well, I worked on it; I worked on it all week. I called—
President Johnson: I know. But you ought to have told me; you ought to have told me—
Albert: – and I called, and I called—
President Johnson: You didn’t call me.
Albert: No, I didn’t call you.
President Johnson: I’ll call him, and go—I got to get him. We just can’t let him go this way, and we’ve got him now.
Albert: Well—
President Johnson: But we’ve flown the coop. He’s going to be here to be recognized Monday at 11.00. We told him—we sent for him—that damn near, “You’ve got to come.” And I’ll call every human being that you ask, and ask him to be here, if you let me. But if you won’t—
Albert: I would have if I’d have known. I didn’t want to bother you with it. I don’t think higher education is a major problem.
President Johnson: It is, because we’ve got [Wayne] Morse and [Edith] Green. And anything they deal with, it’s major! Every inch, every hour, I’m scared of this Morse. He’s demanding I be impeached! I got the damndest thing with him, and he’s handling higher education [in the Senate].
Albert: Well. Higher education—
President Johnson: And I can’t get him to pee a drop until you-all pee. And then you’re going to take another—
Albert: We—we had told people that we needed you. Listen, we took this up with the top people in the House that are dealing with this.
President Johnson: Well, now, you see, if you had taken it up with me, and I had gotten Powell, as I have gotten him, you wouldn’t have had any problem, would you?
Albert: Well, you . . . I didn’t—
President Johnson: Huh?
Albert: –know you all were going to call him.
President Johnson: I’ll just call him—
Albert: Nobody took it up with me, because I was—
President Johnson: I will call him. I thought you and [Speaker] John McCormack could deliver your own chairmen. If you can’t do it, let me know, and I’ll deliver ‘em.
Bipartisanship and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
In this conversation, the President and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen discuss scheduling for the measure, and reveal the differing institutional perspectives of a chief executive and a key senator–but also their willingness to cooperate.
https://kcjohnson.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/dirksen-5-apr65.mp3
President Johnson: How are you?
Everett Dirksen: I’m all right; how are you?
President Johnson: Oh, a little bit grinding away.
Dirksen: I am bushed. This goddamn voting rights bill . . .
Dirksen: I hated like hell to leave some of them [senators] in the dark [about pending legislative strategy] because we had [South Carolina senator] Strom [Thurmond] this morning, and [Mississippi senator] John Stennis. We’ve modified this very substantially to make damn sure that we’ll be on good constitutional ground.
President Johnson: Yeah?
Dirksen: But I couldn’t say it to ‘em. Now, they’re going to have to have a little time to look it over, and peck around. And I think if we work it out that way, that’s going to be all to the good, and it’s going to save us time in the end.
President Johnson: It is if we don’t get into another situation [like] Selma while we’re waiting.
Dirksen: Yeah.
President Johnson: That’s the damn danger.
Dirksen: Well—
President Johnson: Now, these boys—Strom and John are going to be as strong against it when they end, stronger than they are when they start. You got no chance there. And I sure don’t want to have to send another—go through a Selma, because we got through it locally pretty good.
President Johnson: But if they think we’re dilly-dallying, and off for Easter, why, it creates a hell of a lot of problems.
Dirksen: When you stop to consider the amount of staff work we’ve done on that damn bill, the senators are entitled to some time to have a good look-see; and that’s all the more reason, I think, why we ought to take that Easter recess as planned.
Trouble soon emerged, however, thanks to an amendment pushed by Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy to include in the VRA a provision outlawing all poll taxes, even in state elections. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach considered the proposal unconstitutional; so too did Sen. Dirksen. So the President reached out to Indiana senator Birch Bayh to discuss the issue in this May 1965 clip.
https://kcjohnson.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/bayh-may65vra.mp3
President Johnson:That [the Kennedy poll-tax provision] is not the real core of the bill; there’s not but four states involved. He [Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach] thinks that he can knock it our pretty quick with them.
And I’d hate to lose the whole bill on account of it. Or I’d hate to have the public interpret that we were a bunch of kids fighting among ourselves. I’m willing to move as far as a human being can; I have the same views that you do.
Birch Bayh: I just . . . I’m in a position politically, at home, and philosophically, the way I feel, and you feel—we share our antipathy toward the poll tax. But politically at home, I think I’m in a position where I have to make an effort on this one thing.
Now, if it were defeated, or if it gets in there and it looks like this is going to ruin the bill—and I think right now we can’t say that with good judgment—then I’m for taking it out of there. But I think right now it would be real bad for me, in my Negro communities at home, if I appeared less than enthusiastic. Because I feel very strongly about it.
Now, if it gets to the place where in my judgment it’s going to sink the ship, Mr. President, I learned from the man that I’m talking to right now that you’ve got to be able to perform what takes to get the job done.
President Johnson: And I don’t believe that we ought to have the brilliant young senators that we’ve got, that we want to make our future out of, and a brilliant young attorney general, and we can’t get together.
Bayh: This is certainly—
President Johnson: [continuing] Because it’s not a good omen. And if they came . . . If you got it down to me, and it’s a bill that he [Katzenbach] doesn’t want, don’t like—I’m not running for office—we’d have lots of difficulties. I just think the time to do it is before we get so far out that we can’t reason.
And as far as I’m concerned, I’m willing to be bound by anything you can agree on. I have no orders or no instructions. Not even any recommendations—except that as a party, it’s good judgment not to become divided, and not to become sectionalized.
After passage of the bill, the President and Sen. Dirksen commemorated the occasion–in a conversation that unintentionally reveals the difference between the congressional environment of the 1960s and today.
https://kcjohnson.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/lbj_dirksen_vra.mp3
President Johnson and Illinois senator Everett Dirksen, 4 August 1965, 6.58pm
Dirksen: Hi.
President Johnson: How are you, my friend? Glad to hear you!
Dirksen: I’m all right; how are you?
President Johnson: You and Mike [Mansfield] up there fraternizing together?
Dirksen: Yes, sir.
President Johnson: That’s wonderful, that’s good. How you feeling, Everett?
Dirksen: I’d have felt better if you’d have hustled me a half a dozen votes [on the conference committee report].
President Johnson: Well, you didn’t want me to. You told me you didn’t want me to do anything but sit there. All I’d have done is just stirred up 10 more against you. You—
Dirksen: Well, I wanted you to interfere on the right side—that’s what I was saying. [Both laugh.]
President Johnson: Well, you did a—
Dirksen: We got the Voting Rights bill out.
President Johnson: You ought to be proud of that, my friend.
Dirksen: We are proud of it. And I—
President Johnson: You had a lot to do with that, and—
Dirksen: Give [House Judiciary chairman Manny] Celler a compliment. That House really abused him over there, when they had that—
President Johnson: All right.
Dirksen: [continuing] They cracked him for turning cold shoulder, not supporting the House position on the poll tax.
President Johnson: All right, I will.
Dirksen: They gave Manny a rough time.
President Johnson: You must have made a helluva speech there today. The ticker’s made me wish I was there listening to you.
Dirksen: Well, why weren’t you here?
President Johnson: Well, because—you know I can’t have any fun anymore. [Dirksen chuckles.] They just lock me up. I can’t even drink Sanka. I just have to drink this damned old root beer.
They won’t let me get out. If I could get you and come and visit you, I’d do it nearly every night.
Dirksen: Well, why don’t you come right up here now, and I’ll pour you a drink? A good stiff bourbon.
President Johnson: Well, if you and Mike will stay there about 10 or 15 minutes, I might do it. I’m a little lonesome and I’d like to see you.
Dirksen: Are you kidding?
President Johnson: No, I’m not kidding.
Dirksen: All right, we’ll stay.
President Johnson: All right. OK.
Dirksen: All right. My office.
For additional clips:
1964 Campaign Tapes
Civil Rights Tapes
Congress & Legislation Tapes
Foreign Policy Tapes
Fortas Confirmation Tapes
Judicial/Legal Issues Tapes
Personal Issues Tapes
Politics Tapes
See also: Miller Center for Public Affairs, Presidential Recordings Project
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Why Prop 413? The minds behind it give their answer
Dan Del Monaco, Tony Campbell and Cody Swanty explained that the purpose of Prop 413 was to give the voters a voice. (Photo by Travis Rains/Daily Miner)
By Travis Rains
Originally Published: November 10, 2018 9:56 p.m.
KINGMAN – Cody Swanty, Tony Campbell and Dan Del Monaco, three of the men who spearheaded efforts for the Responsible Sales and Use Tax Act, thank the community for its support of a measure they say had a sole purpose of giving voters a voice.
Campbell, Swanty, and Del Monaco all noted that throughout the whole process they had support from the community. Del Monaco called the amount of support “staggering,” and Campbell said that by gauging that support, the three men weren’t surprised by the outcome of the measure that was on the general election ballot as Proposition 413. It passed with 61 percent, or 5,677, of the votes.
The passage means that the 1 percent added to the sales tax by Council in August 2017 gets repealed. It also means that future increases to the sales and use tax will have to go to the voters for approval.
“We had a lot of community support the entire time through this,” Swanty said. “So, I mean we felt very comfortable knowing the input we were getting from the local citizens.”
They also addressed claims that the proposition and those behind it were anti-growth. Campbell said some people believed that as vehicle dealers Swanty and himself didn’t want the competition that could be brought to Kingman as it grew through new infrastructure.
“It became about four or five businesspeople that were trying to stifle growth,” he said. “It has nothing to do with that, it never did have anything to do with that.”
In fact, they said being anti-growth would be counterproductive to their businesses, which is why Del Monaco said “We’re as pro-growth as you can be, as pro-business as you can be.”
“It only benefits us to have more people in this community,” Campbell added.
All talk and rumors aside, the three men said Prop 413 was about giving Kingman citizens a chance to vote on the financial future of their City.
“That’s the only thing this was about was letting the citizens vote,” Swanty said.
Now that the vote is over, the City can move forward with a “defined, vetted vision,” for future financial allocations, Del Monaco said.
“There needs to be accountability instead of money just being thrown in the general fund,” Swanty contributed. “For example, we have Facebook messages that the 1 percent was going to go toward the Rattlesnake Wash interchange, but if you looked at signs around town, it was ‘Vote no to protect the police and fire departments, protect your water, protect your parks, protect your streets.’ Where’s the vision?”
On a side note, even though they have been at odds over the tax increase, the three men said they have nothing to do with the effort to recall Councilman Travis Lingenfelter.
Petition against the increased city sales tax circulating
TPT initiative moves on to County Recorder for second phase of signature verification
Community View | A citizen’s response to Councilmember Travis Lingenfelter
Community View | Vote ‘yes’ on 412, ‘no’ on 413
Economist: Vote ‘no’ on Prop. 413
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THE GREATEST SERIES: The 10 Greatest Actors of All-Time
April 8, 2014 by Keith
Tackling a definitive list like this is something I’ve generally avoided in the past, but for a while I’ve felt drawn to this project. For several weeks I’ve went back and forth, adding and removing, considering and reconsidering, all for the purpose of putting together a list of who I think are the 10 greatest actors of all time. This is the first installment of a series I’m simply calling “The Greatest”. I hope you enjoy it and take time to share you’re thoughts below.
There are some brilliant actors who are favorites of mine but who don’t yet have the body of work to be considered a member of THE GREATEST. I’m talking about actors such as Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Jean Dujardin, Mads Mikkelsen, Michael Fassbender, and Tom Hiddleston. I love the guys and with a few more great performances under their belts they could join this list. But for now let’s get started by listing #11 – #20:
#20 – Spencer Tracy
#19 – Clint Eastwood
#18 – Leonardo DiCaprio
#17 – Joseph Cotten
#16 – Gregory Peck
#15 – Sidney Poitier
#14 – Gary Cooper
#13 – Al Pacino
#12 – Tom Hanks
#11 – Denzel Washington
Now let me introduce my 10 Greatest Film Actors of All Time:
#10 – Henry Fonda
It may surprise some people to know that Henry Fonda’s acting was only truly considered great after his death in 1982. Personally I’ve always thought he was an incredible actor and his wide body of work spoke for itself. He had a sharp and unique style that often saw him playing similar roles throughout his long career. But regardless of the film or the decade, Fonda always gave an incredible performance and he was never above branching out into new areas. Fonda’s name is attached to some movies that are forever favorites of mine including “12 Angry Men” and “The Grapes of Wrath”. But he also shined in war films and westerns. In fact, he stunned the world with his villainous turn in Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West” (my all-time favorite western). Fonda had tremendous acting chops and he is truly one of the greatest.
#9 – Robert De Niro
When you speak of someone possessing a natural acting gift Robert De Niro should automatically come to mind. Few actors are able to make things look as easy and fluid as De Niro. His career took off in 1972 and 1973 when he showed his top-notch abilities in “The Godfather II” and in “Mean Streets”, his first of many fine collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. De Niro would go on to make one beloved movie after another including “Taxi Driver”, “Raging Bull”, “The Deer Hunter”, “The Untouchables”, “Cape Fear”, “Heat” and that just scratches the surface. Unfortunately his filmography has soured recently due to a number of poor choices, but we are still seeing glimpses of what made him such an amazing actor. It is his natural talent, unabashed spunk, and huge charisma and there are very few that can do what he has done on screen.
#8 – Russell Crowe
Would it be a stretch to call Russell Crowe the greatest period actor of all-time? I don’t think so. While the actor has made several ‘present day’ movies, a brief scan of his filmography shows that he has visited nearly every period you could imagine. But there is a reason for that. He is amazing in every one of these films. He won an Oscar for his role in “Gladiator” (Rome in 180 AD). He should have won the Oscar for his work in “A Beautiful Mind” (the film begins in 1947). He was brilliant in “Master and Commander” (on the high seas during 1805). He was fantastic in “3:10 to Yuma” (the 1884 old west). I could go on and on. Crowe has the knack for delivering powerful performances regardless of the time period. He has an amazing screen presence and you never doubt what he brings to the role.
#7 – Paul Newman
He may have the most recognizable pair of blue eyes in movie history, but he is also one of the greatest actors to ever grace the big screen. Paul Newman caught people’s attention very early on. In no time he was earning critical acclaim and numerous awards. In fact, while he only won one Academy Award, he received eight other acting Oscar nominations. One of my favorite Newman performances came early in his career with “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. But what set Newman apart from so many other actors was the high quality work he did at an older age. He would earn five of his Oscar nominations after 1980. I never recall seeing Newman struggle with a role. Sure he was a cool and good-looking fellow, but he was also a tremendous actor who always picked good roles and then knocked them out of the park.
#6 – Marlon Brando
Talk about a wacky film career that mirrored an equally wacky personal life. Marlon Brando played his share of weird characters in bad films, but he is also credited with bringing an entirely new and realistic acting style to the movies. A great example of that came in 1951. “A Streetcar Named Desire” was only his second film but the stirring contrast between his performance and anything else at the time was clear. It introduced method acting to audiences and it was a signature of Brando’s style. He would earn Oscar nominations each of the next four years finally winning for his brilliant performance in “On the Waterfront”. The 60’s weren’t kind to him but he would win another Oscar for his iconic work in “The Godfather”. Brando was unique but he was also highly influential and his contributions to the art of acting can still be felt today.
#5 – Harold Lloyd
Whenever the silent movie era is talked about the wonderful comedians Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are always mentioned. I adore those two film greats but I was always more drawn to the work of Harold Lloyd. Lloyd was a comic genius who was able to attract audiences with his addictive personality and amazing physical comedy. He made seven talkies but he will always be remembered for his silent features and shorts. His loveable and awkward characters with their nerdy black glasses and unbridled spunk were always able to evoke laughs while offering a surprisingly high amount of character development. Harold Lloyd was an amazing physical comedian and his daring side led him to do most of his own stunts. But he was much more than that. He was an artist and a master of the silent movie era.
#4 – Cary Grant
If any actor had the complete package it was Cary Grant. He was suave, debonaire, and he had Hollywood good looks. He had an amazing sense for comedy and comedic timing. He could sweep audiences off their feet as a romantic leading man. He could handle all the curveballs thrown at him by mystery mastermind directors like Alfred Hitchcock. Grant had no weaknesses and his performances were always sharp and perfectly in tune with what the film needed. Watching him on screen was like a master class in acting. He completely understood his craft which explains why he was such a success. He was a huge box office draw and filmmakers loved to work with him. Unfortunately the Academy never seemed to get it. Cary Grant never won an acting Oscar which remains one of the most criminal mistakes in Oscar history.
#3 – Daniel Day-Lewis
I never cease to be amazed by the work of Daniel Day-Lewis. I believe he is the premiere actor of our time – an actor who draws out every detail of his characters both physically and emotionally. It could be said that no actor puts more into their performance, both in preparation and delivery, than Day-Lewis. He is known for becoming his characters in order to perfectly understand them. For me he is the truest example of an acting artist. He has only twenty movies to his credit but within that filmography lies some of the greatest performances in film history. His work as Daniel Plainview in “There Will Be Blood” remains one of my favorite performances of all-time. Day-Lewis is the only man to have won three Best Actor Oscars and quite honestly he could have deservedly won more. He is tremendous in everything he does and he elevates every movie he is in.
#2 – James Stewart
How can anyone not love Jimmy Stewart? This incredible actor became known for his down-to-earth, everyday guy portrayals that truly resonated with audiences throughout his long and prominent career. There was never anything staged or false about Stewart. His performances always felt natural and authentic and he worked numerous times with some of film’s best directors including Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, and Henry Koster. He not only starred in but he was the key ingredient to some of the biggest movie classics ever made. “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”, “Rear Window”, “Vertigo”, and “The Philadelphia Story” are just a few of the great pictures led by this fabulous actor. He loved making movies and his movies are a huge reason why I love them as well. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest.
#1 – Humphrey Bogart
Perhaps there is a touch of favoritism here, but I truly believe that Humphrey Bogart is the greatest actor of all time. Bogie didn’t have the advantages that some actors did. He didn’t have leading man bravado or signature good looks. He brought a personality to his characters which led to typecasting early in his career but eventually to strong personas that bucked the common leading man trends of the time. Bogie was extremely honest in his performances and every bit of his commitment showed itself in his characters. He led some of the greatest movies in history including “The African Queen”, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”, “The Maltese Falcon”, and what I consider my favorite movie ever made “Casablanca”. Humphrey Bogart died too soon, but he left behind an impeccable movie legacy. Whether it was his early gangster pictures and studio-pushed projects or his unforgettable classics that have stood the test of time, Bogie always shined and he was an actor in its truest sense.
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62 thoughts on “THE GREATEST SERIES: The 10 Greatest Actors of All-Time”
cindybruchman says: April 8, 2014 at 10:54 pm
Great tribute piece, Keith! Oh, I reckon we could go back and forth nit-picking why Paul Newman or Daniel Day Lewis is better than Humphrey Bogart or that Russell Crowe is rated too high and what a nice surprise to see Harold Lloyd rated in your top ten but no mention of Charlie Chaplin? I admire anyone who attempts the impossible.
Quite enjoyable!
keith7198 says: April 8, 2014 at 11:01 pm
Thanks Cindy. I do mention Chaplin in my defense of Lloyd but ultimately I always liked what Lloyd brought to his characters more than Chaplin. In fact I even like Keaton a bit better than CC.
I do stand by Crowe mainly because he has given some of my favorite modern day performances. He is such a powerful presence in numerous films.
And I do think Bogart is the greatest actor (as far as anyone is able to conclude such a think). Hopefully my defense of him did my reasoning justice.
Anyway, fun discussions. It was crazy putting this together. So many arguments with myself over who went where etc! I’ve been tackling this thing for weeks! LOL. It means a lot that you enjoyed reading it!
Tom says: April 8, 2014 at 11:13 pm
It must have been quite the challenge even narrowing it down to twenty! 😀
This is a very insightful list. DDL sitting pretty at #3, wow! I have to agree though, he is a wonderful method actor. And I find #’s 5, 7 and 8 also particularly inspired. Great stuff dude!
keith7198 says: April 9, 2014 at 1:58 am
Thanks Tom. This was a chore but a fun one. I tried to give good defenses to each who made it into the top 10. Now the big question: any egregious misses in your eyes?
yaykisspurr says: April 8, 2014 at 11:44 pm
My favorite are 2, 4, 7, 8, and 10! I love the pattern you pointed out about Crowe. And I adore Henry Fonda’s roles. I will never forget the role Marlon Brando played in A Streetcar Named Desire. Anytime anyone mentions him, “Stttttteeeeeellllllllllaaaaaaa!” comes flying out of my mouth. It’s what I know him for best. Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant are probably a must, must for me. I do notice you only take into account traditional “American cinema” actors. What about Foreign actors? Gotta love Toshiro Mifune! Love this idea and that you tackled it with such conviction! Cheers.
Thanks so much for the comments. I have seen a lot of foreign films but this was my predicament – there weren’t many of the foreign actors that I had seen enough of to consider them among the best. I had seen multiple movies from certain actors but not a big enough sample to judge them honestly. Perhaps that is a limitation of this list.
Writer Loves Movies says: April 9, 2014 at 1:02 am
Wonderful post Keith. Nice to see Bogart at the top of your list. I love The African Queen. I also love Sabrina where he plays one of the romantic leads opposite Audrey Hepburn. Have you seen it?
I have indeed. I own about 65 of Bogart’s films on some format. Sabrina is an absolute gem. And he has so many others that I love: The Big Sleep, The Enforcer, Key Largo, The Petrified Forest, The Caine Mutiny, High Sierra, Dark Passage, Black Legion, To Have and Have Not, Sahara, I could go on and on. Talk about a tremendous actor. Really glad you appreciate his work as well.
So tell me, did you see any glaring omissions on this list?
thomasjford says: April 9, 2014 at 3:08 am
Nice list Keith! My favourite ACTOR? Robert De Niro I think. My HERO, and the coolest cat on the list? Paul Newman hands down!
Both in my top 10 as well. Hard to argue with you there. De Niro and Newman have carved out legacies that are hard to beat.
cindybruchman says: April 9, 2014 at 8:06 am
I agree with you here!
Nostra says: April 9, 2014 at 3:27 am
Last year I did a relay race with the best actors and my initial 10 looked like this: http://www.myfilmviews.com/2012/03/13/the-ten-best-all-time-actors-relay-race/
Some are the same, mentioned some which you didn’t. In the end it is personal preference I think. You have made good points for your choices and completely understand them.
Personally I’ve never been a fan of Bogart. Somehow never understood his appeal.
It really is subjective. No doubt about it. I love Bogart even in his lesser films. He made some real stinkers while under studio obligation but even then I found him very interesting.
Terry Malloy's Pigeon Coop says: April 9, 2014 at 5:05 am
Wow, that’s quite the list mate, and I knew exactly who’d be right at the top! 🙂 Slightly surprised to see Crowe up there so high, especially ahead of De Niro! But you could ask a thousand people and every single list would be different. Top work mate!
I figured Crowe would catch a few objections. De Niro is obviously great as indicated by his top 10 showing, but Crowe has a couple of performances that I think are just stunningly brilliant. Master and Commander and A Beautiful Mind. Both show his incredible range and amazing abilities.
ruth says: April 9, 2014 at 9:43 am
I for one would put Crowe in front of DeNiro (sssh don’t tell Mark) so you won’t get any quibble from me on that front, ahah.
keith7198 says: April 9, 2014 at 10:06 am
LOL. I won’t tell Mark! He’ll never know! Mums the word!
mikeyb @ screenkicker says: April 9, 2014 at 6:29 am
Great list, I can’t really fault any of them!
Thanks man. It was fun to put together but man it was difficult. So much so that I almost dread tackling the actresses. 🙂
Yeah I’m doing something similar but letting my readers vote,! It would be too much responsibility for me
That’s a cool idea. I’ll definitely need to stop by and chime again. Go Bogie!!!
Haha sorry I’m only doing living actors!
Nooooooooooi!!!!!!!!!
Popcorn Nights says: April 9, 2014 at 6:38 am
Great stuff Keith. I enjoyed reading your reasons for the top 10. I’d personally have Chaplin in there somewhere and I’m pretty sure Jack Nicholson would have a place in my top ten, but I certainly haven’t given it as much thought as you and they are just idle thoughts!
Thanks a lot. I certainly can’t argue anyone’s love for Chaplin. He was a genius. And I was waiting for someone to mention Jack Nicholson. He was in and out of my 11-20 and I absolutely hated to leave him off. Great actor no doubt.
Any name on there that you just can’t buy into at all?
I struggle to warm to Tom Hanks but I wouldn’t for one minute deny his ability as an actor! I like your arguments for Russell Crowe too. I’m impressed you got this down to twen…
HEY WAIT A MINUTE WHERE’S HACKMAN?!!!!
*Unfollows blog in disgust*
LOL! I didn’t know you were such a big Gene Hackman fan. He was definitely in the final cut but ultimately I couldn’t pinpoint enough phenomenal performances. He and Michael Caine both fell into that same category. Love those guys.
Hanks is interesting. I like him but he wouldn’t be in a list of my favorites. But in a list like this I had to include him mainly because of his amazing range of performances. He has done so many different things and done them well.
Yeah, I can’t really argue with your choices – great post and fun to chat about them.
I am a big Hackman fan – around five decades of work and he never went through a duff period. There are a few bad films in there but by and large he kept up an amazing standard all through his career.
Very true. I wish he was still active on the movie scene. Speaking of him, he was a key reason one certain film made yesterday’s Phenomenal 5 – “No Way Out”. Loved him in that flick.
Mark Walker says: April 9, 2014 at 7:05 am
Very impressive post bro! It’s certainly not easy doing stuff like this but I take my hat off to you. I could list my top five but anything other than that takes a lot of thought. I’m very surprised to see the omission of Jack Nicholson, though. For what it’s worth, here’s my top five…
1: Robert DeNiro
2: Daniel Day-Lewis
3: Jack Nicholson
4: Jeff Bridges
5: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Thanks buddy. You have no idea how long this thing was in the works. In fact, at one point I grew so frustrated that I threw my hands up and stepped away for a few weeks. It really is subjective but it was still a fun project.
Jack Nicholson was on and off my list. Great actor for certain and there’s no way I could begrudge anyone including him. I hated leaving him off but I knew he would get his due in the comments.
Hard to argue with Day-Lewis isn’t it? And I knew Bobby would be your number one. Yep, I have him ahead of Pacino and my wife didnt care for that. LOL.
Aaah! The age old Bobby and Al debate? Glad to see where your loyalties lie! 😉
It is very difficult to deny Day-Lewis. The man really is a powerhouse.
I think De Niro’s body of work is stronger. So many top-notch performances and between the two he is the one I would rather see.
Wendell says: April 9, 2014 at 9:16 am
Tough task you took on, eh? The only name that felt like an egregious omission from the top 20 was Nicholson. I could make a case for a bunch of others not mentioned: Buster Keaton, James Cagney, Gene Hackman, Paul Giamatti, PS Hoffman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, and some more that aren’t coming immediately to mind.
As for what you have, it’s well thought out and your reasoning is solid, plus a blast to read. I’ve only seen maybe a dozen Bogey flicks (including Casablanca but The African Queen) and other than The Treasure of Sierre Madre and possibly The Caine Mutiny, he hasn’t done anything I thought was great . Still your passionate about his ability so that’s good enough.
Any chance you’ll tackle a companion list for actresses?
*meant to say “but not The African Queen.” Haven’t gotten to that one yet.
Ahhh ok. Definitely check it out. His only Oscar came for that role. He is very, very good as Charlie Alnutt.
Thanks so much for for the comments. Nicholson was so incredibly hard to cut (heck, his image is even on the banner). I think that is why this project was frustrating. I hated leaving guys like him off. Robert Mitchum was another one that I desperately wanted to include.
I have seen tons of Bogart films. I loved him in each of the movies you mentioned along with Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, Sahara, High Sierra, and The Petrified Forest. But I think he was excellent in a number of smaller pictures as well including movies like Black Legion and The Enforcer. For me he stole practically every scene, at least until he met his match in Bacall.
Awesome, awesome!! I love lists and this is a GREAT one Keith! 😀 Nice to see Gregory Peck made your top 20, it would’ve been higher on mine but I can’t argue against having Grant, Newman and Brando even if I haven’t seen as many of their work.
I haven’t seen any Henry Fonda performance tho, that has to change eh? Why am I not surprised to see who made your #1. Apparently my late dad was a huge Bogart fan, in fact his pals gave him the nickname Bogey according to my mom.
Btw, stay tuned for my music break post later today that I guarantee you will love 😉
Peck had to be in my top twenty and to be honest I could never settle on where to put him. I would keep moving him around especially when I would think of one of his great performances.
Yes ma’am, Bogart is my number one but I do believe it is more than simple favoritism. I think he was remarkable for a number of reasons (some I listed).
Oh yes, look up some Henry Fonda movies. “!2 Angry Men” is fantastic and I never get tired of “The Grapes of Wrath”. But THE performance that literally stunned audiences was his turn in “Once Upon a Time in the West”. Please see this film! He went so against his usual role and he is chilling! Sergio Leone’s direction is breathtaking and it the very best score out of Moricone’s great work. HIGHLY recommended!
ruth says: April 10, 2014 at 2:17 pm
Hi ya Keith! I actually own 12 Angry Men dvd as it’s part of a legal movies set I got from work (the company I work for made products for attorneys/legal professionals) so I should get on that soon. And I believe Greg Peck is also in “Once Upon a Time in the West” right? In any case, will have to see that too 😀
keith7198 says: April 10, 2014 at 3:24 pm
No Peck wasn’t in that one. I bet you’re thinking about “How the West was Won”. He and many others were in that one. Similar titles but very different movies.
70srichard says: April 9, 2014 at 9:45 am
I’m not going to nit pick, all of the actors you have listed are outstanding and it is your list. I do have to say that I was surprised by the absence of my personal favorite. I’m not sure he ever gave a bad performance even when he was in bad films. Norman Dale, Harry Zimm, Bill Daggett, Rupert Anderson, John Herod, Sam Clayton, Harry Moseby, Popeye Doyle, Harry Caul, Gene Garrison, Buck Barrow and the most Amazing Blindman Comic Performance of all time. Surely these deserve a nod somewhere on your list. Bogart and Grant rule.
Hackman is a great actor, no doubt about it. For me he’s always consistently good and as you say, he has never given a bad performance that I can think of. Where I struggled with him was with truly great performances. But I guess it could be said that being consistently good at your craft is a sign of greatness. Very interesting to chew on.
Thanks for the great comments!
Zoë says: April 10, 2014 at 9:54 am
Fantastic list Keith I must say. Though for Mr DiCaprio would be right up there… Some might call THAT favouritism right there 😛
Definitely no easy task you took on here!
keith7198 says: April 10, 2014 at 10:07 am
Leo deserves high praise. He was always in my #11-20. I wrestled with moving him higher because he is such a phenomenal actor. And he has done such a wide range of stuff. Truly great actor.
Zoë says: April 11, 2014 at 12:48 am
🙂 But really, such a solid list!
Thanks! I’m looking forward to and dreading doing the actresses next!!!
Eeeeeek that is going to be another major thing to tackle! Wow! Best of luck to you, can’t wait to see who makes your cut!
Ayush Chandra says: April 10, 2014 at 4:00 pm
really nyc list, waiting for such more cool stuff
Abbi says: April 10, 2014 at 4:32 pm
Well done! I’m not sure I could get down to 10.
It was sooo tough. Fun but really tough!
jjames36 says: April 13, 2014 at 8:38 am
All of these names are definitely great actors. The ten best of all time? Who knows? So many good actors over so many years, which (as you said) makes these sorts of things very hard to compile. And very fun to read!
keith7198 says: April 13, 2014 at 8:58 am
Thanks my friend! In the end that’s what I was really going for. Hopefully it was fun for people to read. As you say these types of definitive lists are virtually impossible mainly because who says anyone has the right answer. That is except with Bogie of course! 😉
Eric @ The Warning Sign says: April 13, 2014 at 1:10 pm
Wow, what a difficult list this must have been to make. Can’t argue with your top ten though. Really glad Newman made the cut. I could watch him in anything.
Newman was great, wasn’t he? And do you find it amazing how he only seemed to get better with age? Talk about someone who never lost his acting chops.
G A Johnson (@GAJohnson52) says: April 14, 2014 at 6:59 am
After a brief scan, I agree with many on this list. My own touch of favoritism would be to put Russell Crowe at the top of my list. I think of him as the greatest and still going, adding Noah to his list of great films. I’d have to put Christian Bale on there somewhere as well.
Glad to hear someone share my enthusiasm for Crowe! While I didn’t like Noah, he was great in it. And I really like Bale a lot. I think his body of work argues well that he belongs on the list.
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Autumn on the Somme
November 10, 2011 August 12, 2014 / Kelly Gardiner
Overgrown trenches
Last month I visited the Somme battlefields to do some research for a work in progress, War Songs. It’s a manuscript I began some years ago, and need to rewrite. One day.
War Songs is the story of an ambulance driver and a nurse in a Casualty Clearing Station on the Somme from 1916 to 1918, the years of the great battles on that stretch of the Western Front, and since I was in France I took the train north to Amiens to get a better feel for the country and the memories it holds.
Amiens Cathedral is one of the wonders of the Gothic world, as vast and glorious as Notre Dame in Paris, but without the crowds.
It was an appropriate place to start my journey, to stop and reflect and light a candle, with memorials to many of the forces that defended the town, including the Anzac force which stopped the German advance at Villers-Bretonneux in April 1918.
During the war, the cathedral was piled high with sandbags to protect the precious stained glass windows, the carved choir, and the ethereal stonework. The town and the cathedral were bombed, and again during World War 2, but saved from the utter destruction suffered by many of the smaller towns in Picardy and Flanders which, to this day, have never really recovered.
One such town is Albert, a few kilometres east of Amiens. I have set most of War Songs in an encampment outside Albert, a town through which so many soldiers and ambulances passed on their way to the front line. It was also famous for its cathedral – or basilica – the spire of which is topped with a golden statue of the Virgin holding the infant Jesus aloft. The spire was hit by a shell in 1916, and the statue spent most of the rest of the war dangling precariously. The soldiers believed that if she ever fell, the Germans would win the war. The Australians, of course, had many nicknames for the Holy Mother, including Fanny Durack – one of our Olympic swimmers.
The statue did fall eventually, blasted off its pedestal, although that didn’t seem to affect the outcome of the war. Albert itself was slowly beaten into dust by shells and bombs, and taken by the German Army in its Big Push of 1918. The basilica and the statue were rebuilt in the 1920s, and it remains – as it was then – a landmark visible across the battlefields, so you can always see where you are, and how near you are to Albert.
I hiked to the outskirts of Albert, to two small cemeteries. One was Bapaume Post, once on the frontline. Here, as in so many other sites, I was the only visitor, walking silently between the rows of graves, pausing every so often to ponder the eighteen year-old Tyneside Irishmen, the 45 year-old stretcher bearer, the four friends buried with their headstones close together, the rows and rows of human beings who share the same final day. 1 July, 1916. 23 July, 1916. 24 April, 1918. 4 July, 1918.
From here you can look back towards town, or out across what was once a contaminated mess of barbed wire, smashed vehicles, pulverised dirt, cast-off boxes and bottles and tins, and too many small wooden crosses or nondescript mounds of earth.
Cross of sacrifice
Like Gallipoli, the countryside is dotted with cemeteries, each with row upon row of simple white headstones, and edged with close-trimmed lawn and flowers, and the last few poppies of the season. Your eyes can trace the positions of the front lines and key battles by the placement of the cemeteries and memorials that mark the skyline – the high ground. Always the high ground.
Cemetery behind Thiepval memorial
You can also see, especially in autumn or winter, the marks of war scattered in the fields: the shattered white clay coming through the topsoil in circles (shell craters) or lines (trenches) or surreal blotches (all hell broke loose here). The earth still bears scars, nearly a hundred years on. Each year, even now, the farmers find more shell casings, belt buckles, water bottles, and – yes – bones. The locals call it “the memory of the earth”, or “Somme harvest”.
View from Australian memorial, Villers-Bretonneux
One day, I was very fortunate to have the services of Olivier Dirson from Chemins d’Histoire, a softly-spoken French battlefield guide. Olivier took me to Heilly, the site of a casualty clearing station by the railway line, its presence marked only by a small cemetery. It was just as I had imagined the setting of War Songs, but immeasurably sadder in real life. We travelled to Villers-Bretonneux, where the Australians checked the German advance, and where the school, famously, was rebuilt with funds raised by Victorian schoolchildren; to the mine crater at La Boiselle; to the old trenches at Beaumont-Hamel; to Pozières and the site of the windmill, which, according to Bean, “marks a ridge more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other spot on earth”.
From Pozières you can gaze across the few hundred metres to Mouquet Farm and a few hundred metres further to Theipval – to Lutyens’ magnificent Memorial to the Missing.
All these place-names, learned in school and on many Anzac Days, read in countless books.
It’s easy to do, easy to write: I stand on the remains of the Windmill and look towards Mouquet Farm. But in that field, the AIF suffered more than 23,000 casualties between 23 July and 5 September 1916 – just over six weeks.
Thiepval
Like Lone Pine, the distances between the sites of these horrific battles is sometimes just a short stroll. Just like the Nek, in places the opposing trenches were only a grenade lob apart. And yet … and yet men were expected to climb out of those trenches and run across that thin stretch of shell-pocked ground towards the machine guns, the wire, the other men. And yet they tried. Over and over.
The numbers, the facts, are literally incomprehensible. 30,000 British casualties, just to take Mouquet Farm, a small red-roofed building on a hill. The number of names listed on the Thiepval Memorial: 73,367. And that’s only the names of the British Empire and South African people who served here in these few miles of the Front and whose graves are unknown. Most of them died in the first few months of the Battle of the Somme.
Medical staff were among them: there were many RAMC headstones in the cemeteries I visited. 300 nurses – women – died in the war. Stretcher bearers and orderlies were amongst the casualties far too often (including my great-grandfather who returned from Flanders, gassed, and ill for the rest of his life).
The brain dodges around these numbers, tries to think about them logically, then flinches away: there is no way to properly understand them. 74,000 missing. That’s the entire population of Darwin. Or New Plymouth.
74,000 people.
Numbers too big to comprehend. But they hold enormous meaning: individually and collectively.
Then. Now. Always.
It was supposed to be the war to end all wars.
It wasn’t.
La Boiselle, above Lochnagar crater
Remembrance Day, 2011
Selected archival photos: Australians on the Western Front, Musée Somme 1916 (Albert)
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Fran Cusworth
Unbelievable figures. And how much faith (in what? a principle, an ideal? maybe just faith in courage itself) must it have taken those men to get out of the trenches and run to their deaths.It's truly too hard to imagine!Can't wait to read that book.
very moving.
Hi Kelly,What can I say after reading that… I believe that I too had a male relative who suffered in WW1… He was spoken about among the adults in hushed lowered voices as if the very mention of him too loudly would stir his ghost from a painless sleep.. One of the books that forever moved me was 'All Quiet on the Western Front' – Erich Maria Remarque… It told the same story except it was from a young German soldier's perspective… The futility of war, the loss of the young and the innocent. Why I sought out your blogwas to tell you was that I have just finished – Act of Faith and really enjoyed it… I am a bookseller in a suburban bookstore and at times grapple with stories that aren't necessarily paranormal inclined to recommend. We do have some quite savvy young adult readers who like something with a little history as a backdrop…I am glad that I now have something a little more real to offer them… Reading Act of Faith also gave me some insights into the ancient world of printing and book banning… I was amazed when I read that the Index was only abandoned in 1966… As a book lover from the time I was old enough to hold one I found this story fascinating…
Kelly G
Thanks for your comments, and for taking the time.Sharon, I wonder how much the idea of book banning and persecution are linked, in history, to the fact of war and violence? Too often, I'm afraid. Thanks for your thoughtful words.
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Bookshots: 'Forensic Songs' by Mike McCormack
Review by Christine J. Schmidt July 8, 2014
Mike McCormack
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Forensic Songs
Who wrote it:
A roster of insular, haunting stories that leave a dark, empty impression.
Mike McCormack, author of two short story collections and two novels. He won the Rooney Prize for Literature in 1996.
Plot in a Box:
At its center, characters struggle with everyday life’s inability to resist change, and a constant failure to connect.
Invent a new title for this book:
What’s Left, What’s Ahead
Read this if you liked:
The Hunger Games series, Kevin Barry, JG Ballard, any dystopian lit.
Meet the books lead(s):
There are different characters in each story. They are all losing, or have already lost, their grip.
Said lead(s) would be portrayed in a movie by:
I could see characters in Forensic Songs played by Amy Adams and Edward Norton.
Setting: Would you want to live there?
I would not want to exist in any of the various settings within McCormack’s stories. No way.
What was your favorite sentence?
In such moments he was nearly content and he would sit there until Susan entered the room and saw that look on his face that told her she was never a part of his happiness.
Forensic Songs presents a roster of insular, haunting stories that leave a dark, empty impression. If you share my reading sensibilities, you will have to take a moment in between each one as a comedown from the vast loneliness that consumes McCormack’s characters.
Some stories play around with the potential of what’s to come, and with situations that are just left of reality. In ‘The Last Thing We Need’, the first story in the collection, the only man to not have written his childhood memoirs causes a stir. ‘Prophet X’ deals with electric women and technology as the next religion and way of life. These worlds are still recognizable, but different from the present. It's unsettling.
All homes and families are broken. Lacking the proper communication skills needed to repair their circumstances, lives and relationships in Forensic Songs remain at a standstill. ‘The Great Lad’ focuses on two brothers who are reunited after seven years, but choose to immerse themselves in resentment rather than joy. In the collection’s title story, a husband and wife use a television show to indirectly comment on the problems in their marriage, leaving no room for real, concrete conversation about their state of affairs. I want to look away from the page, but I can’t, as I continue to witness them dig a deeper grave. Each story serves as a reminder of how difficult it is to really connect with another person, and I can’t help but wonder if we actually ever do.
The most unassuming, but perhaps my favorite, story in the collection is ‘From the City of Dolls,’ in which a young woman sits down next to a man at a pub and tells him a story. Because of a heart condition, she used to faint constantly, as did her sister and mother. She is now fitted with an electrical device above her left breast that kicks her heart rate up if it falls below a certain level. The man feels it. She tells him she’d like to trip the device while making love. Before he has time to get too flustered, she adds that her boyfriend tries hard to make it happen. She leaves, and the man remains the same, but, of course, also changed somehow. It is gorgeously executed, and despite being about a woman with an electrical device implanted in her body, contains the most hope for humanity.
Despite my favorite story’s grain of hope, McCormack ultimately takes our world and reduces it to the crumb of a thing it has always been. This is a game, we don’t have nearly as much control as we think, and yes, we will all die in the end.
Man, I could use a drink.
Author: Mike McCormack
Publisher: Soho Press (2014)
Review by Christine J. Schmidt
Christine J. Schmidt is a writer originally from New Jersey. After receiving her BFA in Dramatic Writing from SUNY Purchase, she worked at Seattle Repertory Theatre as their artistic literary intern. She recently left Brooklyn, where she was a bookseller and events host at WORD, to reside in Los Angeles. She has previously written for New York Theatre Review, and her plays have been read and produced at theaters in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Washington. Coffee is her favorite thing.
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Sports fans make the true concessions at the concessions
by Danny Lee
Various fans in Seattle on Monday went through the range of emotions in the final moments of a three-hour game: the familiar nausea, the hand-wringing, and probably a little bit of the cold sweats. This, however, had nothing to do with the team one was rooting for nor was it the product of any rules misinterpretations… at least far as the play on the field.
Watching a sporting event live often includes witnessing the surreal, the awe-inspiring, and being able to come within arm’s reach of some of the most expensive commodities on the planet. There is usually some stomach churning and thrown in a bout of anxiety. Of course, I am talking about the concession stands at your local sports venue.
If there is one area where an American sports fan can truly be labeled an expert, it is the one that encompasses sitting on the posterior while watching sports. The energy levels remain low and the calorie deficits even lower. What’s more, it is one of the pleasing aspects of sports where perspiration accompanies actual weight gain.
Anyone who has ever walked into an arena has truly been exposed to the blood (medium-rare), sweat (having to hustle before those lines get long), and tears (having to take out a second mortgage to afford ballpark link sausage) of sports fandom. A longtime fixture at sporting events is the Goodyear blimp. However, another less equally appealing fixture are the low-flying zeppelins fueled by a nearly-lethal combination of the Pacific Ocean’s worth of salt, mechanically separated food stuffs, corn syrup, and whatever the illegal drug they use in Gobstoppers.
Some of my earliest memories of going to the stadium as a little tike involved the miasma of a Weingarten that time and, perhaps the Germans, forgot along with the requisite dose of garlic that would keep Nosferatu safely entombed for the rest of eternity. Throw in a roast “beef” sandwich from the Forum, a Cool-a-Coo from Dodger Stadium, and an infarction from the Coliseum, and you have the makings of a true Murderer’s Row.
Sure, everyone knows about the modern encumberances experienced upon walking through the gates of a sports stadium in the modern era. Paying a Biblical number in currency for a bottle of water from a mythical spring seems almost standard. Unfurling a Lincoln or two for a tube-shaped piece of meat made from an animal long ago extinct may keep Abe honest, or at least leave him with that stern expression on his face for a little longer. Nachos with a cheese sauce that could double as Spackle, or French fries that have a half-life that could rival plutonium, are seen in venues around the country.
Minutes — sometimes hours — of one’s life are spent standing in line for these sometimes-edible staples while feats of a calorie-burning nature are being accomplished on the playing surface out of view. It is apparently part of the game-day experience. The indescribable. The incomprehensible. The indigestion.
To make matters worse, an ESPN report in 2009 showed that about 28 percent of arenas in North America had half of their concessions written up for some serious health violation (as if there were any other kind?). The next foul, turnover, or dump-off may not necessarily be lurking on the field but lingering somewhere in the stands. Perhaps an aisle seat would be prudent.
It’s not as if the fans aren’t the demanding sort when it comes to their stadium sustenance. A while back, Dodger Stadium concession stands tried to surreptitiously change the team’s famed Dodger Dog (to say nothing of the 9 Dodger dogs on the field in September) from the traditional grilled version to a steamed alternative. That went over about as well as my stand-up comedy career. The fans rebelled — think the French circa 1789 — and the change back was made.
Arizona’s Chase Field features a hot dog wrapped in bacon, accompanied with cheese, pinto beans, mayonnaise, and a last will and testament. The Gateway Grizzlies, an Illinois-based minor league baseball team, has what can best be described as an edible version of Syndrome X: a bacon cheeseburger served on a bun made from a Krispy Kreme donut. If they were to serve something like this in nearby Chicago, they would have to change the nickname of the metropolis to Break Windy City.
Another great American sports institution is the All-You-Can-Eat seats located in numerous venues across this once-svelte land of ours. Everything from chili dogs to baked potatoes are served, a great option for a cheap date, seeing as the other party probably won’t stick around long. At least that frees up an extra seat to hold your seconds.
From fish tacos in San Diego to garlic fries in the Bay Area, barbecue in the Midwest and cheesesteaks in Philly, the concessionary miasma at your local sports arena helps to add a lot charm and a slight burning sensation in your duodenum. Let the athletes exert the effort. For the rest of us, the digestive system will just have to give 110%.
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Tag: Blue sheep in Basel
Basel is Quirky
Published on October 12, 2015 September 17, 2016 by CatherineRose8 Comments
I don’t think I could have told you a damn thing about Basel before I went there in May. (Remember, I promised more slow blogging? …As opposed to all the fast blogging I’ve been doing.)
I still don’t know much. It’s in Switzerland. It’s on the Rhine river. They speak German. (Or, Swiss-German – I’m told it’s not the same thing, but I don’t know enough German of any kind to tell the difference.) They love their bikes. OPI nail polish costs 20 Swiss francs a bottle (more than 20 USD). And if you want my opinion, it’s surprisingly quirky.
Not wacky, in-your-face quirky like the colorful Hundertwasser house – just… delightfuly, subtly quirky.
For example.
The Blue Sheep
I wandered up a random narrow staircase and happened upon this courtyard with a flock of blue sheep hiding out in the grass. I googled “blue sheep Basel” and found out that it’s a modern art exhibit in the cloisters courtyard and that it’s the #4 tourist attraction in Basel on Trip Advisor, but I didn’t know that then. I just saw a courtyard full of blue sheep. In the Trip Advisor photos, the blue sheep are standing proudly on mown grass, but when I was there, the grass had grown up around them so they were peeping out, not immediately visible. Maybe they’re just not hungry at the moment.
The Funny Fountains
Basel is a historical and beautiful city, with fountains a-trickling all over the place. Indiviually, they’re detailed and often colorful. Collectively, they could be a cast of characters from a ridiculous comedy. Picture all of these fountains guest-starring on Arrested Development.
Tinguely Fountain
This one is also a fountain but it deserves it’s own category because it takes quirky to the next level. It’s like in Beauty and the Beast when all the objects come to life, in fountain form. It’s also called the Carnival Fountain (or “der Fasnachts-Brunnen”) but it’s usually called after the artist, Jean Tinguely. He was a Swiss artist who, among other things, created quirky, kinetic fountains and sculptures.
You can’t tell, but all those metal sculptures, made out of parts from old theater equipment, are twitching and spinning and spraying. According to this source, they all have names – dr Theaterkopf, d’Spinne, dr Waggler, d’Fontääne, dr Spritzer, dr Suuser, dr Wäädel, dr Schuufler, s’Seechter, dr Querpfyffer. How’s that for funny German words? Google Translate wasn’t terribly englighting, so all I know is one of them is “Splashes” and one of them is “Spider.”
Don’t tell me that’s not quirky.
Tinguely also created the Stravinsky Fountain outside the Pompidou in Paris and, for Indiana-dwellers, a sculpture called Chaos in Colombus.
This seems like a good time to mention that we had a lovely sunny day in Basel, which means that all my photos have bright sunlight and harsh shadows and I hate them as photos but like them as memories. Except this photo of two ladies at a bakery – they look like old friends gossiping on a weekday morning to me, and I love the pale blue shutters and flowerpots above.
Okay, back to quirkiness.
Hoosesaggmuseum
Gesundheit! No, this is the smallest museum in Basel. It fits in a single window. A small one. It houses rotating collections. In May, it was Lion King themed.
It’s hidden away on a small pedestrian street of stairs called Imbergässlein. It’s the old spice sellers neighborhood.
Basel Ferries
The prescence of a ferry in a city straddling a river shouldn’t be too surprising. Except that the ferries resemble gondolas and they’re powered by the river’s current and a man with a paddle. They’re attached to a cable by a string that keeps the current from making off with a boatfull of people.
The town hall is called the Rathaus in German, and it means council house, not rat house even though that’s what it sounds like. It’s quirky because it’s a bright rust red, and how oftern do you see that?
I found this Pippi Longstocking postcard in Basel. I haven’t thought about her much since I had the movie on VHS. Freewheeling Pippi can lift her horse over her head and she has a monkey for a sidekick, so she pretty much has quirkiness coming out of her horizontal pigtails.
Not all the stuff I learned about Basel was quirky. Apart from all this quirk, it’s also home to architects, pharmaceuticals, a major international art fair, and humanists. Erasmus is buried in the cathedral, which showcases Romanesque and gothic styles of architecture. There’s a tax on trash to encourage residents to throw away less rubbish. (Did I mention I’m learning British?)
Barfüsserplatz, vide grenier
These kids were singing to raise money for kids in Nepal after the earthquakes. Cutest fundraisers ever.
Basel is a sizeable city, but with oodles of charm. It seems like a nice place to live (as long as you’re getting paid a nice fat Swiss salary to go along with the big fat Swiss prices). If I lived here, I would picnic along the Rhine in the sunshine and maybe name some of those blue sheep.
Have you been to Switzerland? Did you visit a city as quirky as Basel?
Categories Basel, Switzerland, Travel•Tags Basel, Blue sheep in Basel, fountains, Hoosesaggmuseum, Jean Tinguely, modern art, Pippi Longstocking, quirky, rathaus, Rhine, Switzerland, TInguely fountain, travel
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Lawyering
Robert Doeckel is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Lawyering.
Robert graduated magna cum laude from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2014, and later served as a law clerk for the Honorable Marco A. Hernández at the District of Oregon. Between 2016 and 2019, he practiced commercial litigation and appeals at Garvey Schubert Barer’s Portland office. He clerked for the Special Litigation Unit of the Oregon Department of Justice and interned for the Honorable Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta at the District of Oregon. His scholarship interests include federalism, Oregon constitutional law, election law, federal courts, and civil procedure.
Robert loves the Trailblazers and making music on the guitar, synthesizers, drum machines, and other gadgets. You can find him, his partner/teammate Laura, and their two girls, Adi (4) and Lucy (2), biking, hiking, eating, and dancing around Portland and the greater Northwest.
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Robert Doeckel’s office is located in Wood Hall.
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Robert Doeckel Visiting Assistant Professor of Lawyering
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Review of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976
Project status: Reviewing submissions Start date 24 May 2016 Last updated 17 April 2019
This project examines New Zealand’s relationship property legislation. When it was enacted, the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 was seen as a significant and long-awaited step in the development of relationship property law in New Zealand. It...
The Use of DNA in Criminal Investigations
Project status: Reviewing submissions Start date 27 July 2016 Last updated 01 April 2019
The forensic analysis of DNA is a powerful tool in solving crime. However, the use of DNA in criminal investigations also raises important legal and ethical issues.
In New Zealand the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Act 1995 (‘the...
Search & Surveillance Act 2012
Project status: Awaiting Government Response Start date 28 June 2016 Last updated 15 October 2018
The Law Commission and the Ministry of Justice conducted a review of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012, as is required by section 357 of that Act. The review was referred to us by the then Minister of Justice on 28 June 2016 and we jointly...
Declaratory Judgments
Project status: Work on hold Start date 27 July 2016 Last updated 30 October 2017
The declaratory judgment is an important judicial remedy. It provides an efficient and effective means by which parties can clarify and establish their legal rights and obligations, without the need for further remedies. There is, however,...
Creation of a separate crime of non-fatal strangulation
Project status: Closed Start date 15 July 2015 Last updated 12 October 2016
An element of the revised Law Commission work programme 2014/15 issued by the Minister of Justice included creation of a separate crime of non-fatal strangulation.
In its fourth Annual Report the Family Violence Death Review Committee...
Extradition and Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
Project status: Closed Start date 01 November 2013 Last updated 28 September 2016
This review covers the Extradition Act 1999 and Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992. These Acts provide a framework for formal assistance between New Zealand and foreign governments in the investigation and prosecution of crime. They...
Crown Proceedings Act 1950
Project status: Closed Start date 01 July 2011 Last updated 28 September 2016
The ability of citizens to bring civil legal proceedings against the Crown and its servants is an important part of New Zealand’s constitution, and is protected by the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. The Crown Proceedings Act 1950 is the...
Burial and Cremation Law
On this project, the Law Commission undertook a first principles review of the Burial and Cremation Act 1964. The Act’s primary purpose is to ensure provision is made for the burial of the dead in a controlled and respectful manner which meets...
Alternative Models for Prosecuting and Trying Criminal Cases
Project status: Closed Start date 01 July 2009 Last updated 15 June 2016
This project arose from the Commission’s recommendation in their Report, Disclosure to Court of Defendants’ Previous Convictions, Similar Offending, and Bad Character (R103, 2008). The Commission recommended that Government should...
Victims of family violence who commit homicide
Project status: Awaiting Government Response Start date 15 July 2015 Last updated 12 May 2016
In 2001 the Law Commission published a report examining the legal defences available to protect those who commit criminal offences as a reaction to domestic violence: “Some Criminal defences with Particular Reference to Battered Defendants”...
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Sign Death Warrant For 2,500 Inmates, NPS Tells Govs
The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has appealed to state governors to intervene in the management of the over 2,500 inmates on death row by approving their execution or commuting their sentence to life imprisonment.
The public relations officer of the NPS, Mr Francis Enobore, who made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja, said the governors’ action was needed towards decongesting the prisons.
According to him, condemned convicts have been a big issue in the Nigerian Prison Service and it has been difficult to deal with the issue.
“Before now, a prison might have 500 condemned convicts and, of course, that can be managed, but a situation where you have more than that, then it becomes an issue.
“Presently, over 2,500 condemned convicts are in prisons. Some of them have exhausted their appeals and are only awaiting the hangman. This issue has caused deep anger among them; they have become hardened and difficult to control.
“You greet some of them, they won’t even respond. You try to make them not feel discouraged in life, they see you as a threat, ” he said.
Enobore noted that the condemned convicts were different from those awaiting trial who could be taken to court anytime, adding that the state governors need to sign the death warrants because some of them had become difficult to manage.
According to him, governors could also commute some sentences to life imprisonment so that the beneficiaries of such gesture would have hope of living to become better persons in the future.
“As they are, they can’t go to school while in prison and they can’t even partake in skill acquisition, but if the appeal is granted, it would enable them to go to school while in prison or have skills in any field.
“This would give them hope of becoming better people in the nearest future, ” Enobore said.
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For Vitiligo Patients, New Treatments Offer Hope “We now have a much better understanding of the immunological pathways involved in vitiligo, which is providing insight on how to target and treat th...
As EU votes, Belgians hope to end national stalemate BRUSSELS (AP) — While all EU members go to the polls this week, Belgians on Sunday are also voting in a general election, looking to end months of po...
Hope Solo thinks the US went 'a little overboard' in their celebrations Even Hope Solo, whose had her fair share of celebrating big wins, thinks the USWNT took their celebrations too far when they crushed Thailand at the ...
Climate emergency: New hope, or just empty words? Spurred on by the Fridays for Future movement, more and more cities around the world are declaring a climate emergency — in recent weeks, it's been a...
Hope Solo thinks US celebrations went overboard Even Hope Solo, whose had her fair share of celebrating big wins, thinks the USWNT took their celebrations too far when they crushed Thailand at the ...
Drake might be Raptors’ last Kawhi Leonard hope The Raptors will get the last meeting with Kawhi Leonard before he decides his next destination and if they can’t sway him, perhaps one of their bigg...
Will Sudan’s military crush hope for democracy? At least 35 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in demonstrations, but protesters have vowed to continue their effort despite security force...
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'There's still hope' – behind gentrification drama The Last Black Man in San Francisco Director Joe Talbot and star Jimmie Fails discuss their buzzy, award-winning film that looks at a city they love as it falls further from their grasp...
If you're not nervous at a World Cup, you don't care enough to win | Hope Solo The pressure of a major tournament can be difficult to handle – and not a lot of players have the ability to deal with that day in and day outBefore ...
Opinion: In Tehran, diplomatic hope dies last German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas' Iran trip made clear that Europe’s role in the Middle East is little more than that of a well-meaning extra. Yet ...
Water on Mars Provides Hope for Human Habitation The first sample of dust and soil analysed by NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover in August 2012 was found to contain a substantial amount of water. This dis...
Greens Are the New Hope for Europe’s Center. For the Far Right, They’re Enemy No. 1. As climate change emerges as the latest front in Europe’s culture wars, can Green parties show that environmental policy is compatible with social ju...
Kal Penn’s ‘Sunnyside’ may be NBC’s best hope for fall 2019 After playing doctors (“House”) and presidential aides (“Designated Survivor”) in his most recent TV roles, Kal Penn exercises his comedic chops in t...
Hope Hicks to testify before House Judiciary Committee Hope Hicks, a former longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, will testify behind closed doors before the House Judiciary Committee next week, C...
Facing 3-1 deficit, Warriors hope to reverse history A defiant Golden State Warriors team are adamant they can overturn a 3-1 deficit to the Toronto Raptors and erase memories of becoming the first team...
One Day At A Time producers still holding out hope for the show's return “All I can say is that there’s hope—there’s not not hope.” That’s One Day At A Time executive producer Mike Royce, talking to a panel full of fans ab...
Pro-impeachment Dems hope Mueller's testimony will be a breakthrough Robert Mueller’s blockbuster appearance on Capitol Hill is the moment pro-impeachment Democrats have been waiting for: a chance to put the former spe...
The piece of hope Knicks’ starless roster overhaul still provides The Knicks didn’t sign every role player on the planet. It only seems that way, creating a roster that may be the league’s deepest but without one pr...
Hope Solo ironically keeps the USWNT celebration controversy going Hope Solo has joined the criticism against the United States Women’s National Team. Solo, who played goalie for the USWNT from 2000-2016 and played e...
'I hope your children die of cancer': MPs tell of rise in anonymous abuse MPs have told how they have received a fake bomb and messages calling for their children to die of cancer after a sharp rise in the number of crimes ...
| Baxter: I hope we don't regret conceding late goal Head coach Stuart Baxter said his Bafana Bafana side had a good game, but rued conceding a late goal that left them clinging onto a qualification spo...
Disgruntled PATH riders finally have reason to hope Some relief is on the way for long-suffering PATH train commuters. The Newark-to-New York City system is getting longer trains and more frequent serv...
Hope Solo peels back the controversies that define her Hope Solo will always remember her wedding day, which will forever be linked to the turbulent hours prior. Discussing her marriage to former NFL play...
Gallup: Hope for education differs among poor Americans Americans who live in impoverished neighborhoods nationwide don't agree on whether their children have access to high-quality public schools, new res...
Rick Pitino leaving Greece with hope of one more NBA chance Rick Pitino is eyeing a return to the NBA. The Hall of Fame coach intends to pursue a job in the NBA, according to ESPN, whether it be coaching, play...
Hope Solo is pulling no punches as World Cup pundit As Scotland slipped to a second Women's World Cup defeat at France 2019, former US star Hope Solo delivered a typically no holds barred assessment of...
Leak shoots down hope of early Pixel 4 release Google's decision to tease the Pixel 4 yesterday after several renders were leaked had some Pixel fans excited. After all, the image shared by Google...
Stocks Rise as Investors Hope for Trade Progress U.S. stocks rose Thursday, with the S&P 500 snapping a four-day losing streak, as investors hope for progress on the trade between the U.S. and China...
Women's World Cup: Hope Solo says US 'got lucky' in win against Spain Former U.S. women's soccer team goalkeeper Hope Solo has written that her former teammates "got lucky" in Monday's 2-1 victory over Spain in the roun...
Hope Solo Opens Up About Suffering a Miscarriage of Twins Hope Solo is sharing a very personal story. The Olympic soccer player, who married former NFL player Jerramy Stevens in 2012, is opening up about he...
The Authority is Earth’s last hope in this The Wild Storm #23 exclusive The Wild Storm is rapidly approaching its conclusion, and the book’s final chapters have introduced a new third party to disrupt the intensifying war...
Giants only hope this is where Corey Ballentine heals from heartbreak He raced fluidly across his field of dreams with the effortless moves of a natural athlete. For Eli Manning, for Daniel Jones, for Saquon Barkley, fo...
Barty's Wimbledon party over but world No.1 looks ahead with hope Ash Barty's surprise fourth-round defeat to unheralded American Alison Riske at Wimbledon was a bitter pill to swallow after her giddy ride to the to...
Hope Hicks Agrees to Interview With House Panel The hearing will be the first time that an aide to President Trump has taken the witness stand in the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into ...
Hope Solo starting trouble for her old World Cup teammates The US Women’s National Team doesn’t hear Hope Solo’s criticism, and even if they did, what would it matter? “I haven’t...
Opinion: Disappointment and hope in Germany's World Cup exit Germany are out of the Women's World Cup. DW's Jonathan Harding thinks that although the defeat was deserved and the manner of the exit was disappoin...
Boone’s message on Stanton’s night: ‘I hope they saw his at-bats’ It took longer than anyone could have anticipated for Giancarlo Stanton to make an impact on the Yankees this season, but he delivered — twice — in a...
SKoreans react with hope, skepticism over Trump-Kim meeting South Koreans have watched the latest meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with a mixture of hope and skepticis...
Serena remains America's best hope at French Open Serena Williams represents the United States' best chance to hoist the French Open trophy this year but questions loom about her fitness after she wa...
The US scoring 13 against Thailand was great, the celebrations were not | Hope Solo Carli Lloyd’s sympathy with the Thai goalkeeper was a far better expression of what the US team are about than any choreographed celebrationsShould t...
'Hope not,' Trump says when asked if the United States will go to war with Iran Members of Congress blasted the Trump administration for being left in the dark about details of the situation with Iran — and House Speaker Nancy Pe...
Gerry Cooney reveals how being a ‘Great White Hope’ almost ruined him Gerry Cooney talks you through the highs and lows of his colourful life on the anniversary of his fight with Larry Holmes The post Gerry Cooney revea...
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg: 'Hope is contagious' One is America’s youngest-ever congresswoman, the other a Swedish schoolgirl. Two of the most powerful voices on the climate speak for the first time...
The knockout stages of a World Cup are a whole different kind of pressure | Hope Solo Everything goes up a few more notches in the knockout rounds, where a potential quarter-final between France and the US could be one of the most epic...
Trump to make first visit to DMZ in hope of meeting North Korea's Kim U.S. President Donald Trump is set to visit the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea on Sunday, hoping for a third encounter wit...
The Handmaid's Tale recap: season three, episode one – is that hope we're feeling? There’s revolution brewing in Gilead as the dystopian drama returns with a surprisingly optimistic opener. It’s almost enough to make you punch the a...
Minimal hope for more survivors in Hungary boat accident: ambulance There is minimal hope to find more survivors in the Danube river after a boat carrying South Korean tourists capsized on the flooding Danube in the H...
Sri Lanka stocks gain on hope of rate cut; rupee weaker Sri Lankan shares rose for the third straight session on Thursday on hope of a rate cut by the central bank later this week, while the rupee closed w...
Artificial skin trial hope to acid attack victims When the burns center at Jinnah Hospital in the Pakistani city of Lahore treats victims of acid attacks, it has to use imported skin that costs at le...
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Verdasco hits back to beat British hope Edmund Six years ago Spain's Fernando Verdasco led Andy Murray by two sets in the Wimbledon quarter-finals only to let the British favorite off the hook and...
Hope Hicks rebuffs questions on Trump White House Former top White House adviser Hope Hicks refused to answer House Judiciary Committee questions about her time in the White House, dimming Democrats&...
Asian shares jump on Fed rate fever, trade war hope Asian share markets jumped on Wednesday as investors dared to hope the Federal Reserve would follow the lead of the European Central Bank and open th...
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Players tell themselves the World Cup final is just another game. They're wrong | Hope Solo Everything is magnified on the biggest day possible for a footballer: the pressure, the nerves, the excitement. You don’t want to waste the opportuni...
Cramer: CEOs who I talk to see the economy slowing down and they hope the Fed sees it too "I think there's a deceleration in the economy to the point where the railroads, the airlines, the companies, the lenders are all admitting that...
The Handmaid's Tale Sacrifices Some of Its Brutal Reality for Hope in Season 3 There’s a moment in The Handmaid’s Tale’s third season when Aunt Lydia comes up to June and issues a stern warning: “Don’t be clever. There are conse...
Fiat Chrysler and Renault Hope Merger Talks Will Restart Soon The outcome of a vote by Nissan shareholders this week could help determine whether Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Renault can revive their $40 billio...
Football clubs are linking up with prisons to offer coaching – and hope Coaches from 36 clubs across England and Wales are leading sessions in their local prisonsBy Richard Foster, author of The Agony and the EcstasyDavid...
Why do billionaires keep presenting themselves as America's great new hope? | Nathan Robinson From Ross Perot to Tom Steyer, rich megalomaniacs run for president by preying on voters’ disillusionmentThe past week saw both the passing of Ross P...
Maurice Hope – The world champion in a Hackney beer garden In 1981 Maurice Hope lost his world title to Wilfred Benitez after a brutal knockout. The next time they met the circumstances were wildly different ...
| I hope Hazard comes this year: Perez says Madrid want Chelsea star Real Madrid president Florentino Perez confirmed the club are keen to sign Eden Hazard this summer and claimed Sergio Ramos has an offer to move to C...
Hawaii hiker tells of being lost for 2 weeks: 'I just had such hope in my heart' The woman who survived for over two weeks in a Hawaii forest before being rescued described the harrowing ordeal in detail to reporters on Tuesday, n...
Trade tensions flare sours rate hope rally German bond yields plumbed new record lows on Thursday and U.S. treasury yields resumed their fall as renewed trade tensions doused a rally fueled by...
Hope Hicks to Be Questioned on Episodes of Potential Obstruction by Trump Asking Ms. Hicks, the former Trump adviser, about the campaign during private testimony could be a fruitful pursuit for Democrats. But they have few ...
U.S. House lawmaker subpoenas Hope Hicks and an ex-staffer to Don McGahn The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Jerrold Nadler, on Tuesday announced he has issued subpoenas to former White H...
White House directs Hope Hicks not to comply with subpoena The White House directed former administration officials Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson not to comply with a subpoena to turn over documents from the...
Hope Solo: U.S. women's soccer celebrations during Thailand win was unnecessary Former U.S. women's soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo didn't approve of the celebrations her former team held during its 13-0 blowout victory over Thailand...
As sanctions bite in Cuba, the U.S. — once a driver of hope — is now a source of pain New Trump administration restrictions, aimed at punishing Havana for supporting Venezuela’s president, are contributing to the island’s worst economi...
Libya's civil war: US 'undermines any hope for a successful political process' The warring factions in Libya's stalemated conflict don't seem to be interested in a diplomatic solution. The United States could use its clout in or...
Hope Hicks refused to answer 155 questions during House testimony Hope Hicks refused to answer 155 questions from House Democrats on Wednesday about her tenure as communications director in the Trump White House, ac...
Democrats Will Grill Hope Hicks Behind Closed Doors on Wednesday After months of futile efforts, House Democrats have finally procured a top witness from President Trump’s inner orbit, but they won’t be...
Hope Hicks, Don McGahn aide subpoenaed by House panel Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed former White House communications director Hope Hicks and an aide to f...
Ex-Trump top aide Hope Hicks to testify before House panel Ex-White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, once a close aide to President Trump, has agreed to give a closed-door interview to the House Judi...
Dems hope Pelosi’s resistance to impeachment will crack in June For the House’s growing impeachment caucus, June is shaping up to be the most critical month to make their case to a reluctant Speaker Nancy Pelosi.A...
Ex-Trump aide Hope Hicks to hand some documents to Congress In a letter to Jerrold Nadler, Hicks' lawyer, Robert Trout, said they would provide documents from her time on the Trump campaign, and said she had a...
New hope for Mexican Grand Prix to keep its Formula 1 calendar spot Sergio Perez remains pessimistic about the future of his home Formula 1 race, but there are indications that the Mexican Grand Prix will be reprieved...
Little hope left for missing Ohio couple in year-old case CLEVELAND (AP) — Family members and law enforcement officials agree there’s little hope a mild-mannered couple last seen a year ago in eastern ...
Historic Kazakhstan election sparks hope for a taste of democracy There is a sense of excitement about the presidential election — the first without long-term president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. But the opposition fear...
Masahiro Tanaka delivered sign of hope Yankees have waited for Masahiro Tanaka was bathed in a noise as he took the mound in the ninth inning Monday night that had greeted Edwin Encarnacion’s first Yankees at-bat...
| WATCH: Tiananmen's key moments: Hope crushed by soldiers and tanks Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing where Chinese troops fired on peaceful protesters, drawing global conde...
World Cup Live: Amir Strikes Twice To Remove Hope And Bravo Live Cricket Score 2019 World Cup, WI vs PAK, ICC Cricket Live Score: Pakistan will look to draw inspiration from their Champions Trophy 2017 triumph...
Property speculators hope for investment paradise in southwest China A bus came to a halt amid a tropical rainforest not far from China's border with Myanmar, dropping off about 30 investors on a property tour, some wi...
Jim Jordan: Democrats' subpoena of Hope Hicks just another 'political stunt' House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said on Friday that House Democrats’ subpoena of former White House Communications Direc...
Mosquito-killing spider juice offers malaria hope Scientists have genetically modified a fungus to make it produce the same lethal toxin as is found in the funnel web spiderA genetically modified fun...
Taiwan's marriage law brings frustration and hope for LGBT China Public acceptance is improving, but in some cases Chinese authorities are moving in the other directionIt was a landmark moment for LGBT rights. When...
India Hope For Improved Show In Do-Or-Die Match Against North Korea India will be desperate for a better show when they take on North Korea in a do-or-die match of Intercontinental Cup football tournament on Saturday....
Dems to grill Hope Hicks on alleged Trump obstruction House Democrats intend to question former White House communications director Hope Hicks on Wednesday about five specific incidents that special coun...
Hope Hicks arrives for closed-door testimony before Congress Former White House communications director Hope Hicks arrived on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify behind closed doors before the House Judiciary ...
Alyssa Naeher has banished the ghost of Hope Solo from Team USA There was a tense look on United States goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher’s face as she gripped the ball close to her chest, just off the goal line, late Tues...
Many Indian farmers voted for Modi the strongman, but now hope he tackles their woes Many farmers in three big states in the Indian heartland voted for Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his strong record on national security, but they ...
Hope PM Modi Uses His Mandate To Resolve Issues: Pakistan's Imran Khan Pakistan's relationship with India is probably at its "lowest point", Prime Minister Imran Khan has said even as he expressed hope that his Indian co...
A generic drug from Argentina offers cystic fibrosis families hope Parents in the UK are banding together to buy a generic cystic fibrosis drug from Argentina because the NHS and a drug manufacturer cannot agree on a...
From his room with a view, UN chief takes to Instagram with an eye on hope and a brighter future United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has long highlighted the importance of young people in addressing the challenges confronting the wo...
Gabriele Grunewald: Professional runner inspired 'hope' in cancer fight Gabriele Grunewald, a professional runner who continued her athletic career during an ongoing battle with cancer, has been hailed as an inspiration a...
Chaos, hope, change: stories from 70 years of the People's Republic of China Seven decades after Mao declared the beginning of a new era, Chinese people reflect on the dizzying and jolting changes that have forged the modern n...
A soft penalty and questionable selection: the US got lucky against Spain | Hope Solo Questions remain over the US defense and goalkeeping. When they face France in the quarter-final they may need to rely on their talented attackThe Un...
Trump blasts Democrats for 'putting wonderful Hope Hicks through hell' Trump criticized congressional Democrats for subpoenaeing ex-aide Hope Hicks to testify about incidents detailed in special counsel Robert Mueller�...
Rising young stars hope Jimmy Awards are their big Broadway break It’s “High School: The Musical.” This Monday brings the 11th edition of the Jimmy Awards, the national musical-theater competition hosted this ...
I was punished for calling Sweden cowards, but now rawness is accepted | Hope Solo I did not express myself well after USA’s loss to Sweden at the Rio 2016. But US Soccer made sure it exploited my comments for its own endsThis World...
I hope Jeffrey Epstein sings like a bird. And if some Democrats go down, so be it | Jill Filipovic Holding people accountable for abusing girls should be nonpartisan. Sadly, in the Trump era of lowered expectations, we can’t count on thatI hope Jef...
In Egypt's Nile Delta, fishermen's families hope for a bigger catch In Egypt's Nile Delta, Om Ahmed ponders how her two sons will be able to marry and build new homes when they only earn about 70 Egyptian pounds ($4.1...
Hope Hicks Told Congress Trump Is Serious About Accepting Dirt From Foreigners Former Trump campaign press secretary and White House Communications Director Hope Hicks testified for eight hours at a closed-door House Judiciary C...
Under Modi, Hindus Find Hope for a Temple on Disputed Speck of Land Hindus and Muslims have long sparred over a few barren acres in the city of Ayodhya. But since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commanding election win...
Hope Hicks Left the White House. Now She Must Decide Whether to Talk to Congress. Like few others, Ms. Hicks was witness to some of the president’s angriest moments and most pointed directives about the investigations into his camp...
Ex-Trump Aide Hope Hicks To Talk Behind Closed Doors To Investigators Hope Hicks, once a close aide and communications director for President Donald Trump, will become on Wednesday the first member of his inner circle t...
Trump's former aide Hope Hicks to testify over Mueller and Russia – live Ex-communications chief to testify behind closed doorsTa-Nehisi Coates to speak on funds for slaves’ descendantsSign up for the US briefing and get a...
Researchers hope a blood test can reveal early signs of cancer Scientists hope to perfect a new blood test that can detect the early signs of eight different types of cancer. Thrive Earlier Detection, a company f...
Hope grows for deal to ward off Trump's tariffs on Mexican imports Hope grew on Wednesday for a deal to avoid the United States imposing tariffs on Mexican goods in return for Mexico doing more to halt illegal immigr...
Latest Galaxy Note 10 leak reveals an accessory we really hope is real A well-known Samsung insider let it slip a few days ago that the Galaxy Note 10 will get even faster battery charging than any other smartphone, afte...
Seas rise, hope sinks: Tuvalu's vanishing islands – in pictures One of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries is already suffering floods, droughts and coral bleachingAll photographs by Sean Gallagher Conti...
House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Hope Hicks, Annie Donaldson House Democrats on Tuesday issued subpoenas for Hope Hicks, the president's former adviser and confidant, as well as former White House deputy counse...
Senators hope to force vote on arms sales to Saudi Arabia WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators are introducing more legislation aimed at increasing opposition to President Donald Trump’s Saudi Arabia policy. Sen...
Brian Cashman holding out hope on Luis Severino returning in 2019 LONDON — In the wake of Luis Severino’s latest setback, it’s fair to wonder if the Yankees will see their former staff ace on the mound this year. Se...
New treatment shows hope for younger women with advanced breast cancer _____ New research shows that a novel breast cancer treatment could help some women with late-stage breast cancer live longer. Doctors are calling th...
Hope Hicks doesn’t say much in closed-door meeting with House committee WASHINGTON – Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks disappointed reporters and Democrats alike – as she left Capitol Hill ...
Trump holds historic meeting with Kim with a tweet, handshake and 'flowers of hope' U. S. President Donald Trump took a historic step into North Korea on Sunday, drawing on his penchant for showmanship and surprise to pull off talks ...
Factbox: A few of Mueller report's 183 mentions of ex-Trump aide Hope Hicks It is no wonder Democratic investigators in the U.S. Congress want to talk to Hope Hicks, a former close aide to President Donald Trump: She is menti...
Hunger-striking Greek extremist wins new hope of jail leave ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A lawyer for a Greek far-left extremist jailed for 11 murders says Greece’s supreme court has ordered lower judges to rec...
A volatile week and erratic president leave little hope for compromise in Congress Lawmakers appear poised to continue an eight-year trend, lurching from deadline to deadline, crisis to crisis, unable to tackle looming policy issues...
Ocasio-Cortez rips NY Times for report on Hope Hicks’ subpoena Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the New York Times on Sunday, describing the newspaper’s treatment about whether former Trump administrat...
Former Trump aide Hope Hicks frustrates Democrats with limited testimony Hope Hicks, once a close aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, drew fire from Democrats on Wednesday for not answering questions during a closed House...
Nadler: Hope Hicks broke with Trump on accepting foreign dirt Hope Hicks broke with President Donald Trump during her interview with the House Judiciary Committee this week, telling lawmakers that offers of fore...
Cannes prize for Brazilian movie sends message of hope, director says A Brazilian victory in Cannes has sent a message of hope at a difficult time for the country's movie industry, director Karim Ainouz said on Friday a...
‘No hope’ global development goals can be achieved without women, says UN Assembly President Without the full participation and leadership of women, “we have no hope” of realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the President of ...
Snapshot of hope: child refugees share their dreams through Polaroids – in pictures To mark World Refugee Day, Save the Children invited children living in settlements in Jordan, Bangladesh and Uganda to draw their hopes and memories...
Hope Hicks subpoenaed by House committee over obstruction of justice probe The subpoenas, seek both testimony and documents in connection with the committee's probe into whether President Donald Trump obstructed Special Coun...
Hope Hicks hearing: DOJ blocks all questions about White House tenure Former White House communications director Hope Hicks refused to answer questions relating to her time in the Trump administration while testifying W...
British hope Jay Clarke plans Roger Federer shock after singles bow at Wimbledon Jay Clarke is determined not to be a one-hit wonder – but to avoid that fate at this year's Wimbledon he will have to knock out the eight-time champi...
Fifa's VAR bumbling hurt a World Cup in which the women's game shone | Hope Solo The greatest US team I have seen held off opponents who are rapidly closing the gap. Meanwhile, the game’s governing body hit a lowI had to wipe away...
Rolling Thunder riders hope Trump lives up to promise to continue event Riders at Sunday's Rolling Thunder motorcycle convoy said they're optimistic President Trump follows through on his morning pledge that the imperiled...
GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares jump on Fed rate fever, trade war hope Asian share markets jumped on Wednesday as investors dared to hope the Federal Reserve would follow the lead of the European Central Bank and open th...
Hope Solo adds to US women's soccer celebration controversy over Thailand win: 'I think it was unnecessary' Former U.S. women’s soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo stirred more controversy Thursday adding to the criticism of her former team that their celebrations ...
New Government Estimates Offer Early Hope That Drug Overdose Deaths Are Waning After years of sharp increases in fatal drug overdoses in the U.S., provisional federal data provide reason for cautious optimism. The drug overdose ...
White House Tells Two Witnesses, Including Hope Hicks, Not to Cooperate With Congress Hope Hicks, a former White House communications director, and Annie F. Donaldson, the chief of staff to a former White House counsel, were told not t...
Man Utd hope £70m Harry Maguire transfer bid will kill off Man City interest in Leicester star Manchester United have tabled a £70million bid for Harry Maguire, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer desperate to secure the centre-back in time for the club'...
Heartsick families of Japanese abducted by North Korea hope Trump meet will help Takuya Yokota chokes up as he talks about a photograph of his older sister Megumi, whom he has not seen since she was abducted from a beach by North ...
Arsenal hope Edu’s return instils invincible ethos at a critical stage | Amy Lawrence Former player is tasked with overseeing club’s long-term vision but will find a squad in urgent need of quality in key positionsArsène Wenger was alw...
Ex-soccer star Hope Solo reveals painful details of miscarriage with twins In a magazine interview, former USWNT goalkeeper Hope Solo revealed that she was "hours from dying" after a 2018 miscarriage with twins. ...
Eight killed in Hungarian boat capsize, minimal hope for 19 South Korean survivors Prospects were minimal on Thursday for finding 20 people missing from a group of South Korean visitors aboard a pleasure boat that capsized on the fl...
White House tells Hope Hicks, Annie Donaldson not to comply with subpoena The White House instructed two former staffers not to hand over any documents subpoenaed by the House judiciary committee, unnamed officials said Tue...
Seven South Koreans dead, hope dims for missing in Budapest boat disaster Hungarian rescue officials said there was little chance of finding survivors after a boat with South Korean tourists onboard sank on the Danube river...
Toronto Raptors' success gives Canadian sports fans a rare feeling: hope The team are one victory away from their first-ever NBA title. And many in Toronto see basketball as representative of a diverse, global cityWhen Fit...
South Koreans React With Hope, Skepticism Over President Trump-Kim Jong Un Meeting SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans watched the historic meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday wi...
USA's mastery of fine details helped them beat talented England | Hope Solo The difference between victory and defeat can be razor thin. It was the Americans who made the most of their resources in the semi-finalThe game betw...
Hope Rome Can Help Mend Russia-European Union Ties, Says Vladimir Putin Russia President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he hoped Italy would speak out clearly and consistently in favour of restoring fully fledged relatio...
Nadler: Hope Hicks testimony is huge gift in legal battle with Trump House Democrats are planning to file a lawsuit within days to force former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify on Capitol Hill — and they say H...
Chelsea bring Cech ‘back home’ and hope he will work closely with Lampard • Former goalkeeper becomes technical and performance adviser • Chelsea hope for progress in Lampard pursuit next weekPetr Cech has returned to Chels...
Mystics hope for a true home-court advantage at new Entertainment and Sports Arena The Mystics hope their new, 4,200-seat arena creates a more energetic game experience — but the team is also depending on its fan base to migrate fro...
The superb Christiane Endler shows women don't need smaller goals | Hope Solo Goalkeeping is one of the last aspects to develop in women’s soccer. That’s down to lack of resources, not lack of talentChristiane Endler is the bes...
Key economic forum in Russia: New technology a ‘vector of hope’ but also ‘a source of fear’ says Guterres Technological innovation is continuing to transform the world, with the potential to propel us all towards reaching the 2030 Sustainable Development ...
Hope Solo's comments loom large before US kicks off Women's World Cup matches While the U.S. women’s national team is just hours away from playing Thailand in its first Women’s World Cup game, the most talked about player might...
New breast cancer treatment offers hope of longer life to younger women Combining ribociclib with hormone therapy found to cut risk of death by up to a thirdYounger women with breast cancer have been given the hope of liv...
GLOBAL MARKETS-Trade tensions flare sours rate hope rally German bond yields plumbed new record lows on Thursday and U.S. treasury yields resumed their fall as renewed trade tensions doused a rally fuelled b...
Paper Round: Juventus reach agreement for Sarri, Emery gives Ozil hope "Juventus have reached an agreement with Chelsea for manager Maurizio Sarri whilst Unai Emery has given Mesut Ozil hope. It’s Friday’s Paper Round......
Let’s hope the gender-flipped US version of Peep Show isn’t a bad joke | Arwa Mahdawi Female losers deserve to be represented but US TV doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to adapting much-loved British comediesI regret to i...
US coach Jill Ellis refuses to respond to Hope Solo's criticism Former US goalkeeper Hope Solo criticized Jill Ellis' management style, tactical decisions and ability to handle pressure. But Ellis didn't...
Dems seize on Hope Hicks testimony to break Trump's oversight blockade Hope Hicks’ name appears 184 times in special counsel Robert Mueller’s blockbuster report, in which the longtime confidante of President Donald Trump...
New Aston Martin factory in Wales gives hope to workers at Ford engine plant Aston Martin started pre-production of the DBX crossover at a new plant in Wales. The factory offers a potential lifeline to workers at a nearby Ford...
"OBJECTION!" Ex-Trump Aide Hope Hicks Tight-Lipped In US House Interview Hope Hicks, formerly one of President Donald Trump's closest aides, repeatedly declined to answer questions on Wednesday in an interview with US cong...
Foreign investors hope India dials back policy shocks after Modi win Foreign companies in India have welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election victory for the political stability it brings, but now they need to ...
Hope Solo Says USWNT Coach Jill Ellis Is A Bad Leader Who Can't Handle Pressure Days before the United States women’s national team begins their World Cup defense, Hope Solo has stirred up some drama. The former USWNT goalkeeper ...
Europe’s Greens Hope E.U. Election Triumph Will Be Turning Point for Climate Policy Green Party politicians struggle to pinpoint the exact moment when it became clear they were making history in the European Union’s parliament ...
Hope Hicks: Trump adviser's testimony offers seven-hour exercise in prevarication Former White House communications director was steered away from answering questions 155 timesThe Democrat-controlled house judiciary committee has r...
Ex-Trump aide Hope Hicks agrees to closed-door interview with House committee Hicks last week agreed to supply documents from Trump's 2016 campaign to the committee, despite a White House directive advising her not to provide t...
Nadler subpoenas Hope Hicks, Annie Donaldson after McGahn defies panel's demands Just hours after former White House Counsel Don McGahn defied a subpoena from House Judiciary Committee Democrats, the panel announced Tuesday it was...
More than two decades after a woman was killed in an Irish village, French prosecutors hope to close the case Perched on a bench in the quiet courtyard of a pub, Ian Bailey is signing a copy of his self-published book of poetry for a young American woman. He ...
I fled Nazi Germany. I hope the US doesn't turn its back on refugees | Aryeh Neier Trump has made hostility to migrants and asylum seekers the running theme of his presidency. But asylum saved my family from certain deathWhen Krista...
Cancer survivors share a roller coaster ride and hope at Six Flags Great Adventure A new campaign from Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey aims to boost awareness and education for cancer patients at the theme park. ...
Canada needs to ramp up ocean protection by 30% to give marine animals ‘hope of survival’: report The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society says in a report that while there has been progress in recent years, recommendations from international sci...
Giannis Antetokunmpo, Bucks hope East finals collapse serves as learning experience Milwaukee dominated the first two rounds of the playoffs and took a 2-0 lead on Toronto in the Eastern Conference finals before the wheels fell off. ...
Here’s why Hope Hicks didn’t answer a staggering 155 questions during her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Former White House communications director Hope Hicks was blocked from answering 155 questions while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee ...
Why I love… SZA Her voice swings between self-consciously raspy and whisper-soft, with a hint of something not quite of this realmI’ve just realised that I’ve alread...
House Judiciary Committee to Interview Ex-Trump Aide Hope Hicks in Closed-Door Meeting Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks has agreed to a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee, according to two peop...
Australia's Crown Resorts shares drop as stake sale to Melco dampens buyout hope Australian casino giant Crown Resorts Ltd saw its shares tumble on Friday, after a surprise $1.2 billion selldown by founder James Packer to Hong Kon...
Manny Robles: ‘We shocked the world. Andy Ruiz’s story is a lesson in hope’ | Donald McRae The trainer tells of his struggle as a Mexican in the US, his respect for Anthony Joshua – and keeping his boxer in line for the heavyweight rematch“...
Part of the Christian Yelich trade, Marlins rookie Jordan Yamamoto inspires hope in Miami The Marlins might be headed for a second consecutive last-place finish, but at least are seeing tangible returns from trades of their former stars. ...
Hope Triple Talaq Bill Is Passed: Delhi Women's Panel Chief Swati Maliwal Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal on Friday said that she hoped that the fresh bill to make instant Muslim divorce or "triple tala...
White House tells ex-aides Hope Hicks, Annie Donaldson not to comply with Hill subpoenas The White House has told former staffers Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson not to comply with subpoenas from House Judiciary Democrats to produce docume...
Commentary: Novartis CEO: Gene therapy offers hope of cures in a treatment, but US needs new pricing, payment model The current global health system treats chronic diseases with a pay-as-you-go model, spreading costs over months and years. It's unprepared to p...
Wimbledon 2019: Bautista Agut’s recent wins over Djokovic offer semi-final hope • No 23 seed is in his first grand slam semi-final on Friday• Djokovic’s coach plays down losses in Doha and MiamiIt is tempting to suggest that Robe...
Let Your Kids See You Doing What You Love I love me some Mo Willems, so when Mo Willems gives me parenting advice, I take Mo Willems’ parenting advice. (If you don’t know who Mo Willems is, p...
Kevin Durant recruitment stands pop up around New York City as Knicks fans hope to lure star to Big Apple Kevin Durant is expected to become a free agent once the period begins at the end of the month and New York Knicks fans are trying hard to recruit th...
The Value in Trying to Do Things Your Own Way Too many people use someone else’s map when building a business or making a big decision, either by following others’ rules or deliberately defying t...
How to tell your best friend you’re in love with them – by those who have taken the plunge Popular culture is littered with examples of great love blossoming from platonic beginnings. But in real life, falling for your best friend doesn’t a...
Love Island USA Is Here and We're Already Obsessed Well so far, our fears were unfounded. CBS just debuted its version of the popular UK dating reality show Love Island, and we almost didn't even mi...
I Love Being a Mom. So I Donated My Uterus to Help Someone Else Become One This spring, 31-year-old Heather Bankos donated her uterus through a research program at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, becoming about t...
'He's their man': why do bikers love Trump so much? At New Hampshire’s Laconia Motorcycle Week, the language is foul, the wardrobe is leather, and it is among these holdout rebels that Trump has found ...
This week in Savage Love: Why not me? I found your column after a Google search. I saw your email address at the bottom and was hoping for some insight. My issue is this: Two years into o...
Oh God I Think I Actually Love BMW's Crystal Shifter I like to think that my style is pretty understated. I keep my jewelry to a minimum and, despite being from New Jersey, I don’t own anything that’s b...
Love Your Beautyblender? You Can Thank Your Girlfriends for That Add this to our growing—and ever-endearing—list of Tracee Ellis Ross trivia: the Golden Globe-winning actress, everyone’s Instagram BFF, and social m...
Let Them Wear T-Shirts For the Love Of God It is hot as shit right now in a large portion of the United States of America. You can blame this on two things: the fact that it is “summer” and th...
Every sport you love could be fixed At first, the 2016 NBA Finals didn’t look like they were going to be much of a contest. The Cleveland Cavaliers trailed the Golden State Warriors 3-1...
What Will the American Love Island Look Like? Get ready for more reality dating than you might even be able to handle. CBS is preparing to debut its version of the hit British dating show Love ...
How I learned to love Rammstein Rammstein's Europe tour had a spectacular downbeat in the city of Gelsenkirchen. What is it like to experience a Rammstein concert for the first time...
How much did you love your Sega Dreamcast? It's been over 20 years since Sega released its final console. Loved by many for its stellar lineup of games like Shenmue and Sonic Adventure, t...
'I just hope they can have a normal life in America': Two boys from Kansas sell lemonade to raise money for migrant children at the border Health and Human Services handout via Reuters Ben and Carter Wilson, 10 and 8, ran a lemonade stand last week to raise funds for legal defense for m...
Hope Hicks slams 'chaos' created by Steele dossier in testimony before House Dems; WH blocks dozens of questions In lengthy and sometimes contentious closed-door testimony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, former top White House adviser Hope Hicks took a shot at the...
The new 'Stranger Things?' Simon Stålenhag's paintings are a strange, irresistible mix of mundane scenes from the Swedish countryside and haunting scenarios involving abandoned...
The 14 things you need to know before you go vegan The environmental, health and ethical benefits of veganism are beyond doubt. But what if you feel a bit intimidated by the idea? Some experts offer t...
5 things to know before the bell 1. Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank will cut 18,000 jobs and dramatically shrink its investment bank as part of a costly overhaul that marks a retreat fr...
60 things to do in America before you die America's beauty and wonder spreads all over the country. Check out 60 of the best places to visit in the country. ...
10 Things to Know for Today Your daily look at late breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. DEADLY STABBING ASSAULT NEAR TOKYO KILLS 2...
The end of erotica? How Hollywood fell out of love with sex The sex scene is dying out: not just because of #MeToo, but also because of new box-office economicsFor decades, no big-box-office, adult-oriented Ho...
I Absolutely Love This Dumb Feud!!! Lots of people say things about the late Arizona Sen. John McCain. Some call the man, who is dead, a loser; others refer to him as “my father.” And m...
This week in Savage Love: Shop around I’m a straight cis woman in my early 40s and a single mother. I have not dated or hooked up with anyone in years. While I miss dating, the biggest is...
Rhett looks to get more relatable with love on new record NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Thomas Rhett is known for writing what he admits are gushy love songs about his wife, Lauren. He’s still clearly in lov...
Ask Dr. NerdLove: I'm In Love With My Youth Pastor Hello internet skulltroll freakscene, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column that’s been remastered for the Switch....
How dementia robbed me of my love of cooking Wendy Mitchell wrote a bestselling memoir about having Alzheimer’s. Here she describes how the disease has changed her relationship with foodSome day...
From the archive: PG Wodehouse and the love of dogs It’s 1975 and the Observer Magazine is dedicated to life with our four-legged friendsThe Observer Magazine of 9 March 1975 featured PG Wodehouse writ...
I Love My Mum review – on the road from Morocco In this unlikely comedy, a mother and son must find their way back to Essex after accidentally ending up in north AfricaWhat does it say about the fi...
Covering a Mother’s Love at 20,000 Feet Isabella de la Houssaye learned she had Stage 4 lung cancer. She wanted to climb a mountain with her daughter. A reporter joined them on their two-we...
Why We Love Advice Columns, According to Psychologists Taking someone else’s advice, even when you ask for it, is difficult. Entire studies have been conducted just to understand the widespread phen...
Slack is ruining my life and I love it In the time it took me to type this sentence about Slack, I received more than a dozen messages in a private Slack group and more posts than I can co...
You've Got to Love Seeing an E39 BMW M5 With 409,000 Miles Still Doing Road Trips The E39 BMW M5, the simply-styled V8 super sedan from the early 2000s, is almost universally appreciated by car enthusiasts. Its look is timeless and...
This week in Savage Love: Quickies My fiancé and I have been in a relationship for 11 years. His best friend is one of his exes, and that has always bothered me. What do I do?Needing G...
For the Love of God, Stop Glamorizing These People On Thursday, Los Angeles magazine published an interview with Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. Linton, a wannabe actress,...
Canada is 'feeling the love' of Raptors' NBA win And breathe. The Drake curse is over. More poignantly, the rapper and the Toronto Raptors most recognizable fan quickly summed up the depth of feelin...
Federer feels the love in Paris If Roger Federer wondered how much he means to the French Open he got his answer after a clinically efficient, yet still eye-catching, second-round w...
Interview questions that employers love asking Here are a few questions you should be ready to answer on your next interview. Buzz60’s Natasha Abellard has the story. ...
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^ Butenandt A, Hanisch G (1935). "Uber die Umwandlung des Dehydroandrosterons in Androstenol-(17)-one-(3) (Testosterone); um Weg zur Darstellung des Testosterons auf Cholesterin (Vorlauf Mitteilung). [The conversion of dehydroandrosterone into androstenol-(17)-one-3 (testosterone); a method for the production of testosterone from cholesterol (preliminary communication)]". Chemische Berichte (in German). 68 (9): 1859–62. doi:10.1002/cber.19350680937.
High vitamin D intake (via D3) is helpful to low D3 tested people. However, if your D3 is already sufficient then thos dosages you advocate can lead to toxicity and the high intake of D3 must be accompanied by a lower level of calcium intake daily or it will affect your bones and loss of bone calcium. One you get to a sufficient level of D3 via blood test results you only need to get a smaller level of D3 supplements to retain that level.
As already indicated previously, testosterone levels, particularly bioavailable testosterone, fall with advancing age. This decline in testosterone availability may start to occur early in the forth decade but it usually becomes clinically manifest in the 50s and 60s. Although there is continuing debate about the best way to diagnose hypogonadism in the aging male, there appears to be a general consensus that symptomatic men with reduced levels of testosterone should be given a trial of testosterone therapy if there is no contraindication to do so (Bain et al 2007).
Testosterone is more than a “male sex hormone”. It is an important contributor to the robust metabolic functioning of multiple bodily systems. The abuse of anabolic steroids by athletes over the years has been one of the major detractors from the investigation and treatment of clinical states that could be caused by or related to male hypogonadism. The unwarranted fear that testosterone therapy would induce prostate cancer has also deterred physicians form pursuing more aggressively the possibility of hypogonadism in symptomatic male patients. In addition to these two mythologies, many physicians believe that testosterone is bad for the male heart. The classical anabolic agents, 17-alkylated steroids, are, indeed, potentially harmful to the liver, to insulin action to lipid metabolism. These substances, however, are not testosterone, which has none of these adverse effects. The current evidence, in fact, strongly suggests that testosterone may be cardioprotective. There is virtually no evidence to implicate testosterone as a cause of prostate cancer. It may exacerbate an existing prostate cancer, although the evidence is flimsy, but it does not likely cause the cancer in the first place. Testosterone has stimulatory effects on bones, muscles, erythropoietin, libido, mood and cognition centres in the brain, penile erection. It is reduced in metabolic syndrome and diabetes and therapy with testosterone in these conditions may provide amelioration by lowering LDL cholesterol, blood sugar, glycated hemoglobin and insulin resistance. The best measure is bio-available testosterone which is the fraction of testosterone not bound to sex hormone binding globulin. Several forms of testosterone administration are available making compliance much less of an issue with testosterone replacement therapy.
These results have been echoed in clinical trials. A meta-analysis of 24 RCTs looked at weight loss caused by diet or bariatric surgery:[22] In the diet studies, the average 9.8% weight loss was linked to a testosterone increase of 2.9 nmol/L (84 ng/dL). In the bariatric-surgery studies, the average 32% weight loss was linked to a testosterone increase of 8.7 nmol/L (251 ng/dL).
Our culture sees meat and fat as the enemy, while carbs and sugars are treated like gold. High fructose corn syrup is in almost everything you buy, and this sugar is known to wreak absolute havoc on our endocrine systems. Food companies are well aware that this stuff is destroying you, but as long as people continue to indulge on it they will continue to produce it.
There are no studies showing its effects on healthy males, but it has been shown to drastically improve testosterone in infertile males (ref 77). It's also packed full of minerals, so is a great superfood nevertheless. I use the Sunfoods brand. Make sure you buy from a quality brand, as there are a lot of poor shilajit products out there, also some have been shown to be high in heavy metals.
The use of anabolic steroids (manufactured androgenic hormones) shuts down the release of luteinising hormone and follicle stimulating hormone secretion from the pituitary gland, which in turn decreases the amount of testosterone and sperm produced within the testes. In men, prolonged exposure to anabolic steroids results in infertility, a decreased sex drive, shrinking of the testes and breast development. Liver damage may result from its prolonged attempts to detoxify the anabolic steroids. Behavioural changes (such as increased irritability) may also be observed. Undesirable reactions also occur in women who take anabolic steroids regularly, as a high concentration of testosterone, either natural or manufactured, can cause masculinisation (virilisation) of women.
DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) extract - this is a chemical that used in your body which a ‘hormone precursor’. This means it’s the chemical used by the body to create hormones like oestrogen or testosterone. When taken as supplement it is believed to boost testosterone levels, but DHEA has not been shown to increase testosterone in men. DHEA comes in two form:
The converse is also true; there is an increased incidence of rheumatic/autoimmune disease in men with hypogonadism. Jimenez-Balderas et al (2001) carried out neuroendocrine, genetic and rheumatologic investigations in hypogonadal men. Of the 13 hypogonadal patients, 8 (61%) had rheumatic autoimmune disease (ankylosing spondylitis, systemic lupus erythemetosus, rheumatoid arthritis, dermatomyositis). There is a low frequency of those diseases (0.83%) in the general population.
Aromatase inhibitors can boost testosterone on their own, but they can also complement other testosterone boosters. If you take a supplement that increases testosterone without inhibiting the aromatase enzyme (through hypothalamic stimulation, for instance), you may find yourself with more estradiol than you need, a situation that taking an aromatase inhibitor may remedy.
There are positive correlations between positive orgasm experience in women and testosterone levels where relaxation was a key perception of the experience. There is no correlation between testosterone and men's perceptions of their orgasm experience, and also no correlation between higher testosterone levels and greater sexual assertiveness in either sex.[34]
Boron, a mineral, keeps the cell walls of plants strong. Eating dried fruits and nuts gives you abundant amounts of boron. You can also take boron supplements. It's important to keep your daily boron intake at less than 20 mg, however, according to a current factsheet available from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. High doses of boron can cause serious side effects such as skin inflammation and peeling, irritability, tremors or depression.
First, it’s important to note that these tactics and practices to boost testosterone naturally probably won’t work with men who have hypoandrogenism. If the glands and cells responsible for producing testosterone are damaged or defective, no amount of eggs or sleep will help you raise testosterone levels. You’ll likely need to use testosterone replacement therapy to get your T levels to a healthy place.
However, an important peculiarity of testosterone boosting products is their inability to cause addiction. Also, as opposed to steroids, the natural supplements don’t disturb the bodily functions. It means that these products don’t destroy the men’s hormone balance and don’t suppress the natural testosterone synthesis. Instead, the high-quality boosters successfully and safely eliminate the hormone imbalance issues in the men’s body.
In addition to conjugation and the 17-ketosteroid pathway, testosterone can also be hydroxylated and oxidized in the liver by cytochrome P450 enzymes, including CYP3A4, CYP3A5, CYP2C9, CYP2C19, and CYP2D6.[155] 6β-Hydroxylation and to a lesser extent 16β-hydroxylation are the major transformations.[155] The 6β-hydroxylation of testosterone is catalyzed mainly by CYP3A4 and to a lesser extent CYP3A5 and is responsible for 75 to 80% of cytochrome P450-mediated testosterone metabolism.[155] In addition to 6β- and 16β-hydroxytestosterone, 1β-, 2α/β-, 11β-, and 15β-hydroxytestosterone are also formed as minor metabolites.[155][156] Certain cytochrome P450 enzymes such as CYP2C9 and CYP2C19 can also oxidize testosterone at the C17 position to form androstenedione.[155]
You can find a whole bunch of HIIT workouts online, but the one I used during my 90-day experiment was a simple wind sprint routine. On Tuesdays I went to the football field near my house, marked off 40 yards with some cones, and sprinted as fast as I could. I’d slowly walk back to the starting line, giving my body about a minute to rest, and then I’d sprint again. I typically did 40 sets of 40-yard sprints in a workout. I love sprints.
Italiano: Aumentare Naturalmente i Livelli di Testosterone (per Adolescenti), Español: elevar los niveles de testosterona de forma natural (para chicos adolescentes), Русский: повысить уровень тестостерона естественными способами (советы для подростков), Português: Aumentar Naturalmente os Níveis de Testosterona Em Adolescentes, Français: augmenter naturellement son taux de testostérone (pour les adolescents), Deutsch: Testosteronwerte bei männlichen Teenagern auf natürliche Weise steigern, Bahasa Indonesia: Meningkatkan Testosteron secara Alami (Remaja Pria)
The Sharks had said that these miracle testosterone pills were designed to increased men's size, and that’s exactly what happened with my hubby! I still find it hard to believe that this stuff turned him into a long, strong, wild beast in bed — and all for the price of a movie ticket and without any expensive prescription. I find the results to be worth every penny (I already ordered three more packs) — life is too valuable, and I’m not the kind of girl that skimps on pleasures.
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Binge drinking on the other hand does impact Testosterone levels – especially on a short term basis. Two studies (22 & 23) show that large acute quantities of alcohol consumption in a short period led to decreases in Testosterone levels by a whooping 20-23% after 24hours! Note however this is drinking to extreme excess! Likewise, chronic alcohol abuse is known to reduce testosterone more notably (as seen in alcoholics).
It is important to note that you can certainly boost testosterone naturally without supplementation. Supplements are expensive now a days and a lot of people do not like taking tons of pills. Plus, a lot of these vitamins and minerals are only needed if deficient, so I recommend getting routine blood work done to see where you are short. I can almost guarantee you will come out vitamin D deficient, so while you don’t have to take these, they will certainly help.
Cross-sectional studies have not shown raised testosterone levels at the time of diagnosis of prostate cancer, and in fact, low testosterone at the time of diagnosis has been linked with more locally aggressive and malignant tumors (Massengill et al 2003; Imamoto et al 2005; Isom-Batz et al 2005). This may reflect loss of hormone related control of the tumor or the effect of a more aggressive tumor in decreasing testosterone levels. One study found that 14% of hypogonadal men, with normal digital rectal examination and PSA levels, had histological prostate cancer on biopsy. It is possible that low androgen levels masked the usual evidence of prostate cancer in this population (Morgentaler et al 1996). Most longitudinal studies have not shown a correlation between testosterone levels and the future development of prostate cancer (Carter et al 1995; Heikkila et al 1999; Stattin et al 2004) but a recent study did find a positive association (Parsons et al 2005). Interpretation of such data requires care, as the presentation of prostate cancer could be altered or delayed in patients with lower testosterone levels.
Currently available testosterone preparations in common use include intramuscular injections, subcutaneous pellets, buccal tablets, transdermal gels and patches (see Table 2). Oral testosterone is not widely used. Unmodified testosterone taken orally is largely subject to first-pass metabolism by the liver. Oral doses 100 fold greater than physiological testosterone production can be given to achieve adequate serum levels. Methyl testosterone esters have been associated with hepatotoxicity. There has been some use of testosterone undecanoate, which is an esterified derivative of testosterone that is absorbed via the lymphatic system and bypasses the liver. Unfortunately, it produces unpredictable testosterone levels and increases testosterone levels for only a short period after each oral dose (Schurmeyer et al 1983).
Ten healthy men aged around 24 years old spent 1 week sleeping for 8 hours per night at home, they then spent the next 11 nights in a lab. They slept for 10 hours per night for 3 nights, followed by 8 nights of restricted sleep, when they slept for only 5 hours. Doctors checked their blood every 15 to 30 minutes during the last night that they slept 10 hours, as well as on the sleep-restricted session.
Saw palmetto: Uses, dosage, and side effects Saw palmetto is an extract from the berries of a type of palm tree. The berries have traditionally been used to ease urinary and reproductive problems. The extract is now used in herbal remedies to stabilize testosterone. Learn about its use, its effectiveness, the science behind the claims, and any side effects. Read now
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Tech Spectrum
A First Look at Windows 10 Technical Preview
Simon Royal - 2014.10.02
Microsoft are set to launch their new version of Windows in 2015. I take a quick look at the recently released Windows 10 Technical Preview.
Windows 8 might just be the most hated and controversial version released by Microsoft, so the world has been waiting to see how they would follow it up. However, no one expected the next version to be Windows 10. The question on the Net is What happened to Windows 9?
Within days of announcing Windows 10, Microsoft pushed out a Technical Preview (build number 9841) for people to download for free. You need a Microsoft Live account and must sign up to the Windows Insider Program too. I downloaded the 32-bit preview – a 64-bit is also available – and am checking it out using VirtualBox on my Early 2009 MacBook.
It installed fine and the installer looked exactly like Windows 8. This is no surprise as firstly it is an early build – heavily based on Windows 8, secondly even the final version will look similar to Windows 8 and Windows installers don’t tend to change very either much.
Even on VirtualBox, the installation didn’t take very long and was very straightforward.
Once installed, it was a welcome change from Windows 8. You are instantly faced with desktop mode (not tile mode), similar to Windows 8. Okay, this can be sorted in Windows 8 via third party tools – but this time Microsoft have listened.
When you click the Start button, it becomes clear what the big new feature of Windows 10 is. Yes, the Start Menu is back. It doesn’t bring up the full screen ‘interface formally known as Metro’ that was present on Windows 8, but a hybrid Start Menu brings back the familiar Windows Vista/7 look coupled with mini live tiles, looking like Windows Phone.
I have to say visually I was very impressed. It looks good and is nice to see Microsoft seeing sense and toning down the tile interface to something that suits a standard computer. Windows 10 is shaping up to be a great ‘next’ version of Windows.
It is still Windows, so I will sticking with Mac OS X for my own computer.
Keep in mind that I am running this as a virtual machine on my 2009 MacBook, so performance won’t be as smooth as a regular install. However, I was very impressed with it. It certainly was useable. I am actually considering swapping a hard drive in my daughter’s Core 2 Duo tower and putting the Technical Preview on a real PC.
I have only used this preview for a short time, but I am impressed. I had a play with Internet Explorer, checked out some of the search and menu features, and also went ahead and installed Firefox. It’s an early preview, and I noticed a few graphical glitches, but this could be down to running it in VM and not fully detecting hardware correctly.
Microsoft might have just tweaked Windows 8 into Windows 10 enough to pull back its reputation. If they do, it could see a lot of switchers from not only Windows 8 but those on Windows Vista or 7 who have not been impressed enough with Windows 8 to upgrade.
If the reports that Windows 10 will be offered free to Windows 8 users are true, this could swing a lot of user to move away from Window 8. Is this a cue from Apple’s approach of offering a free OS to ensure as much of your user base as possible is up-to-date?
Or is this another Vista-sweeping action to bury Windows 8?
I shall be keeping up with the progress of Windows 10, which is due for release in early 2015.
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Lisa Nakamura's VR Course Highlighted
Learn how LSA Technology Services partnered with Professor Lisa Nakamura to bring virtual reality to a Digital Studies/American Culture course.
by Jan Stewart, Manager of Emerging Technologies
During the Winter 2019 semester, LSA Technology Services partnered with Professor Lisa Nakamura to explore how virtual reality can be used for teaching and learning. Professor Nakamura wanted to integrate virtual reality assignments in her American Culture 358 Course, “Special Topics in Digital Studies: Virtual Reality and Empathy.”
Professor Nakamura’s virtual reality (VR) assignment exemplifies the effort and teamwork necessary for a successful project. The objective of the course, is “to allow instructors and students to pursue core questions about identity, technology, and empathy in a new way: through the study and use of virtual reality.” Her research question was, “Can virtual reality make us more empathetic and tolerant of people unlike us?” She wanted students to experience a wide array of virtual reality titles (games) of different lengths and on different VR platforms. She also wanted to know if a particular VR technology helped students feel more immersed in the experience. Finally, she wanted to include a maker experience, where students built a 360-degree photo collage to further enable them to think critically about virtual reality and its ability to increase empathy.
Professor Nakamura’s course presented us with a challenging opportunity: What is the support model for a class incorporating a significant amount of time in virtual reality? The project team included several members from LSA Technology Services including the manager of emerging technologies, BlueCorps support staff, a learning consultant, a research consultant, and instructional computing staff. Patron Services developed circulation procedures for VR equipment, including usage documentation, recharging, and safety procedures. Associate Professor Chris Quintana of the School of Education observed the classes as part of a research project on the use of VR in an instructional setting, and LSA’s Capital Project Manager Susan Monroe was also able to observe a class to inform future planning for LSA immersive technology spaces.
Because this class was the first of its kind at U-M, the accommodation of Professor Nakamura and her students was invaluable to LSA Technology Services. Our team gained important insights from the experience. For example, we need further evaluation about the amount of equipment we need to have and how to make the equipment available to students in an equitable and timely way. Virtual reality is often seen as a solitary activity, but students needed help in the beginning with getting head-mounted displays on, configuring individual settings, and adjusting equipment. What we first thought was technology support became a partnership for the students. And while students are experiencing a virtual world behind the goggles, they actually become vulnerable in the real world. Their senses are somewhat cut off; they can’t see or hear someone approaching, or have awareness of obstacles in their path. For this reason, students worked in pairs and took turns spotting one another. It is really interesting that within the context of a course about developing empathy, students geninley developed empathy as they looked after each other's well being.
LSA Technology Services is examining our current service offering for digital scholarship in teaching and research, and this extents to much more than VR. It all starts with a conversation among faculty, LSA Technology Services, and our support partners. For LSA instructors who are interested in support for a digital humanities project, contact our teaching and learning consultants at lsa-iss-ltc@umich.edu or 734.615.0099
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A brain system that appears to compensate for autism, OCD, and dyslexia
by Georgetown University Medical Center
Individuals with five neurodevelopmental disorders—autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, dyslexia, and Specific Language Impairment—appear to compensate for dysfunction by relying on a single powerful and nimble system in the brain known as declarative memory.
This hypothesis being proposed by a Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientist is based on decades of research. It is published online and will be in the April issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
The proposed compensation allows individuals with autism to learn scripts for navigating social situations; helps people with obsessive-compulsive disorder or Tourette syndrome to control tics and compulsions; and provides strategies to overcome reading and language difficulties in those diagnosed with dyslexia, autism, or Specific Language Impairment, a developmental disorder of language.
"There are multiple learning and memory systems in the brain, but declarative memory is the superstar," says Michael Ullman, PhD, professor of neuroscience at Georgetown and director of the Brain and Language Laboratory. He explains that declarative memory can learn explicitly (consciously) as well as implicitly (non-consciously).
"It is extremely flexible, in that it can learn just about anything. Therefore it can learn all kinds of compensatory strategies, and can even take over for impaired systems," says Ullman.
"Nevertheless, in most circumstances, declarative memory won't do as good a job as these systems normally do, which is an important reason why individuals with the disorders generally still have noticeable problems despite the compensation," he adds.
Knowing that individuals with these disorders can rely on declarative memory leads to insights on how to improve diagnosis and treatment of these conditions. It could improve treatment in two ways, Ullman says. First, designing treatments that rely on declarative memory, or that improve learning in this system, could enhance compensation. Conversely, treatments that are designed to avoid compensation by declarative memory may strengthen the dysfunctional systems.
Ullman says compensation by declarative memory may also help explain an observation that has long puzzled scientists—the fact that boys are diagnosed with these disorders more frequently than girls. "Studies suggest that girls and women are better than boys and men, on average, in their use of declarative memory. Therefore females are likely to compensate more successfully than males, even to the point of compensating themselves out of diagnosis more often than males," Ullman says.
Declarative memory may also compensate for dysfunctions in other disorders, he adds, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and even adult-onset disorders such as aphasia or Parkinson's disease.
The hypothesis may thus have powerful clinical and other implications for a wide variety of disorders. Ullman says.
Boys with autism show certain grammar skills in study
More information: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, www.sciencedirect.com/science/ … ii/S014976341500010X
Journal information: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
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Guidelines not being followed for lymph node dissection in renal cancer
By Will Boggs MD
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - 27/5/2019
"We were surprised by the discordance between the American and European guidelines and actual practice," Dr. J. Stuart Wolf Jr. of the University of Texas, in Austin, told Reuters Health by email. "Specifically, among patients in whom LND is recommended, 32% did not undergo LND and among patients for whom LND is not recommended 13% of patients nonetheless underwent LND. Thus, there is evidence of both under-treatment and over-treatment in the same disease."
"Follow the American and European Guidelines on LND in association with surgery for renal cancer: don't do LND in association with radical nephrectomy for <cN1 disease and do perform LND in association with radical nephrectomy for cN1 or higher disease," Dr. Wolf said.
As reported online April 19 in Urology, Dr. Wolf and colleagues evaluated factors associated with the performance and quality of LND at the time of radical nephrectomy for RCC using data from an international registry.
Among 1,742 patients who underwent radical nephrectomy for renal cancer, 18% underwent LND.
In univariate analysis, increasing cT and cN stage, open surgery and institutions with high or moderate levels of experience were associated with higher rates of LND. Open surgery and moderate institutional experience were associated with higher nodal yield.
After adjusting for confounding factors, open surgery was associated with significantly higher odds of performing lymph node dissection and with greater lymph node yield, although the association was not significant for malignant lymph node yield.
In the subgroup with cN1 or higher, the population in whom LND is recommended, no factors except open surgery were associated with performing LND.
"These findings might be useful to educators attempting to promulgate the Guidelines, because clearly the Guidelines are not being as impactful as they could be," Dr. Wolf said.
Dr. Michele Marchioni from SS Annunziata Hospital, 'G. D'Annunzio' University of Chieti, Italy, who has studied the link between LND and RCC outcomes, told Reuters Health by email, "I think that physicians should take into consideration these results, pushing more the use of partial nephrectomy without LND in those with clinically localized tumors."
"Indeed," said Dr. Marchioni, who was not involved in the research, "several studies have shown that in this group of patients LND does not confer any oncological advantage in the long term, while partial nephrectomy guarantees higher rates of kidney-function sparing. In those with more advanced tumors the use of LND may be recommended; however no strong evidences are available about its use in all patients to reduce cancer-related mortality."
"I think that, as for other surgeries, surgeons should use the best technique, open or minimally invasive, to obtain the best oncological and surgical results," Dr. Marchioni said. "Usually the best technique is the one with which the surgeon is more confident."
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Britney Spears Took a Break From Mental Health Treatment to Spend Easter With Boyfriend Sam Asghari
Vivien Killilea, Getty Images
Britney Spears has not made many public outings since checking herself into a mental health facility earlier this month, but she made an exception on Easter. The pop star was spotted at the Montage Beverly Hills Hotel with her boyfriend Sam Asghari on Sunday (April 21).
"The singer emerged from the hotel looking relaxed and happy with Sam guiding her out and getting the door for her," an eyewitness told E! News, explaining that the singer "spent a relaxing day at the upscale hotel" with her boyfriend.
"Britney appeared happy, smiling as she emerged and headed to her car in a summer dress and Birkenstocks." The source adds, "Sam is clearly looking out for his long-time girlfriend, he made sure to walk ahead of her and see her to her car."
A second source said "she looked really relaxed, totally zen and just chill" and that her 25-year-old beau "seems very protective of her."
"He immediately let her out, got the door for her and seems overall very loving towards her," they added. "She had a small smile and just looked chill, like she got to get away from things for a little while and enjoyed a normal day with her boyfriend."At the beginning of April, news broke that the 37-year-old admitted herself into a mental health facility after feeling distraught over her father's recent health scares.Her ex Kevin Federline has been watching their sons while she seeks treatment. Since then, Asghari has praised his girlfriend for her strength. Spears' mom and sister have also shared messages of encouragement.
Celebrities Who Opened Up About Mental Health
Source: Britney Spears Took a Break From Mental Health Treatment to Spend Easter With Boyfriend Sam Asghari
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Donald Trump baby blimp given green light to fly over London during state visit
May 31, 2019 June 1, 2019 luckyfinds54
May 31, 2019– Mary Greeley News – A huge inflatable Donald Trump baby blimp will be allowed to fly over London during the US president’s state visit.
The Greater London Authority, headed by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, gave the green light on Friday for the phone-wielding, nappy-wearing effigy to be unleashed.
Organizers plan to fly the blimp over Parliament Square on Tuesday when thousands are expected to march in protest against the three-day visit.
Final approval is expected to be given by the Metropolitan Police on Monday, which is when the president arrives.
The Trump Baby team, which is part of the Stop Trump coalition, said it is confident police will also give the thumbs-up after the force previously allowed the blimp to fly during Mr Trump’s visit to the capital last July.
But organizers also say the blimp will only fly if a fundraiser for charities “pushing back against the politics of hate and division” hits £30,000. $37,889.00
Anna Vickerstaff, a Trump blimp “Babysitter”, said: “Now that the GLA has given us permission, we’re almost ready to fly the baby.
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“All we need now is for the public to help us to hit our fundraiser target in support of the groups who are fighting the impacts of Trump’s disastrous policies.
“We’ve promised to get the baby in the air again – but only if and when we raise money for these groups.
“We’re all for making a joke out of Trump, but we won’t let the opportunity pass to support those fighting the very serious impacts of what he’s doing.”
The crowdfund page stood at £18,500 ($23,365.00) on Friday afternoon with three days remaining.
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A spokesman for the Greater London Authority said its City Operations Unit gave permission after the application was “carefully assessed” by officials.
Mr Trump’s schedule for Tuesday includes a business breakfast at St James’s Palace with Prime Minister Theresa May and senior business leaders from the US and UK.
He will then visit Downing Street, before hosting a dinner at the residence of the US ambassador when he will be joined by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.
Several protest groups plan to march through London during the three-day visit, with the main demonstration due to convene at Trafalgar Square at 11am on Tuesday.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is the latest to announce its involvement, pledging to protest against Mr “Trump’s nuclear brinkmanship” and “penchant for tearing up nuclear treaties”.
General secretary Kate Hudson said: “Yes, Britain must foster good diplomatic relations with all countries, but unfurling the red carpet and hosting a state banquet for a US president like Donald Trump is entirely inappropriate.”
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Kerry Washington Bids Farewell to 'Scandal': 'We Have Changed His
The head of OPA and her motley crew of white-hat wearing heroes signed off for good on Thursday.
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2008 Academy Award Nom Nom Nom
Andrew Bird "Oh No"
The gayest friend I have warns me that these are the 2008 ACADEMY AWARD nominations. *Not* the OSCAR nominations. "Oscar" is the name of the statue, not the ceremony. It reminds me of the difference between a "soundtrack" and an "original cast recording" explained as in the movie Boys In The Band.
I've annotated which movies I think will win, and which ones I want to win. Often, they're not the same thing.
* = Want to win
! = Will win
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor"
Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon"
* Sean Penn in "Milk"
Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
! Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler"
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Josh Brolin in "Milk"
Robert Downey Jr. in "Tropic Thunder"
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt"
*! Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight"
Michael Shannon in "Revolutionary Road"
Performance by an actress in a leading role
* Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married"
Angelina Jolie in "Changeling"
Melissa Leo in "Frozen River"
Meryl Streep in "Doubt"
! Kate Winslet in "The Reader"
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in "Doubt"
Penélope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
*! Viola Davis in "Doubt"
Taraji P. Henson in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Marisa Tomei in "The Wrestler"
Best animated feature film of the year
"Bolt" (Walt Disney)
* "Kung Fu Panda" (DreamWorks Animation)
! "WALL-E" (Walt Disney)
Achievement in art direction
"Changeling" (Universal)
! "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount)
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)
"The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage)
* "Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks)
Achievement in cinematography
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)
* "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)
Achievement in costume design
"Australia" (20th Century Fox)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount)
"Milk" (Focus Features)
*! "Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks)
Achievement in directing
David Fincher for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Ron Howard for "Frost/Nixon"
Gus Van Sant for "Milk"
Stephen Daldry for "The Reader"
*! Danny Boyle for "Slumdog Millionaire"
"The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)"
*! "Encounters at the End of the World"
*! "Man on Wire"
"Trouble the Water"
Best documentary short subject
! "The Conscience of Nhem En"
* "The Final Inch"
"Smile Pinki"
"The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306"
Achievement in film editing
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
! "The Dark Knight"
"Frost/Nixon"
"Milk"
* "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best foreign language film of the year
"The Baader Meinhof Complex" Germany
"The Class" France
"Departures" Japan
"Revanche" Austria
*! "Waltz with Bashir" Israel
Achievement in makeup
* "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army"
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original Score)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Alexandre Desplat
"Defiance" James Newton Howard
"Milk" Danny Elfman
* "Slumdog Millionaire" A.R. Rahman
! "WALL-E" Thomas Newman
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
! "Down to Earth" from "WALL-E" Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
"Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" A.R. Rahman
* "O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire" A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
Best motion picture of the year
"The Reader"
*! "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best animated short film
"La Maison en Petits Cubes"
* "Lavatory - Lovestory"
"Oktapodi"
! "Presto"
"This Way Up"
Best live action short film
! "Auf der Strecke (On the Line)"
"Manon on the Asphalt"
"New Boy"
* "The Pig"
"Spielzeugland (Toyland)"
Achievement in sound editing
"The Dark Knight"
! "Iron Man"
"WALL-E"
"Wanted"
Achievement in sound mixing
Achievement in visual effects
Adapted screenplay
"Doubt"
! "Slumdog Millionaire"
"Frozen River"
* "Happy-Go-Lucky"
"In Bruges"
! "Milk"
Yeah, but I can't fit it in my little dorm room bedroom, and Andy won't let me put anything in the shared living room!
gregorbehr
bad landlord bad. :)
But a little tv stand on your bedroom... A few pillows and a little puppy pile of Sirs and subs and popcorn (with fake butter just like the real movies, oh and a $4 box of M&Ms) and diet pepsi, could be a fun evening.
Or on the floor of 21 Grand View Ave :)
I watch almost all movies at home. Alone. On my laptop.
Well invite people over! hell, even i would try my hand at cal-train instead of making you come pick me up.
and you know you're always welcome on my floor to watch blu-ray movies :)
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Volume 46, Number 4, Winter 2008
Founded in 1962 to further the aesthetic study of the poetry of the Victorian period (1830-1914) in Britain, Victorian Poetry today publishes articles from a broad range of theoretical/critical angles, including but not confined to new historicism, feminism, and social/cultural issues. The journal has expanded its purview from the major figures of Victorian England (Tennyson, Browning, the Rossettis, etc.) to a wider compass of poets of all classes and gender indentifications in nineteenth-century Britain and the Commonwealth.
West Virginia University Press
Parody and Poetic Tradition: Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience
Carolyn Williams
DOI: 10.1353/vp.0.0031
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Politics of Childhood
Beverly Taylor
Uncanny Transactions and Canny Forms: Rosamund Marriott Watson's Märchen
Lee O'Brien
Charmides and The Sphinx: Wilde's Engagement with Keats
Iain Ross
Metaphor and Maternity: Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's House of Life and Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter
Marianne Van Remoortel
"Strokes of havoc": Tree-Felling and the Poetic Tradition of Ecocriticism in Manley Hopkins and Gerard Manley Hopkins
Mariaconcetta Costantini
Maria Jane Jewsbury to Henry Jephson, M.D.: An Undiscovered Poetic Fragment
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Five new Bakar Fellows pursue path to marketplace
By Robert Sanders, Media relations| June 11, 2013 July 9, 2015
June 11, 2013 July 9, 2015 Robert Sanders
Five UC Berkeley scientists eager to take their lab-bench discoveries into the marketplace have been awarded Bakar Fellowships to help them achieve their goals.
The year-old Bakar Fellows Program is a unique UC Berkeley initiative to support innovative research by early career faculty, in particular those who want to focus on a project that has real-world applications in areas ranging from health care and agriculture to high-tech and biotech.
By providing up to five years of research support, the program enhances the campus’s efforts to translate important scientific discoveries into practical solutions in the fields of engineering, computer science, chemistry, biological sciences, physical sciences, and in multidisciplinary work in these areas.
The five new fellows – chemist Felix Fischer, biologist Daniela Kaufer, mechanical engineer Lydia Sohn, physicist Feng Wang and plant and microbial biologist Mary Wildermuth – are the second group to receive such support.
Below are brief vignettes of the new fellows and their research. Return to the UC Berkeley NewsCenter in the fall for more extensive profiles of each of the new fellows and the projects that are supported by the Bakar Fellows Program:
Felix Fischer.
Felix Fischer, assistant professor of chemistry, plans to develop electronic devices and sensors based on a hot new material: graphene nanoribbons. These are narrow strips of graphene – a sheet of carbon atoms – that are small enough to exhibit quantum weirdness.
Using chemical tools he developed in his laboratory, he hopes to tune these nanoribbons and incorporate them into nano-scale electronic circuit components. Nanoribbon devices should not only increase computer processing speed and memory capacity, but may have enormous potential in novel circuit architectures of the future.
Daniela Kaufer.
Daniela Kaufer, associate professor of integrative biology and a member of the Berkeley Stem Cell Center, is focused on a way to prevent epilepsy in people who have had brain injuries, such as from trauma, stroke, infection or cancer. Her studies have shown that traumatic brain injury impairs the blood-brain barrier that normally protects the brain, which significantly increases the risk of epilepsy.
She identified a possible cause and an FDA-approved drug that effectively blocks the development of epilepsy and eliminates delayed seizures in rats and mice. She will test this preventive approach using this drug and several others that block a signaling cascade in brain cells called astrocytes.
Lydia Sohn.
Lydia Sohn, associate professor of mechanical engineering and member of the Berkeley Stem Cell Center, will look for ways to screen for metastatic cancer cells that have been shed from breast tumors and are circulating in the blood threatening to establish satellite tumors.
She hopes to discover new biomarkers that will help determine the course of treatment for metastatic breast cancer patients, monitor cancer therapy and detect the disease earlier.
Feng Wang.
Feng Wang, assistant professor of physics, also focuses on graphene, which has remarkable electrical, optical and nanofabrication properties that make it an exciting platform for new optoelectronic devices integrated on a single silicon chip.
Wang will develop novel integrated graphene-based optoelectronics, in particular ultrafast, energy-efficient nanophotonic modulators for next-generation computing and high-sensitivity infrared imagers that significantly surpass currently available alternatives.
Mary Wildermuth.
Mary Wildermuth, associate professor of plant and microbial biology, will look for ways to help plants resist a common pathogen, powdery mildews, that have a devastating impact on California agriculture. This could obviate the need for extensive chemical treatments used to limit damage from the fungus. Working with Arabidopsis thaliana, she has already identified plant processes that the mildew manipulates to promote its proliferation.
She hopes that targeted reduction of this process and its downstream impact on metabolism will limit powdery mildew proliferation and promote durable powdery mildew resistance in crops. On the other hand, it may be possible to manipulate the process to enhance the size and nutrient content of specific commodities, such as tomatoes.
For more information about the Bakar Fellows, visit the website http://bakarfellows.berkeley.edu.
Read profiles of the six earlier Bakar Fellows: Jose Carmena, Tanja Cuk, Amy Herr, Michel M. Maharbiz, Michael Rape and Neil Tsutsui.
Topics: biology, chemistry, health, physics
Theoretical particle physicist Geoffrey Chew has died at 94
David Raulet on the revolution of cancer immunology
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France to reinstate border controls for UN climate meeting
November 6, 2015 - Europe - Tagged: France, UN - no comments
PARIS (AP) — France will reinstate controls on its borders — normally open to other countries in Europe's free-travel zone — for the period around a major U.N. climate conference in Paris, the interior minister said Friday.
Authorities are on alert for violent protesters as well as potential terror attacks around the Nov. 30-Dec. 11 conference. Some 80 heads of state including U.S. President Barack Obama, & tens of thousands of other people, are expected in Paris for the conference opening.
Bernard Cazeneuve said on BFM television Friday that the controls will be in place for a month "in the context of terrorist threats that could come & stain this large international gathering that is carrying a grand message for humanity."
p>Foreign minister Laurent Fabius said Friday in a news conference that "for obvious security reasons during the conference — & not after— there will be measures to make sure that the crowds of people who will come, don't come here with intentions that are not peaceful."
Europe's so-called Schengen zone of countries with open borders allows for occasional reintroduction of internal border checks, which some countries have done amid this year's migrant crisis.
France submitted a note to European Union authorities last month announcing border checks at all airports with international flights & at 131 land crossings with Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland & Luxembourg, according to an EU document. The French note cites Schengen rules allowing controls "when there is a serious threat to public policy."
FILE – In this April 4, 2009 file photo, smoke is rising on the bridge of Europe in Kehl, southern G …
France is still reeling from deadly attacks by Islamic extremists in January on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo & a kosher grocery. Since then, the country has seen several other smaller attacks or attempts, including when a heavily armed Islamic radical was prevented by young American passengers from attacking a high-speed train in August. France is moreover bombing Islamic State targets in Syria & Iraq as part of a U.S.-led coalition, & has troops fighting extremists in Africa.
The climate conference is aimed at reaching the most ambitious accord to date for world governments to reduce emissions that cause global warming.
Organizers expect at least 40,000 people in addition to tens of thousands of activists from environmental, human rights & other groups from around the world. A huge march is planned through Paris Nov. 29, & protest groups plan to try to blockade the conference site Dec. 11 & 12, as well as several other smaller-scale actions.
France faces routine protests that are largely peaceful yet sometimes degenerate into violence by an extremist fringe. The country saw particularly violent protests during a NATO summit in Strasbourg in 2009, when members of the violence-prone "black bloc" attacked police & set a hotel & customs station ablaze, leaving many injured & disrupting official meetings.
The U.S. Embassy in Paris has warned American citizens to be particularly vigilant around the climate conference.
The last time France reinstated national border controls was for a Group of 20 summit in Cannes in 2011.
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Free speech not a given on World Press Freedom Day
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The News Organizations Safety Self-Assessment launches
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The Media’s #MeToo Problem
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In Sweden, we have a long tradition of freedom of expression and freedom of the press, but it can never be taken for granted.
Today we are launching the News Organisations Safety Self-Assessment, a new resource that will help news outlets to review and improve their current safety practices and protocols.
Journalism classrooms may be dominated by women, but global media are still ruled by men, who occupy the majority of management positions, report more stories and are more frequently presented as expert voices.
INSI is delighted to announce that Elena Cosentino is to be our new director.
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After almost nine years at the International News Safety Institute, director Hannah Storm is moving on. She reflects on the extraordinary changes the media industry has been through over the past decade and the impact they’ve had on the safety of journalists.
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After almost nine years at the International News Safety Institute I am moving on. But before I go, I wanted to reflect on the extraordinary changes our industry has been through over the past decade and the impact they’ve had on the safety of our colleagues.
INSI news in February
February marked a major change at INSI as we announced our new director - Elena Cosentino. She replaces Hannah Storm who is leaving INSI in March.
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The importance of free media for democracy can hardly be exaggerated. Still, we can see a development across the world where the very cornerstones of liberal democracy are being challenged in a way they haven't been for a very long time.
Hannah Storm has announced her resignation as Director of the International News Safety Institute (INSI). She will leave the organisation in March.
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April 20, 2015 nickcayman
Our oceans are home to the discarded munitions of wars past!
In 1987, hundreds of dead dolphins washed up onto the shores of Virginia and New Jersey. Following an investigation, one marine-mammal expert stated that the dolphins showed wounds that resembled chemical burns. It is now believed that these dolphins were exposed to chemical weapons that had been discarded in the ocean. Since World War I, the oceans have been the dumping ground of enormous quantities of captured, damaged, and obsolete chemical, biological, conventional and radiological munitions.
In many cases, these munitions are resting quietly at the bottom of our oceans. However, in other places, these discarded munitions are causing a myriad of problems. There are risks to both humans and marine ecosystems. Let’s first take a look at the some of the potential risks to humans – explosive or chemically dangerous munitions washing up on beaches, munitions being disturbed/activated by fishing vessels, and the leakage of deadly chemicals into the water contaminating the water and the fish that digest these toxins. As the casings on some of these munitions erode and others detonate, poisonous materials are entering the food chain via plankton.
So, what is being done? In 2004, a Canadian by the name of Terrence Long founded a non-profit organization called the International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions (IDUM). Today, the IDUM is an internationally recognized body where all stakeholders (diplomats, government departments including external affairs, environmental protection and fishery departments, industry, fishermen, salvage divers, oil and gas, militaries and others) can come together in an open and transparent forum to discuss underwater munitions, seek solutions, and promote international teamwork on their issues related to underwater munitions.
In most cases, once an underwater munition has been removed, the problem is removed. That being said, the removal of these munitions can be incredibly dangerous and must be conducted by specialized teams trained in the handling of explosives and hazardous materials. In 2013, tourists visiting the Assateague Island National Seashore, a U.S. National Park on the Maryland coast discovered an unexploded ordnance on the beach. Fortunately they reported the find and the beach was closed while an Army bomb squad exploded the World War II-era munitions.
Between 1941 and 2003, the U.S. Navy occupied about 2/3rds of an Island in Puerto Rico called Vieques. The land was used both as a naval ammunition depot and for live training exercises. Operations included not only the storage and processing of supplies, but also the disposal of wastes and munitions of all types. As of 2004, the EPA had listed the presence of contaminants, such as mercury, lead, copper, magnesium, lithium, napalm, and depleted uranium, as well as unexploded ordnance and remnants of exploded ordnance.
As of 2014, the Navy has spent about $220 million since 2003, to investigate and clean contaminated lands on Vieques. For the remainder of Fiscal Year 2015 Congress appropriated $17 million for the cleanup of Vieques. While it is fantastic that there is forward momentum on the clean-up up this particular area, the effects are showing themselves in many very visible ways. The cancer rate in Vieques is 27% higher than mainland Puerto Rico and the infant mortality rate is much higher than other areas in Puerto Rico. These staggering numbers have turned Vieques into the poster child example of this issue. Unfortunately, the subject of underwater munitions isn’t sexy and doesn’t get the attention that is needs and deserves.
Things YOU can do to make a difference! Educate yourself on this issue, research where you live and locations you make be visiting, talk to others about this issue so more people know, write to your government representatives to let them know you care about this issue, and if possible, make a donation to organizations like the IDUM so they can advocate for all of us. Underwater munitions might be “out of sight” but they have the capacity to make a huge impact on your health and the health of our future generations. More
Thanks to the Marine & Oceanic Sustainability Foundation (MOSF) for collaborating with IDUM and who wrote and posted this blog.
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International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions Highlighting Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons
January 11, 2015 nickcayman Leave a comment
International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions
Deadly Depths
Underwater munitions pollute the marine environment with toxic chemicals. We have learned that there is a “need to clean” both chemical and conventional weapons based on potential human health impacts, as well as environmental implications through depleting fish stocks (CHEMSEA Findings Report 2013, Search and Assessment of Sea Dumped Chemical Weapons and Porter, JW, Barton J and Torres 2011, Ecological, Radiological and Toxicological Effects of Naval Bombardment on Coral Reefs of Isla de Vieques, Puerto Rico).
Terrence Long
Underwater Munitions are “Point Source Emitters of Pollution”. This means that in most cases, if we remove the source: we remove the problem. Off-the-shelf-technology developed by private sector, oil and gas industry, and military's unmanned systems programs, already exists to detect, map, recover and dispose of underwater munitions and the toxic waste they create. The International Dialogues on Underwater Munitions (IDUM's) mission is to promote the creation of an internationally binding treaty on all classes (biological, chemical, conventional, and radiological) of underwater munitions, to lead to the cleanup of our Oceans worldwide. IDUM hosts and attends international forums to facilitate collaboration with international leaders and organizations to better understand the socio-economic impact on both human health and environment from years of decaying underwater munitions. IDUM cooperates with researchers, industry, and government to foster collaborative solutions that further the clean-up of our oceans. We believe through international diplomacy via national and international programs, dialogue, conferences, workshops, committees, senate hearings, and commissions, we can come together globally to clean our One Ocea
IDUM is considered the international group of experts in Policy, Science, Technology and Responses to Underwater Munitions. We have been extremely effective in furthering international discussion, and creating a united appeal to international governments, as well as creating an International Technology Advisory Board on Sea Dumped Munitions. In support of our efforts, IDUM has been recognized in proceedings for Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Third Review Conference of State Parties, 2014 Noble Peace Prize winner and United Nations (Secretary General Report Sixty-eight session on Sustainable development) for our contributions within the Resolution on sea dumped chemical munitions.
IDUM takes action:
IDUM mobilizes working groups for policy science and technology of sea dumped munitions, and has hosted five (5) international dialogues. We have participated as an observer for Helsinki Commission Heads of Delegations for Protection of the Baltic Sea, as well as provided consultations within HELCOM MUNI Ad Hoc Working Groups on Sea Dumped Chemical Weapons. IDUM has also been a “Special Invited Guest” of the OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the North-East Atlantic Oceans, and participates as Co- Directors for CHEMSEA – Search and Assessment of Chemical Weapons, Baltic Sea and NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) – MODUM Project.
IDUM is on the Scientific Committee Polish Naval Academy for Marine Security Yearbook and board of directors for International Centre for Chemical Safety and Security (ICCSS). Most recently, IDUM has been invited to centralize our cooperation with global peace and security organizations at The Hague. Our Chairman, Mr. T. P. Long, will manage the office in The Hague and cooperate with the international community of The Hague (including States Parties and the United Nations) to represent your concerns in an open and transparent process.
The International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions (IDUM) is a non-governmental organization/Society founded in 2004 by Mr. Terrence P. Long following his appearance at a Canadian Senate Hearing with the Senate Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. The IDUM's mission is to promote the creation of an internationally binding treaty on all classes (biological, chemical, conventional, and radiological) of underwater munitions. This treaty would encourage countries to collaborate on underwater munitions policy, research, science, and responses including environmentally-friendly remediation in affected regions. The IDUM is an internationally recognized body where all stakeholders (diplomats, government departments including external affairs, environmental protection and fishery departments, industry, fishermen, salvage divers, oil and gas, militaries and others) can come together in an open and transparent forum to discuss underwater munitions, seek solutions, and promote international teamwork on their issues related to underwater munitions. The IDUM promotes constructive engagement with all stakeholders rather than disengagement so that we may learn from one another's situation and determine how we can best respond in the future with everyone's considerations. What we have learned is that off-the-shelf-technology, developed by the oil and gas industry and military's unmanned systems programs, does exist to address underwater munitions sites. And there is a “Need to clean” based on the potential human health and environmental impact on our health care systems and fish stocks. Underwater munitions in some form or another will continue to pollute the marine environment over time. It’s just a question of “When”. Underwater Munitions are “Point Source Emitters of Pollution”. In most cases, remove the source and you remove the problem.
“The IDUM is collaborating with international leaders and organizations to better understand the socio-economic impact on both human health and environment from years of decaying underwater munitions. The organization is facilitating this through international diplomacy via national and international programs, dialogues, conferences, workshops, committees, senate hearings, and international commissions. Most notable are the international efforts of the Government of Lithuania that resulted in the unanimous passing of the United Nations Resolution on Sea Dumped Chemical Weapons in December 2010 at the United Nations. Internationally, we must organize and continue our work together to collect, process, and provide information on underwater munitions to the Secretary General of the United Nations. Any tangible approach would require a multilateral response from all stakeholders including institutional capacity-building and the creation of an International Donor Trust Fund.” Visit the IDUM Website
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Razer’s First Smartphone May Just Be The First True Gamers’ Mobile Phone
Posted byMike chua November 2, 2017
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Today, or yesterday for some, the gaming lifestyle company with its roots in gaming mice, Razer, has made its first smartphone official. Simply called The Razer Phone, this all-black device is armed with the world’s first 120 Hz UltraMotion screen, Dolby Atmos audio technology and “lightning-fast” performance that will redefine mobile entertainment. With the 5.72-inch QHD IGZO LCD blessed with the world’s first 120 Hz UltraMotion display, it promised to deliver “the fastest refresh rates and smoothest graphics” though adaptive refresh technology that synchronizes the GPU and display to eliminate image tearing or lag while remaining power efficient.
Along with sight, sound is also the other highlight with the device Dolby Atmos technology in place to offer true cinematic audio, put out through front-firing speakers with, wait for it… dual dedicated amplifiers and THX-certified USB-C audio adapter that packs a 24-bit digital audio convertor (DAC), so you’d get “audiophile-quality” sound when used with your favorite headphones. Driving the clockwork is today’s flagship devices SoC of choice, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform, backed by a whopping 8GB RAM (LPDDR4, 1866 MHz, no less) and 64 GB UFS storage, expandable up to 2TB via microSD card. Clearly, this phone is a God-sent for gamers. It is the first phone designed with gaming in mind which one could do it all day long, thanks to its massive 4,000 mAh battery. Coupled with Qualcomm Quick Charge 4, you’d have little to no break playing games on this mobile device.
Other notables include dual rear 12MP cameras (wide angle + telephoto) with dual PDAF, dual tone and dual LED flash, a 8MP front-facing f2.0 camera, plus the usual servings of connectivity and sensors. All of the aforementioned comes packed inside a 8-mm-thin aluminum body that is an absolutely nod to Razer design language (read: beautiful), slapped with the triple-headed snake logo in chrome around the back. It is worthy to mention that The Razer Phone will come preloaded with Android Nougat at launch with promised of Android O sometime in spring 2018.
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Instead of developing its own UI like many handset makers do, Razer decided to leverage on Nova Launcher Prime as its native UI which comes with Google Assistant Integration. In addition, Razer also introduces the Razer Theme Store where you can customize the device UI with wallpapers, icon packs, and colors. Here’s the official words on the availability:
“Three Europe: United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and Sweden.
Razerzone.com: North America, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Denmark and Sweden.
The Razer Phone will also be available on Amazon.com and at selected Microsoft Store locations in the USA.
From November 1, 2017, 9 p.m. GMT, pre-orders will begin at Three outlets and on the Three website. The Razer Phone can also be reserved on Razerzone.com in launch countries. The Razer Phone will go on sale in launch countries from November 17, 2017.”
RRP for The Razer Phone is at a flagship price point of $699.99. Definitely not an impulse buy sticker there. Oh, yes. One more important point. There’s a special edition model which has a limited 1,337 units which features the iconic green triple-headed snake logo as opposed to the ‘standard’ chrome variety. The Razer Phone Special Edition will be available through Three stores in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, at Razer Store in San Francisco, and online in the USA and Canada via Razerzone.com.
All images courtesy of Razer.
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Oil Kings Update: Series tied heading to Medicine Hat
March 25, 2019, 3:30 PM | Tyler Yaremchuk
Playoff hockey has returned to Rogers Place and it has not disappointed. The Edmonton Oil Kings and Medicine Hat Tigers have completed two games of their opening round playoff series and each game has gone right down to the final seconds.
In game one, the Oil Kings simply could not beat Tigers goalie Mads Sogaard. They peppered over 45 shots at the 6’7 Dane before finally getting one passed him. Their first goal of the game came with just 2:02 to go in the third period and it came off the stick of former Tiger Josh Williams, who was acquired at the trade deadline in a deal that saw Brett Kemp head south to Medicine Hat.
“It’s a little weird playing against your old team but no matter who you’re playing against you need to play hard,” said Williams after the game, adding that every goal in the playoff is huge, but this one was extra sweet.
The Williams goal seemed to spark the Oil Kings and they cranked up their offensive pressure a notch in the dying minutes, but it wasn’t enough to send the game to overtime as Mads Sogaard was simply too strong. With about 20 seconds left he robbed Trey Fix-Wolansky with the glove hand and then just seconds later slid across his crease to deny a Vince Loschiavo one-timer. Simply put: Sogaard was nearly unbeatable.
Aside from their goaltender being tremendous, the Tigers did excel in other areas. They did a great job getting into lanes and blocking shots. They also prevented the Oil Kings from getting a single dangerous odd-man rush. There wasn’t one breakaway or two-on-one that made you hold your breath. They played tight in their system and were rewarded for it.
From an Oil Kings perspective, they weren’t willing to just say this loss was because of a hot goalie at the other end of the rink. They knew there were areas they needed to be better.
“I didn’t think we gave him (Sogaard) enough difficult shots and we didn’t create enough second and third opportunities,” said Head Coach Brad Lauer.
I would add that generating a few more two-on-ones off the rush would go a long way. Sogaard is big, but when you get him moving around and thinking about passing options, you can open up holes.
Having your 11 game winning streak come to a halt in the first game of the playoffs is far from ideal, but to say the Oil Kings were in a deflated state after the opening loss on Saturday could not have been further from the truth.
“One of the most important things about us is our resiliency and ability to bounce back from a loss,” said Captain Trey Fix-Wolansky.
And bounceback is exactly what this team did the next night.
Despite the fact they didn’t get the same volume of shots as they did in game one, there’s no denying that the Oil Kings put forth a much better effort on Sunday night.
I talked about how they needed to get Sogaard moving and a good way to do that was by generating more odd-man rushes. They got one early in the game and capitalized on it as with just over two minutes gone in the first Jake Neighbours sent Josh Williams in on a two-on-one with Liam Keeler. Williams slid a pass to Keeler who promptly found the back of the net, quickly giving the Oil Kings the lead.
“That felt really good,” chuckled Liam Keeler after the game, adding how big it was to get on the board early.
One other thing that the team said after game one was that they had too many passengers. Tonight, they didn’t have that problem. All four lines were rolling tonight and the trio of Neighbours, Keeler, and Williams was particularly strong. They seemed to be hemming the Tigers in their own zone every time they were on the ice.
Despite the fact that they were playing a much better game and generating some great chances on Sogaard, a pair of powerplay goals from Tigers d-man Linus Nassen and a goal late in the second period from Brett Kemp had the Oil Kings trailing 3-2 heading into the third period.
Still, the team kept pushing and looked like the better team in the third period. They would be rewarded for their consistent offensive pressure with just over 12 minutes left in the period when Carter Souch rifled a puck over the glove-hand of Sogaard.
In the final five minutes, and the game seemingly destined for overtime, the Oil Kings found a hero.
Quinn Benjafield broke into the zone, walked into the slot, and fired a shot low blocker on Mads Sogaard, giving the Oil Kings a lead with under three minutes remaining. ‘QB-14’ as he’s been dubbed by Oil King’s play-by-play voice Andrew Peard, admitted after the game that low blocker was an area the team knew they could exploit on the Tigers goalie.
The team would hold onto their lead despite some late pressure from Medicine Hat and even the series at one. While it’s never ideal to drop a game on home ice, the Oil Kings were prepared for this to be a long series.
“We weren’t thinking this was going to be a four-game series. We expected it to be tight from the get-go,” said Brad Lauer.
They now head to Medicine Hat for games three and four and when I asked veteran forward and game two hero Quinn Benjafield if the team would change their approach as they begin the road portion of this series, he gave me a quick and stern answer:
“Nope. Sticking to the same system and same structure. Just doing what we do best.”
Game three goes Tuesday night from Medicine Hat with puck drop set for just after 7 pm.
Oil Kings Playoff Primer
Oil Kings Clinch Playoff Spot
Oil Kings set to go up against Hitmen in round two
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JOE WON’T RULE OUT COMEBACK BY SOJO
By Andrew Marchand
YANKEE NOTES
For days, Joe Torre has spoken about his want for another backup infielder. Standing at second base taking grounders before last night’s game was 2000 World Series hero-turned-coach Luis Sojo. Could he be a possibility?
“I wouldn’t eliminate it,” Joe Torre said before last night’s 13-2 loss to the White Sox. “When you eliminate somebody you have to have somebody who would do the job better than him. I don’t know whom that person is.”
The graying Sojo, listed at 38 years old, seemed to like the idea, although he won’t campaign for it. He said there is no doubt he could play.
“I’m not going to play 160 games,” said Sojo, who pointed out that Julio Franco is still active [on Atlanta’s DL].
However, spoiling all the fun was GM Brian Cashman, who indicated that Erick Almonte, now at Triple-A Columbus, was the first in-house candidate.
Sojo, who plans to play in Venezuela this winter, seemed surprised when reporters approached him, but he smiled excitedly when the possibility of a return was broached.
“If they need me, I’ll be ready,” he said.
While Jason Giambi started at DH, despite getting hit on the right hand Monday, Aaron Boone did not play third.
Boone sat out after hurting his ankle and foot, while running out to the field in the ninth inning on Monday.
Torre said that Boone might not start tonight either. Boone said he hopes to play tonight.
Hideki Matsui‘s streak of playing in 1,380 consecutive games, dating back to his Japanese career, is a huge deal overseas. Matsui didn’t start last night, but Torre put him in for defense in the ninth and he got an infield single.
Torre said that he sat Matsui because his bat looks a little slower.
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HomeReMixesDonkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Party's Over Here"
ReMix: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Party's Over Here" 2:56
By OceansAndrew
pop electric-guitar synth talking vocals-female happy lyrics-original
"Cranky's Conga (Cranky's Theme)", "Cranky's Theme"
Primary Game: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Nintendo, 1995, SNES), music by David Wise
Family man Andrew Luers writes:
"The last track available on the DKC2 project, it's really cheerful and peppy, so it was time to do a party song. Acoustic and electric guitars, lot of synths and keyboards, and some layered percussion. In addition to DKC2, it uses the melody from cranky's theme from DKC as well. I wanted it to sound like a pop song you'd hear on the radio, so it has a fadeout guitar solo, and is 3 minutes long.
Disa did the intro vocals because she heard me trying to record monkey noises, and thought it sounded terrible. I threatened to leave them in unless she did a cutesy vocal intro, and she caved! VICTORY!"
It's fun, sugary, wholesome, upbeat goodness... the musical equivalent of caffeinated sugar. Shariq writes:
"Lacks a little in the mid-range, but overall a pretty solid arrangement. The way it starts reminds me of a song from some PBS kids show from the mid-90s; take that however you will.Nice guitar work halfway through, and the synth that follows it is just great. Oh hey, there's a key change. Nice. I like it."
Jimmy adds:
"All in all, this song is a really good example of a jamout to the progression of the source, but weaves seamlessly in and out of referencing the melody and free-styling over top the chords so that the reference remains wholly intact. And it also does a great job of taking a very short melodic riff and expanding it most effectively for a really enjoyable 3 minute track."
I think between the three of them, they pretty much said it all; major-key, happy, does a great job of expanding the source into something larger, and packs at least 70% of your daily recommended intake of buoyant euphoria into a single, bite-size mix.
Mirby
PARTY'S OVER HERE!
This makes me laugh far more than it should. But it's awesome, and the song fades away just as the solo gets good. It's like a tease...
And Rexy, the final five are all of OA's. TAKE THAT! BWAHAHA!
Entering the last review for the first form of OA's diabolical usurping of OCR... on ONE OF HIS OWN WORKS.
This to me has a cute sounding approach; blending elements of pop rock with more electric elements to fit a more laid back and contemporary handling of the source material. Even after the 1 minute mark, there's been enough to give to the writing and way of handling the accompaniment, and with the half-speed section after it, mind-blowing solos (especially that synth one!!) and the brief key change, you can't help but feel something rather joyous with it overall. It might be something to expect on DK's radio when he becomes old and gray.
In spite of this, I felt the tail ends were a little weak - not sure if going for a fadeout for a song of this length was the best idea, and even then I laughed at the intro; it's cute, definitely, but I'm not sure if everyone would probably get the gag. (Don't worry, I did... hehe. )
Very fun track all around, OA! And even though you may be busy being a Head Judge now, I'm sure you'll still have musical class for 2012
This is a fun song for a fun source, although a bit harder than you might expect from Cranky with that electric guitar and whatnot. Overall, it's a pretty simple song while there's a few mixing issues at times, it's generally solid.
Skinner3D
Cute, fun, bouncy, a great party song! I put this song in my wedding playlist, so everyone at my wedding got to boogie down to OA and DKC2. This song is a lot of fun.
Soooo coool. I was going to say something about playing this at my wedding if it ever happens. Turns out you completely beat me to the punch.
Emunator
Hey! OA sure does know how to party This track exudes cheesiness out the ass but at the end of the day I honestly love it. Great melodies, particularly in the guitar solo towards the end... and I don't care how biased this site can be against fadeouts, I think it worked well here. I wasn't sure what could really be done with Cranky's Conga for the project so I'm glad you took it in a unique direction here.
C'mon!
Ah, this was a very enjoyable party song. Cute vocal intro, nice guitar and plenty of happy energy. Good to have songs like this in the blasted winter time.
EmpyClaw
DragonAvenger
YAY!! Parties are great!
Ah, sugar. There's plenty of it here. It's a fun, solid arrangement. I like it!
the best part about this song is the lyrics tab.
Nice work on getting those vocals, too.
But anyway, I dig the peppy popness of the song. I just don't feel that the electric guitars really help to reach that goal though.
They just feel too rough making them feel at odds with the bubbliness that is this song. Besides that, it's just sweet, sweet bubblegum pop.
It's definitely fun and worth checking out.
Very fun mix! Definitely lighthearted and upbeat. A nice piece to hear in the morning for sure.
Arsal
A really nice piece. Now if it just had a bit more cowbell...
Haha this is a fun cute track, I remember hearin it when the album came out and was like, "Lolz nice OA." Somethin's buggin me, my ears feel like somethin is missin it could be the mid stuff Shariq was talkin about. Either, way this is sweet cool synth/guitar solos, nice nice =D.
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Nintendo, 1995, SNES)
Music by David Wise
"Cranky's Conga (Cranky's Theme)"
Donkey Kong Country (Nintendo, 1994, SNES)
Music by David Wise, Eveline Novakovic, Robin Beanland
"Cranky's Theme"
Electric Guitar, Synth, Talking, Vocals: Female
Lyrics > Lyrics: Original
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Hey! It's the party song!
Party's over here! Come on! <3
Donkey Kong Country 2: Serious Monkey Business
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Speechless…. A Tribute to Vincent Browne
This short video, below, is a must watch. The video is entitled “Banker left speechless by an Irish journalist”. Now this Irish journalist is, as you will see, a real man and a good example to all of us. He actually has the guts to stand up and ask the hard questions, follow through, and demand that they be answered, and even point out how evasive those holding this meeting are. Are the people watching this incident in the audience learning just how much contempt this criminal tribe holds us in? If not, all one has to do is look at the faces of Masuch the banker and the moderator in this sham press conference where all is openly scornful appearance.
I am speechless too when watching it… speechless with rage. Does my fury make me a “hater”, or, does it mean I am one of the last normal folk left? Does not the very lack of anger of the honor-less, spiritless zombies who tolerate ongoing oppression and attempts at our racial annihilation in silence, cowering and not so much as lifting a finger or raising their voices to fight, mean they are abnormal? There are more waking up though, and some day soon, I hope to see the expressions on these violators of Ireland, and all other countries change, and stiffen, as the knowledge dawns upon them that they will no longer be allowed to feed off of us.
So far, Jews have used mass immigration to forcibly flood European heritage countries all over the globe with hostile foreign races, encouraged the assault of European ancestry women and girls in the pornography that they make, and used banking fraud on an epic scale to buy governments and almost all media. They have indoctrinated European ancestry children with the Holohoax tale to manipulate them and bombarded them, and all of the rest of us, with ceaseless propaganda encouraging race mixing and homosexual agendas. They have destroyed the economies of too many countries to mention and much more besides, including committing and inciting massive genocides of Europeans and other races, out of sheer ruthless greed, and hatred of European heritage folk in particular.
One of the most recent examples is Greece, where people who had worked their whole lives and then retired have begun killing themselves in record numbers, the rate of suicide rising by 20%. The reason is because their retirement pensions are now worthless. One 77 year old pharmacist who shot himself wrote that he did not want to be reduced to begging for scraps or going through trash cans for food or leave his children in debt.
Small German children and adult women too, young mothers, and older ladies of 80 as well, all tortured or raped and- or killed as well. Why? All because they tried to protect their people from the same Jewish Marxists.. the Judeo Bolsheviks who had already raped, tortured and killed tens of millions of European ancestry people in Russia and elsewhere in eastern Europe. The Judeo Bolsheviks and their leaders were overwhelmingly Jewish as were the bankers who funded these atrocities.
Real people, practically every European ancestry man, woman, and child, all over the world, are being affected by these frauds. Our lives, and our futures, are being damaged and even destroyed. The Greeks who killed themselves did so as a direct result of Jewish crime, and those who are responsible are still profiting from it. Even having our own identity as European ancestry people and especially as Odinists, is no longer allowed by ZOG. For example, the U.S. government flagrantly violates the Constitution in order to discriminate against Nordics who follow our native religion.
European victims of gang assaults, of every age, even the elderly, thrown away like garbage, just as the Blacks imported in the Jewish owned slave trade, throw white youngsters in trash cans today. According to Dept of Justice figures, 32,443 White women were raped by Black men in 2006 alone, while zero Black women were raped by White men in that same year. No, this is not a “hate crime” because the victims are white. The same thing is happening in Rotherham, and in Norway and Sweden, but of course, none of it matters, because the victims are white women and children.. and it is all Jewish approved.
Now look what these criminals do when an Irish journalist asks a direct question, watch the evasion, and the smirks on their faces, especially at the end. I know people are busy, and I know people are worried about losing their jobs, but if we all stand up against them, things will be different. They are terrorizing the majority of the population because in most places their enforcement agencies have guns and we do not. They are laughing about it to our faces, while European children are being perverted, assaulted and impoverished..
A picture of European Central Bank Bankers at their Headquarters, and the Mayor, all, Jewish.
Instead of being afraid of being labelled haters and acting like cattle being led to slaughter or sheep ready to be fleeced, we must stand up as human beings and take our freedom back. For those who are sick of being watched, spied upon, threatened, used financially, bombarded with indoctrination, and not allowed free speech, please think about it. It will only get worse if we allow it to. In the past, these criminals in the video below would have been given a perfunctory trial, taken out by those watching this meeting, and summarily hanged to a cheering crowd.
All of politics, race, and racial survival, comes down to one point and one point alone ultimately. Who are people more afraid of? When dealing with the Jews, at least, and many others, it comes down to this, are you, your children, parents, and other loved ones, going to wind up inside the pit like the one above or standing outside of it.
Now, I am going to answer Mr. Victor Browne’s (the Irish journalist) question. What is being done with the money of the Irish, the Greeks, the Germans, the English, the Americans, and oh so many others? Well, one project the “European” Central Bank, in Frankfurt has is the building of a Jewish Memorial in a very fitting twin towers style at its headquarters, on public land.
This Jewish monument is meant to commemorate the deportation of 10,000 Jews during WWII, never mind the millions of EUROPEANS on both sides who were killed, military men on the Allied side tricked into combat, and European civilians bombed and genocided in this Jewish orchestrated war… tens of millions of Europeans murdered for profit, and yes, for fun..
The superiority of European culture and achievements is in fact, the underlying reason for all this hatred and for the wish to degrade and genocide us, not because we are “white supremacists” but because we are superior, and our very existence makes those who have never achieved anything but fraud and destruction pale by comparison. Our excellence alone is enough to make them wish for our extinction and to act upon this wish, to the extent that our global numbers have plummeted from more than 30% to less than 8%, impending extinction levels..
The Drained Main River next to ECB’s Monstrous Jewish Monument at Frankfurt.
They don’t even bother to hide it…..
We have exterminated the property owners in Russia. We are going to do the same thing in America and Europe.”~ ‘The Jew’, 1925
Our control Commissions will, in the interest of peace and wiping out our interracial tensions, forbid the whites to mate with whites. The white woman must cohabit with members of the dark races, the white men with black women. Thus the white race will disappear, for mixing the dark with white means the end of the white man, and our most dangerous enemy will become only a memory. We shall embark upon an era of ten thousand years of peace and plenty, the Pax Judaica, and our RACE will rule undisputed over the world. Our superior intelligence will easily enable us to retain mastery over a world of dark peoples.~ Emergency Council of European Rabbis in Budapest, Hungary, January 12, 1952.
The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists. The key to solving the social problems of our age is to ABOLISH THE WHITE RACE. Make no mistake about it, we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed, not ‘deconstructed’ but destroyed. – Noel Ignatiev, Marxist Jewish Harvard Professor who was given a teaching position despite having virtually no credentials. Printed in the Harvard Journal he founded in the 1990s called “Race Traitor”, which has as its motto, “Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity”.
The winning design plan for the new Jewish Monument and European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt involves draining part of the river to express sadness at the absence of the Jews, but of course the Jews are not absent, they are the ones using the money of the Irish, and everyone else, and by this I mean billions of Euros, to create this despicable monument to lies, terror, and destruction. It is built on rivers of European blood to feed a hatred and greed almost beyond human imagining. May the drained river have something far better to commemorate soon.
Close-up of Petra Roth, First Jewish Mayor of Frankfurt since the Jewish Holohoax.
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24-25 December Odinist Year 1948 (dating from the razing of the Jewish temple in Jersusalem by Rome)
(2018 by the Jewish Calendar)
Earlier this week, on the eve of our first sacred solstice night, I was asked by Sonny Thomas to talk about our European Yule customs, and why it is important that we celebrate them. There were some difficulties embedding this interview earlier, but it seems to be working perfectly well now, just in time for the Yule!
This is, of course, a huge topic, and a very interesting one, and it will be covered in more detail in videos and written work I have made, especially in a few yet to be released. In the interview above, I only cover a tiny bit of the subject, exploring the true meaning of our holy nights through the medium of the traditional ornaments on a Yule tree, but I think listeners will find it worth exploring. Sonny Thomas’ topic is a thought provoking one. Why would any tribe not love and respect its own ancestral beliefs?
At the top of the Odinia headquarters Yule tree this year, will be a heavenly Valkyrie, accompanied by sparkling ancestral totem animals and constellation symbols. The stars that Christians display on Yule trees as “Star of Bethlehem”, are really Sunna, the elemental Sun Goddess, and they always were. Perhaps one of the most obvious reasons Christianity is not a genuine religion is the fact that it has no customs of its own, apart from Jewish supremacism and cultural Marxism.
The Yule tree is in essence a cosmic tree, or tree of stars, symbolic of the Milky Way. For more on this topic, click on one or both of the pictures below. Undeniably, the behaviors of the founders of Christianity demonstrated intense hatred of our race and ancestral religion. Such hatred extends to everything that sparks our realization that we are a tribe with our own interests, and that we have an identity, and a responsibility to our own folk.
Christianity is an attempt to eclipse our innate, natural, and healthy tribal identity, so that we can be more easily persuaded to betray our ancestors and ourselves. Most of all, these Jew worship promoting savages, such as Boniface below, sought to destroy that which is sacred to us… our beloved symbols, our art, altars, groves, and temples.. everything that our folk created to help us to connect to our ancestors and Gods, and one another, gifts meant for us and our descendants..
THE TIME TRAVELERS: SACRED ANCIENT ODINIST TREES
Kalevala… Our World Tree and the Milky Way
Travelling up the Yule tree, we can see round cosmic ornaments, at times even in the shape of a star with rays of light, which represent the stars of the Milky Way, and the sacred souls of the dead. The apples that are among the earliest known ornaments placed by Druids on sacred trees, were important in their own right as repositories of the life force, through the Winter, since, like Yule trees, the fiery-hued apples could remain fresh all Winter, but it seems likely that they must have had a cosmic connotation, and served as solar symbols as well.
As with the festival of Samhain, this is a time of year to communicate with that which is spiritual… the time of the Wild Hunt. Traditionally, this is when our Heathen heavenly host can be heard, and when we can glimpse Spirits of the Dead… from our dearest family members to great warriors of the past, who visit our world in this season to inform and bless us.
Much of the joy and awe of this European holiday always has been centered around the Sun itself, and its rebirth. After the 3 silent nights of the solstice, the Sun comes to life again and is reborn upon Yule morning. For more about actual historical and astronomical Yule reckoning, the great patterns of Nature that our Ancestors recognized, honored, and celebrated, click on the picture below.
TWELFTH NIGHT: ASTRONOMICAL RECKONING FOR THE YULETIDE
There are so many degrading acts of theft, of real cultural appropriation, leveled against our ancestral religion and tribe, that it would take years to categorize them. Both metaphoric and actual destruction of the trees, branches, and roots, of our folk and of our people themselves, have been carried out in the name of a Jewish “god” for well nigh 2,000 years, ever since Christianity was introduced and imposed upon European populations by force on pain of death. For more about how Jew worship was imposed, please see here..
Virtually no sacred symbol, temple, or personage has escaped this obscene leveling of our European culture and folk, which presents our own ancestral Gods as demons, and a Jewish demon as an omnipotent god.. To gain some idea of how hostile these interlopers were and are, (albeit in the present time at times more unknowingly, due to extreme programming), you might want to read and watch the videos and articles below, also about Yule customs, attacks upon them, and their miraculous survival.
THE GRINCH AND THE REBIRTH OF THE SPIRIT OF THE JUL
THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LIGHTNING YULE… RED THOR STRIKES EARTH… May the Sig rune lead us to Victory…
Here are links to other Yule interviews I have participated in recently.
The Sonny Thomas Show 12.21.17: WINTER SOLSTICE SPECIAL w SEANA FENNER
The Solar Storm: Seana Fenner – True Yule (12-20-15)
During the course of the religious ethnic cleansing that targeted our very souls, our deities were defiled and our ceremonies honoring them were erased or replaced. Since there was no original content to speak of in Christianity, our Gods were made into “saints” and our legends transformed into Semitic supremacist propaganda stories. Like Jews, Christians always present themselves as the central figures and “victims” in these cobbled together tales. Our holidays and rituals were altered in date and theme, to disrupt them, our temples and groves, were stolen, and even the lovely Goddesses atop our Yule trees were made into the servants of the demonic Jew “god” as his angels, but they have remained, waiting for their true identity to be unmasked.. (-:
In the case of the murderous, European religion- hating, partly Jewish Charlemagne, who snuffed out the lives of a plethora of sacred Irminsuls and 2/3rds of the Saxon tribe in order to impose his hideous foreign religion upon us, the megalomania of those advancing the cult of Jew worship took on epic proportions. Under his unholy reign, even the sparkling wagon constellations, the cosmic Chariots of our Gods in our Nordic skies themselves, were polluted by his minions, in one case taking on the name “Carl’s wagon”.
Despite all this destruction, everywhere there are maps to the truth. The resilience of the life force, and the love of our brave folk for what is true, kept these traditions alive, through many dark and desolate years of mindless imposed Jew worship, even when that rebellion was only in the hiding of elements of our true religion in a fairy tale, or painting the divine symbols of our Gods on an “Easter egg“, or in keeping the bright star of Sunna on a Yule tree, while paying lip service to a “Star of Bethlehem”. . For our customs were not dead, only sleeping, waiting like a seed, to find a space in the sun, and burst forth, alive again.
Our ancestors did not just gather in their grains and animals to prepare for winter, they also visualized the successful conclusion of the cosmic battle in the heavens between darkness and light, and the coming of lighter and brighter days ahead. They knew, in their wisdom, that visualizing a cherished wish is the first step to making it come about.
To this end, symbolic acts meant to influence outcome in much the same way as experimental quantum physics is said to operate were performed as part of celebrations. For example, a bit of the Yule log was saved to kindle next year’s Yule flame, the idea being that in such small acts lay tribal continuity, success, and survival itself.
Just as Hansel and Gretel left sparkling stones that would shine in the moonlight to guide their way our of the dark forest home, our ancestors did all they could to keep us in light rather than darkness. They left us clues to find our way back from the morass of Christianity to sanity. There are many levels of truth adorning the branches of the Yule tree, and in particular the truth of who we truly are. All we need to do is find it..
May you have abundant blessings this Yuletide and 12th Night…!
Tor’s Hav’n
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Posted on August 5, 2018 by Odinia
The sinkholes and giant cracks in the road have been daunting, but now we have a full time repaving station for the road in the village, with tons of fill and steel plates ready to go! Considering that the caldera crater that keeps erupting and collapsing and getting closer is 350 meters deep, sometimes I think this may not be enough. The FEMA inspector told us today that some of the steel plates have steam coming out of them. Photo Credit: Seana Fenner
The mind, perhaps mercifully, is a fragile thing, and although I do understand that I am living at a “premiere adventure destination” and should be enjoying the excitement, the constant stress has begun to take a toll. Still, I thought I should relate all the other new adventures we are having on the Big Island as we attempt to relocate ourselves and our headquarters.
Please know that although we are grateful for our front row seats to the geological wonders unfolding, we still really would like to be somewhere that will not collapse into a crater, so if you would like to donate, or share our campaign with someone who might, we would not object!
This is the first sinkhole in the road outside before it got very large. Driving is never boring here.
I’ve been in several disasters in my lifetime, for instance, I happened to be visiting Florida from England when Hurricane Andrew hit. I was at my father’s house, which later turned out to be a sort of ground zero the eye of this mega hurricane passed over. The night before news of the storm’s impending arrival came, I had a dream in which there was water everywhere, and I was getting on a boat in the dark. When I woke up the next morning and saw the news about a hurricane approaching, I was worried because of that dream, and mentioned to my father that I thought it might be bad. He downplayed it and said it would be nothing, but still, I did not want my mother to be alone, so I drove to North Miami Beach immediately.
Now, apparently the local govt has become tired of trying to fix this particular stretch of road and has acknowledged that it is going to collapse and is planning to make a detour, but has warned that there might be delays due to the incoming cyclone… yes, that’s right, we now have lava ignited forest fires and a cyclone too. Photo Credit: Seana Fenner
Now certainly it was no picnic in North Miami. There were cars in trees and the like… but my father’s house was flattened. When we managed to get water for him and we drove to the area he lived in, the authorities let us in because I had an ID with his address on it. It looked like a bomb had hit and was unrecognizable, so much so we could not find his house at first. Finally, I figured out where it was because I saw some looters at what must have been the mall and was able to extrapolate.
The neighborhood was like some sort of apocalyptic disaster scene from a sci fi movie. People were shooting the monkeys that had been freed from the University of Miami research laboratories because they were rumored to have a simian version of AIDS, and there were 100 foot yachts lifted out of the water by the winds, and even sharks and schools of minnows thrown into people’s swimming pools.
Thor, the #lavadog and my mother, Sharon Fenner. Unfortunately, we are Back in the danger zone right now using the computer to try to raise funds so we can escape, but as soon as we can we shall go back and stay in the park, which as difficult as it is, is far less scary.
Another time, when I was a child, I was in a flood in Renovo, Pennsylvania, at my grandmother’s summer house, a wild out of the way place that once had been a town long ago, but at that time had only a general store and frequently reported sightings of the fabled Sasquatch in the wilderness nearby.
As the water levels rose towards the bank, the animals became stunned. I picked up the wild baby rabbits and birds and gently put them in a box. When the water got so high it was about to overflow, I took them with us up the mountain to the cabin of Annie Laurie, the local witch, whose house everyone in the area was escaping to. None of us came back for many days, and when we did it had to be in a boat. The hurricane and the flood were stressful occurrences, but nothing compared to the current events here in Hawai`i because this is a sort of endurance race that seems never to end. Now I know how those stunned animals felt because I feel a little this way myself.
My initial reaction to this was that this was a “great place to have a shelter” and “that one could always count on Hawaiian officials” and sadly my somewhat sarcastic reaction about the nepotism hire officials of Hawai`i Island having placed a shelter right next to a lava flow has proven to be an even more unwise move on their part than I thought. In the middle of the night last night there was a spillover of lava next to the shelter, which was such an awful place already that at least one person had hanged himself. Apparently, it was thought that Jew-sus would help, but I think he just got very, very warm.
Photo Credit: Yvonne Baur
For more about our attempts to escape our volcanic island and an eyewitness account of events, with pictures and videos, please see..
PLEASE HELP #LAVADOG ESCAPE NORTH!
For a tribute to the life of the great Earnst Zundel, who went to Valhalla a year ago today, please see here.
The Heroic Ernst Zundel, who Dared to Tell the Truth.
My heartfelt thanks to Kevin Alfred Strom and the National Alliance and National Vanguard for publicizing our plight..
Hawaii: Leader of Pro-White Pagan Group Odinia in Path of Volcano
Many, many thanks to History Reviewed, and Jan Lamprecht, for publishing an article about our story.
URGENT: Please help this White Woman & her mother escape the lava flow in Hawaii!
In answer to the many people who have contacted me asking if Red Ice is going to feature this story, and those who have actually contacted Red Ice and asked themselves, I have no answer for you. Our story certainly is a story I would consider newsworthy, but I have had no request from them to cover it as yet. To those Odinists who told me that you had contacted them… it was very kind of you to take the initiative and contact them and I very much appreciate the thought. Thank you!
One amusing factor has been that several gloating Jews have gotten in touch with me, delighted that we might die, in the same sort of way they gloat about Rachel Corrie being bulldozed, or talk about how they wish Frau Ursula Haverbeck could be tortured. Some helpful “pro White” Christians have written suggesting that they could not donate to us because we are not Christians, and that we deserve to burn in the fiery pits of lava hell supposedly brought about by their Semitic god, which at least seems to make them happy. The strange thing about this is that there may be a small element of truth in it since this disaster may have been brought about by an Israeli geothermal company named Ormat fracking into the magma chambers, an act which is known to create explosions, break up rock, and can bring about lava flows. The flow began very near their drilling site.
Since the eruption could last for years and the collapsing caldera keeps expanding towards us, this is not good news, however at the rate it is going, it will not take nearly that long to reach us.
The good news is that some of our true brothers and sisters actually have cared enough to help one of their own tribe.. to help us. I have not had very much help with anything in my life, and so this meant a great deal to me. The idea that anyone would actually help made me cry, but in a good way. I am so thankful that you cared enough to step in and actually do something. I am hoping that we can get out of here and I can tell each of you how very grateful I am, but suffice it to say for now that I appreciate it more than I can easily express.
To those who have donated to help us reach safety, we are saving every cent and trying to do just that. We do not have enough funds to make it happen yet, but we hope that it may be possible soon.
I shall never forget those generous souls who have actually helped us when we needed it by donating and trying to encourage us. You are our family, our othala, and tribe, and we could not be more grateful. I would rather call one of you friend than have thousands of false acquaintances.
Thank you very much to those friends and fellow Odinists who have helped us in trying to escape the erupting volcano that is so close to us. If anyone else wishes to help, the best way is to make a Paypal donation, which one can do with the button below. Paypal charges less, so more of the donation will get to us. Donations to Freyja Hof are tax deductible.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at odinia@outlook.com Thank you for your support!
There also is a GoFundMe campaign.
We are hoping that we shall soon be up and running again from a new location and be able to continue to restore our holy religion and renew our bonds with our Ancestors, helping as many of our folk as possible connect to our true Heathen spiritual tradition.
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Now Censored… Kenn Gividen, Charles Lincoln, Alfred Schaefer, Paul Fromm, and Seana Fenner, “Mind exploration: Why do they embrace a symbol that could get them jailed?”
If you are willing to fight (((them))) online and in real life, please contact us. We need to start exerting mass pressure for the interests of our tribe. Tel (321) 305-4719 #HailVictory BTW I am the one who said that first, not Richard Spencer. We need real leaders for real victory. Please, help us fight. The voice of our European ancestry people is being censored and it will continue to be unless we band together and demand equal rights to be heard.
It has come to my attention that the video in the article below has been removed by the owner of the station, Kenn Gividen of the Daily Kenn Show. I have just sent a message to him asking why this was done, but have, as yet, received no reply. I was invited to come on the show, and it seems odd that it was removed, especially considering the fact that it was very popular, far more so than his average program. Fortunately, someone else hosted it on the internet. I embedded the surviving instance of this video just below and now (further update) this has been deleted too. Whenever things are deleted, I wonder why, so I going to republish this and take it to the top again.
According to Mr. Charles Edward Lincoln, one of Kenn’s invited quests refused to come to this show because he feared he might encounter blasphemy, due to the participation of an Odinist (me) but Mark Weber says this is not the case and that he has no antagonism towards Odinism or me. Was this the reason this program about our right to use our own ethnic European symbols was removed… or did the Messianic Jews object to their Jew worshiping scam being exposed?
Article about Show below originally published on: Mar 30, 2018 @ 19:01 Here is the video restored from surviving hosted version found on the internet.
DailyKenn Show with Kenn Gividen, Alfred Shaeffer, Paul Fromm, and Seana Fenner (Odinia) from Sharon Fenner on Vimeo.
Further update. 16. April 2018.
Kenn Gividen has not yet answered us as to why the show above, featuring White Conservative Patriots, was removed with no notice, a strange thing to do, because after all, he invited us… but he is now busy interviewing an African American man at this very moment about the evils of racism, and I am quite sure Kenn Gividen will not be removing that show because that guest has the right skin color.
Meanwhile, White patriots, who were invited on his show and whose show was removed with no warning and no explanation, do not even warrant a response. I just made a couple comments in the live stream. Still no answer for White Patriots.
Here is the Daily Kenn YouTube Channel Banner. At the very bottom he states that this is a safe space for free speech. The original article is below, and the surviving video copy is was above, and well might one wonder what we actually did wrong in Mr. Gividen’s view. It is always interesting to watch a video that has been banned. It is usually because what is said is true. How amusing that Mr. Gividen says that “telling the truth is a revolutionary act” in his banner, but does not have the courage to actually do it.
Many thanks to Kenn Gividen and Charles Lincoln for having us on the Daily Kenn Show to discuss swastikas, WW 2, Odin, Arminius, Hitler, tribalism vs. universalism, meritocracy vs. cultural Marxism, and many other interesting topics I hope listeners will enjoy. It was nice to see Odinist Europeans and Christian Europeans having a dialogue about how to save our race, and where that subject is concerned at least, we had a great many ideas in common. Congratulations to Charles Lincoln as well for being the first Christian to dare to debate me openly, something both David Duke and Don Black, and a couple other Christian White Nationalists challenged to do so have apparently been afraid to do.
Here is our main feature, “Mind exploration: Why do they embrace a symbol that could get them jailed?”
In addition to Kenn Gividen whose show this is, and Charles Lincoln, an attorney with an interest in archaeology, who acted as co-hosts, this show features Paul Fromm, a free speech warrior in Canada, and Alfred Schaefer of Germany, brother of Monika Schaefer, who is currently imprisoned for denying the Holocaust for her narration of this video, created by Alfred Schaefer.
Paul Fromm wrote a wonderful article for our Odinist FoxFire Journal, called, “UNDERSTANDING THE INVASION OF EUROPE… THE COUDENHOVE-KALERGI PLAN…” that is well worth a look. For more information about White genocide, and the various forms it takes, with links to further reading, please see our “White Genocide” tab above or press here to be taken to it.
Another point of contact I have had with Alfred Schaefer is that I used part of his translation of Frau Ursula Haverbeck’s Hooton Plan Speech to make my own translation in order to create a spoken English language version of Ursula Haverbeck’s speech. My video was ripped off the internet in less than 4 hours. You can see this video, “Ursula Haverbeck’s Hooton Plan and Migrant Crisis, English Version” here. I also am including a link to an article about the banning of this video which readers interested in preserving our free speech rights might find interesting. It is entitled, “TRUTH IS NO DEFENSE: ODINIST ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION OF URSULA HAVERBECK’S HOOTON PLAN SPEECH VIDEO BANNED…” and can be seen here. The video and article both contain information about the almost unbelievably unjust sentencing of Frau Ursula Haverbeck to 29 months in jail for having the courage to tell the truth, namely, that there was no Holocaust. The Hooton Plan video also serves as an excellent companion piece to Paul Fromm’s article (linked above) on the Coudenhove Kalergi Plan since the Hooton Plan and the Coudenhove Kalergi Plan are very much related efforts to mix out European peoples in our own lands.
The “Truth is no Defense” article also refers to the outrageous case of David Lenio, one of the newest Jewish efforts to quell our free speech. “Criminal defamation” is being used by Jews as a Trojan horse to get into our legal system. It is an attempt to curb free speech in the United States and get around the First Amendment free speech guarantees in the Constitution. David Lenio, who denies the “Holocaust”, was charged with “defamation of the Jewish race” in Montana. By contacting and arguing with virtually every politician and judicial figure involved with this case for months, and at the very least giving them to know I would expose them relentlessly if they collaborated, I am proud to say that I believe I finally got them to give up and drop the charges.
Our two most censored videos thus far are”Cucked Britain”, the first episode of Nation of Odin News, and the just mentioned Hooton Plan video. I am including both here, just below.
It is soon to be Ostara… and we wish you great joy and blessings. In case you are not familiar with your own native European religion yet, and wish to know more, or join a chapter of Odinia in your state or nation, please feel free to contact us, Hawaii time at 808-985-7211, or at the Skype address live:odinia, or, by email, at odinia@outlook.com. We are far more likely to be here on the weekend when we generally have services. Here, just below, is the video miniseries mentioned in the show about Ostara, Cosmic Ostara… and here is the article mentioned in the show which tells us about the greatness of our ancestors, “THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LIGHTNING YULE… RED THOR STRIKES EARTH…“
May our Gods and Ancestors be with us….
Posted in: Odinist Interviews and Shows | Tagged in: Alfred Schaefer, asatru, Charles Lincoln, Christianity, Constitution, daily Kenn, free speech, Holocaust Denial, Kenn Gividen, Meritocracy, Monika Schaefer, Odinia, Odinism, Paul Fromm, Seana Fenner, swastika, White Nationalism | 1 Comment
The Holy Swastika, the SPLC, and an Unexpected Debate between Odinism and Christian Identity…
Thor’s Battle Against the Jötnar by Swedish artist Mårten Eskil Winge, 1872. Thor’s belt features the signature of his lightning that comes quite literally from the Sun, the swastika, a symbol of spiritual light, and justice, of truth, and the masculine power of our Odinist warriors..
I recently participated in a short show coordinated by Sean Donahue of the American Freedom Party, which I was invited to participate in by Charles Edward Lincoln. No topic was mentioned at first, but the recording today turned out to be on the merits of Odinism vs. Christianity/Christian Identity, which may be of interest to some readers, particularly the part in the video below. This effort is perhaps most notable for the thread of the swastika which was woven throughout it, with some of the approximately 10 White Nationalists who participated at various junctures objecting to being associated with swastikas, while others stood firmly behind our native European symbols and folk.
In a very strange way, the light of our sacred swastika showed us the truth to some extent, and may lead our folk out of the darkness of the forest we are currently lost in yet. Some may have objected to the swastika because of what they considered to be practical reasons, but a person who clearly hated swastikas, and who was strangely avoidant about his ancestry, could not control his reaction. In fact, he hated swastikas so much, he could not even spell the word swastika.
Anti- Odinist is a code word for Anti-White….
I am not normally fanciful, but I have noticed that when Jews are making fake swastika graffiti, for their false flags in which they bill themselves as victims to take away our rights, that they cannot draw swastikas either. It is almost as though they were vampires being confronted with a true sign of goodness that they cannot bear, the pure and blinding light of our God Thor. I happen to think much of this set of shows was made up and scripted beforehand by a couple individuals, and meant to elicit certain reactions and false dramas, but the details are immaterial..
What matters here is that our folk realize that we need true opposition to Jewish tyranny and control, and to Jewish attempts to Christianize our religion, and to fight against their attempts to enact sneaky ways to subvert or get around our pesky constitutional free speech rights and our right to bear arms. It helps to have all the support we can get, but it is not about making ourselves pleasing to the mainstream morons of any nation, and it never was. This war will be between the first percent of our folk and of theirs, and it is a war we must win.
Odinism vs Christian Identity on White Nationalist Radio with Odinia from Sharon Fenner on Vimeo.
Hey, this guy , Mr. Sean Donahue, could not possibly be a crazed Semite playing White nationalist trying to make real White Nationalists look bad, could he?
Here are some of my words which apparently incensed this odd individual, Sean Donahue, who was convicted of threatening the D.A. of the small town he lives in.
There once was a certain traitorous fake Pagan (who has now actually testified for the government against Odinists) who told me a story about how he visited a prison as Ásatrú clergy… He said there were 150 people interested in Odinism, and that many were National Socialist. When he told them that in their services, they were not only not going to worship dead Jews, but that they were not going to worship dead Germans either, 100 of them left and 50 stayed, and he said he wanted those 50.
Mind you, our organization has no political affiliation, and I lean towards Monarchy myself, but those 100 Odinists were willing to stand up for their own tribe, and I want that 100, not the 50 racially disloyal cowards who stayed. Everyone has a right to his or her strategy, but when one ventures into the area of actually disparaging one’s own ethnic symbols, which is, essentially apologizing for one’s own existence as a race, one is entering into shaky ground. Do Jews accept status as second class citizens and allow their ethnic symbols to be repressed and insulted, or do they rally around them? Do you honestly believe that Jews, or anyone else, are going to take seriously “European” opposition which is afraid to be European?
“Great Goddess may we live to see VICTORY..”
Seana Fenner 13.April 2018 Photo Credit: M. Iodice
There was a rather extreme reaction to this from Mr. Donahue, in fact, as of now, five crazed emails have been sent, primarily targeting me, even though I had been only politely and peripherally involved in this controversy in one email. His response has almost no connection at all to reality… This would appear to be a staged tempest in a teapot meant to divide, conquer, and incite people to say things that can be used against them by the SPLC, ADL, or similar, I assume…. and as usual, there was a demand for video footage. On the odd chance that this is really just about an obsession with a cultural Marxist Jew, and a wish to outlaw European religion and have blasphemy laws (see his expressed aims in the video above), that is, in its own way, sadder still. Here is just one of Mr. Donahue’s emails.
You berated everyone else for working for jews. You, like every other professor, tell everyone else to take an uncompromising stand that you yourself do not take. Like Tom asked; Why don’t you go to Europe and be an odinist? Why don’t you quit your job and not work for a university that hires jews. You, alfred and the others hide in your safety zone and try to encourage young white people to shoot themselves in the foot. We don’t need white nationalist quitting jobs because their bosses are jews. We need them sticking it out and changing the institution. If all the non-jews who refused to work for a jew quit, then only jews would be left. On a personal level, I think you “religion” is goofy and stupid but that’s my view. I don’t want to debate it. I don’t even want to discuss it. The US is a White Christian Nation. Heathens are exactly that. And look how childish you are. You know I don’t want the swastica imagery connected to me so you stick it into the subject line. You have no confidence whatsoever. You are a hypocrite. If you weren’t, you would show your face on videos. Charles introduced you as being a professor, scholar etc… Sounds like you are neither. I keep deleting these messages because you put the swastica in the subj line so I will delete this one too. You are a trouble maker and will add no value in getting any white nationalist elected anywhere but that is my view. I prefer to stay out of the debates, to support William and to promote every white nationalists’ book, political campaign, etc… for no reason other than the fact that they are white nationalist. So I don’t get hung up on their idiosyncrasies. I just avoid the debate. If you run for office as a white nationalist, I will say “elect her” simply because you are a white nationalist but not because of your goofy religion. You are one step removed from a hippy. What David Duke, Tom Robb and William are doing is the political future I want for America. What you are doing is hippy like. It’s satanic as far as I am concerned and that is all I need to reject it. But I will certainly coordinate any shows that any of you want to participate in.
In the video you see above here, Pastor Robb, of Christian Identity, lost it near the end, basically telling me I should get out of town, much like John DeNugent, who also recently indicated that he wanted me to leave the mainland, and threatened to mass slander me if I did not keep quiet about an incident in which a 17 time felon and a militant homosexual called me a “homophobe”, spat on me, threatened me, and deleted the original of our “Cucked Britain“: video. Yes, Pastor Robb, told me, whose ancestors founded parts of Rhode Island and New York, that I should leave the nation, apparently because I don’t worship Jews. Mr. Donahue, as you can see above, in his raving email, joined in. I have heard Mexicans say that Europeans should go back to Europe many times, and when I have put ads for Odinist events in online journals that advertise Christian events, Jews who own them have taken them out saying that… if we want to have European events “we should have them in Europe”. I put Donahue’s and Tom’s remarks, that I should “go to Europe” to be an Odinist in very much the same category. Christians, no matter how much they claim to be persecuted, have not, to my knowledge, had any difficulty placing ads for Jew worshiping services in their local papers.. One wonders, if they like Jew gods so much, why they don’t go live in Israel? There are plenty of other Jews there…
Our Gods, Our People…
It is odd indeed that Mr. Sean Donahue included so many free speech advocates in his show, and then manged to have fights with virtually every single one of them. A person wishing to ban the native European Odinist religion, as Mr Donahue explicitly states he does (see video above), but who considers himself pro White, just does not parse, especially when one considers that he invited major free speech activists to his program. The Constitution provides that there shall be no state religion and at least three people on his panel were Odinist, and nearly all were free speech activists. Practically all White nationalists believe in free speech and freedom of religion, and the most influential framers of our Constitution, who were mostly Deists, did too. He calls an Odinist priestess a “troublemaker” because I venerate the swastika, yet expects people who fight for actual freedom to be in favor of religious freedom and free speech rights being taken away from all of us?
There is much more I could say in response to this, for instance, how obviously fake the Christian Identity belief in their Jew religion is, in fact, Pastor Robb virtually came out and said that they were embracing their false, foreign “religion” for the sake of political expediency. This does not sit well with us because our Gods, and our beloved, ancient culture are not a means to an end, but a real religion, based on the common shared experience of our ancestors, for ages beyond reckoning… the heart and soul of our people. Yes, Jews may own the FED, and our media, and much of our government, and they wield much power and control, but the great forces of Nature and our Gods are beyond these ridiculous trolls, and there are things which they cannot control…
Hail Victory!
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Of Bagpipes, Burns, and Spiritual Plagues…
In honor of Robert Burns, a proto Odinist, whose birthday we celebrate this weekend, and of our Scottish culture, and European love of poetry, we present our reading of Tamoshanter. If we can, we shall complete part two for you this weekend, with another very Heathen Burns poem, but we canna promise to do this!
Oh, Aye…
Enjoy our Pagan poetry and commentary on, “Of Bagpipes, Burns, and Spiritual Plagues”, and drink a toast with us to the restoration of our holy religion…our native religion, and of our tribe, in body, spirit, and soul.
May our Gods be with us!
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Originally published on Oct 8, 2016
Posted in: Ancient European Culture, Nature & Religion, Odinist festivals, Odinist Music Video | Tagged in: asatru, burns night, Odinist, Robert Burns, Seana Fenner, sharon fenner | Leave a comment
New Sonny Thomas Show Yuletide Interview with Odinia
As the Twelve Days and Nights of the Yule continue… we have another interview about the Yuletide and Odinist Winter customs, the true meaning of European “Christmas” traditions, and discussion about why Christianity is incompatible with White Nationlism.
Sonny Thomas Odinia Yule Interview
You may also enjoy our new fall to winter episode of Nation of Odin news, “Cucked Britain“!
For other videos, articles,music, and interviews, see here.
Odinist Yule Music Video…Vivaldi’s Winter, Vikings, Wolves, Auroras, and Valkyries…
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Batman Vs Superman: Dawn Of Justice – A Review by Nate Hill
March 30, 2016 natewatchescoolmovies Leave a comment
Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Wow. Where to even start. What a symphony of scorched earth heroics, a two and a half hour maelstrom of thundering action, introspective gloom and very current vibes of apocalyptic dread. I’m not sure if I was watching an entirely different film from some of these bitter bottomed critics who are maiming it with inaccurately nasty reviews. Balls to them. Zach Snyder should be proud of this achievment, for in the face of both ruthless odds and rabid fans who would make any one of us piss down our legs at the thought of ‘getting it right’, he has mounted a titanic epic of a superhero flick, hitting all the right notes and fuelling both casual moviegoers and salivating super fans with a rekindled love for comic book films. A much welcomed grit and violent edge creeps into the proceedings here, a tone which Snyder has a passion for and is incredibly deft with. We begin with a visually arresting opening credit sequence, which Snyder previously perfected to hair raising brilliance in Watchmen, a ten minute opus set to Bob Dylan. Here he inter cuts shots of young Bruce Wayne, both discovering the prophetic swarm of bats and on the fateful night of his parents murder, a sequence done over a thousand times in film, but never quite with the inventive flair used here. We then arrive with adult Bruce (Ben Affleck) in Metropolis right as it’s being ripped to shreds by the Def Jam smackdown match of Superman (Henry Cavill) and Zod (Michael Shannon). There’s eerie shades of 9/11 as Bruce darts through the ashen rubble, attempting to save the employees in one of his towers. One senses the fear and rage in Wayne right off the bat (pun intended). He glowers in seething fury at the man of steel, primally threatened and haunted all over again by loved ones he couldn’t save a second time around. This film addresses the ludicrous amount of destruction that Superman wrought upon Metropolis in several ways. Political nerve endings are fried as Senate and State alike get hostile towards the god in the red cape. No one is more aggressive than Batman, though. This brings me to Affleck as Batman. Without a doubt my favourite cinematic incarnation of the caped crusader, and his debonair counterpart to date. Yes, even more so than Bale. Nolan’s The Dark Knight is still tops for me, but the portrayal of Batman by Bale didn’t strike as harmonious a chord with me as Affleck. It just didn’t feel like pure Batman, it was real world Batman. Affleck feels much more rooted in the comics, and God damn it all if he isn’t the most savage, violent Bats to come our way, well… ever. I’ve always been bothered by the nagging fact that Batman refuses to kill. Even in in a beatdown he could easily inadvertently cause death, so why bother trying? Here, he doesn’t go out of his way to deliberatly kill, but he sure has no problem brutally breaking bones and stabbing his adversaries without an iota of faux-noble hesitation. That’s the kind of Batman I want to see. Fuming, fired up and full of rage demons that erupt into fantastic action scenes. One sequence involving a room full of thugs is just jaw dropping and probably my favourite sequence of the film, even over the titular smackdown with Superman. There’s an earthy, simplistic take to him as well, with a modest suit that gives nods to Frank Miller and even Batman: The Animated Series. He is by far the elemental force that the character should be, and the part of the film that I connected with most. I hope he gets his standalone film real soon. Henry Cavill has grace and intuition as Superman, and a surprisingly earthly aura as Clark Kent, in a fit about Batman’s vigilante tactics. He’s the outsider here, an orphaned deity truly trying to do his best in a world that often shuns him in fear. He was never my favourite superhero, or even on the list, but Cavill combined with Snyder make him a force to be reckoned with, and a hero I can get behind. The two eventually meet in a remarkably choreographed clash of the titans, a duel that really only lasts a few minutes and isn’t central theme, which raises questions in my head about the first part of that title. Their fight is composed of Batman’s hard hitting, blunt force physicality pitted against Superman’s fluid, elegent invincibility which is satisfyingly put to the test by the appearance of a certain green mineral we all know about. The James Cameron-esque suit Batman wears for the fight is a grinding wonder that looks like it weighs a metric ton and could level buildings alongside the man of steel. The combat feels urgent, from the gut and roars into action perfectly. Of course, that isn’t where the fireworks stop, but I ain’t sayin any more than that. Gal Gadot is truly wonderful as Wonder Woman, I also can’t wait for her solo outing, and wish she’d been in the film more. Her much talked about entrance is the definition of crowd pleasing, and will make you cheer in approval, which I did out loud. She’s endlessly gorgeous, and has the toughness to go along with it, a great casting decision by anyone’s tally. Jesse Eisenberg wowed me as a young, jittery Lex Luthor, in what is probably the most clinically insane portrayal thus far. Forget bumbling Gene Hackman and hammy Kevin Spacey, this guy seals it for me. There’s a true madness to his Lex, which when given enough money and resources can have cataclysmic results. It’s a villain to remember, and Eisenberg exudes palpable danger from every pore, his psychopathic sheen of logic barely shrouding the mania beneath. Jeremy Irons is a more restrained, jaded Alfred who is still unconditionally supportive of Wayne, but is reaching the end of his rope which is tethered to pure world weariness. He gets some of the only humerous bits of the film, albeit of dry, brittle variety. Amy Adams is reliably terrific, her eyes pools of perception that mirror the horror and spectacle of the events through the mind of a human, with every ounce of nerve and courage as those around her that have superpowers, or expensive toys. Diane Lane is weathered wisdom and maternal compassion as Martha Kent, nailing her scenes with the small town, kindhearted patience that a film this noisy deserves, tipping the scales to provide occasional serenity in the eye of the hurricane. Kevin Costner makes a brief appearance in one of the films numerous and often confusing dream sequences. He was a highlight in Man Of Steel, and brings the same baleful, gruff adoration here, in a wonderful but brief scene with Clark. Laurence Fishburne is another source of rare humour as the perpetually exasperated Perry, CEO of the Daily Planet. Aggravated and cheeky, he commands every frame he’s in and had me chuckling no end. Holly Hunter has forged a career of playing no nonsense hard asses, here a ballbreaking US Senator here who shares a moment of distilled intensity with Luthor proving that Superhero films can have some of the best written dialogue. Harry Lennix makes great use of said writing too as the steely Secretary Of Defense. Callan Mulvey and Scoot McNairy are memorable in supporting turns. Listen hard for Patrick Wilson and Carla Gugino, and look for a certain ocean dwelling dude in the briefest of moments. Jeffrey Dean Morgan also has a cameo that’s almost too good to be true. Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL, who was so top notch with Mad Max: Fury Road, combine efforts for a score that knocks it out of the park and several miles further. Batman has a soul rousing battle cry of an overture, with subtle shades of Zimmer’s work on the Nolan films, built upon to give us something truly unique and fitting for the character. Lex Luthor is accompanied by a fitful cacophony of strings that sound like the Arkham Asylum charity orchestra having a collectively unnerving seizure. My favourite riff though I think is for Wonder Woman, a deviously disarming jaunt that strays from the grandiose, baroque theme and feels wickedly subversive, getting you just so pumped for her character. Zimmer’s work on Interstellar made it my top score of 2014, because he leapt out of the box of his usual tricks and gave us something we’d never heard from him before. Here he shreds that box with ingenuity and creative output, a varied, explosive piece that assaults your ears splendidly. My one concern with the film was a dream sequence midway through concerning Batman, and anyone who’s seen the film knows what I’m talking about. I’m sure comic book fans have some point of reference or context regarding it, but the casual viewer doesn’t, and a little more explaining would have been nice. I will say though it showcases Batman in an entirely new light which took me off guard nicely. This is what a superhero movie should be, plain and simple. Big, bold, audacious, stirring and full of high flying action, dastardly villains, conflicted heroes clashing like the ocean tides and a sense of pure adventure. Forget what the critics are saying, this one comes up aces in all categories and is a perfectly wonderful start to the stories of a group of characters that I look forward to seeing in many a film to come. Especially Affleck’s Batman.
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Magdalene—The Seven Devils
“Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven devils had been cast out”
Luke 8:2.
The first was that I was very busy.
The second—I was different from you: whatever happened to you could
not happen to me, not like that.
The third—I worried.
The fourth—envy, disguised as compassion.
The fifth was that I refused to consider the quality of life of the aphid,
The aphid disgusted me. But I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
The mosquito too—its face. And the ant—its bifurcated body.
Ok the first was that I was so busy.
The second that I might make the wrong choice,
because I had decided to take that plane that day,
that flight, before noon, so as to arrive early
and, I shouldn’t have wanted that.
The third was that if I walked past the certain place on the street
the house would blow up.
The fourth was that I was made of guts and blood with a thin layer
of skin lightly thrown over the whole thing.
The fifth was that the dead seemed more alive to me than the living
The sixth—if I touched my right arm I had to touch my left arm, and if I
touched the left arm a little harder than I’d first touched the right then I had
to retouch the left and then touch the right again so it would be even.
The seventh—I knew I was breathing the expelled breath of everything that
was alive, and I couldn’t stand it.
I wanted a sieve, a mask, a, I hate this word—cheesecloth—
to breath through that would trap it—whatever was inside everyone else that
entered me when I breathed in.
No. That was the first one.
The second was that I was so busy. I had no time. How had this happened?
How had our lives gotten like this?
The third was that I couldn’t eat food if I really saw it—distinct, separate
from me in a bowl or on a plate.
Ok. The first was that. I could never get to the end of the list.
The second was that the laundry was never finally done.
The third was that no one knew me, although they thought they did.
And that if people thought of me as little as I thought of them then what was
The fourth was I didn’t belong to anyone. I wouldn’t allow myself to belong
to anyone.
The fifth was that I knew none of us could ever know what we didn’t know.
The sixth was that I projected onto others what I myself was feeling.
The seventh was the way my mother looked when she was dying,
the sound she made—her mouth wrenched to the right and cupped open
so as to take in as much air… the gurgling sound, so loud
we had to speak louder to hear each other over it.
And that I couldn’t stop hearing it—years later—grocery shopping, crossing the street—
No, not the sound—it was her body’s hunger
finally evident—what our mother had hidden all her life.
For months I dreamt of knucklebones and roots,
the slabs of sidewalk pushed up like crooked teeth by what grew underneath.
The underneath. That was the first devil. It was always with me
And that I didn’t think you—if I told you—would understand any of this—
Copyright © 2008 by Marie Howe. Originally published in American Poetry Review. Used with permission of the author.
Marie Howe was born in 1950 in Rochester, New York. She worked as a newspaper reporter and teacher before receiving her MFA from Columbia University in 1983. She currently serves as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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My friend Michael and I are walking home arguing about the movie.
He says that he believes a person can love someone
and still be able to murder that person.
I say, No, that's not love. That's attachment.
Michael says, No, that's love. You can love someone, then come to a day
when you're forced to think "it's him or me"
think "me" and kill him.
I say, Then it's not love anymore.
Michael says, It was love up to then though.
I say, Maybe we mean different things by the same word.
Michael says, Humans are complicated: love can exist even in the
murderous heart.
I say that what he might mean by love is desire.
Love is not a feeling, I say. And Michael says, Then what is it?
We're walking along West 16th Street—a clear unclouded night—and I hear my voice
repeating what I used to say to my husband: Love is action, I used to say
to him.
Simone Weil says that when you really love you are able to look at
someone you want to eat and not eat them.
Janis Joplin says, take another little piece of my heart now baby.
Meister Eckhardt says that as long as we love images we are doomed to
live in purgatory.
Michael and I stand on the corner of 6th Avenue saying goodnight.
I can't drink enough of the tangerine spritzer I've just bought—
again and again I bring the cold can to my mouth and suck the stuff from
the hole the flip top made.
What are you doing tomorrow? Michael says.
But what I think he's saying is "You are too strict. You are
a nun."
Then I think, Do I love Michael enough to allow him to think these things
of me even if he's not thinking them?
Above Manhattan, the moon wanes, and the sky turns clearer and colder.
Although the days, after the solstice, have started to lengthen,
we both know the winter has only begun.
What the Angels Left
At first, the scissors seemed perfectly harmless.
They lay on the kitchen table in the blue light.
Then I began to notice them all over the house,
at night in the pantry, or filling up bowls in the cellar
where there should have been apples. They appeared under rugs,
lumpy places where one would usually settle before the fire,
or suddenly shining in the sink at the bottom of soupy water.
Once, I found a pair in the garden, stuck in turned dirt
among the new bulbs, and one night, under my pillow,
I felt something like a cool long tooth and pulled them out
to lie next to me in the dark. Soon after that I began
to collect them, filling boxes, old shopping bags,
every suitcase I owned. I grew slightly uncomfortable
when company came. What if someone noticed them
when looking for forks or replacing dried dishes? I longed
to throw them out, but how could I get rid of something
that felt oddly like grace? It occurred to me finally
that I was meant to use them, and I resisted a growing compulsion
to cut my hair, although in moments of great distraction,
I thought it was my eyes they wanted, or my soft belly
—exhausted, in winter, I laid them out on the lawn.
The snow fell quite as usual, without any apparent hesitation
or discomfort. In spring, as expected, they were gone.
In their place, a slight metallic smell, and the dear muddy earth.
Part of Eve's Discussion
It was like the moment when a bird decides not to eat from your hand,
and flies, just before it flies, the moment the rivers seem to still
and stop because a storm is coming, but there is no storm, as when
a hundred starlings lift and bank together before they wheel and drop,
very much like the moment, driving on bad ice, when it occurs to you
your car could spin, just before it slowly begins to spin, like
the moment just before you forgot what it was you were about to say,
it was like that, and after that, it was still like that, only
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250 LEADERS FROM 21 COUNTRIES AT CARIBBEAN SUMMIT ADDRESS YOUTH-DRIVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION
Official Media Release from the Community, Family and Youth Resilience program (CFYR)
Friday, January 18, 2019 — Georgetown, Guyana – The Caribbean Summit on Youth Violence Prevention concluded on Wednesday after two days of addressing prevention efforts for staggering youth crime and violence rates in the Caribbean, higher than in Latin America and Africa.
The Caribbean Summit on Youth Violence Prevention, bringing together approximately 250 participants from 21 countries in Georgetown, Guyana, was hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Community, Family, and Youth Resilience Program (CFYR), the CARICOM Secretariat, UNICEF, the Caribbean Development Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Commission, and the Caribbean Learning for Youth Networking and Change Sessions (LYNCS) Network.
Throughout the Summit, youth leaders met with representatives of development organizations, civil society, and government, including CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and the following Ministers.
Dr. the Hon. George Norton, Minister of Social Cohesion, Ministry of the Presidency, Cooperative Republic of Guyana, representing the President of Guyana
Hon. Khemraj Ramjattan, Minster of Public Security, Cooperative Republic of Guyana
Hon. Shamfa Cudjoe, Minister of Youth & Sports, Republic of Trinidad & Tobago
Sen. Hermangild Francis, Minster of National Security, Saint Lucia
Hon. Floyd Green, Minister of State, Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Jamaica
Hon. Adrian Forde, Minister of Youth & Community Empowerment, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth, Barbados
Much of the Summit agenda was livestreamed and currently available on facebook.com/cfyrprogram. The Summit hashtag was #CaribYouthSummit2019.
Key sessions, included:
Promoting Healthy Masculinity
Youth-Driven Responses to Criminal Gangs
Deleting Bullying: Addressing Bullying in Policy and Practice
The Arts as a Remedy for Youth Violence
Positive Vibrations: Improving Mental Health
The Summit discussions will inform the youth-driven Advocacy and Action Agenda (AAA), building on the 2013 CARICOM Social Development and Crime Prevention Action Plan. The draft agenda makes a strong case for promoting the scaling-up of innovative programs that aim to prevent and reduce crime, foster social inclusion, and promote reintegration; the document received verbal endorsement from Hon. Shamfa Cudjoe, Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Youth and Sports, on behalf of the Ministers present during the discussions.
Kathy McClure: (592) 620-0542 or (758) 720-3950, kathym@crea-cfyr.com
Volderine Hackett: (592) 652-5396, volderine.hackett@caricom.org
Kathy McClure Community, Family and Youth Resilience (CFYR) Program
kathym@crea-cfyr.com
Volderine Hackett Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
volderine.hackett@caricom.org
CFYR: Arkim's advice for young people
CFYR: Leeann's advice for young people
Agenda: Caribbean Summit on Youth Violence Prevention
CFYR Facebook Page
CFYR Instagram Page
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University students plead guilty, fined for vandalism
— Jul 2nd, 1996
WENATCHEE (AP) Three University of Washington students must pay more than $3,200 to the J.C. Penney Co. store here for vandalism during the Apple Blossom Festival.
The university's student body president also is expected to face a similar penalty.
Amit D. Ranade, 20, and David Horning, 23, were sentenced to 90 days in jail for misdemeanor charges.
Ranade had 89 days suspended with one day converted to eight hours community service.
Horning had 88 days suspended with credit for one day in jail served and one day converted to eight hours community service.
Derek Butcher, 23, pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal trespass and was also sentenced to 90 days in jail with 88 days suspended, credit for one day served and one day converted to eight hours community service.
Garrick M. Hileman, 22, the UW student body president, is expected to plead guilty to second-degree criminal trespass and receive a similar sentence, Chelan County Deputy Prosecutor Kevin Forest said.
FELONY SENTENCINGS (The following persons were sentenced in Kitsap County Superior Court recently.) Deborah Lee Cooper, a.k.a. Angela Harman, 22, 23850 NE Highway 3, Belfair, five counts of forgery; one year and one day in prison with credit given for 115 days previously served; restitution ... [Read More...]
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FELONY SENTENCINGS (The following persons were sentenced in Kitsap County Superior Court recently.) Ricky L. Thompson, 38, 1370 Retsil Road E., Port Orchard, second-degree theft; 34 days with 30 days converted to 240 hours of community service and credit given for four days previously served; 12 months probation; restitution ... [Read More...]
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Best season to travel to Norway
Whaling Season
For centuries, Europeans have harvested whales for their fat and baleen
© Evaldas Liutkus
April–August
Whaling Season Featured in
Whaling has been a part of Norwegian coastal culture for centuries. The country's government currently allows 999 whales to be hunted for human consumption. This decision followed the ban on commercial whaling in 1986.
Norway's whaling season usually takes off in April and lasts until the end of August. It’s possible to try fresh whale meat in local restaurants that offer a variety of dishes from traditional soup to a fashionable wok.
In earlier times, whale hunting was primarily oriented to obtain fat that would then be melted into oil to produce varnish, paint, and soap. The whalebone (baleen) was also used in umbrellas and corsets. After the arrival at Spitsbergen, whalers used materials from the ship to construct a shore station where whales could be spotted from the shore. They were then chased and lanced from the bow of a shallop. The whale carcass was towed back to the shore station where whalers removed the blubber and boiled it down. Whale oil was then stored in wooden casks and loaded onto the anchored ship.
More experiences in Norway
Hiking Trolltunga
Blue Ice Walking
Northern or Polar Lights
Hike to Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock)
The Atlantic Ocean Road
Whale Safari
Reindeer Migration
Sankt Hans
Trollstigen—the Troll’s Road
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Why are psionics controversial?
I have recently had a conversation with some of my friends about psionics and their place in the D&D universe, both lore-wise and gameplay-wise. We were discussing the psionics as an optional part of the game, discussing the practice of banning psionics altogether as a houserule and pretending they don't exist. Some other people joined in and the conversation quickly devolved into a heated argument about whether psionics are the cancer of the D&D or the best thing since sliced bread.
Intrigued, I searched the web and the question frequently asked is "Why people hate psionics?". The Internet lists some reasons, but due to the nature of forum discussion the claims are often accepted at face value and opinions are conflated with facts, therefore I find it hard to understand all the hate. Below I would like to list several opinions or reasons for why various netizens think psionics are being hated and my reaction/rebuttal to why the argument is insufficient to be reason for alleged controversy (I used GiantITP, Reddit, Paizo, and Myth-Weavers).
Psionic rules were broken and unreasonable
However D&D is known for its lack of balance between systems, even very basic ones
Psionics are over/underpowered
Wizards are known for gamebreaking power and monks for severe gameplay limitations. Banning psionics does not change much.
Players don't enjoy Psionic lore
I find this argument unfounded, with no attempt to explain why is it so, if true.
Psionics are often chosen by players who want to build "special unique snowflake Mary-Sue" characters
But so are dual-wielding Rangers or various spellsword classes, which don't get the hate
Psionics are not mentioned in Core Rule Book
But so are various widely appreciated extensions
GMs don't want to learn yet another system
Which is fairly simple and clear, certainly less taxing than e.g. Tome of Battle Maneuvers and stances
Hating or loving Psionics is considered edgy and cool
But why psionics and not something else?
None of these arguments are unique to psionics. Why are psionics picked on?
What makes psionics so different?
I am looking for factual evidence or a well-grounded argument in absence. I accept that all of the listed reasons are likely to be valid and observed, but what I lack is why these reasons would apply to psionics but not other systems, often with greater flaws. Are psionics made of skub?
For the purpose of this question I'm not trying to establish what are the hate-generating flaws in psionics that make people hate them. Instead, I'm trying to establish why people are eager to pick on those flaws (whatever they are) despite them being present in other material as well.
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\$\begingroup\$ This happens in the real world also: it's easier to judge something/someone that you don't understand (especially if it contradicts your current perceivable framework) rather than taking the effort to actually understand it. \$\endgroup\$ – Vadruk Dec 1 '18 at 17:55
It boils down to what kind of style you like. Most systems have an inherent style to the way the world works and people tend to pick the game that fits their favorite style.
The style in D&D is medieval (or early renaissance) sword and sorcery, where themes of powerful wizards wielding magic, gods being real and bestowing powers upon their clerics and supernatural beasts ranging from demons to dragons are all part of the storytelling conventions enough that players would expect and readily accept these as part of the game. Note that in all of these cases magic is a regular (one might even say natural) part of the world. Even sorcerers only affect the power of the "weave" of magic that is omnipresent.
Psionics on the other hand are a set of powers that are not tied to the world itself, but rather to the characters and creatures themselves. Some very classic D&D monsters wield psionic powers, such as Illithids, Aboleths and the Gith. However, since these are considered strange, outlandish or downright freaky in the context of the world, they are easily accepted by people liking the sword and sorcery style.
Having characters, which are an integral part of any RPG story, wield powers that go against the assumed ground rules of the fiction's genre is often where the willing suspense of disbelief breaks down. Remember, in sword and sorcery magic is a (somewhat) natural part of the world and mages, etc. just know how to affect this otherwise hidden power.
In different settings more separated from these assumptions, often in a world closer to our modern world rather than a medieval setting, psionics will often be considered as acceptable as (or even more acceptable than) "conventional magic" by most people. The reason is similar to what I described above: in such a modern setting magic that permeates the world seems out of place, while powers bound to individuals and ancient items are imaginable.
In the end, it boils down to what assumptions everyone brings to the table. A genre trope of sword and sorcery is that magic is part of the world and characters only shape what is already there. This is why psionics get so much hate in the standard D&D settings.
The fact that game designers often want to separate psionics from magic in terms of rules only adds another layer to which people can refer for their criticisms. As you wrote, there usually are plenty of badly balanced parts in D&D anyway. In my experience, nitpicking about the rules for psionics often is a surrogate discussion. Maybe one is not comfortable with defining the boundaries of the campaign's genre, possibly afraid of being considered close-minded or adhering to clichés. Maybe one can not even put into words what is the actual issue and then starts to argue about rules just from a bad gut feeling.
I myself have belonged to the latter group of people for a long time, trying to argue why psionics is bad rule-wise, without realizing that it just is not a regular part of medieval fantasy worlds that I can or want to imagine.
In the end, if you find yourself in such a discussion, it might help redirecting the focus to what themes are considered part of the canon of the game. The people arguing against psionics would most probably just as much hate a gnome tinkerer "inventing" modern weaponry.
As with most matters of opinions, there are no actually wrong ways of thinking about it. Still, it helps the game a lot if everyone at the table has the same (or at least compatible) angles on the subject.
NeuneckNeuneck
Added complexity versus added value
The core objection to Psionics in a Swords and Sorcery / Fantasy RPG (for those who do find it a problem) is rooted in two issues:
Damage done to the suspension of disbelief due to genre overlap
Additional mechanics with no added value
In my experience as both player and DM, it is the second factor that puts a burden on a DM in a psionic using campaign and tends to be the basis for resistance.
A detailed treatment of the root problems presented by The Angry GM match my own experience with attempts to fold psionics (a Sci Fi literary trope) into the Swords and Sorcery genre that originally inspired the game.
Experience as a grognard:
Our early attempts to use psionics in D&D1 (Eldritch Wizardry Supplement in OD&D, 1976, TSR) exposed the problems of "psionics only encounters" and the clunkiness of the additional set of mechanics and rules. We didn't sweat the trope overlap at that table. At subsequent tables the "feel" factor arose with some frequency, but most DM's I played with in the first 10 years in the hobby didn't want to be bothered with the added complexity without added value. Angry GM points this out.
Remember, complexity is the currency with which you buy depth. Complexity isn’t inherently bad, but complexity that doesn’t add depth is bad. And psionics doesn’t really add any depth to the game in return for all the extra systems and classes and rules.
When you combine that fact with the thematic mismatch, psionics rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
(You could argue that it would be better said that "complexity is a coin with which you can buy depth," but that's criticism rather than answering this question).
**Psionics' generic problems were structural as far back as their origin (OD&D) and the carry over into AD&D 1e (an optional rule set). (1e PHB p. 110-117).
It was acknowledged during 1st edition AD&D that psionics is different. An extended treatment in Dragon Magazine #78 was entitled -- Psionics is different ... And that's putting it rather mildly.
The difference was summarized as Magic being external to the character, and Psionics being internal to the character, but there was more to it than that. To illustrate the added complexity, Dragon 78's article had three pages of "Sage Advice" and over 20 FAQ's (before the Internet; Oct 1983). While original limitations on Monks and Druids were lifted (neither class were originally allowed psionics in OD&D Supp 3), the rarity of the talent and its "add on power" nature was a problem.
The complaint that only special (Mary Sue/Marty Stu) characters get psionics came from its accession. The player had to roll near to 00 (100%) on percentile dice in order to qualify. KISS was not the principle in question. With six players around a table, how often will one be able to roll 00, or roll just the right stats and then roll 90+ to 00? (No psionics for you!)
(1e PHB, p 110) Characters with one or more unmodified Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma ability scores of 16 or higher might have psionic ability ... determined by a dice roll using percentile dice ... score of 00 (100%) indicates the ability exists. For each 1 point of Intelligence above 16 add 2% to the dice roll, for each 1 point of wisdom above 16 add 1% to the dice roll, and for each 1 point of charisma above 16 add 1/2 to the dice roll (drop all fractions). Example: A character has Intelligence of 17, Wisdom of 12, and Charisma of 17. There are 2 1/2 points to be added to the psionic potential roll because intelligence is 1 above 16, and 1/2 point for charisma above 16, total = +3 ... score of 97 or greater indicates psionic ability exists in the character.
"Clunky" from the get go, particularly when seen in hindsight after a few decades of effort devoted to cleaning up and improving on a host of things in the game.
Here ends the history. Later editions addressed some of the structural issues that came with the original package. By 3.5, and the Expanded Psionics Handbook, significant improvement was made (props to @KRyan for the analysis at the link).
Is the core objection justified?
At a given table, yes it can be, but in general, no it isn't, because neither of these problems is impossible to overcome. I've seen it done successfully.
The first problem is mitigated by how a GM folds the system into the campaign. While this takes work up front, it can be done.
One of the best ways to do that was by doing away with the separate encounter table for those "special" psionics encounters. All psionic encounters were planned / hand picked / timed / selected by the DM. (No random psionic encounters). Later editions' supplements improved psionics enough to reduce that problem.
The second was best mitigated by a cooperative relationship between the player and the GM in getting the mechanics to play without delay or emphasis on how special this character is.
Each PC is special in his/her own way: that's a core conceit of the adventuring party model around which the game is built.
When psionics got an overhaul in Second Edition, the authors admitted that it was not everyone's cup of tea2, and spelled out that these were optional rules: not core rules.
Psionics are only controversial if:
you let them be, or,
at a given table, a DM doesn't want to be bothered with them and a player wants to use them.
A "Session Zero" or "Same Page Tool" kind of conversation should sort that out before play begins.
That kind of conflict -- can I use this feature or not? -- was bound to arise in the bloatier editions (AD&D 2.0 and later) whose avalanche of supplements and features (What is core, anyway?) won't appeal to every DM.
It is fair to say that psionics isn't alone in being a table-by-table feature in the game.
- Example: In our current campaign (5e) the DM did not approve Variant Human for our table.
Since DM's don't DM for the pay, that isn't a bad thing: it's either available at a DM's table, or it isn't. No controversy.
1 Psionics was initially added as a feature in a monster before it was available to PC's in Eldritch Wizardry. The Mind Flayer showed up first in Strategic Review (Issue #1, page 2) with a power that formed the core of later psionic attacks: Mind Blast. Over a year later that psionics arrived in supplement III.
From this web interview, we find that Kask and Gygax did not like psionics with equal vigor Tim Kask:
I LOVED psionic combat and had great fun devising it with all of its tables and charts. Apparently I was in the tiny minority. I guess mental combat was too esoteric for most D&Ders; not enough of them shared my fondness for the Dr. Strange Marvel comics and Mindflayers. God, I loved Mindflayers; they were all over my dungeons. I just loved the idea of turning an annoying PC into a gibbering idiot.. Oh well, live and learn...)
Gary Gygax:
As for the psionics, that can of worms was my doing. I had created the mind flayer as a fine monster, and I should have left well enough alone; but no! I had to add mental powers, send the initial draft around. I soon hated the whole business, but Len Lakofka and his group in Chicago loved the concept, and Tim was enthused about the addition as well. So, as said Pilate, I washed my hands of the matter."
2 From the Second Edition p. 1-3, Complete Psionics Handbook:
Psionics was not included in the AD&D 2nd Edition game. Now psionics is back by popular demand ... completely optional addition to the AD&D 2nd Edition rules.
So it is not unreasonable to ask, "Does the game need a third type of magic?" The answer is no, the game probably does not need a third kind of magic. But the question is misinformed because psionics is not magic. Magic is the ability to shape, control, harness, and utilize natural forces that infuse the game world and surround the characters. The key element ... is external energy. The power does not come from inside the wizard or priest but from somewhere else. Psionics is the complete opposite of this. The psionicist shapes, controls, harnesses, and utilizes natural > forces that infuse his own being ... more than a character of any other class, the psionicist is self-contained.
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There are three kinds of gaming tables in regards to psionics:
Those who do not use it and are happy with it.
You can play D&D completely without psionics and have a good and healthy gaming experience. There are no psionic powers in the world and the players do not possess any either. The standard campaigns most of the time do this, because psionics are not in the standard books. Standard to me means the holy trinity of PHB, DMG and MM. If psionics aren't used, there is no problem of them being under- or overpowered obviously. No controversy here.
Those who embrace it and are happy with it.
Some campaign worlds make heavy use of it. A good example was the Dark Sun setting back in 2e. Psionics was a big part of that world. The players had psionic powers and the world had lots of psionics, too. Everyone at the gaming table knew the psionic rules as a basic part of the campaign settings. You can probably do a lot of theorycrafting about it, but from my experience, psionics were ok. There were not more or less powerful than other features. I mean it's D&D, you can do all kinds of cheese, but psionics as a rule system was pretty solid if you put it in the context the other subsystems of D&D. It wasn't any more exploitable than the rest. There was little controversy there.
Those where only a few players actually use the rules.
This is something I have witnesses a few times and this is were the controversy starts. Someone bought the book and wants to play a psionic whatever in the standard campaign. This is where the system breaks. Actually, the system is fine, as seen above. But in those groups, it's not implemented entirely. Most players don't want to learn the additional set of rules, sometimes even the DM does not want to and the adventure, if bought or thought out previously, is woefully unprepared to handle the new subsystem. That's not the fault of the psionic subsystem. Just imagine magic was not in the PHB. All characters and the whole world just consists of fighters and rogues. And all of a sudden someone bought a book where he can play a cleric. But nobody but him reads that book. The adventure never anticipated magic. Boy, would that be broken. Not because magic is broken, but because a system where only a few actors know all the rules will fail. This is were the controversy starts, because it seems broken. Suddenly someone is pulling a power from a book nobody has heard before. It seems overpowered or game breaking or what not. Matter of fact it's neither, as the second group of gaming tables can attest to. But everybody at the table (or at least the DM) has to know the rules by heart. If you don't know the rules and they are some secret arcane mysteries of the guy that owns the book, then yes, it's broken. But it's not psionics that's broken, it's the gaming style at the table. You cannot play a game where not everyone is on the same page and that includes the basic rules.
So to make a long post short: psionics is so different because the rules are not readily available like other subsystems. It costs additional money and time to get to know them. Those who agree to spent this money and time seem to have fun. Those who don't are quite happy, too. But those where a few are ready to spent time and money and a few are not, have problems and controversies. That's a social/group problem and has little to do with the actual psionics rules. Therefor nobody found an easy fix yet. No amount of house-ruling or hand-waving or next-edition-this-will-be-better will repair the basic problem of group mismatch.
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\$\begingroup\$ It's entirely possible to play a game where not all the players know all the rules by heart. I have witnessed it. Repeatedly. \$\endgroup\$ – GMJoe Dec 21 '15 at 23:22
\$\begingroup\$ @GMJoe Yes, but as I said, at least the DM should. I have played games where even the DM didn't know the rules, but those groups were exceptional and I would not expect this level of maturity and constructive teamplay (from the players at the table, not the characters) from the average group of D&D players. \$\endgroup\$ – nvoigt Dec 21 '15 at 23:27
\$\begingroup\$ Your third part needs revision, or you need a fourth part. Parts one and two are SPOT ON!. I've seen psionics from the early days, and even then it COULD work but it didn't work effortlessly. With some effort it fit in. PS props for the point on Dark Sun as it made psionics work nicely. \$\endgroup\$ – KorvinStarmast Dec 21 '15 at 23:59
\$\begingroup\$ @KorvinStarmast Can you explain what you mean with revision or a fourth part? I get that you are not entirely happy with the third part, but I could not find out what exactly you feel is missing. \$\endgroup\$ – nvoigt Dec 22 '15 at 12:01
\$\begingroup\$ @nvoigt sorry for the delay. "Those where only a few players actually use the rules." I think the way you introduced that in terms of players using rules, rather than the whole table and the DM being involved in using the rules or not, and even getting familiar enough with the rules is a good start. It seems to me that what you explain and how you labeled the category diverge, though I get the general idea. My guess at the bottom line: if you don't become familiar with the rules and how they work, how can there be valid criticism? Am I close? \$\endgroup\$ – KorvinStarmast Dec 22 '15 at 14:24
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Wimping out in…3…2…1…
By - on November 29, 2015
Well THAT didn’t take long.
Less than a week after Gov. Bill Haslam joined other governors by coming out with a strong statement protesting the Obama administration’s Syrian refugee policy, “Burka Bill” was walking it back.
Nov. 16, 2015:
“Today I’m asking the federal government to suspend placements in Tennessee until states can become more of a partner in the vetting process.”
And then, on Nov. 23, 2015:
Haslam Dances Around Whether State Should Let Syrian Refugees In
“I think again, I think again, I think yes, well, I shouldn’t have say this, that’s why I’m saying let us be a part of the vetting process.
“The more I learn about the vetting process, it is a pretty good process.”
Haslam’s original statement was a rather obvious reaction to the very strong positions first staked out by Speakers Ramsey and Harwell. “Can’t let those mean old Speakers get ahead of me on this one — not after I screwed around after the radical Islamic killings in Chattanooga.”
What is it with this guy? Every time he takes a seemingly strong stance, he immediately starts to second-guess himself and watering it down. Makes one wonder how much personal agony he goes through when deciding something really important: like what color tie he’s going to wear to work.
Allahu Akbar, y’all — and Happy Thanksgiving!
Rolling Over at the Church of God
Scot Carter
Earlier this year, a former executive of the Church of God headquartered in Cleveland, TN was convicted for embezzling nearly $1 million from the Church. Troy Scot Carter pled guilty in the spring and began serving his 3-year sentence a couple of months ago.
In recent days, the buzz around Bradley County is that Carter has been “singing like a canary” to the FBI about others who also may have participated in similar illegal activities. The speculation centers on another Church of God employee and/or a prominent elected official who may soon be on the hot seat.
Is it true? Who knows. But it does make for an interesting story, eh? RTP will keep its readers (both of them) up to date as events unfold.
Secrets of the Special Election
The Curious Case of Carson and the Cate Consultant.
“Advance Tennessee PAC” tactics still being used.
Conservative blogger Brian Hornback recently posted a rather lengthy but interesting dissertation on the liberals’ attempted influence in the special election in House District 14 last August between Karen Carson and Jason Zachary. In it, he posits that liberals such as former Rep. Gloria Johnson and others tried to influence the primary election on behalf of Haslam’s hand-picked candidate, Karen Carson. Why are we not surprised that Haslam tried to defeat yet another conservative Republican in a primary, what with his track record with Advance Tennessee?
RTP took a closer look at the financials of RINO candidate Karen Carson in that race and what we found should, but probably won’t, surprise you. Buried deep in the bowels of Carson’s finance reports are a couple of nuggets: One is the predominance of contributions from the hospitals and their allies. Haslam and the hospitals are desperate to expand Obamacare through Medicaid expansion (aka, Insure Tennessee) so that they can use taxpayer money to bail out hospitals. These groups were the largest contributors to Carson. No surprise there.
But as is his want, Haslam never likes to be seen at the scene of a crash, particularly one of his own making. That’s why he trots out his hatchet man Mark “Haters Gonna Hate” Cate to do his dirty work. And now RTP has found a curious link between Cate and Carson and Haslam that followed the pattern established by Haslam and Cate and their infamous Advance Tennessee PAC exactly a year earlier: attempting to defeat conservative candidates for the legislature and hoping to use the act and the results to bully conservatives into accepting the administration’s agenda.
After recruiting Carson as a Haslam toady, Cate dictated to the Carson campaign the hiring of a “pollster” who was paid nearly one-sixth of her total campaign budget at the time. The firm was called BK Strategies LLC of Arlington, VA. The crew at RTP did some sleuthing and we found that BK Strategies apparently had never been involved in any races in Tennessee before it suddenly appeared in the Carson-Zachary race. It took some digging, but we found what appears to be the only employee of BK Strategies, Brice Kornegay (with a name like that, he should look into getting hired by the Grant Starrett campaign).
Kornegay got to know Cate when he worked for the Republican Governors Association — an organization that Haslam now chairs. It appears that Cate got Kornegay hired to the Carson campaign and Kornegay help produce a “poll” that produced the desired results (Kornegay’s fee was covered in part by contributions from Jim Haslam and Randy Boyd.)
The results of the poll were predictable: InsureTN is Great! Common Core is Great! Raising the gas tax is Great! The pro-Haslam agenda used the poll to try and convince voters of the governor’s positions. If Carson were to win, they would tout the poll and her victory as “proof” the voters were in agreement with Haslam’s left-of-center agenda. Unfortunately for Carson, she was forced to run on the results of the poll (especially if she wanted to continue to receive financial support from the Haslam network). The end result was Carson received a political butt-kicking by voters who continue to oppose key portions of Haslam’s initiatives.
Just another reason why the majority of the Republican legislators despise Cate and have rapidly decreasing respect for the governor. Perhaps if Haslam were to “man up” and admit he is not a strong conservative and have the courage of what passes for his convictions, the legislature would show him a little love. But alas, he continues to try to sneak around public scrutiny — like he did by paying Tom Ingram under the table and lately, by withholding emails about his latest crony capitalist venture to privatize half of state government.
It’s going to be a long, long three years for this governor and his courtiers.
Wrye Takes Off The Mask
TEA goes after Delores Gresham with an axe. Attacks her opposition to Islamic-biased curriculum.
Actively shopping for a primary opponent against her in next election?
For a couple of years now, TEA lobbyist Jim Wrye has been trying to “re-define” his organization and himself in order to deal with the Republican super majorities in the legislature. Wrye re-directed some of the TEA’s campaign contributions away from the Black Caucus (heard from the Memphis TEA lately, Jim?) and towards the Republicans in the hopes that some of the GOP legislators would whore themselves out in exchange for large contributions from the previously 100% Democrat political slush fund. He has tried to generate a charm offensive, based on his gregarious black-slapping qualities. But with his latest actions, Wrye has turned his back-slapping into back-stabbing. What’s more, the rumor mill is abuzz that the TEA is actively trolling for a RINO Republican to take on Sen. Gresham next August.
Look at the recent lead article on TEA’s website called “An Islamic Controversy and Passing the Buck.” In an ill-timed diatribe, Wrye & Co. decided to go after Senate Education Committee Chairman Delores Gresham on the issue of Islamic indoctrination just as the Islamic terrorists were opening fire in Paris. Incredibly, the TEA focuses on the controversy over the Islamic curriculum currently being taught to thousands of Tennessee middle schoolers. The union says that those who voice any opposition to the curriculum are really just attacking teachers.
RTP researchers have searched high and low for any attacks on teachers regarding the Islamic teachings. We have found none. There have been serious and hard legitimate questions to the education bureaucrats, school superintendents, school boards and the Haslam administration’s Education Commissioner, but nary a word criticizing the teachers.
Wrye also employs the typical weasel words favored by Alinskyites such as “assumption” and “insinuation” to try to justify his attack on Gresham. But he saved his most arrogant comments for the end:
“TEA has a long standing policy opposing legislative action on curriculum and standards.” said Wrye.
“Facts and knowledge is our business; faith is the purview of families only.
Wow. It will be news to the legislature that they have no right to oversee “curriculum and standards.” And we stand amazed at the sheer arrogance of the statement “Facts and knowledge is our business.” Who the hell decided that only Jimbo and the TEA were the sole arbiters of “facts and knowledge”? What a putz.
Wrye knows his argument that this is an attack on teachers is nothing more than a straw man, and not a very good one at that. The teachers are only teaching what they are required to teach by the education bureaucrats and he knows it. For Wrye to allow the printing of such an easily provable lie is not only revealing but also brings the reason for the very existence of his organization into proper context.
Speaking of revealing…
Your Socialist Slip is Showing, Jim.
Chris Brooks
Largely lost, but not forgotten is Jim Wrye’s hiring of a wild-eyed socialist “community organizer” to his staff. We say “socialist” only because calling TEA staffer Chris Brooks a slimy little pinko communist might invade his “safe space” and invite the wrath of the Black Lives Matter crowd or even a visit from a carload of privileged little snots from the University of Missouri.
(Go Vols! Beat the crap out of the whiny liberals this Saturday.)
That TEA and Jim Wrye continue to employ and protect such a despicable person as Brooks is beyond understanding. Maybe when Brooks agrees to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance (something he repeatedly refuses to do in public meetings) we will relent from our ceaseless pillorying of this cretin and his boss.
Maybe. But probably not.
RTP has a new website that our readers (both of you) should enjoy. It comes to us via the Tennessee News Leader, a service provided by the ubiquitous Steve Gill.
It’s a slapped-together website about one of our favorite subjects, Grant Starrett and it’s hilarious. If humor can be used as a knife, then the Starrett campaign should be prepared to bleed all over the floor. Check it out:
www.wehearbanjomusic.com
They even take a couple of potshots at Scott DesJarlais, but the real focus appears to be Starrett, the young Californian now trying to unseat the incumbent congressman.
RTP has taken its shots at the young Mr. Starrett and we reserve the right to do so in the future, but we are glad to see someone else pick up some slack.
Word of advice to the kid(s) at We Hear Banjo Music: don’t get too cocky. Remember, the crew at RTP are still the Kings of Snark when it comes to Tennessee politics. But feel free to plagiarize the crap out of anything you find on our site. The more the merrier…..
A Snake in the Bluegrass
By - on November 9, 2015
Buried in the Dean’s article in the KNS about Mark Cate’s new business venture was this little gem:
Cate last week was in Kentucky, helping that state’s new Republican governor-elect, Mark Bevin, organize gubernatorial administration transition efforts. Cate says that was at the request of the Republican Governors Association, which Haslam currently chairs, and done on a volunteer basis.
So let’s see if we got this straight. The new “Tea Party” governor of Kentucky, who ran against Obamacare, Common Core, Medicaid expansion, higher taxes, etc. is being advised by the person who tried to pass those failed policies in Tennessee. Is that about right?
Mark Cate spearheaded the effort to jam Medicaid expansion down taxpayer’s throats not once, but twice, and failed miserably. The Kentucky governor-elect is also taking transition advice from the main operative behind the effort to push Common Core into Tennessee schools. And let’s not forget about Cate’s role in going after conservative legislators of his own party in the debacle known as Advance Tennessee PAC.
Maybe Mr. Bevin felt he had no choice in taking on Cate as an advisor. After all, the RGA dumped a couple of million into his race at the last minute (after having pulled out some weeks before), and since Bill Haslam is the head of the RGA, and since Cate is Haslam’s closest political advisor, it sounds like the RINOs from Tennessee made Bevin “an offer he couldn’t refuse.”
Watch your back, Gov. Bevin. We’ve dealt with Cate and his cronies for years and we can tell you they are not at all what they seem. It will take St. Patrick and a lot of diligence to keep these snakes out of your state
Welcome new Conservative group
It was announced this weekend that a new conservative group was being formed.
Well goody, we guess. Conservatives can always use another group to carry our message. RTP hopes that this is an altruistic endeavor based on fundamental conservative values and not just another organization trolling for business. That it was formed by three lobbyists causes some concern, but from what we have heard so far it appears they are on the up and up. We’ll keep an eye on it just to make sure.
One idea for the new group, though. Even though you are a “Tennessee” conservative organization, RTP humbly suggests you consider admitting political types from other states to join your group as well.
The Fresh Prince from Bel Air
That way, Grant Starrett can be a member too.
BEHOLD! The Randy Boyd for Governor campaign begins….
Bad news for Beth Harwell as she ramps up for governor’s race.
Right on cue, the revolving door that is the Haslam administration has coughed up another example of the soft corruption that passes for state government these days.
Fresh from his disastrous reign as Bill Haslam’s chief-of-staff, Mark “Haters Gonna Hate” Cate is now going Full Pig and slopping up business the governor is sending his way. And as an added bonus, he is setting the stage for Randy Boyd to succeed Haslam in the governor’s chair.
Cate has formed the Stoned Stone River Group, ready to serve paying clients with “strategic advice” (like, how to purchase access to the governor). Right out of the box, Cate is raking in $10,000 per month for one client – the new Tennessee History Museum – a job made possible by Cate and the governor slamming the $140 million taxpayer-funded project through the legislature in the closing days of the session. Shades of Phil Bredesen and Matt Kisber.
It is unlikely Cate will be doing any lobbying with the legislature, since for the most part he is one of the most reviled characters of the Haslam Administration among lawmakers for his rude and bullying tactics, as well as his astonishingly poor political acumen that took a governor coming off a landslide re-election and turned him into a lame duck for the remainder of his term. Thanks in large part to Cate’s ineptness, all that is left of Haslam’s agenda is a trail of failed initiatives.
Joining Cate at the public trough will be Jennifer Triplett, whose most recent job was working for ECDC Commissioner Randy Boyd’s pet toy company. Coincidence? Don’t make us laugh. Also added to the Stoned Group was Jeremy Harrell, the campaign manager for Haslam’s easy run at re-election.
This is particularly bad news for Beth Harwell, who has spent most of her career sucking up to the Haslams in anticipation of a run for major office, only to now find the Haslam’s have their candidate for governor in ’18 — and it ain’t Beth. The Stoned River Group is now comprised of Haslam’s 2010 campaign manager and later chief-of-staff, his 2014 campaign manager as well as a former senior executive with Randy Boyd, all under one roof. Cate even helped get Boyd hired to the governor’s cabinet. If what they are up to was any more obvious, they would have to file a Boyd for Governor campaign finance report this week.
And remind us again, just who the heck is Jeremy Herrell? A short refresher for our newest readers:
Jeremy “The Germ” Harrell joined Stoned River after heading a made-up pro-Common Core front group funded by the governor and his allies. Harrell’s primary job was to follow the governor around all day and regularly remind him that his poo doesn’t stink.
On his way out the door for Tennesseans for Student Success (funded by the governor’s friends, natch), Harrell took time out of his non-existent schedule to send out a press release taking a gratuitous shot at Rep. Andy Holt. Kinda puts his new job into perspective, yes?
We searched our vast archives here at RTP and were reminded where we had heard about Jeremy Herrell for the first time. Seriously – not a single RTP crew member could remember ever having come across The Germ in any competitive political situation before we wrote that column. And now he is a big-shot consultant advising “clients” on their “strategery” in dealing with state government (snicker).
The crew at RTP might be upset if we thought Harrell was actually a significant player in the political process in Tennessee. We take comfort in the knowledge that has left his job as a sycophant toady to the governor, only to be joining the head toady (Cate) in a new endeavor made possible by the taxpayers. Not bad for an operative whose entire breadth of political experience and measurable acumen is about as significant as a gnat’s fart in a hurricane.
But, hey — good luck in your new job, Germ. Maybe someday you can grow up and get a job that does not require sucking on Bill Haslam’s financial teat or on projects created with someone else’s (taxpayer) money.
This article is RTP’s gift to you: With this posting we have introduced you to a few thousand people who, before this article, had never heard of or cared about your professional trajectory.
Of course after reading this they will probably care even less.
Frankly, we think more politicians should be “tested.”
Rep. Andy Holt
Responding to concerns from parents about the problems with the pervasive testing taking place in Tennessee public schools, Rep. Andy Holt decided to check it out himself. He thought he could get some good insights if he took the eighth grade english & language arts test himself, on the same day in the same classroom and in the same environment as the students themselves. After the test was over, he then planned to ask the students what they thought of the test and about school in general. He approached a principal in Obion County who welcomed the legislator. Easy-peezy, right?
Poor public servant. How naive of Rep. Holt to think that doing his job would get a favorable reaction.
Holt thought this was a low-key way to gain information about the state of public education without having state bureaucrats run interference for their pro-Common Core agendas (which include LOTS of testing).
When Commissioner of Education Candice “Queen Bee” McQueen caught wind of what Rep. Holt was about to do she went into panic mode. How DARE an elected official by-pass HER and the pro-Common Core Haslam administration and seek answers for himself. She immediate called Holt and in strong terms bordering on threats told him that taking the test was not a good idea. If he would like to see some practice tests (ones especially cooked up for nosy legislators, no doubt), then he could drive to Nashville and see them in her office, where bureaucrat observers could keep an eye on him.
Holt politely declined and said he was going to do it anyway.
That REALLY pissed off the Queen Bee and sent the bureaucrats into a frenzy. Within minutes McBee was on the phone to the Superintendent of Obion County schools, Russ Davis, who then called Holt and in unmistakable language told him he was “dis-invited” and that he would not be allowed to visit the school.
Some Holt detractors say he was just trying to get publicity for himself. Those who actually know Holt know him to be humorous, self-deprecating and someone who actually reads the legislation before he votes on it. But let’s assume for the moment that Holt was looking for publicity on an issue that taxpayers should and are concerned about. So what? Exactly how is that different than Speaker Beth Harwell posing for the TV cameras milking a cow on Legislative Plaza? The only thing we can think of is that Holt was trying to highlight an important issue and Harwell was trying to….heck, we don’t know what she was trying to highlight (perhaps she was demonstrating to lobbyists how to “milk” the taxpayers).
Speaker Harwell showing the lobbyists how it’s done.
This will not end well for the bureaucrats.
McQueen takes it upon herself to try and threaten an elected legislator from doing something as simple as taking a eighth grade test, and by so doing she elevates the issue while lowering the opinion of taxpayers who are getting pretty damn tired of bureaucrats on the public dole telling us we can’t see what our money is paying for.
And the second moron of this little drama: Obion County school superintendent Russ Davis (more on this fool in later postings). Davis didn’t even try to be diplomatic — he called just minutes after Commissioner McQueen’s not-so-veiled threat to Rep. Holt and rudely and obnoxiously tells him he does not have permission to go to the school.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH THESE PEOPLE?
First it was the education bureaucrat simpletons who refused to let the public know what was being taught about Islam in our schools and now this. The sheer unbridled arrogance of these non-elected jerks is breathtaking. It’s no wonder candidates like Trump are kicking the collective butts of the establishment’s favored candidates. Just look how well the biggest Republican proponent of Common Core is doing in the polls: Jeb! Jeb who?
Was Rep. Holt grandstanding? Who gives a damn. He was just doing his job. Can you imagine how quickly these same jerks would have gone after an elected official who tried to block the voters from seeing his/her voting record?
You petty little Napoleons work for us – not the other way around. And you are just begging for the taxpayers to teach you an object lesson about what happens when you piss off the electorate.
Keep it up and just see what happens. The crew at RTP stand ready and eager to report on your political and policy demise.
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Fun:Death Note
Death Note is a Japanese serial manga that spanned 108 chapters, and was later adapted into three live action movies and an anime series. It was written by Tsugami Ohba, with art by Takeshi Obata.
The story revolves around a bored, genius teenager who finds the Death Note, a notebook that will kill whomever name is written in it, barring certain conditions. The teenager, Light, decides to use the notebook to create an Utopian world, where he himself sits as God, presiding over the people he has allowed to live.
The action in Death Note focuses on the cat and mouse games between Light Yagami (Kira) and the detectives that try to stop him. In the first half of the series, pursuing Kira is brought to you by the letter L, while in the second half of the series, it is done by L's successors, Near and Mello.
Death Note has sparked both moral debate and controversy worldwide. It is banned in China. In America, students have been both suspended and expelled for possessing mock Death Notes with the names of fellow students and teachers written inside.
Comparison: Kira and Andy[edit]
A comparison between the fictional Light Yagami and the unfortunately real Andrew Schlafly
Given their fanatical nature in their respective quests to purge the world of "evil", the following chart has been made to compare Kira to Andrew Schlafly.
Light Yagami AKA Kira
Andrew Layton Schlafly
Kills those whom opposes him
Has the death note, described as the ultimate murder weapon
Studied at the finest University in Japan
Despises the world around him, sees it as rotting
No humility
Sees himself as a god
Uses the Death Note to educate people the difference between right and wrong
Loves his family, yet willing to use them and caused the death of his father
Mostly calm, yet subject to extreme fits of anger when he is outclassed or outsmarted (which is rare)
Misogynistic, uses women around him to his own benefit
Has a religion based around him
Killed the President of the U.S.A.
Killed the FBI agents in Japan sent to capture him, giving the agency a black eye.
Mother is a traditional Japanese housewife
Father was a police chief.
Uses the internet to gain information on criminals to kill
Great voice acting made the character all the more powerful
A little math. Death Note has sold 20 million copies in Japan. There is 189 pages of story in the first volume alone. On that logic, the first volume of Death Note has about 3,780,000,000 pageviews alone, not counting international sales. There are twelve volumes total.
Bans those who oppose him
Has Conservapedia, described as the ultimate stupidity on the net
Claims to have studied at two of the finest Universities in the U.S.A
Despises the world around him, sees it as liberal
Sees himself as a prophet
Uses Conservapedia to educate his students on the difference between "right" and "wrong"
Loves his family
Subject to extreme fits of anger when he is outclassed or outsmarted (which is often)
Misogynistic, gives women different questions on tests
Rewriting the Bible to suit his own interests
Insists President Obama is a Muslim and a product of of affirmative action.
Annoyed the FBI with an incident that must never be talked about
Mother is a writer, political activist who ended the ERA and employed a nanny 40 hours a week mother, which she insists is her occupation
Father was a lawyer
Uses the internet for actions that should be considered criminal
Should consider getting someone to dub his voice
Claims that CP has over 105,000,000 pageviews as of this moment.
Comics Code Authority because this series would never pass
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Parting with plastic brings different results and feelings
August 31, 2012 / P.J. / Leave a comment
By Jenny Cook — For Rattling Chains
A disc’s life starts off in a manufacturing plant somewhere in America, and for the ones that end up in our disc golf bag, each has a story as to how it got there.
Was it purchased at a local disc golf store, won at a tournament, given to you by a friend, or found on a disc golf course? Over time, some of these lucky discs become our go-to discs — our absolute favorites to throw.
So if that disc you simply can’t live without ends up in a murky pond, how long would you spend searching for it? The majority of the disc golf population probably wouldn’t hesitate to grab a rake and start scraping bottom, searching until the sun went down — or came up. I’ve even seen lost-disc flyers
posted at courses with “reward if found” written in big, bold letters.
Facebook and the social forums on dgcourseview.com also allow us to reach out to the locals with pleas, like, “I lost my disc on hole No. 4, in
the rough somewhere. Keep your eyes open for my Valkyrie please! Call if found. Reward!”
We love the plastic that’s in our bag and would do almost anything for it.
There can be risks involved in fighting to get our loved ones back. My husband once found himself in the position of raking the bottom of a pond in search of his putter — his favorite putter.
As he crossed a slick fallen-down log acting as a bridge, he slipped and landed on a branch — X-rays later that night showed he had two broken ribs and a punctured lung. Two weeks later, including three chest tubes and a
thoracotomy, he was released from the hospital. A full recovery has been made since then and up until this last July, his putter stayed in that unforgettable stench of a murky pond in Joliet, Illinois.
The blue Champion Rhyno was recently found among hundreds of other discs and, after a phone call, it made its way back into his hands. His favorite Rhyno now hangs on the wall. Two years later, the story is now complete because of that phone call.
Book Excerpt: Why golf is great, and why in the 21st century disc golf is better
By Jack Trageser — Rattling Chains staff
It is my firm belief that the sport of disc golf — which already has enjoyed strong, steady growth for more than two decades — will experience an explosion in popularity when two things happen:
The general public is properly educated about the true nature and accessibility of disc golf, and all the nuances that make it so much more like traditional golf than most people assume to be the case (the variety of discs and throws, the effects of wind and terrain, etc.).
Disc golf reaches a ‘tipping point’ in terms of popular opinion, triggered by either a critical mass of popular culture/media recognition or a handful of random watershed moments. For instance, if a super-famous person suddenly lists disc golf as their favorite activity, or a TV show, website, or publication with millions of fans features it prominently.
Now, it is altogether possible that a famous person will stumble across disc golf at any time, fall in love with the sport, and by sharing his or her passion for the sport do more to promote it in one day than all other players combined have done up to that point. But unless there is some exhaustive source of correct, detailed, and compelling information available that explains the many different reasons why people that have played it love it so much, chances of that watershed moment resulting in anything but a temporary fad are minimal.
Those seeking the truth about the sport will find nothing substantial — or worse, the misinformation and oversimplifications that currently exist. My goal is to fill that void and have answers to the inevitable questions ready and waiting in a book, for the day the dam breaks.
I’m writing a book that aims to make the two events numbered above much likelier to occur, as well as making the inevitable explosion of disc golf a mere launching point for something with staying power. The book will include chapters that discuss the history, finer points, unique grassroots growth, and formats of the sport, among others. But the unifying theme is a very specific sales pitch for disc golf, and it’s established in the first chapter and repeated throughout:
Poll 23: What’s your longest break?
This next poll kind of goes out to the more avid golfers. Maybe not so much to the casual golfers who go whenever, but the ones who play on a regular basis.
Maybe you’re the one who plays in a weekly group. Or in leagues. Or every chance you get. You’ll be the ones I’m talking to.
But, for a moment, let’s go back to the last poll.
We had asked what your main throwing form is and the result, in my eyes, was not shocking.
Of the 129 players who gave an opinion, 82 percent — or 106 people — voted backhand. That was followed by sidearm (14 percent/18 votes) and then overhand (4 percent/5 votes).
To be honest, when I put this poll up, that was the kind of response I expected as it’s like a lefty in ball golf — it seems so rare when you see it. I know a few people who are mainly sidearm, but for the most part, the majority of people I know or have seen are backhand.
Maybe a few years down the line, as the game grows, this could change. But for now, the backhanders have it.
Let’s see what a few players had to say:
Playing my part and being an ambassador to the game
By Andre Fredrick — Rattling Chains Staff
The sport of disc golf has grown exponentially since I first started playing. There was a time when I could play my local nine-hole course and have it all to myself. Sure, I had to be cautious of joggers, cyclists and the like, but the fairways and greens were practically all mine.
Nowadays the same course is filled players. That has meant the way the game is played, whether it be slower play or a lack of etiquette.
I suppose it’s easy to forget that we were all new to the game once. Likewise, it’s easy to forget that the sport is growing on a daily basis, bringing newcomers to it in a way that it never has before. The growing pains that stem from this surge in popularity come in various forms. Foremost, it has brought the casual player in contact with the veteran player.
More families are discovering disc golf, which is helping the game grow, but puts more people on the course. (photo by Andre Fredrick)
Clashes arise over the protocol and etiquette of the game. Seasoned players often have unreasonably high expectations of the novice player. Sometimes, they are expected to have the same respect and reverence for the game that we have. We demand that they understand the many rules that govern the game, be they in the PDGA handbook or some otherwise unspoken rule.
The simple fact is the casual player can’t be expected to always know these things.
Company Closeup: Arroyo Disc Sports
By Steve Hill — Rattling Chains Staff
Since the sport’s inception, disc golf has been constantly evolving. Lids and blunt-edged discs have given way to the modern, physics-pushing sharp-nosed drivers of today. Courses are growing in size and number. Even bags have pushed the limits of technology, with human hands now being eschewed in favor of military-grade backpack material hoisted over one’s shoulders.
But one area that has not kept pace with the current rate of change is the basket.
Yes, companies have added more chains to their devices, or worked to make them more visible, but current chain-device design still allows for a good deal of spit-outs and pass-throughs. Casual and professional players alike can tell you about their experiences with the “one that got away,” so to speak, more than likely with a scowl and a couple expletives to accompany their stories.
The Arroyo Vortex.
Arroyo Disc Sports is hoping to rewrite the ending to these tales with their new basket, the Vortex.
With the Vortex, the Pasadena, California-based company has completely redesigned the chain structure, giving it a net-like appearance and function. The aim is better catching, happier players, and, in the end, evolution of the game.
“The idea for a new basket sprouted from our experiences as tournament players,” said Arroyo co-founder Logan Turner. “We felt that there was a need for an upgrade to basket technology for a number of reasons, the first and foremost being the functional shortcomings of most baskets we play on today.”
Turner pointed to the aforementioned spit-outs and the havoc they can wreak on a player’s mental game and, in the case of professionals, their wallets.
“All players have experienced spit outs and pass-throughs on putts at some point in their career, and at all levels that can be mentally frustrating,” he said. “Not to mention it can cost top pros hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars each time it occurs.”
Disc golf still looking to go viral
The day disc golf finally goes viral is . . . not here yet.
Hasn’t happened.
But like a geologist who observes trends and predicts a major earthquake will occur in an area with no seismic history, I believe it will.
Many share my belief, but few agree with my vision of how it will happen and what disc golf’s future potential can be. Those on the inner circle of professional disc golf — and their small but intensely loyal pack of fans — seem to think a major sponsor will come along and bankroll the professional tour, making televised tournaments a reality, thus creating legions of new players and courses.
This is a romanticized vision based more on hopes and dreams than any historical sports precedent, and I feel it is completely backwards.
Corporations are about two things — making money and, if public, increasing share price. They just don’t sink major sponsorship money into anything until they can see that it will draw a measurably significant audience and therefore improve their bottom line. By this yardstick disc golf is no where close.
I asked Rattling Chains founder P.J. to run last week’s poll question, ‘How did you get introduced to the game’ for this precise reason, and the results were just as I predicted — 67 percent said they learned of the sport through a friend, and exactly zero responded that they learned of it through some form of media.
The Vibram Open should be packed full of excitement
Nate Doss takes a plunge into the pond after winning the Vibram Open last year. Will Doss repeat or will someone else claim victory this year?
By P.J. Harmer — Rattling Chains staff
This year’s Vibram Open is shaping up to be one to remember.
And for the first time, the pros and ams are each getting in on the action.
The Vibram is the final stop on the PDGA National Tour Elite Series. This year, the event expands to four days for the pros, running from Thursday to Sunday.
On top of that, the Vibram has added an amateur tournament, which will be held at other area courses with the final being shifted to Maple Hill to play the vaunted gold tees.
Some of the other major new items for this year’s Vibram include:
The men’s professional open field is smaller, but has a larger payout. A cap of 144 players has been set (it used to be 160), and the cut will remain at 72. The payout has gone from $41,000 to $45,000.
The women’s payout this year has also gone up — from $8,300 to $10,000. The Vibram also allowed any and all women to compete with the cut line being 15.
The Vibram has also gone from three to four rounds.
The pro tournament will run from Thursday through Sunday at Maple Hill in Leicester, Mass.
One of the most scenic courses on the tour, the championship gold tees challenge the best in the world with tricky woods shots, long drives and creative water holes.
As the crowning — and final stop — on the PDGA Tour, more than just a victory will be on the line as the tour champion will be crowned at this event as well.
Poll 22: Throwing form
Have you ever noticed how repetitive sports are when playing them?
There are so many technical parts to a game that make it like that. Whether it be throwing, catching, swinging or whatever else, the motions and way to do things — and do them correctly — are repetitive.
It’s not to say it’s a bad thing. The repetitiveness nature of things is what makes someone better or worse than another.
Take, for example, baseball pitching.
A pitcher has several ways they can throw — overhand, 3/4 or sidearm. Some even go to a submarine style of throwing. But they stay with that in a predominate way, thus making it so their motion and such is what they do over and over.
Disc golf is no different. And part of that is something to keep in mind when we discuss this week’s poll question.
Before that, however, let’s go back to last week’s poll, when we asked you how you were introduced to the game.
Often, our poll questions come from the other writers on this site. Jack Trageser said he was curious about what people would say in response to this poll and even said he’d guess that the majority of people would vote the options of being introduced by a friend or seeing it being played would be the two top choices.
He was half right.
Course review: Orchard Park (Oregon)
Don’t be fooled by this open-looking hole — this stand of trees on hole three can make for a much more challenging shot than you think.
(Editor’s note: While course reviews aren’t our top stories at Rattling Chains, we will, at times, run one when one of our writers has the urge to talk about a course they play or have played. This is one of those times).
By Andre Fredrick — RattlingChains.com staff
My local course — Orchard Park in Hillsboro, Ore., is often much maligned by seasoned disc golfers for two main reasons.
The first is the abundance of recreational players, which makes the course quite crowded. The second is a complaint that, with its short pin placements and open greens, Orchard Park provides little challenge to an experienced player.
The popularity of the sport as well as the course’s central location and greens that are not quite intimidating make it a natural choice for the curious and acquainted alike.
Orchard hosts “Tuesday Twos” league, which always draws a good crowd.
I don’t begrudge the newcomers. Besides, many more recreational players have caught on to the basic etiquette of the game and will often offer to allow me to play through as soon as they see me tromping up to the tee pad.
In spite of its shortcomings, Orchard is a favorite haunt of mine, and not just because I live a stone’s throw away from it. Still, location is a big factor. As pretty much the only public course in my immediate neighborhood, Orchard makes getting my fix for disc golf a matter of a quick drive or bike ride.
Though Orchard only has nine holes, I find this to be perfect for a couple of reasons. First, I would often find myself at Orchard on a lunch break or before running off to tackle the day’s errands. Being able to blast through a quick nine in 20-30 minutes is a big selling point for me.
Exclusive: The chains talk back
August 8, 2012 / P.J. / Leave a comment
(Editor’s note: Sometimes there isn’t anything in the queue and I’m blank so I start thinking about silly things I can write about. This is one of those stories…)
By Disc G. Basket, Esq. — Contributing writer
I’m sick of it.
You see, me and my brethren are sick and tired of you disc golfers treating us like crap or second-rate citizens.
Rattle those chains, you say. Make them sing, you say. Throw it harder and make it stick, you say.
A disc golf basket speaks up — and makes it known that rattling the chains is a painful thing!
Apparently, you don’t realize that we baskets feel what you are doing.
You don’t think it’s a coincidence that a perfect putt pops into the chains and then lands on the ground, do you?
We have to deal with a lot, you know.
Sometimes, we’ll have to smell some of that herbal stuff that some of you players bring around. You know, not all of us like to smell that stuff! And booze? How many times are you going to leave empty beer (or soda or something else) bottles in our baskets?
Our baskets aren’t made for that or other trash that people can leave behind. Now we realize that it’s not just disc golfers who leave stuff in our baskets, but they do.
People sometimes also sign us after we’re kind enough to allow an ace. Really? Sign your disc and move on. For those of you kind enough to come out and wipe all that graffiti off us, we thank you.
Back in the day, when we were first installed, we’d be treated like Kings and Queens.
Players would come by in awe of us. Kind of like a new baby. Unlike a baby, however, soon you were whipping pieces of plastic at us. Sometimes, there were sharp edges.
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‘The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part’ Home Entertainment Release Date Announcement
Everything is still awesome! The LEGO Movie was a giant hit, so naturally we had to have a sequel. The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part delivers on the elements that made the first one a success. Batman and the gang are back on a new mission and bring the laughs along the way. Soon you’ll be able to bring home The LEGO Movie 2 when it comes to 4K UHD Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, and DVD on May 7, 2019. Own and see it earlier on Digital on April 16!
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“The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part” 4K UHD Combo Pack and Blu-ray Combo Pack contain the following special features:
Everything is Awesome Sing-along – Sing-along, trivia, games and more!
Commentary – Fun behind the scenes commentary by filmmakers
They Come in Pieces: Assembling The LEGO Movie 2 – Featurette highlighting A-list voice talent including Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett and Tiffany Haddish
Emmet’s Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short – Holiday themed animated short
LEGO Sets in Action – Animations of the LEGO product tied to The LEGO Movie 2
LEGO Designers – LEGO toy designers highlight key play sets in TLM2 product line
Outtakes & Deleted Scenes – Never before seen scenes
Super Cool Music Video – Music video by Beck featuring Robyn and The Lonely Island
Promotion Spots – Fun custom spots featured during the theatrical campaign
“The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part” DVD Special Edition contains the following special features:
On April 16, “The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part” will be available to own in high definition and standard definition from select digital retailers including Amazon, FandangoNow, iTunes, PlayStation, Vudu, Xbox and others. On May 7, “The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part” will be made available digitally on Video On Demand services from cable and satellite providers, and on select gaming consoles.
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US20080160909A1 - Apparatus and methods for playing digital content and displaying same - Google Patents
Apparatus and methods for playing digital content and displaying same Download PDF
Robert Khedouri
Jonathan Axelrod
Harold Price
John Becker
Mark Edinger
Douglas R. Kraul
Music Gremlin Inc
SanDisk Technologies LLC
2007-12-26 Application filed by Music Gremlin Inc filed Critical Music Gremlin Inc
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A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e.g., a P2P protocol. All downloads are governed by applicable DRM rules. Content and playlists may also be pushed by a server from other sources and means including, e.g., podcasting, based on predetermined rules, favorite preferences of users, and other criteria.
This application claims priority to provisional application Ser. No. 60/807,840 filed Jul. 20, 2006, and 60/943,675 filed Jun. 13, 2007 and is a continuation-in-part application of application Ser. No. 10/953,746 filed Sep. 29, 2004, all incorporated herein by reference.
a. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to the field of digital audio and video player devices that are preferably portable and receive content either from a secure subscription-based, “a-la-carte” content delivery service, or from other participant devices, and more particularly to a portable player apparatus that is in wireless communications with an Internet-based file server and/or to a peer player apparatus. The present invention also relates to a system and method for delivery and management of such content to such devices, and improvements thereto.
b. Description of the Prior Art
The development of compressed digital audio and video formats, such as the Motion Picture Experts Group—Layer 3 (MP3) audio compression standard, MPEG-21, Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), Ogg-Vorbis and others enabled the growth in popularity of recording, storing, transferring, and playing back digital audio and video data on computers, including personal desktop and laptop computers. In particular, compressed digital audio and video formats enabled more efficient storage and transmission of high-quality audio and video content by reducing the amount of digital data that needed to be stored and transmitted, resulting in data files that could be smaller than 1/10th of the original uncompressed digital file without unacceptably degrading the quality of the output. However, due to computational requirements, consumers were generally only able to access and use compressed and uncompressed digital audio and video on their personal laptop and desktop computers (except for conventional commercially-sold pre-recorded CDs and DVDs, which were playable on standard players connected to home stereos and the like). This severely limited portable use and access to such digital audio and video content in that it required the user to be present at or near his or her computer to see and/or hear the playback, which typically could only be through speakers and/or a screen internal to or connected to the computer and not easily transported in digital format to more favorable listening environments, such as the user's car.
More recently, relatively low-cost, lightweight, compact, portable digital media players (DMPs) have been developed, e.g., Thomson/RCA's various Lyra-branded products, Apple's iPod products, and Creative Lab's Zen line of portable MP3 player products. These portable devices enable consumers to transfer compressed digital audio and/or video files stored on their computers to the portable devices through the use of associated computer-based software via an external connection, such as a USB or “FireWire” cable, and to play the corresponding media on-demand through their DMPs while not in proximity to their computer. Users most commonly accessed the audio on the device by connecting headphones via a standard jack on the device, although it was also possible to connect a line-out cable to other audio output or recording devices, such as a microphone or line-input of a standard home stereo system.
Such DMPs originally tended to rely on the use of flash memory, such as compact flash or secure digital, for the storage of audio content, and were capable of holding a maximum of approximately 0.5 to 1 gigabyte of memory (and more recently 2, 4, 6 and 8 GB). So-called “portable jukeboxes” have also been introduced that can hold an estimated 10,000 songs or more of musical entertainment by including a miniature hard disk recorder in the housing of the device, which can have 40 gigabytes or more of capacity. Portable video players with even greater hard disk capacity have also been developed.
In general, conventional DMPs are capable of allowing their users to (1) transfer compressed media files from a computer to the device through the use of associated transfer management software installed on the computer and a physical connection to the computer, such as a USB cable; (2) store such compressed media files in non-destructive memory; (3) decode for playback any of a variety of compression algorithms; (4) convert a compressed or uncompressed digital file to an analog format, potentially also processing the signal to enhance the resulting sound and images; (5) process and amplify the resulting analog signal; and (6) produce high-fidelity sound and video for the user, which may be played, paused, fast-forwarded, rewound, skipped or replayed instantly and on-demand. Also, typically in the case of audio DMPs (e.g., the iPod “Nano”), the devices feature a relatively small digital display window that provides information regarding the audio content stored on the device, such as the title and artist, and enables viewing (and in some cases modifying) the sequence of the audio tracks that are currently stored on the device.
Disadvantageously, however, data transfer and advanced sorting and sequencing of selections are difficult or impossible for a user to accomplish unless the DMP is connected to the computer, which does not allow the user to obtain new content or to make other desirable modifications to the content stored on the DMP, such as easily modifying the sequence of the content selections stored on the device while the player device is not connected to the computer. Further, in the case of audio, these players typically do not enable a non-technical user to create and manage custom “playlists” (i.e., fixed song sequences), such that a user can easily develop and use a variety of personalized playlists for use at different times. Also disadvantageously, the display and user interface on these audio devices is typically limited in size, involves the use of multi-functional buttons which are complex for many users and is not touch-sensitive, thereby preventing non-expert users from easily viewing and modifying the listing and sequence of audio tracks stored on the DMP.
A further disadvantage of the prior art is that users are typically required to select content selections one-by-one and then to add them to the device. This requirement creates an inconvenience for the user since typically the user may prefer variety in programming and in many cases may not want to create a selection-by-selection sequence of entertainment, especially in the case of music. Programmed entertainment of this sort is currently available to consumers through traditional broadcast media and through other means that generally require the use of a device connected to a wired input, such as Internet-based streaming, accessible through laptop and desktop computers (and certain specialized wired devices, such as the Streamium audio device made by Royal Philips Electronics, or Sonos digital audio products), and digital cable television and radio services, accessible through cable-connected television sets. More recently, subscription-based commercial satellite broadcast services have been introduced, such as DirecTV for television and Sirius and XM for radio, which enable consumers to receive broadcast programming by selecting among available stations.
However, in all cases involving terrestrial and satellite broadcasts, the user does not have true on-demand access to a large library (e.g., 2 or 3 million items) of content, along with full transport control over pausing, skipping, repeating, fast-forwarding, rewinding and deleting content. Also, neither terrestrial and satellite broadcasts, nor Internet-based media services, allow the user to call up and access specific new selections on-demand on a portable device that does not have full PC functionality (e.g., a laptop) and is not connected to an Internet connection. Accordingly, for the convenience of receiving programming with existing DMPs, the user is required to cede control over delivered content for convenience, or will be required to choose to cede convenience for control. Further, in the case of radio-linked audio player devices, player device reception is typically limited due to physical terrain and geographic features, which can distort radio signals that in all cases need to be continuously present and stable during the audio output to provide the user with a satisfactory entertainment experience. Further, of the forms of media services (e.g., TV and radio) available, only Internet-based streaming and digital cable, each of which require the user to use a stationary wired-device for access (e.g., television set and digital cable decoding box), and satellite broadcasts, which do not permit on-demand access or control by the user, provide digital-quality output, which may be a benefit required by users. The foregoing is partially mitigated by the development of consumer devices that permit digital recording of broadcast content by the end user. However, these devices generally have certain limitations: (1) The devices can store the digital content locally only when it is broadcast, requiring the user to wait for the broadcast to occur, and offering no opportunity for the user to access a missed broadcast. (2) In the case of music in particular, copyright and related laws limit the ability of these devices that receive broadcasts to be legally manufactured and marketed to consumers without explicit content owner approval, if such devices enable the user to exert a significant amount of control over the content playback and management, such as the ability to rewind or repeat a recording of broadcast satellite radio, or enable users to predict with certainty that particular copyrighted music will be broadcast at a particular time to enable the user to capture a digital recording.
A further disadvantage of the prior art is that a security method is not provided for content owners to enable distribution of content to users, management of the content and deletion/expiration of their content on a subscription basis using only a standalone DMP that is not reliant on the use of associated desktop or laptop computer software, while still maintaining royalty records and rights, especially against secondary party transfers. Content owners and users would also benefit from a way content can be shared laterally across peer-to-peer device transfers to other users of both the personal playlists and the media data content that may be stored in the player device in a way that is secure and that permits only authorized sharing activities. It can be appreciated by one having ordinary skill in the art that the terms “audio”, “video”, “media”, and words of similar import may be used interchangeably throughout this document to describe the relevant content, since methods of digital video content compression, storage, transfer, playback and control can be accomplished by using very similar methods and technologies and are similarly well-known by those skilled in the art. Note that “content,” as used in this document, shall accordingly mean any audio or video recording that a user may seek to access, and also shall include any other file type capable of being interpreted by a user, such as a written document stored in digital form or a digitally stored and compressed photograph, which may be similarly transferred, shared and used.
An apparatus and system that solves many of the problems associated with the prior art has been previously filed as application Ser. No. 10/953,746 incorporated herein by reference. The present invention addresses additional issues and improvements to the previously described system.
SUMMARY OF THE DEVICE DISCLOSED IN THE PARENT APPLICATION
A preferred embodiment of the device disclosed in the '746 application consists of a portable wireless audio and/or video player apparatus having one or more of the following elements: a peer-to-peer audio and/or video data transfer module to allow communications with another wireless audio and/or video player apparatus; a wireless communication link to an Internet-connected base, a communication software module for requesting one or more audio and/or video data files from an Internet-based database server via the Internet-connected base station; a first security means for enabling the downloading and storage of the requested files; a second security means for the management and playing of the stored files; and one or more software modules for interfacing with a user to effect the foregoing features using an easy-to-understand interface. More specifically, the player apparatus is able to function as a standalone device to generate, search and obtain new audio and/or video digital data files (containing content and associated metadata (as defined below)) wirelessly over the Internet, without the need to use an intervening device, such as a desktop or laptop computer that temporarily stores the content data files to be transferred to the portable device, or software that runs on a laptop or desktop computer to manage the transfer and arrangement of content on the portable device. This feature enables a non-technical user to access and use digital audio and/or video content without knowledge of how to operate a computer. Further, to overcome the limitations of the display interface of the prior art, the user interface software according to embodiments of the present invention is designed to enable more complex user functions and data organization, and to display these simply and clearly. Such user interface software permits the device to reasonably and comfortably function for the user as a standalone device while permitting the user to search for new content, manage and modify large volumes of content, and share content across a large number of potential users who may be listed by user ID or name. Moreover, the device obtains files from a server or laterally from another device without using a browser-type application.
It is also a feature of the embodiments of the previous device to provide the user with a flexible programming capability both as to time and selection for the playing of the individual audio and/or video files or groups of files. This includes allowing a user to select and play individual content selections from a broad content library stored in a network on-demand, and alternatively to request that hours of continuous programmed content be playable on demand, which programming will be updated on a periodic basis (e.g., daily), without limiting the user's ability to start, stop, rewind or fast-forward through the program.
It is also a feature of the embodiments of the previous device to provide a means for exporting the data content to one or more of a plurality of output devices, including headphones or a home or car stereo, or another storage and/or playback apparatus such as a desktop or laptop computer. Such export may be via either a wired or a wireless communications link.
It is a feature of the embodiments of the previous device to provide a portable player apparatus that is not dependent on favorable physical terrain and geographic features that are typically associated with wireless communications devices. This is mainly accomplished by the pre-storing of desired audio and/or video data and metadata content while in the presence of a communications uplink for accessing/playing at a later time, at which time a continuous wireless connection is not required for navigating the metadata database or for a satisfactory output of the stored audio and/or video content.
It is a feature of the embodiments of the previous device to provide a secure method for content owners to enable distribution of their audio and/or video content to mass-market consumers on a subscription basis.
In a preferred embodiment according to the previous device, a media distribution system preferably consists of a broadband network system for wirelessly distributing digital media files to multiple standalone portable digital media player devices in which the devices are: (1) optimized for searching for, receiving and playing audio and/or video files, authorized obtainment from a network or peer device, management and search of metadata and media content (even while no network or Internet connection is present), authorized playback and authorized transfer (such as to a peer device or digital computer) of digital audio and/or video files by a user; (2) capable of wirelessly transmitting and receiving audio and/or video data files at “broadband” speeds via conventional broadband protocols, such as that promulgated in the 802.1x standards, both to and from a network which preferably includes Internet connectivity; and (3) able to communicate with an application service in order to request and download encrypted audio and/or video content and associated metadata. Each portable player device preferably includes at least a first security means that disables playback and transfer of media files, or that selectively enables such playback and transfer when a subscription service is activated. The media distribution system preferably includes one or more Internet-based database servers wherein are stored digital audio and/or video data content in compressed or uncompressed form and associated metadata (i.e., descriptive or associative data concerning the content—in the case of audio, this may include such items as length of track, name of artist, name of song, name of album, encoding format and bit rate), an Internet application server interface that communicates individually with each portable device via a secure certification/authentication link, an upload manager that ensures the secure and efficient delivery of data content files to each of the portable devices, and the communications network, thereby allowing the user to request, download, and store individual titles, groups of titles, and/or preprogrammed entertainment that fit particular criteria (such as genre or purpose (e.g., work-out, dancing)) on a periodic basis.
The audio and/or video content may be distributed to the portable player devices in encrypted form, capable of being played only when decrypted with a particular private digital decryption key. The portable player device (or apparatus) is preferably constructed with an internal clock that is not settable or re-settable by the user (which is a necessary part of preventing a user from avoiding the expiration and disablement of content for time-based subscriptions), but rather can only be digitally set by establishing a secure and authenticated connection to a secure subscriber network that provides it with accurate time and date information. The portable player device preferably also includes a monitoring module that records the time and date each time a content selection is played or transferred by the device. The monitoring module also preferably includes a reporting module for transferring the monitoring results to the network (e.g., via the device's upload manager) when connection is made between the portable player device and the network for any reason. The portable player device further preferably contains software (supported by secure hardware configuration) which enforces conditional access to the decryption key by the playback mechanism, which conditions are preferably set by, and updateable by, the server-side operator and might include ensuring a user is a current and valid subscriber to a content service, or a play count limit has not been exceeded (other example conditions enforced by mechanisms on the player device might include detecting whether the DRM or security mechanisms have been tampered with).
In a second embodiment of the previous device, a portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device for transferring audio and/or video and related files to and from a second portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device, the portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device preferably comprises: a wireless transceiver unit for wirelessly communicating with external devices (such as peer devices and digital computers); an audio output unit for playinq audio files; a visual output unit for displaying video and/or displaying user interface information (e.g., LCD screen or other existing or hereafter created output technology, which, in the case of user interface information, may also be replaced (as is familiar to those experienced in the art) with a menu-driven audio output means); a controlling computing unit having a user input interface and a microprocessor; a digital storage means for storing digital data; and an included software method for operating the device, wherein the digital data preferably includes audio and/or video data content and playlists. Further, the audio output unit preferably includes one or more from the group consisting of speakers and headphones, and the user input unit may consist of one or more from the group consisting of buttons, keys, joysticks, toggles, switches, keyboards, touch-pads and touch-sensitive screen locations, which may include infrared, resistive, inductive and capacitive sensing means. The software may include one or more of the following modules: a communications module; a processing module; a security module; a user interface module; a resident database management module; a storage and retrieval module; and a play module.
The user input interface of the second embodiment preferably includes a set of interactive screens displayed on the video output device, further including: the steps required for selection of one or more titles in response to screen display pages in order to generate a content request list for transmitting to the audio and/or video content distribution center upload manager and database. The security module preferably includes means for interaction with upstream base station to enable the operation of the portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device; interaction with at least one second portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device; and expiration of audio and video content files according to a set of subscription and usage rules that may be modified through programmed changes at the network/server level. Such rules may include, for example, prohibition on playing any subscription-based content resident on the portable device unless the network has authenticated and validated the subscription on the device within the past 30 days.
In a third embodiment, a portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device for generating and wirelessly transmitting a playlist to local base station having an Internet connection to an Internet-based database server, and receiving an associated plurality of audio and/or video data content files, preferably comprises: a portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device as in the second embodiment communicatively coupled to an Internet-based database server via a local wireless base station. In the third embodiment, the wireless communications are preferably accomplished using a WiFi protocol. The Internet-based database server: distributes stored audio and/or video content files in response to playlist transmission request after first verifying that the requesting device has an authorized subscription; sends re-enabling messages to the requesting device to reset a local security module to generate a first enabling action; sends disabling messages to the requesting device to cause the local security module to generate a disabling action if the device does not have an authorized subscription.
In a fourth embodiment, a secure subscription-protected communications system for distributing audio and/or video data content to a portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device, preferably comprises: 1) a portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device that generates a content request list via an interactive user interface or by automatically determining a list of one or more selections the user desires but which are not currently stored on the device (e.g., based on a preferred sequence of songs or videos the user has compiled (a “playlist”), only some of which are currently stored on the portable device); transmits the content request list to a local base station; receives and stores associated audio and/or video files transmitted from the local base station; transmits to and receives from, on-demand or in an automated fashion, content files from other peer-to-peer devices; displays a list of available content on the device to its user, as well as to other users who establish a wireless connection with the device; displays a list of possible content choices, even if not resident on the device, to the user; enables management of a large quantity of digital content, including the development and modification of custom playlists; plays audio and/or video files in response to user selection, if the subscription is valid; and disables content rendering if the subscription is invalid, such that the user is not able to play the content on the device; 2) the local base station receiver that receives the content request from the peer-to-peer portable wireless communication player device; and transmits the received request to an Internet-based database server via the Internet communication link; 3) the Internet-based database server that: stores and manages a plurality of audio and/or video files that are accessible by inputting associated titles or file IDs; tracks subscription information (e.g., such as access rights and expiration timing) for a plurality of portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player devices; tracks artist proprietary material and rights; tracks usage of proprietary material on each one of the portable peer-to-peer wireless communication devices; receives the content request list from the local base station via an Internet communications connection; retrieves selected audio and/or video files indicated by the received playlist; transmits the selected audio and/or video files to the local base station for re-transmission to the portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device; and 4) a local base station transmitter that receives transmitted audio and/or video files from an upstream database server via the Internet communication link and re-transmits the received audio and video files to the requesting portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device.
In a fifth embodiment, a secure subscription-protected media distribution system for distributing audio and/or video content files to a portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device in response to a received playlist, preferably comprises: 1) a peer-to-peer wireless communication device that: generates a user content request list via an interactive user interface (or in an automated fashion based on user preferences that the user pre-selects, and/or a predetermined set of rules or other criteria); transmits the generated request list to a local base station; receives and stores associated audio and/or video files transmitted from the local base station; plays audio and/or video files in response to user selection, if subscription is valid; and disables and/or expunges content if the subscription is invalid; 2) the local base station receiver that receives requests from the portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device and transmits the received requests to a database server via the Internet communication link; 3) the database server that: stores and manages a plurality of audio and/or video files that are accessible by inputting associated titles or file IDs; tracks subscription information for a plurality of portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player devices; tracks artist proprietary material and rights; tracks usage of proprietary material on each one of the plurality of portable peer-to-peer wireless communication devices; receives the content request list from the local base station via an Internet communications connection; retrieves selected audio and/or video files indicated by the received playlist; and transmits the selected audio and/or video files to the local base station for re-transmission to the portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device; and 4) a local base station transmitter that receives transmitted audio and video files from upstream database server via the Internet communication link and re-transmits the received audio and/or video files to the requesting portable peer-to-peer wireless communication player device.
In a sixth embodiment, a wireless communications system for selecting, downloading and playing audio and/or video data content using a wireless protocol which, in the present embodiment may be based upon the 802.1x (or similar) standards and related technologies (referred to herein, along with other wireless technologies now existing or hereafter developed (such as Wi-MAX) which may be substituted, as “WiFi”), preferably comprises: a subscription-based database server further including: a first Internet connection; a plurality of audio and/or video data content files; and a translation and retrieval means for defining and downloading a unique one of the audio and/or video data content files in response to an inputted title or file ID selection request. The wireless communications system also preferably includes: a local WiFi base station, which has a second Internet connection in communication with the first Internet connection; and a portable wireless communication subscription-capable player device, which further includes: a selection means for generating at least one title or file ID selection request; and a WiFi transmission means for transmitting the first title selection request to the local base station and thence to the database server; a WiFi receiving means for receiving the audio and/or video data content file downloaded in response to the transmitted title selection request; and a playing means for playing the downloaded audio and/or video data content file.
The portable wireless communication subscription-capable player device of the sixth embodiment preferably further includes a security unit for controlling the operation of the unit in responsiveness to at least one subscription status indicator. The selection means of the portable wireless communication subscriber player device may further include a display unit and a user input means, which may further include such input devices as a button, a touch-pad location on the display unit, a joystick, a toggle, a key, a keyboard or a voice recognition input means.
The portable wireless communication subscriber player device of the sixth embodiment preferably further includes a communication means for wirelessly connecting with a second portable wireless communication subscription-capable player device for the purpose of transferring data between the two devices using the WiFi protocol. The portable subscriber wireless communication subscription-capable player device preferably includes means for selecting, downloading and playing audio and/or video data content (or, per the definition of “content” herein, any other data files) using a WiFi protocol, comprising: a selection means for selecting at least one from a displayed list of audio and/or video titles and generating at least a first title selection request; and a WiFi transmission means for transmitting the first title selection request to a local base station and thence to a database server; a WiFi receiving means for receiving the audio and/or video data content file downloaded in response to the transmitted title selection request; and a playing means for playing the downloaded audio and/or video data content file. The portable wireless communication subscription-capable player device of the sixth embodiment preferably further includes a security unit for controlling the operation of the unit in response to at least one subscription status indicator.
FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a system with several devices owned or accessible to one or more users, with each user being able to set characteristics and other data associated with the devices;
FIG. 1A shows examples of remote editing of a playlist;
FIG. 1B shows a block diagram of a system implementing some advanced peer-to-peer features;
FIG. 1C shows a block diagram for the device 10 adapted to process catalog lists;
FIG. 1D shows a flow chart illustrating DRM license prefetching process;
FIG. 1E shows a flow chart of users receiving recommended lists of musical selections;
FIG. 1F shows a combined flow chart and block diagram of an example pf a P2P file sharing protocol across wireless portable devices;
FIG. 1G shows a flow chart of audio file transmissions between buddies;
FIG. 1H shows a scheme for adding a song to a playlist;
FIG. 1I shows a flow chart for adding a song to a playlist;
FIG. 1J shows a flow chart for downloading a song to a device through a telephone;
FIG. 1K shows a block diagram for accessing content through dialup;
FIG. 2 shows a flow chart for downloading content on a portable device sequentially from several sources;
FIG. 3 illustrates a system in which new content listings are provided to an intermediary server system, compiled (and optionally compressed) into a format that is compatible with an end-user mobile device;
FIG. 3A shows a block diagram for accessing content through cellular phones;
FIG. 4 illustrates a system with security means employed between an end-user device and an intermediary server system in which the intermediary server system handles a request for content that involves one or more security means (such as DRM) for the device, insulating the device from changes to the security protocol over time and other problems that may arise;
FIG. 5 illustrates a user sets preferences on a PC (or on a mobile device) and have the server generate playlists/content which automatically get sent to the end user device.
Feature 1—Profile Selection Remote from the Portable Device
In the original system described in the parent application, the emphasis was on the portable device. The portable device was set up to allow a user to make all the changes in the user profile itself. However, in some instances, a user may prefer to make changes in his profile from a desktop or laptop computer because these latter devices have bigger screens and, generally, more full-functional interfaces. A system performing this function is shown in FIG. 1.
In FIG. 1, a system 100 is shown in which a user owns, operates or has access to several different devices, two such devices labeled 10 and 12 being shown in the Figure. Each of the devices has access to a content server 14 over the Internet 16, using a wired or a wireless connection (e.g. WIFI) and with or without a browser. Through each device, the user can access his account on the server 14, using a user name, password, etc. Once he gains access to his account, the user can then make various changes, such as his address, telephone number, preferred credit card, etc. Moreover, the user can also make changes to his profile, including the genre of music he likes to hear, or can modify his lists of songs. In addition, the user can also modify various settings for any of the devices associated with his account.
For example, device 10 may be a desktop PC and device 12 may be a portable music player. The user can access the server from either device, as discussed, or change the personal information, profile information, etc. He can also check or change various settings on the portable music player from the desktop. For example, the player may have a privacy setting that stops other devices from accessing and downloading selections from the player. This privacy setting can be enabled remotely from the PC.
All the changes made by the user are entered on the user's account by the content server 14 and stored in an account memory or database 18. This process is preferably implemented using an Internet web-based thin client. The next time the user accesses his account using the portable player 12, the player automatically downloads the new settings, including the privacy setting, as well as other information relevant to its operation.
Feature 2—Remote Editing of a Portable Device Options
Another feature of the present invention is that, using for example, the system 100 of FIG. 1, the user can use on a device, such as device 10 to edit information on device 12. For this purpose, various lists and other data, such as addresses, telephone numbers, lists of songs that the user has downloaded and their arrangement, are all stored in the account memory or database. Other information and actual content is stored in this manner as well, including musical selections, such as songs, multimedia content files, e-mails, pictures, and so on.
While device 10 may be in contact with the content server 14 at all times, device 12 need not be. Once the user gains access to the server 10, he can make the changes to both the various lists as well as the files containing content as well. For, the user can change these lists, by arranging them, adding or deleting items from the lists, etc. Similarly, the user can rearrange the content in memory 18, or even delete the same as desired.
Contact between each device, therefore, could be established continuously, sporadically, when WiFi service is available, at regularly scheduled time, or when requested by the user. The next time, the user accesses the content server 14 with any of his devices, the information in the respective device is updated using a sync operation similar to the ones used in PDAs. This process can also occur automatically or when requested by the user. If the updating or sync occurs automatically, the user has the option of disabling it. This process can also allow users to send information (including text, audio, video, and other media) to other users. For example, one of user A's devices 10 can send information to user B's device 12, if desired. FIG. 1A shows a block diagram of a system for implementing these features. In FIG. 1A, the user can log into his account in step 502 and then modify his playlist in step 504, which is then stored on the server in the database in step 506. In step 508, the user's device later contacts the server. If any changes have been made (step 510), the updated playlist information is sent to the device in step 512. If not, the user can proceed with other device functions in step 514.
Features 3 and 4—Automatic Content Distribution and Podcasting
The present invention further provides a system for automatically distributing new content directly to end-user devices. Through the user interface of a portable or other device, a user indicates preferences for particular “Gremlists™,” or “podcasts,” or otherwise indicates preferences for other similar “push content” from the server via a user interface (collectively referred to herein as “podcast”), which may be presented to the user by content server 14. Each such podcast may include the latest edition of an audiovisual program and any previous editions that the publisher may desire to make available (e.g., it may be a playlist of separate audiovisual programs). The user of a device of system 100 may sign up to one or more podcasts. The contents from the podcasts are then made available to devices 10 and 12 from digitized media files stored on content server 14 (which may be internal or external to the service provider) whenever the respective device contacts the server for an update and/or when the content server 14 sends a message the devices that new content is available for downloading.
This may be implemented in multiple ways. First, the user can be given access to a selection of podcasts either via the portable wireless device 10 interface or via any other device 12, such as a PC with a browser. The user can select a podcast for his/her account by entering (or browsing) a URL manually or by searching or browsing an aggregation of available podcasts stored on the server 14 (which may be updated by the provider or by users from time to time)—this listing may be compiled by a server which aggregates available podcast content by periodically polling podcast URLs 20 and compiling and organizing the metadata. The listing of podcasts may be presented or made searchable/browseable by traditional means on a browser-based device. However, preferably, the list of available podcasts is also searchable and browseable (in addition to online live searches against a server) via an asynchronous catalog mechanism such as the one detailed in application '746. This would allow a user to review metadata and select podcasts for his/her account with low latency, even if the device was not presently connected to the Internet. Regardless, in all cases, for each podcast the user is given access to basic metadata fields, which at minimum include a podcast title and a listing of editions, but may also include short and long descriptions, descriptive podcast edition titles, authorship, year of publication, etc. The user can indicate a preference to subscribe or unsubscribe (or download any individual edition or group of editions) from any available interface.
In any event, through any of these available means the user indicates a preference for one or more such podcasts. The device itself then may remember these settings, such that it may directly download, for example, podcast content over Wi-Fi using a standard podcast protocol such as RSS XML or RDF XML and compatible software running on the device. (Preferably the system is designed so that the relatively large media files are always downloaded by user device 10 directly from the originating content server 20, and not proxied via an aggregator's server 14, which would cause inefficient bandwidth consumption.) Alternatively, a proprietary or modified protocol could be used. Regardless, though, preferably the server 14 would record the podcasts to which a user is subscribed in its account memory 18, such that a user who lost a device could have these settings restored to a new device easily. Other benefits are also made available—in particular, the user could make changes to his/her listing of desired podcasts and podcasts editions via any available access to the server 14 (e.g., a PC device 12 with a browser)—for example, subscribe to 3 new podcasts—and those changes would then be automatically reflected and sync'd to the user's main portable wireless device 10. Ultimately, in all cases, this affords the user of the portable wireless device to gain access to the latest published podcasts, which are conveniently and asynchronously downloaded over a wireless link to the user's device, and the settings for which may be controlled from any available device with eventual access to the server 14.
The new content can but need not be DRM-protected. (If content is DRM-protected, the device would need compatible DRM decrypting software and would need a means to provide an appropriate challenge to the DRM server, including any necessary account or user authentication information.) A device (such as 10) can then be set to periodically connect to the server 14 during the times a network is available, and to automatically download new content from the subscribed podcasts, so they are available to the user without further user interaction. The new content can either overwrite the existing one or can be added to the earlier content and accumulated/appended, if desired. The user can be given the option to save any edition to a permanent collection (potentially for a fee, enforced by secure device software and/or the DRM usage rights associated with encrypted content), or preferably to have automated memory-management software delete old content as new content is downloaded and more space is required.
Advantageously, this feature is performed on a portable player and therefore the content can be obtained without a browser, and in an asynchronous manner not requiring an always-on connection that is bandwidth efficient (e.g., for a Wi-Fi or Wi-MAX device with on-the-go users). In particular, if RSS XML software is not available, a proprietary protocol, such as that used for “Gremlists™” push content downloading in the '746 application, could be used. Such a protocol would also have the benefit of insulating the device from changes to the RSS/RDF protocol over time used by the various providers, and to providing more security and control from a service aggregator's point of view. Additionally, the design of this system is greatly beneficial where the service provider and operator of the aggregating server 14 desire greater control and seek to provide a more managed and fault-free experience for their supported mobile users, which may be driven by business and/or user experience objectives.
Feature 5 Advanced Peer-to-Peer Functions
As mentioned above, an advantage of the present system is that it has the ability to perform various peer-to-peer functionality on a WiFi device/mobile phone/etc., e.g., hotlisting. Hotlisting may include a user creating a wish list of songs. The server monitors the hotlist of each its users, and when one of the songs is published or becomes available from a source (e.g., potentially another user in the same community), the server 14 obtains the song through normal channels and makes available to the respective device or devices, thereby fulfilling the wish list automatically.
Another aspect of the invention pertains to two devices provided with suitable means, such as wireless or other networks, connections, using advanced peer-to-peer protocols and functions. When the devices detect each other, they can exchange and share various data and content including buddy lists, hotlists, playlists, etc. The devices can be portable wireless devices, PCs, etc. If one of the devices is a portable device with a WiFi chip, it can connect wirelessly to a network (“infrastructure mode”)—for example, connecting to the Internet from a T-Mobile hot spot. It also can connect to other (i.e., one or more) devices directly using WiFi (“ad hoc mode”).
For these purposes, software on the wireless device uses an algorithm for scanning available connections, preferring one connection above the others (using predetermined criteria). For example, the device can first seek to connect to the Internet through a WiFi access point with the strongest signal strength (in infrastructure mode), and if that is unavailable to automatically connect to other devices directly, wirelessly point-to-point (ad hoc mode). Other criteria may be used for selecting one device over others as well.
When connected to the Internet, the device (e.g., device 10) can show a list of other connected devices, either through a central server or through any of a variety of Internet peer-to-peer architectures. In either case, when the device connects to another device, the software can enable a number of automated features for the convenience of the user. For example, if the user is looking for a particular content file—such as a digital song or movie—the device automatically scans all available connections and, if the particular content file is found on another device (either through the Internet or point-to-point), the desired content is obtained from the other device. Software on the target devices provides a list of available content on that device automatically when another device contacts it.
The device can also show additional information. It can also show information about the other users' status, such as, for example, showing on a wireless portable digital music player the current playing song on that player (which may optionally be developed so as to update in real time). The software also enables devices to beam or otherwise exchange content and other information, including songs, photos, videos, preferences, lists, text, etc., through the wireless connections (provided of course that these are allowed by the DRM rules of the respective content). Typically this feature is accomplished by sending a message to a target device and giving the target device the option to download content from the sender (or, alternatively, from a central source of the content, such as a commercial digital content distribution service on the Internet). In an alternate embodiment, once a device knows what is on the other, the data can be exchanged either directly (if both devices are online simultaneously, or if the recipient is off, the sender can transmit the data to the content server 14. The server 14 then stores this information in a database until it can be transmitted to the recipient when the recipient comes online. (Note: “transmitting” can occur in all cases via the recipient device “asking for” and “pulling” the desired content, in a client-server like fashion.) FIG. 1B shows a block diagram of a system for implementing these features. For this purpose, the user device 10 includes a connection logic software module 606, a list of available content module 608 and wish list or hot list module 610. The server 14 is associated with a data base casie of the various user wish lists, hot lists, etc (602 and a database of available content 604 for performing the processes described above.
Feature 6—Organization of Available Content in a Catalog
As mentioned above, one of the features of the present invention pertains to the manipulation of various lists on the devices. One aspect of this feature is the organization of large lists (e.g., >50,000 items, or millions). Each list is arranged into multiple layers and sub layers. For music, each layer identifies a group of songs, for example by the first word of the title. The successive sublayers then include all the songs containing or starting off with said first word. If various editions of the same song are listed, then various types of metadata (using, e.g., the artist, the length of the song, the date on which it was released, etc.) are then used to differentiate the songs with the same title. This feature is advantageous because it renders the list arranged in this manner to be easily searchable, even on the small screen of a portable player. In particular, users can easily and meaningfully distinguish versions of the same song from one another on a small display (e.g., when the identical song having the same title is released by the same artist on 2 different albums).
One new feature of the invention is the manner in which songs from a list are loaded. Initially, a list is created of the songs that are to be downloaded into the portable player. This list may consist of individual entries from the user or a completed list entered as a file by the user. The list can also be generated automatically based on the preferences of the user, or downloaded automatically from the server or other users.
Once a new list is downloaded into a player, or an existing list is updated, then the corresponding songs identified by the list are downloaded into the player. A flow chart implementing this concept is shown in FIG. 2. In step 100, a player acquires a channel to a server (or other devices) through a WiFi connection. In step 102 the player determines if it has a new or incomplete list of songs that have not been loaded into the player yet. If it does not, then the player continues with other functions in step 104, including any of the functions described above. If there are songs to be downloaded, then in step 106 the first song to be downloaded is selected. In step 108 the ID of the song is transmitted to the server. (Alternatively, the system can be constructed such that the server dictates the ID of the song(s) to be downloaded.)
In step 110 the process of downloading the selected song is started. During the downloading process the channel to the server is monitored. If the channel is still opened, the process continues. If the channel is interrupted then in step 112 the download process is halted and a marker is used to indicate what portion, or how much of the song has been successfully downloaded in step 114. In step 116, the player then looks for a new WiFi channel. When a channel is established with a new (or the previous) server, the downloading of the song continues at the point indicated by the marker.
In the description provided above, it was assumed that the song is being downloaded from a server through the Internet. Of course, as discussed previously, the source for the song may be another player.
The lists of songs for each player can be generated in a number of different ways. According to one feature of the invention, a recommended list is generated by the server, using various techniques, including using preferences of the user, monitoring the songs selected by the user, monitoring songs selected by a group of users having similar profiles and interests, etc.
A person downloads (or collects on the server) a large number of songs over a period of time. Because of this lag, the collection of songs may include apparently duplicate entries. These entries may include actual duplicates, or more exact copies of the same song, different versions of the same song (the versions differing by the orchestra and/or artists, instrumentation, etc.) or may be two different songs that merely share the same title but otherwise are completely different. Therefore, in the present invention, a catalog is created of all the songs in a collection, by title, artist, producer or by using other criteria. Songs with apparent duplicates are marked with a specific symbol, such as an asterisk. For example, this additional information may include a listing of all the duplicates with an entry for each duplicate indicating the artist and album, and/or other information. Preferably, the generation of the catalog of song entries and the indexing of all the songs used for generating the catalog is performed by the server. When a user selects a song with this symbol, a secondary window is presented with additional information that will enable the user to determine what kind of duplicate is being stored. This process allows the user to select and play a selected song quickly and easily even if duplicates are present.
The process of displaying a catalog of songs can be used to allow a user to make a selection quickly and easily while minimizing computational time, especially in the hand-held device.
The songs available from a content provider are arranged in a master database. This master database can be searched using any criteria, such as artist, title, album, genre, release date, and so on, using a known sorting program. Each sort requires the server to send a sorted list of IDs, reducing the required processing by the device to save on battery power and reduce latency. The server prepares the data in a way that other attributes can be quickly and easily shown to a user. For example, when an artist is found and albums are displayed, they are displayed in alphabetical order to make it easy to find a particular album. Albums that are most recently released by the artist are highlighted in bold or otherwise flagged for the user, so that the user can also quickly see the most relevant and current material. Other indicators can be sent in a similar manner, such as data on “most popular” releases. A block diagram of device 10 showing elements required for handling lists in a catalog is shown in FIG. 1C. The elements are a logic database 704, a user interface 706, a master listing of tracks available 708, a sorted view of available tracks (“slice” files) 710, a file of duplicate titles 712, and an index of the files 714.
Feature 7—Handling New Lists
Once a recommended list is generated, the server presents this list to the user. The user has the option to download the whole list or select and listen to any or all the songs on the list. He can also receive only representative clips from the list. Of course, all the other rules for buying/playing/etc. songs are followed, including any DRM (Digital Rights Management) or other security rules. These rules may be require that the songs be copied only a predetermined number of times, during a predetermined time period, etc. If the user creates a playlist, or obtains a playlist from another source (e.g., another user's device or his computer), or some other way, and the playlist refers to songs that are not currently stored on the player, the player then automatically identifies those songs and searches through its wireless and wired connections to either other devices and servers, direct point-to-point or through a network. If the device finds a song that is on the playlist, it will download it (in parts if necessary) from the first (or, preferably, best—such as one or more sources offering faster speed) available source, and will alert the user when the download is complete. The device sends an inquiry to other devices, identifying itself through its unique user ID (validated in advance by a central server) and providing the list of track IDs it is searching for (alternatively, the device can provide and compare the song name and/or other metadata to check for a match). The target device returns the list of available items it can provide, and then makes the file available for download by the other device. This can take place through a proprietary or open protocol, such as UPnP over WiFi.
In one embodiment of the invention, in addition to listening to various songs, a user can elect to transmit or broadcast one or more selections to the devices of other users. This feature may be accomplished, of course, only if allowed by the DRM and other security means for the selections. Broadcasting is performed using standard streaming protocols.
Another feature of the present invention is the predistribution of DRM licenses. The content server 14 has a listing of all the songs that a particular user orders or has ordered (or, preferably, is likely to order, based on behaviors and preferences) but not yet received. When it becomes evident that a song is about to become available, the server sends to each of the users the required DRM license. Therefore, once the song is actually delivered to the users, the users can start listening to, and enjoy the songs without having to wait for a license, even if a central server is not present at the time. For a time-based subscription service that offers “all you can eat,” each license would be valid for the length of the renewing period or shorter, and would be renewed accordingly only if the subscriber validly renewed the subscription. FIG. 1D shows a flow chart illustrating DRM license prefetching process. In step 802, the server compiles a list of the content ordered by the user that has not been received or a list of preferences likely to be ordered by the user. The device then contacts the server in step 804 and then prefetches the DRM licenses but not the content in step 806. In step 808, the user can then play back the content by applying the prefetch license once the device obtains the content file from the P2P device in ad-hoc mode.
Feature 8—Connection to a Cellular Telephone Network
In one embodiment, a device constructed in accordance with this invention and identified as 10A in FIG. 3A includes a wireless chip 10B such as GSM, CDMA, and/or TDMA (or broadband varieties, such as EDGE or EvDO) so that it can communicate with a common cellular network. In this embodiment, the primary purpose of the device can either be a phone (with a music/video add-on) or a digital audio/video player (with an optional phone add-on).
More particularly, referring to FIG. 3A, device 10A exchanges voice signals and data with a cell phone base. The cell phone base 30 is connected by landlines to a POTS 32 and through this connection provides standard voice communication with other cell or land-based phones. In addition, the base 30 is also connected to an Internet gateway 34 and provides Internet service (including e-mail, if desired) to device 10A.
In addition, the device 10A also includes an internal WiFi transceiver 10C through which the device 10A can communicate with the WiFi gateway 36. Thus, device 10A can access the Internet either through the Internet gateway 34 and cell phone base 30, or through the WiFi gateway 36.
The system 100A is shown as including not only the network server 14 with its content memory 16, but also a master content database 38. Database 38 is used as a depository for all the content available to the subscribers of system 100A.
The advantage of system 100A is that the device 10A uses the optimal network for connectivity dependent on the business and performance goals. For example, to allow the user to perform searches for content that it is missing, the device 10A uses the cellular network through base 30 to contact the master content database 38. Since this is a fast but limited throughput connection, the search results are returned substantially instantaneously.
However, if the user decides to order a typically large file, such as a video or audio file for download (e.g., as a result of the search), which are typically large files that consume a significant amount of bandwidth for delivery (especially when compared to a normal voice telephone call), the user can require that the device 10A only download the content using a Wi-Fi network (as opposed to a 2G cellular network or even a 2½G, 3G or 4G network like EDGE or EvDO, which may imply higher carriage charges), reducing the load on the cellular network for the operator while providing ubiquitous search access for the user—download access for the user would continue to require (or prefer) a Wi-Fi connection. Alternatively, the operator can offer the user the choice to download the content over a ubiquitous wireless network like EvDO instead of Wi-Fi, possibly for a premium price for the ubiquitous nature of the service when compared to Wi-Fi. In this later configuration, the device can continue to execute all communications via the Wi-Fi network when a Wi-Fi connection is available, but just make use of the cellular networks when a Wi-Fi connection is unavailable.
Feature 9—Sharing Playlists with Others
A system can be arranged so that new playlists are made, and the device automatically downloads the new playlists and the associated content for the user automatically. The user can specify the playlists by name (e.g., Party Mix #1) or type/genre (e.g., Rock Playlist #3), by selecting from a list that is made available on the device interface. Playlists can be sent just once to the device, or the playlists can be newly programmed periodically and automatically be sent down to the device. The device can add the new playlists to the collection on the device, so that a longer and longer list of content can be aggregated (which is preferably tied to memory reclaim logic, that deletes content automatically when a certain memory use threshold is exceeded for this type of content) or can simply replace the previous content.
The user can choose which of these playlists he would like via the device interface, as previously described. In addition, the list of available playlists can be made available on other devices, such as a PC using a browser to visit the user's account on an Internet site. The site can reflect the status of the playlist orders stored for the user's account. So for example a user can browse the list of available playlists, decide to add Party Mix #1 to his account, and then the device will download the playlist and content automatically (either one-time or periodically, to the user's preference).
Further, the playlists can be programmed and common across all users, or they can be customized to the tastes of the user, or a combination/hybrid approach. The tastes of the user can be captured in various ways—ranging from monitoring the user's downloading and playing behavior, to asking the user to state his genre or favorite artist preferences, to established and new collaborative filtering techniques, and other ways—and these tastes can then be used to generate a playlist of customized songs, relying on a database that associates the user's tastes with particular content (e.g., through Bayesian statistical means given a large enough population of users, human intervention, or other means or combinations of means). The length of the customized playlist may be specified by the user. The periodicity of delivering the playlist to the user may be specified as well. The playlist may be downloaded and/or made available via streaming or download (in which case, preferably incorporating progressive playback capability, so users have instant playback access after the start of the download) through a variety of devices owned by the user, including the Wi-Fi portable device (where content downloads automatically to the device—as the device polls the back-end to check for new updates frequently) or any of the user's PCs. Digital rights management technology can further be employed in connection with the content and the devices to ensure that the content in the playlists is respected accordingly.
Feature 10—Making Selections from Playlists
Generally speaking, lists can be generated by a user in many different ways. One simple and straightforward way is to present to a user all the selections available from a content provider. The user can then pick and choose each selection individually, or select a plurality of songs based on specific criteria. Another method is to have the user provide the server with a profile that includes his preferences/dislikes. The server can then use the profile to make selections from a master list. Another way is to have the server present to a user generic lists, such as lists of featured songs generated at certain times, songs by particular artists, etc., lists of songs that are most downloaded, based on criteria such as overall popularity, age of users requesting a selection, physical location of the user, profession, income etc FIG. 1E shows a flow chart of users receiving recommended lists of musical selections. In step 902, the devices compiles the user's preferences based on inputs by the user and based on the user's actions (e.g., deletions, most played songs, etc.). The device then transmits user information to the server using a device specific ID in step 904. From the information, the server generates playlists for the user in step 906. The device then contacts the server for an update in step 908. If there are new recommendations (step 910), the server makes the content on the list available to the device in step 912 which is then downloaded and made available to the user in step 914. If there are no new recommendations, the device again compiles a list of user preferences (step 902).
The selections on a list presented to a user may also be based on more sophisticated criteria. For example, it may be selected based on data about the user's preferences and profile which may be obtained based on statistical cross-referencing (e.g., Bayesian statistics), through collaborative filtering, through compiling of the user's manual ratings, and/or through monitoring of the user's listening and downloading activity, or in a plethora of other ways, the server compiles a list of recommended content. The server then personalizes the content and sends a recommended list, plus the content files, to the device. The content may be protected in such a way that the content times out and therefore can only be used for promotional purposes. Or it may be permanent content, or delivered pursuant to a subscription service, or other model (e.g., “DMCA compliant” offline playback, which ensures users can't rewind songs, can't see the upcoming song selections in a playlist ahead of time, are limited in the number of skips, etc., per the Digital Millennium Copyright Act non-interactive streaming requirements). In this way, the user is provided with “customized radio” playlists that can be controlled (or, if preferred, hidden and restricted to the extent and/or until one or more conditions are met) from the user.
Feature 11—Sharing of Playlists by the Same User on Different Devices
In one embodiment, a user uploads content to a server to a “storage locker in the sky.” This server could be the server shown in FIG. 1, or a different server. The server can be a commercial service or free, provided it can uniquely identify the user, for example through a secure user ID and password.
The user can then access that content—either by downloading a cleartext copy of the file, a DRM-protected copy of the file (the content file could be DRM packaged as soon as it is uploaded to the server and stored in encrypted form, or alternatively encrypted on the fly), or by streaming a copy of the file (e.g., over a protocol like RTSP, or via a progressive downloading scheme).
This allows the user to use distributed storage to store his/her media. It allows for content owners to ensure the content is not widely distributed from the central server.
The user can then access the content from a multiplicity of places and through a multiplicity of devices, provided the user's account information can be conveyed and authenticated by the server. The server can limit the number of simultaneous connections for security reasons. Preferably, a user should be able to access his information only from a limited number of locations/devices.
When the user purchases content from a digital store, a copy of the content can automatically be deposited into the user's storage locker on the server.
Feature 12—Displaying Cover Art and Other Information on a Small Display.
A problem encountered in designing a small portable digital audio device is displaying relevant adequate information for a user during playback. For a music selection in particular, a user may wish to view the album cover art, the song title, the album title, the artist name, the playlist name, and other relevant information about the selection. However, a small screen may not permit displaying the cover art in a large and pleasing size for an average user while also displaying this metadata information in a large enough size for average users to comfortably read. Further, it is desirable to display this information for users without requiring the users to take manual actions. To address this, the cover art and other information can be made to cycle automatically from one screen to another, so that one screen fades or otherwise transitions from one screen to the other at periodic intervals. This allows the user to see the cover art and also other information (such as song name, artist name, album title, etc.) without having to manually make selections or push buttons. In one embodiment, the cover art is sent to the devices in a standard size and the device handles gif or jpeg resizing depending on the desired display. The image is stored in one size by the device, and delivered in only one size. IN an alternate solution that supports multiple device classes involves transcoding (either on-the-fly or in advance), so the server determines the appropriate (i.e., highest resolution) size art based on the class of device that is making a request, and then sends the appropriate file on through. The device can then re-size the image down, but not up unless the image is degraded.
Feature 13—Messages to the Users
According to one feature of the invention, whenever a user contacts the server through his player, the server sends information to the player adding or deleting entries such as the recommended or featured lists, an updated list for the user, and so on. This information is then displayed to the user. The server may present to the user other information, including messages from the billing department, etc. These messages can be presented as pop-screens, entries in an IN BOX, etc. Other entries presented to the user may include new or changed terms of service, other commercial products or services (including discounted or enhanced services) available from the server, and so on. Various services may be provided to the user, either on a per use basis, a la carte (e.g., the display shows items selected by the user during the set-up of the player), or on a default basis.
The system can be further configured to enable an administrator on a back-end server to specify particular places in the user interface of a portable or other device that connects directly to a network, and to customize the text and graphics displayed at those places as well as the options and interactivity offered to a user. For example, the administrator can specify that a popup should appear for the user every 3rd time the device is powered on, and the popup should rotate through 15 different messages selected at random (e.g., intriguing blurbs which capture the attention of the user, or relevant advertising messages). This is done via an automated procedure in the device software, which inquires of the server for a file to display for the user. The file specifies the location, conditions and content to be displayed to the user. It also lists the choices and specifies the actions that are taken when a user selects a particular item.
Feature 14—Transferring Content Between Devices
The transfer of content to portable devices is performed on a one-to-one basis from server 14 to all the devices of the system, such as device 10 using standard protocols. However, content can be distributed by other means as well. One alternate means includes streaming content already stored on one portable device either to another portable device, or to many different devices. The transmission/media file could be secured or unsecured. Another alternate means is to receive content from a source, such as the server shown in FIG. 1 and to simultaneously stream it to one or more devices (or, depending on whether it would be desirable for the content to be persisted or to buffer against dropouts, to use a progressive downloading scheme). One device could access the content of another device (either via streaming or progressive downloading, whether secured or not) by having the devices connect, say via an ad hoc Wi-Fi link, and communicate, say over a UPnP framework, and to use a common downloading or streaming protocol to enable the playback, e.g. via HTTP in a client-server fashion. Yet another means of distributing content is to have it distributed in pieces using a P2P file sharing protocol—e.g., multiple devices connected to one another via a Wi-Fi ad hoc link could share files in pieces (e.g., technique employed by Bit Torrent), so that a single device is simultaneously sourcing different pieces of the same file from multiple other devices in a multi-threaded fashion, and then assembling the file into an integrated whole as the pieces are downloaded.
Feature 15—Content Distribution Using Bit Torrent
In the embodiments described so far, content was delivered to a player from a single source (that could be the server 14, or another player or device) using a standard network communication protocol, by streaming, or using a P2P protocol. Yet another alternative is to use a Bit Torrent-type protocol wherein different portions of content (for example, different portions of a song) are received from different sources. FIG. 1F shows a combined flow chart and block diagram of an example pf a P2P file sharing protocol across wireless portable devices. In step 1002, the devices are linked by wireless connections. Device A then seeks a copy of File X (step 1004) by sending an inquiry about File X to Device B (step 1006); Device B has compiled and stored an Index File, listing the files that area available for sharing by all other devices in its network (step 1006). Device A is informed by Device B that Devices C, D, and E have copies of File X in step 1010. In step 1012, File X begins downloading to Device A from Devices C, D, and E in a multithreaded fashion tagged to indicate its origin. In step 1014, Device A's optimization software analyzes the speed and connection quality of the transfer, which is then adjusted to optimize performance in step 1016. Finally in step 1018, an integrated complete copy of File X is assembled by the software of Device A.
In this way, multiple devices connected to one another via a Wi-Fi ad hoc link could share files in pieces (e.g., technique employed by Bit Torrent), so that a single device is simultaneously sourcing different pieces of the same file from multiple other devices in a multi-threaded fashion, and then assembling the file into an integrated whole as the pieces are downloaded. The pieces are coordinated via the use of an accompanying tracker file, which describes how the content file can be broken down into pieces. This allows for the receiving device to “map” the pieces and reassemble them into the proper order. The breaking up into pieces and development of the tracker file can be accomplished by a server in the network, or by a node/user in the network which is chosen manually (or, preferably, automatically based on characteristics such as upload speed and reliability of connection) to serve this role.
Feature 16—Exchanging Voice Messages Between Users
It is common for mobile wireless device users to create and record text messages which are then transmitted to one or more other recipients (which are generally also using wireless mobile devices but also who may be using, for example, a PC connected to the Internet to retrieve messages), such as via a SMS (Short Messaging Service) protocol. It is also common for users to leave voicemails for other users, where a recording is created by a machine attached to the recipient's phone line or which is provided at the network level by a phone or data service provider of the user. However, mobile wireless users today do not have ready access to an easy way to create an audio recording stored on the sender's device (say a recording of the sender's voice), and then to have it transferred to one or more preferred recipients. If the player includes a microphone, or a microphone input, the user can record a short audio message and send it to another player when both are connected to each other directly (in the ad hoc mode) or indirectly (via the Internet). In a preferred embodiment, a single push button on the player is used to provide this function. The messages can be sent using an IM (Instant Messaging) protocol capable of file attachments/transfer, or any other file transfer protocol capable of transmitting a copy of the audio file (or rendered audio) to the receiving device. Optionally, the user can also insert a music clip into the message, which may further be optionally mixed on the sending device into a single file with the user's recording (preferably, at the time it is being recorded, but alternatively afterwards) so that it serves as background sound (volume reduced) with the user's voice on top. (Alternatively, two or more distinct audio files could be transmitted to the receiving device, optionally with mixing information such as offset timing for start, relative volumes, etc., and the receiving device can be made responsible for mixing these two audio outputs, either in a process prior to rendering that creates an integrated audio file or during rendering.) Any compressed or uncompressed format (secured or unsecured) capable of being ultimately rendered into an analog audio output is acceptable, though compressed formats are preferred to reduce transfer time and storage space. The recipients' mobile devices provide an alert when such a new message is received. The recipients may be members of a buddy list, a chat room, names on an address list, etc. or may be strangers who detect each other's players over the wireless connection. More specifically, a user can record an oral message using a device (e.g., a portable WiFi player). The device allows for a source (such as a microphone or line-in input), and uses a traditional digital encoder to allow users to create a digital recording (e.g., MP3 or WMA encoder). The recordings can then be sent to other users (e.g., through the WiFi on the device, either directly peer-to-peer or through [MG's], central servers via the Internet, using its buddy system and community/messaging system). Audio files can immediately be sent to other online users and users connected peer-to-peer. Optionally, they can be cached by a central server and delivered to a device the next time it connects. There are several means for implementing this feature. In one implementation, a user selects a “buddy” from a list of existing buddies, as well as a list the device compiles from available peer-to-peer users (e.g., in ad hoc range for a WiFi device) or presents a list from the central server (e.g., per the “chat room” approach described elsewhere). On selecting the buddy, the user is prompted to record the message as an audio file. The recording is made and stored locally on the device. The user uses traditional controls to start and stop, and if required re-record, the audio file. On confirm, the user can then send it to one or more desired recipients. Optionally, the device can be used to select several recipients at a time (e.g., via a pre-defined group, by making multiple selections of individual buddies, by selecting from automated groupings such as “all my buddies” or “my friends”, by selecting from groupings compiled on the central server such as “all jazz enthusiasts”), and then send the same file to those multiple user devices simultaneously (e.g., through a WiFi broadcast locally, point-to-point, or through a central server, which may optionally cache the file for users who are not currently online). Users can also optionally select buddies while they are using a device that is not connected to the network, and the device can store/cache the file and the list of target buddies until such time as the device connects either to a network or the target buddies in a peer-to-peer fashion, at which point the file is sent automatically.
FIG. 1G shows a flow chart of audio file transmissions between buddies. For this purpose, the user records the audio file in step 1102. Then, the device presents the user with an option to “beam” the recording to one or more buddies in step 1104. The audio file is transmitted (i.e., a copy is recorded by the receiving device) to the other buddies as described as shown in FIG. 1G step 1110. If no connection is available in step 1106 or the recipient is not available in step 1108, the request is cached in steps 1112 and 1114, respectively.
The recording may be streamed from the device to the other users (again, either peer-to-peer (through a network or directly point-to-point) or through a central server). Accordingly, as the recording is being created it is simultaneously transmitted by the device to the other users. The receiving device(s) may optionally store the file permanently (or subject to DRM-enforced usage rights, which would be encoded on the transmitting device (or optionally by the central server)) or may not capture a copy of the file, in all cases described above. In all of the above scenarios, if the sending device permits video to be captured or stored, video may optionally be used in place of, or together with, audio.
Feature 17—Managing Playlists on Small Screen
Portable multimedia devices such as MP3 players typically have limited sized displays. A typical screen is black-and-white or color LCD with 128×160 pixels and is 1.6″ wide, but more recently ranging up to QVGA or even VGA and a screen of 3.5″ or larger, to enable a portable form factor for the device, and easy and convenient carrying, especially in a pocket. The devices also typically do not have an alphabetic or numeric keypad, but rather are limited only to a 4-way control and possibly a “select” or “enter” button. This arrangement makes the entry and management of large media collections difficult without the use of another machine, such as a PC, that offers a larger screen and more robust I/O, such as a full-size keyboard.
The present inventors have developed an arrangement through which, using limited controls, the user can easily create new playlists, name and re-name playlists, add songs, albums and other playlists to playlists, delete items from playlists, and re-order items on playlists, even with a limited sized display. More broadly, this arrangement also allows entering text on a device that has limited I/O options. This feature or arrangement operates by providing several screens logically interconnected with each other.
Initially, the user is presented on a screen with a plurality of options or choices. Selecting one of these options causes an associated new screen to be displayed. For example, to create a new playlist, the user selects a “create new playlist” option, and is taken to a second screen (which may or may not be a “popup box”) that displays a number of blank character spaces, with a cursor indicated in the first character space. If the user selects the Up or Down key, the character under the cursor changes accordingly, sequentially from A-Z or from Z-A (with numbers and/or special characters, and potentially lower-case letters, cycling through in turn), as the case may be. Once the user finds the desired letter by “spinning” the letters in this fashion, the Right key advances to the next character space. The user continues to do this until the full desired name of the playlist is spelled out. The Left key operates as a back-space key, deleting the previous character. Alternatively, the Left key can simply move the cursor without deleting any characters.
To rename a playlist, the user selects a “rename playlist” option and is taken to a screen that displays the current name of the playlist, with the cursor located at one character space after the name. The user can hold the Left key for a specified time to clear all letters and return the cursor to the first position. Alternatively, the user can press the Left key quickly to delete characters, and/or can add characters as described in the foregoing paragraph.
To add a song, album or playlist to a named playlist, the user presses the Right key while the cursor or highlighter is located on the desired item to add. A list of options is shown to the user, including one that is “Add to a Playlist”. (If this option is listed first among all other options, it makes the addition of items even simpler and quicker for the end-user.) If the user selects this option, the user is then shown a list of existing playlist names (and possibly the option to “Create a New Playlist”). If a playlist is not yet named, the user can be prompted to do so after requesting that an item be added to a playlist. Once the user selects a playlist from the list, the item is then immediately added to the playlist. The playlist may take any form of database and may use any form of identification of the items, such as file name or ID number (potentially embedded in the header of the content file itself). The items are added to the end of the playlist, which maintains a consistent order. The playlist may use a standard file type, such as .M3U, or may use a proprietary one.
The playlist to which items were most recently added are displayed at the top of the list, making the most-used playlists the most accessible ones to the user. Accordingly, by pressing Right three times on an item, the user can quickly and easily add that item to the most recently added-to playlist. FIG. 1H shows this scheme for adding a song to a playlist; In step 1202, the user presses the Right key while Song 1 is highlighted. In step 1204, the user then presses the right key to choose the “Add To Playlist” option. A list of playlists are displayed in step 1206 and the user presses the Right key to add the song to the selected playlist. The user is then returned back to the original “My Songs” menu in step 1208.
Once items are added to a playlist, the user may edit the order of the playlist. This can be accomplished by pressing the Right key on any song or other item listed in the playlist and selecting “Move this item Up/Down.” When selected, the item is highlighted for the user (e.g., it may be displayed in inverse color, or with a different color background or in a different font). During that time, if the user presses Up or Down the item moves in the order of the list accordingly. The LCD displays items that are immediately under and/or above the selected item. When the user finds the desired place for the item, the user presses the Select button and exits this mode. The playlist may store this re-ordering information only on pressing Select after the final positioning, or alternatively each time the item is moved in the list upon the user's pressing Up or Down.
Feature 18—Sharing Content
Users of digital content seek ways to obtain access to new content as easily as possible, from the first available source of content. Also, given the large amount of electronic content available in today's world, users also benefit from a way that they can find content which is likely to be more appealing and/or relevant to them. One additional way of discovering new content is through a collaborative filtering method, wherein data and recommendations from other peers are used to provide one or more recommended content selections for the user.
Content owners also seek ways to ensure control over their digital content without overstepping on the digital capabilities offered to the end-users. A device (portable, such as an MP3 player, or otherwise) that is capable of connecting to a network (such as the Internet) and server, would allow for the following:
The device is capable of storing media, and/or of streaming and downloading media content from another electronic source (e.g., over UPnP and/or RTSP). Media can include music, video, and photos, and also any other type of electronic file such as e-mails, voicemails, spreadsheet files, word processing documents and text, and other data.
When connected to the network (e.g., the Internet), the device contacts a central server. The central server allows the user to manage a list of buddies' that the user maintains via the interface on the device or another interface. When the device is identified to the central server, the central server sends back current (or the latest available cached) information on the user's buddies' devices. For example, it may send the current user ID of the buddy and the current media selection (e.g., song) playing on that device. The device can then display this information to the user of the device, and optionally update it in real time if the buddy is currently online. In addition, the user can instead find other users randomly through the use of “chat rooms”, wherein the server sends a listing of currently available chat rooms to the device and the user selects an available chat room to enter. Once in the chat room, the user sees the same information, and is offered the same functionality (described more below), as though the other users were current “buddies”.
Further, the user can select a particular other user and choose to interact with that user. In this event, the server compiles a listing of the available content files on the other user's device (users may optionally be given the right to hide particular files, or allow them to be seen but prevent them from being shared—this information is stored on the central server when changed and/or the device and used to filter the content listing that is compiled and sent). The listing may be in a particular order that is useful for searching and browsing, such as most recently acquired files in reverse chronological order, most frequently played, or alphabetic order. This order may be preserved in the transfer of the listing to the device. Each listed item may come with metadata, for example whether a particular item may be downloaded and copied because the content rights holder has granted permission for this activity. The metadata may also specify the conditions for the sharing, such as for example a song may only be played twice by the recipient and then times out, or the song may not be re-transferred to another device. The recipient device enforces these rights against the user through the appropriate DRM rules. The listing information pertaining to the other user may be displayed to the user of the device. If the user identifies an item that is of interest, the user may select it, in which case the device contacts the server. The server then may either provide an IP address (or equivalent for a non-IP network) where the device may connect and (subject to conditions, if specified) download or stream a copy of the file, dependent on the rights applicable for that particular item. A content rights holder may be given the right to specify that content not be downloaded in any way, but only streamed (requiring the second device to be online and connected during the playback, and preventing additional copies from being made while enabling users to try out a sampling of the content). In addition, a system that manages content rights can check whether the content indicated on the listing came from a verified source of content (such as, for example, a commercial digital music store operated in tandem with the central server that marks each file with a recognizable content ID), and offer only streaming rights (and no, or limited, download rights) for content that does not match content in the central server. Further, alternate methods such as audio and video “fingerprinting” can be used to verify the content of the file.
When the user selects a file, streaming (if permitted according to the rights enforced by the central server) may be initiated over any of a multitude of known protocols (e.g. RTSP) or over a proprietary streaming protocol. In addition, a downloading protocol can be utilized (e.g., via UPnP) wherein the recipient device enforces a streaming-like experience by, for example, (1) downloading the file and playing it back progressively as the download continues, (2) checking periodically during playback to ensure the transmitting device is still electronically connected and/or present, and (3) deleting the content file when finished to prevent the end-user from accessing it at a later point. The file may be encrypted or not encrypted—if encrypted, the recipient device needs to obtain information for decryption either during or in advance of the transmission from the transmitting device, or during the transfer or in advance from another source (such as the central server). When the user selects an item for download (as opposed to streaming), and the download is permitted, the device can use any of a multitude of known protocols for the download (e.g., via UPnP) or a proprietary protocol for the transfer. Upon receipt, the file can be encrypted or non-encrypted. If it is encrypted, the recipient device needs information to decrypt the file, either during or in advance of the transmission from the other device or from another source (such as the central server). This decryption information may be, for example, a DRM license file. The central server may, for example, pre-deliver DRM licenses as appropriate, say to paying subscribers of a server, obviating the need to check in with a central server upon or after the receipt of new DRM-protected content.
The system may also provide that specified content may not be streamed or downloaded in any way between devices.
The listing maintained by the server described above may optionally be replaced by a system whereby the listings are complied and maintained on a distributed basis by end-users, which is a common architecture used for other peer-to-peer systems in place today. In addition, the rights offered in conjunction with each piece of content may be maintained with these listings, though a requirement that either the listing device or the recipient device is required to check in with a verified central server enhances the security of the system. Other actions of the central server may also be handled in this distributed fashion as well.
The devices are able to enforce these rules in accordance with the operators of the system by one or more of the following means:
maintaining secure software code in the kernel device, or otherwise ensuring secure software code is running on the device (e.g., via signed code techniques);
including a secure digital rights management technology in the software and/or hardware on the device;
taking steps to prevent or inhibit non-permitted software to run on the device and, in particular, access the content files and be able to render them or transfer them; taking steps to prevent or inhibit non-permitted hardware devices to be used to tamper with the protections offered on the device, such as by eliminating points where an electronic tool can be easily inserted across an electronic storage device and CPU to intercept electronic signals (e.g., to reverse engineer a process or break an encryption scheme); building devices as standalone devices with a defined set of functionality, which contrasts with, for example, a general purpose PC where users are generally invited to load new software onto the device and to access content on that device; including in these devices a way to connect directly to the network, such as through a WiFi chipset; providing for a method of securely updating the software and firmware on the device, such as through signed code sent to the device (automatically or manually at the request of a user) via WiFi (for example); including in the software on the devices code that is receptive to conditions associated with particular items of content sent to the device, some of which may be included in the DRM but some of which may not, such as “this song may only be sent to 3 other devices,” in which case the device maintains a count of transfers of that particular content item to other devices and then prevents further transfers of the content when the count reaches the specified maximum number of transfers.
Feature 19—Hot Spot without Browser
The device can connect to Wi-Fi access points and the Internet without a browser as previously described. In some cases, a public Wi-Fi access point operator/provider will install software that does not permit users to access the Internet unless certain conditions are fulfilled. An example is a public Wi-Fi “hot spot” provider who requires that users pay for access to the Internet via its access point, such as T-Mobile, and accordingly uses software that redirects any device which connects to the access point and attempts to connect to the Internet to a “splash page” that requires the user to enter credentials—such as a username and password—before Internet access will be permitted. In some cases this sort of “splash page” is not used in connection with a pay network, but one available for free; it nevertheless may require the user to click on a button via a browser or take some other action to be admitted access. The back-and-forth communications between the user via the browser and the software/service, referred to as the “script”, need to have been completed before access is provided.
Once access is permitted by a provider (e.g., because an action is taken by the user and/or credentials are verified against a back-end server), access can be openly permitted to the device. This may be enforced/arranged via a variety of methods, such as MAC address filtering.
To enable a user to connect that the wide variety of public Wi-Fi networks via a device that does not include a browser is a significant ongoing challenge. The present invention addresses this as follows:
Software code on the device, which may or may not include a browser, can be written to address the script. The back-and-forth communications (e.g. handling a “wrong password” message to a “click here to continue” message) can be received by the device and communicated to the access point (or software, wherever it may reside, including on a server) by the device by simulating the output of a typical browser for the access point. This would accordingly replicate the digital output that manual actions of a user on a browser would be sending.
The device can provide an interface for the user to enter and store any credentials that are required for access to credential-based networks such as T-Mobile Wi-Fi hot spots, as indicated in the flow chart of FIG. 11. As shown in FIG. 11, the device attempts a connection to a Wi-Fi access point in step 1402. If a loading screen, a splash page, does not appear in step 1404, the device connects to the Internet in step 1408. If a splash page appears, in step 1406, the device stores a copy of the splash page as a file and then in step 1410, the device connects to Internet and sends the splash page and connection data to the server. The splash page is then identified and a script is written to allow the user to enter logon information. In step 1412, all devices are sent logon scripts from the server. In step 1414, the user then enters necessary logon information and connects to the Internet.
The script of a network can be analyzed by an engineer to diagram/list all the back-and-forth communications that are required for a logon to the network or to otherwise provide access. This analysis is used to develop the code that replicates the required communications output for the software/service serving to block access.
To manage the increasing and changing number of various access point connections, users of the devices are used to collect information on the required scripts. Because the device they carry connects to the Internet at least periodically, it is capable of sending and receiving information. When the device encounters a script that it is incapable of parsing to access the Internet, it can then store a complete record of the communications and/or “splash page” that prevented this access. This information can then later be communicated over the Internet back to an engineer (preferably sent automatically by the device), who can then develop a new script for communicating with that particular access point. When the new script is developed in software for the device, this new software can then be sent back to the device and installed so that it can then gain access at the problem access point the next time
This system can be replicated across hundreds, thousands, or millions of devices or more. With many users in the field encountering these networks, collecting information, and sending it back to a central back-end repository, one or more engineers can use this captured information to create software that replicates the needs of any particular script and then send out this new software to all devices in the field. In this fashion support for a wide variety of Wi-Fi networks without a browser can be provided, with few requirements of a non-technical user, and even in the face of access points that change their logon methods and scripts over time.
Feature 20—Telephone-Based Music Service
Another feature of this invention is that a user can download or stream content from a server using a telephone connection. FIG. 1J shows a flow chart for downloading a song to a device through a telephone and FIG. 1K is a block diagram of the system used to download songs. The system includes one or more servers 1512 holding user information and content (songs) an IVR system 1514, a POTS or mobile central telephone system 1516 that is accessible through a mobile telephone 1518. A user dials telephone number from telephone 1518 (preferably a toll free number) in step 1502. The rest of operation can occur automatically or manually. For automatic operation, a recorded voice (using IVR system 1518) asks the user if he would like to listen to radio, his personal collection, or find a new song in step 1504. If he wants a new song/album, he chooses to search by artist, by album, or by track (or other ways) in step 1506. He says the name, which is voice-recognized, and then can narrow in on his desired item. (Alternatively, a touch-tone menu driven hierarchy can be used. This is preferable where the voice recognition software is not advanced enough to handle the large number of possible human responses, and/or where the user would prefer to use buttons to make a selection based on accuracy, speed and convenience of not having to disturb others who may be around him/her.) In step 1508, the IVR system 1514 then queries the server 1512 to verify the user account the server 1512 then calls up that item from a digital database. The request starts playing it over the phone, streaming in an appropriate bandwidth-matched compressed format in step 1510.
Feature 21—New Album Indicator
Previous devices typically included a display (such as an LCD display) on which a user could selectively obtain information of various selections available for listening and/or other functions, using a relatively simple user interface. Referring to FIG. 3, a catalog system 200 in accordance with this invention consists of a server-side component, the intermediary server system 210. This component collects and aggregates a list of new releases of available content from various external content providers 202 (e.g., recorded music albums which have been digitized to a compatible format, relevant metadata fields for each record, for such an album, the recording artist, the title of the album, the year of publication, the genre, art work etc.), which may be connected to the intermediary servers 210 over the Internet 212. (Of course, the operator of the intermediary server 210 can also opt to operate the external content provider 202, rather than rely on external sources, or may use a hybrid approach.) The intermediary server 210 uses this data to generate and update the listing of all available content for various users. A selected subset of the content is stored in local databases on end-user devices 204, 206, 208 in the field. The database on each end-user device 204-208 allows users to search for and order content even while their respective devices do not have an active connection to a network, and with less latency than a search requiring a query of, and response by, a server over a connection. A database may, for example, store the listing/metadata for 3+ million available musical tracks, albums, etc. or videos that are available for download from a commercial digital content service or content provider.
The new data is then passed to and handled by an intermediary server system 210 performing a “delta file” process. This process has as an output a series of incremental file updates that are stored on the intermediary server 210, each of which is intended to provide an update for a particular previous update version of the catalog (i.e., representing the differences/changes between a fully updated catalog and one that is not yet updated). This allows each of the end-user devices 204-208 to access the intermediary processor 210 and obtain a version number or last update time for its local catalog database (e.g., a device which was updated last month and missed 5 intervening catalog updates might indicate a version number of 25, while the current updated/available version is 30) and request a single update file which is perfectly matched to bring the catalog fully up to date. The update file includes only the incremental changes (i.e., additions, amends, and deletions) that are needed to update the device's existing, older stored catalog to the current version. Once a device, e.g. 208 is made aware that an update is available, it downloads the single update file (which, to increase download speed and reduce size, may preferably be compressed) from the intermediary server 210, and then runs an internal process which updates this catalog, inserting new records and deleting or amending old/existing records, resulting in a fully updated catalog that the user can then search, which would include the latest album releases. Alternatively, the delta process may determine that it is more efficient to send an entire new image of the database (or portion thereof rather than an incremental update. Finally, the delta process in processor 210 may determine that a device catalog is damaged and needs to be completely replaced. These update files (whether incremental only or complete catalog replacement) may also alternatively include information that specifies how all or portions of the complete updated catalog are displayed to the user through the user interface. In other words a “slice file” may be incorporated representing an update to a particular catalog (e.g., a list of the Top 10 track IDs). The respective device, e.g. 208 then will display these specified tracks to the user under a “Top 10” item located in the user interface, allowing the user to see recommended tracks, etc. in addition to searching for any of the available content individually, and to order those tracks individually or as a whole collection).
The server-side component 210 stores a number of updates dating back to a reasonable point—for example, any device that has a version number or date that is within 6 months old. (Preferably depending on server side, a minimum version number is selected which optimizes the desired storage space that is available for this process on the server side, as well as the trade-off between the device's performance in downloading and updating an incremental update file instead of the full catalog as a 100% replacement.) The server-side component 210 has a code which delivers the appropriate update file (created and stored on the processor 210. or other servers) to an end-user device 208 depending upon the version number the end-user device 208 provides. If the end-user device provides a version number is that is below the minimum, the processor or server 210 provides a database file which consists of 100% of the updated catalog, as a complete replacement for the existing local database on the device. If the version number is above the minimum, it provides an appropriate update file for download that the device can then process.
The process described above is advantageous in that it provides a single update file to devices which may not have continuous, “always on” connections to a network 212. It provides a rapid and efficient way for devices which may have a variety of “last points/times of contact” with the network to be brought up to date for the end user, opportunistically whenever the device is able to establish a connection. (Depending on local storage availability (e.g., if the device is designed to keep two copies of the catalog so that one may be updated while the other is used for searching by the user) and the method of update on the device, the catalog may not be searchable by the user during the period the device is processing an update. An appropriate message may be shown to the user at that time, if the user attempts to search.)
Preferably the system is constructed in a way that permits the operators of the server to dynamically control what portions of the total available catalog, if not all, are made available via this replication and updating process—for example, for a device that has memory constraints, perhaps it would be desirable that only the top 10,000 tracks of the catalog be searchable via this method, and that users be required to search via a live connection for any others, in a hybrid approach. For devices with constrained memory, it is preferable that the approach be a hybrid one that combines the on-device catalog system described above with “live searching” across an active connection to a network and server-side system. In this way, the system balances the constraints of limited memory against providing relevant search/browse results to the user with limited latency, and with reduced reliance on a network connection, when available. Any of several methods for selecting which content titles should be included in the partial on-board catalog can be used—preferably a method is chosen that provides the greatest chance the user will search those titles so that a search against the servers is as unlikely as possible. For example, the system might monitor the downloading behavior and other preferences of a user—if the user, for example, indicates that he/she likes jazz, the top 10,000 jazz tracks from the service might be provided, since it is more likely that these tracks will be the ones that user would like to search. Or if a user has downloaded music from the artist Charlie Parker (or, e.g., video movies from Spike Lee) but otherwise has a lot of 80's music, the system might provide that user's device with a catalog that includes all the works of Charlie Parker but otherwise 80's music-oriented selections (or, for the video example, all of Spike Lee's movies, plus a listing of the other videos that more generally comport with the user's media consumption preferences and tastes). The system preferably pre-packages and stores these files for the end user devices to download in advance, so that it minimizes latency during the time the device is connecting to the network to obtain updates, and so that it optimizes other aspects of the system and servers, but alternatively these custom catalogs for end-user devices can be constructed “on-the-fly” in any degree of desired granularity—i.e., record-by-record for maximum granularity, or alternatively from “building blocks” that are pre-built and successively sent as updates (or catalog replacements) to the device. In the example above, for example, the user might get the 80's music “building block” plus other relevant areas of the catalog. This balances the pre-building optimizations (e.g., storage on the server-side system) with a higher degree of customization for an individual user device.
In addition, the operators of the server would preferably maintain the ability to dynamically change how the category of files appears to the user on the user interface, such that a “slice file” may list the “Top 10 Hits” one week, and the next week this may be changed to read “Favorite Summer Songs.” The slice file would list the songs that should then appear when then user selects this item. The text that should appear in the user interface would accordingly be preferably communicated, at minimum, each time that the operators desire the title of the category to change. This can be achieved in multiple ways, preferably through a framework approach wherein the user interface of the device will respond to data that can dynamically adjust the structure of the user interface without requiring a re-boot of the device, including allowing the data to reconfigure the levels of trees in the menu structure, creating nested options, etc. Alternatively, a more simple and limited approach, which is preferable if simplicity is important, would designate certain elements of the user interface to be dynamic (e.g., the title of the menu option under a “Get New Music” option, as shown on display 214), but require other elements to remain rigid (e.g., the menu item must include only one layer underneath, which must consist of a listing of tracks, not albums or artists).
Any number of variations and improvements to the above process are possible. In one particular variation, it is desired to indicate to the user through the end-user device user interface which titles are new, so that new material can more easily be found. To achieve this, the update file can preferably include a “date of release” metadata item for any desired record (e.g., a musical album) where this information would be useful. The user interface of the device can then use rules in displaying the listing of albums for a particular musical artist which place a “NEW” icon next to the items that had release dates that are, say, within three months of the current date at the time the device is being used. This is a preferable method, though other methods might involve the update files themselves indicating a 0/1 bit setting for whether a particular item in the database should be signified to the user as “NEW”. (This method would not work appropriately for devices that did not connect with at least reasonable frequency to the network, and accordingly is not preferred for devices that are not assured of frequent connections in a normal use pattern by an end user.)
Feature 22—DRM and Other Proxying
It may be desirable for a commercial or other content service to employ any of a number of security-related features. These could include the use of digital rights management (DRM) technology, which encrypts a content file in a particular manner before it is transmitted/made available to a receiving user device. Other security features may involve requiring user/device authentication, or encrypted and secure transmissions of a certain sort. Microsoft® Windows Media® DRM is an example of a DRM which is frequently used by commercial content services to protect content that is made available to end-users. It is also important to recognize that such a DRM technology is preferably used as only a part of a larger system and may not be sufficient on its own to meet the needs of a complete commercial content distribution system—i.e., the DRM technology itself does not include all items necessary for a commercially viable content purchase, subscription or other commercially oriented system. In particular, information that is not a part of the DRM system, such as personal identification, is necessary to bill the end user for services and determine what particular digital rights a particular recipient is entitled to. In this case, it is necessary for the device maker to provide the means required to supply the “account”/user information needed by content provider systems to allow content to be delivered to and rendered by the device, and this information must be provided to the DRM system in a compliant and secure manner at the time the device is transacting with the backend content distribution systems.
It further may be desirable for a device maker or service provider to allow an end user to access any of a variety of existing or future content services from a single device, which services may or may not employ any or all of these security means in the course of providing their services.
It may be difficult to enable access to these secure services from the device due to inadequacies of the device. For example, if a new secure content service comes into being, a device may not have adequate processing power to handle certain aspects of the security, or may have difficulty complying with a required authentication protocol unless its firmware/software is upgraded. In particular, for example, a problem for DRM-based services might be that a proper DRM request to a server requires a requesting device properly combine the content request with authentication information in a form that is encrypted in a particular manner, before it can be issued a valid DRM license that would enable decryption of the content during playback rendering and/or other functions. Further, there is potential that the service will later change its requirements for this process. This may happen frequently over time, for example, because hackers eventually “crack” the security means and it is necessary to employ a new one or make modifications, or because the service seeks to implement new security features or a new version of the DRM. Further, complications may arise when multiple services use multiple types of DRM or other security measures, which may in particular create operating issues for a device of limited means such as a mobile device.
This problem poses a significant issue for device makers and content providers. Even if difficulties can be overcome to enable a device to connect to a particular service, these companies face the risk that a future version of the service or the addition of a new desired service will make the device incompatible, resulting in angry end users. In particular, if the device maker or other intermediary in the distribution chain does not control each of the services being provided, it may not be possible to make a change on the server-side to repair the problem. Accordingly, these parties are faced with the difficult choice of requiring an update of the software/firmware on the end user devices in the field, such as a wireless mobile phone, either by over-the-air download or by sideloading. This creates a potentially undesirable situation for the parties involved, as this creates potentially significant inconvenience for the end users, impedes the entertainment or other experience the providers are attempting to provide, and creates risk, cost and time involved in creating the upgrade for the handset. A solution that does not require modifying the software/firmware on the handset is accordingly strongly preferred.
The present invention seeks to solve this problem by providing a proxy to a DRM request or other security means via a server-side request made on behalf of the device as shown in FIG. 4. In this figure, system 300 includes a external content provider 302 or other means used to store content and to release the content to various devices 304, 306 and 308 using the process described herein.
The external content provider 302 exchanges data with an intermediary server system 310 that is connected to the Internet 312 for sending content to the devices 304-308. Through this intermediary server 310, the devices 304-308 are insulated from changes that may occur and protected from requiring ongoing modifications and upgrades. Significantly, it is also a mechanism whereby a single device can easily acquire content from a plethora of content providers, even if potentially different compliance requirements/protocols are required by the various providers to obtain content from the service. To ensure that security is still effectively provided, the device (e.g. 306) identifies an intermediary server 310 as a first point of contact for a specified class of transactions (or all transactions, depending on the desired function of the device). The device 306 and the intermediary server 310 establish a preferred authentication/security means, so that the intermediary server 310 can always authenticate and handle secure communications to the device 306. The intermediary server 310 has a means to identify, authenticate and collect valid user/account information of the devices/end users 306-308, as needed to enable the supported services, for example by using a look-up table.
As an example, in the event the device 306 seeks to download DRM-protected content, it sends a request to the intermediary server 310 (in particular, this may include an identifier for the content desired, as well as authenticating data identifying the device to the intermediary server 310). Based on the request, the server 310 then recognizes that the device 306 is seeking to access content from a particular external content provider—for example, a provider of DRM-protected music content files. The intermediary server 310, which is routinely kept updated by a server-side team, contains code which knows to reformulate or translate the DRM content request from the device 306 into a well-formed query that is suitable for example for external content provider 302. In particular, with, for example, Microsoft® DRM, the query may involve combining certain individualized information of the device with the request, plus information contained at the server level which may pertain to a “master account” established between the intermediary server 310 backend and the content provider's servers 302, or information pertaining to an individual account on the content provide that was created on behalf of the device by the intermediary server. The intermediary server 310 then makes this request on the device's behalf to external content provider 302, and receives back a response (in certain cases, potentially after multiple required back-and-forth authentication-related exchanges) which the device 306 is able to interpret (alternately, if an error code is received, the server may similarly be updated to intercept and cure the error, or alternatively to interpret these error codes and provide an appropriate translation of this error to the user device so that its current software version is able to translate and make use of the error information). This response is then passed on to the device 306, which may for example consist of a URL from which the device can obtain the desired content file.
This proxying of the DRM request has thus insulated the device 306 from issues of changes and other problems that may occur in an ongoing and evolving security environment. It has further allowed an intermediate server 310 to offer content to the device 306 from a plethora of external content providers 302 without the device 306 user needing to directly establish a business relationship with each provider 302, or to implement a multitude of access protocols on the device 306 that may be needed for each particular provider 302. (The operator of the intermediary server 310 can opt to automatically aggregate certain services for its users in this fashion, or alternatively can take another approach, such as allowing users to manually specify from the device interface or a PC which of the supported services they would like to add to their accounts.) It also has the further benefit that, in the event the device 306 has only intermittent connectivity and the negotiation of the security protocol could take time while the device 306 is “on hold” between interim responses, the server 310 can carry these transactions out even if the device 306 has lost connectivity in the interim. It has further provided more flexibility for the operator of the intermediary server, who can choose to provide more or less information to the external content providers as desired, based for example on a desired business relationship.
Feature 23. Music4U/Send-to-Device
With devices that are able to connect directly to a network (e.g., the Internet) in some way, there is potential for users to obtain content directly, without using an intervening device such as a PC. However, a problem faced by many users, device makers, service providers and others is that the user has a vast/enormous selection of available content to choose from, and it is difficult to navigate/search/browse, identify, order, download, play and manage content that is well-suited to the end user, particularly from a device with limited user input and output such as a wireless mobile phone.
By contrast, while still a difficult problem, users have a somewhat easier time browsing and navigating available content when they use a traditional PC, which typically offers a larger screen and more available and navigable input devices, such as a mouse and keyboard (and possibly a more stable, speedy and economical Internet connection). Further, as PCs typically establish a more “always on”-type connection to the Internet, Internet-connected content services are able to provide stream-able and downloadable samples on-demand to help users determine content that is appealing before committing to what is often a longer and more involved download process to obtain the full content, or prior to making a purchase or other business commitment.
Content services that enable content access on portable and other devices typically require users to make selections on a PC, and then manually connect the device to the PC—perhaps through a USB or “Firewire” connection—to transfer the content from the PC to the device.
The present invention allows users to maintain the advantages of the PC in identifying and selecting content, but avoids the need for the user to manually connect a mobile or other device to a PC through a local connection. The process is illustrated in a somewhat simplified version in FIGS. 4 and 5. The process 400 in step 400 starts in step 402 with a user entering his orders, preferences and/or selections via any connected device, including via use of a browser on a PC or other device. These requests are stored on an intermediate server, such as server 310. The user may accordingly use a PC or any other desktop or hand-held device for searching, browsing, sampling, etc., and then make a selection to “send to device” any or all of the content he/she is finding via the search, to have the desired selections remotely sent asynchronously to the target device. The selections are stored by the intermediate server 310 until a specified mobile or other device (or, potentially, all PC, mobile and other devices associated with a particular user's account) makes contact with the intermediary server 310 (step 404). At that point the server 310 notifies the respective device that selected content/preferences, etc. are being cached and are ready for delivery to the device. The device then automatically request download of the content and other items that the server 310 has made available. (Further, a syncing mechanism can preferably be used to manage conflicts that may arise between actions a user took on the device and the server 310, or to manage conflicts between local preferences set by a user for one device and new content that becomes available.) (Step 404)
In one implementation, for example, a new user can join a commercial service via a Website. The user can quickly be prompted to provide specific or general information about his/her preferences—for example, a user can indicate a preference for jazz music and 80's rock music, and/or specify a preference for music of Ray Charles and Beyonce. (This information may alternatively or additionally be collected in other ways, such as by monitoring preferred content selected by a user in the course of using the service, by observing behavior when rendering content such as “skip/FF” or “don't like” button presses, or other means.) After entering this information the server can use this information to generate a proposed playlist for the user. Playlist generation can be achieved via a multiplicity of ways or any combination, which are known to many experienced in the art. They include, for example, recommendation technologies that use Bayesian statistics, manually-created artist/genre/track associations, content-analytic techniques, and other methods. In its simplest form, pre-made playlists may be created and stored on the server, and inputs from the user can be made to trigger a complete or partial/random selection from the pool of selections included on the relevant playlists. Content can continually be added and cycled on the playlists, such that they appear to be “endless playlists” or radio station-like in appearance to an end user.
Once the playlist is generated, the user can opt to have this playlist sent to his/her device (or, preferably, this step can be made automatic). At this point, the server will store a record that the user's device should be updated with this playlist and content at the next opportunity. The next time the server detects that the device has contacted it, the server informs the device that there is cached information waiting and makes a specific URL or other means available for the device to download the cached content. In this way, settings and selections of the user that were entered through a PC interface are sent to the user's device. The user need not struggle through a limited user interface, screen, and input means to select content from a vast catalog of available content. The user also need not manually connect the device to a PC and make a secondary transfer over a USB cable or other means. Instead, this step is automatically accomplished.
In one further variation, the user may indicate a desire for content matching his/her preferences to be periodically sent on an ongoing basis. In this case, the server can be made to periodically create additional playlists (which do not overlap the content previously sent to that user, except to the specific extent desired), and to repeat the procedure above whereby it makes the content available to the device. In this way, a user need not even revisit the PC to change preferences but can always receive more content.
In another variation, users can be offered a means on the mobile device to say “more” or the equivalent, and accordingly demand that more content meeting the preferences be provided. This can be in addition to the automated server pushes described above. Related to this, the user can be given access on the mobile device to enter all or a portion of the preferences described above, such as preferred genres of music and preferred artists, so as to obviate need to utilize the PC at any point.
Further, as may be directed by the server, the new playlists can either amend or modify, or completely replace, playlists that were previously made available to the device. In this way, more incremental changes can be made to the playlist over time, providing a balance of “core” or “essential” music on the device with new, fresh content. Preferentially, the device also provides more information back to the server about the user's behavior, which is further used to enhance the user's experience and relevancy and attractiveness of the content selections. In particular, the device may report what songs were played (and, by implication, not played) by the user, as well as which songs were skipped (and, by implication, played and not skipped) by the user. This reporting can all take place on a mobile phone, for example, by over-the-air sending of data at opportune times, in an asynchronous fashion.
Numerous modifications may be made to the invention without departing from its scope as defined in the appended claims.
1-8. (canceled)
9. A digital media content player comprising:
a storage means for digital media content and associated data;
a digital player element rendering the digital media content to a user;
a visual display; and
a processor for selection and processing of the digital media content to be rendered, and for processing any visual information in said digital media content and displaying said visual data on said visual display.
10. The method of claim 9 wherein said digital media content and associated data includes art work identifying said media content, said art work being shown on said visual display.
11. The method of claim 9 wherein said associated data includes art work and alphanumeric characters, and wherein said processor automatically renders said art work and said alphanumeric characters in sequence.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein said processor includes special effects between the art work and the alphanumeric characters.
13. The method of claim 10 wherein said processor detects digital information defining said art work in a first size and said processor transforms said digital information and renders in a second size compatible with said visual display.
14. A method for displaying data associated with digital media content on a portable media content player comprising:
selecting digital media content from a storage means for playback;
identifying associated data for selected digital media content;
processing said associated data for visual display; and
displaying visual representation of associated data concurrently with playback of said digital media content.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the companion data is aggregated in multiple sets, each set corresponding to a distinct display.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein displays are transitioned from one screen to another at periodic intervals.
17. The method of claim 14, wherein said associated data includes cover art and alphanumeric characters, said cover art and said alphanumeric characters being displayed in an alternating order.
18. The method of claim 17 further comprising data corresponding to the art work into transformed data representing the art work at a resolution and size compatible with the display of the portable media content player.
19. An apparatus for developing a playlist for a digital media player comprising:
a data storage storing media selections;
a processor for processing media selections from the data storage;
a visual display;
a controller with a user input means; and
a processor generating screens on said visual display;
wherein said controller is used by a user for selecting a playlist from the media selections, by selecting entries from a plurality of screens rendered in sequence by said processor on said screen using said user input means.
20. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein each screen includes characters associated with a selection option, said user selecting one of said characters using said user input means.
21. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein said user input means is a multi-position switch.
22. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein such user input means is a touch screen.
23. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein said screens are displayed in a hierarchical order determined by the frequency in which the screen is used.
24. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein said media selections are added to a playlist using the screens, with media selections added last being shown first for adding to the playlist.
25. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein said media selections are added to a playlist using the screens, with the playlist added to last being shown first.
26. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein once a playlist has been generated, it can be modified using said processor and said controller by presenting the user with the choice of moving entries in the list with respect to other entries.
27. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein as part of creating the playlist, the catalog is presented to the user and said controller is used to select one or more of the entries in the catalog with said controller, the selected entry having different visual characteristics then non-selected entries.
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Kristen N. Jaax
Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp
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Methods and systems of treating a patient with medication overuse headache include providing a stimulator, configuring one or more stimulation parameters to treat medication overuse headache, programming the stimulator with the one or more stimulation parameters, generating a stimulus configured to treat the medication overuse headache with the stimulator in accordance with the one or more stimulation parameters, and applying at least one stimulus with the stimulator to a stimulation site within the patient in accordance with the one or more stimulation parameters.
The present application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/925,957 by Kristen N. Jaax et al., filed on Apr. 23, 2007, and entitled “Methods and Systems of Treating Medication Overuse Headache,” the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.
People who suffer from constant headaches often take a variety of different medications in an effort to ameliorate the effects thereof. For example, preventive medications may be taken in an attempt to prevent the onset of a headache, abortive medications may be taken to stop or “abort” a headache when an aura is sensed, and rescue medications may be taken after a headache is already fully developed.
Unfortunately, many medications have the potential to cause medication overuse headaches (MOH) if used with regularity. In general, medication overuse may be defined in terms of the number of days per month that a particular type of medication is used by a patient to treat headache. For example, the use of various abortive medications (e.g., triptans, opioids, or combination analgesics) for 10 or more days per month is defined as medication overuse by the International Headache Society (IHS). The frequency of use in order to be considered medication overuse may vary depending on the particular medication.
It is not clear if medication overuse causes worsening of headache symptoms or arises as a result of increased headache frequency. Regardless, medication overuse headaches can be debilitating and difficult to overcome. Attempts to wean medication overuse patients off of medications are typically unsuccessful, with a reversion rate of up to seventy percent.
Methods of treating a patient with medication overuse headache include providing a stimulator, configuring one or more stimulation parameters to treat medication overuse headache, programming the stimulator with the one or more stimulation parameters, generating a stimulus configured to treat the medication overuse headache with the stimulator in accordance with the one or more stimulation parameters, and applying at least one stimulus with the stimulator to a stimulation site within the patient in accordance with the one or more stimulation parameters.
Systems for treating a patient with medication overuse headache include a stimulator configured to generate at least one stimulus in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters adjusted to treat medication overuse headache, a programmable memory unit in communication with the stimulator and programmed to store the one or more stimulation parameters to at least partially define the stimulus such that the stimulus is configured to treat the medication overuse headache, and means, operably connected to the stimulator, for applying the stimulus to a stimulation site within the patient.
The accompanying drawings illustrate various embodiments of the principles described herein and are a part of the specification. The illustrated embodiments are merely examples and do not limit the scope of the disclosure.
FIG. 1A depicts the upper cervical spine area of a patient and shows a number of nerves originating in the upper cervical spine area.
FIG. 1B depicts the occipital nerves in the back of the head and upper neck area of a patient.
FIGS. 1C-1D depict the trigeminal nerve and its branches.
FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary implantable stimulator according to principles described herein.
FIG. 3 illustrates an exemplary microstimulator according to principles described herein.
FIG. 4A shows an example of a microstimulator with one or more leads coupled thereto according to principles described herein.
FIG. 4B shows an example of a microstimulator with a plurality of electrodes disposed on an outer surface thereof according to principles described herein.
FIG. 4C shows the exemplary microstimulator of FIG. 4B coupled to a lead having a number of electrodes disposed thereon.
FIG. 5 depicts a number of stimulators configured to communicate with each other and/or with one or more external devices according to principles described herein.
FIGS. 6-7 illustrate exemplary configurations wherein one or more electrodes coupled to an implantable stimulator are in communication with one or more of the occipital nerves.
Throughout the drawings, identical reference numbers designate similar, but not necessarily identical, elements.
Methods and systems for treating a patient with medication overuse headache are described herein. A stimulator is configured to apply at least one stimulus a stimulation site within a patient (e.g., one or more of the occipital or trigeminal nerves) in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters. The stimulus is configured to treat medication overuse headache and may include electrical stimulation, drug stimulation, gene infusion, chemical stimulation, thermal stimulation, electromagnetic stimulation, mechanical stimulation, and/or any other suitable stimulation. As used herein, “treating” medication overuse headache refers to any amelioration or prevention of one or more causes, symptoms, and/or sequelae of medication overuse headache. Treating medication overuse headache may additionally or alternatively include facilitating the decrease and/or elimination of medications used in association with medication overuse headache and/or any other medical condition.
In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present systems and methods. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the present systems and methods may be practiced without these specific details. Reference in the specification to “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment. The appearance of the phrase “in one embodiment” in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.
To facilitate an understanding of the systems and methods described herein, a brief overview of the occipital and trigeminal nerves will be given in connection with FIGS. 1A-1D. FIG. 1A depicts the upper cervical spine (C1-C4) area of an exemplary patient. As shown in FIG. 1A, a number of nerves arise from the upper cervical spine (C1-C4). Examples of such nerves include, but are not limited to, the greater occipital nerve(s) 101, lesser occipital nerve(s) 102, greater auricular nerve(s) 103, transverse cervical nerve(s) 104, supraclavicular nerve(s) 105, and/or branches of any of these nerves.
FIG. 1B depicts the occipital nerves 100 in the back of the head and upper neck area of a patient. As shown in FIG. 1B, the occipital nerves 100 are divided into greater and lesser occipital nerves 101 and 102, respectively, and are located on both sides of the midline. The greater occipital nerve 101 arises between the first and second cervical vertebrae and innervates the scalp at the top of the head, over the ear, and over the parotid glands. The lesser occipital nerve 102 also arises between the first and second cervical vertebrae and innervates the scalp in the lateral area of the head behind the ear.
As used herein, the term “occipital nerve” will be used to refer to one or more of the greater and lesser occipital nerves 101 and 102 on either or both sides of the midline. Because the occipital nerves 100 lie subcutaneously in the back of the head and upper neck, they are relatively easily accessed via surgical procedure.
FIGS. 1C and 1D depict the trigeminal nerve 106 and its branches. The trigeminal nerve 106 and its branches are responsible, in part, for the perception of head pain. The trigeminal nerve 106 on each side of the head arises from a trigeminal ganglion 107, which lies within the skull in an area known as Meckel's cave.
FIGS. 1C and 1D also show a number of branches of the trigeminal nerve 106. For example, the ophthalmic nerve 108, the maxillary nerve 109, the mandibular nerve 110, and the supraorbital nerve are all branches of the trigeminal nerve 106. As used herein, the term “trigeminal nerve” will be used to refer to the trigeminal nerve itself and/or one or more branches thereof on either or both sides of the midline.
As mentioned, medication overuse headache may be caused by or associated with the regular use of a number of different medications or drugs. One type of medication overuse headache is known as a “withdrawal” or “rebound” headache. A withdrawal headache may occur when a patient regularly takes medication to treat or prevent headaches and then tries to stop taking the medication. Additionally or alternatively, a withdrawal headache may occur when a patient regularly takes medication to treat or prevent a non-headache medical condition (e.g., non-headache pain) and then tries to stop taking the medication. As used herein, the term “medication overuse headache” will be used to refer to any type of headache caused by or otherwise associated with the regular use of any type of medication for any type of medical condition. For example, a medication overuse headache may be associated with one or more preventive, abortive, and/or rescue medications that are taken to treat headache.
Exemplary preventive medications that may be associated with medication overuse headache include, but are not limited to, tricyclic antidepressants (e.g., amitriptyline and nortriptyline), serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) (e.g., paroxetine, venlafaxine, and fluoxetine), non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (e.g., ibuprofen and ketoprofen), anticonvulsants (e.g. divalproex), and muscle relaxants.
Exemplary abortive medications that may be associated with medication overuse headache include, but are not limited to, barbiturates, triptans, acetaminophen, NSAIDS, aspirin, caffeine, ergotamine tartrates, opiods, and combination analgesics. Abortive medications are also referred to as acute medications.
Exemplary rescue medications that may be associated with medication overuse headache include, but are not limited to, butalbital compounds (e.g., Fiorinal and Fioricet), acetaminophens, oxycodone, hydrocodone (e.g., Vicodin, Percocet, and Tylenol), analgesics, injectable medications (e.g., Demerol), antinausea medications (e.g., Compazine, Phenergan, and Reglan), and muscle relaxants (e.g., Soma, Skelaxin, and Zanaflex).
It is believed that applying a stimulus to one or more stimulation sites within a patient may be useful in treating medication overuse headache. As used herein, the term “stimulation site” refers to one or more of the occipital nerves, one or more of the trigeminal nerves, and/or any other nerve or tissue associated with medication overuse headache. For example, stimulation of one or more of the occipital nerves and/or trigeminal nerves may be configured to relieve pain and/or any other symptom associated with medication overuse headache, thereby allowing the patient to decrease and/or eliminate the use of the medication(s) associated with the medication overuse headache.
Additionally or alternatively, the stimulation may be configured to gradually wean a medication overuse patient off of one or more medications associated with medication overuse headache. For example, continuous, intermittent, or bolus stimulation may be applied to one or more of the occipital nerves of a medication overuse patient over a period of time. The stimulation may be adjusted or altered over time to allow the patient to slowly wean himself or herself from one or more medications associated with medication overuse headache.
In some alternative examples, the stimulation may be configured to treat medication overuse headaches associated with one or more medications being used by a patient to treat a non-headache medical condition. For example, a patient may regularly take one or more medications such as, but not limited to, NSAIDs, for non-headache pain. Once the pain subsides, the patient may desire to cease taking the medications. In so doing, the patient may experience medication overuse headache (e.g., withdrawal headache). In some instances, the patient may revert back to taking the medications in order to avoid the withdrawal headaches. Hence, in some examples, stimulation may be applied to one or more stimulation sites within the patient in accordance with the systems and methods described herein in order to minimize the effects of the withdrawal headaches as the patient attempts to decrease and/or eliminate the intake of medications.
Consequently, a stimulator may be implanted within a patient to deliver a stimulus to one or more stimulation sites within the patient to treat medication overuse headache. The stimulus may include an electrical stimulation current, one or more drugs or other chemical stimulation, thermal stimulation, electromagnetic stimulation, mechanical stimulation, and/or any other suitable stimulation.
As used herein, and in the appended claims, the term “stimulator” will be used broadly to refer to any device that delivers a stimulus to a stimulation site (e.g., one or more of the occipital nerves and/or trigeminal nerves) to treat medication overuse headache. Thus, the term “stimulator” includes, but is not limited to, a microstimulator, implantable pulse generator (IPG), spinal cord stimulator (SCS), external trial stimulator, system control unit, deep brain stimulator, drug pump, or similar device.
A more detailed description of an exemplary stimulator and its operation will now be given in connection with FIG. 2. FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary stimulator 120 that may be used to apply a stimulus to a stimulation site within a patient, e.g., an electrical stimulation of the stimulation site, an infusion of one or more drugs at the stimulation site, or both. The electrical stimulation function of the stimulator 120 will be described first, followed by an explanation of the possible drug delivery function of the stimulator 120. It will be understood, however, that the stimulator 120 may be configured to provide only electrical stimulation, only drug stimulation, both types of stimulation, or any other type of stimulation as best suits a particular patient.
The exemplary stimulator 120 shown in FIG. 2 is configured to provide electrical stimulation to one or more stimulation sites within a patient and may include at least one lead 121 coupled thereto. In some examples, the at least one lead 121 includes a number of electrodes 122 through which electrical stimulation current may be applied to a stimulation site. It will be recognized that the at least one lead 121 may include any number of electrodes 122 arranged in any configuration as best serves a particular application. In some alternative examples, as will be described in more detail below, the stimulator 120 is leadless.
As illustrated in FIG. 2, the stimulator 120 includes a number of components. It will be recognized that the stimulator 120 may include additional and/or alternative components as best serves a particular application. A power source 125 is configured to output voltage used to supply the various components within the stimulator 120 with power and/or to generate the power used for electrical stimulation. The power source 125 may include a primary battery, a rechargeable battery (e.g., a lithium-ion battery), a super capacitor, a nuclear battery, a mechanical resonator, an infrared collector (receiving, e.g., infrared energy through the skin), a thermally-powered energy source (where, e.g., memory-shaped alloys exposed to a minimal temperature difference generate power), a flexural powered energy source (where a flexible section subject to flexural forces is part of the stimulator), a bioenergy power source (where a chemical reaction provides an energy source), a fuel cell, a bioelectrical cell (where two or more electrodes use tissue-generated potentials and currents to capture energy and convert it to useable power), an osmotic pressure pump (where mechanical energy is generated due to fluid ingress), or the like.
In some examples, the power source 125 may be recharged using an external charging system. One type of rechargeable power supply that may be used is described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,596,439, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Other battery construction techniques that may be used to make the power source 125 include those shown, e.g., in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,280,873; 6,458,171; 6,605,383; and 6,607,843, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their respective entireties.
The stimulator 120 may also include a coil 128 configured to receive and/or emit a magnetic field (also referred to as a radio frequency (RF) field) that is used to communicate with, or receive power from, one or more external devices. Such communication and/or power transfer may include, but is not limited to, transcutaneously receiving data from the external device, transmitting data to the external device, and/or receiving power used to recharge the power source 125.
For example, an external battery charging system (EBCS) 111 may be provided to generate power that is used to recharge the power source 125 via any suitable communication link. Additional external devices including, but not limited to, a hand held programmer (HHP) 115, a clinician programming system (CPS) 117, and/or a manufacturing and diagnostic system (MDS) 113 may also be provided and configured to activate, deactivate, program, and/or test the stimulator 120 via one or more communication links. It will be recognized that the communication links shown in FIG. 2 may each include any type of link used to transmit data or energy, such as, but not limited to, an RF link, an infrared (IR) link, an optical link, a thermal link, or any other energy-coupling link.
Additionally, if multiple external devices are used in the treatment of a patient, there may be communication among those external devices, as well as with the implanted stimulator 120. It will be recognized that any suitable communication link may be used among the various devices illustrated.
The external devices shown in FIG. 2 are merely illustrative of the many different external devices that may be used in connection with the stimulator 120. Furthermore, it will be recognized that the functions performed by any two or more of the external devices shown in FIG. 2 may be performed by a single external device.
The stimulator 120 may also include electrical circuitry 124 configured to generate the electrical stimulation current that is delivered to a stimulation site via one or more of the electrodes 122. For example, the electrical circuitry 124 may include one or more processors, capacitors, integrated circuits, resistors, coils, and/or any other component configured to generate electrical stimulation current.
Additionally, the exemplary stimulator 120 shown in FIG. 2 may be configured to provide drug stimulation to a patient by applying one or more drugs at a stimulation site within the patient. To this end, a pump 127 may also be included within the stimulator 120. The pump 127 is configured to store and dispense one or more drugs, for example, through a catheter 123. The catheter 123 is coupled at a proximal end to the stimulator 120 and may have an infusion outlet 129 for infusing dosages of the one or more drugs at the stimulation site. In some embodiments, the stimulator 120 may include multiple catheters 123 and/or pumps 127 for storing and infusing dosages of the one or more drugs at the stimulation site.
The stimulator 120 may also include a programmable memory unit 126 configured to store one or more stimulation parameters. The stimulation parameters may include, but are not limited to, electrical stimulation parameters, drug stimulation parameters, and other types of stimulation parameters. The programmable memory unit 126 allows a patient, clinician, or other user of the stimulator 120 to adjust the stimulation parameters such that the stimulation applied by the stimulator 120 is safe and efficacious for treatment of a particular patient. The programmable memory unit 126 may include any type of memory unit such as, but not limited to, random access memory (RAM), static RAM (SRAM), a hard drive, or the like.
The electrical stimulation parameters may control various parameters of the stimulation current applied to a stimulation site including, but not limited to, the frequency, pulse width, amplitude, waveform (e.g., square or sinusoidal), electrode configuration (i.e., anode-cathode assignment), burst pattern (e.g., continuous or intermittent), duty cycle or burst repeat interval, ramp on time, and ramp off time. The drug stimulation parameters may control various parameters including, but not limited to, the amount of drugs infused at the stimulation site, the rate of drug infusion, and the frequency of drug infusion. For example, the drug stimulation parameters may cause the drug infusion rate to be intermittent, continuous, or bolus. Other stimulation parameters that characterize other classes of stimuli are possible. For example, when tissue is stimulated using electromagnetic radiation, the stimulation parameters may characterize the intensity, wavelength, and timing of the electromagnetic radiation stimuli. When tissue is stimulated using mechanical stimuli, the stimulation parameters may characterize the pressure, displacement, frequency, and timing of the mechanical stimuli.
Specific stimulation parameters may have different effects on different types, causes, or symptoms of medication overuse headache. Thus, in some examples, the stimulation parameters may be adjusted at any time throughout the treatment course as best serves the particular patient being treated. It will be recognized that any of the characteristics of the stimulation current, including, but not limited to, the pulse shape, amplitude, pulse width, frequency, burst pattern (e.g., continuous, cycled, or intermittent), duty cycle or burst repeat interval, ramp on time, and ramp off time may be adjusted as best serves a particular application.
To illustrate, a baseline set of stimulation parameters may initially be set to begin treatment of medication overuse headache. These baseline values may be adjusted throughout the course of treatment in response to patient feedback or sensed indicators of medication overuse headache. Additionally or alternatively, the patient and/or clinician may adjust the stimulation parameters at any time to prevent accommodation, collateral stimulation, and/or ineffectiveness.
An exemplary baseline set of stimulation parameters that may be used to initially define stimulation current that is used to treat medication overuse headache includes, but is not limited to the stimulation parameters shown in Table 1. It will be recognized that the baseline set of stimulation parameters shown in Table 1 may vary depending on the particular patient being treated and that additional or alternative stimulation parameters may be defined.
Exemplary Baseline Stimulation Parameters
Pulse width 250 microseconds (μsec)
Frequency 60 Hertz (Hz)
Burst pattern Continuous
Amplitude 0.2-20 milliamps (mA)
Hence, as shown in Table 1, a continuous stimulation current having a pulse width of 250 μsec, a frequency of 60 Hz, and an amplitude anywhere between 0.2 to 20 mA may be initially applied to one or more stimulation sites of a patient (e.g., one or more of the occipital nerves and/or trigeminal nerves) in order to treat medication overuse headache.
After a predetermined length of time (e.g., a week, a month, or multiple months) of treatment, the patient may be evaluated to determine whether additional stimulation is needed in order to treat medication overuse headache. In some examples, if the patient has successfully been weaned from the medications associated with medication overuse headache and if the patient no longer experiences the symptoms of headache, the stimulation may be terminated. Alternatively, if it is determined that the patient needs further treatment, the stimulation may continue in accordance with the same set of stimulation parameters or in accordance with a newly defined set of stimulation parameters. For example, the stimulation parameters may be adjusted from the exemplary baseline stimulation parameters described previously in connection with Table 1 to have the exemplary values within the ranges shown in Table 2:
Exemplary Adjusted Stimulation Parameters
Pulse width 50-1000 μsec
Frequency 2-1200 Hz
Burst pattern Cycled
Amplitude 0-20 mA
As shown in Table 2, the pulse width, frequency, and/or amplitude may be adjusted so that the stimulation current more effectively treats medication overuse headache. For example, the pulse width may be adjusted to a suitable value in between and including 50 and 1000 μsec, the frequency may be adjusted to a suitable value in between and including 2 and 1200 Hz, the burst pattern may be adjusted to a cycled pattern, and/or the amplitude may be adjusted to a suitable value in between 0 and 20 mA. It will be recognized that the values shown in Table 2 are merely illustrative and that they may vary as may serve a particular application. It will also be recognized that any other stimulation parameter may be adjusted in order to more effectively treat medication overuse headache.
The stimulator 120 of FIG. 2 is illustrative of many types of stimulators that may be used in accordance with the systems and methods described herein. For example, the stimulator 120 may include an implantable pulse generator (IPG), a spinal cord stimulator (SCS), a deep brain stimulator, a drug pump, or any other type of implantable device configured to deliver a stimulus to a stimulation site within a patient. Exemplary IPGs suitable for use as described herein include, but are not limited to, those disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,381,496, 6,553,263; and 6,760,626. Exemplary spinal cord stimulators suitable for use as described herein include, but are not limited to, those disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,501,703; 6,487,446; and 6,516,227. Exemplary deep brain stimulators suitable for use as described herein include, but are not limited to, those disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,938,688; 6,016,449; and 6,539,263. All of these listed patents are incorporated herein by reference in their respective entireties.
The stimulator 120 of FIG. 2 may alternatively include a microstimulator. Various details associated with the manufacture, operation, and use of implantable microstimulators are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,193,539; 5,193,540; 5,312,439; 6,185,452; 6,164,284; 6,208,894; and 6,051,017. All of these listed patents are incorporated herein by reference in their respective entireties.
FIG. 3 illustrates an exemplary microstimulator 130 that may be used as the stimulator 120 described herein. Other configurations of the microstimulator 130 are possible, as shown in the above-referenced patents and as described further below.
As shown in FIG. 3, the microstimulator 130 may include the power source 125, the programmable memory 126, the electrical circuitry 124, and the pump 127 described in connection with FIG. 2. These components are housed within a capsule 132. The capsule 132 may be a thin, elongated cylinder or any other shape as best serves a particular application. The shape of the capsule 132 may be determined by the structure of the desired stimulation site and the method of implantation. In some examples, the microstimulator 130 may include two or more leadless electrodes 133 disposed on the outer surface thereof.
The external surfaces of the microstimulator 130 may advantageously be composed of biocompatible materials. For example, the capsule 132 may be made of glass, ceramic, metal, or any other material that provides a hermetic package that will exclude water vapor but permit passage of electromagnetic fields used to transmit data and/or power. The electrodes 133 may be made of a noble or refractory metal or compound, such as platinum, iridium, tantalum, titanium, titanium nitride, niobium or alloys of any of these, in order to avoid corrosion or electrolysis which could damage the surrounding tissues and the device.
The microstimulator 130 may also include one or more infusion outlets 131 configured to dispense one or more drugs directly at a stimulation site. Alternatively, one or more catheters may be coupled to the infusion outlets 131 to deliver the drug therapy to a treatment site some distance from the body of the microstimulator 130.
FIGS. 4A-4C show alternative configurations of a microstimulator 130. It will be recognized that the alternative configurations shown in FIGS. 4A-4C are merely illustrative of the many possible configurations of a microstimulator 130. For example, FIG. 4A shows an example of a microstimulator 130 with one or more leads 140 coupled thereto. As shown in FIG. 4A, each of the leads 140 may include one or more electrodes 141 disposed thereon. The microstimulator 130 of FIG. 4A may additionally or alternatively include one or more leadless electrodes 133 disposed on the outer surface thereof.
FIG. 4B illustrates an exemplary microstimulator 130 with a plurality of electrodes 133 disposed on an outer surface thereof. In some examples, any number of electrodes 133 may be disposed on the outer surface of the microstimulator 130. In some alternative examples, as shown in FIG. 4C, the microstimulator 130 may be coupled to a lead 121 having a number of electrodes 122 disposed thereon. Each of the electrodes 133 and 122 may be selectively configured to serve as an anode or as a cathode.
In some examples, the stimulator 120 of FIG. 2 may be configured to operate independently. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 5, the stimulator 120 may be configured to operate in a coordinated manner with one or more additional stimulators, other implanted devices, or other devices external to the patient's body. FIG. 5 illustrates an exemplary configuration wherein a first stimulator 120-1 implanted within the patient 151 provides a stimulus to a first location, a second stimulator 120-2 provides a stimulus to a second location, and a third stimulator 120-3 provides a stimulus to a third location. In some examples, one or more external devices 150 may be configured to control the operation of each of the implanted devices 120. In some embodiments, an implanted device, e.g., stimulator 120-1, may control, or operate under the control of, another implanted device(s), e.g., stimulator 120-2 and/or stimulator 120-3. Control lines 152 have been drawn in FIG. 5 to illustrate that the external device 150 may communicate or provide power to any of the implanted devices 120 and that each of the various implanted devices 120 may communicate with and, in some instances, control any of the other implanted devices.
As a further example of multiple stimulators 120 operating in a coordinated manner, the first and second stimulators 120-1 and 120-2 of FIG. 5 may be configured to sense various indicators of the symptoms or causes of medication overuse headache and transmit the measured information to the third stimulator 120-3. The third stimulator 120-3 may then use the measured information to adjust its stimulation parameters and apply stimulation to a stimulation site accordingly. The various implanted stimulators may, in any combination, sense indicators of medication overuse headache, communicate or receive data regarding such indicators, and adjust stimulation parameters accordingly.
In order to determine the strength and/or duration of electrical stimulation and/or amount and/or type(s) of stimulating drug(s) required to most effectively treat medication overuse headache, various indicators of medication overuse headache and/or a patient's response to treatment may be sensed or measured. The stimulator 120 may then adjust the stimulation parameters (e.g., in a closed loop manner) in response to one or more of the sensed indicators. Exemplary indicators include, but are not limited to, electrical activity of the brain (e.g., EEG), neurotransmitter levels, hormone levels, neuropeptide levels (e.g., substance P levels and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) levels), metabolic activity in the brain, blood flow rate, medication levels within the patient, patient input, temperature of the stimulation site, physical activity level, brain hyperexcitability, and/or indicators of collateral tissue stimulation. In some examples, the stimulator 120 may be configured to perform the measurements. Alternatively, other sensing devices may be configured to perform the measurements and transmit the measured values to the stimulator 120. Exemplary sensing devices include, but are not limited to, chemical sensors, electrodes, optical sensors, mechanical (e.g., motion, pressure) sensors, and temperature sensors.
Thus, one or more external devices may be provided to interact with the stimulator 120, and may be used to accomplish at least one or more of the following functions:
Function 1: If necessary, transmit electrical power to the stimulator 120 in order to power the stimulator 120 and/or recharge the power source 125.
Function 2: Transmit data to the stimulator 120 in order to change the stimulation parameters used by the stimulator 120.
Function 3: Receive data indicating the state of the stimulator 120 (e.g., battery level, drug level, stimulation parameters, etc.).
Additional functions may include adjusting the stimulation parameters based on information sensed by the stimulator 120 or by other sensing devices.
By way of example, an exemplary method of treating medication overuse headache may be carried out according to the following sequence of procedures. The steps listed below may be modified, reordered, and/or added to as best serves a particular application.
1. A stimulator 120 is implanted so that its electrodes 122 and/or infusion outlet 129 are in communication with a stimulation site within a patient. As used herein and in the appended claims, the term “in communication with” refers to the stimulator 120, stimulating electrodes 122, and/or infusion outlet 129 being adjacent to, in the general vicinity of, in close proximity to, directly next to, or directly on the stimulation site.
2. The stimulator 120 is programmed to apply at least one stimulus to the stimulation site. The stimulus may include electrical stimulation, drug stimulation, gene infusion, chemical stimulation, thermal stimulation, electromagnetic stimulation, mechanical stimulation, and/or any other suitable stimulation.
3. When the patient desires to invoke stimulation, the patient sends a command to the stimulator 120 (e.g., via a remote control) such that the stimulator 120 delivers the prescribed stimulation to the stimulation site. For example, the stimulation may be activated by the patient when the patient feels the onset of a headache. The stimulator 120 may alternatively or additionally be configured to apply the stimulation to the stimulation site in accordance with one or more pre-determined stimulation parameters and/or automatically apply the stimulation in response to sensed indicators of medication overuse headache.
4. To cease stimulation, the patient may turn off the stimulator 120 (e.g., via a remote control).
5. Periodically, the power source 125 of the stimulator 120 is recharged, if necessary, in accordance with Function 1 described above.
In other examples, the treatment administered by the stimulator 120, i.e., drug therapy and/or electrical stimulation, may be automatic and not controlled or invoked by the patient. It will be recognized that the particular stimulation methods and parameters may vary as best serves a particular application.
The stimulator 120 may be implanted within a patient using any suitable surgical procedure such as, but not limited to, small incision, open placement, laparoscopy, or endoscopy. Exemplary methods of implanting a microstimulator, for example, are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,193,539; 5,193,540; 5,312,439; 6,185,452; 6,164,284; 6,208,894; and 6,051,017. Exemplary methods of implanting an SCS, for example, are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,501,703; 6,487,446; and 6,516,227. Exemplary methods of implanting a deep brain stimulator, for example, are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,938,688; 6,016,449; and 6,539,263. All of these listed patents are incorporated herein by reference in their respective entireties.
To illustrate, FIGS. 6-7 illustrate exemplary configurations wherein one or more electrodes 122 coupled to an implantable stimulator 120 are in communication with one or more of the occipital nerves 100. The configurations shown in FIGS. 6-7 are more fully described in co-pending and commonly-assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/728,816 to Jaax et al. and entitled “METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING STIMULATION OF ONE OR MORE STIMULATION SITES,” the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
In the example of FIG. 6, the electrodes 122 are disposed on a distal portion 163 of one or more leads 121 that are coupled to a stimulator 120. The number of leads 121 and the number of electrodes 122 disposed on each lead 121 may vary as may serve a particular application.
As shown in FIG. 6, the lead configuration may include two leads (e.g., 121-1 and 121-2, collectively referred to herein as 121). In this example, a distal portion 163-1 of the first lead 121-1 is positioned over the greater occipital nerve 101-1 on the right side of the patient and a distal portion 163-2 of the second lead 121-2 is placed over the greater occipital nerve 101-2 on the left side of the patient. The distal portions 163 of the leads 121 shown in FIG. 6 and in the other examples described herein are straight for illustrative purposes only. It will be recognized that the distal portions 163 may alternatively be curved, helical, paddle-shaped, or of any other shape as may serve a particular application.
The distal portions 163 of each of the leads 121 shown in FIG. 6 cover the greater occipital nerves 101 for illustrative purposes only. It will be recognized that the leads 121 may be located at any other stimulation site (e.g., the lesser occipital nerve 102) as may serve a particular application. In some examples, the distal tip of each of the leads 121 is placed four to five centimeters from the midline (i.e., the medial line or plane of the body) to minimize the need to advance the leads 121 following insertion. However, it will be recognized that the leads 121 may be placed any distance from the midline.
Configurations having two leads 121, such as that shown in FIG. 6, are advantageous in applications wherein it is desirable to apply stimulation to multiple stimulation sites. For example, the lead configuration of FIG. 6 may be used to simultaneously apply stimulation to locations on both the right and left sides of the patient. However, it will be recognized that a single lead 121 or more than two leads 121 may be used in accordance with the systems and methods described herein.
Each lead 121 is secured by one or more suture sleeves 160—e.g., a distal suture sleeve 160-1 and a proximal suture sleeve 160-2. The proximal suture sleeve 160-2 is closer to the stimulator (not shown) than is the distal suture sleeves 160-1. It will be recognized that any number of suture sleeves 160 may be used to secure the leads 121 in place. Moreover, it will be recognized that any other securing device may additionally or alternatively be used to secure the leads 121 in place. Such securing devices may include, but are not limited to, one or more sutures, hooks, adhesives, or anchors.
Each suture sleeve 160 may be sutured into place using one or more sutures 161. In some examples, the sutures are non-absorbable. Exemplary non-absorbable sutures that may be used to suture the suture sleeves 160 into place include, but are not limited to, a braided nylon (e.g., Nurolon), a braided polyester (e.g., Ethibond or Mersiline), Prolene, Surgilene, Tevdek, a polypropylene material, a braided polyester material, and a Teflon coated polyester material.
As shown in FIG. 6, the long axis of each distal suture sleeve 160-1 is substantially collinear with the long axis of the electrode region of its corresponding lead 121. Each lead 121 passes through the lumen 171 of its corresponding distal suture sleeve 160-1 and then forms a loop (e.g., 162-1 and 162-2, collectively referred to herein as 162) of at least 360 degrees. To this end, the leads 121 are configured to pass through corresponding proximal sleeves 160-2, which are positioned so as to maintain the shape of the loops 162. The leads 121 may then be routed to the stimulator (not shown). The portion of the leads 121 that makes up each loop 162 may be made out of any flexible material.
The loops 162 are configured to minimize the forces that are exerted on the distal and proximal sutures sleeves 160-1 and 160-2 when the patient moves his or her head. Hence, the loops 162 are also referred to as “force redirection loops” herein. The force redirection loops 162 are also configured to minimize lead migration. Hence, the force redirection loops 162 may be dimensioned and aligned such that there are minimal forces on either the distal or proximal suture sleeve 160-1 or 160-2.
In some examples, each lead 121 crosses the midline prior to forming its corresponding force redirection loop 162. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the electrode portion of lead 121-1 is located on the right side of the midline. The lead 121-1 crosses the midline prior to forming force redirection loop 162-1. Lead 121-2 also crosses the midline prior to forming force redirection loop 162-2. Hence, the leads 121 cross each other prior to forming force redirection loops 162. Alternatively, as will be described in more detail below, the leads 121 may be positioned such that they form force redirection loops 162 without crossing each other.
As mentioned, each lead 121 passes through a corresponding proximal suture sleeve 160-2 in forming a force redirection loop 162. As shown in FIG. 6, the long axis of each proximal suture sleeve 160-2 may be substantially perpendicular to the midline or spine. This placement minimizes lead migration that may be caused by the flexion or extension of the neck. Such flexion or extension of the neck may cause the proximal suture sleeve 160-2 to bend, however, the risk of the lead 121 slipping within the suture sleeve 160-2 is minimized when the proximal suture sleeve 160-2 is perpendicular to the midline or spine. Alternatively, as will be described in more detail below, the long axis of the proximal suture sleeve 160-2 may be oriented in any non-parallel direction with respect to the midline.
After the leads 121 pass through corresponding proximal suture sleeves 160-2, the leads 121 are routed to a stimulator 120. In some examples, as will be described in more detail below, the leads 121 may form one or more additional loops prior to being coupled to the stimulator 120. It will be recognized that one or more devices, such as the stimulator 120, may be implanted in any suitable location within the body. For example, the stimulator 120 may be implanted above the iliac crest or over the ribcage to minimize the path of the leads 121 and to minimize the need for multiple lead extensions. Other exemplary implant locations may include, but are not limited to, the buttocks, neck, brain, and subcutaneous area on top of the skull, or any other suitable location within the patient.
FIG. 7 illustrates an alternative lead configuration that may be used in connection with the systems and methods described herein. The lead configuration of FIG. 7 is similar to that described in connection with FIG. 6 in that the configuration includes multiple leads 121 and suture sleeves 160 configured to secure the leads 121 in place. The leads 121 may each include one or more electrodes 122 disposed thereon and are implanted such that one or more of the electrodes 122 are in communication with one or more stimulation sites (e.g., the greater occipital nerves 101).
As shown in FIG. 7, each distal suture sleeve 160-1 may be substantially collinear with the long axis of the distal portion 163 of its corresponding lead 121. Each distal suture sleeve 160-1 is sutured or otherwise fixed to fascia or any other securing site that is located, for example, in the same vertebral level as the most proximal electrode 122 on the lead 121 to minimize relative movement between the target stimulation site (e.g., the greater occipital nerve 101) and the distal suture sleeve 160-1. For example, if the most proximate electrode 122 to the distal suture sleeve 160-1 is located in the C2 region, the distal suture sleeve 160-1 is sutured to fascia in the same C2 region. Likewise, if the most proximate electrode 122 to the distal suture sleeve 160-1 is located in the scalp region, the distal suture sleeve 160-1 is sutured to fascia overlying the scalp.
As described previously in connection with the example of FIG. 6, each lead 121 passes through the lumen 171 of its corresponding distal suture sleeve 160-1 and then forms a force redirection loop (e.g., 162-1 and 162-2) of at least 360 degrees before passing through the proximal sleeves 160-2. However, as shown in the example of FIG. 7, each lead 121 forms the force redirection loop 162 without crossing the other lead 121. For example, lead 121-1 forms force redirection loop 162-1 without crossing lead 121-2. In some examples, each lead 121 forms a force redirection loop 162 without crossing the midline.
After passing through the proximal suture sleeves 160-2, the leads 121 may each be formed into one or more additional loops (e.g., 170-1 and 170-2, collectively referred to herein as 170) prior to being routed to the stimulator 120. These additional loops 170 may relieve strain that may be placed on the leads 121 by changing size as the patient moves. Hence, these additional loops 170 are referred to herein as “strain relief loops” for illustrative purposes.
FIG. 7 shows that the strain relief loops 170 may be formed at the base of the neck. Additionally or alternatively, the strain relief loops 170 may be formed at any other suitable location as may serve a particular application.
In some examples, the strain relief loops 170 are located within a pocket made by a surgeon in the subcutaneous fat and are not sutured or otherwise affixed to tissue. In this manner, the fat retains the general shape of the strain relief loops 170 while allowing the loops 170 to vary in size as the patient moves.
Additionally or alternatively, the leads 121 may each form a strain relief loop at or near the location of the stimulator 120. For example, if the stimulator 120 is implanted over the ribcage, lead(s) 121 may form one or more strain relief loops at or near the rib cage just prior to being coupled to the stimulator 120.
It will be recognized that the implant configurations shown in FIGS. 6-7 are merely illustrative and that the stimulator 120, leads 121, and/or electrodes 122 may additionally or alternatively be implanted using any other suitable technique as may serve a particular application. Exemplary devices, implant techniques, and stimulation configurations that may be used in connection with the systems and methods described herein are described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,735,475; U.S. Patent Application Publication Nos. 20050102006, 20060293723, 20060206165, and 20060064140; and co-pending and commonly-assigned U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 11/280,620, entitled “IMPLANTABLE STIMULATOR,” filed Nov. 16, 2005, and 11/280,582, entitled “ELECTRODE CONTACT CONFIGURATIONS FOR AN IMPLANTABLE STIMULATOR,” filed Nov. 16, 2005. Each of these patents and patent applications are incorporated herein by reference in their respective entireties.
For instance, as shown in FIGS. 5A-5B of U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 20060064140, a microstimulator having a plurality of electrodes disposed thereon may be implanted within a patient such that the microstimulator is in communication with a stimulation site within the patient (e.g., the occipital and/or trigeminal nerve). Alternatively, a microstimulator coupled to a lead 121 having a number of electrodes 122 disposed thereon may be implanted within a patient such that the electrodes 122 are in communication with a stimulation site within the patient (e.g., the occipital and/or trigeminal nerve).
The preceding description has been presented only to illustrate and describe embodiments of the invention. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to any precise form disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching.
1. A method of treating a patient with medication overuse headache, comprising:
providing a stimulator;
configuring one or more stimulation parameters to treat medication overuse headache;
programming said stimulator with said one or more stimulation parameters;
generating a stimulus configured to treat said medication overuse headache with said stimulator in accordance with said one or more stimulation parameters; and
applying said stimulus with said stimulator to a stimulation site within said patient.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said stimulation site comprises at least one or more of an occipital nerve and a trigeminal nerve.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein said medication overuse headache is associated with at least one or more of a preventive medication, an abortive medication, and a rescue medication.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said stimulator is coupled to one or more electrodes, and wherein said stimulus comprises a stimulation current delivered via said electrodes.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising evaluating an effectiveness of said stimulus and adjusting said stimulation parameters in accordance with said evaluation.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least partially implanting said stimulator within said patient.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein said stimulus is configured to wean said patient off of one or more medications.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising sensing at least one indicator related to said medication overuse headache and using said at least one sensed indicator to adjust one or more of said stimulation parameters.
9. A method of treating medication overuse headache, said method comprising:
implanting a stimulator at least partially within a patient;
generating a stimulation current configured to treat said medication overuse headache with said stimulator in accordance with said one or more stimulation parameters; and
applying said stimulation current with said implanted stimulator to a stimulation site within said patient.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein said stimulation site comprises at least one or more of an occipital nerve and a trigeminal nerve.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein said medication overuse headache is associated with at least one or more of a preventive medication, an abortive medication, and a rescue medication.
12. The method of claim 9, further comprising evaluating an effectiveness of said stimulus and adjusting said stimulation parameters in accordance with said evaluation.
coupling at least one lead having at least one electrode disposed thereon to said stimulator;
implanting said at least one lead within said patient such that said at least one electrode is in communication with said stimulation site; and
applying said stimulation current via said at least one electrode to said stimulation site.
14. The method of claim 9, wherein said stimulation current is configured to wean said patient off of one or more medications.
15. The method of claim 9, further comprising sensing at least one indicator related to said medication overuse headache and using said at least one sensed indicator to adjust one or more of said stimulation parameters.
16. A system for treating a patient with medication overuse headache, said system comprising:
a stimulator configured to generate at least one stimulus in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters adjusted to treat medication overuse headache;
a programmable memory unit in communication with said stimulator and programmed to store said one or more stimulation parameters to at least partially define said stimulus such that said stimulus is configured to treat said medication overuse headache; and
means, operably connected to said stimulator, for applying said stimulus to a stimulation site within said patient.
17. The system of claim 16, wherein said stimulation site comprises at least one or more of an occipital nerve and a trigeminal nerve.
18. The system of claim 16, wherein said medication overuse headache is associated with at least one or more of a preventive medication, an abortive medication, and a rescue medication.
19. The system of claim 16, wherein said means for applying said at least one stimulus comprises one or more electrodes, and wherein said stimulus comprises a stimulation current delivered via said electrodes.
20. The system of claim 16, further comprising:
a sensor configured to sense at least at least one indicator related to said medication overuse headache;
wherein said stimulator is further configured to adjust said stimulation parameters in accordance with said sensed indicator.
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