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Read The Red Storm Online
Authors: Grant Bywaters
The Red Storm
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To the memory of Kurt Bywaters.
Not a day goes by I don't think of you. Miss you, Dad.
The first time I met Bill Storm was in New York in the early part of what would become known as the Roaring Twenties. I was broke then, making little money boxing. That night I was in a heavyweight bout against some pugilist Italian named Horace Francisco. The purse had been set at thirty dollars: twenty-five to the winner and five to the loser.
Not satisfied with the money being offered, I told the promoter that I would not even bother suiting up unless he promised to give me a cut of the gate receipts. He refused, and delicately explained to me that if I did not get my “black ass” in the ring, I would not leave the venue alive. I believed him.
Nonetheless, it was a sure shot I'd be making off with most of the purse. I was so confident of the win, if not bored at the competition I was getting, that I did little training or roadwork to prepare for it. With a record of 52 wins, 2 draws, and 50 knockoutsâmy only three defeats coming from debatable decisionsâit was hard to find suitable opponents. It did not matter that most legit rankings had me ranked in the top three of heavyweights; I had the misfortune of having heavy hands. This made promoters and managers of name contenders avoid me because the last thing they wanted to see was their cash cows sprawled out on the canvas.
The only thing Horace had going for him tonight was having a longer reach than me. At six foot one his reach was measured at the weigh-ins from fingertip to fingertip as seventy-eight inches, while at the same height mine was seventy-six.
He was able to survive the first few rounds because he boxed me, staying on the outside and using his extra reach to his benefit. In the end, his ego got the best of him. After being on the receiving end of a few nasty jabs to the face, he moved the fight inside, where I went at him with pinpoint combinations.
I dropped him twice midway through the rounds. First was with a vicious left hook that knocked him through the ropes and into a spectator's lap. The second time was with a right-left-right combination. The referee pulled me over to a neutral corner and stalled the count the best he could. He did everything outside of putting Horace's gloves on and fighting me himself to get him back in the fight. The delay was enough for Horace's head to clear by the count of eight, and he got up on wobbling legs.
He clenched, ran, and danced until the final round in an attempt to decision me. The seconds worked me over in my corner before the final bell, while my manager, Karl Monroe, in his habitual Panama hat, leaned into my ear and said “You managed to bust up his left eye in that last round, and it's starting to swell over. He's probably got a blind spot there. So keep hitting it. You're the puncher, so you need to go in there and outgun him. Cut that ring off like I told you so he can't keep punching and runnin' like he's been doing. Don't leave it up to them judges to make the decision, because you know they'll go against you.”
He was right. Even though the Walker Law had ended the no-decision days when, in a futile attempt to rid the sport of corrupt judging, a fight was won only by a knockout, I still needed to win by one. If left to the judges, it'd end in a “majority draw” at best. It made little difference to them that I landed more clean, effective punches, or that I scored two knockdowns and had not a scratch on me. The same could not be said about Horace. His face looked like it'd been shoved into an airplane propeller.
At the start of the bell, Monroe shoved in the gum shield and I leapt toward Horace, who again played it safe. He jabbed and retracted, jabbed and retracted. I swung at him, but he used his lateral movement to evade me. His constant running away annoyed me enough that I hit him with a haymaker that sent him against the ropes. When I closed in, he head-butted me and then hit me below the belt. In pain, I looked over at the referee, who along with the crowd ignored the fouls, and so did the crowd.
Irate, I threw out all notions of going easy on him and charged after him until I bullied him into a corner. There was no longer anyplace for him to run and hide. I sent hooks and jabs into his eye until there wasn't an eye left, and then focused on his jaw. The referee stepped in, pulled me off, and called the fight. The crowd was on its feet and shook the arena with a prolonged roar of disapproval.
In my respected corner, Monroe went between the ropes and leaned in to me. “Sweet Jesus, what the hell was that?”
I shrugged.
“I'll be surprised if he'll ever be able to see clear out of that eye again. Probably shattered his eye socket, and his jaw don't look too good, either.”
Horace was crammed in his corner with the ringside doctor bandaging him up. I went over to mitt him, but Horace didn't get up off his stool.
From a swollen mouth he said, “You fight dirty, Fletcher. I had this fight and you know it.”
“You best get that eye and jaw looked at.”
Horace leaned over his stool and spit a mouthful of blood at my feet. “Better give me a rematch. If you don't, you're a coward because you know I'll lay you flat in the first.”
I didn't argue with him that it was a one-sided fight, and he was lucky not to have gotten more hurt than he already was. The audience was still frantic.
I went to my corner, where Monroe was waiting. “You done fine, kid. He had this fight dead fixed for him to win. Had his own referee, and I heard his manager paid two of them judges off.”
“I'm tired of fighting these palookas that got no business being in the ring with me,” I said. “At least I still got my shot against the champ.”
“Nothing doing on that one, kid,” Monroe said. “I didn't want to tell you before the fight, but I spoke with the champ's manager a few hours ago. He's pretty sure now that he don't stand a chance against you. But the champ said he don't want to hand over his strap to a nigger and that's all there is to it.”
This was not the first time I had been denied my shot against the belt. No promoter was going to let a colored like Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, to ever again run off with the most coveted crown in sports. Not when Jack London's call for a “Great White Hope” to defeat Johnson had proved to be so difficult.
“What'd I got to do? Murder one of these pugs in the ring to get my shot with the champ?”
With disgust, I ripped the last glove off my hand myself and went to change. When I had finished yanking into my togs, I left the boxing pavilion. A tall man who looked like the missing link between man and primate approached me.
“I've been watching you for a while, kid. You got a pair of hands, and I've been thinking of using a guy like you.”
No introduction was needed. I knew who he was. Most folks in the area did. Bill Storm was a prominent heavy who local syndicates hired out to do muscle work. Even back then he was aging. What hair he had left was starting to gray. Lines were outlining obliquely along his grill, which almost certainly was never handsome to begin with. His nose had been broken so many times it went off in several different directions. No matter, his cold gray eyes showed there was life left in him. They burned with a brutal hatred and a primal urge for violence.
“I don't think I'd be interested in your kind of work,” I said. “I'm sure you can find some poor colored that doesn't mind getting thrown into the grinder when the time comes for a fall guy.”
Storm laughed. “Look here, kid. I don't sell out anyone that works for me. One thing that means more to me than anything, even more than money and dames, is loyalty. Do straight with me, and I'll as soon as take the fall myself than sell you out.”
I expected him to say something like that. Most of his kind did. However, I knew there was rarely loyalty among his type of crowd.
“What'd you need me for anyway? Seems you been doing just fine by yourself,” I said.
“Sure I was, when I was younger. Now mugs are getting the idea that age has slowed me down, and trying to take a pop at me when they never would've had the backbone before. It's a mistake on their part, I assure you, but my job is mostly intimidation, see. My employers don't like seeing their customers constantly gettin' roughed up. But if I had a bird like you with me, they'd think twice about getting cute.”
Massaging my sore knuckles, I did not know whether to believe a word he was saying. Being a clever man, he quickly picked up on this.
“Look here, kid. I'm offering you a chance to make some real dough. I figured you'd be tired of busting yourself up over chicken feed. You're the one doing all the fighting, but them promoters and everyone else is making the money, not you. So you got to decide whether you want to keep making other people rich for the rest of your life or rise above it.”
*Â Â Â *Â Â Â *
That's how it went. A partnership had been formed, more or less. For the next few months I worked alongside Storm, mostly as backup, or as a stand-in. We made our rounds, collecting payments for various syndicates. Most of the time, the people paid up, from gambling receipts to “protection” payments. Sometimes, they'd get wise, but often would back down when they realized Storm and I were gearing up to do major violence to them.
I made more money than I ever did before. It was more than I was getting paid doing boxing exhibitions, which were nothing but glorified sparring sessions between fights to supplement what little I was getting boxing. Instead of spending it on women and booze, which Storm advised I do, I put it away. I spent very little. I moved out of the flophouse I was living in and moved to a place in Harlem that was somewhat better. With just 750 square feet and plumbing and heating that sometimes worked, it was as good of housing a colored could get at the time. Segregation had a funny way of limiting one's options.
I did not tell Storm I was putting the cash away. I got the impression that if I did, he'd start getting worried I'd ditch him as soon as I got enough dividends stocked up. Presumably, that was why he always encouraged me to spend it as soon as I got it. Things were going sound, but I knew it would not last. Business never stayed efficient with guys like Storm. If it got too calm, he'd make sure to create some sort of disturbance. His temperament dictated that he needed chaos to thrive.
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In $21 million lawsuit, hit-and-run victim calls out dangerous stretch of N Interstate
Posted by Michael Andersen (Contributor) on June 12th, 2015 at 12:24 pm
Mike Cooley, shown here ready to head out on his
daily bike commute before his 2013 collision.
(Photos courtesy Lisa Cooley)
A man whose legs were paralyzed in an unsolved 2013 hit-and-run on Interstate Avenue has sued the city, state and regional transit agency for $21 million.
Mike Cooley’s wife Lori, who is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit, told us in a May interview that she’s motivated in part by the lack of changes to Interstate Avenue’s bike lanes despite years of serious collisions on the street.
“Something has to be done to make that road safer or just shut it down for bikes,” Lori Cooley said. “There’s just too many injuries there.”
Lori Cooley said their attorney, Randy Pickett, hired a private investigator to study what she said are seemingly endemic problems on Interstate near the site of Mike Cooley’s collision at Interstate and Greeley.
“I don’t understand how nobody could be doing anything to make that safer when there’s been so many injuries.”
— Lori Cooley, wife of man paralyzed by collision
“He and our attorney sat there at that spot where Mike got hit and they were just appalled at the number of close calls,” Cooley said. “They just could not believe it when they saw it with their own eyes how dangerous that is. … I don’t understand how nobody could be doing anything to make that safer when there’s been so many injuries.”
According to the Cooleys’ lawsuit, whose filing was first reported Thursday by The Oregonian, the one-mile stretch of Interstate between NE Going and NE Russell has seen nine other serious bike-related collisions from 2003 to 2014, including one fatality: Brett Jarolimek, who died at the Interstate/Greeley intersection in 2007.
After Jarolimek’s death, the city redesigned the intersection to prohibit right turns off Interstate onto Greeley. However, that didn’t stop the driver of a pickup truck from making an illegal 135-degree right turn into the path of Curtis Crothers in 2013. Crothers survived eight broken ribs, a punctured lung and other injuries.
The City of Portland’s Vision Zero collision map shows 19 bike-related injuries on that stretch from 2004 to 2013, including Jerolimek’s death.
Unlike Jarolimek and Crothers, Cooley was biking north, uphill, on Interstate at Greeley. He wasn’t hit by a turning vehicle, but by one that police said had been “driving erratically before the crash.” The bike lane there, which is uphill on a slight curve, is only about four feet wide and its paint is often worn down because tires cross it so frequently.
Approximate location of collision.
(Graphic: BikePortland reader Joshua Cohen)
The most recent major redesign of Interstate Avenue was in 2003, when TriMet constructed the Yellow Line on what had previously been a state-run urban highway. As part of this work, the project added a nearly continuous, but sometimes unusually narrow, bike lane. In this narrow stretch of the road, which gets regular truck traffic and where Interstate is situated partway up a slope in many locations, the bike lanes are particularly harrowing to ride in.
Lori and Mike Cooley, also before the collision.
The Cooleys’ lawsuit has this to say:
In designing the roadway on North Interstate Avenue, just north of Greeley Avenue, in a dangerous condition for bicyclists and motor vehicle operators, at a time when defendants knew, or in the exercise of reasonable care should have known, that the roadway was too narrow to safely accommodate both motor vehicles and bicyclists.
When Lori Cooley and I spoke last month, it was clear that her feelings about the collision are dominated by despair over her husband’s injury and its aftermath. Cooley (whose email address, both before the collision and after, starts with “cheerfulheart”) also has a serious medical condition; Mike Cooley was her caregiver before his collision. These days, she cares for both of them.
“He still has a ventilator at night and he has a lot of breathing machines and breathing therapy that we need to do,” Lori said. “He’s still a parapalegic, still in a wheelchair, and probably always will be. … We’ve gone through lots of caregivers where they just quit. They just quit coming.”
“Mike’s life, my life, are just completely ruined, really,” she said. “It’s been really, really hard.”
collisions, hit and run, lawsuits, mike cooley, north portland
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hat June 12, 2015 at 12:41 pm
The intersection at Interstate and Greeley is an inherently flawed design. I have always felt unsafe and often go out of my way to avoid it. Since the http://www.npgreenway.org/ has been pushed to Greeley, I think a great fix is in order:
Remove the left hand signal that crosses the MAX on N Interstate to Greeley. Northbound traffic on Interstate heading to Greeley can take a left at Russell and follow the new bike path along the train tracks. Build a new signaled intersection at Greeley where bikes and N-bound traffic rejoins Greeley.
This solves a lot of problems: the MAX must slow while going downhill and sometimes stop with traffic crossing Greeley, people on bikes will not need to cross Interstate at a very vulnerable speed-susceptible intersection, and people in cars are separated from people on bikes for a majority of this area.
Chris June 12, 2015 at 2:21 pm
What Would Platinum Do?
Lester Burnham June 15, 2015 at 7:57 am
We’ll just have to find a city that is legitimately Platinum and ask them.
spencer June 12, 2015 at 12:46 pm
+1, the city should not be operating roadways with such disregard to human life. Every new project should provide separation from cars.
9watts June 12, 2015 at 1:58 pm
“Every new project should provide separation from cars.”
My version: every new project should be built anticipating the end of our heavy reliance on cars; don’t spend another dime on infrastructure that is (only) useful to horseless carriages.
paikiala June 12, 2015 at 4:23 pm
What about useful to horse-drawn carriages?
Blake G June 12, 2015 at 12:47 pm
This is not just a case of poor design (though the design contributes to most of the dangerous driving) but also of people making the choice to speed as they approach the uphill section and to do it in a way that endangers people on bikes as the image in the post shows. Besides the Larrabee overpass in the SB direction, this is the place where I am most afraid of being struck by a speeding, negligent driver and there is no enforcement. None.
This should be a place for a speed camera and when it has served its (temporary) purpose, it should be moved to other locations on Interstate and Greeley where excessive speeding is truly endemic. Sadly, as Mr. Cooley’s case illustrates, the consequences of this poor design that encourages speeding and dangerous driving for any crashes that do occur are catastrophic so the excuse often used in other parts of Interstate that there is limited recorded crash history should not be taken seriously because rare, catastrophic crashes are harder to measure but just as or more important.
How does the design encourage speeding?
Spiffy June 12, 2015 at 3:15 pm
it’s a fairly straight road with no crossings… which is how freeways are designed…
Show me a freeway with a 10-11 foot lane next to a bike lane.
Still doesn’t answer how the road ‘encourages’ speeding. Permits, maybe. What ever happened to personal responsibility?
And the story notes the perpetrator was likely impaired.
Blake G June 12, 2015 at 9:08 pm
Please join me for an observation period with a radar gun. But also you can see evidence that speeding/taking wide turns not just impaired drivers based on wear of white line in the post. I ride this everyday. Most drivers take curve too fast and drive on or very close to white line.
RH June 12, 2015 at 12:50 pm
I ride this stretch of road everyday and always tense up a bit when I hear the roar of a semi or Fed-Ex truck behind me. While its happening, I just hope everyone obeys the rules of the road and I don’t get hit in my little narrow bike lane.
I don’t see how they can widen the bike lane in this northbound stretch. Maybe they’ll end up taking it out?
Adam H. June 12, 2015 at 12:55 pm
Ban cars from N Interstate.
I agree. And that would be cheaper than settling this lawsuit.
$15/hour x added delay per driver (hours per day) x drivers per day x 365 days per year = driver delay cost per year.
pollution concentrated on alternate routes cost (HIA)?
added crashes on alternative routes cost?
Dan June 12, 2015 at 7:42 pm
Delay per driver can be mitigated by driver starting earlier. Just like I do when I bike.
Lisa Marie June 12, 2015 at 2:36 pm
We could make it a bike/ped, public transit parkway. It could be a really, really wonderful and low-stress way to connect N Portland and downtown, a connection we need (N Portland Greenway Trail is still a ways away, but that would be wonderful, too). Come to think of it, with the lanes on Skidmore, it’s also a great connection to the N Michigan Bikeway. The hill is off putting, but combining biking an transit could help anyone averse to hills. Hmmm…
GDH June 12, 2015 at 7:29 pm
Ban bikes from Interstate
Rob Chapman June 14, 2015 at 1:55 am
You can’t. I live here.
lop June 12, 2015 at 1:55 pm
What’s with the little jersey barrier thing next to the retaining wall? Why not build up the bike lane to that height to add an extra foot or so for cyclists, and give them so some protection from motorists?
move the Jersey barrier out to the bike lane stripe…
safer for drivers that impact the wall.
Eric June 12, 2015 at 11:49 pm
Because they’re speeding?
I was going to say get some jersey barriers and put them in the spare 2ft of travel lane just left of the bike lane, but they’re already on-site and only need to be shifted left?
That would be safer for everybody, not just for speeding drivers.
I believe those features are built into the wall.
Chris I June 13, 2015 at 10:48 am
We shouldn’t care about the safety of people that crash into things, only the safety of those they might hit while driving recklessly.
spencer June 12, 2015 at 1:57 pm
make a raised curb that cars cant drift onto, speeds will go down 10 mph because no one wants to sideswipe it.
Good. The city needs to be held accountable for negligently designing unsafe infrastructure. I hope Mr. Cooley wins and teaches the city to consider proven-to-be-safe designs instead of reinventing the wheel and causing more problems (i.e. N Williams).
redhippie June 12, 2015 at 12:59 pm
Blake G
This is not just a case of poor design (though the design contributes to most of the dangerous driving) but also of people making the choice to speed as they approach the uphill section and to do it in a way that endangers people on bikes as the image in the post shows. Besides the Larrabee overpass in the SB direction, this is the place where I am most afraid of being struck by a speeding, negligent driver and there is no enforcement. None.This should be a place for a speed camera and when it has served its (temporary) purpose, it should be moved to other locations on Interstate and Greeley where excessive speeding is truly endemic. Sadly, as Mr. Cooley’s case illustrates, the consequences of this poor design that encourages speeding and dangerous driving for any crashes that do occur are catastrophic so the excuse often used in other parts of Interstate that there is limited recorded crash history should not be taken seriously because rare, catastrophic crashes are harder to measure but just as or more important.Recommended 0
Why go for the complex, technological, revenue generating approach when a simple rumble strip, speed bump or other passive speed controls will work a lot better?
If it works, I have no objection. Simple solutions are better.
For the record, I don’t think any speeding enforcement should be viewed as a revenue generating opportunity, but be an add-on to the new speed detection program on high crash corridors which is being phased in by ODOT (I think). Using this technology and signs that warn about the use of photo cameras should have a deterrent effect on drivers speeding. That would be much more important than any nominal revenue (net of costs) collected.
HB 2621 has not been approved yet. It only recently cleared Ways and Means.
Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) June 12, 2015 at 3:39 pm
Actually paikiala… I don’t think it’s actually cleared Ways and Means yet. Still in a subcommittee of Ways and Means and there’s no work session (vote) scheduled.
N Interstate is a Major Emergency Response Route, and ineligible for traffic calming.
soren June 12, 2015 at 1:23 pm
Do you have any evidence that they will work better?
speed bumps don’t slow down people in raised 4×4 vehicles… and we apparently have a lot of bad drivers in trucks out there…
oliver June 12, 2015 at 1:38 pm
I walk my dog twice a day 7 days a week.
The speed limit is 25 for the entire length of Denver Avenue between N Blandena and Interstate, and I’m not exaggerating that I see cars doing 40-50 mph between Lombard and central Kenton 6 or 7 times a week. In fact, I have gone for weeks where I have seen it every single morning. And never have I once seen someone receiving a citation.
While there are some cities (North Plains, Coburg) that obviously use traffic stops for revenue generation, Portland is certainly not one of them.
I think perpetuating that myth does a disservice in terms public opinion relevant to traffic law enforcement.
jeff June 13, 2015 at 4:19 pm
call your local police division…repeatedly until you get action. make yourself annoying…
Eric June 12, 2015 at 1:41 pm
Damnit! Get the F’ing UPRR yard to open up the cement road to bikes, it goes from N. River street to Swan Island. Would keep all of Swan Island bikers (like Crothers) off of the Russian Roulett called Interstate Ave.
Any Swan Island biker hurt/killed/etc on Interstate should make sure UPRR knows that they have blood on their hands!
UPRR’s property rights are superior to Portland rights. Railroads were granted these rights as incentive to build rails during the expansion of the US westward.
I ride this all the time. Cooley’s hit-and-run freaked me out a bit and I think about it every time I pass that spot.
Seems to me a quick and easy and cheap thing PBOT can do right now would be to establish and enforce a No Passing Zone in the uphill direction from Greeley to Fremont (light where Kaiser Hospital starts).
Would it be annoying to us while we’re driving? Yes. Perhaps. But it would also set the tone that Interstate is a place where you must use caution when bicycle riders are present.
If I want to drive faster I’ll use MLK or I-5.
establish and enforce a No Passing Zone in the uphill direction from Greeley to Fremont
that would effectively lower the speed limit to 5-8 mph as I took the lane up the hill…
I can already hear the revving of dozens of engines threatening me with death if I don’t get our of their way…
I know. Let ’em rev their engines… And put a few cameras up so when they get home they’ll have a big fat ticket in their mailbox and possibly a court summons for criminal menacing. A guy can dream can’t he? ;-).
ethan June 12, 2015 at 2:23 pm
I was run off the road near this location. The bike I was riding was practically as wide as the entire bike lane. Someone driving a work truck came up behind me, honked his horn repeatedly and passed me very unsafely.
That was the only time I’ve ever ridden Northbound in that area. And I have only ridden Southbound in that area once. Too many close calls with semis and other large trucks.
We shouldn’t have “infrastructure” that is that scary / dangerous to ride on. And I’m saying that as someone who generally doesn’t fear much of anything at all. If I’m scared of it, I imagine someone much smaller or careful than me would be absolutely terrified of it.
I’ll take the lane on Powell, Sandy, or MLK in rush hour before I ever think of taking the bike lane up Interstate at any hour…
Ditto. Although I am luckily never in a position to need to bike on / near Powell during rush hour.
I have taken MLK during rush hour a few times though. Going downhill (especially between Going and Tillamook) is insanely fast and can be safer than riding on 7th.
pdx2wheeler June 12, 2015 at 2:43 pm
There is a raised sidewalk on the opposite side of Interstate Ave. Late at night I cross to the other side and use that sidewalk to avoid going up that bike lane. I do that specifically because of what happened to Mr. Cooley. During the day I would always take that route but the light to cross Interstate takes way too long to cycle for bikes, so I just accept the risk and keep going up the lane.
Also, the vehicle fumes going up that hill are really nasty. People in cars accelerate up the hill, there is a cement wall that traps the pollutants and particulate matter, and naturally you’re riding up a steep hill so you’re breathing hard and deeply… God forbid you happen to be going up the hill when some smokey clunker rolls by and envelopes you in a cloud of burning motor oil and carbon monoxide. Not a good combination for pulmonary health.
RH June 12, 2015 at 2:49 pm
It’s also not fun when you’re biking up the hill and someone is walking or biking down on the same side! That cement wall traps you and you have to ‘take the lane’ while semi’s and cars race up Interstate.
if another road user is improperly using the roadway then just stop and make them veer into oncoming traffic… then proceed once they’ve gone around you…
The Odd Duck June 12, 2015 at 2:50 pm
From an old motorcycle rider: the most important thing to learn before you state to ride. You take your chances and you pay the price.
Patrick Barber June 12, 2015 at 2:53 pm
I just moved to Overlook and the Interstate/Greeley route goes pretty much directly to my house. I go well out of my way (almost two miles) to use Williams instead. I’m what the city calls a “fearless” cyclist. I don’t avoid Interstate/Greeley because it’s “scary.” I avoid it because the infrastructure is an insult to anyone using anything other than a car to get around, and because it is incredibly unpleasant to ride on. That connection is like a time warp directly to downtown from North Portland, and it is an amazing example of a missed opportunity (right up there with the total lack of infrastructure on Sandy!) to create a super-useful route for multiple modes of transportation.
whose filing was first reported Thursday by The Oregonian
if you value your faith in humanity even a little then do not read the comments for that O’live article…
lyle w. June 12, 2015 at 5:32 pm
I actually came here to say the exact same thing.
Some of the other news sites have turned off their commenting features, and O-live has, in turn, become an absolute swamp of hatred and insane thinking. More than it was in the past, as bad as it managed to be back then.
I don’t know what I was expecting to experience by going there this morning to read through the comments (sometimes you just naturally continue to scroll down without any thought), but that comment section is a new all time low of subhuman behavior.
Nicholas Skaggs June 12, 2015 at 6:15 pm
Don’t think of a pink elephant.
Really though, I checked the comments just because you said not to… Except you’re right and I really wish I hadn’t checked them at all.
You were right. Ugh. It checked all the boxes of classic anti-bike vitriol.
I found an image once that really ties in well with those comments:
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Dan June 14, 2015 at 9:29 am
Even better, don’t go there at all until they start moderating or closing their comments section.
Todd Boulanger June 12, 2015 at 5:40 pm
I hope this brings to light the need to revisit the bikeway design of North Interstate, the missing bike lanes especially along sections that were planned to have bike lanes but were removed as a late comprise with businesses fighting the project.
Additionally, now that the corridor has attracted light rail trips and transit supportive businesses the City should revise removing on street parking for bike lanes along zones were off street parking exists: bowling alley, Disjeca, etc. And also put bike lanes along the gas station near the old fire house.
Ben Guernsey June 12, 2015 at 7:51 pm
This section is overdue. A truck nearly hit my wife at the top of Interstate and since then has stopped commuting to work via bike. I’ve had numerous uncomfortably close and fast drives. It’s simply too narrow. The retaining wall should be moved back and a physical divide for uphill, and the Greeley intersection should be further re-designed to discourage any notion of taking an (illegal) right.
Don’t even want to get started with the lack of bike lane near New Seasons…
Pat Franz June 12, 2015 at 9:00 pm
Why not make a northbound bike path to the right of and above Interstate from just south of Greeley up to the top of the hill? Up above and to the east of the retaining wall. You could get a better grade out of it, and be away from all the traffic. Probably less than $21M too.
Traffic Engineer June 12, 2015 at 10:13 pm
I’ve never been on that route but it looks nasty. That curb on left side of uphill car lane is nasty. Can you imagine being on that when a train is going up hill, next to a big truck, next to a cyclist? Naaaaaasty!
Looks like PDX2wheeler has found a good solution: Use the sidewalk on the other side.
I’d suggest they:
> make the cycle time to cross the street very short (should be done by noon on 6/13/2015 – if not already done)
> post speed limit of 5 mph on sidewalk for all users (sorry downhill cycles)
> close northbound bike lane next to retaining wall by noon on 6/13/2015
> close downhill section of bike lane next to sidewalk and put a concrete barrier in the bike lane to protect sidewalk users
Quick, cheap and it should be safer.
Good luck to Mike. Pray for medical breakthroughs to help him and many others in the same situation.
I think he should be awarded enough $$ to live comfortably – not sure what that amount would be, but 3 or 4 million ought to help out – that way he can amass enough hard assets to ride out the likely inflationary/deflationary cycles in the future (including a potential total collapse of the dollar).
bendite June 12, 2015 at 10:47 pm
When do we blame infrastructure and when do we blame drivers?
Confucius June 13, 2015 at 3:11 pm
Typically there is some blame on multiple parties. In this case, it sounds like most of the blame goes to the driver since it was reported that they were driving “erratically”. BUT, a small part of the blame must go to the cyclist because it is obvious that this is not a safe location for cycling and a safer option did exist if you go to the inconvenience of crossing over to the sidewalk. Some of the blame also belongs to the street designers since it is obvious that this is not an acceptable design. So, the street owners will have to pay, since the driver got away. The accident could have been prevented by a different design – by forcing cyclists to cross the street – but that opens up the possibility of getting hit crossing the street. Each option in life has plusses and minuses. Unforeseen consequences are normally present. Zero risk is not possible without unlimited time and money.
Thinking of the last four cycling fatalities Portland (and throwing in this crash, and the crash where the dude lost his leg on Powell a few weeks ago), both can be blamed pretty much equally (IMO).
exactly. I’ve driven this stretch countless times and have passed dozens of cyclists…..I’ve never hit a single one.
meh June 15, 2015 at 7:09 am
Would the extra 2 feet have changed the outcome? The size of the bike lane does not appear to have been the issue. An illegal right turn was made.
Christopher Jones June 13, 2015 at 9:12 am
I emailed the mayor two years ago about Mike Cooley being hit, and safety on N Interstate. Someone from the mayor’s office connected me with Novick’s office/PBOT, since it was a transportation safety-related question. Pretty good! They’re responsive.
The PBOT staffer I emailed with said the crash was being investigated by one of their traffic engineers. He asked me if I had suggestions around improving safety, and said he’d forward those suggestions to the traffic engineer assigned to investigate the crash. I suggested raised bumps on the fog line, adding speed bumps, or some form of hard barrier, since there is no escape for someone in the bike lane in this section. The PBOT staffer said he’s a bike rider too, and rides this section daily.
After seeing this post yesterday, I wrote back asking why we haven’t seen change in the past two years. I again asked who to speak to, or what public meeting I should show up at.
I’m very sorry for Mike, and I hope something positive can come out of this mess.
If you’re looking to help, email the mayor (mayorcharliehales@portlandoregon.gov), and ask who you can speak to or what meeting you need to attend to get eyes on safety problems like this. The staffers I’ve spoken to are responsive and respectful, and that’s great. I’d love to see real leadership around issues like these.
Doug Rosser June 13, 2015 at 10:50 am
I hope they win their lawsuit. I’ve lived in North Portland for almost twenty years but I refuse to commute on Greeley and Interstate. I now live in St Johns and take Rosa Parks all the way to the Vancouver/Williams north-south connection to get to and from work downtown.
Patrick Taylor June 14, 2015 at 9:26 am
I feel awful for the people effected by this accident and hope the best for them, but blaming and suing the city/all of us is not the answer. The fault lies with the driver not the city and tax payers. The city has been working for years to make the streets safer for bikes and pedestrians. Try riding up Interstate prior to the yellow line redesign. Would the city be less liable if they had not tried making it better? The fact that a piece if bike infrastructure is not optimal is not reason to sue. Should everyone who ever gets injured on city streets sue? Taking 21 million dollars from the city will not help make the city safer, it will leave less money for improvement projects that will save other people. It sucks, but biking is dangerous and we all take risks by being so vulnerable in traffic . Some times bad things happen. We should fight for safer streets and pressure the city. But this is not the way.
Ted June 15, 2015 at 10:29 am
This discussion reminds me of several articles I have read about playground safety. In the late 70’s and early 80’s there were several death’s on playgrounds that resulted in the transformation of playgrounds around the country in an attempt to reduce all risk of injury to children. Since that time, the data shows that there has not been much change in frequency of injuries on playgrounds. Some of the data suggests that the injuries that do occur are more serious because the new designs made kids “feel” safe and so they were not as cautious as they might have been otherwise. On a larger scale, society’s attempts to protect children and keep them safe at all times has inhibited our children’s ability to assess risk for themselves. One article I read in The Atlantic Monthly cited a researcher as saying that, in retrospect, it may have been wiser to treat the earlier deaths as simply freak accidents rather than some sort of systemic problem that needed to be “fixed.”
Safety is not a binary issue. It is a function of risk. As is clearly on display in the comments made on this blog regarding safety, there is a wide range of responses as to what could or should be done in regards to improving bike infrastructure. I do not support large-scale investments in order to make people feel safer. Doing so reminds me of airport security. Huge cost and huge inconvenience has resulted from implementing measures that are more about making travelers feel safe than actually reducing risk, not to mention the opportunity costs associated NOT spending money in areas where actual safety benefits are needed.
Anthony June 15, 2015 at 11:41 am
I feel that gas taxes should be used to pay for settlements in cases like these. The road user, having done nothing wrong, is condemned to a life in a wheelchair because of one careless driver. There is no way to undo the damage to him. But, at the very least, society owes paying for the family’s full care for life, and with no “responsible” party in the case of a hit-and-run, it’s another motor vehicle externality that should be paid by the driving public at large – me you, and eveyone else who drives.
Instead, we say “tough luck” and forget. Very sad.
Bald One June 15, 2015 at 7:12 pm
I ride N. Interstate all the time, and totally agree with these issues. But, I also want to point out the similar designs the city has installed on the new infrastructure for SE 17th along the new Orange line – still to be running, but the bike lanes and traffic control are all set. Although better than Interstate, they still could have done a much better job with the bike lanes, instead compromising bike safety for on-street parking, bio-swale storm water basins, art projects, and poorly placed curbs, signs, and utility poles all along this area. All of these other useful infrastructures could have been designed in a way that gave more room to the bike lanes and with a little more thought and detail in the implementation / construction of the designs. A great bikeway is only as good as the sum of its deficient parts and pieces.
Lori Cooley June 21, 2015 at 8:12 pm
Hello Bike Portland Readers,
Mike and I just got done reading the most recent article that Michael Anderson wrote. It was a fabulous, supportive and factual article and we are very grateful for the story. We then went on to read the comments that a lot of you wrote. We would both like to thank all of you that wrote such positive and supportive comments. We were almost afraid to read them because we have had some pretty obnoxious and ignorant comments directed our way since Mike’s accident. It was a breath of fresh air to read all of your comments and to see that you support our stance on insisting that someone step up and make Interstate/Greeley safer. It was very encouraging to see that most of you were so compassionate and understanding. We are doing ok and we thank God daily that Mike survived his accident. Mike said to tell all of you to “bike safely and ALWAYS WEAR YOUR HELMET”. That has become his focus, making sure that people wear their helmets. The doctors said that if Mike hadn’t been wearing his helmet he probably WOULD NOT HAVE SURVIVED THE ACCIDENT!
Happy Biking!
Lori and Mike Cooley
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Mar 5 Impact of Lighting on Learning and Productivity
We already know that lighting has a substantial effect on our moods, making us feel less energetic on dull, cloudy mornings than on bright, sunny days. But what if I told you that lighting also has an effect on our cognitive abilities, such as learning and productivity? In a 2010 case study on students in a German primary school, the Philips lighting company put this question to the test with their SchoolVision dynamic lighting system. This system allowed teachers to vary the brightness or color mood of their classrooms according to the time of day or activity, the goal being to see if changing the lighting in certain situations would result in different classroom behaviors. Below is what they found.
There were four main light settings, Normal, Energy, Focus, and Calm, all of which were expertly engineered to encourage either a stimulating or relaxing environment.
Normal had a standard intensity level and color tone, creating an ideal setting for regular classroom activity.
Energy had a higher intensity level and a very cool color tone, helping invigorate students when they needed to be more active such as in the mornings or after lunch.
Focus had the highest intensity light and a moderately cool color tone, aiding concentration during challenging tasks such as quizzes or tests.
Calm had a standard intensity light level and a warm color tone, bringing a relaxing ambiance to individual work or quiet time.
Using the recommended settings over the course of one year, teachers saw a 35 percent improvement in reading speed with almost 45 percent less errors than the control group. Hyperactivity was also reduced by up to 76 percent under the Calm setting, a figure that the control group did not come even close to. These numbers definitely seem to support the conclusion that lighting produces psychological effects that impact our attention span, concentration, and behavior. Moreover, they also correlate with other studies that prove that the same is true not only for children in a classroom setting, but also for adults in the workplace. For instance, in the late 1980s, the lighting system in the U.S. post office in Reno, Nevada was renovated to swap its harsh, artificial light for softer, more natural light. The upgrade not only resulted in $50,000 in energy savings, but productivity increases (such as much faster mail sorters and lower error rates for machine operators) that were projected to boost company revenues by up to $500,000 per year.
Unfortunately, the effect of light on behavior is less easily measured or studied than energy savings, so findings like these are rarely considered when a school or business is implementing a new lighting system. Although interchanging warm and cool color tones and varying light intensities throughout the day like with the SchoolVision system would probably be ideal, even a simple swap from dim, harsh lighting to softer, more natural lighting in the workplace can clearly make a big difference in enhancing job performance.
Could your workplace benefit from dynamic or natural light? Does lighting affect you differently at certain places or times of day? Tell us in the comments below, or drop us a line on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Google Plus!
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Twitter confirms it won’t ban Donald Trump, here’s why
The Trump-Twitter saga continues. And apparently, world leaders have special status on the platform too!
Let’s not beat around the bush here. Donald Trump has been known to tweet some pretty heavy and controversial things in his time. Take last Tuesday for example, when he stated that his nuclear button was ‘much bigger’ and ‘more powerful’ than that of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!
It’s tweets like this that has led to some Twitter users speaking out and suggesting that Trump should be banned from the platform.
Other tweeters claim that it’s these type of statements (with a side helping of potential nuclear war) that actually violate Twitter’s ban on threats of violence and could put us all in danger.
Twitter needs to block Donald Trump’s account immediately.
— Milan (@milanbutterfly) January 8, 2018
However, despite an outcry for the president’s account to be suspended, the social media platform will not be doing anything about it. The reason, according to a recent post by the social media giant, is that world leaders have a special status on the site, i.e. they are above the general rules that the rest of us must follow.
The folks over at Twitter recently explained via a blog post on its corporate site:
Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate.
While Twitter said that it does review tweets by world leaders and enforce some rules, it said that blocking Trump is not on the agenda.
The site’s officials had previously stated that whether or not a tweet is ‘of public interest’ is taken into account when deciding whether to ban a user. Since what the president of the US has to say is very much that, it’s clear to see why the site would not want to block him.
“No one person’s account drives Twitter’s growth, or influences these decisions,” the company said in the post. “We work hard to remain unbiased with the public interest in mind.”
Despite the explanation, users have responded negatively to the post on Twitter. In fact, many have been expressing nothing short of anger at the decision to allow Trump to remain an active user on the site.
Dear Twitter,
Since you have made it clear you will never block Trump because he is so “important” we believe what WE have to say is equally important. If he can post abusive and offensive tweets at ALL of us, we should never get blocked for doing the same!
Sincerely, America
— Paul Reggio (@PaulReggio1) January 6, 2018
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Booktopia.com.au - A$108.95
Electrodynamics of Continuous Media
Lev Davidovich Landau, Evgeniĭ Mikhaĭlovich Lifshit︠s︡
Butterworth-Heinemann, Jan 1, 1984 - Science - 460 pages
Covers the theory of electromagnetic fields in matter, and the theory of macroscopic electric and magnetic properties of matter. There is a considerable amount of new material particularly on the theory of the magnetic properties of matter and the theory
of optical phenomena with new chapters on spatial dispersion and non-linear optics.
26 pages matching Fourier in this book
ELECTROSTATICS OF CONDUCTORS 51 The electrostatic field of conductors
2 The energy of the electrostatic field of conductors
3 Methods of solving problems in electrostatics
Lev Davidovich Landau,Evgeniĭ Mikhaĭlovich Lifshit︠s︡
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Lev Davidovich Landau was born on January 22, 1908 in Baku, U.S.S.R (now Azerbaijan). A brilliant student, he had finished secondary school by the age of 13. He enrolled in the University of Baku a year later, in 1922, and later transferred to the University of Leningrad, from which he graduated with a degree in physics. Landau did graduate work in physics at Leningrad's Physiotechnical Institute, at Cambridge University in England, and at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Denmark, where he met physicist Neils Bohr, whose work he greatly admired. Landau worked in the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program during World War II, and then began a teaching career. Considered to be the founder of a whole school of Soviet theoretical physicists, Landau was honored with numerous awards, including the Lenin Prize, the Max Planck Medal, the Fritz London Prize, and, most notably, the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physics, which honored his pioneering work in the field of low-temperature physics and condensed matter, particularly liquid helium. Unfortunately, Landau's wife and son had to accept the Nobel Prize for him; Landau had been seriously injured in a car crash several months earlier and never completely recovered. He was unable to work again, and spent the remainder of his years, until his death in 1968, battling health problems resulting from the accident. Landau's most notable written work is his Course of Theoretical Physics, an eight-volume set of texts covering the complete range of theoretical physics. Like several other of Landau's books, it was written with Evgeny Lifshitz, a favorite student, because Landau himself strongly disliked writing. Some other works include What is Relativity?, Theory of Elasticity, and Physics for Everyone.
Title Electrodynamics of Continuous Media
Volume 8 of Course of theoretical physics, Lev D. Landau
Volume 8 of Landau, L.D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968. Teoreticheskaia fizika (Izd. 2-e). English
Volume 8 of Teoreticheskai︠a︡ fizika, Lev Davidovich Landau
Authors Lev Davidovich Landau, Evgeniĭ Mikhaĭlovich Lifshit︠s︡
Editor Lev Petrovich Pitaevskiĭ
Edition 2, illustrated, reprint, revised
Publisher Butterworth-Heinemann, 1984
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« Election crucial to fate of animals | Main | Election 2016 wrap-up: What does this mean for animals? »
Election Day preview: Get out the vote for animals
It’s been a wild and unprecedented election season, and all votes will be cast by late tomorrow. So much is at stake for the future direction of our country, and that includes the fate of animals.
The nation’s eyes are mostly focused on the presidential race, and the Humane Society Legislative Fund is backing Hillary Clinton as the best candidate for animal protection. She built a strong and consistent record on animal welfare as a U.S. Senator and as Secretary of State, and she has pledged to take on wildlife trafficking, puppy mills, factory farming, horse slaughter, and other animal issues as President. Her positions on animal protection have animal advocates spreading the word that #ImWithPurr.
Donald Trump, in contrast, represents perhaps the greatest threat ever to animal protection policymaking at the federal level. His campaign surrogates and the names being floated as possible Trump cabinet picks for the very agencies that oversee such policies include the most ardent anti-animal voices in the country. Advocates for puppy mills, factory farming, horse slaughter, and trophy hunting of rare species such as leopards and elephants would be at the steering wheel of a Trump administration. The choice is clear, and that’s why HSLF has been running TV ads in swing states informing voters that Donald Trump is a threat to mainstream humane values.
In Congress, 34 Senate seats and all 435 House seats are up for election, and dozens of those races are competitive. In Wisconsin’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race, incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson has opposed animal protection reforms and worked to weaken the Endangered Species Act; he is the sponsor of a bill to delist wolves in the Great Lakes region, seeking to reverse a federal court ruling and to subvert further judicial review of that case. HSLF is supporting Russ Feingold, who has a strong record of advocating for wildlife conservation and the protection of pets, and is airing TV ads to support his candidacy.
There are a number of important state races around the country. In Missouri, HSLF is urging voters to oppose Attorney General Chris Koster in his bid for Governor against ex-Navy SEAL Eric Greitens. Koster worked to undermine Prop B, the landmark ballot measure to protect dogs in cruel puppy mills, and to repeal its core provisions before they even took effect. He stumped in favor of a “right to farm” amendment to the constitution that forbids the enacting of state rules to regulate agriculture and hands big agribusiness the opportunity to operate with no oversight. Koster’s biggest play against animals, however, was his attack on a California law that restricts the sale of eggs into the state that come from laying hens jammed in cages. Listen to HSLF’s radio ad on this career politician crusading against animals to curry favor with Big Ag. We are also working in favor of Russ Carnahan and against Mike Parson in the Lt. Governor’s race. Carnahan is as good on animal issues as Parson is bad; Parson led the effort to repeal Prop B and to pass the “right to farm” measure, and he’s in the pocket of Indiana millionaire Forrest Lucas, who has donated lavishly to keep Parson’s political career afloat.
HSLF is involved in dozens of races at the federal and state level, and we urge you to consult our roster of endorsements and our Humane Scorecard to guide your voting.
In a number of states, voters will decide not only on candidates to represent them but also on critical animal protection ballot measures:
In Massachusetts, a “Yes” vote on Question 3 would phase out the extreme confinement of veal calves, breeding pigs, and egg-laying hens in small crates and cages where they are virtually immobilized for their entire lives, and will ban the sale of products that come from these confinement systems.
In Oregon, a “Yes” on Measure 100 will help save endangered sea turtles, elephants, rhinos, and other wild animals threatened with cruel poaching and extinction, by shutting down the destructive wildlife trade.
In Oklahoma, animal advocates are urging a “No” on State Question 777, a measure to protect corporate factory farms and big agribusiness at the expense of Oklahoma’s family farmers, land, and animals, which could prevent future restrictions on extreme factory farming practices, and even puppy mills, horse slaughter, and cockfighting.
In California, a “Yes” on Proposition 67 will protect the state’s ban on plastic grocery bags, which wash into rivers, lakes, streams, and the Pacific ocean, where they are ingested by or entangle sea turtles, otters, seals, fish, and birds.
In Montana, a “Yes” vote on I-177 would restrict the use of cruel traps and snares on public lands.
In Colorado, Amendment 71 would make it more difficult for citizens to have a say on future constitutional ballot measures, including those dealing with animal protection. A measure to ban cruel steel-jawed leghold traps passed in Colorado in 1996, but would have failed under the onerous new standards imposed by Amendment 71. We are urging Coloradans to vote “No.”
No matter where you live, please visit our election site to find candidates HSLF has chosen to endorse for federal and state races based on their records or positions on animal welfare issues. Animals only win when humane candidates and issues do. Tomorrow is the day to get out the vote for animals.
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Maximizing Lifecycle Support for OEM Equipment: End of Maintenance Preparation
Posted by Maintech
Category: ITaaS Managed Services, Data Center Services, Hyperscale Services
As technological advances increase the size and complexity of enterprise networks, more companies are considering a shift from OEM service and support in favor of third-party maintenance. Research from Gartner (1) found that while support contracts from OEM and TPM offer similar coverage, businesses can save from 30-50% by choosing a TPM. Third-party manufacturers can also provide support beyond the equipment’s end-of-service-life date, a point in which OEM warranties inevitably expire.
But third-party maintenance companies offer additional, substantial benefits as well.
Extend equipment life. TPM can help a company to get the maximum value out of CAPEX investment. Extending the use of functional physical assets is a top priority for 78% of IT managers, who have turned to third-party maintenance companies to help keep valuable equipment for the full potential service life. Getting the maximum value from capital expenditures has a direct effect on the bottom line of the business.
Lease-back option. Some TPM companies, like Maintech, can purchase a CAPEX investment and lease it back on a per-site, or per-node basis. This transaction changes CAPEX to operating expense (OPEX), which offers the enterprise more flexibility with expenditures and provides better returns for stakeholders, making inter- and intra-company cost allocations much easier.
Asset discovery and reporting tools. A third-party maintenance company is not limited to monitoring equipment from a single manufacturer only. Maintech can provide detailed asset discovery and reporting tools to provide a comprehensive infrastructure overview independent of OEM origins. All relevant assets are included, regardless of manufacturer, so that your company has a full view of physical assets that spans not just different OEMs, but also different data center and multi-national locations. Clients can review their infrastructure as a whole, and leverage opportunities to reallocate assets for overall network function improvements and cost savings.
Focus on service, not sales. OEM companies have a primary focus on selling product. Service is often an upselling opportunity for an OEM, but whether providing software or hardware, the measure of success for an OEM is sales. A services-only TPM, on the other hand, is in the business of providing a service. There is no divided incentive; if TPMs focus exclusively on service, then there is no measure of success for a TPM other than delivering custom service solutions to clients.However, a TPM that includes product sales as part of its offerings to clients is subject to the same non-service revenue generation imperatives as an OEM. Service-only TPMs are the best way to ensure that your company is receiving premium services without being encouraged to invest in equipment before it is necessary.
Optimized overhead costs. OEM companies have to support considerable corporate overhead. Not only is there money to be invested in research and development, but OEMs may also manufacture products and develop software. The overhead to support these functions may be built into product prices as well as service contract prices. A third-party maintenance company, however, has a custom-built service delivery infrastructure. Service contracts are not padded to support the cost of other aspects of the business; clients pay only for services they receive.
A proper asset management strategy must take into account both maintenance and reliability. Maintenance refers to the tactical, short-range management of assets and equipment; reliability plays into the long-term, strategic approach of forecasting need and avoiding failures. While maintenance and reliability are interrelated, the priorities of each must be managed for the overall health of the business.
A third-party maintenance provider has the client’s needs at heart. Without any loyalty to a specific OEM, a third-party maintenance provider can help to extend the lifespan of equipment and provide support beyond the EOSL date specified by the manufacturer. In addition, TPMs can help you to find the optimal mix of CAPEX and OPEX, provide asset overview reports, and make your priorities their priorities without a hidden agenda.
Competitive Landscape: Partnering With Third-Party Maintenance Providers for Data Center and Network Maintenance Cost Optimization
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Digital Da Vinci — or — How to Split a Restaurant Bill for 13
My friend, Ria, was commissioned to paint a replica of Da Vinci’s “Last Supper”, 3 meters (9 foot) wide.
Ria’s painting, in acrylic on sanded aluminum board, took her about a year. By comparison, Da Vinci took three years. Then again, Da Vinci’s version was slightly bigger than Ria’s – 9 meters (27 feet) wide and 5 meters (15 feet) high.
Da Vinci used faces of actual people in his painting. When the monastery prior complained that the work was taking too long Da Vinci wrote back that he was struggling to find a suitably evil face for Judas, but that he’d be happy to use the face of the prior who had complained. After that, the complaints stopped.
I saw Ria’s finished painting a few weeks ago and it was impressive from all points of view – the perspective, the detail, the accuracy of the copy, the colours. An all-round great job on a difficult commission.
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Flash video, Daring Fireball, & Engadget
This is quite possibly my own personal, irrelevant hangup, but I keep getting annoyed by the lack of precision in how people talk about online video.
On Daring Fireball today, John Gruber writes, “Ironically, Engadget’s video demos are only available in Flash. Why would a website devoted to leading-edge gadgetry continue to embed video in a format that can’t be played on the best web-reading gadget?”
It’s not that they’ve chosen a format that won’t play on the iPad; it’s that they haven’t yet done the additional work (necessitated by Apple not allowing Flash on the iPad) to target a different player. That is, they need to set up a switch that’ll let them target Flash Player in Mac/Windows Web browsers (giving them 98% desktop viewership) and target the Video tag in Mobile Safari. They can use the same format (H.264) in both cases.
I’d fully expect them to do so: as I’ve written previously, content creators & publishers will use whatever combination of technologies let them reach customers most effectively. On the desktop that means Flash Player; on iPad/iPhone, it has to mean something else.
Posted by John Nack at 3:25 PM on April 07, 2010
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Jay Robinson — 3:58 PM on April 07, 2010
I believe Joshua Toplosky’s comments were approximately: 95% of our readers do not have an iPad.
Hendrik — 4:41 PM on April 07, 2010
Well, it is not like the word “format” can only refer to the encoding format of the video stream. I think it is fair to assume that John was using it in the more general sense as defined in the dictionary: “format: the way in which something is arranged or set out”.
Just replace “format” with “way” in his sentence.
Mike Haugland — 4:42 PM on April 07, 2010
So everyone should support a device that’s been on the market for less than a week? I know it’s supposed to hit it large, but I think the early adopters know that the premium treatment will be a couple months off.
Anastasiy — 4:48 PM on April 07, 2010
Looks like someone is invested money into new html and is trying to promote it by blogging such kind of nonsenses all around Internet. There are a lot of misinformation nowdays about its benefits and mostly it’s bull*t. It’s a pity seeing, how people get brainwashed.
Cole Carrera — 5:14 PM on April 07, 2010
(you may use HTML tags for style)
Mark — 5:43 PM on April 07, 2010
The iPad is an anti-technology device targeting consumers who are too lazy/stupid to use or want a keyboard or mouse or stylus. Why should a website focusing on tech-savvy people modify their code to play along with the silly-ass marketing scheme Apple plays making its airhead users _think_ they’re some kind of pioneers?
Paulson — 5:48 PM on April 07, 2010
Look: certain writers, bloggers and zealot websites have invested a lot of copy in a narrative that somehow concludes with iPad winning and Flash losing. I like most of Gruber’s articles as much as the next guy, but there’s really no more room for objectivity on this subject. He’s placed his bets on the iPad succeeding despite a lack of Flash support just as much as Apple has. Meanwhile, Adobe seems to have crafted something really incredible with its AIR technology that doesn’t get nearly as much copy (anywhere beyond most of the Adobe blogs…and a Mac|Life article this week). Gruber himself is still skeptical of the ‘write once, play anywhere’ story, which is fine. Adobe’s got at least a couple of strong moves, which can play out concurrently: 1) offering developers the most flexible tools possible for creating interactivity across platforms via AIR and, 2) retooling future versions of Creative Suite to be the very best solution to author in Flash, HTML5, and whatever else makes people feel like the iPad is still the best thing ever.
John C. Welch — 5:54 PM on April 07, 2010
Given the *current available release state* of the Flash plugin, i can easily see why people hate using it.
Considering Adobe’s responses to all Flash problems is one of two replies:
1) “you’re some kind of blind raving fanatical unpaid Apple astroturfer!” (to be fair, this seems to be the domain of Dowdell, the Adobe CTO and a couple other Flash PR people)
2) “10.1 will fix everything. No, we don’t have a release date. but it will fix everything, so all complaints about 10.0 are invalid.”
are you REALLY surprised that people kind of hate the plugin? when flash stops crashing my browser, and the Flash team stops telling me all problems with Flash are in my head, i’ll start viewing Flash as more than a pox upon my browser.
John Dowdell — 6:13 PM on April 07, 2010
John N, I’m surprised at you, this is like Steve Allen lipsynching to The Stones, or something…. ;-)
fwiw, this weekend Dan Rayburn was discussing those costs to content creators for crafting special versions for audiences with limitations… not a killer cost, just expensive:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/196849-ipad-s-lack-of-flash-is-not-due-to-any-shortcomings-with-flash-blames-apple
jd/adobe
J-Man — 6:15 PM on April 07, 2010
@Hendrick, bringing up a dictionary definition for format, really? Of course Gruber meant video format and can’t control his fanboy loathing of Flash and unbridled iPassion long enough to get the concepts of codec, format, or player right. Maybe he meant “the process of preparing a hard disk or other storage medium for use, including setting up an empty file system”?
Steph Boudreau — 6:19 PM on April 07, 2010
John, rest assured you are not the only one driven to near madness by all the incomplete/inaccurate detailing and strange assumptions going on in the interweb.
Interweb, I’m talking to you now.
Why all the fuss Interweb? It’s not like you’ve signed a contract to buy and use an iPad for all your computing needs. No one is forcing anyone to buy or use an iPad.
No one is forcing anyone to support it either. Those that want to have their content available to all users will make the necessary adjustments to their video delivery technologies. Those that deem 2%-5% to be to small a market will not do anything. Let’s compare this to public transportation. personally I find public transportation too restrictive. Firstly it’s cramped, has strange smells and sometimes sticky seats. Public transportation is made for a very generalized type of user. Much like the iPad.
Relax Interweb, give it more than 24hrs and let the market play with this new thing. It will all sort itself out and most people will be happy with the way they navigate their media and devices.
Matthew Fabb — 6:19 PM on April 07, 2010
Flash Player 10.1 is likely to come out around the same time as Flash CS5, likely in May.
Meanwhile, if Flash really is crashing your browser then submit a bug report to Adobe’s open bug database. From what I’ve seen Adobe has been pretty good at tackling any major bugs and rolling them out into Flash updates.
With all the talk about how Web 2.0 is changing the media, I really wish there was an easy way notify writers corrections to their articles, when mistakes are made. As a number of the more high profile websites get enough volume of comments that writers don’t pay any attention to them. Because you’re right in that most articles make all sorts of pretty bad basic mistakes, especially these days when it comes to online video. I still see the occasional comment listing one of the pros of HTML5 video is not having to use one of the Adobe’s video servers, not understanding that this is not needed for most basic Flash video.
Mike James — 7:37 PM on April 07, 2010
John–enough already about the no Flash on the iPad. We’re sick of hearing it. You sound like a whiner.
[Come on, man, give me a break. A) I told you that this topic might not be of general interest, letting you know to skip it. B) I’m not whining; I’m seeking clarity. I think sites like Engadget *should* use an alternate player on iPhone/iPad, because I want to see their content on whatever device I’m using. Of course, when they take that pragmatic, non-ideological step, it’ll get hailed by a bunch of shrill ideologues as “Hah hah lolz Flash suxxxxx time2dieeee !!” –J.]
People who wanna play Flash won’t buy the iPad. Who cares that Apple is drawing a line in the sand.
[Well, given that I just tried to watch a movie on my iPad (which happened to be embedded via Microsoft Silverlight) and got denied, I care. I like the device and would like to see it work better. Whenever Apple is ready to take that step, the Flash team is ready to assist. –J.]
Move on and talk about all the good in the Adobe world.
[Don’t worry: I have tons in the queue. –J.]
Stirling Hewitt — 7:41 PM on April 07, 2010
Regardless of the fact he was talking about the iPhone. It remains that all of the most popular mobile devices including 99% of android phones and all of the Pre’s do do not run flash!
We keep hearing promises of flash coming to these platforms but the demos are crashy and lackluster, and the proof has yet to show itself in any kind of pudding. I mean the Pre got an that allows you to download an app that at some point later you will be able to install flash with. WTF?
Dont pretend like the mobile space isn’t happening. Every day more people live without flash as they are out and about, and in the long run NONE of them really gives a shit except the whiny tech nerds that remind me of what i was like when i was 18.
I paid to learn Flash in school, and it’s rare that i ever abandon a tool set, but I dont offer clients flash anymore, because it is not friendly.
gh — 7:55 PM on April 07, 2010
Speaking most technically in Video Terms for sure, a codec is a format? Correct? Flash Player is a technology? I love flash by the way, single greatest thing to creativity on the web, in a while anyhow. Rarely if ever had a problem running flash as a plugin, although generally I run pretty current macs, and not with 50 tabs open. Still in the JDI flavor, mostly I get his point. Totally h264 is a good codec to run in flash, although not the only choice anymore. But the article I believe refers to a PC (non – apple) based tablet device, without looking at the article, its just rehashing the rehashed.
Andrew Odri — 8:02 PM on April 07, 2010
Ahh, I’d just ignore DF all together IMHO. I actually unsubscribed from the DF RSS feed about 2 weeks ago – for one there is so much hype about any new device I can handle. And second, it became really clear that the articles aren’t objective articles that happen to be about Apple products, but generally ranged from heavily biased to deceptive and many time downright infactual.
I’d like to think that anyone with enough clout would be able to pick up on the trend. It is a shame that a lot of people take this stuff as gospel though.
Michael — 8:32 PM on April 07, 2010
We’ve used script tags for our video service since the beginning and adopted h.264 videos in Flash when it was available, so when the time came, it was easy to dynamically switch out our flash players to something that would work on the iPhone and iPad. A bit of foresight and honestly probably a bit of a fluke, but now all our client’s videos work on iPhone and iPad and they didn’t have to lift a finger.
We have had a couple of issues with some content management systems not allowing our clients to paste in script tags but for the most part it’s worked really well and also allowed us to do some other things without our clients having to be involved and changing embed codes.
Here’s some more on it.
http://www.resorts-interactive.com/promotions/iphone_flash_video.php
Rand — 10:50 PM on April 07, 2010
It’s not about Objective reporting, Andrew. Like the majority of good tech blogs, you’re getting a clearly subjective experience.
But is that such a bad thing? Whether you agree with him or not, John Gruber is one of the best versed to offer commentary on technology and design. It’s subjective, you may disagree with him, but it fuels healthy debate. I’d hate to only be reading content online that agreed with my current point of view. Reasoned debate is important in technology more than any other industry, and the power of the crowd is in effect here more than anywhere.
amy — 11:57 PM on April 07, 2010
How can I find out what format they are actually using? Can we assume all Flashes are playing H.264 nowadays?
DrWatson — 12:38 AM on April 08, 2010
“on iPad/iPhone, it has to mean something else”
Well, I keep getting annoyed by this lack of precision, too. It’s not only iPad/iPhone/iPod touch. It’s a whole bunch of smartphone devices that don’t do Flash.
[Yet. –J.]
iP*d might be the one that’s least likely to support Flash for quite a time, but Flash 10.1 (aka the grail) simply is NOT out there in the wild. Just build a stunningly good Flash Player. IF Flash Player works great on e.g. Android, WebOS et al., THEN let’s talk again.
[Fair enough. –J.]
Niklas — 4:12 AM on April 08, 2010
The Joojoo really brought forward the merits of Flash Player version 10.1, didn’t it? ;)
[No, because 10.1 isn’t done. But don’t stop beleeeevin’… –J.]
Jim Pogozelski — 4:17 AM on April 08, 2010
I looked through some posts, but there’s so many. You write as if the Adobe product dearest to your heart is swf. (At least there are no pontifications about DreamWeaver or Soundbooth, so that’s good, but aren’t you a PS guy?)
[Pontifications? Give me an effing break, Jim. Seriously. I’m advocating for pragmatism (which means using a non-Flash solution in some cases) and accuracy. Sorry if you can’t hang with that. –J.]
Anyway as Fake Steve Jobs says, if you don’t like the product (iPad in this case), get something else.
[Your reading comprehension sucks. NOWHERE did I say anything about not liking the iPad. But to you, I guess, and to a legion of zealots, saying that something could be better is heresy (until, of course, Apple makes it better). –J.]
Give your money to an HP tablet or something. YOu really don’t HAVE to watch your Silverlight movie on this one.
[Right, right–so if Apple doesn’t presently allow something, then that something is by definition irrelevant or undesirable–until, of course, Apple makes it possible, at which time it becomes by definition godly & just. What a bunch of slavish crap. –J.]
Zandr — 7:59 AM on April 08, 2010
[Replying to JNack’s embedded comments, not Mike’s original post.]
Ha Ha. Flash Sucks. Time to die.
No, seriously. I have a GMA950 Mac Mini hooked up to my TV. It will play 720p H.264 action movies all day long with nary a stutter using either QT or VLC.
Flash? If I run the very latest plugin under Safari (which runs Flash out-of-process, using the Cocoa interfaces) then I can get around 10fps watching the Daily Show in SD. It’s bad, but for a chat show, it’s just barely watchable. Try using Hulu Desktop, and that falls back to about 2fps.
So it’s *not* just about mobile devices. If the goal is to deliver video, Flash does it very badly.
Unfortunately, the HTML5 Video world is at an impasse on codecs (both sides are quite right, a third way is needed) so we’re stuck using Flash as a legal wrapper around H.264 even when it’s a very poor technical wrapper.
John C. Welch — 8:10 AM on April 08, 2010
I sat in the Flash team’s office and talked to them about the problems i see. I figure that should work.
As well, honestly, if anyone is going to try to tell me that flash’s problems are not *copiously* documented by now? So not buying it.
Oh, and i did, because it’s part of my job, download the 10.1 RC. what do i get?
some lame installer that won’t work with any of my tools, unless i hack it and yank the actual installer package out of it.
The installer package, the real one, without all the stupid chrome that does nothing useful to install the package has a postflight application. i say “application” instead of script, because although postflight files are normally shell scripts, this one is a friggin’ binary. why? we don’t know. it’s not for speed increases, the amount of time saved is negligible. So why hide the contents of the postflight script.
Building trust, teh flash team is doin’ it rong.
the sad thing is, if you ignore all the flash chrome bullshit, and just yank that installer package out from under it, what you have is a decent installer that finally doesn’t pull the one stunt that made installing Flash suck: the whole “you must quit your browser” crap.
finally, i have a version of Flash that i can push out to all my macs, that won’t require me to hack the actual installer. I finally have the installer that IT pros have wanted, and yet, like someone with a tube of “Make My Logo Bigger Cream”, someone in Flash marketing had to have a thick, gloopy wrapper of useless suck around it.
don’t know why, nor do i care. but that’s flash for you. Good core functionality, surrounded by gloopy suck.
Oh…yeah, i still watch Safari and the flash plugin process lose their goddamned minds when playing Flash video at 720p on YouTube.
but i’m sure Dowdell will spout his party line how it’s all my fault for using a weaker browser, and that i’m just a MacMac fanboy for criticizing Flash in the first place. then he’ll complain about all the ad hominem against flash. It’s his Kung Fu.
Derik — 8:19 AM on April 08, 2010
I’d report the bugs, but unfortunately, Flash crashes my browser before I can finish the report.
More seriously, how would I report it? “Flash crashed my browser… again. No, I don’t know how.”
John Dowdell — 8:33 AM on April 08, 2010
Bad metaphor. People die every day. Flash will outlive many of us. Choosing another way to speak will be less creepy.
“It will play 720p H.264 action movies all day long with nary a stutter using either QT or VLC. Flash? If I run the very latest plugin under Safari (which runs Flash out-of-process, using the Cocoa interfaces) then I can get around 10fps watching the Daily Show in SD.”
Precisely. A video decoder outside of a browser will not have to deal with the additional costs of rendering within a browser. Proprietary hardware support will make a difference too (cf QT APIs). Some of these problems will be mitigated by Safari and Player now supporting Core Animation. If you’d like your experience improved, it’s kinky to bite those trying to improve it.
Bobby Orr — 10:02 AM on April 08, 2010
This is the line of thinking I subscribe to. If someone doesn’t want to play ball, find someone else to play ball with and do that well. If flash 10.1/air is implemented well on android et al., killer apps will dent apple’s market hold enough to have them cave or risk irrelevancy. Sounds like a far fetched battle but if the experience is truly richer then people will be there. If the experience is lacking, then the technology wasn’t that compelling after all. As a web dev, I’m anxiously awaiting what is going to be unlocked when this stuff is supposed to happen. When phones are finally up to replacing things like field pda’s for mobile capture then businesses will be snagging them in droves. If air can allow me to build a web/flash app that can work in both online and offline modes on a phone, I can ditch proprietary mobile dev that is locked to small subsets of devices and build a site that is accessible from phone or desktop and just worry about the css for interface layout for whichever medium the client is using.
Zandr — 11:42 AM on April 08, 2010
I must not understand something you’re saying here. What I think you’re saying is that you’re trying to fix the problem having to run inside the browser by adding an extra layer (Flash) *between* the browser and the player.
It’s been said that there is no problem in computer science that cannot be solved with another layer of indirection. I would suggest that performance is the exception that proves the rule.
Mark Alan Thomas — 1:32 PM on April 08, 2010
98% platform penetration is meaningless when there’s a platform shift afoot. Flash* is dead.
(*Wherein by “Flash” I mean any web technology requiring proprietary third-party plug-ins.)
Repeating this line about Flash being compatible with H.264 video — as if this makes Flash videos somehow not dependent on a proprietary, poorly-performing plug-in technology that Adobe spent a billion dollars acquiring — is deliberately misleading. When people talk about H.264 vs Flash what they mean is video versus that same video inexplicably requiring the Flash plug-in to play back. And what’s really unfortunate is that you know this and are spouting the party line anyway in an attempt to deflect attention away from the truth which is that Flash is unnecessary obsolete proprietary crap. Let me say that again:
Flash is unnecessary obsolete proprietary crap.
The only reason the other doomed tablet platforms are patronizing Adobe over this issue is because they’re desperately looking for a way to spin the iPad hype against Apple. They want to be able to say “We have something Apple doesn’t! Apple is evil!” when in reality not being dependent on Flash is a huge advantage to the platform.
Ron — 3:10 PM on April 08, 2010
In the words of the great ameliorator Rodney King, “Care for a spot of tea and crumpets, old chaps?”.
(I paraphrase, but you get the idea)
[I’m all for the proverbial peace, love, and understanding. Various other folks get excited by the idea of associating themselves with Apple & being on the side of triumph (“One people, with one will, one resolve, one cause… we shall prevail!!”), so they find conflict titillating. –J.]
Bobby Orr — 3:39 PM on April 08, 2010
You can make a case that for video flash is quickly becoming an extraneous layer in an html5 world, but to completely knock it out of the equation for ria’s is a bit of a reach. When you talk proprietary, what’s more proprietary than apple releasing a new TOS that says “use our tools or go home” –
[3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited)]? Apple wants to thwart all competition by holding all the keys to their kingdom and telling the dev world they have to learn objective-c because they won’t get into their club with adobe’s upcoming flash to iphone compiler or any other alternative for that matter (titanium, phonegap, etc.)
BJN — 4:10 PM on April 08, 2010
And they’re saying, “Buy from our store or go home”. The Apple way is warm, pretty customer castration.
David S — 4:51 PM on April 08, 2010
I think we can basically all agree that most users don’t care what semantics are behind the word “format” (codec, player, container, profile, aspect ratio, color depth).
All this mindless quibbling is totally lost on people who just want it to work, not argue about whether flash playing .flv is different from flash playing h264.
It doesn’t work. That’s all that matters.
But you see it’s Apple’s computers. It’s Apple’s OS. It’s not like Microsoft trying to tell Dell and HP and IBM and Compaq et all what to do with their computers. And Apple’s not trying to force the iPhone OS onto other non-Apple devices. Either do it their way, or not.
Phil Brown — 8:52 PM on April 08, 2010
No, but what is happening, Mark, is that people are complaining about proprietary technology in one breath (Adobe and Flash) and then praising Apple in the next (who are entirely about being proprietary).
Yes, it’s a case of do it Apple’s way or not at all, but far too many people are not prepared to tell Apple they’re doing it wrong (I’m not saying they are or are not in this case).
Apple isn’t some holy grail that never makes mistakes or always makes the best choices and it’s the fanboi language that implies otherwise that is a constant pain when any attempt at a real discussion occurs.
Apple will live or die by their decisions, of course, but let’s keep things in perspective – they’re 10% of the market in round numbers and even if we call it 20% to be generous, it’s still a minor player.
iPad is an example of how Apple might bypass some of that – create a paradigm in which computers aren’t required to do a lot of what people want to do online. That will greatly increase their market share potentially. In the meantime, end users are suffering a lesser experience because Apple won’t budge – you can have a full experience only when they’re good and ready. That sucks and it’s not good customer focus, imho.
In the meantime, use a Windows PC or get an HP tablet when it’s out and enjoy Flash. I can’t recall *ever* having Flash crash on me under Windows which is not to say it can’t or that it didn’t, but it’s such a non-issue that I can’t remember any examples.
Both parties need to work together to improve the experience for end-users, but Apple never *seems* to want to be the ones to move (and I emphasise seems because I don’t deal with them directly very much – close enough to nil – and so I only have a perception).
haleonearth — 8:57 PM on April 08, 2010
I see most of you are deciding to go down with the ship. I can respect that.
[Your comment is too ignorant for words. –J.]
Passion John. Goddamned passion! Is the passion of the Apple loyalists a frickin’ phenomenon or what! A force so rarely seen in the commercial world. Unfreakinbelievable isn’t it? I remember when Adobe used to inspire some passion. Alas, that was a long time ago.
[If “passion” means “unwillingness or inability to read, to think critically & pragmatically, and to disassociate one’s identity from the perceived interests of a distant corporate entity,” then you can keep that crap. –J.]
judah — 10:58 PM on April 08, 2010
I don’t like to argue. I’m concerned about solutions.
All the problems Adobe and Flash are having in the world can be solved by listening and responding to it’s users. Fix the bugs in the bugbase, listen and fix what users say needs to be fixed. Hire me. I’ll get it done.
Steve Howard — 11:01 PM on April 08, 2010
It’s Apple’s computers? So we don’t own the phone/pod/phad/Mac that we paid for. So what, then? Did we just pay a rental fee?
It is the 10.1 beta, I give you that for correctness. But do you really expect the finished 10.1 to deliver something around 5x to 10x the current beta performance? I want that to be true, but seriously, can we expect that?
You keep asking for pragmatism and truth about what is happening today and the truth is that as the number of mobile devices are exploding the weakness that is Flash (overhead) performance is becoming more and more apparent because it no longer has a desktop grade CPU to tax.
I really want to cheer Adobe and I want to to continue being the king of graphics and publishing – I was an early Quark switcher, I used Photoshop for 2/3 of my life, I use illustrator five days a week and was once a happy Dreamweaver. And used Flash as a tool to sketch interfaces and UI testing. But all this does not prevent me from saying what I experience to be the truth about Flash on the web: There are some places it does not belong, and video is one of those.
Imagine for a moment Adobe taking the first step to a fully HTML5 compatible publishing suite combining the force that is Flex/Air/Flash/Dreamweaver into a package capable of producing plugin-free content. Imagine you not having to devote resources to producing plugins for multiple platforms and multiple web browsers on these platforms? Where is the future John? Where is your sense of innovation? All I see is a turf war with Apple? Why not sidestep it like everyone sidestep a spoiled brat. And by sidestepping I mean ignore it and produce awesome stuff instead.
I am sorry to see Apple on the winning side because in the end I probably care more about your software than Apple’s and the proof is in the metaphorical pudding because when I use my mac I use Adobe software, when I use my PC I use Adobe software.
Though I am sorry to se less and less awesome from you as time go by. Don’t do that, please…
The argument “X’s computer / X’s product” is an argument from the developers, producers and resellers point of view. What it is saying is “X can produce any product they want and not be forced by Y to include (or not include) product Z”. For a real world example: Microsoft can not force HP to not include Netscape on HP computers.
The consumer argument is “I can choose to buy/not buy X’s device/service, when I bought it I can choose to forgo the service and put a sledgehammer to the screen because it is my device”. The iProduct is still my product but if I choose to modify it with a sledgehammer or jailbreak I also choose to forgo the service that among things is warranty.
Steve Howard — 4:36 AM on April 09, 2010
And it’s so much bollox. Are my shoes somehow ‘damaged’ if I wear the wrong socks?
Petter — 6:38 AM on April 09, 2010
Seriously, unless using RTMP-streaming why target flash on a Mac at all. They will have a better experience using “Click To Flash” and choosing to play the MP4-file (encoded with H.264 and AAC) in quicktime any way. (Which only works when the sites actually use accessible MP4-files).
Just target the Video tag for Safari and Chrome no matter the operating system, (on desktops) with a fall back for flash. Of course Firefox on Mac users will be left with Flash.
However the video service engadget uses have no support of directly accessing the video-file. But it’s coming, http://blog.viddler.com/sandieman/html5-support-coming-soon/ Looks like it was not MP4.
Chris — 7:05 AM on April 09, 2010
Well if Apple doesn’t want the Flash plugin, even if it is new and improved. Do you think you could give Sony a call and get me some updated Flash goodness, and perhaps webkit, on my PS3.
Rocking a buggy version of Flash 8 and some half assed browser that renders as reliably as IE6 isn’t helping my sanity.
p.s. AIR would be nice too :)
Perhaps? Your argument being what, exactly? Besides “bollox”, that is…
Randy — 8:41 AM on April 09, 2010
All this is really very very weird. I am a PC user and I use mainly Opera for a browser. It never crashed after opening (because of) a site full of flash. Now, I own an iPhone and I love it. I don’t think I’ll buy an iPad for now, but God, does the world have to change it’s habits because of what Mr. Jobs says or because 6% or 7% of computer users ask (sorry, demand) the change? Please stop all this craziness!
kent Porter — 1:59 AM on April 09, 2010
Wow it’s getting ugly in here.
But um, isn’t this what you’re doing to a certain extant here John? Except you’re passionately on the side of the not-so-distant corporation that employs you. Difference of opinion aside, you seem really personally, if not passionately bothered by some of the things being said here and it’s kinda strange to me. This whole thread seems unusually vitriolic for this blog. I enjoy your blog because most of the time the tone is casual and informative. Seems like you’ve been lured into a petty flame war. Anyway…
[Yes, you’re right, Kent. But here’s the thing: I came to Adobe with the selfish goal of building the tools that I wanted to use, to solve my own problems–and not to further enrich a bunch of people who got their pans into the stream long before I did. After I leave here my interests will be the same: expressing myself & helping others to do the same. Adobe is, for me, a means to an end.
That’s why I’m trying–although maybe failing–to come down on the side of simply Getting Things Done. If and when that means using Flash and/or other tech from Adobe, great; when it means using other tools, that’s fine, too. I keep trying to say that people should defend their own self interests.
So, when someone tells me “You didn’t WANT to watch that video, because it was encoded in a format other than the one Apple likes,” I think a screw has popped loose. At that point a person’s desire to feel like part of a team/tribe/whatever has trumped practicality–call it ideology over functionality. I think that sucks, and I’ve said so. –J.]
Adobe and Apple both promote proprietary solutions. So what? Apple fans are displaying the zealous attitude they usually do which shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Who cares? Both companies innovate, and both have agendas which aren’t coinciding on this device. This happens all the time in the world of tech does it not?
Why is everyone so butt-sore about this? Can we resume our regularly scheduled programming now?
Wilhelm Reuch — 6:03 PM on April 09, 2010
The trouble is that Adobe keep going at it. One wish Adobe could actually hear what Jobs is saying: their Flash services is not needed on the iPhone OS.
Instead Adobe makes as much racket about it as possible and they keep coming back with ugly things like the iPhone IPA.
Really Adobe – let it go. You cant repair 15 years of neglect in an evening just because you suddenly found out Apple has one or two runaway hits you would like to have bite of.
As long as there is an alternative (W3C-standard) way to access data I have no problem with sites using Flash. Nor with Adobe selling the product.
Ron rydeberg — 12:45 PM on April 12, 2010
It is absurd, in this day and age, that Flash will put any and all browsers on their knees and use over 95% of the CPU for a jerky presentation.
It is most definitely not for videos.
Now, whether Adobe fixes it or not is irrelevant: the product is crap and a better one will bury it.
One would have thought that upper management at Adobe was a cut above the ugly mediocrity of management, but apparently they truly represent the incompetents just like most other companies.
Pissed Mac Developer — 2:04 PM on April 12, 2010
Yes, absurd that it only does that on MacOS, despite the Flash Player engineers repeatedly asking Apple to open up the APIs needed to make it faster, and Apple only recently starting to work on it (http://www.kaourantin.net/).
I just love watching Apple blaming Adobe for Apple’s own problems.
And the fanbois repeating the FUD without ever checking a fact.
Patrick — 2:14 PM on April 12, 2010
I don’t understand this about Flash Player’s performance on Mac. It’s constantly made out to be the performing exceptionally bad; lately I’ve seen comments like the above declare it the worst piece of software ever written.
I take it on good faith that such an uproar brings up a valid point, but I cannot relate, and as the words get harsher, I can’t help but feel like its just spin. Though I can only speak for my own experience, I got a MacBook Pro almost a year ago and have been browsing with Firefox and Flash 10.x. The experience has been as smooth as on my Win7 machine, which is very stable. I really haven’t been bugged by it at all. I haven’t looked at the Activity Monitor enough to give you a CPU #, but there just hasn’t really been a reason for me to do so.
Perhaps this is a result of the performance improvements in FP 10.x and a testament of Firefox’s stability (I don’t use Safari)? Give it a shot.
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Faith-based disaster-relief teams on standby as Florence nears
This photo provided by NASA shows Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station on Sept. 10, 2018, as it threatens the U.S. East Coast. Forecasters said Florence could become an extremely dangerous major hurricane and remain that way for days. (NASA via AP)
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DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — On top of all the state and federal disaster relief groups readying for Hurricane Florence as it barrels toward North and South Carolina are a group of expert helpers: the faith teams.
The biggest of these, North Carolina Baptists on Mission and the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, have made a name for themselves during previous hurricanes and other natural disasters, feeding people, clearing debris, gutting uninhabitable homes and rebuilding them from stud to kitchen cabinet.
On Wednesday (Sept. 12), they were back at it — not yet delivering help, but strategizing over how best to deploy their volunteer armies and equipment.
Florence is likely to produce catastrophic flooding in the eastern Carolinas when it makes landfall Friday. Damaging winds and near-certain flooding from the massive rainfall will worsen the misery.
Preston Guiher carries a sheet of plywood as he prepares to board up a Wells Fargo bank in preparation for Hurricane Florence in downtown Charleston, S.C., on Sept. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
“God’s opened a lot of doors and given us a lot of opportunity,” said Richard Brunson, executive director of North Carolina Baptists on Mission, a collective of emergency response teams in the state. “We’re thankful for that. We want to glorify God if we have opportunities to, and we’re looking for the best way to do that right now.”
Baptists on Mission partners with the state, the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army to feed thousands. On Wednesday leaders pored over the latest storm tracking information to figure out where best to station its three mobile kitchen units. At full capacity, two of those units can provide 30,000 hot meals a day each; the third can provide 20,000 meals.
Some 15,000 North Carolina Baptists have been trained in disaster relief work and many more untrained Baptists volunteer as well.
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers prepare meals for those affected by wildfires in southern Colorado in July 2018. Residents and first responders were served. Photo by Dennis Belz via Baptist Press
At a disaster call center for the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, people were phoning in to offer volunteer labor and supplies on Wednesday. After the storm makes landfall, many more calls will be coming in for emergency help.
The United Methodists typically come in after the first responders give them the OK. They’ll send in teams to hang tarps, remove debris, clear out soggy carpets and wet furniture and rip out subfloors as well as heating and air conditioning ducts.
Over the past three years, the conference, which covers the eastern half of the state, trained 767 people on how to respond to disasters.
But the training stresses listening first and foremost, said Ann Huffman, who directs the conference’s disaster call center.
“We’re taught to listen when survivors want to talk,” Huffman said. “We teach that that’s more important than the physical work.”
Huffman is also president of North Carolina’s chapter of Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, or VOAD, which comprises some 60 organizations, the majority of them faith-based, including Catholic Charities, the Salvation Army, the state’s Jewish federations, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, Samaritan’s Purse and many others.
Volunteers load a truck at the offices of the United Methodist Committee on Relief in Manila with relief supplies for survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in November 2013. Photo by Mike DuBose/UMNS
Congregational teams of all faiths have gained a reputation in the area because they often remain months — and even years — after the disaster has struck and poor or elderly residents have exhausted whatever state and federal resources are available for rebuilding. Several of the faith groups are still helping people repair homes from Hurricane Matthew, which struck North Carolina in October 2016.
Altogether they blanket the area with know-how and can-do spirit.
“We’re not big enough to take care of it,” said Sam Loy, United Methodist response team coordinator for the North Carolina Conference. “And Baptist Men are not big enough to take care of it, and Samaritan’s Purse isn’t. There will be places where one or the other will take the lead in those areas, so we’re not stepping on top of one another. This storm, if it’s going to be as bad as they’re saying, it’s going to take two or three weeks to get the rescue stage done.”
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Parker12 says:
Wha?! No armies of atheists on stand-by getting ready to help their fellow man? Interesting.
Seriously, a perfect example of living In Christ by serving others.
God bless them and keep them safe.
” God bless them and keep them safe.”
Idiotic !
Why would God ” keep them safe ” when he has the ” power ” to turn Flo into a benign zeyphyr gently caressing the bathers on the beach and spare the ensuing death and destruction ?
Yes, you are.
Well, the organization efforts sort of fell apart early on.
No one knew how to represent a red nothing for a logo.
Satan rules the world as you know; since you are one of his soldiers.
Maybe you should make yourself useful and round up a bunch of your atheist buddies and head for the coast.
3,000 dead in Puerto Rico. Where was your Christ then?
Satan rules the world?? So the whole salvation/redemption thing regarding Jesus, the “Son of God”, is fake news?
Nope. Go read the Bible.
Doesn’t work that way as you know.
Looking forward to seeing the angry dog and his buddies rebuilding the Carolinas soon.
So Satan *doesn’t* rule the world? Make up your confused mind. Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat In The Hat” makes more sense than your Bible.
How does it work, then? Your thoughts and prayers are worthless.
Spuddie says:
Oh they are there. Just not reported here. Check out Friendly Atheist site for news on them.
You are a perfect sample of Christians acting un-Christlike. Being petty, venal and spiteful for its own sake.
Btw if FEMA is a little short on funds to handle this, bear in mind President Pinhead diverted $10 million from FEMA to go towards immigrant detention. He also called the fustercluck of how Puerto Rico was handled a “success”.
https://boingboing.net/2018/09/12/trump-diverts-millions-from-fe.html
MadScientist1023 says:
Glad someone’s stepping up. If Trump responds to this like he did to Maria, these people will need the help.
Not to go off-topic, but the number of detained minors is now nearly 13,000, in 100 detention centers. More than at any time in history.
Because obviously child abduction and inhumane detainment was more important than disaster relief. /s
Ananth Sethuraman says:
It’s a bit technical. Phrases like “clutches of the devil”, “save”, “salvation” etc are best understood as technical terms. For a 1-page summary, please read http://www.hipkapi.com/2014/03/25/devil-worship-in-hinduism/
Matt Eleven says:
World Vision is on the job too.
floydlee says:
True. But then again, they’re not atheists.
Givethedogabone says:
I take this to mean that he thinks that his God has created, or at least chosen not to avert, a situation in which “Florence is likely to produce catastrophic flooding in the eastern Carolinas when it makes landfall Friday. Damaging winds and near-certain flooding from the massive rainfall will worsen the misery.”
What a sad, miserable, petty-minded and evil God this guy worships.
What a horribly damaged life that accepts this sort of God as worthy of worship.
Does anyone need a clearer example of how the sadness and despair of human beings can be turned to sanctimonious self-promotion by irrational belief?
This sort of Christianity, and this sort of Christian, are, IMO, loathsome.
Fortunately good people will do good things with or without the accompaniment of superstitious belief – just as bad people do bad things irrespective of their attitude to religion.
Dude- just asking a question.
At least the Cajun navy rides to the rescue.
Suuuuure. 🙂
Franklin Graham is trying to assure Carolinians that God is not mad at them, like a shaman of some primitive tribe.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/franklin-graham-comforts-fox-friends-viewers-threatened-by-hurricane-god-is-not-mad-at-you/
Of course normally he would be blaming destruction on gay marriage and the separation of church and state.
asonofSocrates says:
Cat 4 storm now barely CAT 1. Hmmm… just saying. The funny thing is how many folks who hold such animus toward religion troll the religion news site.
Richard Rush says:
It’s highly understandable how the vast majority of people who worship that God also choose to worship, praise, and glorify Donald Trump. it’s almost as if Trump is the second son of their God because, as father and son, they have so many traits in common.
Another “funny thing is how many folks” give credit to their God for anything deemed favorable, but refuse to hold Him responsible for a disaster . . . except when a disaster can be interpreted as directed toward other people as punishment for sin, in which case they praise and glorify Him for His supremely righteous actions.
It’s highly understandable how the vast majority of people who mock those who worship God tend to worship, praise, and glorify Hillary “Deplorables” Clinton. it’s almost as if Clinton is the personification of their hatred of ordinary Americans, with whom they have essentially no traits in common.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/cajun-navy-mobilizes-volunteers-boats-carolinas-ahead-hurricane/story?id=57799162
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/09/14/hurricane-florence-cajun-navy-sends-volunteers-north-south-carolina-help-search-rescue
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/12/hurricane-florence-prompts-volunteer-group-cajun-navy-to-send-more-than-1000-people-to-help.html
I assume you’re speaking of the average domestic relations court and the average American jail.
If they did not do that, they’d have to face their miserable empty lives.
I think the rest of us just want to be assured that we’re not like you.
ATF45 says:
God bless all those who are helping people affected by Hurricane Florence. This is neighbor helping neighbor. This is faith in action. We need to see more of this. There is much good in the world – if we work to put it there and to look at the good others do.
No, actually, Bob, I’m very glad I’m not at all like you. I’m also glad that I can see right through your idiotic Christian fantasy. In that regard, the whole Jesus story, the foundation of your Christian mythology, is utter nonsense from the get-go. How is it again that your purportedly omnipotent being, your “god” couldn’t do his saving bit without the whole silly Jesus-on-sticks hoopla? And how was Jesus’ death a “sacrifice”, when an omnipotent being could just pop up a replacement son any time with less than a snap of his fingers?
Furthermore, 2000+ years without a peep from the sky fairy of your god myths is more than sufficient grounds to reject your Christian tall tales. For that matter, why is it that your “god” can’t respond to clear up the sincere disagreement here about his instructions, or even his own existence? Your sky fairy never made it to the digital, networked world; he can’t even produce his own website, nor even respond in a forum.
Pretty pathetic “god” that you’ve made for yourself there.
Religion is a disease of the mind. Inoculate against it with reason.
No, Bob, actually, the people such as you who believe in such a foul, vicious god, and believe in the absurd mythology known as Christianity, really deserve to be mocked for being such fools. The whole Jesus story, the foundation of the mythology of Christianity, is obviously utter nonsense from the get-go. How is it again that your purportedly omnipotent being, your “god” couldn’t do his saving bit without the whole silly Jesus-on-sticks hoopla? And how was Jesus’ death a “sacrifice”, when an omnipotent being could just pop up a replacement son any time with less than a snap of his fingers?
Right on, Richard.
Obviously he wasn’t, Bob. Don’t be such a jerk.
Fortunately, for both the US and the world, ordinary Americans don’t worship the foul, evil and despicable brain-f**t that this guy thinks he serves.
The more you know about the situation in Puerto Rico, the less you hold the Federal Government responsible and the more you hold its homegrown hack politicians culpable.
For example, they forced the Puerto Rico utility to skip maintenance for years to keep rates low – politically popular – until the utility’s bonds sunk to junk status and the grid neared collapse.
On the other hand, NOBODY thanks you.
David Allen says:
Around these parts Bob, it’s you and your friends who bring up Hilary Clinton. She has faded away into the background noise of history, but you and the spray-tanned arsehole in the White House can’t seem to let the dead horse lie. You lot have to keep looking for the body to give it another whack.
We know that the US Red Cross will be there as well. Perhaps goodly numbers of atheists and humanists volunteer with that organization.
I’m sure that the LDS Church will be there also, breaking open the resources of the bishops’ storehouses in the affected areas. A lot of other religious orgs that many of you lot insult with the cult moniker are also involved with helping out.
Pat Robertson is convinced that he saved his ministry’s property by praying that God divert the storm away from Virginia to smite other folks and not him and his. Although none of the storm track models ever thought that VA would suffer a direct hit!
You voted for her, sport.
Here is the 2018 FEMA budget:
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FEMA FY18 Budget.pdf
$10 million is in the rounding errors.
Vladonald Trumputin says:
Hey DonnyBoy, this Bob Arnzen he is great mouthpiece for you. Does good work on knees with mouth. Even helps you get off hook for no support of Poorco Rico. We bring him to Moscow do more “internet research” for team Russiamerica yes?
-Vlad
Pootie Baby, I have problems now with my Team Swamp. Paul turned and Bobby is last of remaining members who service members. Maybe better have him in Moscow before he turn tail too.
Luv Ya,
Agni Ashwin says:
A lot of other religious orgs that many of you…insult with the cult moniker are also involved with helping out.
The agri-cult will be ready to feed the people.
But these people are atheists and they are helping out
https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org87074.jsp
https://foundationbeyondbelief.org/
So much for the bullcrap “Atheists don’t give support during disasters” meme
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Check Out the Winners of the LEGO Ideas Iconically Stranger Things Building Contest
Along with the hype surrounding the third season of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things, and the subsequent release of the LEGO Stranger Things The Upside Down (75810), the LEGO Ideas Team has announced a new building contest that challenges LEGO builders to come up with their best Stranger Things inspired original creation. The LEGO Ideas Iconically Stranger Things Building Contest ran from May 15 to June 19 and now, the winners are finally revealed.
The announcement was made over at the LEGO Ideas blog site, beginning with the Grand Prize winning entry, ‘The Tunnels‘ by builder MartiMovi.
This particular MOC takes its inspiration from the vast tunnel system that the inter-dimensional aliens created underground. Though compact in size, it perfectly captured the details of the pumpkin patch and the descent that the team made led by Dustin. The level of detail on these underground tunnels is spot-on including its dark and dank environment and creepy tentacles. For added realism to this set, MartiMovi even added a minifigure scaled Demodog for good measure.
One of the first runner-up titles for the LEGO Ideas Iconically Stranger Things building contest was awarded to builder Ragaru for the ‘Demogorgon Figure‘. I have to admit right off the bat that this is one of the exceptionally mean-looking, and downright monstrous brick-built model of an already terrifying creature that I’ve ever seen. Ragaru’s fluid and organic brick composition simply gave this poseable other-worldly creature a more horrifying presence. As much as I love this build, I have no qualms over the fact that it ended as a runner-up. This build is so horrific that I dread the idea of seeing this at the hands of a younger LEGO builder.
Finally, we have a rather simple looking, but definitely an advanced build from accomplished builder, saabfan. Entitled ‘The Gang on Bikes‘, this MOC may look simplistic at first, but taking a closer look reveals how he cleverly used few LEGO pieces to capture the important details of each Hawkins character. I’m always impressed by minibuilds such as this because scaling things down in LEGO form while remaining faithful to how the original subject looks like is surely an impressive feat.
Both the Grand Prize winner and Runner-Ups will receive the LEGO Stranger Things The Upside Down (75810) set valued at $200 USD. The Grand Prize winner will also receive a $300 USD shopping spree at LEGO Shop@Home, while Runner Ups will get a $200 USD LEGO Shop@Home voucher. Congratulations to all the winners and cheers for more awesome builds to come!
Author Albert BalanzaPosted on July 11, 2019 Categories Contests, LEGO Ideas, TV ShowsTags LEGO Contests, LEGO Ideas, LEGO Stranger ThingsLeave a comment on Check Out the Winners of the LEGO Ideas Iconically Stranger Things Building Contest
LEGO Stranger Things Castle Byers Rumored to be the Next LEGO Promotional Set
To celebrate the launch of the LEGO Stranger Things The Upside Down (75810) a few weeks ago, LEGO also threw in a sweet Make and Take Event at it’s Flatiron (NY) and Leicester (London) LEGO Stores. Needless to say, the LEGO Stranger Things Castle Byers was a hit to LEGO and Netflix fans where in-store patrons get to build this iconic fort in the woods and bring them home at the same. Eventually, building instructions were released online showing how to recreate this 48-piece set less the two exclusive stickers of course. Of course, if we will have our way, it will be nice to have this Make and Take promotional be available across all LEGO brand stores in the country. And thanks to a report by The Brick Fan, it might be the case
Castle Byers take away build from LEGO Stranger Things event. More photos and instructions at Imgur link. from lego
It was rumored that after the initial debut of both the Upside Down (75810) and the LEGO Stranger Things Castle Byers, the latter will eventually be introduced as the next Make and Take promotional across LEGO Stores in the US. LEGO Stores are somehow mum about this, but according to The Brick Fan, registration for this event may actually start tomorrow, June 10. That’s good news especially if you’re a devoted LEGO collector. I know this set is relatively easy to make with all its parts readily available in your modest LEGO collection. However, if you’re a LEGO completionist and wishes to have the exclusive Castle Byers stickers that go with it, then be sure to check out with your local LEGO store to confirm this Make and Take promotional.
The LEGO Stranger Things The Upside Down (75810) is currently available at LEGO Shop@Home retailing for $199.99 USD. Coming in at 2,287 pieces with eight (8) instantly recognizable Stranger Things minifigures: Eleven, Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, Will Byers, Joyce Byers, Chief Jim Hopper, and the Demogorgon.
Author Albert BalanzaPosted on June 9, 2019 June 9, 2019 Categories Building Instructions, Events, Exclusives, LEGO, LEGO Stores, PromotionalTags LEGO Promotional, LEGO Stores, LEGO Stranger ThingsLeave a comment on LEGO Stranger Things Castle Byers Rumored to be the Next LEGO Promotional Set
LEGO Stranger Things The Upside Down (75810) Set Officially Revealed
By now the trail is pretty much clear. And after several teases on social media, it looks like LEGO has finally lifted the mystery surrounding its latest offering. Coming in at 2,287 pieces and retailing for $199.99 USD, we now have the LEGO Stranger Things The Upside Down (75810) set inspired by the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things. Check out the following crystal clear images and official product description.
LEGO Stranger Things The Upside Down (75810)
Ages 16+. 2,287 pieces
US $199.99 – CA $269.99 – DE €199.99 – UK £179.99 – FR €199.99 – DK 1799DKK
The ultimate LEGO® Stranger Things model to build and collect!
Fans of the global hit Netflix original series will appreciate the authentic details of this highly collectible LEGO® Stranger Things toy – 75810 The Upside Down. This sturdy, brick-built model can flip between the real world and The Upside Down. The design of the model’s building instructions makes it a great shared building experience with friends and family. The Byers’ house features Will’s bedroom, the living room and the dining room. The Upside Down version of the house, from an alternate dimension, features all the rooms from the real-world model but with a dark, vine-covered, dilapidated look that fans will instantly recognize from the series. With 8 Stranger Things figures, each with its own accessories, this playset makes a great gift for Stranger Things fans who will love to build and display this model to show their passion for the series.
This LEGO® Stranger Things toy includes 8 instantly recognizable Stranger Things minifigures from the hit Netflix original series: Eleven, Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, Will Byers, Joyce Byers, Chief Jim Hopper and the Demogorgon.
The Byers’ house features a front porch with furniture, living room, dining room and Will’s bedroom.
The living room features authentic details from the series, like the alphabet wall with a light-up function, couch, coffee table, telephone, axe, ‘have you seen me?’ flyer stickered element and a bear trap to catch the Demogorgon.
Will’s bedroom plays a central role in the series, which this model faithfully replicates, including details like Will’s boombox, bed, desk, desk lamp, drawings and movie posters.
The dining room includes an armchair, boxes that store Christmas lights, fantasy game rule book stickered element and a potted plant.
The attic space includes a Mind Flayer drawing stickered element and a wizard hat for ‘Will the Wise’.
The Upside Down set captures the look and feel from the Netflix original series, including creepy vines, dark coloring and a dilapidated look.
Chief Jim Hopper’s police truck includes a removable roof for easy access to the interior and a pumpkin element as a reminder of Season 2.
Accessory elements include Lucas’ slingshot and flashlight, Dustin’s walkie-talkie and compass, Mike’s flashlight and walkie-talkie, Hopper’s coffee mug, Joyce’s flashlight and drawing of ‘Will the Wise’, and Eleven’s waffle.
This Stranger Things collectible includes over 2,200 pieces and comes in 11 bags, so the real world and The Upside Down can be built at the same time for a shared building experience.
Measures over 12” (32cm) tall, 17” (44cm) wide and 8” (21cm) deep.
The LEGO Stranger Things The Upside Down (75810) set will be available for an early release for LEGO VIP members on May 15, and at all LEGO stores and shop.LEGO.com beginning June 1. The set measures 44.6 x 32.8 centimeters, and uses some interesting pieces and building techniques to replicate the rotting, deteriorating aspect of the Upside Down. The set also features a kind of flip action that lets you switch between the normal and Upside Down worlds. The reverse side of the set also underscores some of the most significant parts of the Byers home, including its famous Christmas lights and alphabet wall. I’m quite intrigued about the stability of this set, and on how this will manage to stand on its own. I’m also interested to see how the Demogorgon will fair in its LEGO minifig form. Word also has it that this will be the only licensed set under the Stranger Things theme, so it might be better for LEGO fans of the hit Netflix series to keep a close eye on this.
In case you don’t know yet, the cool builders behind Build Better Bricks also has their own custom brick-built version of the Byer’s House available in their site. Be sure to visit B3’s website to check out the building instructions for this custom set.
Author Albert BalanzaPosted on May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 Categories LEGO, LEGO Set News, LEGO Shopping, TV ShowsTags LEGO Stranger Things, New LEGO SetsLeave a comment on LEGO Stranger Things The Upside Down (75810) Set Officially Revealed
Signing Event for LEGO Stranger Things Sets Slated Next Week
LEGO Stranger Things: to say that is both weird and exciting as one thinks of the possibilities. The hit Netflix series is both a 1980s nostalgia trip and a scary cool coming-of-age story. It also becomes perhaps one of LEGO’s big-boy (age-wise) licensed franchises alongside LEGO Overwatch and the like. After building a foundation of anticipation with their first teases, LEGO is now ready to promote their LEGO Stranger Things sets. It’s no longer a secret that the theme will launch next week at the Leicester Square LEGO Store. New details have popped up about it though, as updated on the LEGO events page on Facebook.
For starters, not only will the LEGO Stranger Things line be introduced there at London, there will be autographs signed. By that we mean Leicester LEGO Store buyers of the new set can meet their lead designer, Justin Ramden. He’ll be on hand to sign.
One more thing: there will be a suggested dress theme for Londoner guests appearing at the product launch. As if you don’t know, it’ll be an Eighties party there on the 15th, with “tubular” refreshments on hand for all comers.
Collectors should save £179.99 for this LEGO Strangers set. Furthermore, only 400 participants will be able to buy the set at Leicester Square on launch day. Lastly, each buyer can only have two sets max per purchase, to leave enough for everyone on that day. With that, we’ll leave you with this curious “80’s era” LEGO commercial that we think is part of the promotion.
Author bluephotographs800Posted on May 9, 2019 May 10, 2019 Categories Events, LEGO, LEGO Set News, TV ShowsTags LEGO Stranger Things, New LEGO SetsLeave a comment on Signing Event for LEGO Stranger Things Sets Slated Next Week
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Valero, Bel Brands honored for support of Guard
ESGR photos: LEFT: Jerrod Bass of Valero Renewable Fuels accepts a Patriot Award May 6. From left are Spc. Julie Bauman with the 139th HHC of Brookings and Bass. RIGHT: Jake Anderson, Bel Brands USA, accepts a Patriot Award on May 10. Pictured, from left are: Anderson, and Staff Sgt. John T. Hittle with the 139th BSB HHC.
By: South Dakota Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve - Updated: 2 months ago
BROOKINGS – South Dakota Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense program, announced Jake Anderson with Bel Brands USA in Brookings and Jerrod Bass with Valero Renewable Fuels were honored with Patriot Awards in recognition of extraordinary support of their service member employees.
The Patriot Award, created by ESGR, publicly recognizes individuals who provide outstanding patriotic support and cooperation to their employees, who, like the citizen warriors before them, have answered their nation’s call to serve.
Bass was nominated for being highly supportive of his employee, who serves in the National Guard Spc. Julie Bauman. Bauman said she nominated Bass for the award to thank him for his support of her duties in the National Guard, including flexible schedules, time off for inspections and training time, and allowing her time to care for her military family, as well as her family at home.
Bass and Anderson were nominated as they give their employees the time off to prepare and attend National Guard duties, thanking them for serving, and letting her know how proud they are of them.
Anderson was nominated for being highly supportive of his employee, Staff Sgt. John T. Hittle who serves in the ARNG 139th BSB HHC. Hittle said he nominated Anderson for the award to thank him for his support of his duties in the National Guard, including flexible schedules, time off for inspections and training time, and allowing him time to care for his military family, as well as his family at home.
ESGR seeks to foster a culture in which all employers support and value the employment and military service of members of the National Guard and Reserve in the United States.
ESGR facilitates and promotes a cooperative culture of employer support for National Guard and Reserve service by developing and advocating mutually beneficial initiatives, recognizing outstanding employer support, increasing awareness of applicable laws and policies, resolving potential conflicts between employers and their service members, and acting as the employers’ principal advocate within DoD.
For more information about ESGR outreach programs, or ESGR volunteer opportunities visit www.ESGR.mil.
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Tag: Contemporary Decor
Contemporary Doesn’t Have to Be Cold, Says Architect Enrique Montenegro
by Shelby Skrhak
When some people think of contemporary homes, they think of a stark white box with a white interior — perhaps like the Rachofsky Residence by Richard Meier in Preston Hollow – essentially an art-museum-house-hybrid.
Enrique Montenegro, a principal at SHM Architects, says contemporary is really anything that’s not traditional in architecture, but it’s not necessarily a “classic white box.”
“Contemporary doesn’t have to be cold,” he says.
CandysDirt.com sat down with Enrique Montenegro of Dallas-based SHM Architects to discuss how to design a contemporary home that feels warm and comfortable.
CandysDirt: Let’s start with the criticisms. What are the stereotypes people have of contemporary-style homes?
Enrique Montenegro: Everybody’s got a different idea of what contemporary means. Clean lines is a term that people use a lot when they’re referring to contemporary homes, where everything’s super straight, with minimal details, and very crisp.
But we’ve all been in these kinds of spaces where you feel like you can’t put your feet up. They are rooms full of furniture that make you feel like you’ve got to sit straight up. The way the space is furnished and how the walls are finished can make it feel very cold and too formal. (more…)
Contemporary Architecture, Contemporary Decor, Enrique Montenegro, Rachofsky House, SHM Architects
Stage Me
What's Hot in Home Decor? Transitional Style Makes Almost Every Listing Look Fresh!
Almost every listing I fall in love with has a really fabulous mixture of contemporary and vintage pieces, and maybe a few quirky flea market finds. I had no idea that this is what basically makes up transitional style. It’s a great decor style that makes almost every home look like a supermodel, and it’s not hard at all to attain.
I think that 5446 Ridgedale, a gorgeous M Streets Tudor, really evokes transitional style. Dallas stager Karen Eubank agrees.
“Look at the entryway. It has a simple wood-topped table with straight crome legs. There’s a glass-base lamp on top and pale grey walls. When I walk into that home, and I see that table and I can tell that it’s been updated. It’s on-trend,” Eubank said.
In the living room there’s a fantastic vintage mirror above the fireplace, a great juxtaposition with the oval cocktail table. It all has a very timeless look, doesn’t it? The seating feels clean and modern with a more traditional shape. All of these pieces mix well to produce a great example of transitional style.
What’s the easiest way to update a home that merges contemporary and traditional? “Lighting fixtures are a great way to update a house quickly,” Eubank said. Head to Lowes or Home Depot and find modern-feeling fixtures that blend well with traditional furniture.
The dining room, with the drum light centered over the dining table, is a great example of that philosophy, says Eubank. “The dining room is wonderful. The paint is a little darker than in the living room, but with the white trim, it works. The chairs are a more traditional shape, but are covered with a more modern fabric.”
Getting ready to sell your home? The easiest way to achieve transitional style is through accessories, Eubank said. Start with a coat of pale gray, green, or blue on the walls and go from there.
“Most people are not going to have the resources to go out and buy and updated living room suite,” she added. “But if you’re planning on buying a few new pieces when you move into your new home, give yourself permission to go ahead and buy a couple of new pieces, maybe a sofa or armchair that works.”
On an even stiffer budget? Head to HomeGoods or Target.
“You can update your house for in the neighborhood of $500 if you’re smart about it,” Eubank said.
Contemporary Decor, Ebby Halliday, Karen Eubank, Traditional Decor, Transitional Style, Vintage Pieces
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INSIDER associate editor, celebrity news
INSIDER is hiring an associate editor to work with our entertainment team.
As an associate editor, you would write and edit a mix of stories focusing on celebrities, including slideshows, quick news hits, interviews, and longer features.
Your job will include editing the work of our reporters. Additionally, you'll manage and train celebrity reporters and fellows, with the guidance of the entertainment editor.
The perfect candidate has a passion for everything celebrity and the ability to find celebrity angles in the day's biggest conversations and current events, such as the sordid history of Katy Perry's property battle with nuns and a fun look at all the May-December celebrity romances. You must be a strong ideator who can come up with great pitches not only for yourself but for others on the team.
The ideal candidate also has:
Strong story judgment
Meticulous attention to detail
Experience editing stories for spelling and grammar, structure, flow, style, and factual accuracy at a fast pace
1-3 years of editorial experience
Familiarity coming up with engaging story ideas, and finding and using eye-catching photos
Copy-editing and Photoshop experience is a plus, though not required
The position is full-time in our New York City headquarters. Insider Inc. offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits.
INSIDER is great journalism about what passionate people actually want to know. That’s everything from news to food, celebrity to science, politics to sports and all the rest. It’s smart. It’s fearless. It’s fun. We push the boundaries of digital storytelling. Our mission is to inform and inspire.
APPLY HERE with your resume and cover letter, and tell us why this would be your dream job.
Insider Inc. is the publisher of INSIDER, Markets Insider, and 17 international editions of Business Insider, including the flagship NY-based US edition. The company pioneered a digital-native approach to news and information that is social and mobile at its core, for an ambitious and curious global audience that grew up with digital. The company launched in 2007, and in ten years, Business Insider has grown to become the most favorite business news brand in the world, when measured by reach. Insider Inc. reaches a global audience of several hundred million readers and viewers. The company also offers a subscription research service, Business Insider Intelligence (BII), that provides in-depth insight, data, and analysis of digital topics. Every year the company hosts IGNITION, an influential media and technology conferences. Insider Inc. is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE. We are always looking for talented, curious and motivated individuals to join our growing team.
Leah Goldman
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'Collateral Beauty' is an emotional journey worth taking
Will Smith and Helen Mirren star in “Collateral Beauty.”
By Kathleen Rizzo Young|Published Thu, Dec 15, 2016 |Updated Thu, Dec 15, 2016
“Collateral Beauty” could be a theater class experiment. What happens if you take a sentimental script and hand it to a superb group of actors? In lesser hands this could be a Hallmark movie or a block of Velveeta, but with its stellar cast it somehow becomes a thing of (collateral) beauty.
For many, this will be seen as a Will Smith movie, but here he gives us neither the man who inhabits a character as in “Ali” or “Concussion,” nor the “Men in Black”/ “Independence Day” swagger or the “Fresh Prince” megawatt smile and hearty chortle.
Rather, we get the signature charismatic Smith for approximately the first 90 seconds, as his character, Howard Inlet, explains to his ad agency team how the three abstractions — Death, Time and Love — are the basis not only of advertising but of life. This speech is enough to show why his employees, clients and shareholders adore him, and to remind us why we come to see his movies.
Alas, we immediately flash forward to “Three Years Later” and Howard is a man torn by grief -- wrinkled, grizzled and weathered (probably how President Obama would look if he had served another eight years). Be forewarned that Smith’s character is grieving the loss of a child, and as expected, the sadness is palpable, relentless and unfortunately for the film, often uninteresting.
Smith has said he made this film to help him deal with the death of his father, and he certainly captures grief. His colleagues are losing patience with him and while that seems uncharitable at the start of the film, 30 minutes in we can sympathize with them and wonder if making a comedy would have been more therapeutic for him.
So why is this journey worth taking? Because the cast is comprised of some of the best actors working today with an incredible 18 Academy Award nominations among them. Along with Smith, we have Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren and Keira Knightley. Even the lesser-known actors — Naomie Harris, Michael Pena and Jacob Lattimore — more than hold their own with their heavyweight co-stars. Harris, who was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for her very different role in “Moonlight,” is especially compelling as the leader of a grief support group. You cannot take your eyes off her.
Director David Frankel (“The Devil Wears Prada”) gives us some great scenes with the dream cast, interspersed with lots of scenes of Howard riding his bike into traffic, and walking around in a blind state of grief. Norton is completely believable as Howard’s partner who has screwed up his personal life and now sees his agency going under. He and Mirren also provide much-needed comic relief, with Mirren reveling in her role as an underemployed actor.
To say too much about the plot would be a disservice, but like television’s hit drama “This is Us” the twists will keep you talking afterward. It can be as symbolic or as literal as your interpretation allows, and will leave you hopeful.
It’s hard to predict if audiences will want to take such an emotional ride at the holidays, but the supporting performances and overall message make it a worthwhile one. Here’s hoping Will Smith’s next movie is a comedy.
"Collateral Beauty"
3 stars (out of four)
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet
Rated: PG-13 for thematic elements and brief strong language.
Running time: 96 minutes.
The lowdown: After a successful New York advertising executive suffers a great tragedy, he retreats from life and his friends try desperately to reconnect with him.
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Romaine Brooks A Life by Cassandra Langer
Congratulations to Cassandra Langer for recognition of her book “Romaine Brooks: A Life” in After Ellen’s list of Lesbian/Bi books of 2015! Check out their list of fiction, non-fiction, memoire, poetry, and academic books here: http://www.afterellen.com/books/467583-2015-year-lesbianbi-books
Langer cracks the canon with Romaine Brooks and Company
Cassandra Langer’s, “A Life: Romaine Brooks” reveals the complex passages of this artist and modern woman, whose legacy will continuously gain its deserved prominence. In each chapter, Langer articulates details of Romaine’s life exemplary and informative of the choices she made towards an adventurous career and radical personal relationships. Langer builds a scholarship for the artworks Brooks created throughout her life while informing the reader of the challenges involved to resolving mysteries and overturning institutionalized biases in doing so.
-Elaine A.
A must-read!
This is a meticulously researched and refreshingly insightful examination of Romaine Brooks’s life in relation to her art. Langer’s study illuminates the centrality of Brooks’s stoicism and how it influenced her way of dealing with and representing the world she experienced. Langer’s book also contributes to a more detailed understanding of the vivid personalities in Romaine Brooks’s social circle. — Dr. María DeGuzmán, author of _Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire_ and _Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night_.
-Maria DeGuzman
Very readable and thorough biography of a complex and unique woman, and her circle of friends and acquaintances. I especially liked the way the author situated Romaine Brooms in relation to the general history of the time in which she lived. I greatly appreciated the Glossary of Names at the end because Brooks knew and interacted with so many different people
-ydkon
Brilliant analysis- Great Read!
Great book- Langer disproves many former assumptions about Brook’s life and shows her to be a very complex and gifted artist. This book places Brooks within the pantheon of modernist artists of the twentieth century. A must read for those interested in women and art, lesbian expatriate life in Paris and Italy and modernism.
Kudos to Professor Langer!
-activegraymatteron
This readable, insightful biography of Romaine Brooks provides both social and historical context for her life, art, and writings, as well as a psychological analysis of her motives. An excellent portrait of a complex woman.
-B. Edwardson
Excellent new biography of Brooks
Loved this book! A compelling retelling of the life of Romaine Books and her crowd with interesting new details from Langer’s research and sensitive interpretations that invite new understandings of Brooks. A delight in so many ways. Highly recommended.
-Julie R. Enszeron
“Langer makes clear that Romaine Brooks was an artist of unusual courage and originality, tracing her development not only as an artist, but as a woman artist and a boldly lesbian artist. This biography includes fascinating material on the many talented, independent, and liberated women in Paris in the 1920s, with Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks at the center of that milieu.”
—Jerry Rosco, author of Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography
“Cassandra Langer insightfully recounts the life of Romaine Brooks, including the sources of her creativity and blocks to that creativity in later life, her bigotry, and her contributions to twentieth-century British, American, and French culture. This readable, vivid biography provides social and general historical context for Brooks’s life, art, and writings, as well as incisive psychological analysis of her motives.”
—Betsy Draine, author of Substance under Pressure: Artistic Coherence and Evolving Form in the Novels of Doris Lessing
“Art historian Langer is zealous and exacting as she seeks to fully portray her heretofore too-little-known subject, . . . addressing the complexities and contradictions of Brooks’s life and celebrating the courage and power of her meticulously composed paintings. . . . Langer sensitively grapples with Brooks’s elitism, bigotry, and fascist tendencies while avidly reclaiming this ‘fascinating and controversial’ artist’s elegant and evocative, haunted and defiant art in praise of audacious women.”
—Booklist, *starred review
“Romaine Brooks has long glimmered in the constellation of lesbian and queer culture; now, through the prism of Langer’s tireless research and intelligent yet conversational style, the brilliance of Brooks’s life and career is both magnified and refracted. By turns anecdotal and analytical, journalistic and theoretical, Langer colorfully repaints the historical portrait of Brooks, revealing her as both more radical and more conservative than we thought.”
—James M. Saslow, author of Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts
“A biography of the American painter and heiress (1874-1970), whose work in art and decor has been overshadowed by her romantic relationship with the writer Natalie Barney and what were seen as flirtations with Italian Fascism.”
“Langer manages to shoot through the myths about Brooks and looks at her friends, lovers, and the subjects of her portraits. What we see should come as no surprise—Brooks was a woman of wit and passion who managed to overcome personal challenges and the whims of society and became a wonderful artist who lived life only on her own terms.”
—Amos Lassen, Artist and Innovator, Univeristy of Wisconsin Press
“Most revelatory, Langer tells the full story of the artist’s private life that focuses on her life-altering open relationships, which she viewed as her ménage relationships with Natalie Barney and Lily de Gramont.
—Lewis Whittington, Contributor, Chicago
“In her latest book, “Romaine Brooks; a Life” art historian Cassandra Langer sheds light on the painter, who up until very recently has been predominately ignored or misunderstood by art historians. Dr Langer’s fascinating account of Brooks’ life brings a fresh look at both her social sphere of lesbians living in Paris as well as her artistic contributions within Modernism. Dr Langer based her research on newly discovered information on paintings and previous scholarship as well as a careful examination of primary sources material such as personal letters, and memoirs.
—VelvetParkMedia.com
“Cassandra Langer performs a difficult balancing act with her fascinating biography of the lesbian painter, Romaine Brooks. On the one hand, she tries to restore the painter’s artistic reputation and rightful place in the Modernist canon as an innovator whose figurative portraits were largely ignored by a patriarchal art world dominated by abstractionism.” (See more)
—Walter Holland, Lambda Literary Review
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Home Marijuana Marijuana Videos Alex Berenson | Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Alex Berenson | Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Alex Berenson is a graduate of Yale University with degrees in history and economics. He started his profession in journalism in 1994 as a company reporter for the Denver Post, joined the monetary news web site TheStreet.com in 1996, and worked as an investigative reporter for The New York Occasions from 1999 to 2010, in the course of which time he also served two stints as an Iraq War correspondent. In 2006 he published The Faithful Spy, which won the 2007 Edgar Award for most effective initially novel from the Mystery Writers of America. He has published ten more novels and two nonfiction books, The Quantity: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America and Inform Your Young children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence.
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The College also considers itself a trustee of our Western philosophical and theological inheritance tracing to Athens and Jerusalem, a heritage obtaining its clearest expression in the American experiment of self-government below law.
By education the young in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to turn into leaders worthy of that legacy. By encouraging the scholarship of its faculty, it contributes to the preservation of that legacy for future generations. By publicly defending that legacy, it enlists the help of other good friends of absolutely free civilization and as a result secures the circumstances of its personal survival and independence.
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News Centre Opera Singer Alumnus Returns to Visit Western Canada High School
CBE Home News Centre Opera Singer Alumnus Returns to Visit Western Canada High School
Opera Singer Alumnus Returns to Visit Western Canada High School
CALGARY — Students at Western Canada High School have a unique opportunity to meet accomplished opera singer Daniel Okulitch.
Mr. Okulitch is in Calgary performing the role of Dr. Beck Weathers in Calgary Opera’s production of Everest. His international career includes performances at the Met and Carnegie Hall. He is also a Western Canada High School alumnus.
He will be meeting with the Leadership in the Arts class to speak about his career and experiences.
The media are invited to attend the event. Mr. Okulitch and students will be available for interviews and photos.
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019
Time: 12 - 1 p.m.
Place: Western Canada High School, 641 17 Ave. S.W.
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Note | Principals have a responsibility to limit media coverage only to students approved for interviews. Reporters attending an event are requested to receive permission from a CBE contact before interviewing or photographing students. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter, and for joining us in celebrating public education.
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Taking hold: my journey into blindness my journey into blindness
By Sally Hobart Alexander. 2002
Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Women biography
The author recounts how she gradually lost her sight from retinal hemorrhages, and describes her experiences in a training program for blind adults. Junior High. 2002.
Ray Charles: voice of soul (Great achievers : lives of the physically challenged) voice of soul
By David Ritz. 1994
Music biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Blindness and visual impairment, Lifestyle
Biography of musical genius Ray Charles, who was left sightless by glaucoma as a child. While a student at the…
Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, Charles learned to read and write music in braille. Describes his personal and professional struggles, including drug addiction, as well as triumphs. For Junior and Senior High readers. c1994.
L'histoire de Louis Braille (Ma petite vache a mal aux pattes ; #33)
By Danielle Vaillancourt. 2001
Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Canadian non-fiction, Blindness and visual impairment
Une excellente biographie romancée de Louis Braille. Par son entêtement, sa détermination, son ingéniosité, cet homme a atteint son but…
et a permis aux aveugles de s'ouvrir au monde, d'élargir leur horizon. Tonique. Années 2-4. 2001.
Out of darkness: the Jeff Healey story the Jeff Healey story
By Cindy Watson. 2010
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning non-fiction, Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Losing both eyes to retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer, opened a door to another world for Jeff Healey. Out…
of darkness he created music, becoming one of the most influential blues-rock and jazz performers of our time. Winner of the 2012 Golden Oak Award. Grades 5-8. 2010.
Choose a formatBraille (Contracted) Electronic braille (Contracted) DAISY audio (CD) DAISY audio (Direct to player) DAISY audio (Zip)
Out of darkness: the story of Louis Braille the story of Louis Braille
By Russell Freedman. 1998
Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop…
a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write. Grades 4-7. 1998.
On my own: the journey continues the journey continues
After going blind at twenty-four, Alexander describes also losing part of her hearing. Determined to be independent and self-sufficient, she…
recounts her fears and difficulties adjusting to a new apartment, finding a job, and meeting the right man. For junior high readers. 1997.
Morris and Buddy: the story of the first seeing eye dog the story of the first seeing eye dog
By Becky Hall. 2007
Account of twenty-year-old Morris Frank, who, blinded in a boxing accident, traveled from Tennessee to Switzerland in 1928 to become…
the first American owner of a seeing-eye dog, whom he named Buddy. Discusses training processes and Morris's mission to bring canine guides to the United States. Grades 3-6. c2007.
Louis Braille: l'inventeur du langage qui permit aux aveugles de lire (Les Gens qui ont aidé l'humanité. II #Vol. 2) l'inventeur du langage qui permit aux aveugles de lire
By Beverley Birch, William Olivier Desmond. 1990
Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Blindness and visual impairment
Histoire de Louis Braille. À l'âge de treize ans, il s'inspira d'un système de lecture tactile en usage dans l'armée…
française pour créer un système d'écriture et de lecture simple et génial, consistant en des points en relief et permettant à des millions de personnes aveugles, partout dans le monde, de lire, de comprendre et de communiquer efficacement par écrit. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 1990.
Mine for a year
By Susan Kuklin. 1984
George, a 4-H Club member, becomes involved in Puppy Power, a programme that places puppies in homes for a year…
before they are trained as guide dogs for the blind. Grades 3-6. c1984.
Louis Braille: inventor (Great achievers) inventor
By Jennifer Bryant. 1994
Recounts the life of Louis Braille who, at fifteen, created a system of raised dots that allows blind persons to…
read and write. Describes Louis's childhood, the accident that caused his blindness, the support he received from his family, and his education, which led to his creation of the braille alphabet. Junior and senior high school readers. 1994.
Little by Little: a writer's education a writer's education
By Jean Little. 1987
Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Visually impaired since birth, Jean Little constantly faced new difficulties. Encouraged by her parents, she began to write. She is…
now one of Canada's leading children's authors. A biography for all ages. Followed by "Stars come out within" (DC09057). 1987.
La métamorphose d'Helen Keller (Folio cadet. 383)
By Margaret Davidson, Noël Chassériau. 1999
Nous sommes en 1880, aux États-Unis. À la suite d'une scarlatine, la petite Helen Keller devient aveugle, sourde et muette.…
Plus elle grandit, plus elle s'enferme dans la solitude et la colère. Désespérés, ses parents font appel à Annie Sullivan. Cette fragile jeune femme, elle-même presque aveugle, accomplit le miracle : transformer Helen, violente petite rebelle, en brillante étudiante connue du monde entier. Le récit d'un incroyable défi, une leçon de courage et d'espoir. Années 2-4 et plus. 1999. Titre uniforme: Helen Keller.
Helen Keller: a determined life (Snapshots Ser.) a determined life
By Elizabeth MacLeod. 2004
Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction
A biography of Helen Keller, "America's First Lady of Courage", and the people and places that figured prominently in her…
life. Includes many well-known facts about Keller's life, and reveals the struggle, sadness, and success Keller experienced over the years. Contains a detailed time line, a useful index, and a list of places to visit. Grades 3-6. 2004.
Helen Keller: humanitarian (Great achievers) humanitarian
By Lois Nicholson. 1996
Biography of Helen Keller, who became blind and deaf at nineteen months as a result of illness. Covers her birth…
in 1880 through her death in 1968. Describes her education under her private teacher Anne Sullivan, her formal schooling, and her career. Includes an introduction by Jerry Lewis. Junior and Senior High. c1996.
Helen Keller: a light for the blind (Women of our time) a light for the blind
By Donna Diamond, Kathleen V Kudlinski. 1989
As a young child, a fever left Helen Keller deaf and blind. Anne Sullivan faced a difficult task when she…
was hired to teach Helen who was spoiled by everyone. Grades 3-6. c1989.
Helen Keller (Scholastic biography)
By Margaret Davidson. 1969
This is a biography about the life of Helen Keller and how, with the commitment and lifelong friendship of Anne…
Sullivan, she learned to talk, read, and eventually graduate from college with honours. Grades P-2. 1969.
The world at her fingertips: the story of Helen Keller the story of Helen Keller
By Joan Dash. 2001
Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Women biography, Disabilities, Blindness and visual impairment
A biography of the woman who overcame her disabilities to be an inspirational public figure. Discusses the cause of Helen…
Keller's blindness and deafness, her determination to lead a useful life, and the importance of her teacher, Annie Sullivan, throughout Helen's life. Grades 5-8. 2001.
Her special vision: a biography of Jean Little (Contemporary Canadian biographies) a biography of Jean Little
By Barbara Greenwood, Audrey McKim. 1987
Braille (Uncontracted), Electronic braille (Uncontracted)
Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
As a young girl, Jean Little was teased by the other children because of her visual impairment. Today, Jean is…
the award-winning author of over a dozen books for children. Grades 5-8. Grade I braille. 1987.
Choose a formatBraille (Uncontracted) Electronic braille (Uncontracted)
Tom Sullivan's adventures in darkness
By Tom Sullivan, Derek L. T Gill. 1976
A successful young man, who has been blind since birth, tells of his life as an entertainer, composer, and amateur…
athlete. Children’s version of "If you could see what I hear." Grades 5-8. 1976. Uniform title: Adventures in darkness
By Nicole Dryburgh. 2008
Biography, Biography of persons with disabilities, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Science and medicine biography
At the age of 11, Nicole Dryburgh was diagnosed with a malignant tumour on her spine. After an operation to…
remove the tumour, followed by an intensive course of radiotherapy, Nicole's life returned to normal and the doctors were pleased with her progress. Two years later, aged 13, Nicole suffered a brain hemorrhage. Desperately ill, blind and unable to move, she was given weeks to live. Against all odds, she came home. For Junior and Senior High readers. 2008.
Non-fiction: Biography of blind or visually impaired persons
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What’s Next for Chloe & the Steel Strings?
We have been working hard to create goals for 2019, and our keyboardist and manager, Anna, wrote a blog about our plans, along with some helpful marketing and strategy tips!
I’m passionate about music strategy, from recording and releasing new music to planning shows and making budgets. Before managing Chloe & the Steel Strings, I had little idea as to how much planning goes into creating a sustainable music career, and I’m still learning every day. I wanted to take some time to highlight our goals as a band for 2019, and provide a few helpful music resources for fellow musicians and managers.
Releasing More Original Music
When Chloe started recording her first acoustic album we had no plan for when to release the album, or how to market it. Over the course of this year, however, we have done what seems like constant research to find the best information on how to release and market a new song.
I found an amazing resource for release strategy, thanks to Amber Horsburgh and her ‘Bases Get Aces’ music marketing checklist. Her spreadsheet is broken up by time-frame, from 3 months out all the way up to the release day, and highlights key sales and marketing tasks to follow along the way. Though this checklist is a bit more detailed than what your small band manager might need, it’s interesting to see how a label would utilize their teams to create a large-scale marketing campaign.
For Chloe & the Steel Strings, we are planning on releasing a new single in early January 2019, and another in March 2019, before we release our second album next summer. We’re excited to continue using these resources to help our music reach as many people as possible!
Check out Amber’s LinkedIn to read her articles, and subscribe to her mailing list for insightful marketing strategy in your inbox twice a month.
Purchasing a Touring Vehicle
We’re in the process of booking shows and festivals out of state for Summer 2019… and you know what that means: packing up all of our gear and 5 people into my Volvo station wagon! Just kidding.
We recognize that within the next 6 months we’ll need a more efficient and safe way to travel to shows. Because of this, we’ve been raising money for a touring vehicle, and are excited to have reached the $1,000 mark! We have been using tip money from shows, proceeds from all merch sales, income from busking, and donations to our Go Fund Me campaign to work toward our ultimate goal of $10,000.
If you would like to donate, please check out the link above to learn how you can earn free merch with your donation!
Booking Smarter Shows
When we first started playing live, we would sometimes play 7 shows a week, and some shows were more rewarding than others.
It wasn’t until I read musician and music strategist Ari Herstand’s book How to Make It in The New Music Business, that I learned how to book smarter shows. In his book, Ari discusses how there are 3 motivations for booking a show: Payment, Career Building, and Enjoyment. He asks his readers to rate a potential show on a scale of 30 points, 10 for each motivation type, to judge how beneficial a show will be, in what he calls the “Perfect 30 Test.” According to Ari, a show shouldn’t be booked unless it meets at least 15 points on the scale.
For example, playing a small original music venue may be 4 points on a Payment scale, 6 points on a Career Building scale, and 9 points on an Enjoyment scale. Combined, that show earns 19 points, and therefore is worthwhile to book.
In the past few months I have been applying this knowledge to Chloe & the Steel Strings, and we are now playing an average of 3 shows per week, and ones that are much more rewarding monetarily, personally, and professionally.
Check out our website for a list of upcoming shows, and purchase Ari’s book and subscribe to his mailing list here.
Enjoying the Process
The transition from playing music for fun to playing for money can be tough. What was once an emotional outlet and hobby turns into a job; it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by stress and the pressures of wanting to see quick success.
When we feel overwhelmed, Chloe and I remind ourselves that we started Chloe & the Steel Strings for fun, and that we play our best when we’re on stage smiling and enjoying ourselves. When we stop worrying about things we can’t change, and start focusing on the “why” behind our music (thanks Simon Sinek), we are the happiest and most successful versions of ourselves.
We feel blessed to be doing what we love, and honored that our musical passion can bring joy to others. If you’d like to keep up with Chloe & the Steel Strings on our journey this upcoming year, we’d love for you to join our mailing list, follow us on social media, and check out our Spotify to listen to our new song, Wouldn’t Wish on Anyone, out now through all major distributors.
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Chloe & the Steel Strings is an Americana band from Toledo, OH fronted by lead singer Chloe Wagenhauser.
Thank you for visiting our website – we look forward to connecting with you and sharing our music!
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Democrats Care About Illegal Aliens, Not You
Written by Lloyd Marcus on November 5, 2018
A buddy shared a heart-wrenching story with me during dinner. His mom was killed Christmas Eve by a drunk driving illegal alien. The illegal had been caught 4 times driving drunk by police, never deported. My buddy is number 9 of his amazing mom’s 13 kids. She was old school Italian, waking up 3 am five days a week to bake fresh bread and prepare meals for their family. Dad cooked on weekends.
Christmas Eve 2002, she decided to make a quick run to the store for a few ingredients she needed to bake pies. You can imagine the devastating horror their family felt upon being notified by police that their mother had been killed.
The illegal alien drunk driver received 7 years and only served 3 and half years. Two of my buddy’s brothers attended the illegal alien’s parole hearing to keep him behind bars to no available. The multiple offender illegal alien drunk driver was set free to roam the streets of America, not deported.
Watching my buddy struggle to maintain his composure, my heart went out to him. I thought, “Why is all of mainstream media’s and Democrats’ compassion and sympathy always given to illegals and nothing for Americans?”
While strolling with her dad on a San Francisco pier, 32-year-old Kate Steinle was shot and killed by an illegal alien. Kate’s killer had a long criminal record. Deported 5 times and a 7 times convicted felon, the sanctuary city repeatedly welcomed back the illegal with open arms who eventually murdered Kate Steinle. A liberal San Francisco jury found Kate’s killer not guilty. President Trump said their verdict was disgraceful. Kate’s dad recalls her last words as he held her in his arms. “Help me, Dad.”
San Francisco politicians, mainstream media and Democrats celebrated the leftist jury’s outrageous not guilty verdict. These leftists did not express an ounce of sympathy for American citizen Kate Steinle and her family.
Sixteen-year-old Kayla Cuevas was brutally murdered by MS-13 gang members who illegally invade our country. Did Democrat Nancy Pelosi express an ounce of sympathy for Kayla’s mom, Evelyn Rodriguez? No. Pelosi angrily attacked Trump for calling MS-13 gang members animals. No compassion or sympathy for Americans.
Folks, I could fill this article with incidences in which American lives have been devastated by illegal repeat criminals and illegal gangs coddled by Democrats who run sanctuary cities.
Democrat California governor Jerry Brown actually signed a bill making California a “sanctuary state.” Brown’s bill says his state will not cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement, putting American lives at risk. Why is Brown gifting illegals rights while denying the rights of his American constituents? While Californians struggle to find housing, Brown is assisting illegals with housing. Illegals in California receive college tuition and numerous other benefits unavailable to legal citizens.
Democrat governor Bruce Rauner has officially made Illinois a “sanctuary state” for illegals. Why are Democrat governor’s digging in their heels, ignoring federal law to roll out the red carpet for people who arrogantly and boldly break our immigration laws? These illegals have no desire to embrace our American culture. They drain our welfare system and receive benefits unavailable to U.S. citizens.
So why are mainstream media and Democrats obsessed with opening our borders for the free flow of illegals and getting them addicted to government freebies? One reason is we have allowed old hippies to indoctrinate our kids in public schools for decades. This has created a generation which believes America is the greatest source of evil in the world; founded by white straight Christian men who stole everything from the rest of the world. Our youths believe it is morally unjust for America to have borders. We must share what we stole with the rest of the world.
Insidiously, the second reason why Democrats desire to flood the country with illegals is to gain political power. Legal immigrants have contributed greatly to our culture. The vast majority of illegals are unskilled workers easily seduced by Democrat politicians who promise to take care of them. Democrats will do to illegals what they have done to blacks for decades – give them just enough to keep them poor, on welfare and faithfully voting for Democrats.
This is why mainstream media and Democrats pretend to have all the compassion and sympathy in the world for illegals while ignoring the dire consequence coddling illegals has on the lives of Americans.
The UK Guardian declared prolific writer, singer and songwriter Lloyd Marcus the Tea Party Movement's most prominent African American; seen on Fox News, CNN and more. Rejecting hyphenating, Marcus is renowned for proclaiming, “I am NOT an African-American! I am Lloyd Marcus AMERICAN!!!” Marcus is Chairman of Conservative Campaign Committee PAC. It's mission is to elect conservative candidates across America.
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REVIEW: Inherit the Whole (Mortar Theatre Company)
Moving play accentuated by tour de force performances
Mortar Theatre Company presents
Inherit The Whole
written by Dana Lynn Formby
directed by Jason Boat
at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport (map)
through June 27th | tickets: $15-$20 | more info
Rarely have I cried at a theatre performance, but I did at the end of Inherit The Whole, produced by Mortar Theatre Company, directed by Jason Boat. In my many years of involvement in the theatre, I rarely go to after-parties, but this one I did, so I could stand for the actors.
Inherit the Whole, written by Dana Lynn Formby, winner of the 2009 Kennedy Center National 10-Minute Playwriting Award, brings a complex, moving, and raw account of a Vietnam Veteran, Doug, played to exquisite intensity by Derek Garza. The role of Doug as strung out vet is no mean feat to play, and Garza carries this through until the end with a consistency that is staggering. Doug is a man with a mission to dig and dig until he finds the truth, a wild card, a man near mental collapse. Garza plays this with grit. He carries on until the end, putting his energy into the long haul.
During the first act I was unsure the playwright would bring the characters to arc. The scene felt static and unresolved. But in the second act, the characters were collectively brought to such a high arc, I wept at the scene before me. This is rare writing, displaying impressive skill. The second act is so surprising in it’s follow through, it is more than worth sitting in a very warm theatre. This is the retelling of American history at it’s best.
Lisa, played by Stephanie Stroud, is a tour de force. Beginning as the middle-of-nowhere mother figure, we see this woman take the stage by force of a gun. The use of guns in this play is powerful. I cannot remember ever seeing a play in which real guns were used as props. This is a story moved by violence and war, brought home, to a property under siege by greedy relatives. This is the story of a man who has served, and cannot escape his past. He refuses to let go, and we feel that pain every step of the way.
Sarah Tode is the interfering Kalann, a woman given to a shallow and narrow view of the world. This is a beautiful actress willing to play the cad, and she does so without remorse nor bravado – a subtle performance, callous, and unapologetic.
Paul, played by Christopher Jon Martin, is the stunning center of the piece. Imagine my surprise to learn he is just thirty-nine years old, while so convincingly playing the part of a man in his sixties. The patriarch of this unraveled family, Martin takes the stage with a force that is palpable. This actor represents the very magic that is theatre. In fact, he looked thinner when I met him after the show, than he looked on stage. That is called acting.
The design of the show is uneven:
The lighting, by Camden Peterson, is too hot for this piece, and does not display the nuance and movement necessary to make the play sing – for this show’s lighting, then, less definitely is more. This intense drama needs shade and the most careful touch. The lights were simply too crass and bright and at times distracted from the action.
Music is non-existent. A soundtrack is needed here. There is much music from the sixties to use as a guidepost, and a more robust sound-design would add hugely to the impact of this piece.
The scenic design by Eric Broadwater is outrageous. No detail is left out. It’s nearly guerilla theatre in the sense that it becomes a character in the play. There is no escaping this environment. From the dirt, to the papers, to every small imagining, this is scenic design at it’s best. Small lamps, paintings, shelves, chairs, every part of this design is flawless. Absolutely nothing is left untold, reminding me of a Hitchcock film.
Mortar Theatre is the brainchild of Jacob Juntunen, Managing Director, and with this production of Inherit The Whole, he is bringing a striking new voice to theatre in Chicago. I got a chance to chat with him after the show, and he is direct, political only in the sense of history, and does not wish to bring confrontation, but release from our American landscape, our nightmares, our misery.
This is solemn theatre; not for those who wish to leave the venue singing a song. This is theatre for those who want to leave the theatre changed and moved. Inherit The Whole will give that to you; dress lightly, and bring a cold beverage; you are in for a hot ride.
Group photo of the Mortar Theatre Company ensemble, including Jason Boat, Dana Lynn Formby, Derek Garza, Rachel Edwards Harvith, Jacob Juntunen, Bob Kuhn, Brent Long, Stephanie Stroud, Sara Tode, and Michelle Underwood.
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VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Prince Of Darkness (1987)
Posted by ClioCJS under Carolyn, Clio, Media, Movies, People, Reviews, Video
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] Watched this with Parthena & John The Canadien around Halloween 2009.
HAIKU REVIEW: Satan’s trapped essence
reminds me of lime jello
swirling to its doom.
UNCOMFORTABLE PLOT SUMMARY (inspired by this): [highlight for spoilers]→ Spiritual toxic waste spill claims needless lives, breaks mirrors.
PEOPLE: Written & directed by John Carpenter (Escape From New York, Big Trouble In Little China, In The Mouth Of Madness, Starman, Christine, The Thing, Halloween, They Live). And don’t miss Alice Cooper’s (silent) role as “Street Schizo”.
QUIRKS: Spiritual/supernatural/religious horror.
VISUALS: Not spectacular, but there are a few moments that are extremely, extremely creepy if you saw this a bunch as a kid. There were moments I’d forgotten — like the mindless typing of “I live!” into the computer over and over — that instantly touched on creeped-out parts of my brain that had not been accessed for many years. The scars definitely remained.
SOUNDTRACK: Nothing notable other than the Alice Cooper song that shares the same title as the movie … But the audio of the “broadcasts” that Brian receives in his dreams [from the future, 1999] is sampled in the beginning of Marilyn Manson‘s Gary Numen/Tubeway Army cover song “Down In The Park”.
MORALS: Handle toxic waste with care!
BAD STUFF: The first 20 minutes just seemed like a bunch of random people saying a bunch of random spiritual/metaphysical bullshit that was supposed to cause you to be worried and scared.
This movie was NOWHERE NEAR as scary as I found it to be back in 1987:
I used to have to TRY to not think about the “future broadcast” parts of the movie. Now, they just seem like a silly device to try to get us to be more scared of the evil force, without having to show it actually be scary. Still a very creepy memory, though. I guess Marilyn Manson agreed, if he sampled it…
I had to move mirrors out of my room because of this movie. Now, it seems like there are only a few seconds of “scary mirror stuff”, and they just weren’t nearly as scary as they were back in 1987. I will be watching the horror movie “Mirrors” soon, to try to bring fear of mirrors back into my life.
This is part of why I tend to only want to watch “modern” movies that have come out in the last 20-30 years. I just think things lose their edge. What was scary or cutting-edge 20 yrs ago often isn’t today. There’s a reason I have no interest in old horror movies.
CONCLUSION: I always considered this one of the scariest horrors I’d ever watched as a kid. Unfortunately it did not stand the test of time.
This is a bit related to why I prefer newer movies over older movies, and would often rather watch a bad new movie than a good old movie.
This possibly only gets rated as high as I’m rating it due to nostalgia reasons. This scared the SHIT out of me, made me remove mirrors from my room, caused me to try not to think of parts of it when I went to sleep.
Clint: Netflix: 3/5 stars. IMDB: 6/10.
Carolyn: Netflix: 3/5 stars. IMDB: 6/10.
The native public rating for this movie is Netflix: 3.3/5 stars, IMDB 6.5/10.
RECOMMENDATION: Go back in time and watch this movie when you’re 12.
SIMILAR MOVIES: Similar to other spiritual horrors, like The Exorcist, The Omen, Bless The Child, or even Dust Devil to some extent.
MOVIE QUOTES:
This is the type of metaphysical/spiritual/philosophical bullshit you have to swallow for the first 20 minutes of the movie:
Professor Edward Birack: “Let’s talk about our beliefs, and what we can learn about them. We believe nature is solid, and time a constant. Matter has substance and time a direction. There is truth in flesh and the solid ground. The wind may be invisible, but it’s real. Smoke, fire, water, light – they’re different! Not as to stone or steel, but they’re tangible. And we assume time is narrow because it is as a clock – one second is one second for everyone! Cause precedes effect – fruit rots, water flows downstream. We’re born, we age, we die. The reverse NEVER happens… None of this is true! Say goodbye to classical reality, because our logic collapses on the subatomic level… into ghosts and shadows.”
…basically, there’s a lot of justification that is basically trying to assign a psuedorational justification to why you should be scared, since the movie isn’t as scary as it wants to be.
This is one of the creepy things:
“Voice: This is not a dream… not a dream. We are using your brain’s electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one, nine, nine, nine. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation.”
–quote also sampled by Marilyn Manson
That extremely creepy scene would have worked better if they had related it to the events of the movie more, instead of randomly showing it at seemingly random intervals throughout the film.
COINCIDENCES: (Prince Of Darkness, Drag Me To Hell) 2 movies in 2 nights that are hell-themed horrors where people had things distributed unwillingly into their mouths.
FRIENDS’ RATINGS: Parthena really liked it. John The Canadien thought it was hilarious (?!?!?).
VIDEO GAMES: Man Thinks He's In Silent Hill, Causes Hospital Blackout
Wow. They had to manually respirate everyone in intensive care for 45 minutes because this guy thought he was playing Silent Hill. Which IS a damn creepy video game
(tags: games videoGames SilentHill mentalBreakdowns hospital powerOutages PSXExtreme news articles GameGrep SophiaHospital Netherlands)
WAR ON DRUGS, TERROR: Drug-War Assassinations now policy for suspected drug dealers in Afghanistan.
"No arrests. No hearings. No attorneys. No judges. No trials. Just kill them."
So now we're fighting TWO unwinnable wars (drugs, terror) in the same country? And assassinating people with robotic assassins (drone planes). This is getting more and more like The Terminator.
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TORTURE: CIA kept detainees alive to keep torturing them |
"According to human rights lawyer John Sifton, the CIA tortured some of its detainees in the War on Terror so severely that it had to take measures to keep them alive so they could continue being tortured."
And now Obama has made it so the freedom of information act doesn't apply to torture photos. If this happens again, we're less likely to find out thanks to Obama. Great.
The military has already stopped reporting detainee deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq altogether — so there's basically a huge cover up. Close our eyes and don't think about what we're doing to a lot of innocent people.
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COMEDY: Universal Studio Free Photo Booth
A prank photo booth? Awesome. I appreciate it even more after my sister's wedding's photobooth.
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TECHNOLOGY WAR: Federal Judge Says E-mail Not Protected By 4th Amendment
this same type of bullshit logic was why wiretapping laws had to be passed — the old way of thinking of it was "once you call someone on the hpone, you are going over public wires and anyone can listen in". Obviously that was bullshit, and laws were passed to protect that.
Q: So why do we move in the opposite direction for email?
A: Technology war. The powers that be want to use new technologies to erode old rights.
This also seems to be a reversal of previous rulings stating that email IS protected.
(tags: politics TechnologyWar technology email privacy ConstitutionalRights rights 4thAmendment FourthAmendment seraches Mosman surveillance bullshit legal rulings Slashdot news articles)
OBAMA: Signs Law Giving Defense Department authority to exempt photos from Freedom Of Information Act
Democrats bitched about the abuses that people in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo faced. So they elected Obama.
Looks like Obama's way of making sure Abu Ghraib doesn't happen again is to give the government the authority to not release pictures in the future.
I'd love to see people justify this as good thing. Obama's promise of government transparency? A lie, at this point. This is about hiding information from the people.
HE POKED A HOLE IN THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, for chrissakes. This is something Bush would do. So much for a government "for the people", huh?
The ACLU is against this, of course. They aren't partisan. They are pro-freedom. They know bullshit when they see it, and they call it as such.
But will the Obamans be able to admit to themselves that this is wrong?
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SOFTWARE: Rtmpdump
Rtmpdump is a free software program that allows you to record encrypted video streams from video sharing websites. It was censored using a fraudulent DMCA takedown notice by Adobe, and now the only place to get the full version is right here. Enjoy.
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MOVIES: Voltaire's "Chi-Chian" slated to become feature film
Whoa, a movie deal for Voltaire? This bodes well. Chi-Chian is not my favorite creation of his (That would be his music, and Oh My Goth! comic books), but anything by Voltaire turned into a movie would turn out very well… especially if Voltaire was directly involved in art production/supervision.
(tags: media video movies musicians Voltaire Chi-Chian Framelight blog posts)
COMEDY: Rejected Playboy Cartoon Cover Girls
(tags: comedy articles fromChrisWilliams HolyTaco Playboy media video TV shows cartoons magazines rejected coverGirls covers girls Popeye OliveOyl Thundercats Cheetara CruellaDeville PowerRangers kangaroos Lady Mrs.Garrison SouthPark)
COMEDY: web browser comparison chart, though the eyes of a n00b, experienced user, and obsessed user.
Funny. Especially the Apple Safari line. Me? I'm the experienced firefox user in this chart: MOAR FEATURES! MOOOAAARRR!
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VOTING MACHINES: Sequoia To Publish Source Code For Voting Machines
Glad to see that even the "evil" Sequoia VP (Diebold! Election stealers!) has realized that open code review is more secure than closed-source. 'Security through obfuscation and secrecy is not security.'" And the tech community rejoiced.
(tags: politics VotingMachines VotingFraud Voting Voters VoterFraud corporations TechnologyWar Sequoia software codeReview government transparency sourcecode openSource Slashdot news articles)
HORROR: painful injuries
There's a mountain-biking one, Angel!
Actually, the last one is funny and not at all disturbing. A bird?!
(tags: media pictures reality disturbing painful injuries sports Haluze)
DRUGS: Candy, or Medicine?
Hilarious poster I saw in the church that my sister got married in
(tags: comedy drugs PSA candy medicine pills reference)
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: 8 Heads In A Duffel Bag (1997)
[IMDB link] [Netflix link] I had this on VHS, but I got it around the time that I stopped watching VHS movies. So, finally got around to watching a dvd of it, 5+ yrs later…
PEOPLE: Joe Pesci plays a mobster (of course). Andy Comeau is the main character, who comes off as a poor man’s John Cusack. Kristy Swanson (the original Buffy The Vampire Slayer, from the movie, as well as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Hot Shots!) kept reminding me of Elizabeth Banks for some reason. George Hamilton (who was in Dynasty for a year) plays an uppity parent, along with his alcoholic wife, played by Dyan Cannon (Ally McBeal). David Spade, Todd Louiso (from Snakes In A Plane).
QUIRKS: I think the title pretty much says it all. Throw in mobsters and Mexico, and you have a recipe for a passable comedy.
Also, they have the song “Mr. Sandman” in it, which I just saw Gene Ween Band perform live last December.
And a really bitchy grandmother…
And a surreal dream sequence thrown in for no reason other than to make us giggle and use up their special effects budget :)
VISUALS: Heads… so many heads…
CONCLUSION: This was a decent comedy that had us laughing. The situations were unique. It only really gets a 3 star / 6/10 “generic pass” from us, but we weren’t disappointed. It met our expectations rather precisely. And it’s NOT a romantic comedy; though there IS a romantic relationship to be mended, it’s NOT central to the plot.
RECOMMENDATION: If you like comedies, and are annoyed at how many comedies are romantic comedies… This is a good one to watch. It certainly entertained us.
MOVIE QUOTE: Tommy Spinelli: “Don’t ever fuck with a guy looking for heads.”
FRIENDS’ RATINGS: Benj liked it. (more…)
RELIGION: Only douchebags can claim to know how the universe truly works.
Posted by ClioCJS under Politics, Rants, Religion
[UPDATE: NOTE: For the purpose of this post, and to placate those who want to get into gritty details: Any time I say “agnostic”, I mean “strong agnostic” as defined HERE.]
One of the things that bugs me about religion in general… Is that the very basis of it all is a foundation built upon assumptions that have no evidence to support them. I’m talking about “faith”. It’s just about the poorest foundation for any belief system. Idealism can sometimes work as the foundation of a belief system, though it’s not always logic. Practicality can as well — though it runs the risk of becoming calculating, almost reptilian. Even cynicism can be a logical foundation for a belief system. But faith? Pffft. What kind of idiot builds their belief system on that? (Hopefully not you. But if so: Don’t try to convince me. You’d be wasting both our time.)
This applies to atheists too.
How do you know God isn’t lurking somewhere, unless you can go there and see? You can’t. Nobody can. It would take a God to disprove God, which is a Catch-22. There’s no logic in that. It is quite annoying when somebody says, “I conclusively know the nature of the entire universe, and, knowing all, can say there is no god.”
Who do you think you’re kidding? Not me. To believe that there’s no god actually requires a hefty serving of… FAITH! Silly atheists.
But despite the fact that atheism makes the same mistakes as theism — at least their god is a god of reason, and not arbitrary faith and dogma. Atheists don’t tend to do a lot of the stupid shit theists tend to do. There’s not nearly as much to criticize them on.
Once I saw a big atheist brouhaha (which I can’t spell) about religious altars being put at the roadside where people died. How dare state money be involved? But seriously, guys. If my family member was killed in a car accident… And they allow a memorial to be put up in the very spot it happened… I would hope that it would involve whatever that family member would want. Even if it’s a pentagram dedicated to our dark lord Satan. Or (*gasp!*) a cross.
I’ve also seen some atheist newsletters that made me feel… Like I was exposed to a cult. They were into their non-belief just a little too much. Unsubscribe. Now.
But that’s about it. No religious wars. Nobody convinced that they will get sex for suicide bombing. None of this mystical bullshit that gets forced down our throats all the time. One nation under god? Really? Fuck that.
In the end, the most logical thing to do is to do nothing. Make no assumptions. You’ll find out. Or you wont find out, and blackness will envelop you as your soul and consciousness ceases to exist forever. What’s that feel like? I don’t want to know. But I’m not going to comfort myself with some b.s. sky fairy, nor am I going to be so cynical as to deny the possibilities that may be out there.
Agnosticism. It’s how I’ve always referred to myself, when not referring to myself as a SubGenius. On paperwork and such. (It always creeps me out when paperwork asks that! None of your business!)
Etymology: Greek agnostos unknown, unknowable
1 : a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god
Yup… That’s pretty much what I just said. (more…)
JOURNAL: I finally got my free haircut.
Posted by ClioCJS under Clio, Journal, Media, People, Pictures
I hadn’t cut my hair since January… Why?
1) I don’t really care.
2) I prefer longer hair…. Though it’s harder to manage, I don’t understand people’s obsession with having their hair under “control”.
3) The fact that my next haircut was FREE simply meant I was that much more irresponsible in NOT getting it, and I reveled in that.
But when I started parting it in the middle — because there was too much to brush back nowadays — Carolyn objected. A lot. At least 1 person complimented, but at least another person joined in Carolyn’s chorus that the part in the middle was not working. So fine. I’ll get the free haircut!
Anyway, I actually took a picture this time:
This shall be my last professional haircut, as the price seems to have gone up from the $15 I paid for 30 years — to $30 — all in the past few years. I’m buying clippers and doing it myself, or having Carolyn do it. Ryan Mitchell has recommended WAHL clippers. If anyone knows of a good model number, I’d love to know. I researched WAHL clippers for a good hour or so and there’s simply TOO MANY CHOICES. Help needed :) (more…)
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Temple out front in Gasparilla Bowl at halftime after FIU QB injured
By Bryan FischerDec 21, 2017, 9:39 PM EDT
The first half of the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl was — fittingly for a game sponsored by a lawn care company — about as interesting to watch as it is to watch grass grow.
Not that it mattered to Temple head coach Geoff Collins, as the Owls took a 7-0 lead into halftime over Florida International in a meeting of two coaches in their first year with their respective programs.
A lot of that score line had to do with FIU starting quarterback Alex McGough, who left the game with what the ESPN broadcast said was a broken collarbone injury he suffered on the very first drive of the game. Backup Maurice Alexander entered in his place and did not do well throwing the ball, tossing two interceptions in the half on 4-of-11 passing while also taking a pair of sacks.
Running back Alex Gardner chipped in with 17 yards on the ground but saw a stacked box pretty much from the moment that McGough left the game.
The Panthers did well on defense to pick up the slack with two fourth down stops but still allowed Temple quarterback Frank Nutile to find some openings on his way to 97 yards passing in the half. The dual-threat signal-caller was also responsible for the game’s first points when he ran it in off a keeper and added 19 yards rushing to go with tailback David Hood‘s 31.
Needless to say, offensive adjustments will be a priority for both sides in this one as things were quite rough on that side of the ball through two quarters. The Owls were a little ahead of the sticks in that department (and hold the lead) but both sides are still in this one and looking to capture that rare postseason win at Tropicana Field once the second half rolls around.
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Deaths in 122 U.S. cities - 1962-2016. 122 Cities Mortality Reporting System
This file contains the complete set of data reported to 122 Cities Mortality Reposting System. The system was retired as of 10/6/2016. While the system was running each week, the vital statistics offices of 122 cities across the United States reported the total number of death certificates processed and the number of those for which pneumonia or influenza was listed as the underlying or contributing cause of death by age group (Under 28 days, 28 days - 1 year, 1-14 years, 15-24 years, 25-44 years, 45-64 years, 65-74 years, 75-84 years, and - 85 years). U:Unavailable. - : No reported cases.* Mortality data in this table were voluntarily reported from 122 cities in the United States, most of which have populations of >100,000. A death is reported by the place of its occurrence and by the week that the death certificate was filed. Fetal deaths are not included. Total includes unknown ages.
More information on Flu Activity & Surveillance is available at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluactivitysurv.htm.
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About Legislation
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In October 2016, the U.S. Department of Education awarded a $2 million grant to Social Finance, Inc. and Jobs for the Future to expand high-quality Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs for underserved, high-need youth through Pay for Success (PFS). This project will be completed over 48 months, from October 2016 to October 2020.
Social Finance and Jobs for the Future (JFF) held a national competition from January to March 2017 and selected four partner sites to receive technical assistance in assessing the feasibility of using PFS financing to implement a new or scale an existing CTE program. Social Finance and JFF awarded technical assistance to four CTE sites: Mahoning County Educational Services Center (MCESC), focused on regional collaboration between stakeholders in northeastern Ohio; NAF, focused on expanding work-based learning and paid internships for their work in Dallas, Texas; Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District, focused on expanding their agriculture career pathways in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas; and South Bay Community Services in San Diego, California, focused on launching and scaling their Back on Track program.
From June 2017 to November 2018, Social Finance and JFF completed feasibility studies for these four sites. Following the completion of the feasibility phase, up to three of the sites are eligible to receive technical assistance to structure projects to scale high-quality CTE programming. The ultimate aim of the CTE PFS TA program is to improve outcomes for underserved, high-need youth through fully-structured high-quality PFS projects ready to be implemented in the local CTE sites using high-quality CTE programs.
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Providing High-Quality Career and Technical Education Programs for Underserved, High-Need Youth through a Pay for Success Model Program
In the U.S., there are roughly 5.5 million teenagers and young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither working nor in school1. This translates to one in seven teens and young adults. These numbers, while discouraging, present a tremendous opportunity for retooling our nation’s career and technical education programs and scaling up promising practices to address the needs of our nation's most vulnerable students.
Pay for Success (PFS) is an innovative funding model that tests and advances promising and proven interventions, while providing taxpayer (or other) dollars only for successful outcomes for students, families, communities, States, and regions. PFS financing models leverage philanthropic and private dollars to fund services upfront with the government paying after certain outcomes have been achieved.
In 2016, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) awarded a $2 million dollar grant for a 48-month period to provide technical assistance for assessing the feasibility of PFS projects in four sites and then to structure selected projects. This project began in October 2016 and will be conducted through October 2020. Through a national competition, four sites were selected: Mahoning County Educational Services Center (MCESC), focused on regional collaboration between stakeholders in northeastern Ohio; NAF, focused on expanding work-based learning and paid internships for their work in Dallas, Texas; Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District, focused on expanding their agriculture career pathways in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas; and South Bay Community Services in San Diego, California, focused on launching and scaling their Back on Track program.
In phase one, feasibility studies were completed in the four local CTE sites. In phase two, support for transaction structuring was provided for up to three out of the four previously identified local sites to the extent that the local site’s CTE PFS project was determined to be feasible. The ultimate aim of the CTE PFS technical assistance program is to improve outcomes for underserved, high-need youth through fully structured high-quality PFS projects ready to be implemented in local CTE programs.
For further information, please visit the Perkins Collaborative Resource Network at https://cte.ed.gov.
1 Lewis and Burd-Sharps, Kristen and Sarah (June 10, 2015). "Zeroing In on Place and Race: Youth Disconnection in America's Cities"(PDF). Measure of America, Social Science Research Council. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
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Delve Into Developer Survey Results Data
The Stack Overflow Developer Survey has become a staple in the developer community. Now in its 9th year, the survey, which garners around 100,000 responses, captures the opinions of folks who code from around the world. It's an important source of insights into the developer community as a whole.
People share their opinions on a wide range of subjects, from their favorite tech to job preferences, how they got into programming, to how much they're paid. Being such a large and rich dataset makes it a powerful predictor of industry trends and allows us to explore our understanding of how developers work and can help companies hire and engage with developers.
While the anonymized survey results will be available publicly later this year, we wanted to make the current aggregated survey results more accessible. We've created two interactive charts on Glitch that focus on the technology section of the 2019 Developer Survey results.
You can use the apps directly to explore the results in more depth. Or, because they're remixable, you can take a closer look at specific technologies you're interested in by creating your own versions of the apps and visualizing the data in different ways.
Most Loved, Dreaded, and Wanted Technologies
First up, the results for the most loved, dreaded and wanted tech. With this chart, you can see how your favorite technologies stack up against each other by taking a look at the different programming languages, platforms, databases, frameworks, and other tools that developers said they wanted to keep, stop or start using.
Most Popular Technology
Our second project explores the results of the most popular tech overall. Based on six categories of data - languages, platforms, databases, web frameworks, dev environments, and other tools, take a look at which technologies were the most well used across the developer community.
Delve Into the Data
Both of these apps are a way for developers to interact with the data more closely. In fact, you can use the remix buttons above to take these apps and create your own versions of them to play around with the data yourself.
Both of these apps use Chart.js, a JavaScript library for making interactive charts and graphs. If you're not already familiar with Chart.js, then don't worry. We have a tutorial that steps through a real, working project, that you can use to get up to speed.
Then, go ahead and remix the apps to get a copy of the code and data yourself. Both apps have a similar structure:
On the front-end:
You can edit public/client.js, public/style.css and views/index.html to change the appearance of the app.
Chart.js is used in client.js to render a chart using data from the app's database.
Reference the Chart.js docs and change the renderChart function in client.js to visualize the data using different types of graphs.
On the back-end:
The app starts at server.js and accesses the data in the database through routes (/getLanguages, /getDatabases, etc.)
The database:
The apps use SQLite to store the aggregated tech data from the CSV files included in the project.
server.js is where the code lives that creates the database and fills it with the data.
As they've done in the last 8 years, Stack Overflow have committed to releasing the full, anonymized survey results data later this year. But until then, we hope these apps have made the current data more accessible and interactive.
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Deadpool Team-Up #895 [review]
Writer: Christopher Long
Art: Dalibor Talajic
Colors: Tomislav Tikulin
Letters: Jeff Eckleberry
Cover: Humberto Ramos
Production: A. Dial & D. Lucchese
Asst Editor: Sebastian Girner
Editor: Axel Alonso
Published by: Marvel Comics
More than ever, this Deadpool Team-Up book seems to be the outlet for various creative teams to do one-off tales with Deadpool and various obscure Marvel characters. As with earlier issues…you don’t need to have read any of the previous issues of this series. And also in line with every previous issue…you don’t need to pick up the next issue to get the next part of the story, because this is a done-in-one story with nary a “To Be Continued” in sight.
For whatever reason, and however he does it, Deadpool’s been hired to captain a sub taking the niece of the man who controls “It! The Living Colossus,” who has been in a coma since a long-lost battle with Dr. Doom. The niece thinks that she can revive her uncle by getting him into close proximity with the Colossus he used to control. While the logic is iffy, the results can’t be argued with and–when things invariably go bad with the sub, Deadpool and his ‘client’ find an unexpected result of the uncle’s body being present so close to the statue his mind once controlled.
The story here is amusing enough, but ultimately not all that exciting. While I enjoy one-and-done issues as much as the next guy, as the status quo for this series, it’s just hard to get all that excited knowing nothing picks up from this issue’s events next issue, and to look back at these last few issues and realize that I could’ve skipped any–or all–of them and not be at all “lost” on the latest issue.
The art’s not bad–this is definitely Deadpool…he looks familiar and doesn’t appear out of place any more than he should in the situation he’s got himself mixed up in this issue.
Perhaps that’s the thing–this series is like the classic Ninja Turtles cartoon (or probably any of a number of other ‘classic’ cartoons of the 1980s and such). All you REALLY need to know is the basics of Deadpool. Merc With a Mouth. Healing factor, butt-ugly face…body basically maintained by that healing factor. Loves guns, great with a sword, somewhat crazy, and breaks the “fourth wall.” You can enjoy the entirety of the series as a large, dynamic dose of Deadpool…or you can tune in for any given issue and get a story from start to finish…a story that’s not entirely devoid of formula.
If you like Deadpool, and you have an extra $3 burning a hole in your budget…this is a great issue to get. No crossovers, no tie-ins, no preludes…just a complete Deadpool story all in one issue.
If you’re a bit more picky about your Deadpool stories, and prefer the longer multi-issue arcs, you’d be better served with Merc With a Mouth which is largely following its own continuity in multi-issue arcs, or the main Deadpool title, which follows the mainstream Marvel Universe continuity, in multi-issue arcs.
Filed under: Comic Reviews 2010, Deadpool Team-Up, MARVEL, Marvel Universe | Tagged: A. Dial, Axel Alonso, Christopher Long, Comic Reviews, D. Lucchese, Dalibor Talajic, Deadpool, Deadpool Team-Up, Humberto Ramos, It, It The Living Colossus, Jeff Eckleberry, Living Colossus, MARVEL, Marvel Comics, Sebastian Girner, Tomislav Tikulin | Leave a comment »
Posted on November 7, 2009 by Walt
Merc With a Myth
Writer: Fred Van Lente
Artist: Dalibor Talajic
Letterer: Jeff Eckleberry
Production: Paul Acerios
Assistant Editor: Sebastian Girner
While a THIRD Deadpool title does seem a bit much, this debut issue is great fun. Given that each of the titles so far seems to maintain its own identity or feel and the character himself is somewhat timeless and archetypal, I don’t really have a problem with it. I’m enjoying following all three titles, even though one could really pick and choose which one of the three or any combination and still get a fun “Deadpool experience.”
This issue sees Deadpool teaming up with Hercules. After dreaming about fighting some ultimate opponent, Deadpool soon finds himself trapped in a labyrinth where he meets up with Hercules. It’s soon revealed that the two are dealing with a couple of classic (yet, I never would’ve thought I’d see them teamed up) Marvel villains who have trapped the both and pitted them against their own nightmares. Hercules faces a legion of offspring claiming to be his own children; Deadpool faces an embodiment of the two voices in his head as the entity tries to kill him. Deadpool takes fairly extreme (yet, for him, sorta typical) action to solve the problem, and our ‘heroes’ then face their true foes.
I really like the done-in-one nature of this issue–I assume the series in general will consist of done-in-one issues or at least shorter-than-6-issues arcs. That’s a great selling point for me, as it means that while following the “mainstream Marvel Universe” adventures of Deadpool in the core title and the other adventure in Merc With a Mouth, there are also these full stories coming out that start and resolve quickly.
Unlike most of the comics I follow these days, I’m really not familiar with any of the creative team here. While that’s not something I’m used to, it works to the benefit of the title, I think, as I’m more focused on the character and story without concerning myself with how it stacks against the writer or artist’s previous work. I enjoyed the story, and the art fit the story, making for an overall enjoyable issue whoever’s involved in creating the issue.
“Fun” as the first two titles have been, this seems likely to be the breakout Deadpool title for me. If you’re interested in Deadpool OR Hercules, and don’t want commit from the get-go to lengthy seemingly-structured-for-collected-volumes arcs, this is definitely the issue for you (and for Deadpool in particular, this would be the series for you).
As with Deadpool #900, I actually find some amusement–or at least, appreciate the humour in–the numbering. The irreverence of the numbering lends itself to the timelessness of this title–who cares what the NUMBER is? The specific stories–particularly as one-off issues–should be the draw.
Story: 8.5/10
Art: 8.5/10
Filed under: Comic Reviews 2009, Deadpool Team-Up, MARVEL, Marvel Universe | Tagged: Arcade, Axel Alonso, Comic Reviews, Dalibor Talajic, Deadpool, deadpool 899, Deadpool Team-Up, Fred Van Lente, hercules, Humberto Ramos, Jeff Eckleberry, MARVEL, Marvel Comics, Nightmare, Paul Acerios, Sebastian Girner | Leave a comment »
Deadpool #900 [Review]
Issue Credits
Letterer: VC’s Joe Sabino
Covers: Dave Johnson
Assistant Editor: Jody Leheup
For $4.99, this issue would have to do quite a bit in order to justify its cost. Thankfully, it more than delivered. While I was really hoping it would be all-original content, my only real frustration at there being a reprint in the back (Deadpool Team-Up featuring Deadpool and Widdle Wade) is that that was one of about a half-dozen Deadpool comics that I already own from the 90s–and which I’d spent several hours just last weekend digging through 18 longboxes to find.
As-is, this is far from the “typical” Deadpool comic–nothing here seems to be in-continuity in the sense of advancing either of the main plots for the first two Deadpool ongoings. However, this faux-anniversary issue is a great “primer” for new fans, and presumably quite a treat for old fans. There may not be any real throughline in the book, but we get seven short stories starring Deadpool, but different creative teams new and old that give the character a chance to shine.
And the number is a nice play on the recent re-numbering Marvel has done with its various titles (I do wonder if Deadpool himself might have appeared in 900 comics through the years, which would me nicely appropriate). It definite fits the character to play with the numbering–and I surprisingly don’t mind for this one character, as it seems an obvious riff on things rather than a serious numbering bit.
I really enjoyed Liefeld’s art on the Joe Kelly story–there was just something to it, perhaps simply the knowledge that the art’s by the guy that created the character. My favorite story of the bunch was Swierczynski’s riff on a certain tv show about crime scene investigators. Having enjoyed these shorts as I did…if Marvel ever decides to move the Deadpool books to the $3.99 price point, I would hope they’d consider having new original content such as these included after a full-length “main” story.
As these stories are not part of any of the ongoing stuff, if you simply enjoy the Deadpool character or are curious, this is a fantastic single issue to pick up. The original content alone is really worth the cover price (particularly compared against Marvel’s standard-sized $3.99 books!), and you get a reprint of an issue from the 90s that you’d be lucky to find by itself for the price of this issue, these days.
Long-time fan, new fan, or just curious about who the heck Deadpool is…I highly recommend this issue!
Close Encounters of the @*#$ed-Up Kind
Penciler: Chris Staggs
Inker: Juan Vlasco
Colorist: Marte Gracia
This story sees Deadpool beamed onto an alien spacecraft, where he is subjected to the aliens’ probing. However…Deadpool being Deadpool, the tables are quickly turned with a chewed-off arm (his own) and turning the aliens’ machinery against them. Rather than simply delivering a carload of dead guys where he was headed…he delivers a bunch of dead guys and a ship of dead aliens.
This is definitely an over-the-top sorta Deadpool story–the bit with the arm I’m beginning to sense may be a running gag with the character. The art’s not my favorite depiction by any means, but definitely gets stuff across quite well in an indie-comics cartooney sort of way.
Silent But Deadly
This story opens with a bang…or rather, if we get technical, a “Boom” as Deadpool’s caught in an explosion. Though his eardrums’re blown out by the explosion, it doesn’t take away from his ability to kick butt, facing 3…well, I actually thought of The Joker’s minions, but that’s a whole other sort of thing. They seem to have some sort of invulnerability, at least to Deadpool’s swords. Once he switches to guns…the fight’s basically over. The “punchline” of the story was rather amusing, and seems typical of the character as well.
The art’s not bad, but not what I typically associate with the character. Still, no complaint with it, really–in a quasi-“anthology” such as this issue, I don’t really expect a consistent visual style nor for every visual interpretation of a character to be my personal ideal.
Deadpool: Shrunken Master
Writer: Mike Benson
Artist: Damion Scott
Colorist: Lee Loughridge
With a couple of “light” stories out of the way, this one goes down a much darker path. Here we see Deadpool at a psychiatrist, having an apparently typical-for-Deadpool session. We see the smart-aleckiness of the character, and it’s actually quite interesting seeing him interacting with someone like this, being analyzed and even doing some self-analyzing. However, there’s a twist toward the end as we see that Deadpool’s motive is not to seek counciling, but rather see some justice done.
This was another story that to me comes across as what I can only really describe as “indie”–it’s not typical/mainstream super-hero fare…or at least, none that I’m used to associating with such. Yet, it really carries the mood quite well, and does exactly what it should. Again, not my favorite depiction, but for very well-suited to this particular story.
Pinky Swear
Writer: Joe Kelly
Artist: Rob Liefeld
This was the story I was most looking forward to for this issue, after having read the Marvel Spotlight: Deadpool issue last week. We find Deadpool in the midst of a battle, with a pretty woman hanging on for dear life. We have some…questionable (but fitting) inner dialogue from Deadpool’s voices. Before long, Deadpool is reminded of a date he’s gotta keep–with an old friend from his school days. The boys had a bet over whether his friend would marry someone in particular by a certain time, and mid-battle (with the battle following him) Deadpool finds the guy, and the bet is settled.
I normally don’t care all that much for Liefeld’s art, but it worked quite well here–likely for nostalgia, knowing this is Deadpool as visualized by the character’s creator. The story itself seems to really fit the character–that even in the middle of a gun battle and with an attractive woman at his side trying to stay alive, Deadpool would keep some childhood promise where other ‘dates’ may not be kept. The bet itself really makes it work, as it seems so trivial, and yet Deadpool makes it into this huge thing.
Writer: Duane Swierczynski
Artist: Shawn Crystal
This story quickly becomes a rather obvious riff on the tv show CSI. Deadpool’s very much aware here of the “real world,” and the formula of the tv show. The fact that anyone would pronounce him dead and yet he’s cognitive–both of his surroundings and of where the reader might be looking–is an interesting use of narrative further illustrating the character’s nature. As it turns out, the story itself is Deadpool trying to get a particular reaction from one of the investigators–inserting himself into the “mythology” of the show, given the typical, cheesey one-liners. And of course, not getting the intended reaction, Deadpool reacts violently, before explaining to the reader what he was going for.
Not all that thrilled with the art on this one, but it fits the story. The investigator characters are pretty much recognizeable, knowing who they’re supposed to be…without being actual likenesses of the tv actors/actres. As said earlier, this was my favorite story in this issue…it took me by surprise, but the fact that I’m aware of the show and the bit Deadpool’s going for…I just really enjoyed it. All the more because of the pun Deadpool’s going for being right up my own alley humour-wise (though of course I do not condone the violence!).
Great Balls of Thunder on the Deep Blue Sea
Writer: Victor Gischler
Penciler: Sanford Greene
Inker: Nathan Massengill
Colorist: Dave McCaig
This was a rather amusing short. Basically, Deadpool’s on vacation on a cruise ship, and his typical, violent nature is most assuredly NOT compatible with the typical vacationer. Unfortunately for Deadpool…Dr. Octopus is also present, and does not take kindly to the mercenary’s presence. Deadpool suggests some “vacation code” (typical that he’d have something like that in mind, whether or not anyone else even KNOWS of it or recognizes it). The ending’s darkly amusing, playing with scene transition in a way that works very well in this medium.
The art is very cartooney, but that works well for this story. This actually may be one of the least-violent Deadpool stories I’ve read, and it looks entirely possible that–while severely inconvenienced–no one in the story actually dies. Really just an entertaining story.
One Down
Writer: Charlie Huston
Artist: Kyle Baker
This story has a bit of typical Deadpool as the character ultimately continues to break the “fourth wall” since he’s fully aware that he is a comic character. It also serves as some strong commentary on the current/contemporary nature of comic characters, especially from Marvel and DC. There’s also a hint of Jay & Silent Bob here at the story’s ending…or at least, I thought of that film with the way it ended compared to this.
We see Deadpool conversing with the voices in his head as he gets up and around for the day, going through all the stuff he needs to in order to reach a particular target. The identity of the target is what brings the whole story together. Once again, a rather dark place for the story to go…quite morbid, actually. And yet, it puts a certain depth and seriousness to Deadpool that I think I’d actually be very interested in seeing explored.
I’m not all that familiar with Baker’s art, though he’s one of the view names I recognize amongst the artists for this issue. The style works very well for the story. The visual and written aspects work very well in a way that really wouldn’t work in anything BUT a comic, even while this piece itself comments on comics.
This one wasn’t as “fun” as the CSI riff…but next to that, I think this was my other favorite of the issue.
Deadpool and Widdle Wade
Well…actually, this is a whole separate issue, deserving of its own review. Its inclusion here obviously beefs up Deadpool #900, especially as it was already a special by itself.
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Figuarts Heads Back to the Testing Lab With Tony Stark
There have been a lot of Iron Man figures released since the armored Avenger launched Marvel's Cinematic Universe into the stratosphere. Strangely, there haven't been many Tony Starks released. Granted the guy hasn't changed all that much, save for his goatee styling, but you'd think there'd be more than just a few figures of the man behind the machined mask released over the past eight years. In fact, if it wasn't for Hot Toys, that number of plain clothes Tonys would be all but null.
But not for long, thanks to SH Figuarts. Finally, three years after Iron Man 3 hit theaters, the Japanese company will be bringing the test chamber version of Tony Stark to shelves. There are a number of different memorable looks from all the Iron Man movies, like Racetrack Tony, Rose Hill Cowboy Tony, Bootleg Hoodie Iron Man Tony, but the test chamber version is still a solid choice. Hell, I have the Hot Toys version, and I might double down on this one because I like the idea of that "in progress" armor so much.
The basic Tony head and body look good, and despite being nothing more than a t-shirt and pants look, Figuarts has done a nice job adding some detail to keep the figure from looking too plain. The Robert Downey, Jr portrait is pretty close, and it's actually much better than the heads for actors like Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson that we've seen from Figuarts.
For me though, this figure is all about the secondary attachments. In addition to the human legs and arms, Tony here comes with a set of MK XLII forearms and legs to swap in. I'm a little disappointed there's no augmented reality headpiece included, but this is still a fairly screen-accurate figure from that lab sequence in the movie. There doesn't appear to be any additional posing hands for the armor, which will limit posing options, but it looks like they might be interchangeable with existing Figuarts. If you already have an Iron Man in your collection, it shouldn't be too hard to get creative.
And hey, at least you also get a little display platform to pose him on.
The SH Figuarts Iron Man 3 Tony Stark should be available this October for ~$60. The MK XLII armor figure will be getting a re-release in September, and Figuarts is also planning a new MK III suit for the future. The original wasn't bad, so I'm interested to see how they're going to improve on that design from The Avengers.
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STEEVES, PAUL FORREST
Edgett's Landing, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada
Son of Clyde and Alice Steeves of Edgett's Landing, Albert Co., New Brunswick, Canada
Grocery clerk
G/4935
Killed in action, Netherlands
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
BARNES, REGINALD HOWARD
BARRETT, JAMES MORGAN
BURKE, OSWALD ROY
CAMPBELL, HECTOR
ELFORD, STEWART ALVIN
FORSYTH, FREDERICK ROSS
KNECHTEL, WILSON ABEL
OTTAWAY, ERNEST EDWARD
RHUDE, EVERETT NELSON
SHUTER, WILFRED JOHN
STAROSTIC, WILLIAM
TILSON, ALBERT
TUCKER, GEORGE FREDERICK
WARNER, GEORGE ROLAND
WHITMORE, LLOYD ERNEST
Plot 2 | Row E | Grave 2
"THINE IN THE LORD TO REST "FOR SO HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP""
1944-01-03: Qualified Clerk Group "C".
Killed in action just outside Oostburg, Netherlands. German rifle bullet. Died (almost) instantly after impact. His friend Beardshaw, George Herbert (B/158986) Q.O.R. saw it happen, but had no change to help. George survived the war, but was taken P.O.W. for 28 days in the town of Aalsmeer, Netherlands. A few years after the war he visited Paul's parents until they passed away.
The Queen's Own Rifles war diary reports on October 25, 1944: 1315 “A” Coy started forward with “D” to attack OOSTBURG. One of the Flame throwers with “A” Coy struck a mine and the two men in it were killed (Edward Rothwell and Gordon Edward Smith). A heavy smoke screen was put down to assist the attack on the open road into the town. The houses on the outskirts were soon taken. No 8 platoon made a wild bayonet charge to gain as their objective the first crossroads in town.
Military Graves Queen's Own Rifles, Dunnepolder, Zeeland, Netherlands.
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Re: What parts of the ID3 tags does the Instinct u...
What parts of the ID3 tags does the Instinct use???
ceiring
I am getting really frustrated trying to get my MP3s to show up the way that I want them to in the MP3 player in the phone.
I am not sure what matters so I am going to explain everything that I have done and see if anyone can help
I have a folder for each artistand then the MP3s for each albumunderthe artist in it'sown folder named for the album.
I have the filenames set to artist - title.mp3
I have used Mp3tag v2.42 to remove all of the tags and then batch recreate the tags so that all of the songs from one artist all have the exact same artist name and the songs from the same album have the exact same album name.
I have the artist name in the Artist ID3 tag field
I have the song title in the Title ID3 tagfield
I have the genre set to an appropriate ID3 tag Genre
I have the album cover set to a 250x250 album cover attached to each song
Media player, iTunes, and other PCbased programs sort the music just fine. When I transfer to the flash drive via USB to the Music folder it shows multiple albums with the same name and one song in each album, sometimes it shows the album cover artwork sometimes not, Not all of the songs with the same genre show up in the genre page.
I cannot figure this out, I have tried many ways to get everything sorted and nothing works. Here are some general questions that would help me be able to figure out why the phone MP3 player behaves so strangely.
What ID3 tag version does the phone read? ID3v2?
Does the filename or folder the song have any effect on the MP3 player song sorting?
What ID3 field(s) drive the Artists list?
What ID3 field(s) drive the Albums list?
What ID3 field(s) drive theGenres list?
How are album covers derived (not song covers, those seem to work fine)?
In All Songs, is the list made from filenames or ID3 tag fields (artist - title)?
TheChindian
Re: What parts of the ID3 tags does the Instinct use???
I am wondering the same thing. I have edited the ID3 tags in Vista and they are not being recognized correctly by the phone. For example certain songs are not recognized by the different metadata like Artist or Album info. I have to scroll through the entire song list to get to a particular song.
So it seems that nobody really understands how this thing uses the filesnames/ID3 tags....
Sprint people, do you have any comments?
Unfortunately I have not seen any definitive way to have tags show up correctly on the Instinct player. Some PC users have been lucky using the media app to upload songs. Others have not been so lucky. Sometimes the album art work will show up, for example, and sometimes you'll have a blank icon. The same goes for Mac users (like me), who have to jump even higher hurdles since the media app that comes on the Instinct CD is not Mac compatible. Have you guys done a search in this forum? I've seen some workarounds mentioned here by using 3rd party applications to edit the tags. However, no matter what method you use, I do not believe there is a sure way to get all tags to correctly show on the Instinct.
I have tried every tool mentioned on the site and others that I have found... I have tried on Windows and Linux. Some albums and mp3 list corretly and other don't, even thought they are tagged exactly the same way.
I just can't seem to figure out the way the developers were thinking when they coded the logic to list the albums, titles, album art, etc.
deathweezel
I got a chance to mess with this a little tonight. It must be keeping an index somewhere, maybe on the phone storage and not on the SD card. I edited the tags and changed the album art every way I could think of, deleted the files with the Media Manager app, deleted directly off the card, copied via Media Manager and directly, and nothing ever changed as far as what was displayed in the music player. What I finally found to fix the problem was this:
Go to the music player on the phone
Delete the screwed up items off the phone using the music player
On the PC, fix all the tags for any given item and add album cover art using mp3tag.
Copy the files and voila!
Everything workie.
(At least for the three albums I've tried so far.)
Message Edited by deathweezel on 12-31-2008 11:03 PM
Honestly, it should not be that hard. To me, that is one of the weaknesses of the Instinct.
Some additional things I found out
The player doesn't like non-english characters. I suspect it's only really a problem in the file name, but an n with a tilde in the title shows up as a little box, anyway, so it would be pointless to keep them. It'll crash somewhat gracefully if you try to play, back to the home screen if you try to delete.
So far, it seems perfectly happy with album art added to the files via mp3tag.
As far as titles, it will create a second listing for the same album if the artist tage for one of the songs on that album contains more than one artist. For example, on one song on Disc 2 of Dwight Yoakam's Reprise, Please... it had Flaco Jimenez listed in the file's artist field along with Dwight Yoakam. Result was two album listings with different artists for the same album.
@deathweezel wrote:
The player doesn't like non-english characters. I suspect it's only really a problem in the file name, ...
Actually, the problem is also present in the artist's name. In fact, the Instinct does not like non-English characters anywhere. Even in contacts, the phone will not recognize those characters.
@Egidio wrote:
I wasn't sure if the non-English character in the title would actually crash the app is why I put it like that. It definitely doesn't show up correctly, though. I didn't feel like testing every possible variation of characters in different places, unless Sprint pays me to test like that.
I guess I am glad thatI am notthe only user whocan't figure out how the phone uses the ID3 tags, but I thought that maybe someone at Sprint knew.
Silly me!!
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UK Labour’s Corbyn backs second referendum on any Brexit deal
By Reuters News Service June 19, 2019 0287
File photo: People hold banners during a 'March for Europe' demonstration against Britain's decision to leave the European Union, in central London
By Elizabeth Piper
British opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn backed a second referendum on any Brexit deal on Wednesday, his strongest support yet for a vote he said must offer “real choices” for those who want to leave or stay in the EU.
Corbyn, an instinctive critic of the European Union, has been under growing pressure to back unequivocally a second referendum to satisfy many members and lawmakers in his party who say it is the only way to break the Brexit deadlock.
He has previously showed his preference for a new national election, almost three years since Britain voted to leave the EU which left both his party and the governing Conservatives deeply split over how, when and whether Brexit should happen.
Corbyn has come under fire for trying to keep both the so-called “Leave” and “Remain” sides of the debate happy by not siding with either camp. His latest shift may ease strains for some, but for others it will be too little, too late.
Addressing his top policy team, Corbyn set out his position more clearly than before: “I have already made the case … that it is now right to demand that any deal is put to a public vote. That is in line with our conference policy which agreed a public vote would be an option.”
“A ballot paper would need to contain real choices for both leave and remain voters. This will of course depend on parliament,” he said in a statement.
But in a sign that Labour’s discussion over Brexit is by no means complete, Corbyn also called on others in Labour and trade unions to express their views.
“Then I want to set out our views in public,” he said.
Corbyn, who led Labour to a much stronger than expected showing in a 2017 general election, has long wanted to move the conversation away from Brexit, seeing his anti-austerity message as a vote winner.
But Labour and the Conservatives were punished in European elections last month, with many of their supporters either turning to a new movement led by veteran eurosceptic Nigel Farage or the pro-EU message of the Liberal Democrats.
That result has prompted soul-searching, with many Labour lawmakers saying the only way for the party to recover is to embrace a second referendum and then campaign to remain in the EU. Earlier Corbyn’s spokesman declined to comment when asked whether Labour would campaign for Remain in any new vote.
Chris Leslie, who left Labour to join an independent group, said Corbyn was playing his party’s members and lawmakers “for fools”.
“Corbyn has delayed and prevaricated for so long, he’s run down the clock on Brexit,” he said on Twitter. “There’s maybe only eight parliamentary weeks left before crashing out!”
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Written by qintar October 13, 2018 October 12, 2018
Pan Fried Sea Bass And Charcoal Grilled Lamb Chops
Iris looked at Ke Song who was on the other side, she was currently concentrating on plating.
At that moment, Iris couldn’t help but reevaluate this girl. No one could innocently just depend on luck, or depend on Jiang Qian Fan’s shadow to come this far. Taste is a very intuitive feeling. Even though these chefs always talked about cooking in terms of theory and experience, the ones who can really judge a chef’s skills, are the taste buds of the customers.
Delicious means delicious, not delicious means not delicious.
Winston looked at the antique clock in the great hall, and counted down with the judges and media.
When the second hand reached 1220, the participating parties had to have their main dishes ready.
At this time, YueJiangHotel’s waiters were serving up the dishes.
And Winston walked to the media.
“It’s been a long time, Madam LinYing!” Winston asked after a lady who looked about 40 years of age.
LInYing was from Vietnam, and when she was 12, she followed her parents to New York, she was a freelance writer, her facebook and column introduced all sorts of unique restaurants and signature dishes, and they were very popular.
“Hello, Mr Winston. Greeting me among many of my peers, may i guess that, i will be like the 3 chefs before me, to have the honour to be a special commentator for the main dish? ”
“Yes. I’m inviting Madam LinYing to comment of the first main dish from both parties, the pan fried sea bass.” Winston waved a hand, 2 portions of pan fried sea bass were placed in front of LinYing.
LinYing smiled, “because of the constraints of the theme of ‘pan fried sea bass’, both parties used similar methods of cooking the sea bass. As we all know, the meat of a fish is different from pork, beef, chicken and other meats, it has the unique trait of falling apart easily, and absorbing flavour easily. In the process of pan frying, once you lose control of the heat, the meat will become dry. If time and heat are controlled well, not only will you be able to maintain the fullness of the texture, you can also maintain the juices between the flesh.”
LinYing cut the sea basses of both parties for observation, and came to a conclusion, “As expected of the work of a master. The colour of the fish is very pretty, the meat looks like it was pan fried till there was a thin layer of golden yellow, really puts people in anticipation.”
“Which means, the pan fried sea bass of both parties, have done similarly well in terms of heat control. So all that’s left is the taste?”
“Yes.” LinYing tasted a piece of Jessica and Iris’ sea bass, and slowly nodded her head, “really very delicious! The sea bass was marinated very well! The flavour of the special butter sauce is just incredible. The smashed tarragon with the scallions, minced garlic, coconut milk and cumin, make a fulfilling layered feeling, but it is also like the tongue was hooked, making people want to swallow quickly, to allow the tongue to taste that flavour repeatedly!”
“Looks like you really like this dish?”
“But I suggest you taste the other dish.”
LinYing nodded.
When her fork forked the sea bass that Jiang Qian Fan and Lin KE Song cooked, she wasn’t in a hurry to put it in her mouth, but waved it in front of her nose for a bit, like a scent had caught her attention.
“I smell a unique fragrance…… this fragrance whets appetites……” LinYing swallowed obviously.
Winston laughed, while the other media looked over.
LInYing out that piece of meat into her mouth, then gently chewed, until she had eaten a big half of the sea bass, Winston finally couldn’t stay still but remind: “Madam LinYing…… after your comment, you may continue to finish the dish you like.”
LinYing couldn’t help but shake her head: “I totally can’t stop! The flavour of this dish is incredible! No matter the saltiness or the pairing of other seasonings to form a whole body. Its like if there were any of it missing, or a change in any of the proportions, it will lose this perfect flavour. The thing that is most worth the mentioning is where on earth did this kind of unique aroma and smoked roast fragrance come from?”
Winston looked back to Jiang Qian FAn and Lin Ke Song: “Hey! The both of you! Anyone able to explain this?”
“It’s the minced garlic and green onions.” Jiang Qian Fan only simply said those words.
Everyone on set was still confused.
Winston coughed, and looked towards LIn Ke Song who was plating the dessert, and said helplessly: “Ke Song, even though we are already used to the style of Chef Jiang Qian FAn saying these kinds of words, our friends here are unable to catch up with his thought process.”
Lin Ke Song methodically cut the blueberry pie, and smiled while saying: “until now, there are still times that I don’t understand what he is thinking la! But speaking of the minced garlic and green onions on the seabass…… after the green onions are cut and pan fried, the fragrance of the green onions will stay in the pan, which is followed by red wine. The minced garlic is actually placed on the sea bass when it is almost fully cooked! But, I did put the garlic cloves on the hay in advance to smoke them oh! Isn’t it very fragrant?”
“Oh!” LinYing had the expression of sudden enlightenment.
Lin Ke Song laughed as she rubbed her nose.
“Then Madam LinYing, of these 2 pan fried sea bass, which do you prefer?” Winston didn’t forget the most blinking question.
“Ah…… this is a really difficult choice to make…… both the dishes have their unique points! The heat control and flavour are outstanding, this is the most delicious sea bass I have ever tasted. But if I don’t give an answer, you will not let me go.”
“Alright ba, I choose Jiang Qian Fan and Lin Ke Song’s dish. I have to admit that under circumstances where the texture and flavour are so rated closely, the smoked garlic fragrance gave me more of an appetite.” LinYing made a choice solemnly.
“Alright ba, let us see the votes of the judges! Ah ha! Jiang Qian Fan and Lin Ke Song take the lead once again, receiving 9 votes. And Jessica and Iris received 7 votes!”
Hearing that, Lin Ke Song loosened her shoulders in a sigh of relief.
“Well done.” Jiang Qian Fan lowered his head, and said gently at her ear.
She vividly felt the other party’s lip brushing past her earlobe. Even though it could probably be due to Jiang Qian Fan not being able to see and unable to gauge distance, Lin Ke Song knew 100 per cent that this lad was doing it on purpose.
“I wonder how long Jiang Qian Fan and Lin Ke Song are able to continue this lead? The Jessica and Iris that I know are not mediocre, they are able to spring a surprise anytime and anywhere. And as for Jiang Qian FAn and Lin Ke Song, 4 votes isn’t much of a lead, there can be a turn of events at any time! Next…… ” Winston went to stand in front of Luke, “Let’s invite my old friend, food critic Luke to critic the second main dish, charcoal grilled lamb chops!”
Luke looked happy: “Winston, I have been waiting! If you hadn’t chosen me to be one of the special tasters, I would really have severed all ties with you!”
2 portions of lamb chops were placed in front of Luke.
Jessica and Iris’ lamb chops were arranged on a wooden pallet, the lamb chops cut open, with all sorts of side dishes on top of it, it was a feast for the eyes.
And Jiang Qian FAn and Lin Ke Song’s charcoal grilled lamb chops were plated on a long disc like plate. The lamb chops were lying in a shallow pool of yellow sauce, the surface covered with a creamy vanilla crab salad.
Luke carefully observed the appearance of the meats in the 2 dishes.
“En, both parties controlled the heat to a medium well. For Jessica and Iris to cook it to this point is no surprise to me, but Chef Jiang Qian Fan…… his control of heat is always so precise, I find it hard to believe. I wish to know whether you have any technique to be able to determine how well done the meat is without using sight?”
Everyone looked towards Jiang Qian Fan who was behind the glass wall.
He was boiling caramel, no indication of lifting his head.
“Ke SOng, do you know?” Luke asked with a laugh.
“Ah? Me?” Lin Ke SOng tilted her head, and looked towards Jiang Qian FAn’s side profile, “thousands of times of practice forming experience and feeling…… and having a feel for the flavour and temperature?”
“Ha ha!” Luke laughed, “just let me taste the charcoal grilled lamb chops from both parties ba!”
Luke first placed a piece of lamb from Jessica and Iris into his mouth, he carefully chewed, tilting his head while closing his eyes, and letting out a long long sigh through his nose: “Ooh —— used pear, carrot, sweet pepper, thyme, lemongrass, ginger, minced garlic, fish sauce, cumin, salt and pepper to marinate the ;lamb chops. Because it was cut open to grill, the lamb chops are evenly grilled, every surface is crispy, fantastic texture! Especially the fresh sweetness of the pear and carrots give this dish an aftertaste apart from the kick. During the plating, I’m guessing that Jessica and Iris sprinkled a little lemon mint. This whole dish has a sumptuous flavour, and the jalapeno adds a strength to this dish. The goat’s milk fried in kimchi sauce matches with this dish very well. Overall…… no matter if it were 3 months later, I will not be able to forget its taste!”
Even though Luke praises were overflowing, Iris did not relax at all. Of course, their dish would give people an unforgettable taste, but this wasn’t enough, it has to have more of a punch than Jiang Qian Fan’s dish. The goat’s milk and kimchi sauce was something she decided to use last minute.
She understood now, if she wanted to win Jiang Qian FAn, she couldn’t go according to the rules. She had to take risks, she had to try things she’d never tried before.
“You did very well.” Jessica gave a thin smile, she was very satisfied with her daughter’s performance on this dish.
“Next, I will taste chef Jiang Qian Fan and Lin Ke Song’s dish.”
When Luke cut into the lamb, Lin Ke Song who was plating was so nervous her hands started perspiring.
“En —— thyme, ginger, garlic, cumin, pepper, salt, these seasonings are the same as the ones Jessica and Iris used. But I taste pepper powder, white sesame, it’s really fragrant. It feels like the sesame seeds were cracked at the tip of the tongue!”
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ocelot66 says:
I’m going to miss this book so much. I don’t even want to read the new posts. I want to wait and savour it so that it lasts forever because it’s delicious!
Thanks for your hard work.
Anks🌿 says:
Completely agree with you….but it’s just as JQF said, all kinds of good food has an expiry date. Similarly, all good novels come to an end. And we can only revel in the feeling and re-read it many times over. 📖
Oh dear… The last few chapters have been such a sour menu.. It leaves me with a pungent bitter and acidic taste only because I know the novel it’s coming to an end… I’ve been saying this.. But I never get tired… Thank you for your generosity in donating your time and effort to allow us to experience such a tasty and entertaining journey.. Thank you so much
Are we really nearing the end?? T-T I don’t want this! I’m gonna miss JQF and LKS soooo much! They are one of my favorite OTP’s. Anyways, can’t wait for the results! Go JQF and LKS! ❤
Thanks for the chapter! Good thing I’m reading this before dinner or I’d be hungry again haha.
poirot11 says:
It’s really sad that I’m reading this while eating box mac and cheese… I want to be the judge in this story too, all the food that the main couple was cooked looks delicious 😦 Thank you for the translation!!
Thanks for all the work put into this novel and hope it reaches a nice ending
Remy says:
I’m caught up now. 😢
trippuchi says:
I want to eat… (/≧▽≦)/ Thanks for the chapter!
hmm can almost smell those dishes
LYN B says:
Very much enjoyed reading all 3 chapters while having my morning cup of coffee and catch up to the latest update. What a nice start to my day. Thus, my appreciation and thanks to the translator for giving pleasure of this Chinese novel to us readers who otherwise would not have been able to read this novel. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for the new chapter!
kobold says:
He did it deliberately.. I bet he did. He wants to provoke Iris to make her lose control of emotion and couldn’t be creative enough to beat them LOL.
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Pique the Geek 20101031: Nickel, an Important Element
Late Night Karaoke
The Week in Editorial Cartoons – Republican Thuggery on Full Display, Part I
By JekyllnHyde in Economy
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Crossposted at Daily Kos and The Stars Hollow Gazette
Rob Rogers, see reader comments in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Buy this cartoon
This election season has brought out some real ghouls, some, but not all, as a result of the Tea Party. These monsters are great for cartoonists, but not so great for the voters. The saddest part is, none of these characters offers a message of hope. It is all about tearing the other guy down. I know this kind of negative campaigning happens with every election. follow link It just seems more frightening this year.
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http://maientertainmentlaw.com/?search=levitra-lowest-price THE WEEK IN EDITORIAL CARTOONS
This weekly diary takes a look at the past week’s important news stories from the perspective of our leading editorial cartoonists (including a few foreign ones) with analysis and commentary added in by me.
When evaluating a cartoon, ask yourself these questions:
1. Does a cartoon add to my existing knowledge base and help crystallize my thinking about the issue depicted?
2. Does the cartoonist have any obvious biases that distort reality?
3. Is the cartoonist reflecting prevailing public opinion or trying to shape it?
The answers will help determine the effectiveness of the cartoonist’s message.
http://cinziamazzamakeup.com/?x=viagra-generico-100-mg-italia-pagamento-online-a-Roma Paladino Makes a Point by Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com, Buy this cartoon
Paul Szep, Comics.com
Joel Pett, Lexington Herald-Leader and David Cohen, Asheville Citizen-Times
(click link to enlarge cartoon)
John Sherffius, Comics.com (Boulder Daily Camera)
Joel Pett, Lexington Herald-Leader and Pat Oliphant, GO Comics/Washington Post
source url Paladino and Pals by Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com, Buy this cartoon
Chan Lowe, Comics.com, see reader comments in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The phenomenon defies all the standard, cynical political logic. These extremists can’t win in the general election, say the experts. Don’t people have any sense? Do they have a death wish?
The experts are playing by the wrong set of rules. http://cinziamazzamakeup.com/?x=viagra-generico-prezzo-a-Torino Those who voted for the Tea Party candidates don’t care if they win, and they have no particular affection for the Republican Party in its current form. They would rather go down in defeat now, knowing that having flexed their muscles as an internal force, they will drag the party even further to the right the next time.
— Lowe on the future of the Teabaggers within the Republican Party
levitra without a prescription Screech! by Clay Bennett, Comics.com, see the enter large number of reader comments in the Chattanooga Times Free Press
Lalo Alcaraz, LA Weekly, Buy this cartoon
Mike Peters, Dayton Daily News and David Cohen, Asheville Citizen-Times
Mark Streeter, Savannah Morning News, Buy this cartoon
Peter Dunlap-Shohl, Frozen Grin and Peter Dunlap-Shohl, Frozen Grin
Clay Jones, see reader comments in the Freelance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA), Buy this cartoon
I’m Not An Idiot
Let’s add up a few dumb things the Teabag people have done lately:
In Alaska, where they need federal funding, they’ve nominated a guy who’s promising to end government handouts.
In Delaware, they had a GOP candidate who was polled to beat the Democrat…and they nominate a witch.
In New York they nominate a homophobe who likes to send emails of beastiality as their candidate for governor. He also has this idea where we can house poor people in prisons.
In Ohio they nominate a congressional candidate who likes to wear swastikas but it’s OK, he’s bonding with his son.
In South Dakota, they nominate a Congressional candidate with over 30 tickets for her driving and multiple arrests for skipping court.
They nominate a candidate for Senate in Nevada against abortion which is understandable…but even in the case of rape and incest. She says when she’s counseled youth against getting an abortion (and having that incest baby) they turned lemons into lemonade.
They nominated a congressional candidate in Delaware who says anyone who believes in the separation of church and state is a Nazi (what is it with Delaware?….and Nazis?).
A congressman in Arizona who says Obama is an enemy of humanity.
Not to mention Rand Paul of Kentucky or that they actually pay Sarah Palin to hear her thoughts.
I didn’t show this cartoon to my editor for us to put in the print edition. Hey, I’m not an idiot.
— Jones listing some of the policy positions taken by Teabagger wingnuts
Hitler Approves This Message by Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons, Buy this cartoon
Don Wright, Comics.com (Tribune Media Services)
Birds of a Feather by J.D. Crowe, see reader comments in the Mobile Register, Buy this cartoon
Hate happens when you look at your enemy and see yourself… In the end, Pastor Terry Jones said, “We feel that whenever we started this out one of our reasons was to expose that there is an element of Islam that is very dangerous and very radical.”
He could have been talking about himself.
— Crowe compares Terry Jones’ intolerant behavior to the very people the crazy “pastor” was condemning
Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com, Buy this cartoon
Party Poopers by Clay Bennett, Comics.com, see reader comments in the Chattanooga Times Free Press
Howling Mad by Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune, Buy this cartoon
Read more about outrageous statements made by several of the wingnuts portrayed above and many others in this excellent diary series by occams hatchet. The diaries also include numerous videos.
1. The Republicans, in their own words (Part 1): bats#!t crazy.
2. The Republicans, in their own words (Part 2): bigotry, hate and violence.
3. The Republicans, in their own words (Part 3): Big Fat Liars (and hypocrites).
4. The Republicans, in their own words (Part 4): ‘Let ’em eat applesauce’.
Juan Williams and Fox News by Mike Thompson, Comics.com, see reader comments in the Detroit Free Press
Of the 8,000-10,000 editorial cartoons I have posted in this weekly diary and in comments in front page posts/diaries written by others since April 2009, the response to the above cartoon perfectly encapsulates the attitude of most Teabaggers and their wingnuts friends over at Fox News. These people are not about civil discourse. They hate free speech that doesn’t conform to their narrow-minded beliefs.
During a recent appearance on The O’Reilly Factor, Juan Williams made dumb and insensitive remarks about being fearful of people in Islamic garb while flying. The comments resulted in Williams being fired from National Public Radio and soon after, getting a fat contract from Roger Ailes and Fox News. When Editorial Cartoonist Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press posted the cartoon on his blog a few days ago, Bill O’Reilly encouraged his viewers to contact Thompson, basically to shut him up.
Thompson posted several of the emails he received from these wingnuts on his blog and wasn’t entirely unhappy that O’Reilly had directed a great deal of traffic to his blog
Bill O’Reilly and some of his Fox News fans should take their own advice to heart
Last Sunday I drew a cartoon about Fox News and the Juan Wiliams affair. O’Reilly apparently took offense to my cartoon and showed it on the air Monday evening. He then gave out my work e-mail address and instructed his viewers to “let him know what you think.” O’Reilly stressed that his viewers should take the high road in their e-mails to me, which is a little like placing a bowl of Halloween candy in front of kids and telling them not to gorge themselves. O’Reilly’s smart enough to know what would happen.
And e-mail me they did, more than 2,500 e-mails, many of them unsuitable to publish here, clogged my inbox. I bring this up not because I’m upset; I’ve grown pretty much immune to insults after 20 years in my profession and realize that I forefit the right to complain about getting bopped in the nose when I voluntarily step into a boxing ring. Besides, I’d like to thank O’Reilly for the significant bump in traffic to my blog. No, I bring this up because I find it strange that O’Reilly and some of his followers followers fail to grasp the irony of their actions.
While defending Williams’ right to free speech, O’Reilly and a number of his viewers tried and failed to bully me for exercising my right to free speech. What it all boils down to for people who behave like this isn’t defending the concept of free speech, rather defending free speech that agrees with their partisan point of view.
Read all of Mike Thompson’s entries, a few emails from Bill O’Reilly’s minions, and reader comments regarding this feud with O’Reilly here, here, and here.
Bill Day, Comics.com (Memphis Commercial-Appeal)
Egged on by Fox News, aided by the Citizens United decision rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court and one which allowed the free flow of undisclosed corporate money (perhaps some of it in the form of illegal foreign contributions), and given vague promises of “fiscal responsibility” by the cynical Republican leadership in Congress, many of these Teabaggers are probably on the verge of being elected to Congress where their primary responsibility is to draft and enact laws that govern this country.
A recent article in NEWSWEEK magazine berated these authoritarian-minded Teabaggers for their blatant refusal to adhere to constitutional principles upon which this country was founded
Tim Eagan, Deep Cover, Buy this cartoon
America’s Holy Writ
Tea Party evangelists claim the Constitution as their sacred text. Why that’s wrong.
The Tea Partiers belong to a different tradition — a tradition of divisive fundamentalism. Like other fundamentalists, they seek refuge from the complexity and confusion of modern life in the comforting embrace of an authoritarian scripture and the imagined past it supposedly represents. Like other fundamentalists, they see in their good book only what they want to see: confirmation of their preexisting beliefs. Like other fundamentalists, they don’t sweat the details, and they ignore all ambiguities. And like other fundamentalists, they make enemies or evildoers of those who disagree with their doctrine.
The point is always the same: to suggest that the Constitution, like the Bible, decrees what’s right and wrong (rather than what’s legal and illegal), and to insist that only the fundamentalists and their ilk can access its truths. We are moral, you are not; we represent America, you do not. Theirs is the rallying cry of culture war.
Mike Thompson, Comics.com (Detroit Free Press)
Does this group of Know-Nothings believe in limited government or no government at all? In other words, do they seek a libertarian paradise with minimal rules and a “night watchman state” as Robert Nozick once described it? Not coincidentally, Nozick was one of Margaret Thatcher’s and Ronald Reagan’s favorite political philosophers in the 1970’s and beyond.
Some of Nozick’s so-called libertarian beliefs — openly espoused by many a Teabagger — are contrasted with liberalism in this article
Patrick Chappatte, International Herald Tribune, Buy this cartoon
Libertarianism should not be confused with liberalism. They were considered the same in the early to mid nineteenth-century, both sharing the same beliefs such as limiting state power and the benefits of a free market. But around the 1870s liberals were gradually moving toward the belief that the government was necessary in guaranteeing social justice. Liberalism developed into a philosophy which wants an increase in government power, taxes, and regulation. Libertarians feel this philosophy is very close to socialism and therefore do not agree with it. Libertarians believe that collecting taxes is another form of robbery.
I have deliberately tried to keep my comments and analysis to a minimum in this diary so as to include many more editorial cartoons in the text of the diary. There are over 120 cartoons and I will try to post another 15-20 in the comments section, dealing with a number of issues not included here such as the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, energy and oil, the riots in France, awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident, Iraq, Afghanistan, and rescue of the Chilean mine workers. Time permitting and even if in abbreviated form, I will try to post Part II of this diary by Tuesday 11/2 late morning/early afternoon. Thanks.
1. Cartoons of the Week
Rob Rogers, Comics.com, see reader comments in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nonexistent Bush
Ok. Bring it on all you “Bush is no longer president” ranters. I know that every time I refer to the disaster that was the Bush administration I set myself up for criticism. But even the most severe Obama haters have to admit that the republicans have conveniently forgotten who really got us into this mess in the first place. Bush racked up the huge deficits, started the wars and created the stimulus and bailouts and yet Obama gets all the blame. Bush may no longer be in office but his presidency is still adversely affecting us.
— Rogers remembers all too well the horrendous mess that George W. Bush left as a parting “gift” for the Obama Administration in 2009
Tom Tancredo’s Motorcycle by Mike Keefe, Denver Post, Buy this cartoon
Jeff Stahler, Comics.com (Columbus Dispatch)
Steve Sack, Comics.com (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
Jeff Darcy, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Buy this cartoon
Lemon Pledge by RJ Matson, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Buy this cartoon
Rally to Restore Sanity by Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com, Buy this cartoon
Jeff Koterba, Omaha World Herald, Buy this cartoon
Signe Wilkinson, Comics.com (Philadelphia Daily News)
Decision 2010 by Clay Bennett, Comics.com, see the large number of reader comments in the Chattanooga Times Free Press
Voters Abandon Ship by John Cole, Scranton Times-Tribune, Buy this cartoon
Trickle Down by Clay Bennett, Comics.com, see the very large number of reader comments in the Chattanooga Times Free Press
Poor in America by Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune, Buy this cartoon
Mother’s Milk Of Politics by John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Buy this cartoon
Jen Sorensen, Slowpoke, Buy this cartoon
2. Wingnuttery at its Best
The Republicans New Wing by David Fitzsimmons, Arizona Star, Buy this cartoon
The Elephant in the Room by Randall Enos,Cagle Cartoons, Buy this cartoon
NY State – Paladino for Governor by Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News, Buy this cartoon
Joel Pett, Lexington Herald-Leader
Cal Grondahl, Utah Standard Examiner, Buy this cartoon
Jeff Danziger, New York Times Syndicate
Tead Off Party by John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Buy this cartoon
Christine O’Donnell by Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette, Buy this cartoon
Stuart Carlson, Go Comics
Where the Tea Party Stands by David Fitzsimmons, Arizona Star, Buy this cartoon
David Cohen, Asheville Citizen-Times
Drew Sheneman, Comics.com (Newark Star-Ledger)
Dan Wasserman, Comics.com (Boston Globe)
Jim Day, Las Vegas Review Journal, Buy this cartoon
Christine O’Donnell by Mike Keefe, Denver Post, Buy this cartoon
3. The Corrosive Effect of Secret Corporate Money in This Election
Career Politicians by Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette, Buy this cartoon
Mike Luckovich, Comics.com (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Unlimited Campaign Donations by Jimmy Margulies, New Jersey Record, Buy this cartoon
Bruce Beattie, Comics.com (Daytona Beach News-Journal)
Midterm Election by Clay Bennett, Comics.com, see the large number of reader comments in the Chattanooga Times Free Press
RJ Matson, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Buy this cartoon
4. The Republican Pledge to Enhance Their Own and Not the Country’s Future
Dinosaurs on Parade by Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune, Buy this cartoon
The Platform by Nick Anderson, Comics.com, see reader comments in the Houston Chronicle
Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons, Buy this cartoon
Gary Varvel, Comics.com (Indianapolis Star-News)
5. Call Me, Call Me Any, Any Anytime*
* with apologies to Blondie
Imagine this scenario: it is late at night in a typical suburban home in Northern Virginia. The couple that lives there is upper middle class and affluent. The husband is a noted legal scholar, probably the best that this country has ever seen. The wife is a political activist whose activities on behalf of the poor and downtrodden in this country have made this a much fairer society. But beneath this facade of affluence and suburban tranquility, there is trouble brewing in this marriage.
I’ll let Lowe explain what happened next and why it did
Virginia Thomas, Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas
What is more disturbing than her questionable dialing practices is her high-profile involvement in conservative and libertarian causes, especially in an organization funded by anonymous sources. Of course, as an American, she has every right to do this, and no one is asserting that the ethical rules that apply to her husband also apply to her.
Nevertheless, it would be logical that anyone who is concerned enough about her husband’s personal reputation to ask for an apology from his accuser after almost two decades would also consider his reputation as an impartial jurist, and soft-pedal the partisan passion.
I doubt, however, that Mrs. Thomas looks upon this logically.
Steve Benson, Comics.com (Arizona Republic)
The Tea Party Headquarters by David Horsey, see reader comments in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Clarence Thomas and Wife by Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com, Buy this cartoon
At the Sound of the Tone by David Cohen, Asheville Citizen-Times
Sorensen expresses her unhappiness with Clarence Thomas and his unsavory behavior in the past
Clarence Thomas Video Club
I have always been appalled by the amount of blind hatred directed at Anita Hill merely because she spoke up about being sexually harassed by Clarence Thomas. So I confess to enjoying the outpouring of corroborating evidence in the wake of Ginny Thomas’s ill-fated voicemail to Hill.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I have no problem with Supreme Court justices having a few kinks. They can watch all the porn they want, though I prefer not to think about it. But to give someone who harassed his female subordinates (at the EEOC!) a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land, where he would be responsible for adjudicating on those very issues… well, it’s unconscionable. Also, dude totally perjured himself!
Lots of Serious Pundits (such as the flaccid Richard Cohen of the Washington Post) are saying we should just forget the whole unseemly episode. I guess talking about pubic hair on Coke cans doesn’t seem very dignified. But as far as I’m concerned, you only get dignity when you correct the injustice.
6. Juan Williams’ Firing By National Public Radio
The Winner by Clay Bennett, Comics.com, see reader comments in the Chattanooga Times Free Press
NPR Fires Juan Williams by Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com, Buy this cartoon
Tony Auth, Philadelphia Inquirer/Washington Post
Jeff Danziger, New York Times Syndicate/Yahoo Comics
7. Can the Economy Withstand Another Round of Trickle-Down Economics?
Randy Jones, inxart.com, Buy this cartoon
Jeff Stahler, Comics.com (Columbus Diapatch)
GOP Deficit Lumberjack by Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News, Buy this cartoon
Matt Bors, Comics.com (Idiot Box)
Anonymous by Rob Rogers, Comics.com (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Candidates are setting new records for campaign spending in 2010. A lot of those additional millions are coming from anonymous donors. Some think the anonymous cash may be coming from corporations seeking political favor and/or overseas interests. It hurts my stomach to think of all the good things we could do with that money.
— Rogers is disgusted with the amount of money spent by shadowy figures and corporations, most of whom are only interested in their bottom line
8. RIP Barbara Billingsley, Tom Bosley, and Johnny Sheffield
Read more about Barbara Billingsley, Tom Bosley, and Johnny Sheffield. They made important and lasting contributions in movies and television. If you missed it, I also wrote a diary tribute to Barabara Billingsley — June Cleaver (Beaver’s Mom) Has Died — a couple of weeks ago.
Lloyd Dangle, Troubletown, Buy this cartoon
Finally, are you an “opportunist?” And if so, where do you fit in the above editorial cartoon?
A Note About the Diary Poll
A great deal has been written on these pages about the upcoming elections this coming Tuesday, November 2nd. You have probably heard it all and there’s not much more that I can add except to say that please vote and encourage all family members, friends, acquaintances, and co-workers to do the same. As most people are probably anxious to get past the elections, you may email your friends and family a link to this diary which, I’m fairly sure, most have probably never seen. It might give them a different perspective on issues confronting the country and the political party which is best qualified to tackle these problems.
Finally, I wanted to share this speech given by FDR’s grandson Curtis Roosevelt this past summer in Washington, D.C. In it, he compares the challenges facing FDR in 1934 to the ones facing President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in 2010.
Here’s an excerpt
So let us review, just sketchily, the events leading up to Franklin Roosevelt’s first mid-term election — November of 1934. There are some striking similarities between then and now. In 1934’s mid-term election, presidential leadership was central, indeed decisive. And note: FDR had as much hanging on that election as President Obama has with next November’s vote…
Yes, the New Deal was rolling again. Referring to the autumn term of Congress in 1934, just at the time of the November elections, Charles A. Beard radically changed his tune from only a few months before. “Seldom, if ever, in the long history of Congress had so many striking and vital measures been spread upon the law books in a single session.”
And the results of mid-term election of November 1934? The Democrats increased their congressional seats in both houses, increased their governorships, and chalked up a higher proportion of the popular vote. So much for the pundits!…
In closing, I would like to note that Franklin Roosevelt and Barrack Obama both entered the national political arena with visible handicaps-one, a black man, the other, a cripple. The cripple went on to be elected President of the United States four times.
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JekyllnHyde on November 1, 2010 at 4:23 am
O’Donnell and Palin by Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com, Buy this cartoon
Politics for Dummies by David Horsey,
see reader comments in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Joel Pett, McLatchy Cartoons/Lexington Herald-Leader
Not to worry, she’ll do it differently next time
Thanks for the advice. When I do run again I will be more rogue.”
— Sarah Palin, quoted by the Globe and Mail, in response to a person who suggested she allowed herself to be too programmed by Sen. John McCain’s handlers when she ran for vice president.
Tips and the like here. Thanks.
dharmasyd on November 1, 2010 at 7:37 pm
…Thanks again JnH. I always look forward to your posts, and I still print out significant numbers of the toons to take to my friend who is ill and doesn’t have or use a computer. But he does love cartoons. I think it adds a little lightness to his days.
JekyllnHyde on November 1, 2010 at 11:53 pm
… for highlighting this diary on your front page. Here’s one about the Baseball World Series in which the San Francisco Giants (leading the Texas Rangers 3-1) are one win away from their first World Series Championship since 1954.
Drew Litton, Comics.com
yellow dog in NJ on November 2, 2010 at 1:56 am
Thanks for the pie throwing ammo. 🙂
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Humans are solely responsible for Climate Change in the world today. The IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed that there is a “global scientific consensus that human action was indeed affecting global climate patterns”. (W. M. Adams, Green Development, p.17, 3rd ed, New York).
Here is an Article from NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Link: http://climate.nasa.gov/causes
“Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the “greenhouse effect”1 — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.
Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping. Long-lived gases that remain semi-permanently in the atmosphere and do not respond physically or chemically to changes in temperature are described as “forcing” climate change. Gases, such as water vapor, which respond physically or chemically to changes in temperature are seen as “feedbacks.”
Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect include:
Water vapor. The most abundant greenhouse gas, but importantly, it acts as a feedback to the climate. Water vapor increases as the Earth’s atmosphere warms, but so does the possibility of clouds and precipitation, making these some of the most important feedback mechanisms to the greenhouse effect.
Carbon dioxide (CO2). A minor but very important component of the atmosphere, carbon dioxide is released through natural processes such as respiration and volcano eruptions and through human activities such as deforestation, land use changes, and burning fossil fuels. Humans have increased atmospheric CO2 concentration by a third since the Industrial Revolution began. This is the most important long-lived “forcing” of climate change.
Methane. A hydrocarbon gas produced both through natural sources and human activities, including the decomposition of wastes in landfills, agriculture, and especially rice cultivation, as well as ruminant digestion and manure management associated with domestic livestock. On a molecule-for-molecule basis, methane is a far more active greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but also one which is much less abundant in the atmosphere.
Nitrous oxide. A powerful greenhouse gas produced by soil cultivation practices, especially the use of commercial and organic fertilizers, fossil fuel combustion, nitric acid production, and biomass burning.
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Synthetic compounds of entirely of industrial origin used in a number of applications, but now largely regulated in production and release to the atmosphere by international agreement for their ability to contribute to destruction of the ozone layer. They are also greenhouse gases.” Link: http://climate.nasa.gov/causes
According to W. M. Adams in his book Green Development, IPCC noted the following:
1. The Third Assessment Report (2001) on World Climate Change found a – 100 year trend in temperature (1901 to 2000) was +0.06 degrees Centigrade;
2. The Fourth Report in 2007 noted that the period 1906-2005 had been hotter at +0.74 degrees Centigrade (IPCC, 2007a).
This Climate Change can therefore create global catastrophe such as: droughts, floods and storms (Houghton, et.al. 1995 in W.M. Adams, p. 18).
The role of human activity (From NASA Article on Climate Change)
In its recently released Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded there’s a more than 90 percent probability that human activities over the past 250 years have warmed our planet.
The industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon have raised atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from 280 parts per million to 379 parts per million in the last 150 years. The panel also concluded there’s a better than 90 percent probability that human-produced greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have caused much of the observed increase in Earth’s temperatures over the past 50 years.
They said the rate of increase in global warming due to these gases is very likely to be unprecedented within the past 10,000 years or more. The panel’s full Summary for Policymakers report is online at http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf.
Solar irradiance
It’s reasonable to assume that changes in the sun’s energy output would cause the climate to change, since the sun is the fundamental source of energy that drives our climate system.
Indeed, studies show that solar variability has played a role in past climate changes. For example, a decrease in solar activity is thought to have triggered the Little Ice Age between approximately 1650 and 1850, when Greenland was largely cut off by ice from 1410 to the 1720s and glaciers advanced in the Alps.
But several lines of evidence show that current global warming cannot be explained by changes in energy from the sun:
Since 1750, the average amount of energy coming from the Sun either remained constant or increased slightly.
If the warming were caused by a more active sun, then scientists would expect to see warmer temperatures in all layers of the atmosphere. Instead, they have observed a cooling in the upper atmosphere, and a warming at the surface and in the lower parts of the atmosphere. That’s because greenhouse gasses are trapping heat in the lower atmosphere.
Climate models that include solar irradiance changes can’t reproduce the observed temperature trend over the past century or more without including a rise in greenhouse gases.
Link: http://climate.nasa.gov/causes
W. M. Adams, Green Development, 3rd edition, Environment and Sustainability In A Developing World, New York, 2009.
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paragardener says: April 12, 2014 at 4:26 pm
Why cite the IPCC after Climategate? Seems to undermine all the good stuff you have to say.
henrylib says: April 18, 2014 at 4:16 pm
thank you for your observation…well taken..it will inspire us more…have a nice day…
Gator Woman says: April 12, 2014 at 7:57 pm
This was wonderful. Thank you for sharing it!
tt4r says: April 17, 2014 at 9:45 am
And population explosion, social extremes and continuing urban development. I feel we cannot address our selves till we can recognise our part in our whole, and relate as apart with the whole self and being.
that’s a valid observation…it is nice to start a local initiative and involve other members of the community…good luck…
You are right about local involvement. I wanted to reach out, but felt stretched with blogging. Now I feel it opened the door to the ground. hope we might walk up to each other one day.
Roberta McDonnell says: April 18, 2014 at 7:57 am
Thank you for all this tremendous information- it really is shocking that humans are having such a negative impact on the whole planet! What is even more baffling though is that we know how to reverse these processes through reforestation, more organic and less intensive farming, emissions reduction etc yet we don’t seem to be able to get enough international momentum going to actually do that. How can this be addressed?
Thank s for stopping by my blog btw, and for all the work you are putting into this site. It is a wonderful resource and I for one will be keeping up with developments here. Thanks again and best wishes , Roberta
you’re welcome Roberta…i hope everybody can start in a small way in their community…this is what i think will happen because the earth is so huge and a single act can make a difference once it is multiplied all over the world…best wishes and see you around in the blogsphere.
a photo a day by me :) says: April 19, 2014 at 4:35 am
Thank you for following my blog! Your’s look very interesting and I’ll follow along as well!
you’re welcome…same here…
Claire Marie O'Brien says: April 20, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Thanks for a great blog!
The relationship between imperialism, colonialism and the earth’s destruction is, I think, important for all of us to keep in mind too.
Thank-you for what you do.
Claire Marie O’Brien: you’re welcome Claire. That is really true…
Caleb Gee says: April 24, 2014 at 11:17 pm
Reblogged this on United States Hypocrisy and commented:
Scientists are not being ambiguous when they say that Climate Change (or “global warming” if you will) is being caused by man. That the current crisis is indeed a man-made disaster is the general consensus among up to 97% of the scientific community, as opposed to a mere 3% who dispute it. If it hadn’t been made into such a political issue, the scientific consensus on Climate Change would’ve been enough to shut off further debate.
henrylib says: April 25, 2014 at 1:08 am
Caleb Gee: yes, you will…and thanks for believing in this…succeeding posts listed down suggestions on how to cope with climate change and how to decrease or abolish its threats to the atmosphere and global community beginning with local initiatives.
Caleb Gee says: April 25, 2014 at 1:18 am
Thank you very much for this great and informative post. It’s great to know that there are people out there like you who care so much about the earth’s environment!
alm383 says: April 24, 2014 at 11:27 pm
ظهر الفساد في البر والبحر بما كسبت ايدي الناس ونذيقهم من الباساء لعلهم يرجعون
صدق الله العظيم
alm383: thanks for visiting the site…although i cannot understand what you wrote i still feel that it was encouraging ones…hope you like what we are into.
cartoonmick says: April 25, 2014 at 7:47 am
In-depth studies, carried out over the last 45 seconds, confirm there is a direct link between the climate and politics.
Both climate and politics change over time !! A fact confirmed in the afore mentioned in-depth study.
“Man” is the main cause of all political change, therefore “Man” is the main cause of climate change.
The climate is seen as a problem if a particular political party is in power, whereas there is no problem at all to be see with the climate if the opposite party is at the helm.
So, the simplest way to solve any climate problems is to keep that party “who see no problems”, in power.
Not only will this save the Earth from certain destruction, it will save a lot of money in the national budget as there’ll be no need for climate science committees, reports, analysis, action etc.
Prior to the 45 second in-depth study, a cartoon was created, which may, or may not, conflict with the theme of the above summary.
That climate change cartoon is here . . . . . . . .
http://cartoonmick.wordpress.com/editorial-political/#jp-carousel-775
nice cartoons…
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Samantha Hunt Transforms the Mermaid Myth into a Feminist Allegory
The author of ‘The Seas’ on creating a new reality through language
Marlena Gates
Marlena Gates was raised in and currently writes out of the Central Valley of California. She received her BA in Psychology and Anthropology from University of California, Davis and MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe. She is currently an essay editor for The Offing and writer for Electric Literature.
The Seas, Samantha Hunt’s first novel, is as disturbing as it is beautiful. It is a literary equivalent of the Rubin vase, the ambiguous image, multistable perception that shocks us back and forth between two possible realities of a story all dependent upon the gaze of the reader at particular moments. Our narrator is either a real mermaid or a schizo-affective depressive circling down the drain of a heavy mental breakdown. We think we have to choose between these sides of perception but we don’t. The richest understanding of The Seas comes as we see that these two interpretations are not mutually exclusive. We can witness the vase and the face.
To see The Seas alone as a love story between mermaid and man would leave it without the depth of its tragedy and humanity. It is not only a mermaid story. It is the story of a young woman struggling for meaning in her lonely world, striving for love and connection at any cost; and if such meaning cannot be found in her material world then she will construct it herself. The story is a lenticular print — nothing flat and matter of fact — a photo shifting as the light hits it from different angles. There is the illumination of the story through fantasy, and there is its illumination from psychology; both scales, sides of history, enriching alone, but most valuable to our language as the interpretations come together.
Samantha Hunt comes from a scientific background, a geology student turned creative writer, she has a trust in the creative power of science. The potential of language within the realm of the scientific pushed her ever deeper into the crafting of words, a craft we can see clearly forming in The Seas. The Seas was reissued this year by Tin House with a provocative introduction from Maggie Nelson.
I spoke to her about psychology and mythmaking, structuralisms and relativisms, and the need to bridge the gap between the two.
Marlena Gates: There exists in the narrator of The Seas a longing for convergence of science and myth in the making of her identity. How do you see the stark division of the arts and sciences, storytelling and experimentation, in our current culture? Does it hinder us as humans more than help, especially in dealings of the language of psychology and mental illness?
Samantha Hunt: Something surely is broken, something that could anchor humanity in compassion rather than greed. Imagined binaries are part of that. However, we are also living in an era where science is seriously threatened by capitalism, climate change deniers and an opioid epidemic courtesy of the pharmaceutical industry in the name of medicine. But, as your question asks, in the making of identity, story and science are brain and skeleton, respectively. I like to imagine that anatomy model, the myth organ tucked in by the pancreas. There are a number of artists making wonderful scientific experiments. What freedom.
The world dismisses girls, stories and the imagination. I do not. I have three daughters, three sisters, three nieces, even three moms. I am surrounded by girls who tell me stories I believe. One daughter asks, “What does the sun smell like?” What an important question, an investigation that is narrative and science. This is what I can do to change the parts of the world that hurt me. We understand the natural world best through narrative, just as we understand justice, death, the ocean, illness, and love, through narrative.
The world dismisses girls, stories and the imagination. I do not.
MG: I believe a book as The Seas can help us to understand disassociation and identity disorders better than most psychology textbooks, as it shows us the personal and structural reasons why people need myth-making to survive. What can you say about this? If allowed, can magical realism perhaps inform our understanding of mental illness — particularly schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorders?
SH: I wonder if need is a strong enough word for our relationship to myth or story or imagination. Whatever we call it, it is creation. Try to think without language. It is impossible for someone who has learned to speak. I look out my window now and there is the story of blue, the story of green. Are our stories of green the same? Not exactly but close enough I hope that we can use words to understand one another in a word-less moment of greenness. Here’s the fascination with Kaspar Hauser and others who did not learn language until later in life. What was thought to Kaspar? Image alone. I don’t know much about schizophrenia but I do know that storytelling is human, helpful, eternal, compassionate and unlimiting whereas diagnosis sets a boundary that constricts. Boundaries are sometime helpful. It’s true. For example, the boundary of a period, imparts the sense to the end of my sentence. But boundaries are really only helpful when the body in question is the force setting that boundary.
MG: Could magical realism be understood as modern-day mythmaking?
SH: I don’t often use the word magic. Magic is easily gendered and dismissed. I do not separate stories from my material reality because when I ask, “What am I made of?” the answer is: William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Madeline L’Engle, micro histories my parents told me of their lives. I’m made of the books I read as a girl, a lot of them fictions. (A more honest accounting would also include V.C. Andrews and Danielle Steele, plus every Choose-Your-Own-Adventure I could order from Scholastic.) I also don’t separate myth from history. I lived in Ireland when I was a teenager. Someone took me to Queen Medb’s tomb, a tremendous mountain-size limestone cairn. I said, “I don’t understand. Queen Medb isn’t a real person, right? She’s a story. Why does she have a grave?” They’d look at me with pity, thinking it so sad I still believed there was a division between history and myth. I still thought George Washington cut down his father’s cherry tree.
The danger in thinking this way without reality boundaries (that period) is that one could argue this is how we’ve arrived at fake news. This has been troubling me lately until a wise man recently reminded me that there is a big difference between truth and fact. Stories are true. Untrue facts are lies. Alex Jones is not a fiction writer. He’s a liar.
The other side of this answer is that when I read Octavia Butler or George Orwell here and now, I see how science fiction work from twenty, thirty, a hundred years ago was an amazing act of reading signs, following logic to see where we were heading. Writers of science fictions are Cassandras sending out early warnings.
MG: In a way, the narrator was quite accurate in believing she had an eye problem. Research shows that how the eyes move and focus correlates directly with schizophrenia and depression; patterns are clearly there yet doctors are at a loss to understand them; whereas, our narrator seemed to understand her case better than them in that way — she really did have an eye problem. Did you know about this clinical research or did you write the narrator’s obsession with her eyesight organically?
SH: Again, I don’t know much about schizophrenia but what fascinating research. I use my narrator’s eye problem to address the idea of forming identity in a small town. What do you see? What do you not see? How does what others see about me, shape my person? We put such firm trust in our vision when we already know that our eyes are actually spotty and poor perceivers, giving speckled information to our magnificent brains that do the work of filling in all of vision’s holes, in order to present a wholeness. Vision is already imagination yet we trust it implicitly. Why then are we so suspicious when it comes to imagination and metaphor?
The Seas is all about taking words that wound you, and changing the meaning of those words. Call a young girl crazy. Call her a slut. If she is creative, if she is free, she will learn to make something new from that old cloth.
MG: Disassociation and delusion or displacement and identity crisis; how much does the distinction between our narrator’s created mythos, and her diagnosed delusion (from mother and doctors), matter?
SH: So, you don’t believe she’s a mermaid? I sometimes think of The Seas as a measure of optimism. Whether or not she is factually a mermaid matters less to me than her truthful reasons for needing to be one. I won’t separate her from her imagination. A number of people in my life see ghosts. I don’t particularly believe in ghosts. But, I believe the people who say they believe in ghosts.
MG: Our narrator is convinced she is a mermaid even as everything warns her of the danger to the man she loves, Jude, if she really is. In my reading of The Seas, I could not help return to the feeling that this story has so many larger implications for the strife of modern-day relationships — with men and women so painfully alienated from one another. If the mermaid is a creature born from a mythic “war of the sexes,” how much is The Seas, in a sense, about the impossibility of love in a time of gender warfare?
SH: The myth of the mermaid is such an odd horror. We created females who are really sexy, have no genitals, are freezing cold and kill men. That’s nuts. And then we sell this image in every seaside gift shop as an attempt to modify the myth. We make it desirable. We make it about swimming. There’s a lot of unpacking to do around the mermaid. Sex and fear, desire and the ocean. I couldn’t resist trying to understand this complicated thing through a wounded adolescent girl, brimming with passion and lust. Jude is very messed up. It’s true. He’s got PTSD. He’s an alcoholic. He’s probably dead. But he does manage to take care of the narrator. How we care for other humans is of great interest to me. So, I give her the position of power, the murderess mermaid, and hope that compassion wins out.
MG: How much is love always about seeing the other through the Mercator projection?
SH: Isn’t there something wonderful about that though? Isn’t that proof that we tell stories not to avoid an idea of truth but because we are creative, adaptive, hopeful and generous creatures. I love Mercator’s Projection. I remember the example my teacher used was tiny Iceland. On the flat map, it gets to be a giant. That resonates with me. Iceland dreaming of hugeness. One of my daughters is very small in body and yet, anyone who knows her would absolutely call her a giant. Mercator’s Projection gets to the heart of how narrative twists a body, for good or bad and love, as mode of exploring the other, will of course have to grapple with questions of perception.
MG: Untranslatable words, arcane words, lost roots, all the characters seem lost to find the right words for their experience of loss and trauma. They have lost the “L” to their “ost oves” — yet, still, language hovers over them all. How much of The Seas is about the need to find a language for loss, for identity, for love in a time of impossible strife?
SH: The Seas is all about taking words that wound you, and changing the meaning of those words. Call a young girl crazy. Call her a slut. If she is creative, if she is free, she will learn to make something new from that old cloth. Call a father dead, and then see how perhaps he’s simply swimming in an ocean large as all time.
Also, I love old dictionaries. I love learning the stories behind etymologies, say how the woman Dangerose becomes dangerous. I love writing fake etymologies too. Naming is narrative. My grandma was a poet and was once asked to name a new road. She called it Lilac Lane. Simple, sturdy but saccharine. I thought about that for a long time, how the name would affect the people growing up on that road.
I sometimes think of The Seas as a measure of optimism. Whether or not she is factually a mermaid matters less than her truthful reasons for needing to be one.
MG: Our narrator craved meanings, even if not her own, even if made up. Was it an intentional irony that your narrator craved affectation in a sense — in her fascination with science and obscure words — yet these words were ever absent?
SH: I studied geology in college. One of my favorite texts books was Waves and Beaches by Willard Bascom. In that book, Bascom writes that there are hundreds of waves that have yet to be named. This idea has stayed with me for two reasons. The first reason is because it makes me wonder about human’s adorable ideas of ourselves. The ocean doesn’t care what we call it. But, reason two, is that language matters deeply to me. If I named one of those waves “bunny rabbit” that would surely change how we think and feel about it. Language, despite its shifting nature, is extremely real, extremely affecting. And science does not leave me cold. Science loves me back. It took me a long time as a young woman to know that I was half of every couple I made. I do think that identity troubles are often a problem of lost or missing language and if someone can provide the right word to you, what a gift, a new window.
MG: Was the narrator’s determination to create meaning out of what was available to her, through storytelling and magical interpretations, a way to distance herself from the stark truths of her dark and damp post-industrial waste of a town? And do the sad reasons she created her stories matter, or is it what is created that matters, or both?
SH: Telling stories is an act of hope. She doesn’t like the reality she’s been dealt and so she will fashion herself a new one through language. That doesn’t feel sad to me. Words make matter, material. She’s making a new world that doesn’t hurt so much.
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Cellular entry and uncoating of naked and quasi-enveloped human hepatoviruses
Efraín E Rivera-Serrano,
Olga González-López,
Anshuman Das,
Stanley M Lemon ,
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States;
Many ‘non-enveloped’ viruses, including hepatitis A virus (HAV), are released non-lytically from infected cells as infectious, quasi-enveloped virions cloaked in host membranes. Quasi-enveloped HAV (eHAV) mediates stealthy cell-to-cell spread within the liver, whereas stable naked virions shed in feces are optimized for environmental transmission. eHAV lacks virus-encoded surface proteins, and how it enters cells is unknown. We show both virion types enter by clathrin- and dynamin-dependent endocytosis, facilitated by integrin β1, and traffic through early and late endosomes. Uncoating of naked virions occurs in late endosomes, whereas eHAV undergoes ALIX-dependent trafficking to lysosomes where the quasi-envelope is enzymatically degraded and uncoating ensues coincident with breaching of endolysosomal membranes. Neither virion requires PLA2G16, a phospholipase essential for entry of other picornaviruses. Thus naked and quasi-enveloped virions enter via similar endocytic pathways, but uncoat in different compartments and release their genomes to the cytosol in a manner mechanistically distinct from other Picornaviridae.
The Hepatitis A virus is a common cause of liver disease in humans. It is unable to multiply on its own so it needs to enter the cells of its host and hijack them to make new virus particles.
Infected human cells produce two different types of Hepatitis A particles. The first, known as ‘naked’ virus particles, consist of molecules of ribonucleic acid (or RNA for short) that are surrounded by a protein shell. Naked virus particles are shed in the feces of infected individuals and are very stable, allowing the virus to spread in the environment to find new hosts.
At the same time, a second type of particle, known as the ‘quasi-enveloped’ virus, circulates in the blood of the infected individual. In a quasi-enveloped particle, the RNA and protein shell are completely enclosed within a membrane that is released from the host cell. This membrane protects the protein shell from human immune responses, enabling quasi-enveloped virus particles to spread in a stealthy fashion within the liver.
It was not clear how these two different types of virus particle are both able to enter cells despite their surface being so different. To address this question, Rivera-Serrano et al. used a microscopy approach to observe Hepatitis A particles infecting human liver cells.
The experiments showed that both types of virus particle actually use similar routes. First, the external membrane of the cell folded around the particles, creating a vesicle that trapped the viruses and brought them within the cell. Inside these vesicles, the naked virus particles soon fell apart, and their RNA was released directly into the interior of the cell.
However, the vesicles that carried quasi-enveloped virus travelled further into the cell and eventually delivered their contents to a specialized compartment, the lysosome, where the virus membrane was degraded. This caused the quasi-enveloped viruses to fall apart and release their RNA into the cell more slowly than the naked particles.
Several viruses, such as the one that causes polio, also have quasi-enveloped forms. Studying how these particles are able to infect human cells while hiding behind membranes borrowed from the host may help us target these viruses better.
The presence or absence of an external lipid envelope has featured strongly in the systematic classification of animal viruses for decades. However, many viruses that have previously been considered to be ‘non-enveloped’ are now known to be released non-lytically from infected cells in a ‘quasi-enveloped’ form, enclosed in small extracellular vesicles (EVs) devoid of virus-encoded surface proteins. This phenomenon was recognized first among members of the Picornaviridae, including hepatitis A virus (HAV, genus Hepatovirus) (Feng et al., 2013), poliovirus and coxsackievirus B (genus Enterovirus) (Bird et al., 2014; Chen et al., 2015; Jackson et al., 2005; Robinson et al., 2014), but it has been demonstrated also for hepatitis E virus (Hepeviridae), rotaviruses (Reoviridae), and noroviruses (Caliciviridae) (Nagashima et al., 2017; Santiana et al., 2018). The size of the virus-containing EVs varies widely among different viruses, as does the number of virus capsids enclosed in each vesicle, most likely reflecting different mechanisms of biogenesis. However, these membrane-wrapped, quasi-enveloped virions share the capacity to infect cells, and contribute to pathogenesis either by cloaking capsids in membranes such that they are sequestered from the host immune system, or possibly by increasing the number of viral genomes delivered to newly infected cells, thereby facilitating genetic complementation (Chen et al., 2015; Feng et al., 2013).
HAV provides a prime example of viral quasi-envelopment. An ancient pathogen that remains a common cause of enterically-transmitted hepatitis globally (Lemon et al., 2017), it is hepatotropic in vivo and released without cell lysis in small EVs containing 1–3 capsids (Feng et al., 2013). In contrast to the naked, nonenveloped virus that is shed in feces, these quasi-enveloped virions (eHAV) are the only form of virus found in sera from infected humans and account for most viruses in supernatant fluids of permissive cell cultures (Feng et al., 2013). They are fully infectious,~50–110 nm in diameter, and possess a buoyant density of ~1.100 g/cm3 in iodixanol. The protein composition of the quasi-envelope resembles that of exosomes, suggesting a multivesicular body (MVB) origin, and their biogenesis is dependent on ALIX (ALG-2-interacting protein 1, also known as PDCD6IP) and other components of the endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT) (Feng et al., 2013; González-López et al., 2018; McKnight et al., 2017). The capsids enclosed within the eHAV vesicle are, like other picornaviral capsids, comprised of 60 copies of each of 4 proteins (Wang et al., 2015). However, they differ from the naked, nonenveloped capsids shed in feces in that they contain an unprocessed form of the VP1 capsid protein (VP1pX) retaining a 71 amino acid carboxy-terminal domain absent in naked virions (Feng et al., 2013).
Interactions between picornaviral capsids and their receptors are critical for promoting endocytosis, virion uncoating, and safe delivery of the viral RNA genome across endosomal membranes into the cytoplasm to establish a productive infection (Baggen et al., 2018; Groppelli et al., 2017; Strauss et al., 2015). The phosphotidylserine (PtdSer) receptor TIM1 (T cell immunoglobulin and mucin-containing domain one protein, also known as HAVCR1) was identified as a receptor for HAV twenty years ago (Feigelstock et al., 1998; Kaplan et al., 1996), prior to the discovery of quasi-enveloped virions. TIM1 has since been shown to facilitate the binding of eHAV but not naked HAV virions to the cell surface (Das et al., 2017), presumably through binding PtdSer displayed on the surface of the eHAV membrane (Feng et al., 2015). However, TIM1 is not essential for attachment or entry of either HAV or eHAV, nor is it required for infection of permissive strains of mice (Das et al., 2017). Thus far, an essential receptor has yet to be identified for either HAV or eHAV.
Little is known about how these two virion types enter cells, although prior studies point to the existence of distinct entry pathways for naked versus quasi-enveloped virions as might be expected from the presence of the limiting lipid membrane in eHAV. eHAV is selectively sensitive to the lysosomal poison chloroquine (Feng et al., 2013), and slower to enter cells and begin replication than naked HAV capsids (Das et al., 2017; Feng et al., 2013). eHAV is resistant to anti-capsid neutralizing antibodies in quantal, plaque reduction-like assays, but neutralizing antibodies restrict its replication when added to cells 4–6 hr after adsorption of the virus, suggesting a delay in uncoating within an endocytic compartment (Feng et al., 2013). Here, we report detailed roadmaps for the entry of these different types of infectious hepatitis A virions in hepatocytes, identify a key role for integrin β1 in endocytosis of both, and demonstrate distinct trafficking of these virion types through the endocytic system. We demonstrate critical temporal and spatial differences in the uncoating of HAV and eHAV capsids, and show that eHAV entry is uniquely dependent on the ESCRT accessory protein ALIX as well as lysosomal proteins involved in lipid metabolism.
Determinants of HAV and eHAV endocytosis
To identify the endocytic pathways responsible for internalization of HAV and eHAV virions in Huh-7.5 human hepatoma cells, we used pharmacological and genetic approaches to disrupt the function of regulators of several canonical endocytic routes. Inhibition of clathrin- and dynamin-mediated endocytosis by the drugs chlorpromazine and dynasore, respectively, strongly inhibited the uptake of both gradient-purified HAV and eHAV virions, as measured by RT-PCR quantitation of the viral genome in cell lysates 6 hr post-infection (hpi) (Figure 1A, Figure 1—figure supplement 1). In contrast, inhibiting cavaeolae-dependent endocytosis with filipin resulted in mild impairment of eHAV entry only, whereas inhibiting cytosolic dynein, actin- and/or Rac1-dependent micropinocytosis, or heparan sulfate proteoglycan binding with various compounds had no effect on the entry of either virion type (Figure 1A). Roles for clathrin and dynamin in the uptake of both HAV and eHAV were confirmed by siRNA-mediated depletion of clathrin heavy chain (CLTC), the µ1 subunit of the clathrin-associated adaptor complex 2 (AP2M1), or dynamin-2 (DNM2) (Figure 1B, Figure 1—figure supplement 2A). Caveolin-1 (CAV1) depletion minimally inhibited entry of eHAV only, consistent with the effect of filipin treatment, while depleting the clathrin- and caveolae-independent endocytosis regulators ADP ribosylation factor 6 (ARF6) and flotillin-1 (FLOT1) had no significant effect. Consistent with these results, confocal fluorescence microscopy revealed a high-degree of co-localization of both HAV and eHAV capsid antigen with clathrin-coated vesicles between ~0.5–1 hpi, and minimal co-localization of the eHAV capsid only with caveolin-1 (Figure 1C). Thus, both HAV and eHAV entry occur primarily through clathrin- and dynamin-dependent endocytosis, although caveolin-dependent endocytosis may play a minor role in eHAV uptake.
Naked and quasi-enveloped HAV virions undergo clathrin-dependent endocytosis facilitated by β1 integrin.
(A) Effect of endocytic inhibitors on HAV and eHAV entry quantified by RT-PCR (mean ± SD, n = 3 independent experiments). (B) Effect of siRNA-mediated depletion of endocytic regulators on HAV and eHAV entry (mean ± SD, n = 3 independent experiments). See Figure 1—figure supplement 2A for knockdown efficiencies. (C) Confocal micrographs of Huh-7.5 cells immunolabeled with anti-HAV capsid (K24F2) and anti-clathrin or anti-caveolin-1 at one hpi. Scale bar, 10 µm. (D) Effect of siRNA-mediated depletion of integrins and adhesion molecules on HAV and eHAV entry (mean ± SD, n = 3 independent experiments). See Figure 1—figure supplement 2B for knockdown efficiencies. (E) Effect of β1 integrin knockdown on HAV/eHAV attachment to cells 2 hpi at 4˚C (mean ± SD, n = 6 biological replicates from two independent experiments) or on HAV and eHAV uptake 6 hpi at 37˚C (mean ± SD, n = 3 independent experiments). (F) Levels of HAV RNA at 20 hpi in H1-HeLa engineered by CRISPR/Cas9 using a control or a specific ITGB1-targeting sgRNA (mean ± SD, n = 3 biological replicates of a representative experiment). (G) Replication of rapid-replicating HAV (18 f) in sgITGB1 H1-HeLa cells (mean ± SD, n = 3). (H) Effect of an inhibitory RGD-containing peptide or β1 integrin activating antibodies on HAV and eHAV uptake (mean ± SD, n = 3–4 biological replicates of a representative experiment). (I) Confocal micrographs of Huh-7.5 cells incubated at 4˚C or 37˚C for 1 hr and immunolabeled with anti-HAV capsid (K24F2) and anti-β1 integrin. Scale bar, 10 µm. For numeric data plotted in graphs associated with this figure, see Figure 1—source data 1.
The host proteins associated with the eHAV quasi-envelope are similar to those identified in exosomes (McKnight et al., 2017). This suggests that eHAV entry might be mediated by integrins or adhesion molecules previously reported to be involved in the uptake of EVs (van Dongen et al., 2016). Consistent with this hypothesis, siRNA-mediated depletion of integrin β1 (ITGB1) resulted in a striking and highly significant reduction in the uptake of quasi-enveloped as well as naked virions (Figure 1D, Figure 1—figure supplement 2B). Depleting integrin β1 did not reduce the quantity of eHAV or HAV bound to the cell surface at 4°C, but significantly reduced the amount of eHAV and HAV RNA present in Huh-7.5 cells 6 hpi at 37˚C (Figure 1E). CRISPR/Cas9 knockout of ITGB1 also reduced both eHAV and HAV uptake and spread in H1-HeLa cells (Figure 1F,G). Consistent with these results, pre-treating Huh-7.5 cells with an RGD peptide containing an integrin β1-binding motif reduced uptake of both virion types by about 50% (Figure 1H). On the other hand, pre-treating cells with antibodies that activate integrin β1 by binding to and stabilizing specific β1 conformations (Su et al., 2016) increased viral uptake compared to an inert integrin β1 antibody (K-20), and revealed differences in the interaction of integrin β1 with eHAV versus HAV (Figure 1H). The activating antibody TS2/16, which binds an open conformation of β1 (Su et al., 2016), enhanced eHAV but not HAV entry, whereas 8E3 and HUTS-4, which bind extended and open headpiece β1 conformations, respectively, had the opposite effect, enhancing naked HAV but not quasi-enveloped eHAV entry. These data hint at differences in the ligands, yet to be identified, that are bound by integrin β1 during eHAV and HAV entry.
In contrast to the impact of integrin β1 depletion, depletion experiments failed to confirm a requirement for any specific α integrin in the uptake of either virion (Figure 1D, Figure 1—figure supplement 2B). While RNAi-mediated depletion of integrin α1 caused a modest but statistically significant decrease in HAV uptake in Huh-7.5 cells, this was not confirmed in H1-HeLa cells with CRISPR/Cas9 knockout of ITGA1 (Figure 1D, Figure 1—figure supplement 3). Confocal microscopic imaging also suggested eHAV was associated with integrin β1, both at the surface of Huh-7.5 cells at 4°C and during virion internalization at 37˚C (Figure 1I), but not with either α5 or αV integrins (Figure 1E, Figure 1—figure supplement 4). Collectively, these results demonstrate that HAV and eHAV are dependent on distinct integrin β1 interactions for uptake by clathrin- and dynamin-mediated endocytosis, but leave unanswered the role of α integrins.
Distinct intracellular trafficking routes for naked and quasi-enveloped HAV
Several GTPases are well-known for their role in the sorting of cargo through functionally distinct endosomes, with Rab5A and Rab7a involved in trafficking through early and late endosomes, respectively (Mellman, 1996; Mercer et al., 2010). Confocal microscopy of infected Huh-7.5 cells revealed transient co-localization of the capsid antigen in both naked and quasi-enveloped virions with Rab5A+ and Rab7a+ compartments around~1–2 hpi (Figure 2A). In contrast, neither type of virion was associated with Rab11A+ recycling endosomes. RNAi-mediated depletion of Rab5A or Rab7a, but not Rab11A, resulted in a significant reduction in the accumulation of intracellular HAV RNA (Figure 2B, Figure 2—figure supplement 1). Thus, both types of HAV virions traffic through early and late endosomes shortly after uptake into the cell through clathrin-mediated endocytosis.
Distinct endocytic sorting of naked and quasi-enveloped HAV.
(A) Confocal micrographs of Huh-7.5 cells immunolabeled with anti-HAV capsid (K24F2) and anti-Rab5A, Rab7a, or Rab11A at two hpi. Scale bar, 10 µm. (B) Effect of siRNA-mediated depletion of Rab GTPases on HAV and eHAV entry (mean ± SD, n = 3 independent experiments). See Figure 2—figure supplement 1 for knockdown efficiencies. (C) Confocal micrographs of Huh-7.5 cells immunolabeled with anti-HAV capsid (K24F2) and anti-LAMP1 at six hpi. Scale bar, 10 µm. (D) Confocal micrographs of Huh-7.5 cells adsorbed with naked HAV or eHAV and immunolabeled with antibodies against HAV capsid (K24F2), β1 integrin, and either Rab7 or LAMP1. Scale bar, 10 µm. (E) Confocal micrographs of Huh-7.5 cells previously transfected with a control or ALIX-specific siRNAs and immunolabeled with anti-HAV capsid (K24F2) and anti-LAMP1 at 12 hpi with eHAV. Scale bar, 10 µm. See Figure 2—figure supplement 5 for knockdown efficiencies. (F) Effect of ALIX depletion by siRNA on eHAV and HAV entry and replication at 22 hpi (mean ± SD, n = 2 biological replicates for a representative experiment). For numeric data plotted in graphs associated with this figure, see Figure 2—source data 1.
Our earlier studies suggested that infection with eHAV, but not naked HAV, requires endosomal acidification since it was specifically inhibited by the lysosomal poison, chloroquine (Feng et al., 2013). Consistent with this, confocal microscopy demonstrated that the capsid antigen associated with quasi-enveloped eHAV, but not naked HAV, was selectively trafficked to LAMP1+ and VAMP8+ lysosomes as early as 4 hpi, remaining there up to 12 hpi (Figure 2C, Figure 2—figure supplement 2). Notably, naked virion capsid antigen was never found to be associated with lysosomes, suggesting that Rab7a+ late endosomes represent the final trafficking destination of naked HAV. Importantly, sorting of both eHAV and naked HAV virions was associated with co-internalization of integrin β1 to these endolysosomal compartments (Figure 2D, Figure 2—figure supplement 3). Similar results were obtained when integrin β1 expressed on the cell surface was labeled prior to virus adsorption with the activating monoclonal antibody TS2/16 (Figure 2D, Figure 2—figure supplement 4), which triggers the endocytosis and trafficking of integrin β1 to lysosomes (Margadant et al., 2012). Since components of the ESCRT machinery, particularly ALIX, are involved in endosomal sorting to the lysosome (Dores et al., 2016; Murrow et al., 2015), we asked whether eHAV trafficking to the lysosome is dependent on ESCRT. Strikingly, quasi-enveloped eHAV virions failed to reach the lysosome in cells depleted of ALIX, but not the ESCRT-III proteins CHMP1B or CHMP2A (Figure 2E, Figure 2—figure supplement 5). The apparent lack of a requirement for these ESCRT-III proteins could reflect less robust depletion of the targeted mRNA than that achieved with ALIX (Figure 2—figure supplement 5), or possibly the existence of functionally redundant homologs such as CHMP2B. Consistent with the imaging studies, depletion of ALIX had a strong negative effect on the early replication of eHAV, but not naked HAV (Figure 2F). Altogether, these results demonstrate that while both types of virions reach the late endosome, only eHAV is trafficked to the lysosome through an ALIX-dependent mechanism.
Loss of the eHAV quasi-envelope occurs within the lysosome
Although an essential receptor molecule has yet to be identified for HAV (Das et al., 2017), studies with other picornaviruses (Strauss et al., 2015) suggest that the entry of both naked and quasi-enveloped virions is likely to involve binding of the capsid to a specific receptor that triggers uncoating. With quasi-enveloped eHAV, however, this can only occur after the membrane cloaking the capsid is degraded or fuses with a cellular membrane. Fusion seems unlikely given the absence of any virus-encoded proteins in the quasi-envelope (McKnight et al., 2017), whereas the selective targeting of eHAV to lysosomes suggests that the quasi-envelope, despite being stable at pH 5.0, might be degraded by cholesterol transporter proteins and hydrolytic enzymes expressed within late endosomes and lysosomes (Feng et al., 2013; Kolter and Sandhoff, 2010). A similar process has been suggested recently to facilitate the entry of phylogenetically-distinct, quasi-enveloped hepeviruses (Yin et al., 2016). Consistent with this hypothesis, partial siRNA-mediated depletion of the cholesterol transporter Niemann-Pick disease type C1 (NPC1) protein and lysosomal acid lipase (LAL), but not LAMP1, significantly impaired eHAV but not naked HAV infection, likely through altering the kinetics of quasi-envelope degradation (Figure 3A, Figure 3—figure supplement 1). Pharmacological inhibition of NPC1 and LAL with U18666A and Lalistat-2 (Lu et al., 2015; Rosenbaum et al., 2010), respectively, recapitulated these effects individually, and demonstrated an additive effect when combined (Figure 3B).
Degradation of the eHAV quasi-envelope occurs within the lysosome.
(A) Effect of siRNA-mediated depletion of lysosomal-associated proteins on HAV and eHAV entry (mean ± SD, n = 3 independent experiments). See Figure 3—figure supplement 1 for knockdown efficiencies. (B) Effect of inhibition of NPC1 or LAL by U18666A or Lalistat-2, respectively, on HAV and eHAV entry (mean ± SD, n = 3 independent experiments). (C) Strategy for membrane labeling of exosomes and eHAV with PKH26 dye. (D) Confocal micrographs of Huh-7.5 cells inoculated with PKH26-labeled eHAV and immunostained with anti-HAV capsid (K24F2) and anti-LAMP1. Histograms depict pixel intensities for the structures indicated with a yellow arrow. Scale bar, 10 µm. (E) Confocal micrographs of Huh-7.5 cells inoculated with PKH26-labeled eHAV in presence of Lalistat-2 and immunostained with anti-HAV capsid (K24F2) and anti-LAMP1. Graph displays the ratio of structures corresponding to PKH26-associated HAV capsid (green + red signal) over HAV capsids devoid of PKH26 fluorescence (green alone) within lysosomes per cell. Scale bar, 10 µm (F) Effect of Lalistat-2 on post-endocytic antibody-mediated neutralization of eHAV. Neutralizing anti-HAV (JC antibody) was added at the indicated intervals after removal of the inoculum and intracellular viral RNA was quantified at 48 hr (mean ±SD, n = 2 biological replicates for a representative experiment). For numeric data plotted in graphs associated with this figure, see Figure 3—source data 1.
To confirm that the quasi-envelope is degraded within the lysosome, we harvested eHAV from supernatant fluids of infected Huh-7.5 cells and labelled the virions with the membrane-intercalating, red fluorescent dye PKH26 (Figure 3C). PKH26 irreversibly stains membrane lipids, allowing the labelled virions to be purified subsequently by isopycnic ultracentrifugation, and the fate of the quasi-envelope tracked by confocal microscopy following uptake into cells. We combined this approach with immunostaining cells with a monoclonal antibody to the capsid (K24F2) under minimal permeabilization conditions. This allowed us to visualize capsid antigen associated with PKH26-labeled membranes, and to differentiate eHAV from other EVs with similar density that co-purify in iodixanol gradients (Feng et al., 2013; McKnight et al., 2017). Confocal microscopy of Huh-7.5 cells inoculated with the gradient-purified, PKH26-labeled eHAV showed that capsid antigen was surrounded by PKH26-labeled membranes within lysosomes at ~6 hpi (Figure 3D). Thus, eHAV reaches the lysosome cloaked in membranes. At later time points, however, the PKH26 fluorescence was absent although the capsid antigen was still detected within lysosomes, consistent with the quasi-envelope being degraded within the lysosome to produce a naked capsid. As HAV replicates slowly in cell culture (Whetter et al., 1994), newly synthesized capsid antigen associated with the generation of progeny virions was not detected until after ~18–24 hpi, at which time there was minimal localization of capsid antigen within lysosomes.
As the data presented above suggest that LAL is important for eHAV entry (Figure 3A,B), we monitored loss of the eHAV membrane over time by following the decay of PKH26 fluorescence in cells infected in the presence or absence of the LAL inhibitor, Lalistat-2 (Figure 3E). As expected, inhibition of LAL delayed the kinetics of eHAV membrane loss without altering its trafficking to the lysosome, further supporting a model in which degradation of the eHAV membrane is facilitated by lysosomal enzymes. Interestingly, similar experiments using PKH26-labeled EVs collected from supernatant fluids of uninfected Huh-7.5 cells showed targeting of the PKH26 dye to CD63+ endosomes, not lysosomes, without any decay in the fluorescence signal even as late as 24 hr post-inoculation (Figure 3D, Figure 3—figure supplement 2). This suggests that there may be specific targeting signals present within the eHAV membrane that are absent in unrelated EVs.
Although the quasi-envelope protects the virus against neutralization in quantal infectious focus-reduction neutralization assays, our previous studies show that eHAV (but not naked HAV virions) can be neutralized within an endocytic compartment when neutralizing IgG or IgA antibodies are added to cells as late as 4–6 hr after adsorption of the virus (Feng et al., 2013). To determine whether such neutralization is dependent upon LAL-mediated degradation of the quasi-envelope within lysosomes, we pre-treated Huh-7.5 cells with Lalistat-2 prior to infection with naked HAV or eHAV, and added anti-HAV-positive human plasma (‘JC’ plasma) at intervals following removal of the inoculum. Consistent with our previous results (Feng et al., 2013), neutralizing antibodies had no effect on replication of the nonenveloped, naked HAV under these conditions (Figure 3F, top), whereas replication of quasi-enveloped eHAV was substantially reduced when antibody was added as late as ~4 hr after adsorption (Figure 3F, bottom). Importantly, however, the period of time during which eHAV was vulnerable to neutralization was extended significantly in cells treated with Lalistat-2 (Figure 3F, bottom). These results are consistent with Lalistat-2 slowing the transition of eHAV to a neutralization-susceptible state. Collectively, these data show that the quasi-enveloped eHAV capsid remains wrapped in membranes until the virion reaches the lysosome, where the quasi-envelope is degraded by lysosomal enzymes and cholesterol transporter proteins, rendering the capsid susceptible to antibody-mediated neutralization and, presumably, interactions with a yet-to-be-identified receptor.
Kinetic and spatial differences in uncoating of HAV and eHAV capsids
To determine whether there are differences in the kinetics of uncoating of naked and quasi-enveloped capsids, we dually immunostained infected cells with a murine monoclonal antibody (K34C8) that recognizes an epitope expressed only on fully assembled capsids, and polyclonal human antibody (JC plasma) that recognizes both assembled capsids and assembly intermediates (14S pentamers) (González-López et al., 2018; Stapleton et al., 1993). Infections were done in the presence of cycloheximide to prevent synthesis of new viral proteins, such that uncoating would lead to loss of K34C8, but not JC, antigenicity. Confocal imaging of cells inoculated with naked HAV particles showed that the K34C8 signal was lost ~1–2 hpi without the capsid ever reaching the lysosome (Figure 4A). In contrast, K34C8-labeled capsid antigen was readily detected at ~4 hpi within lysosomes in cells infected with eHAV. This was followed by a progressive loss of the K34C8 signal, while JC antibody continued to detect capsid antigen within lysosomes up to 12 hpi. Thus, naked virions uncoat relatively rapidly upon entry, likely in a late endosomal compartment, whereas the capsids enclosed within eHAV vesicles do not uncoat until the virus reached the lysosome 4 hr or more following adsorbtion.
Different uncoating mechanisms for naked and quasi-enveloped HAV.
(A) Confocal micrographs of Huh-7.5 cells adsorbed with HAV or eHAV in presence of cycloheximide immunostained with an antibody that recognizes intact HAV capsids (K34C8), a polyclonal human anti-HAV that recognizes denatured P1 proteins (JC), and LAMP1. Histograms depict pixel intensities for the structures indicated with a yellow arrow. Scale bar, 10 µm. (B) Kinetics of HAV RNA translation measured by nanoluciferase production by HAV-NLuc in H1-HeLa cells pre-treated or not with GnHCl to inhibit viral replication. (C) Schematic of the endolysosomal permeabilization assay using endocytosed ribotoxins. (D) Virus-induced endolysosomal membrane damage at six hpi. H1-HeLa cells were pulsed for 20 min with puromycin prior to cell lysis, and protein synthesis was analyzed by immunoblotting using an anti-puromycin antibody. Alternatively, viruses were incubated overnight at 4˚C with human ‘JC’ plasma containing neutralizing HAV antibodies prior to adsorption and adsorbed as a mix. Band intensities were normalized to actin and protein synthesis is expressed as band intensity in cells infected in presence of α-sarcin relative to cells infected with virus alone (mean ± SD from two independent cultures of a representative of four independent experiments). (E) Micrographs of Huh-7.5 cells with lysosomes pre-loaded with fluorescently-conjugated dextran (10 kDa) prior to adsorption with HAV or eHAV and immunostained using antibodies against HAV capsid (K24F2) and LAMP1. Graphs display the number of dextran +compartments per cell (n = 7–10 cells per condition for a representative of three independent experiments). Scale bar, 10 µm. For numeric data plotted in graphs associated with this figure, see Figure 4—source data 1.
To assess how differences in the kinetics of uncoating of naked versus quasi-enveloped virions influence the onset and rate of polyprotein translation and viral RNA replication, we inoculated H1-HeLa cells with gradient-purified virions produced by a recombinant reporter virus that expresses nanoluciferase (HAV-NLuc) from within its polyprotein. Cells were infected in the presence or absence of the picornaviral RNA synthesis inhibitor, guanidine hydrochloride (GnHCl), and production of nanoluciferase measured over time (Figure 4B). Nanoluciferase expression resulting from translation of the incoming naked virus genome could be detected as early as ~4 hpi, while translation of the eHAV genome was not detectable until ~8 hpi. In both cases, nanoluciferase expression increased similarly in the presence or absence of GnHCl for ~10 hr once translation had commenced, following which accelerating increases in the absence of GnHCl indicated the production of new viral transcripts (Figure 4B). Thus, translation of the genomic RNA as well as the first round of RNA replication occurs sooner with naked HAV than with quasi-enveloped eHAV, consistent with the relatively rapid uncoating of the naked virion.
Endolysosomal membrane damage and hepatovirus entry
The data presented above indicate that late endosomes and lysosomes are the terminal trafficking destinations of naked and quasi-enveloped HAV virions, respectively, and that the capsids associated with these different virion types uncoat and release their RNA genomes within these distinct endolysosomal compartments. However, it is not clear in either case how the RNA genome released from the capsid is then translocated from the endolysosomal lumen to the cytosol where it is translated on ribosomes. The VP4 capsid peptide possesses membrane pore forming activity in vitro (Shukla et al., 2014), but neither HAV nor eHAV has been shown previously to disrupt the integrity of endolysosomal membranes during infection. To determine whether hepatoviruses induce pores in endolysosomal membranes during entry as observed with other picornaviruses, we inoculated cells with eHAV or HAV in the presence of α-sarcin or restrictocin A, membrane-impermeable ribotoxins that are released into the cytoplasm only if endolysosomal membranes are compromised (Figure 4C) (Cuadras et al., 1997; Fernández-Puentes and Carrasco, 1980; Staring et al., 2017). Global protein synthesis, quantified by puromycin incorporation, was significantly reduced in cells ~ 6 hr after adsorbtion of eHAV but not naked HAV, in the presence of either α-sarcin or restrictocin A (Figure 4D, Figure 4—figure supplement 1A,B). Reductions in protein synthesis were similar but not as strong as those observed in cells infected with human rhinovirus 14 (HRV14), included as a positive control in these experiments, and were not observed in cells inoculated with eHAV in the presence of neutralizing anti-HAV antibody which abrogated the ability of eHAV to induce endosomal escape of the ribotoxins (Figure 4D, Figure 4—figure supplement 1B). This effect was specific to eHAV, and naked HAV was never found to induce ribotoxin escape from endosomes at any time post-infection, even under conditions in which it was able to initiate translation of its genome (Figure 4D, Figure 4—figure supplement 2A,B).
To confirm that eHAV induces endolysosomal membrane injury and to determine more specifically that it occurs within lysosomes, as expected from the trafficking studies described above, we pre-loaded the lysosomes of Huh-7.5 cells with fluorophore-conjugated dextran prior to virus infection. Dextran is a complex, branched glucan that enters cells through fluid-phase pinocytosis and accumulates following its internalization in endolysosomal vesicles positive for LAMP1 and Rab7/LAMP1 (Humphries et al., 2011). The release of this pre-loaded dextran from lysosomes into the cytoplasm can be induced by lysosomotropic agents like L-leucyl-L-leucine methyl ester (LLOMe) (Figure 4E, Figure 4—figure supplement 3), providing a useful measure of lysosomal membrane permeability. As expected, cells infected with eHAV demonstrated significantly reduced numbers of dextran-positive compartments as early as six hpi (Figure 4E), a time at which eHAV was seen to be accumulating within lysosomes and sometimes co-localizing with dextran. In contrast, naked virions were never observed in lysosomes and did not alter the number of dextran-containing compartments, even at 12 hpi.
Collectively, these data indicate that eHAV uncoats within the lysosomal lumen and induces membrane damage congruent with release of its genome to the cytoplasm, whereas uncoating of naked HAV virions takes place within a late endosomal compartment in the absence of detectable endosomal membrane damage. Whether the absence of detectable endosomal rupture during HAV entry reflects a process that is mechanistically different from that by which eHAV releases its RNA genome across endolysosomal membranes is uncertain. It could be simply that late endosomal membranes breached by HAV are more capable of repair than the lysosomal membrane breached by eHAV.
Role of PLA2G16 in eHAV and HAV entry and replication
PLA2G16 was identified recently as an essential entry factor for several members of the Picornaviridae (Staring et al., 2017). A phospholipase, it facilitates the safe translocation of the RNA genome from the endosome to the ribosome, providing for its escape from autophagosome-dependent degradation initiated by galectin-8 recruited to sites of endosomal membrane damage. To determine whether either HAV or eHAV entry is similarly dependent on PLA2G16, wild-type and CRISPR/Cas9-edited H1-Hela cells lacking expression of PLA2G16 (ΔPLA2G16 cells) or galectin-8 (ΔLGALS8 cells) (Staring et al., 2017) were infected with the nanoluc reporter virus. Surprisingly, neither PLA2G16 or LGALS8 knockout resulted in a difference in nanoluciferase expression 12 hpi with either HAV or eHAV (Figure 5A). Thus, unlike enteroviruses and cardioviruses (Staring et al., 2017), PLA2G16 is not required for safe transport of the hepatovirus genome from the endosomal lumen to ribosomes to initiate viral protein synthesis. Although PLA2G16 knockout reduces the permissiveness of H1-HeLa cells for enterovirus infection (Staring et al., 2017), longer term studies demonstrated that the replication of both HAV and eHAV was enhanced in ΔPLA2G16 cells, with increased hepatovirus RNA abundance, more dsRNA, and greater viral protein synthesis (Figure 5B-Figure 5—figure supplement 1A,B). The replication of naked HAV was similarly boosted in Huh-7.5 cells with siRNA- or CRISPR/Cas9-mediated depletion of PLA2G16 (Figure 5B, Figure 4—figure supplement 2A,B). Thus, PLA2G16 restricts, rather than promotes hepatovirus infection. Further experiments demonstrated that this restriction occurs at a post-entry step in replication of the HAV genome, as replication of a subgenomic reporter replicon RNA (HAV-FLuc) lacking capsid-coding sequence was similarly enhanced in PLA2G16 knockout Huh-7.5 cells (Figure 5C).
Dispensability of PLA2G16 during HAV entry.
(A) Translation of HAV RNA during viral entry (~2000 GEs/cell, 12 hpi) measured by HAV-NLuc activity in H1-HeLa cells knocked-out for PLA2G16 or LGALS8 (mean ± SD, n = 2 biological replicates for a representative experiment). (B) Replication kinetics of naked or quasi-enveloped HAV/NLuc in H1-HeLa cells (mean ± SD, n = 3 biological replicates for a representative experiment). (C) Graphs showing luciferase activity expressed by transfected HAV-FLuc subgenomic replicon RNA (left) or a replication-incompetent mutant (right) in sgControl or sgPLA2G16 Huh-7.5 cells (mean ± SD, n = 2 biological replicates for a representative experiment). At the lower right is an immunoplot of PLA2G16 in these cells (*non-specific band). (D) Micrographs of H1-HeLa cells immunolabeled with anti-HAV capsid (K24F2) and anti-PLA2G16 at six hpi with naked HAV or eHAV. White arrows indicate sites of presumed membrane damage where PLA2G16 has accumulated. Scale bar, 10 µm. Histograms depict pixel intensities across the drawn arrow on the inset overlay. Graphs show the co-localization (Mander’s coefficients) (n = 8 cells per condition) between HAV and PLA2G16 or the number of vesicles positive for both HAV capsid and PLA2G16. (E) Current model for cellular entry of naked and quasi-enveloped HAV virions. PS: phosphatidylserine. For numeric data plotted in graphs associated with this figure, see Figure 5—source data 1.
Although PLA2G16 is not required for entry of either virion type, confocal imaging showed co-localization of PLA2G16 with eHAV capsid antigen six hpi, presumably at sites of damaged lysosomal membranes (Figure 5D). Co-localization was not observed in cells infected with naked HAV. Thus, PLA2G16 appears to be recruited to sites of endolysosomal membrane damage induced by eHAV, behaving as it does in response to entry of other picornaviruses (Staring et al., 2017). However, PLA2G16 is not required to protect the RNA genome from autophagy during its delivery from the endolysosome to ribosomes, suggesting a fundamental difference in how hepatoviruses and other picornaviruses manage the final step in viral entry and deliver their RNA genomes across endolysosomal membranes.
Naked HAV and quasi-enveloped eHAV virions play distinct but equally important roles in the pathogenesis of hepatitis A, with naked HAV virions responsible for fecal-oral transmission of the virus between individuals, and quasi-enveloped eHAV mediating subsequent spread within the newly infected host (Feng et al., 2013; Hirai-Yuki et al., 2016). Here, we describe the entry pathways followed by these two virion types. The early endocytic trafficking routes for these different types of infectious virions are quite similar, but they are differentially sorted within the late endosome and uncoat their encapsidated RNA genomes in different endocytic compartments. The entry of both types of virions requires clathrin- and dynamin-dependent endocytosis and results in trafficking through Rab5+ and Rab7+ endosomal compartments, but only eHAV continues its trafficking to reach the lysosome, where degradation of the quasi-envelope and uncoating of the genome ensues (Figure 5E). In contrast, naked HAV uncoats in late endosomes shortly after internalization, resulting in relatively rapid translation of its genomic RNA. These results provide new insight into how quasi-enveloped hepatoviruses infect the cell, and are likely relevant to pathogenic quasi-enveloped viruses from other families, notably hepeviruses and noroviruses, that are released from infected cells in EVs of comparable size (Nagashima et al., 2017; Santiana et al., 2018).
The quasi-envelope represents an elegant strategy for evading antibody-mediated immune responses (Feng et al., 2013; Takahashi et al., 2010), but it imposes a need for additional steps in cellular entry prior to uncoating of the genome. PtdSer is displayed on the eHAV surface and the initial attachment of eHAV to cells occurs in part through the PtdSer receptor, TIM1 (HAVCR1) (Das et al., 2017; Feng et al., 2015). This interaction likely promotes virus spread within the liver, but TIM1 is not essential for infection (Das et al., 2017). We show here that integrin β1 is also involved in quasi-enveloped virus entry. It is not required for attachment to the cell at 4˚C, but is essential for efficient internalization of eHAV at 37˚C (Figure 1D,E). It acts similarly in uptake of the naked virion, but must do so through interactions with a different ligand since integrin β1 co-localized with both virion types on the cell surface, and within endosomes, hours before degradation of the quasi-envelope (Figure 1I). Consistent with this, activating antibodies that stabilize specific conformations of integrin β1 (Su et al., 2016) differentially enhanced the uptake of the two virion types (Figure 1H). Integrin β1 facilitates uptake of several other picornaviruses through interactions with their capsids (Merilahti et al., 2012), and the VP3 capsid protein of HAV contains conserved RGD and KGE integrin recognition motifs. However, neither motif is exposed on the surface of the naked HAV capsid (Wang et al., 2015), and thus both are unlikely ligands for integrin β1. We conclude that integrin β1 binds elsewhere on the HAV capsid, likely in association with an α integrin, and also interacts with a host protein on the surface of eHAV. We were unable to identify a specific α integrin involved in entry of either virion type, but sub-optimal knockdown conditions and/or promiscuity of integrin β1 for an α integrin partner, may have masked a specific role for an α integrin(s).
Collectively, our data show trafficking of quasi-enveloped virus to the lysosome is essential for entry and uncoating of its genome. In addition to Rab5 and Rab7 GTPases, this requires the ESCRT accessory protein, ALIX (Figure 2), likely due to the critical role it plays in regulating trafficking from late endosomes to the lysosome (Murrow et al., 2015). ALIX mediates the ubiquitin-independent sorting and trafficking of certain G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) to lysosomes through interactions with YPX3L motifs (Dores et al., 2016). The VP2 capsid protein of HAV possesses two such YPX3L ALIX interaction motifs, and we have shown that these have an essential role in the biogenesis of eHAV (Feng et al., 2013; González-López et al., 2018). Thus, ALIX is required for both efficient entry and release of quasi-enveloped hepatovirus. However, ALIX mediates sorting of eHAV to the lysosome prior to degradation of its membrane, and thus promotes the entry process at a point during which the VP2 YPX3L motifs are occluded by the quasi-envelope, and moreover are within the lumen of the endosome and not available to interact with cytoplasmic ALIX. Rather than a direct interaction with the virus, the requirement for ALIX in eHAV entry is more likely to reflect a role for the ESCRT-associated protein in maturation and trafficking of the late endosome, akin to its suggested role in entry of human papillomavirus and arenaviruses (Gräßel et al., 2016; Pasqual et al., 2011).
Is there a specific signal that directs the endocytosed eHAV virion to lysosomes? We found that nonspecific EVs released from uninfected Huh-7.5 cells (most likely exosomes) did not traffic to lysosomes, and that PKH26-labelled membranes associated with these vesicles decayed within the cell much more slowly than the eHAV membrane (Figure 3D, Figure 3—figure supplement 2). These results are consistent with previous studies of exosome entry that show PKH26-labeled exosome membranes can be tracked within cells for 24 hr or longer after entry with little or no accumulation in lysosomes (Dutta et al., 2014; Ringuette Goulet et al., 2018; Svensson et al., 2013). This suggests the existence (or possibly the absence) of a specific targeting signal within the eHAV membrane that results in these virions being routed to the lysosomal lumen for degradation of the quasi-envelope. Quantitative proteomics studies provide some support for this hypothesis, as such studies show differential enrichment of host proteins associated with eHAV versus exosomes released from the same cells (McKnight et al., 2017). Within the lysosome, both LAL and NPC1 contribute to the degradation of the quasi-envelope required for uncoating of the genome (Figure 3), recapitulating the function of these lysosomal proteins in the quasi-enveloped hepevirus life cycle (Yin et al., 2016). No other picornavirus is known to be trafficked to the lysosome for uncoating.
What triggers uncoating of the eHAV capsid after degradation of the quasi-envelope within the lysosome, and is this trigger the same as that for naked capsids within late endosomes? For picornaviruses of the Aphthovirus genus, low pH alone is sufficient to promote the dissociation of the capsid into pentameric subunits (Tuthill et al., 2009). However, the HAV capsid is highly resistant to acid pH (Siegl et al., 1981). An alternative model is provided by poliovirus, which interacts with a specific receptor (CD155) that triggers a massive conformational rearrangement of the capsid providing for safe transfer of genomic RNA across the endosomal membrane (Groppelli et al., 2017; Strauss et al., 2015). This is accompanied by evidence of endosomal pore formation in ribotoxin assays, such as that we show here for quasi-enveloped hepatoviruses (Figure 4D) (Schober et al., 1998; Staring et al., 2017). However, we did not detect pore formation in cells infected with naked HAV, even under conditions in which we documented translation of the genomic RNA, and thus successful translocation of the genome across the endosomal membrane (Figure 4—figure supplements 1 and 2). Crystallographic studies have identified substantial differences in the structures of the hepatovirus and poliovirus capsids, including a domain swap in VP2 and the absence of a lipid ‘pocket factor’ in HAV (Wang et al., 2015). Interactions of the poliovirus capsid with its cellular receptor lead to the release of this pocket factor and an irreversible expansion of the capsid (Strauss et al., 2015). Whether a similar expansion of the HAV capsid occurs during the process of its uncoating is unknown. The HAV capsid is exceptionally stable, and how it uncoats is enigmatic (Stuart et al., 2018). Recent studies show that monoclonal antibodies that bind with high affinity are capable of destabilizing the HAV capsid, possibly mimicking a specific receptor interaction (Wang et al., 2017). The nature of that putative receptor remains unknown, but data we present here suggest that it is likely to be present in late endolysosomal membranes.
We found that the phospholipase, PLA2G16, is not required for safe translocation of the RNA genome in either virion type from the endolysosomal lumen to the cytoplasm. These observations stand in sharp contrast to the essential role of PLA2G16 in the entry of multiple other picornaviruses (Staring et al., 2017). Our data point collectively to fundamental differences in the mechanism(s) by which hepatoviruses and other picornaviruses accomplish the endgame in entry, delivering their RNA genome to the ribosome where synthesis of the viral polyprotein can commence. The data leave open the possibility that this process differs for eHAV and HAV not only in where it occurs spatially within the endolysosomal system, but also in its molecular details. This question is likely to be resolved only after it is determined whether a specific receptor protein exists that is capable of triggering uncoating of the hepatovirus capsid.
Key resources table
Reagent type (species)
Source/reference
(human) Huh-7.5 PMID: 12584342 RRID:
CVCL_7927 Gift from Charles
(human) HeLa ΔPLA2G16 PMID: 28077878 Gift from Thijn
Brummelkamp
(human) HeLa ΔGALS8 PMID: 28077878 Gift from Thijn
sample (virus) HM175/18 f hepatitis
A virus (HAV) PMID: 1705995 GenBank KP879216.1
Biological sample (virus) HM175/p16 hepatitis
Biological sample (virus) Human rhinovirus 14
(HRV14) PMID: 8383233 Recovered from pWR3.26;
gift from Roland Rueckert
Antibody (rabbit) anti-clathrin heavy
chain Abcam ab21679 (WB) 1:2000, (IF)
Antibody (rabbit) anti-AP2M1 GeneTex GTX113332 (WB) 1:1000
Antibody (rabbit) anti-DNM2 GeneTex GTX113171 (WB) 1:1000
Antibody (rabbit) anti-CAV1 Abcam ab2910 (WB) 1:2000,
(IF) 1:500
Antibody (rabbit) anti-FLOT1 GeneTex GTX104769 (WB) 1:1000
Antibody (rabbit) anti-ARF6 GeneTex GTX112872 (WB) 1:1000
Antibody (rabbit) anti-Rab5A Abcam ab18211 (WB) 1:1000
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-Rab7a Cell Signaling 9367 (WB) 1:1000,
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-Rab11A Cell Signaling 5589 (WB) 1:1000,
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-NPC1 Abcam ab134113 (WB) 1:2000
Antibody (rabbit) anti-LAL GeneTex GTX101169 (WB) 1:1000
Antibody (mouse, mAb) anti-ALIX Santa Cruz sc-53540 (WB) 1:500
Antibody (mouse, mAb) anti-puromycin Millipore MABE343 (WB) 1:10000
Antibody (rabbit) anti-PLA2G16 Cayman Chemical 10337 (WB) 1:200
Antibody (goat) anti-Galectin-8 R and D Systems AF1305 (WB) 1:500
Antibody (mouse, mAb) anti-tubulin Sigma T6199 (WB) 1:20000
Antibody (rabbit) and anti-actin Sigma A2066 (WB) 1:5000
Antibody (sheep) anti-VCAM-1 R and D Systems AF809 (WB) 1:250
Antibody (sheep) anti-ICAM-1 R and D Systems AF720 (WB) 1:250
(rat, mAb) anti-Tspan8 R and D Systems MAB4734 (WB) 1:150
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-integrin β1 Cell Signaling 9699 (WB) 1:1000
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-integrin β3 Cell Signaling 13166 (WB) 1:500
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-integrin α1 R and D Systems MAB5676 (WB) 1:250
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-integrin α2 Abcam ab133557 (WB) 1:500
Antibody (rabbit) anti-integrin α3 Millipore AB1920 (WB) 1:250
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-integrin α4 Cell Signaling 8440 (WB) 1:250
Antibody (rabbit) anti-integrin α5 Cell Signaling 4705 (WB) 1:700
Antibody (rabbit) anti-integrin αV Cell Signaling 4711 (WB) 1:700
Antibody (rabbit) anti-integrin α6 GeneTex GTX100565 (WB) 1:500
Antibody (rabbit) anti-integrin α7 Thermo Fisher
Sci PA5-37435 (WB) 1:250
Antibody (rabbit) anti-integrin α8 Novus Biologicals NBP1-59940 (WB) 1:250
Antibody (mouse, mAb) anti-integrin α9 R and D Systems MAB4574 (WB) 1:250
Antibody (mouse, mAb) anti-integrin β1 Abcam ab30394 (IF) 1:100
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-integrin α5 Abcam ab150361 (IF) 1:250
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-integrin αV Abcam ab179475 (IF) 1:500
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-Rab11 Cell Signaling 5589 (IF) 1:100
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-LAMP1 Cell Signaling 9091 (IF) 1:200
Antibody (rabbit, mAb) anti-VAMP8 Abcam ab76021 (IF) 1:250
Antibody (mouse, mAb) anti-CD63 BD Biosciences #556019 (IF) 1:50
Antibody (rabbit) anti-PLA2G16 Sigma H8290 (IF) 1:50
Antibody (mouse, mAb) anti-dsRNA Scicons J2 (IF) 1:1000
Antibody (human) JC human anti-HAV PMID: 23542590 JC (IF) 1:600
Antibody (mouse, mAb) K24F2 anti-HAV
capsid PMID: 6315771 K24F2 (IF) 1:100
Antibody (mouse, mAb) K34C8
anti-HAV capsid MacGregor et al. K34C8 (IF) 1:300
Antibody (mouse, mAb) anti-integrin β1 K-20 Santa Cruz sc-18887 10 µg ml−1
Antibody (mouse, mAb) anti-integrin β1
TS2/16 Santa Cruz sc-53711 10 µg ml−1
Antibody (mouse, mAb) anti-integrin β1 8E3 Millipore MABT199 10 µg ml−1
HUTS-2 Millipore MAB2079Z 10 µg ml−1
Chemical compound dynasore Millipore #324410 80 µM
Chemical compound chlorpromazine Sigma-Aldrich #C8138 10 µg ml−1
Chemical compound filipin Sigma-Aldrich #F9765 1 µg ml−1
Chemical compound cytochalasin D Sigma-Aldrich #C2618 20 µM
Chemical compound latrunculin A Sigma-Aldrich #428026 1 µM
Chemical compound 5-(N-Ethyl-N-
isopropyl)amiloride) Sigma-Aldrich #A3085 1 µM
Chemical compound wortmannin Sigma-Aldrich #W1628 1 µM
Chemical compound NSC23766 Sigma-Aldrich #SML0952 300 µM
Chemical compound dynarrestin PMID: 29396292 25 µM, gift from Jared
Sterneckert
Chemical compound heparin Sigma-Aldrich #H3149 10 µg ml−1
Chemical compound Lalistat-2 PMID: 20557099 200 µM, gift from
Paul Helquist
Chemical compound U18666A Sigma-Aldrich #U3633 2 µg ml−1
Chemical compound guanidine hydrochloride Sigma #G3272 5 mM
Chemical compound cycloheximide Sigma #C7698 25 µg ml−1
Chemical compound puromycin InvivoGen CAS 58-58-2 5–20 µg ml−1
Chemical compound α-sarcin Santa Cruz #sc-204427 100 µg ml−1
Chemical compound Restrictocin A Sigma-Aldrich #R0389 50 µg ml−1
Chemical compound L-Leucyl-L-Leucine-
methyl ester Cayman Chemical #16008 2 mM
Huh-7.5 cells (obtained from Charles Rice, Rockefeller University) were maintained in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS). Wild type, ΔPLA2G16, and ΔLGALS8 H1-HeLa cells have been previously characterized (Staring et al., 2017) and were maintained in DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS and 2 mM GlutaMAX. Cell lines were validated by phenotypic screening and confirmed to be mycoplasma-free using a PCR detection kit (Sigma-Millipore, # MP0035). To produce knockout Huh-7.5 cells, CRISPR/Cas9-expressing lentiviruses were generated by co-transfection of 293FT cells with sgRNA lentivectors (Applied Biological Materials, Supplementary file 1) and a third-generation lentivirus packaging mix kit (Applied Biological Materials, #LV053-G074). Supernatant fluids were collected at 48–72 hr post-transfection, spun to remove cell debris, and filtered through a 0.45 µm filter syringe. Lentivirus transduction of Huh-7.5 or H1-HeLa cells was performed by supplementation of 8 µg.ml−1 polybrene followed by antibiotic selection with 6 or 10 µg.ml−1 puromycin, respectively, was performed as previously described (Das et al., 2017). All cells were maintained at 37˚C in a 5% CO2 atmosphere.
Preparation of purified HAV and eHAV
Infectious clones of HM175/p16.2 virus (low-passage, non-cytopathic, cell culture-adapted, GenBank KP879217.1 (McKnight et al., 2017)) and HM175/18.2 (high cell culture passage, rapid replication, cytopathic, GenBank KP879216.1 (González-López et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 1995) are variants of the HM175 strain (Jansen et al., 1988; Taylor et al., 1993) and have been previously described. The HM175/18 f.2-NanoLuc (HAV-NLuc) plasmid was created by PCR amplifying the NLuc ORF using pNL1.1 (Promega) as template and oligos containing the tri-glycine sequence flanked by XbaI and BamH1 restriction sites. The PCR amplicon was enzymatically digested and ligated into digested pSK-2A-Zeo-2B plasmid. The resulting plasmid was further digested with SacI/PflMI to release the entire 2A-NLuc-2B fragment which was then ligated into a similarly digested HM175/18 f parental plasmid. Infectious HAV mRNA transcripts were generated in vitro using the T7 RiboMAXTM Express Large-Scale RNA Production System (Promega) as per manufacturer’s protocol and transfected into Huh-7.5 cells by electroporation in a Gene Pulser Xcell Total System (Bio-Rad) as previously described (Feng et al., 2013). Cell culture supernatant fluids were then collected (9 to 15 days post-transfection) and centrifuged at 1,000 ×g for 10 min at 4˚C to remove debris and further clarified at 10,000 ×g for 30 min at 4˚C. The virus was concentrated by ultracentrifugation at 100,000 ×g for 60 min at 4˚C, and the resulting pellet was resuspended in 250 µl phosphate buffer saline (PBS) and loaded on top of a five-step gradient of 8% to 40% iodixanol (OptiPrep, Sigma) and centrifuged at 165,915 ×g (37,000 rpm) for 24 hr at 4˚C in a Beckman SW55i rotor using a Beckman Optima LE-80K ultracentrifuge. Approximately 20 fractions were collected from the top of the isopycnic gradient, and HAV RNA content and density were quantified by reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) and refractometry, respectively, as previously described (Feng et al., 2013; McKnight et al., 2017). Fractions containing eHAV and HAV at the appropriate buoyant densities (for eHAV, approximately 1.08 g/cm3, fractions 9 to 11; for naked HAV, approximately 1.22 g/cm3, fractions 18–19) were stored in aliquots at –80˚C until use.
Firefly luciferase and NanoLuciferase assays
Huh-7.5 cells were seeded on 96-well clusters and transfected with in vitro transcribed subgenomic HAV-FLuc replicon or a replication-incompetent mutant (González-López et al., 2018; Yi and Lemon, 2002) using TransIT-mRNA transfection kit (Mirus Bio, #MIR2250) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Cells were harvested in 1 × passive lysis buffer (PLB, Promega) at the indicated times post-transfection and luciferase activity was measured using a firefly luciferase assay system (Promega, #E1501). For HAV-NanoLuc assays, cells were lysed for 5–10 min in 1 × PLB and mixed with 1 × substrate for Oplophorus luciferase (NanoLight Technology, #325) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. All luciferase readings were obtained on a BioTek Synergy two microplate reader.
Pharmacological agents and functional antibodies
For viral entry assays, 5 × 104 Huh-7.5 cells seeded on 12-well chamber slides were pre-treated with the indicated inhibitors at the following concentrations: 80 µM dynasore (Millipore, #324410), 10 µg.ml−1 chlorpromazine (Sigma-Aldrich, #C8138), 1 µg.ml−1 filipin (Sigma-Aldrich, #F9765), 20 µM cytochalasin D (Sigma-Aldrich, #C2618), 1 µM latrunculin A (Sigma-Aldrich, #428026), 1 µM EIPA (5-(N-Ethyl-N-isopropyl)amiloride) (Sigma-Aldrich, #A3085), 1 µM wortmannin (Sigma-Aldrich, #W1628), 300 µM NSC23766 (Sigma-Aldrich, #SML0952), 25 µM dynarrestin (kindly provided by Dr. Jared Sterneckert, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, (Höing et al., 2018)), 10 µg.ml−1 heparin (Sigma-Aldrich, #H3149), 200 µM Lalistat-2 (kindly provided by Paul Helquist and Bruce Malencon, University of Notre Dame), 2 µg.ml−1 U18666A (Sigma-Aldrich, #U3633), or dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solvent control in supplemented DMEM for 60–120 min at 37˚C prior to virus adsorption. For functional integrin assays, cells were incubated with 100 µM RGD peptide (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, #sc-201176) for 2 hr; or 10 µg.ml−1 of either mouse IgG (Abcam, #ab37355), K-20 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, #sc-18887), TS2/16 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, #sc-53711), 8E3 (Millipore-Sigma, #MABT199), or HUTS-4 (Millipore-Sigma, #MAB2079Z) for 20 min on ice prior to virus adsorption at 37˚C. Other inhibitors include 5 mM guanidine hydrochloride (Sigma, #G3272), 25 µg.ml−1 cycloheximide (Sigma, #C7698), 5–20 µg.ml−1 puromycin (InvivoGen), 100 µg.ml−1 α-sarcin (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, #sc-204427), 50 µg.ml−1 Restrictocin A (Sigma-Aldrich, #R0389), and 2 mM L-Leucyl-L-Leucine-methyl ester (Cayman Chemical, #16008).
Quantitative (real-time) reverse transcription-PCR
RNA was extracted from cell lysates with the RNeasy Kit (Qiagen) and cDNA was synthesized with oligo(dT)20 followed by RNaseH digestion. HAV RNA GEs were quantified in a SYBR Green Real-Time qPCR (Bio-Rad) assay against a synthetic RNA standard curve using primers targeting the HAV 5’ untranslated region as previously described (Feng et al., 2013) and HAV RNA levels were normalized to total µg RNA. For siRNA-mediated knockdown efficiency, host mRNA target abundance was determined using gene-specific primers (Supplementary file 1) and normalized to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase levels; efficiency was calculated as the percent mRNA expression relative to non-targeting control siRNA samples.
siRNA-mediated knockdowns
Huh-7.5 cells were transfected with 50–75 nM gene-specific SMARTPool ON-TARGETplus siRNAs (Dharmacon, Supplementary file 1) using the Lipofectamine RNAiMAX transfection reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Three-to-four days post-transfection, cells were adsorbed with equal quantities of HAV genome equivalents (GEs) of purified naked or quasi-enveloped HAV (~10 GEs per cell) for 1 hr at 37˚C. The inoculum was removed, the cells were rinsed with PBS and incubated at 37˚C in fresh medium.
SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting
Cells were lysed in radioimmunoprecipitation assay (RIPA) buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl [pH 7.4], 1% NP-40, 0.25% sodium deoxycholate, 150 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 1% sodium dodecyl sulfate [SDS]) supplemented with a cocktail of protease and phosphatase inhibitors for 20 min on ice and then clarified at 14,000 ×g for 10 min at 4˚C. Total protein concentration was determined using a bicinchoninic acid assay (Thermo Fisher Scientific). A total of 5–20 µg of protein was boiled for 5 min in Laemmli sample buffer, resolved by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), and transferred to a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane by standard methods. Membranes were blocked with Odyssey blocking buffer (LI-COR Bioscience), probed with the indicated primary antibodies, and incubated with infrared-conjugated (IRDye) secondary antibodies (LI-COR Biosciences). Proteins were visualized using an Odyssey Infrared Imaging System (LI-COR Biosciences).
Indirect immunofluorescence
Huh-7.5 or H1-HeLa cells seeded on 8-well chamber slides were adsorbed with equal quantities of HAV genome equivalents (GEs) of purified naked or quasi-enveloped HAV (~1000 GEs per cell) for 1 hr at 37˚C. The inoculum was removed, the cells were rinsed with PBS and reincubated at 37˚C in fresh medium. Cells were then fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA) for 20 min at the indicated hours post-inoculation (hpi) and, unless stated otherwise, permeabilized with 0.25% Triton X-100 in PBS for 10 min. Slides were blocked with 5–10% normal goat serum (Sigma-Aldrich) in PBS for 60 min, and incubated with the indicated primary antibodies diluted in 0.1% IgG- and protease-free bovine serum albumin (BSA) (Jackson ImmunoResearch, #001–000) for 1–2 hr at room temperature. Slides were extensively rinsed in PBS and incubated with the appropriate species-specific Alexa Fluor-conjugated secondary antibodies (Thermo Fisher Scientific) diluted in 0.1% IgG- and protease-free BSA for 1 hr at room temperature. Nuclei were counterstained with 300 nM DAPI (4’,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) and coverslips were mounted on slides using ProLong Gold (Thermo Fisher Scientific, #P36930).
Antibodies used for immunoblotting and their corresponding dilutions were anti-clathrin heavy chain (Abcam, ab21679, 1:2000), anti-AP2M1 (GeneTex, GTX113332, 1:1000), anti-DNM2 (GeneTex, GTX113171, 1:1000), anti-CAV1 (Abcam, ab2910, 1:2000), anti-FLOT1 (GeneTex, GTX104769, 1:1000), anti-ARF6 (GeneTex, GTX112872, 1:1000), anti-Rab5A (Abcam, ab18211, 1:1000), anti-Rab7a (Cell Signaling, 9367, 1:1000), anti-Rab11 (Cell Signaling, 5589, 1:1000), anti-NPC1 (Abcam, ab134113, 1:2000), anti-LAL (GeneTex, GTX101169, 1:1000), anti-ALIX (Santa Cruz Biotech, sc-53540, 1:500), anti-puromycin (Millipore, MABE343, 1:10000), anti-PLA2G16 (Cayman Chemical, 10337, 1:200), anti-Galectin-8 (R and D Systems, AF1305, 1:500), anti-tubulin (Sigma, T6199, 1:20000), and anti-actin (Sigma, A2066, 1:5000), anti-VCAM-1 (R and D Systems, AF809, 1:250), anti-ICAM-1 (R and D Systems, AF720, 1:250), anti-Tspan8 (R and D Systems, MAB4734, 1:150), anti-integrin β1 (Cell Signaling, 9699, 1:1000), anti-integrin β3 (Cell Signaling, 13166, 1:500), anti-integrin α1 (R and D Systems, MAB5676, 1:250), anti-integrin α2 (Abcam, ab133557, 1:500), anti-integrin α3 (Millipore, AB1920, 1:250), anti-integrin α4 (Cell Signaling, 8440, 1:250), anti-integrin α5 (Cell Signaling, 4705, 1:700), anti-integrin αV (Cell Signaling, 4711, 1:700). anti-integrin α6 (GeneTex, GTX100565, 1:500), anti-integrin α7 (Thermo Fisher Sci, PA5-37435, 1:250), anti-integrin α8 (Novus Biologicals, NBP1-59940, 1:250), and anti-integrin α9 (R and D Systems, MAB4574, 1:250). Antibodies user for indirect immunofluorescence and their corresponding dilutions were anti-clathrin heavy chain (Abcam, ab21679, 1:1000), anti-CAV1 (Abcam, ab2910, 1:500), anti-integrin β1 (Abcam, ab30394, 1:100), anti-integrin α5 (Abcam, ab150361, 1:250), anti-integrin αV (Abcam, ab179475, 1:500), anti-Rab5A (Cell Signaling, 3547, 1:200), anti-Rab7a (Cell Signaling, 9367, 1:100), anti-Rab11 (Cell Signaling, 5589, 1:100), anti-LAMP1 (Cell Signaling, 9091, 1:200), anti-VAMP8 (Abcam, ab76021, 1:250), anti-CD63 (BD Biosciences, #556019, 1:50), anti-PLA2G16 (Sigma, H8290, 1:50), J2 anti-dsRNA (Scicons, J2 clone, 1:1,000), postconvalescent polyclonal anti-HAV human plasma ‘JC’ (Feng et al., 2013, 1:600), anti-HAV capsid K24F2 and K34C8 (MacGregor et al., 1983, 1:100 and 1:300, respectively).
Transferrin and cholera toxin B uptake assays
Huh-7.5 cells seeded on 8-well chamber slides were treated with DMEM supplemented with the indicated inhibitors for 1 hr. Cells were then rinsed, placed on ice for 10 min, and incubated with 10–25 µg.ml−1 Alexa 594-conjugated Transferrin (Thermo Fisher, #T13343) or cholera toxin subunit B (Thermo Fisher, #34777) diluted in supplemented DMEM for 15–20 min at 37˚C. Cells were then fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA) and nuclei were counterstained with 300 nM DAPI.
PKH26 staining of EVs and eHAV membranes
Supernatant fluids from uninfected or HAV-infected Huh-7.5 cells were clarified and concentrated by ultracentrifugation at 100,000 ×g for 1 hr as described above. The pellet was then resuspended 250 µl of Diluent C and mixed with 2 µM PKH26 red fluorescent cell linker (Sigma-Aldrich, MIDI26) diluted in Diluent C for 5 min according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The staining was blocked with 500 µl FBS for 3 min and the labeled vesicles/eHAV were loaded onto an iodixanol gradient and ultracentrifuged at 165,915 ×g (37,000 rpm) for 24 hr at 4˚C as described above. Fractions containing eHAV and EVs at the appropriate buoyant densities (approximately 1.08 g/cm3, fractions 9 to 11) were stored in aliquots at 4˚C until use. Recipient Huh-7.5 cells were inoculated with a 1:10 dilution of the fractions diluted in complete DMEM and fixed in 4% PFA. Slides were blocked in 10% normal goat serum, and incubated simultaneously with anti-HAV capsid (K24F2) and anti-LAMP1 for 1 hr diluted in 0.01% saponin (Sigma-Aldrich, S2149), carefully rinsed, and incubated with a mix of DAPI and Alexa fluor-conjugated secondary antibodies diluted in 0.01% saponin for 45 min at room temperature. Slides were mounted on ProLong Gold.
Antibody-mediated HAV neutralization assay
Huh-7.5 cells seeded on 12-well clusters (1 × 105 cells per well) were pre-treated with 200 µM Lalistat-2 or DMSO solvent control for 1 hs at 37˚C and then adsorbed with equal quantities of HAV genome equivalents (GEs) of gradient-purified naked or quasi-enveloped HAV (~1 GE per cell) for 1 hr at 37˚C. The inoculum was removed, cells were rinsed three times with PBS, and replaced with fresh DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS and 200 µM Lalistat-2 or DMSO. At the indicated times post-infection, media was replaced with postconvalescent human plasma (‘JC plasma’) collected several months following symptomatic acute hepatitis A (Feng et al., 2013) or normal human serum control diluted 1:50 in DMEM. Intracellular viral RNA was harvested at 48 hpi, cDNA was synthesized, and HAV RNA levels were quantified by RT-qPCR as described above.
Endosomal and lysosomal membrane integrity assays
For endosomal membrane integrity, H1-HeLa cells were inoculated with equal amounts (~1000 HAV GEs per cell) of gradient-purified HAV or eHAV, or 10 plaque-forming units (PFU) per cell of human rhinovirus-14 (HRV-14) (McKnight and Lemon, 1996) in supplemented DMEM presence of α-sarcin or Restrictocin A previously reconstituted in sterile ultrapure water and incubated for 6 hr at 37˚C (for HAV) or 33˚C (for HRV-14). Cells were then incubated with supplemented DMEM containing 20 µg.ml−1 puromycin for 20 min, rinsed twice with PBS, and total protein lysates were harvested as described above. Specific puromycin incorporation was validated by pre-treating cells with cycloheximide for 30 min prior to the puromycin pulse (Figure 4—figure supplement 1). For lysosomal membrane integrity analysis, Huh-7.5 cells seeded in 8-well chamber slides were loaded with 100 µg.ml−1 anionic-lysine fixable Alexa Fluor 594-conjugated dextran (10 kDa) (Thermo Fisher Scientific, #D22913) diluted in supplemented DMEM for 16 hr at 37˚C. Cells were rinsed with PBS, inoculated with purified HAV or eHAV (1000 HAV GEs per cell), and fixed as indicated.
Confocal microscopy and image analyses
Slides were examined with an Olympus FV10000 laser-scanning confocal microscope equipped with a super corrected 60×/1.4 NA oil-immersion objective and a dichroic mirror DM405/488/543/635 was used for all experiments. The pinhole was maintained at 1 Airy unit and images were acquired in two separate channels to prevent bleed-through. The excitation/emission wavelengths were 405 nm/425–520 nm for DAPI, 488 nm/500–520 nm for Alexa Fluor 488, 543 nm/555–647 nm for Alexa Fluor 594 or PKH26, and 635 nm/647–700 nm for Alexa Fluor 647. Intensity plot profiles were generated using the ImageJ software and co-localization indexes (Mander’s coefficients) were obtained with the Just Another Colocalisation Plugin (JACoP) module for ImageJ. All micrographs are representative of at least 10 images for each sample per experiment, and each experiment was performed at least twice. Images were processed for presentation using Photoshop CS4.
Unless stated otherwise, significance was assessed by unpaired t tests or ANOVA calculated with GraphPad Prism seven for Windows software. Significance values are shown as ****p<0.0001, ***p<0.001, **p<0.01, *p<0.05.
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General Assessment
This manuscript describes how two different forms of HAV, naked capsids (HAV) and quasi-enveloped virions (eHAV), enter cells. Using multiple complementary techniques (inhibitors, siRNA depletion experiments, immunofluorescence, membrane permeability assays), the authors demonstrate that both virion types enter cells primarily by clathrin- and dynamin-dependent endocytosis, facilitated by the β1 integrin. Virion entry differs in that naked HAV uncoats more rapidly in late endosomes, whereas, eHAV traffics to lysosomes in a pathway that requires the host factor ALIX. In the lysosome, the quasi-envelope of eHAV is enzymatically degraded for particle uncoating and subsequent release from the endolysosomal membrane, in a reaction that induces lysosomal permeability. The entry of both HAV forms is mechanistically different from other members of the Picornaviridae family.
Overall this is an important contribution that demonstrates that the entry pathways of naked HAV and eHAV differ in important ways, and expands our understanding of our quasi-enveloped viruses enter and infect cells.
There are no major issues that must be addressed prior to publication.
Issues for the authors' consideration:
Do the authors know if the kinetics of HAV and eHAV delivery to the late endosome and lysosome, respectively, parallel other cellular cargos? The times provided, 1-2 hrs and ~ 4hrs, seem quite long even accounting for "uncoating" processes, because fluid phase cargos typically reach lysosomes within 20 minutes or less. Any thoughts on why the viruses seem to be requiring longer times?
Have the authors co-infected Huh7.5 cells with both HAV and eHAV? For instance, they could detect the naked HAV using the K34C8 antibody and the eHAV with a fluorescent fixable membrane. Do they enter in the same clathrin coated pits, reach the same late endosomes? At what junction is the ALIX-based sorting taking place?
The discussion of the involvement of ALIX and the ESCRT pathway (data from Figure 2) is confusing. ESCRT proteins, including ALIX, are cytoplasmic (and are involved in sorting cargo proteins into vesicles that bud into the endosome). It is hard to imagine how these processes would affect eHAV trafficking directly, and this should be noted. It is, of course, possible that the ALIX requirement reflects changes in endosomal maturation (as is also suggested), but the discussion should be clarified to note that it is difficult to see how ALIX would come into direct contact with eHAV.
Many ESCRT-III proteins like CHMP2A have homologues (CHMP2B), and their function is often redundant. This might explain why CHMP2A knockdown has no effect.
Figures 3/4. Endocytosed eHAV capsids are still inside a membrane envelope at ~6 hpi (Figure 3D). Endocytosed eHAV capsids are stable at 4 hpi, but starting to uncoat 6 hpi (Figure 4A). Can quantitative analyses of the microscopy data determine, which step comes first, degradation of the membrane or capsid uncoating?
Figures 3E,4E: how many structures in how many cells were analyzed?
Figure 4D and Figure 4—figure supplement 1B: the authors state that the reduction in protein synthesis in cells infected with eHAV is comparable with cells infected with HRV14. I don't think the data really show that, especially in supplementary Figure 4B. The HRV14 effects seem to be much stronger (but the virus was quantified in a different way, which makes it difficult to compare).
The (negative) data presented in Figure 5 showing that PLA2G16 is dispensable for HAV entry could be condensed or moved to the supplements.
Figure 5E should be modified to show naked HAV going to late endosomes. How naked HAV escapes these endosomes also remains unclear and that could be discussed in more depth. This paper currently focuses more on the quasi-enveloped virus.
Abstract and elsewhere in the manuscript: the authors state that eHAV virions enter cells via a distinct endocytic pathway. However, this language could be clarified since the general entry pathway (β1-integrin-dependent clathrin-mediated endocytosis seems to be similar (and perhaps identical, albeit with differences in the mode of β1-integrin binding), and the major differences seem to be when (and perhaps how) naked HAV and eHAV exit the endolysosomal compartments.
It would be helpful if the authors could comment on the purity of the preparations of naked HAV versus eHAV? While these different preparations gave unique results (and the earlier results in their initial Nature paper show that the two species can be well separated on an iodixanol gradient), it would be helpful if information on how the preparations used in this study were characterized.
Some data suggest that poliovirus expands as part of the entry process. Is it possible this is also true for HAV and does it merit discussion?
We thank the reviewers for highlighting this facet of hepatovirus entry. We have not done formal comparative studies with fluid phase cargos, but we agree that the intracellular trafficking of hepatoviruses to their destination is likely to be slower. However, it might not be much slower than for other viruses. We found both HAV and eHAV capsid antigen were associated with Rab7a+ compartments by 1-2 hrs, and that 4 hrs were required for eHAV to reach LAMP1+ and VAMP8+ lysosomes. By contrast, in carefully done kinetic studies, R.M. Mingo et al. (J Virol 89:2931, 2015) reported that 1-2 hrs were required for Ebola virus (EBOV) and SARS coronavirus virus-like particles (VLPs) to reach NPC1+ late endolysosomes. In addition, M. Huttenen et al. reported that coxsackievirus A9 (like HAV, a picornavirus) did not uncoat in neutral multivesicular endosomes until about 2 hrs postinfection (J Virol 88:5138, 2014). We have no good explanation for why the trafficking of hepatoviruses might be somewhat slower than these other viruses. It is not a phenomenon specific to the hepatocyte-derived cells we used, as many of the results in this manuscript were reproduced in HeLa and U2OS cells with similar kinetics (data not shown). It is possible that hepatoviruses engage atypical sorting signals or must undergo specific modifications during trafficking that impact their sorting kinetics.
Whether eHAV and HAV enter into the same clathrin-coated pits is an interesting question. We believe this is likely, but we have not formally demonstrated it. The experiments we report in the manuscript were done in parallel with the two virion types, and the cells were fixed and processed at almost identical times. Under these conditions, the initial steps in endosomal trafficking were indistinguishable for naked HAV and quasi-enveloped eHAV. Both the degree and kinetic of co-localization of capsid with clathrin, integrin β1, and the endosomal markers were similar for HAV and eHAV in multiple independent experiments, suggesting to us that they undergo endocytosis through similar clathrin-coated pits and travel through the same early/late endosomes – despite the fact that the specific ligands involved on the virion surfaces must be different. We did carry out the experiment suggested here involving co-infection of cells with gradient-purified naked HAV and PKH26-labelled eHAV virions. However, our ability to interpret the results of the experiment was confounded by our inability to absolutely distinguish between naked virions and eHAV particles that had lost their membrane due to the saponin treatment. (This was not an issue in the experiments shown in Figure 3D,E, in which we quantified only PKH26+ versus PKH26- HAV puncta co-localizing with LAMP1, since naked HAV never trafficked to lysosomes.) With regard to the second part of this question, our data suggest that the ALIX-dependent sorting of eHAV to the lysosome diverges from trafficking of the naked virion at the late endosome stage. Naked HAV uncoats in the late endosome, but eHAV requires further trafficking. A simple, speculative explanation for this is that an essential receptor that binds to and acts as a trigger to initiate uncoating of the capsid is expressed in late, but not early endosomes, and that the naked particle uncoats when it first encounters it. The membrane occluding the capsid in the eHAV virion precludes this trigger from interacting with the capsid until eHAV has trafficked all the way to lysosomes, and the membrane is degraded by the actions of lysosomal acid lipase and NPC1.
We thank the referees for pointing this out, and agree completely with the need for clarification upon reviewing our original text. We have modified the Discussion to state that “ALIX mediates sorting of eHAV to the lysosome prior to degradation of its membrane, and thus promotes the entry process at a point during which the VP2 YPX3L motifs are occluded by the quasi-envelope, and moreover are within the lumen of the endosome and not available to interact with cytoplasmic ALIX. Rather than a direct interaction with the virus, the requirement for ALIX in eHAV entry is more likely to reflect a role for the ESCRT-associated protein in maturation and trafficking of the late endosome, akin to its role in entry of human papillomavirus and arenaviruses (Gräßel et al., 2016; Pasqual et al., 2011).”
We agree that functional redundancy among ESCRT-III homologs could explain the apparent lack of a requirement for these proteins. However, the degree of CHMP2A mRNA depletion was substantially less than that we were able to achieve with siRNAs targeting ALIX (see Figure 2—figure supplement 5). We have modified the text in the Results section to mention both of these possibilities. It is interesting to note, however, that we have previously observed that depleting CHMP2A alone, as done here, resulted in a ~70% reduction in the release of quasi-enveloped eHAV from infected cells (McKnight et al., 2017).
Degradation of the eHAV membrane and uncoating of the capsid appear to occur in close linkage temporally and we do not believe that it is possible to identify which comes first with any degree of confidence from imaging data alone. However, we did observe PKH26-negative puncta labelled with capsid antibody that colocalize with LAMP1 at ~8 hrs (Figure 3D), consistent with eHAV particles that have lost their membrane within the lysosome but retain an intact capsid. Rarely did we observe the opposite, PKH-positive puncta colocalizing with LAMP1 but not labeled with capsid antibody – and when these were observed it was not possible to distinguish them from nonspecific exosomes. Other, orthogonal data suggest strongly that membrane decay precedes uncoating of the eHAV capsid. We know from prior studies that the capsid (VP1pX specifically) is protected from proteinase K digestion when it is within the quasi-enveloped virion (Feng et al., 2013). Yet, anti-capsid antibodies quite potently neutralize eHAV infectivity within an endosomal compartment when added to cell cultures as late as 4 hrs post-infection – and even later when lysosomal acid lipase is inhibited (see Figure 3F). The simplest explanation reconciling these observations is that the eHAV membrane degrades prior to uncoating, allowing neutralizing antibody access to the capsid. If uncoating were to occur prior to membrane decay, we would not expect antibody to neutralize intracellular virus at a time consistent with lysosomal localization.
Figures 3E, 4E: how many structures in how many cells were analyzed?
For Figure 3E, we analyzed an average of 17.7 (DMSO) to 20.0 (Lalistat-2) structures per cell in each of 7 cells for each condition. These values are now included in the Figure 3-source data 1 file. The ratio (PKH26+/PKH26-) calculated for each individual cell is plotted in the figure. For Figure 4E, the number of dextran+ compartments in each cell is plotted on the y-axis, and ranged from a mean of 14.0 (mock-infected cells at 6 hrs) to 0.8 (eHAV-infected cells at 12 hrs). Seven to 10 cells were analyzed in each condition; the values for each cell are plotted individually in the figure and are included in the Figure 4—source data 1 file.
We certainly agree, as this is what our quantification in Figure 4D demonstrated (~40% reduced with HAV vs. ~60% reduced with HRV14), and we also agree that comparing between the two virus types is complicated technically. We have modified the text, and now describe the eHAV effect as “similar but not as strong” as rhinovirus 14. Importantly, as we describe in the manuscript, we saw reductions in protein synthesis only with eHAV and never with naked HAV in the ribotoxin assays.
With respect, we disagree with this particular suggestion. Staring et al. (Nature, 541:412, 2017) recently identified PLA2G16 as a pan-picornaviral host factor required for successful transfer of the genomic RNA to the cytoplasm for translation of viral proteins following uncoating of endocytosed virus. Our data showing that PLA2G16 is NOT required during entry of either eHAV or HAV, and acts instead to restrict replication of the viral RNA distinguishes hepatoviral entry from entry of other picornaviruses. While somewhat philosophical, we consider these data to be positive (not negative), as they are indicative of an important biological difference in these viruses. Pharmacological agents targeting the role of PLA2G16 in enteroviral infections are currently being developed (Patent WO 2015/018797A3 Antiviral Compounds), enhancing the importance of this distinction.
We have modified Figure 5E as suggested, and also have expanded our discussion of the uncoating of the naked virion in the penultimate paragraph of the Discussion.
We agree, and have modified the Abstract and the introductory paragraph of the Discussion to reflect that the early steps in entry of both virion types are quite similar.
As described in the Materials and methods section, purified populations of quasi-enveloped and naked, nonenveloped hepatoviruses were generated by preparative isopycnic density gradient centrifugation using a protocol nearly identical to that described previously (Feng et al., 2013). Similar and unequivocal results were obtained using multiple batches of virus prepared in this fashion. The two populations of virions are separated at a very high level of resolution, with essentially no quasi-enveloped virus present in the high density, naked virus fractions. Loss of the membrane from purified eHAV virions, generating naked virus, is always a concern, but eHAV is quite stable under storage conditions. The 7-8 log10 difference we observed in immediate post-entry neutralization of HAV versus eHAV (Figure 3E, 1 h timepoints) provides strong assurance of the purity of the stocks generated.
We now mention this in the Discussion (modified penultimate paragraph). There is simply not enough known about the process of HAV uncoating to predict whether its capsid also undergoes the irreversible expansion seen with poliovirus following interactions with its receptor. We have further modified the Discussion to point out some of the salient differences in the structures of these two picornaviruses that might be relevant to uncoating.
Efraín E Rivera-Serrano
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
Department of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Methodology, Writing—original draft, Writing—review and editing, Designed and carried out all aspects of the experiments, collated and analyzed data, and wrote the manuscript
Olga González-López
Investigation, Methodology, Writing—review and editing, Carried out antibody neutralization assays and experiments with the HAV/FLuc sub-genomic replicon, and reviewed the manuscript
Anshuman Das
Investigation, Writing—review and editing, Developed the HAV-NanoLuc recombinant reporter virus, assisted with gradient purification of viruses and viral infection experiments, and reviewed the manuscript
Stanley M Lemon
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
Conceptualization, Supervision, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing—review and editing, Designed experiments, wrote the manuscript, and supervised the study
smlemon@med.unc.edu
"This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-1450-806X
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01-AI103083)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (T32-AI007151)
We thank Thijn R Brummelkamp and Jacqueline Staring (Netherlands Cancer Institute) and Paul Helquist and Bruce Malencon (University of Notre Dame) for providing valuable reagents, and Michael Chua and Maryna Kapustina for expert technical advice. This work was supported in part by grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (R01-AI103083 and R01-AI131685 to SML, and T32-AI007151 to EER-S). The funding agencies had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Wesley I Sundquist, University of Utah School of Medicine, United States
Joerg Votteler, University of Utah Department of Biochemistry, United States
Mary Estes, Baylor College of Medicine
Received: November 28, 2018
Accepted: February 22, 2019
Accepted Manuscript published: February 25, 2019 (version 1)
Version of Record published: March 18, 2019 (version 2)
© 2019, Rivera-Serrano et al.
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First attempt at NoSQL: C# and mongoDB
NoSQL is a buzzword I’ve been hearing of for quite sometime. It’s just one of those things that you hear about and want to try out but never get the chance. I was even more motivated when I came across this article which attempted to summarize what are the “7 Surprising Trends That Show What Tech Skills You Need to Succeed”, that stated: “NoSQL is a small but growing niche.” I just had to try coding a NoSQL “Hello World” example.
I never had an experience with NoSQL before. After a little reading, I understood NoSQL to be simply a common name for databases which are not tabular, and (naturally) – are not using SQL. In simple words, these databases do not force us to store our data in tables as in the more popular and traditional databases. Instead, data can be stored as hierarchical data, which is usually the case for real world business implementation. Personally I like this concept as long before I started to use LINQ to SQL as an OR/M, I used to provide a data layer which was not only good for retrieving data, but also for converting DataSets to business objects/entities, and vice versa. I disliked the fact the databases force us to store business objects in tabular data when this was not the case. Moreover, I believe that although I consistently use business objects for years now, there’s no doubt in my mind that my thinking is affected by the relational module, as you always have to keep in mind that in the end, your hierarchical objects will be stored in a tabular database.
Seems like there is a variety of NoSQL database architectures and features, some of which are designed to handle very large masses of data and scale up; others are more limited in capabilities. Turns out that one has to do homework in order to choose the “right database”. I was reading some more and thought I’d try out mongoDB, which seemed like a leading solution in the field.
Actually, this was quite simple: just to the downloads section of mongoDB and download the latest version suitable to your machine (as of this writing, the latest version was 1.8.2, released in June 2011). After download, perform the following:
1. Unzip the downloaded zip file.
2. Create a directory for the db files. This seems to default to data\db in the root of the drive you use, but you can use the command line to override the default. Let’s assume that you create x:\data\db
3. Open the command line (cmd) and go to the directory where you unzipped the db.
4. Type: mongod.exe –dbpath x:\data\db.
That’s it. No lengthy downloads; no lengthy wizard installations as in SQL Server; no impossibly cumbersome Oracle installations; no complex MySQL installations etc. You get the idea.
mongoDB drivers for C#
In order to use mongoDB in C#, there are several alternatives. I usually prefer an official driver over an open source driver as long as it is available. I just guess that once an official driver exists, it will be probably more updated and consistent with the product itself. However, I did notice that LINQ support doesn’t really exist in the current official driver (version 1.1), although it does seem to exist in the open source driver – so you might want to consider it after all, at least as long the official driver does not support it. After I downloaded the official driver and unzipped it, all that remains is to Add a Reference to the two assemblies from a VS (console) project.
I went on with the reading of the “CSharp Driver Tutorial“. Unfortunately the documentation is quite lacking and as one of the commentators (“Mike”) commented: it is more of a reference than a tutorial. So, I had to read the documentation/reference and to gather a quick start for myself.
In mongoDB, the basic type stored and retrieved is BSON, which stands for Binary JSON. I was unfamiliar with what BSON is, so I read a little. It seems like BSON resembles Json and adds more support for data types which are not Json types, such as Date or BinData types. It is also claimed that “Compared to JSON, BSON is designed to be efficient both in storage space and scan-speed. Large elements in a BSON document are prefixed with a length field to facilitate scanning. In some cases, BSON will use more space than JSON due to the length prefixes and explicit array indices.” Well, I found the fact that that mongoDB uses a JSON-like format as it’s entities quite cool and easy, especially when it comes to web programming. The mongoDB assemblies contain a set of API methods which interact with the basic BsonDocument class. This is important to understand so the following will be trivial.
Here’s the first example I made for opening a connection, inserting and retrieving JSON-like entities:
Here’s an explanation:
Line 11 opens a connection to a database server. By default, the parameterless Create() seems like the local machine is used as the database server. If no such database is available, you will soon enough receive an exception. You can also pass a connection string to other servers. The documentation states that per server a single instance is created, and a connection pool is implicitly created as required.
Line 12 returns the actual required database on the server. Seems like you can provide a non-existing string here and a database will still be returned.
Line 13: according to the documentation, it isn’t mandatory but recommended to call RequestStart in order to ensure that a series of operations is performed on the same connection. The documentation even states that this is required “in order to guarantee correct results.” If you use RequestStart, you mush either call RequestDone to decrement the an inner counter involved, or simply use the using(…) statement which calls the Dispose() method (as shown in the example above).
Line 15: as no tables are involved, mongoDB uses the term Collections to represent a collection of BsonDocuments. The GetCollection doesn’t actually return all the collection specified in the argument, but a simple reference which is used to perform the different CRUD operations.
Lines 17-18: we finally get to the point where we insert items into our collection. I created an on-the-fly BsonDocuments, with JSON-like attributes. The Insert seems to take place immediately, hence, I believe that RequestStart is not transactional as I hoped it would be.
Line 20: Find methods are the way to retrieve information from mongoDB. They return cursors which can be iterated upon. FindAll returns a non-filtered cursor. If we would like to return a filtered cursor, we have to use one of the other Find methods which accepts a Query object as its argument. Unfortunately, LINQ is not supported in the current official driver.
Lines 21-26 iterate over the cursor. Note that the items returns are of BsonDocument type, and the indexer returns a BsonValue subclass type. BsonValue is an abstract class for the different types which inherit from it, such as BsonString or BsonDateTime. From there you can downcast to your requested type.
That’s it. Quite simple.
This seems like the weak link in the current driver as there’s no LINQ support. The different Find methods only accept IMongoQuery objects, which seem to be a narrow list of supported classes. For example, if you’d like to Find entities which have a “Smith” for a last name, you’ll have to use:
var cursor = col.FindAs(Query.EQ(“last”, “Smith”));
If you’d like all entities with a last name of ‘Jo’ or later in the alphabet, here’s a possibility:
If you’d like something more complex like “all last names which begin with ‘S'”, you’ll have to combine a Query.And( ), Query.GTE( ) method and possibly Query.LT( ).
I liked the following part: the data can be serialized and deserialized to strongly typed classes. For simple typed classes, this can be done implicitly without having to go through too much trouble. It seems like all there’s to be done is to create a class with the relevant properties, add a BsonObjectId member, use generics and you’re done:
Lines 6-11 define a Person class with properties and an Object Id.
Line 21 returns a reference for a Person-typed collection.
Line 22 inserts a typed Person object into the collection.
Line 23 returns a Person cursor!
Lines 24-31 iterates over the Persons in the cursor.
Line 26 relates to the ‘last’ property of the Person (not hashmap!)
Lines 28-29 demonstrates an Update operation.
If you require more complex serializations, you’ll probably get some ideas from this tutorial.
Complex data types and null
I was curious to see how mongoDB and it’s driver dealt with complex types, such as binary and datetime, and how it dealt with null. For example, as mongoDB is a hierarchical db, I could store different items in a collection. Some would have missing data, which is equivalent to a null value in a relational database. As you can see below, mongoDB acted as expected and was doing just fine with missing data and complex types:
Line 12 has a byte array property.
Line 13 has a nullable DateTime.
Line 26 inserts a Person with all the attributes.
Line 27 inserts a Person without the byte array or the nullable DateTime.
The two watches show how the two entities Deserialize as expected (note the nulls in the second object).
I believe that this post just touches the tip of the iceberg. Quite a few topics remain untouched so far: Indexes, Replications, “Foreign Keys” (i.e. whether FK-like relations are possible between collections and entities), Transactions, and many others. But the general idea was much clearer now. To be honest, I really loved the idea of replacing the tabular database, but I reckon it’ll be some time before I actually switch to working with one on a “professional level”.
LINQ support is desperately something that I miss in the current official driver.
Note: You might want to investigate RavenDB which looks promising, but I’m uncertain how ripe it is at this time. mongoDB’s current poor documentation and lack of LINQ support is certainly disappointing and I really hope that the guys there perform a worthy and noticeable change.
Tags: mongoDB, NoSQL
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Why we can't wait to see ''Seabiscuit''
January 24, 2003 at 05:00 AM EST
Seabiscuit: Francois Duhamel
Why we can’t wait to see ”Seabiscuit”
THE STORY Based on Linda Hillenbrand’s book ”Seabiscuit: An American Legend,” the movie tells the true tale of a racehorse and a broken-down prizefighter-turned-jockey (Tobey Maguire) who came out of nowhere to capture the imagination of Depression-era America.
THE GOODIES Besides the web-slinging star of2002’s biggest movie, ”Seabiscuit”’s cast also boasts recent Oscar winner Chris Cooper as the horse’s trainer and shoulda-been-an-Oscar-contender Jeff Bridges as Seabiscuit’s owner. The movie reteams Maguire with writer/director Gary Ross (”Pleasantville”), who knows his Americana.
CREATIVE CASTING Bridges’ wife is played by Elizabeth Banks, briefly seen alongside Maguire in ”Spider-Man” as Daily Bugle employee Betty Brant.
BURNING QUESTION Can Maguire carry a big, mainstream movie without wearing his Spidey suit?
TREND WATCH Racehorse biopics. In October, Viggo Mortensen stars in ”Hidalgo,” the story of a 19th-century Mustang known for its prowess in cross-country endurance races.
COULD BE The film that lets Maguire and Ross jockey for Academy Award nominations. Or? a box-office also-ran. Has there been a hit movie about horse racing since ”National Velvet”?
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What To Expect At This Year's ASEAN Literary Festival
Banned writer's opening speech, poetry slams, workshops and discussions about the country's favorite topic: religious blasphemy.
Krystal Buckle 20 July 2017 12:00
Established in 2014 by former editor of the Jakarta Post Abdul Khalik and Indonesian novelist Okky Madasari, the ASEAN Literary Festival aims to foster cultural dialogue through literature and promote freedom of expression. In 2016, the festival’s discussion of sensitive topics including the 1965 mass killings and LGBT community was widely objected to. Pressure from hundreds of demonstrators, including local militant groups, caused the event to nearly be shut down.
The festival was criticized last year, but it doesn't mean that there's not going to be another event this year.
In fact, this year, the 4th ASEAN Literary Festival is ready to launch in August with many interesting things to expect.
For a start, award-winning writer Faisal Tehrani will open and speak at the opening. "What makes the writer special?" you might ask. For a start, one play and five of Tehrani’s novels are banned in Malaysia. That should say something.
Then, the festival will host a series of events involving writers, artists, intellectuals and scholars from ten ASEAN countries. As a forum for the debate of contentious issues, the program will include speeches on blasphemy law, persecution and radicalism.
Journalist and writer Arswendo Atmodiloto will discuss one of Indonesia’s hottest issues in contemporary politics: religious blasphemy. The Culture and Education Ministry’s Director-General for Culture, Hilmar Farid will speak about uniting Southeast Asia through literature while foreign journalist Michael Vatikiotis will discuss populism and radicalism following the publication of his latest book on religious conflict. Poetry slams, travel writing workshops and book launches will also be held during the three-day festival.
“Being a community means exploring each other’s culture, including literature and books from each country member,” the festival co-founder Okky Madasari said in an interview with Antara. “Only culture and literature can genuinely tie us together. Focusing on only economics and politics would make the ASEAN community mere rhetoric and illusion,” she said.
Every year ASEAN Literary Festival opened by lecture from prominent figure in Southeast Asia. This year we proudly present Faisal Tehrani of Malaysia to deliver a lecture on resisting book banning, on fighting for freedom of expression in Southeast Asia. In this year's festival opening, there will also be a special speech by Hilmar Farid, Director General of Culture, The Ministry of Education and Culture, Indonesia, on how literature unites the region. This program is free and open for public. #ALF2017 #ASEANLitFest2017 #ASEANLitFest #ASEAN #FaisalTehrani #HilmarFarid
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The 4th ASEAN Literary Festival will take place in Kota Tua, Jakarta from August 3-6.
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$16 Million in Road Work Awarded
In Panama, Estrella Engineering was awarded the contract to rehabilitate the CPA-El Jagüito - Calobre road section in the provinces of Cocle and Veraguas.
On May 22, the resolution of the contracting process for the "Studies, design and construction for the rehabilitation of the CPA - El Jagüito - Calobre road" was published in the PanamaCompra portal.
Ingeniería Estrella, the company that won the tender, is the only one that submitted a proposal in the tender and was for $16.2 million in this public purchase that initially had a reference value of $14.9 million.
The project consists of the rehabilitation of 31 kilometers, which begins at the intersection with the CPA, and ends at the entrance to Calobre, however, the Tenderer Entity may determine works that within the execution of the work in the field are detected as required, not defined in the terms of reference and plans, to ensure connectivity and integrity of road networks and/or accessibility to basic services.
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In Panama, the design and construction of 8 kilometers of roads, of the sections Chiriquí Grande-Quebrada El Bajo and Chiriquí Grande-Ballena, in the province of Bocas del Toro are being tendered.
Panama Government Purchase 2019-0-09-0-01-LV-005847:
"The project has a 7.75 kilometer length; however, the Tendering Entity may determine works that, within the execution of the work in the field, are detected as required, that have not been defined in the terms of reference and the plans, to ensure the connectivity and integrity of the road networks and/or for the accessibility to basic services.
Road Rehabilitation for $16 Million
The Ministry of Public Works of Panama tenders the design and construction works for the restoration of the Pedasí-Los Asientos-Cañas Highway, in the province of Los Santos.
"The project consists of a 40.35 km length, however, the Tendering Entity may determine works within the execution of the work being detected in the field as required, which have not been defined in the terms of reference and plans, to ensure connectivity and integrity of road networks and / or accessibility to basic services.
Tender: Roadworks for $12 million
The Ministry of Public Works in Panama is putting out to tender the design and construction of the road between CPA Calabacito and Ramal El Castillo, located in the province of Veraguas.
Guatemala Prepares Highway Tender
While options are being evaluated to terminate the contract with Odebrecht to build the CA-2 Occidente road, the government will be putting out to tender maintenance of the sections that were left unfinished.
The Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing will first make a "visual inspection" to determine the actual state of the road, both the sections which have been completed but damaged and sections that have not yet been completed.
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Newlands Farm Strawberries
Posted: 29th June, 2018 Category: Food
Faversham Life breathes in the scent of nostalgia in East Kent strawberry fields.
Fiona and Hugh Boucher of Newlands Farm are a strawberry dynasty. Hugh’s family have been growing strawberries in Norton, near Faversham, for 50 years. Fiona’s family has just celebrated 125 years of growing strawberries in Mereworth and the farm, which supplies all the strawberries to Wimbledon, is now run by her sister.
Strawberries are the scent of British summer nostalgia. Fiona says: ‘There must be sweetness and perfume. We want people to smell them and say, “Yes, that’s how they always used to taste”.’ The aroma conjures up the days when strawberries were delivered by horse and cart to Covent Garden market in early summer mornings, yet how this aroma is achieved is very 21st century.
Hugh and Fiona Boucher are the third generation to grow strawberries at Newlands Farm
There was a time when the commercial world agreed that the British consumer didn’t want seasonality. It wanted strawberries in the snow if it fancied. Imported, rather rubbery fruit (because it had to survive the flight) bounced in throughout the year, but the olfactory yearning persisted and you could only really get that hit from English strawberries in the six weeks or so around Wimbledon.
Over the past 30 years or so, English strawberry growers have extended the season from May to October, and varieties have been developed which meet the supermarket requirements for a shelf life of five days and offer sweet aromatic juiciness to the nostalgic consumer.
Newlands Farm grows more than 250 tonnes of strawberries a year on 18 acres. It supplies Sainsbury’s, local shops like Doughty’s butchers in Doddington, and recently has started supplying Farmdrop, an online farmers market delivery service in London, Bath and Bristol. In 2017, Newlands Farm won the Taste of Kent Award for the Tastiest Strawberry with the Jubilee variety of strawberry.
Stefan Ionesco, the strawberry production manager
Stefan Ionescu, who has been the farm’s strawberry production manager for 12 years, showed Faversham Life how today’s strawberries are produced. There is much more control over production, and much less backache, than when they were grown on straw in open fields. Polytunnels create a controllable environment and provide protection from the weather for the fruit and the pickers. The strawberries are grown on ‘tabletops’ at nose height in bags of coir. Even as the June sun beats down, the leaves are upright and turgid in the gentle shade of the tunnels, and the strawberries hang down for ease of picking. I ask what happens to fruit which doesn’t meet Class I standards. ‘We don’t have any with tabletop production,’ says Stefan. Nonetheless, matching production to orders is still a delicate business. Stefan says: ‘We plant in stages, and we pick in stages.’
Polytunnels create a controllable environment and protect the fruit and pickers from the weather
Newlands Farm is part of the grower-owned cooperative Berry Gardens, which imports fruit throughout the winter to give continuity of supply to its customers, does all the marketing and is responsible for breeding programmes in conjunction with the American company, Driscolls, to produce licensed varieties which are traditional in flavour yet spankingly modern in terms of health, yield, shelf life and appearance. Fiona gave us Amesti and Zara to try. Zara is a new variety sold by Sainsbury’s under the premium Taste the Difference label. It has a large calyx like a ruff, and an intense deep flavour. We found Amesti lighter in flavour, and both were aromatic and juicy.
New varieties are bred for flavour
‘I never wash strawberries,’ says Fiona, and nor need you. The fruit itself is never handled, but snapped off at the stem and laid straight away in the punnet. Stefan explains that modern growing techniques mean that there is little need for chemicals. Pests such as red spider mite and thrips are now controlled biologically, by introducing natural predators. Integrated Crop Management has been central to the modernisation of strawberry growing which has hugely positive indications for the environment.
Fiona says: ‘We focus on quality, sustainability and especially close to our hearts, environmental stewardship. We have several biodiversity projects around the farm: management of hedgerows, mixed species windbreaks, and headlands to encourage plant life and wildlife. We also have an association with the Gleaning Project who come and pick fruit at the end of each picking season to distribute to food banks across the UK, using Fairshare network.’
In the height of summer, picking often starts at 5 o’clock in the morning. The fruit is taken to the vast modern packhouse in the farmyard, built only three years ago, where it is cooled, quality checked and the punnet sealed ready for despatch. It leaves the packhouse ready labelled as as you find it on the supermarket shelf.
Pickers are the main cost of strawberry production and many come from Bulgaria and Romania for the season. The local strawberry growers organise a football league and play every Friday from July to September. ‘We usually lose,’ Fiona confesses, ‘because we’re the smallest of the six farms involved, with only around 50-60 pickers.’
To enjoy strawberries at their best, Fiona advises taking them out of the fridge for a couple of hours to come to room temperature. ‘They lose their shine in the chiller and as they warm up, they shine again.’
Text: Posy. Photos: Lisa
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Dell, BlackBerry share strategies for pursuing DOD clients
By Sean Lyngaas
Tighter budgets have increased the stakes for vendors trying to meet the military's mobility needs.
It was a smaller turnout than usual at the tri-annual Pentagon Technology Day. Attendance was a few score when it is usually about 200, something organizers attributed to vacation season. The exposition in the stately Pentagon Library nonetheless offered a snapshot into a shifting defense IT procurement landscape.
FCW visited the display booths of two mainstays in that landscape – Dell and BlackBerry – and found divergent approaches to dealing with the changing software and mobile devices markets in which these firms compete.
David DeVries, part of Dell's public sector sales team, rattled off his company’s acquisitions in its bid to gain a bigger foothold in the software market. One of those acquisitions was Quest Software, which Dell bought for about $2.4 billion in 2012, and Quest products were a part of DeVries' pitch at the event.
Dell can no longer rely on its bread and butter of servers and hard drives because there is only so much return in the hardware market, he said. Dell's efforts to offer "end-to-end solutions" are nothing new, he acknowledged – every big IT firm seems to be claiming that versatility.
The word "differentiator" often enters the IT sales pitch at this point, as a vendor argues its software package is easier to use and more effective than that of its competitors. For DeVries, Dell's "differentiator" is that its software is not "native," or internal to a particular system, and can be combined with software from other firms. DeVries cited Dell’s work with Oracle as an example. He also shied away from the word "competitor," another common sales tactic. How can you have competitors when each software package offers something unique?
The Plano, Texas-based firm does business with multiple military branches, DeVries said, adding that he hoped to take advantage of being in the Pentagon on Thursday by meeting with clients. Last year was "rough" for business because of sequestration, but Dell’s public sector executives are adjusting to tighter budgets, he added.
A few booths down from DeVries, BlackBerry's Terry Poulias scrolled from icon to icon on the firm’s latest mobile device. He is fond of what he called the "split personality" of the BlackBerry 10 operating system, which keeps work-related icons separate from recreational ones. Security is still king on these devices (a work meeting on the calendar requires a separate login), perhaps a nod to how BlackBerry became the incumbent for mobile devices at the Pentagon.
The Canadian firm announced last August that it was the first mobile phone provider to earn an authority to operate on DOD networks. In March, the Defense Information Systems Agency began deploying 20,000 BlackBerry devices, according to Poulias. DOD’s inspector general, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Defense Contract Management Agency are other Pentagon outfits using BlackBerry devices.
In March, the Wall Street Journal reported that the White House was testing Samsung and LG phones for internal use. But Poulias shrugged off the suggestion that BlackBerry might be losing some of its government-client market share. On the table in front of him was a Samsung phone that ran on a Blackberry network.
The next Pentagon Technology Day is on Nov. 6.
Sean Lyngaas is a former FCW staff writer.
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Designed specifically for children, the Prince Shark 23 combines topnotch performance with an affordable price tag, making it a great entry-level racquet. The Shark measures 23 inches long--roughly 3 or 4 inches shorter than most adult rackets--and offers a junior headsize of 95 square inches. More significantly, the racquet's composition Fusionlite alloy frame is lightweight (7.4 ounces) and easy to wield, so your child can learn the game with a racquet that suits his or her strength. The Shark 23, which also includes a Technigrip grip and meets all USTA standards, is backed by a one-year warranty.
23-inch-long tennis racquet designed for entry-level children
95-square-inch headsize and Technigrip grip
Composite Fusionlite alloy frame is easy to wield
Weighs 7.4 ounces fully strung; meets USTA standards
23 x 11 x 1.5 inches ; 8 ounces
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed, in short order, to re-arrange your reality. —Simon Schama
This June, the Figge Art Museum will present a comprehensive installation by Quad Cities artist Steve Banks. Like an archaeologist digging through layers of pop culture ash, Banks uncovers iconic examples of high and low art which he then rearranges and re-covers in complex and entertaining constructions.
In a visual mash-up of the familiar icons of art history and the TV shows, comic books and movies of his youth, Banks’s constructions acknowledge, for better and worse, the mass media’s headlock-like influence on our tastes. Through his use of pungent color schemes and a distinct iconographic style, Banks creates a palimpsest of personal memories revealing through its layers a wry social commentary.
The exhibition’s title, Pop Culture Palimpsest, refers to Medieval manuscripts in which one text or image is effaced and replaced by a new one, leaving a trace of the original and a record of layered information. Incorporating overlapping layers of painted, collaged, and carved elements, Banks’s constructions are the artist’s attempt to assert his identity against the mass media’s barrage on our senses.
As Banks has stated, our “search for identity often turns into commentaries about how we miraculously form meaningful… interpersonal relationships while our souls… bob haplessly on an isolating sea of cultural white noise.”
Read the artist's blog to learn more, and view progress photos of his artwork.
Steve Banks' website
On view June 9-September 2, 2018
Image Credit: Steve Banks, Mystaphorical Parfait, mixed media on canvas, Courtesy of the artist
4th Floor Gallery
Artist Steve Banks returns to Thursdays at the Figge to speak about his completed exhibition, Pop Culture Palimpsest.
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RMS Medical Products Announces Appointment of President and Chief Commercial Officer Donald Pettigrew
PR Newswire September 4, 2018
CHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Repro Med Systems, Inc. dba RMS Medical Products (REPR) today announced that Donald B. Pettigrew has been appointed to the position of President and Chief Commercial Officer.
RMS Medical Logo (PRNewsfoto/RMS Medical Products)
Mr. Pettigrew comes to RMS following a 23-year career in the medical device industry, where he has vast experience and demonstrated success in the home infusion space. He has held senior leadership positions at market leading medical firms such as Moog, Inc., Baxter (formerly Gambro) and Boston Scientific. At Moog, he led commercialization and business development for the IV infusion and enteral feeding franchises in both the US and OUS markets. Revenue grew $37 million over the last 3 years under his leadership, with annual revenues trending above $125 million. Mr. Pettigrew has extensive knowledge and experience in the home infusion market where he has a strong track record of driving growth and profitability by executing on commercialization strategies. He is a well-rounded executive that has worked across all customer facing and operational functions including sales, business development, manufacturing, supply chain, and product development.
"After a very thorough search process and being referred to us by one of our largest customers we are thrilled that Don has joined our team here at RMS," said Dan Goldberger, Chairman and interim Chief Executive Officer. "We believe Don's significant management experience across the entire commercialization process from product inception to patient use in the home infusion arena and his longstanding professional relationships will be invaluable to the future of our company as we work to grow the business and better serve the needs of our customers."
"RMS and its Freedom infusion system have become household names among patients and customers who depend on its reliable, user-friendly and highly effective technology platform for subcutaneous and IV infusions," said Mr. Pettigrew. "RMS is committed to developing innovative technology that empowers patients," he added. "My priorities as President and Chief Commercial Officer are to leverage the talents of RMS' staff and technology to grow this business and improve patient outcomes. I look forward to this tremendous opportunity to lead RMS into this next stage of the Company's history," said Mr. Pettigrew.
Prior to joining RMS, Mr. Pettigrew held senior roles at Moog, Inc. from 2011 to 2018 as Group Director, Global Business Development and Group Director, Global Sales and Professional Services. He was Vice President of Sales at Baxter (formerly Gambro Renal Products) from 2008 to 2011 and held various sales management positions at Boston Scientific from 1995 to 2008. Mr. Pettigrew earned a BA in Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1990.
The statements contained herein may include prospects, statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements that are based on management's current views and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, identified by words such as "believe". Actual results, performance or events may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements.
About RMS Medical Products
The Company develops, manufactures and commercializes medical products used for home infusions and suctioning. The FREEDOM Syringe Infusion System currently includes the FREEDOM60® and FreedomEdge® Syringe Infusion Drivers, RMS Precision Flow Rate Tubing™ and RMS HIgH-Flo Subcutaneous Safety Needle Sets™. These devices are used for infusions administered in professional healthcare settings as well as at home. The Company's RES-Q-VAC® line of medical suctioning products is used by emergency medical service providers in addition to a variety of other healthcare providers. For more information about RMS Medical Products, please visit www.rmsmedicalproducts.com.
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Why Kinross Gold, Weibo, and Middleby Slumped Today
Dan Caplinger, The Motley Fool
Motley Fool May 9, 2018
Wednesday was a strong day on Wall Street, and major benchmarks posted solid gains of around 1%. Market participants were generally happy about oil prices moving back into the $70s, hoping for a rebound in hard-hit areas of the country that had taken advantage of the triple-digit oil prices of the early 2010s by dramatically ramping up production of shale plays and similar opportunities. Yet even with the generally favorable mood, some stocks weren't able to join the rally. Kinross Gold (NYSE: KGC), Weibo (NASDAQ: WB), and Middleby (NASDAQ: MIDD) were among the worst performers on the day. Here's why they did so poorly.
Kinross gets tarnished
Shares of Kinross Gold fell 11% after the gold mining company announced its first-quarter financial results. At first glance, the news seemed good, with Kinross saying that revenue rose 13% from year-ago levels as the miner took advantage of higher sales volumes and better selling prices. Adjusted earnings quintupled from the first quarter of 2017. Yet investors weren't entirely pleased with Kinross Gold's falling production, which was down about 18,000 gold equivalent ounces to 654,000. Even so, the decline unfairly discounts the progress that Kinross has made in managing its expenses, with all-in sustaining costs falling more than $100 per ounce to $846. If the miner can address any production issues, then a rebound could come in short order.
Kinross logo with celebration for 25 year anniversary.
Image source: Kinross Gold.
Weibo falls despite strong growth
Weibo stock dropped 14% in another example of a company that had impressive results. The Chinese social media company saw first-quarter revenue climb by more than three-quarters from year-earlier levels, and adjusted earnings almost doubled over the same period. Yet even in combination with encouraging guidance for the future, Weibo wasn't able to satisfy growth-hungry investors, who had apparently wanted even better gains. With the stock having more than doubled over the past year, a pullback was somewhat overdue, but most agree that with more than 410 million monthly active users, Weibo will remain a force to be reckoned with for the foreseeable future.
Middleby loses power
Finally, shares of Middleby plunged 17.5%. The maker of kitchen equipment saw subpar revenue growth of just 10% in the first quarter of 2018, and net income unexpectedly fell from year-ago levels. Organic sales dropped significantly, and Middleby felt the weakness across its range of segments. CEO Selim Bassoul thinks that one-time factors were responsible for the disruptions to the business, and he believes that innovative new product launches will help build positive momentum again. Yet some of the headwinds Middleby identified could last for several more quarters, and that could make a quick rebound for the kitchen equipment specialist a lot more difficult.
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HBI - Hanesbrands Inc.
NYSE - NYSE Delayed Price. Currency in USD
At close: 4:02PM EDT
Bid 16.40 x 2900
Ask 16.75 x 1200
Day's Range 16.39 - 16.71
Avg. Volume 4,508,520
PE Ratio (TTM) 10.94
Trade prices are not sourced from all markets
Business Wire•13 days ago
CORRECTING and REPLACING HanesBrands Introduces National Park Foundation T-Shirt Promotion in Select Walmart Stores
Walmart consumers near nine national parks can support their regional recreation areas through a T-shirt purchase that generates funds for the National Park Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service.
HanesBrands Sponsors ‘Day of Service’ During Pac-12 Sustainability Conference at University of Washington
HanesBrands, which owns Hanes apparel and Champion athleticwear, and the Pac-12 are teaming up to care for those living homeless in Seattle during the athletic association’s Sustainability Conference, being held June 25-26 at the University of Washington. HanesBrands is today sponsoring a three-hour event that will help educate participants about homelessness in America and give them an opportunity to engage with and bring comfort to part of the local community who needs it most. The “Day of Service” begins at the University of Washington’s Husky Stadium with a presentation by Mark Horvath, founder of Invisible People and longtime HanesBrands partner, who will explain how the general public’s perceptions of homelessness impacts the way our nation addresses the issue.
Business Wire•last month
HanesBrands Introduces National Park Foundation T-Shirt Promotion in Select Walmart Stores
Walmart consumers near nine national parks can support their regional recreation areas through a T-shirt purchase that generates funds for the National Park Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service. Supporting our national parks is as easy as wearing a comfortable new T-shirt this summer. HanesBrands, a socially responsible manufacturer and marketer of leading everyday basic apparel, has introduced its first collection of ComfortWash T-shirts supporting the National Park Foundation in select Walmart stores near nine of our country’s most beautiful and recognized landmarks.
HanesBrands to Participate in Stifel 2019 Cross Sector Insight Conference
HanesBrands today announced that company management will participate in the Stifel 2019 Cross Sector Insight Conference on Monday, June 10, 2019, in Boston.
Business Wire•2 months ago
HanesBrands Reports First-Quarter 2019 Financial Results
.@HanesBrands delivers strong 1Q net sales, operating profit and EPS that exceed company guidance. Company reiterates full-year 2019 guidance and issues 2Q guidance
HanesBrands Employees Honored with 2019 Forsyth County Governor’s Volunteer Award in Corporate Category
HanesBrands’ volunteers are changing the future, one life at a time. The efforts of HanesBrands and its employees earned the company a 2019 Forsyth County Governor’s Volunteer Award for making a significant contribution to its hometown community. Samaritan Ministries, a volunteer-based organization that operates a soup kitchen, shelter and other programs to support those living homeless and/or hungry in Forsyth County, nominated Hanes for the award in the corporate category.
HanesBrands Declares Regular Quarterly Cash Dividend
HanesBrands , a leading global marketer of everyday basic apparel under world-class brands, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per share to be paid June 4, 2019, for stockholders of record at the close of business May 14, 2019.
HanesBrands Sets Date for First-Quarter 2019 Earnings Announcement and Investor Conference Call
HanesBrands today announced that it will host an Internet audio webcast of its first-quarter 2019 investor conference call at 8:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, May 2, 2019.
HanesBrands Celebrates 10th Consecutive U.S. EPA Energy Star Award for Environmental Stewardship
The company also releases its 2018 environmental performance data, with reliance on renewable energy ahead of plan and across-the-board improvements in energy use, water use and landfill diversion versus aggressive 2020 goals.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Selects Hanesbrands Inc. to be Primary Licensed Apparel Partner
After a thorough analysis of its licensed apparel program and review of opportunities to best serve its fans and consumers, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has selected Hanesbrands Inc. as the University’s primary licensee for apparel products. The new agreement, which was executed in collaboration with its exclusive trademark licensing agent, IMG College Licensing, covers UNC-branded men’s, women’s, youth, and infant/toddler apparel across all retail channels, and ensures the University has greater control over the supply chain along with stability in licensing income over the next 10 years. In addition to the new agreement with Hanesbrands, UNC-Chapel Hill will continue its partnership with Nike and the Jordan Brand as exclusive suppliers of uniforms for the University’s athletic teams, coaches, and staff, as well as licensed fan apparel.
Champion® Athleticwear Opens New Philadelphia Store in the Heart of the City of Brotherly Love
Champion Athleticwear, makers of authentic athletic apparel since 1919, continues its strong retail expansion with its first store in Philadelphia and its fifth U.S. specialty retail store with other locations in Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Chicago. The official grand opening of the new store on 1507 Walnut Street will take place on Saturday, March 23, giving the Philadelphia community access to the iconic brand in this premiere retail district. The newest Champion store is located in the heart of Downtown Philadelphia, situated amongst a variety of high-end retailers, shops, salons, restaurants and businesses.
HanesBrands Beats Clock to Deliver Round-by-Round March Madness Tournament Apparel
For global apparel leader HanesBrands (HBI), beating the shot clock has been a March tradition for more than 20 years. HanesBrands, a socially responsible leading marketer of everyday basic apparel, again will design, print and ship more than a half a million units of clothing – with as little as 48-hour notice – throughout the duration of this year’s NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s basketball tournaments. Apparel brands include Champion, Alternative and Comfort Wash.
Maidenform Launches New Magic Slimming Shapewear Collection Introducing LYCRA® FitSense™ Technology in North America
Maidenform is the first U.S. brand to bring the lightweight, targeted support of LYCRA® FitSense™ technology to market
HanesBrands Announces Board of Directors Leadership Succession Plan
HanesBrands (HBI), a leading global basic apparel marketer, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Ronald L. Nelson as chairman of the board effective April 23, 2019, contingent upon his re-election to the board at the company’s annual shareholder meeting to be held that day. Nelson would succeed Richard A. Noll, who is not seeking re-election to the board and is retiring as chairman, concluding a smooth and seamless leadership transition at the company. Noll served as chief executive officer of the company from 2006 to 2016, as chairman of the board from 2009 to 2016, as executive chairman of the board from 2016 to 2017, and as non-executive chairman of the board since 2018.
Goodbye Growing Pains: Hanes’ New Babywear Delivers Comfort and Innovation for Baby, Convenience and Savings for Parents
Hanes takes a fresh look at the $11 billion U.S. babywear category, launches Ultimate Baby line exclusively in Amazon’s online and mobile stores
Hanes and Michael Jordan Celebrate 30-Year Partnership with Special Trading Card Promotion to Commemorate Anniversary
Jordan scored the 10,000th point in his basketball career and hit “The Shot,” one of the most dramatic NBA playoff-series winning buzzer beaters in the history of the sport. The partnership between two icons from North Carolina was meant to be – and has stood the test of time, according to Sidney Falken, chief branding officer for HanesBrands. “Michael has always had his pick of brands to endorse, and we are incredibly honored that he has chosen to stay with ours for the past three decades,” Falken said.
HanesBrands Earns 12th United Way Spirit of North Carolina Award
Company and its employees receive statewide recognition raising more than $2 million and demonstrating outstanding community support through United Way involvement
University of Cincinnati Announces Exclusive Apparel Partnership with Hanesbrands Inc.
University of Cincinnati, in collaboration with its exclusive trademark licensing agent, IMG College Licensing, today announced an agreement with Hanesbrands Inc. to serve as the University’s primary licensee for apparel products. The new deal covers Cincinnati-branded men’s, women’s, youth, and infant/toddler apparel across all retail channels, and ensures the University has greater control over the supply chain along with stability in licensing income over the next six years. In addition to the new agreement with Hanesbrands, Cincinnati will continue its partnership with Under Armour, the exclusive supplier of uniforms and apparel for the University’s varsity teams, coaches, and staff.
GlobeNewswire•5 months ago
New Research: Key Drivers of Growth for Sirius XM, TrueCar, Molson Coors Brewing, Oaktree Specialty Lending, Brink's, and Hanesbrands — Factors of Influence, Major Initiatives and Sustained Production
NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2019 -- In new independent research reports released early this morning, Market Source Research released its latest key findings for all current investors,.
HanesBrands to Participate in Investor Conferences Sponsored by UBS and Bank of America Merrill Lynch
HanesBrands (HBI) today announced that company management will participate in investor conferences to be held in March by UBS and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Company presentations at the conferences will be available via live Internet webcast. Hanes will present at 11:15 a.m. EST Wednesday, March 6, at the UBS Global Consumer & Retail Conference to be held in Boston.
HanesBrands Achieves Leadership Position in CDP 2018 Report; A- Score Highest in Apparel Industry
Hanes Ranks in Top 6 Percent of Nearly 7,000 Companies Disclosing for the Climate Change Report
HanesBrands Reports Full-Year and Fourth-Quarter 2018 Financial Results
.@HanesBrands delivers strong 4Q performance, including organic sales growth, margin expansion, cash flow generation and debt and leverage reduction.
HanesBrands Sets Date for Fourth-Quarter 2018 Earnings Announcement and Investor Conference Call
HanesBrands today announced that it will host an Internet audio webcast of its fourth-quarter and full-year 2018 investor conference call at 8:30 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb.
ACCESSWIRE•6 months ago
Today's Research Reports on Trending Tickers: Hanesbrands and American Eagle Outfitters
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / January 22, 2019 / U.S. markets closed up on Friday for the fourth consecutive session amidst optimism over the U.S.-China trade talk. The Dow Jones advanced 1.38 percent to ...
Investor Expectations to Drive Momentum within Twenty-First Century Fox, Dunkin' Brands Group, Hanesbrands, Synaptics, Cinemark, and Sanchez Energy — Discovering Underlying Factors of Influence
NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2019 -- In new independent research reports released early this morning, Market Source Research released its latest key findings for all current investors,.
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"Fishy Fashion and Maritime Modes"
Seafaring Dress in the European Age of Sail (1750-1800)
Premiering, ‘Are You A Pirate?!’
December 28, 2016 December 28, 2016 / adamhodgesleclaire / 1 Comment
Please follow the YouTube link below to see the full performance of ‘Are You A Pirate?!’, a dramatic presentation I co-wrote and performed on December 2-3 in St Andrews! This ‘thesis on stage’ was the culmination of three years of research and hand-recreation of a 1780s maritime wardrobe, hopefully making my academic work available and engaging to a wider audience (both in person and here online). This project was generously supported by the St Andrews History Department, my tutor Professor Gerard de Groot, the Mermaids student drama society, a £300 grant by the St Andrews Student Union, and the input of many friends and colleagues in the living history world, both in the USA and Europe. My co-performer and academic colleague onstage was the brilliant PhD student Peryn Westerhof Nyman. And since this is the first time I’ve had the chance to share it more widely, please do comment, repost, critique, and generally tell me what you think!
Our three main topics are as follows:
Intro) ‘The Lowlands of Holland‘ – A 1776 reprinted ballad about a woman mourning her husband lost at sea. In finding this song, we were greatly helped by the input of 2016 Laidlaw Scholar Meg Hyland. (0:05-4:55) [Lyrics in full original form below.]
‘The sorrowful Lover’s Regrate: or, The Lowlands of Holland.’, 1776, Edinburgh Library.
a) ‘Dressing Sailor Fashion‘ – What garments were specific to seamen and women in maritime communities – how did they work and how was the wider fashions they created viewed by wider society? And further, what are the differences and analogies that can be made from this sillhouette to modern clothing? Watch as we dress piece-by-piece in the apparel of fisherfolk from Fife Scotland, examining and describing each layer in turn. Ultimately, we outline an argument that sailors and fishwives intentionally dressed in a highly specific and visible manner, even when this risked potential for violent impressment into the Navy. (8:30-1:15:17)
Anonymous artist, ‘The Press Gang’, 1774, Walpole Library.
b) ‘Why Pyrates Suck – and could be so much more?‘ – Pirates are the face of the 18th century to most audiences due to their recent revival in popular media – but how can historians critique their depiction and larger historical significance? Using the critical angles of violence, gender, and race, is it possible to move beyond Johnny Depp and make deeper themes and case-studies in nautical history appealing to modern viewers? Throughout this punchy section are also freely interspersed some truly terrible pirate jokes and puns… (1:15:34-1:33:26)
RI artist Forrest Curl hand-poking an anchor tattoo on Hermione’s main gundeck, July 2015.
c) ‘Why Authenticity Matters‘ – How do we move beyond ‘bullfacts‘, ‘Horrible History’, ‘Golden Age’ nostalgia, and teach about our past based on solid research? How is this process tangible and practical in the reproduction clothing worn by Peryn and myself? Can we flip our perspective on the past, recognize its agency and see another point of view on our present through this? How can we combine all types of evidence (visual, material, textual, etc!) to flesh out a fully nuanced vision of heritage? And how does our work this semester fit into other examples of modern public history projects which have successfully pushed understanding of history in pragmatic ways around the world? (1:33:28-1:45:16)
Hoisting the starboard main topsail aboard l’Hermione, summer 2015. [Philippe Leray]
And as always, tell me what you think – this is public history, and your input is vital! If anything in the video strikes a chord and resonates with you, or if you disagree, or simply want more information – comment below, or send me an e-mail.
Shellfish, Sma’lines, Seaboots and Shows: Semester 1 in Review
December 4, 2016 December 4, 2016 / adamhodgesleclaire / 1 Comment
As the current semester draws to a close in St Andrews, I want to look back on the progress of the past months in my academic coursework for HI4997 , gains made in my related 18th-century living history pursuits, and equally get excited and update you, my readers, about upcoming public history projects in ‘fishy fashion’ and Georgian-era nautical recreation.
[photo by Amy Chubb]
‘Seven Months at Sea’ MUSA talk (Nov. 17)
The first major performance of this course was an hour-long evening talk I gave at MUSA (The Museum of the University of St Andrews) on November 17th. Entitled ‘Seven Months at Sea,’ it explored my time and lessons learnt in sailing in 2014 and 2015 on the recreated frigate l’Hermione, built by the Rochefort-based Association Hermione-Lafayette. This formative experience kindled my present interest in researching maritime history, and certainly gave fresh insight on the large difference between American and European perspectives on this period! Overall, my main themes throughout the presentation were that respecting authenticity adds integrity to any historical project, whether commercial or nonprofit, and that this type of history can be pragmatic and self-sustaining in both attracting and engaging audiences (in the case of Hermione, with ticketed admission providing 60% of the funding for an over $29 million project!). Diligent research and attention to detail also forces modern viewers to pause and look closer, and ideally allows them (and myself) to empathize and viscerally understand the experience of past generations: something which is not possible with cheap costumes or cynically commercial ‘history-lite.’ Whether this then means hauling on a recreated capstan to lift a ship’s boat, or simply handling my hand-stitched recreated wardrobe and personal effects (see below), the resulting connections made between past and present can be powerful. And crucially, when choices are backed by academic diligence, any lingering questions or issues of interpretation simply become a fruitful dialogue between the public and the historian about the research behind the endeavor. And, as always, the feedback of the incredibly varied audience at MUSA was one of the most rewarding pieces of being able to tell my story – for instance, unique input from fellow academics, or meeting an elderly former student who had worked in the whaling fleet off of Antarctica after graduating in the 1960s! Such encounters enrich my experience, and then allow me to offer further analogies and anecdotes in future discussions. While technical difficulties precluded me from recording that night’s performance, here is a link to footage of an analogous speaking engagement with my home-town’s Lincoln Historical Society in January of 2016 – please do get in touch if you’re interested in a repeat showing, or have any further questions, critique, or input of your own!
‘Are you a pirate?!’ Barron performance (Dec. 2-3)
As for drama, this Saturday saw the climactic performance of ‘Are you a pirate?!,’ an ‘academic play’ (imagine a costumed historical TED talk onstage) that I co-wrote with a fellow history student, Peryn Westerhof Nyman, and which uses clothing to discuss the wider perception of the 18th century maritime past. In its first portion, I began just in my hand-stitched underwear, and dressed piece-by-piece in the layers of a contemporary mariner’s wardrobe, explaining with each new garment how ‘sailor fashion’ functioned in practice, what it can tell us about contemporary society’s relation to those sent to sea, and the sources with which we can understand both. In its animated second portion, Peryn and I had a dialogue about pirates (whom I despise, but she finds fascinating), their legacy in pop culture, and the challenges and opportunities this genre presents for historians today. The play then concluded by discussing the educational work we’ve been doing this past semester, and, as at MUSA, had a heartfelt appeal to the self-fulfilling power of authenticity – that our memory and experience of heritage is as strong as we make it, and that we can use the past to both critique and build on our modern present.
[photo by Noel Heaney]
by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson, calotype, 1843-1848
‘Historical Foraging at the Eden’ nature walk (Dec. 4)
To get some fresh air after this performance, we also co-led a group on a seaside nature walk on the morning of December 4th, alongside Fife Coast & Countryside Ranger Tony Wilson, as a way to explore the natural and human past on the very ground where it happened; namely, the seashore of the Eden Estuary just northwest of St Andrews. For centuries, local fishwives walked ‘the Mussel Road’ from town to this long strip of tidal mudflat, and gathered shellfish for baiting fishing lines outside their homes along the town’s North St (see below). Without shellfish and fishwives, fishing could not have happened, and this was an attempt to remind participants of this neglected story, and to talk about what it may imply for current environmental beliefs. In short, the way in which the community regulated this over time, both environmentally and socially, can tell us a great deal about changing technology, economics, and the ways in which humans interact with their natural world, both in the past and today. Specifically, while increasingly industrial deep-sea net fishing dominated from the 1800s onward (but has since collapsed), near-shore line fishing continued unbroken from prehistory, and is now being re-asserted as a lucrative, environmentally friendly alternative. And tasting fresh scurvy-grass, dodging golf balls, and examining the fresh casts of lugworms at low tide in the bracing winter wind of Scotland was certainly a visceral way to explore this topic!
In practical terms, too, several material projects likewise bore fruit this past semester. First of all, working alongside the expert traditional basket-maker Liz Balfour (who has been partnering with the St Andrews Social Anthropology department’s SA4059 module, and working on a wider Woven Communities project on traditional basketmaking), two friends and I completed copies of three traditional fishwives baskets – a back creel, display cob and arm creel – for use in our outreach and educational programs. This work was made possible with a generous £300 grant from the St Andrews Student Development Fund. This meant not only the chance to learn a new skill (basket weaving) or to work with a new material (willow), but also to have useable copies of original artifacts that will allow us to speak to the fascinating story of fishwives, who were integral players in nearly matriarchal pre-industrial fishing communities, and provide us a fascinating and empowering case study in 18th-century gender history!
Additionally, with the labour of the master traditional cordwainer Sarah Juniper, as well as the insights provided by archival research alongside Jen Gordon, curator of the Fisheries Museum’s Costume Collection, I am now the proud owner of a pair of hand-made eighteenth century leather seaboots! While lesser period equivalents would have been cheaper, such as Continental clog-boots, or simply tarred canvas leggings tacked onto shoes, there is nothing more substantial and effective than such a pair of heavy thigh-high waxed footwear, which will allow me to work in small watercraft in wet conditions, wade through calf-deep surf while landing such boats, and tramp around in muddy inter-tidal conditions gathering bait, just as fishermen and sailors did historically.
And in personal terms, smaller day-to-day sewing has resulted in other new useful pieces of wardrobe – a finer ruffled shirt for my ‘shore-going rig,’ a twin pair of striped linen petticoats for my colleague Peryn’s fishwife impression, new recycled ‘stocking-sleeves’ for my winter waistcoat, and other details. Such work allows both fresh research angles and new manual techniques, and is also simply the bread-and-butter of living and working in a recreated historical wardrobe, as we both hope to do professionally in museum work after graduating.
Finally, with the gracious help of Charlie Trzeciak, Learning and Access Officer at the Fisheries Museum, we have amassed all the necessary raw and finished materials to make a copy of a traditional ‘sma’line’ for inshore fishing – a technique which was practiced for millennia in Scotland, and only ended commercially, at least in Gourdon Scotland, in 1986[1]. With sources ranging from a local hardware store, to regional veterinary abbatoirs, to a traditional London ship chandler, sourcing appropriate materials in the modern day was a challenge over several weeks! Yet this is critical, since this copy will be a means of engaging visitors while it is built as an open-air demonstration (with a full 1,200 hooks whipped via spun horsehair to individual hemp strands along a larger-diameter line stretching over a mile), and will also be a way to preserve the embodied knowledge of a passing generation of Scottish fishermen whose hands-on ‘embodied knowledge’ otherwise risks being lost.
Combined with the above examples, these material projects are not just interestingly niche historical case-studies, or simply practical boons for my own historical recreation, but also fundamental for the living history programming I’m currently doing with school groups and weekend volunteering in Anstruther. A recent workshop attracted a healthy crowd of local youngsters, who were taught how to make sturdy rope from toilet paper, pierced their own nautical tattoos with ink and needle into the skin of grapefruits, and learned some basic tenets of seamanship, with more visits planned for the future.
[photo by Charlie Trzeciak]
And fundamentally, when children respond to the clatter of my hobnailed boots on the sidewalk, when elderly Fife residents animatedly recognize the distinct fashion of a recreated fishwife, or even when people simply stutter ‘Are you actually a pirate?,’ this is the past coming to life in a meaningful way for residents of towns who were universally maritime working communities until recently, and still strongly define themselves with this legacy today. The beauty of this public living history, to me, is its ability to combine archival research (including written sources contextualized alongside a wealth of visual and material research) with recreated material culture (including practical objects, theatre, and hands-on experience) that makes history relevant today and connects diverse audiences to their pasts.
So what, then, is to come after this onslaught?
First of all, reproducing the sma’line as discussed above, as well as a simpler hand-line in the boatyard of the Anstruther Fisheries Museum. Beyond spinning horsehair and splicing dozens of hook lengths, this may require tarring or ‘barking’ the line in a tannic acid bath when completed. Ideally, this will ultimately culminate in the ‘experimental archaeology’ of actually fishing using this recreated line in the waters of the Firth of Forth with the Museum’s Boat Club on a period-appropriate boat!
Secondly, in addition to outreach workshops this winter and spring, there is the potential for future collaboration with the Reaper, the Museum’s 1902 seventy-foot ‘Fifie’ herring drifter that tours Scotland’s coastal communities each summer; or equally, a return to the shipyard of l’Hermione in France to work on related programs there; or potentially other projects like the modern sail-borne shipping lugger Grayhound (which a friend recently returned from sailing aboard).
In professional terms, I hope to work this summer with the Fort Ticonderoga Association to continue advancing my manual training in historical tailoring. Yet, no matter where I find myself, I will continue to periodically publish and promote new work and information – so stay tuned to see how this develops, and, as always, make this public history your own by sharing, commenting below, and e-mailing me for any further queries or conversation!
[1] Celia Craig, A Tribute to the Women of Gourdon, 1837-1986 (James A. Bruce [printer], Stonehaven, 2015) – accessed via Scottish Fisheries Museum research library
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Michael Cohen testifies
Tomorrow. Got popcorn?
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/26/mich...in-office.html
Re: Michael Cohen testifies
Twitter is on fire over this Gaetz tweet.
(CNN)Less than 24 hours before former Trump fixer Michael Cohen is scheduled to appear in an open hearing to discuss his relationship with the President of the United States and shed light on his involvement in a hush money scheme involving two women alleging they had affairs with the billionaire businessman, Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz directly threatened Cohen via Twitter.
Hey @MichaelCohen212," Gaetz tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. "Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she'll remain faithful when you're in prison. She's about to learn a lot..."
GaVeLGraBBer
Where the wind takes me...........
CNN got a copy of Cohen's opening statement. I just read it and it looks the stable genius is going to have some explaining to do.
Going to be hard to think Cohen is lying because he's backing his claims with evidence that includes a check signed by Trump in relation to the hush money.
Going to be some interesting tv tomorrow.
The spider never understands what the fly is complaining about.
TheFreakKingdom
Cohen has already been sentenced. Lying to congress is a crime. He really doesn't have a reason to lie unless ****ting on President ***** Grabber is so important to him that he'll risk turning three years into 10.
Pretty hilarious, though. Total win-win. He is a piece of ****. No one who associates willingly with President Joke that long could be anything else. Watching ****head cannibalism is wonderful.
The TP fiscal conservative Republicans are our nation's only hope.
Originally posted by TheFreakKingdom View Post
Exactly. We all know Cohen is privy to Trump's shadiest dealings so now that he's no longer trying to "take that bullet" everything he wants to clean up takes another shovel of dirt from that hole Trump's been digging and tosses it back on the smartest man alive.
I wonder how long before we hear Trump was genius for hiring Cohen because Cohen lies and nobody will believe him!!! That 67D chess I tell you!!!
Basura Blanca
N.A. Caucasoid-ologist
He really doesn't have a reason to lie .
Strange, I heard that refrain tossed around a lot in another congressional hearing....
Originally posted by GaVeLGraBBer View Post
We all know Cohen is privy to Trump's shadiest dealings so now that he's no longer trying to "take that bullet" everything he wants to clean up takes another shovel of dirt from that hole Trump's been digging and tosses it back on the smartest man alive.
I'mnot following it in real time, but other than the claims of the Russian involvement, etc., what has Cohen told the public that we don't already know?
Trump is a scumbag, sexist, racist, draft dodger, cheat, and on and on. And as much as I don't think Cohen's credibility is the issue here, it's hard to not read a lot of vindictiveness into his statements so far. He'd be better off sticking to the things that can nail Trump legally rather than just beating the dead horse that he's a piece of ****. We know that already.
Originally posted by Basura Blanca View Post
I suppose if Cohen was just up there going on about Trump be an *** then this would be beating a dead horse. Cohen has documents though. He's got the check signed by Trump in regards to Daniels so it's no longer speculation.
You have to figure Mueller had to approve (so obviously has knowledge) what Cohen is speaking on today. And we can bet Mueller has far deeper understanding and knowledge on these topics.
I'm not seeing much from the Republicans except to just keep pointing out that Michael Cohen lies. Oh he does? Thanks for clearing that up. How about they ask some questions in relation to what he knows about Trump?
Cohen worked for Trump for many years as his Fixer
If he was not doing his job - he would have been fired (maybe killed) as Trump needed somebody to do the dirty work
One thing I have noticed, Republicans are not pushing back on claims - they are just trying to go after Cohen.
Interesting group of characters on both sides. Higgins Gosar..
I like how Meadows brought a black person to prove Trump isn't racist
"Good old Massa Trump. He a good man. He give me Sunday off so I can go to the churchin' and do my gardenin' in my little field. Good old Massa Trump.. he take care of us colored folk..."
bushwacky
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/tru...n-obama-cohen/
Trump called Black Americans ‘stupid’ and claimed US was a ‘sh*thole’ because it was run by Obama: Cohen
President Donald Trump’s racism is far worse than the public is aware, according to his former “fixer” Michael Cohen.
In a written testimony submitted to the House, Cohen said that in private, Trump is far worse.
“He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a ‘sh*thole,'” Cohen recalled. “This was when Barack Obama was President of the United States.”
He also noted that while the two were driving through a “struggling” neighborhood in Chicago, Trump said, “only black people could live that way.”
“He told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid,” Cohen also said. “He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat.”
Your Republican president.
Originally posted by bushwacky View Post
Unfortunately, this is why his tribe loves him and naive to think 38% of ‘Muricans’ don’t feel and say the same things.
Originally posted by cocasts View Post
Mickey Rourke in full Sin City makeup is sitting right behind Cohen.
LockeSD
7 Grains of Pain
Looks like he deleted it and apologized in response to Pelosi. How ignorant can these people be?
Originally posted by LockeSD View Post
He has yet to interrogate Cohen. Going to be interesting to see what he asks.
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Grim Dawn – Xbox One
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Thriller, Action, Drama, Science Fiction
Scientist Will Rodman is determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease which has slowly consumed his father. Will feels certain he is close to a breakthrough and tests his latest serum on apes, noticing dramatic increases in intelligence and brain activity in the primate subjects – especially Caesar, his pet chimpanzee.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011
Revolt (2017)
The story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they search for refuge across a crumbling world.
Revolt 2017
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner, the firm’s frontman, has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm--truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed--and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.
Roman J. Israel, Esq. 2017
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
Reservoir Dogs 1992
Rings (2017)
Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend, Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.
Rings 2017
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
As Rebel leaders map their strategy for an all-out attack on the Emperor's newer, bigger Death Star. Han Solo remains frozen in the cavernous desert fortress of Jabba the Hutt, the most loathsome outlaw in the universe, who is also keeping Princess Leia as a slave girl. Now a master of the Force, Luke Skywalker rescues his friends, but he cannot become a true Jedi Knight until he wages his own crucial battle against Darth Vader, who has sworn to win Luke over to the dark side of the Force.
Return of the Jedi 1983
Run All Night (2015)
Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.
Run All Night 2015
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Horror, Drama, Mystery
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Rosemary's Baby 1968
Rocky V (1990)
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Rocky V 1990
Reign of Fire (2002)
Adventure, Action, Fantasy
In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest underground. The Brit -- leading a clan of survivors to hunt down the King of the Dragons -- has much at stake: His mother was killed by a dragon, but his love is still alive.
Reign of Fire 2002
Rocky (1976)
When world heavyweight boxing champion, Apollo Creed wants to give an unknown fighter a shot at the title as a publicity stunt, his handlers choose palooka Rocky Balboa, an uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark. Rocky teams up with trainer Mickey Goldmill to make the most of this once in a lifetime break.
Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.
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Drama, Comedy
Five best friends from college reunite 10 years later for a wild bachelorette weekend in Miami. Their hard partying takes a hilariously dark turn when they accidentally kill a male stripper. Amidst the craziness of trying to cover it up, they're ultimately brought closer together when it matters most.
Rough Night 2017
Real Steel (2011)
Action, Science Fiction, Drama
In the near-future, Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After Charlie's robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
Real Steel 2011
Science Fiction, Action, Thriller
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.
Riddick 2013
Rear Window (1954)
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Repo Men (2010)
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, Crime
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the best agents in the business, but when he becomes the recipient of an artificial heart, he finds himself in the same dire straits as his many victims.
Repo Men 2010
Rio 2 (2014)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.
Rio 2 2014
Rocky II (1979)
After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.
Rocky II 1979
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985
Rock of Ages (2012)
Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Rock of Ages 2012
Rush Hour (1998)
Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Rush Hour 1998
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.
Robin Hood: Men in Tights 1993
Raising Arizona (1987)
The Coen Brothers tell the story of a absurd yet likable family with an unproductive couple as the focal point. The couple has gotten themselves into some trouble while kidnapping a baby and give Hollywood one of the most memorable chase scenes to date.
Raising Arizona 1987
Ricki and the Flash (2015)
Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with her family.
Ricki and the Flash 2015
Red Riding Hood (2011)
Fantasy, Thriller, Horror
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man – who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon, to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.
Red Riding Hood 2011
R.I.P.D. (2013)
Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Crime
A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov.
R.I.P.D. 2013
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Ireland’s National Treasure GOING for GOLD
August 9, 2012 / brisbanefrannie / 1 Comment
Among the many highlights today was watching Katie Taylor, local Irish lass, win a GOLD medal at the Olympics. She had captured the imagination of all the Irish and even us! We had to make a stop during our drive to find a country pub and watch the flight with an assortment of folk who were our friends by the end of the fight.
In the morning we drove out to the Connemara area stopping first at Clifden which was abuzz with a pony show. The streets were busy with streets stalls selling all manner of things including hens. We continued on to the most beautiful place – Kylemore Abbey – which was built as a house , a gift from a husband to his new wife. It’s a real love story. They had 9 children and when on holiday on the Nile, Margaret Henry died. He, Mitchell Henry, returned and had a Chapel built in the style of a Cathedral. It is gorgeous.
We also visited the garden, a walled garden, so lovely. It was bought by the Benedictine nuns after WW2 when their Abbey in Belgium was bombed. They started a school for young ladies. It’s not a school now but the nuns are still there and run a craft business – making soap, chocolate and other assorted things.
We left the Abbey and planned on finding a suitable place to watch Katy fight the fight of the year. We stopped at a small country pub called the Anglers Rest. We rushed in and every eye in the place turned and looked at us – the interlopers! I asked “has the fight started” and they all broke into smiles and welcomed us with encouraging cries of “come in ….it’s about to start!”
It was a gem. By the time the fight was over and GOLD won, we had new friends.
Tonight back in Galway we plan to hit the streets which are alive with people celebrating. In my opinion the Irish like a good flight and know how to celebrate.
Photos soon. Its not easy putting them on with the iPad. Does anyone know an easy way ?
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photo credit : 2012 Detroit Institute of Arts
artist © : public domain
France 16th century
Pendant pour un rosaire ou un chapelet
Pendant to a Rosary or Chaplet
elephant ivory with traces of polychromy
2 3/4 x 1 1/4 x 1 1/2
inscribed around the collarbone below the two faces: O MORS QUAM AMARA EST MEMORIA TUA [O Death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee / O Death, how bitter it is to be reminded of you]
Acc. No. : 1990.315
Credit Line : Founders Society Purchase, General Art Purchase Fund, Insurance Recovery Fund, David L. Klein, Jr. Memorial Foundation, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Fund, Henry Ford II Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton Fund for Medieval Art, with additional funds from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts
www.dia.org
1990, Purchased from Blumka II Gallery, New York
1990, Founders Society Purchase, General Art Purchase Fund, Insurance Recovery Fund, David L. Klein, Jr. Memorial Foundation, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Fund, Henry Ford II Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton Fund for Medieval Art, with additional funds from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton
See Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk, 3 February 2015: http://gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/images/ivory/390622B8_269c4707.html
1991 Barnet
P. Barnet, "Selected recent acquisitions," Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 66, no. 4, 1991, p. 50, (ill)
2000 Darr & Albainy
A. Darr & T. Albainy, "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999," The Burlington Magazine, 142 (June 2000), p. 406, no. IV (color ill)
1975-1976 Cologne
500 Jahre Rosenkranz 1475 Koln 1975, Koln, Erzbischofliches Diozesan Museum, October 25, 1975- January 15, 1976, Exhibition Catalogue
Medieval Masterworks 1200-1520, New York, Blumka II Gallery, dealer exh. cat., 1990
1997 Detroit
Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, P. Barnet, ed., exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997, cat. no. 78, pp. 277-278
2006 Cologne
Zum Sterben Schön, Cologne, Schnutgen Museum, cat. no. 45, vol II, p. 86
Franco-Flemish.
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Latin Link is an international community with a passion for mission in and from Latin America. We aim to be a channel whereby people can develop their God-given calling in the service of others, working with churches and partner organisations.
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Step is Latin Link’s short-term mission and discipleship programme for teams. Step provides a hands-on, practical experience of working with local church communities in Latin America or Spain. We select and send teams for four months each Spring and during the Summer for three to seven weeks. We welcome applications from individuals aged 17 plus, mixed-age teams, family or church teams, and university teams.
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Stay. We currently have around 100 people of 14 nationalities living and working in nine Latin American countries for longer periods of time, from three years upwards.
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Golfers invited to join 100th birthday celebrations at Gleneagles
10.57am 19th March 2019 - Courses - This story was updated on Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Luxury Scottish golf resort Gleneagles has unveiled two special golf packages to coincide with centenary of it historic King’s and Queen’s courses.
Golfers booking to play either course between May 1-15, 2019 will pay a reduced £100 per person as a special ‘nod’ to their 100th birthdays.
Both 18-hole championship layouts remain beacons for golfing aficionados, corporate guests and world-renowned celebrities and are steeped in history. The King’s hosted a famous match between the ‘Big Three’ of Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player in 1966, as well as the popular Bell’s Scottish Open on the European Tour from 1987-1994, the largest spectator event after The Open at the time. The Queen’s has also hosted great names from entertainment and sport, including Sean Connery and Alan Shepard, the only man to hit a golf shot on the moon.
In recent times, and under new ownership, both courses have benefitted from extensive projects that have seen them re-aligned to Braid’s original design vision with wider fairways, bringing strategically-placed bunkers back in play, and the re-introduction of Scottish heather in key areas.
For golfing guests wishing to combine their sporting passion with the splendour of staying at award-winning Gleneagles, they can take advantage of the exclusive ‘Regal Rounds’ overnight residential package, available throughout May 2019 only. Based on two people sharing either a twin or double Classic Room, guests can enjoy two rounds of golf each, indulge in a hearty Gleneagles breakfast, and enjoy full use of the resort’s Health Club during their stay, for £680. This package allows access to all three championship golf courses, including the Jack Nicklaus-designed PGA Centenary, host venue of the Solheim Cup in September.
Gary Silcock, Director of Golf at Gleneagles, said: “Our golfing heritage is in the spotlight this year, with 1st May 2019 marking 100 years to the day when our King’s and Queen’s courses first opened. It’s incredible to contemplate all the shots that have been hit down those iconic fairways since James Braid first created them using nothing more than manual labour and horse and cart. As we look ahead to the next 100 years of golf at Gleneagles, we’re delighted to announce these special offers, which will give many more golfers the opportunity to experience our world-class courses, and the chance to join our celebrations as we start the next chapter of the Gleneagles golfing story.”
For further information and booking, call 0800 704 705.
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Getting The New Gang Back Together – The Mr. Silla Interview
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If you’re the kind of person who keeps an eye on the Icelandic music scene, you will know that the social web of inter-band friendships and relationships here is often incredibly tangled and layered, with people taking part in various bands and side projects all over the shop. And with Mr. Silla, you have the perfect embodiment of the fun aspects of Iceland’s collaborative music culture, with a band containing members who perform, or have performed, with the likes of Seabear, Kimono, Botnleðja, Amiina and Múm. In terms of musical pedigree, you’re looking at the cream of the crop here.
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And there Mr. Silla remained until a couple of years ago, when Sigurlaug roped in some of her close friends, whereupon Mr Silla morphed into the current line up we now see and hear – a tight, full-on rocking band that we personally guarantee will make your Airwaves night!
We caught up with Sigurlaug to talk about the band, dangerous tour vans, and the possibility of having the Goonies reform in a biopic of their lives.
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Mr. Silla was a solo venture for a few years until you brought in your friends to create a band setup. What was the motivation for doing this? How does having a band now change the dynamics of songwriting?
Well part of the motivation for putting together a band was that I started writing different songs that seemed to call for more loudness. I was also excited to see what would happen to these songs in the hands of friends. We now have three guitarists in Mr Silla – myself, Gylfi Blöndal, and Kristinn Gunnar Blöndal who also sings and plays keyboards, along with two bass players – Gunnar Örn Tynes, who also plays keyboards, and Halldór Ragnarsson – and one mighty drummer of Iceland, Magnús Trygvason Eliassen.
That certainly sounds like one beefy group! From the material we’ve heard so far of Mr Silla, we’re sensing some righteous classic alt-rock sounds going on there. What is currently blasting on your stereo right now?
Weirdly it’s a hard question to answer. I am so bad with names of things. I can’t get enough of all the Éthiopiques compilations though, and I also like other music. My friend Korka is playing me music from Glasser this very minute. It’s pretty good.
This year Mr Silla did a special tour around Iceland with Snorri Helgasson and cartoonist/comedian Hugleikur Dagsson. What were the highlights of that tour for you? Did it relive the glory days of Sálin Hans Jóns Míns traipsing the country on the Sveitaball circuit?
Sveitaball circuit? I don’t really know what that means! But it was glorious for us anyway. We crammed ourselves in a big monstertruck-worthy jeep, and were a little afraid for our lives most of the drive. I guess it added to the shows a little, but I’m so happy that I am still alive and have all my limbs so I can play music this very moment. The places we visited were all awesome and great in their own way. I have to say though that the Flatey trip totally blew our minds. That day was something extra special. I highly recommend it.
Mr Silla are currently working and producing their debut album. What’s the situation with that at the moment? Are you able to give us a date when we can see it in the shops?
This album has been taking its time getting to know itself a little better. I think it’s coming to terms with its existence bit by bit, but we haven’t decided on a date yet. Soon is my answer. Soon….
Soon… got that! You played at last year’s Airwaves where you were looking to provide bit of a show, including specially designed clothing that you wore on stage. How is Mr Silla going to build on that for this year’s airwaves?
I will be collaborating again with Guðrún Tara Sveinsdóttir’s super talent on this year’s show. She is the one that designed the overalls that I was wearing the last time we played. I am very excited about all of this. I think you gain a lot in the way of your performance by dressing it up or taking on an alter ego of sorts. It’s a little easier to open up and give it your all.
Apart from yourselves, who else should we advise travelling folk to see while they´re at the festival? Is there any advice you can give to first timers on what to do while in Iceland?
Swimming pools are the thing. You have a good time being there and it’s a great hangover cure for festival peeps. My favourite ones are Sundhöllin and Seltjarnarneslaug. During Airwaves, I like walking around and randomly seeing some niceness that I maybe didn’t know beforehand, but I am definitely going to see Apparat Organ Quartet. Also, I will be performing with Snorri Helgason on his shows and will also be having some fun with Cheek Mountain Thief on theirs.
Final question – If there was a biopic of Mr Silla made by Baltasar Kormákur, who would be best cast to play the band?
The best thing would be to reunite the cast of Goonies for this. It’s the only way.
Mr. Silla will be performing on Saturday, November 3, 00:20, at Harpa Kaldalón.
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Tuesday 27 October 1914 – We Lost 568
The Germans take Neuve Chapelle.
Gas is first used by the Germans when they fire a prototype of modern tear gas from artillery near Ypres.
A German wireless message is intercepted giving 05:30 two days later as the time and date for an attack on the Ypres sector.
Louis Botha is at Commissie Drift, near Rustenburg, South Africa and defeats the rebel Beyers.
A BE2a of 6 Squadron is shot down while on a reconnaisance patrol over Lille. The crew Lieutenant K Rawson-Shaw and Lieutenant H G L Mayne are taken prisoner becoming the first crew lost by this squadron.
At 09:00 the Second Battle Squadron is in line ahead formation twenty miles north-east of Tory Island when the battle ship HMS Audacious, third in line and in the process of turning starboard, strikes a mine. The mine explodes on the port side aft and the rolling of the ship causes a boat stowed on the quarter deck to break loose from its lashings, and as it thrashes back and forth it knocks the tops off the ventilators on the deck. As a result more and more water finds its way below, helped by a fractured waste pipe in the captain’s quarters below. This extra flooding is outside of the area of subdivision enclosed by armored citadel and so it is virtually impossible to control. Attempts to take her in tow by the liner Olympic and the collier Thornhill, meet with no success as she is almost unmanageable in the heavy swells. The crew is finally taken off by the Olympic and at 21:00 twelve hours after being mined she is shaken by an internal explosion and sinks. Despite the fact that the Olympic, packed with British and American passengers, has seen the Audacious in critical condition the decision is made to ban all mention of the incident from the newspapers and it remains an official secret until after the war. For four years the name Audacious appears in all official returns, even the most secret lists of day to day strength. Since virtually everyone in the Grand Fleet knows the truth, the only effect of this is to discredit the Admiralty. For a time the newspapers content themselves with using phrases such as ‘the audacious sinking of this ship”, and “another audacious loss”, etc.
Prince Maurice of Battenberg a Grandson of Queen Victoria
A nephew of the Irish Unionist politician, barrister and judge Edward Carson
Brother of a future Member of Parliament
Brother of the Captain of HMS Hood who will be killed when his ship is sunk by the Bismarck in 1941
Son of a man who died on service during the Ashanti War in 1896
A Battalion commander
The son of an Admiral
The great grandson of a General
The uncle of a man killed in the Second World War
A man married to the grand-daughter of a Baronet
The grandson of a man who fought the French in the West Indies in 1804
A man whose great great grandfather was killed at Quatre Bras
Son of clergy
Multiple examples of families that will lose two and three sons
Today’s highlighted casualty is
Prince Maurice Victor Donald Battenberg KCVO a Lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and a grandson, like the King, the Kaiser and the Tsar, of Queen Victoria dies of wounds at age 23. He is the youngest grandson and names Victor to honor the late queen and Donald to Honor Scotland. His mother is the 5th daughter and youngest child of Victoria and Albert the Prince Consort. His father died of malaria at age 38 contracted while fighting in the Gold Coast in the Ashanti War in 1896. He is leading his battalion across an open space when a shell explodes near him. Wishing his men good bye, he is taken by stretcher towards a field dressing station but dies before reaching it.
Major Matthew Perceval BuckleDSO (commanding 1st Royal West Kent Regiment) is killed at age 45. He is the son of Admiral C E Buckle and he served in the South African War where he was wounded.
Captain Walter Neave Wells (East Kent Regiment) is killed at age 32. He is the son of ‘Sir’ Richard Wells KCB and he served in the South African War.
Captain Henry Ouseley Davis (Irish Rifles) is killed by shrapnel at age 30. He is the great grandson of Major General ‘Sir’ Ralph Ouseley.
Captain Edward Spread Mulcahy Morgan (Irish Rifles) dies of wounds. His brother will be killed in September 1916 and their nephew will be killed serving in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve ion 4 January 1945.
Captain Frederick William Stoddart (Wiltshire Regiment) is killed at age 43. His wife is the granddaughter of ‘Sir’ Robert Williams Baronet.
Lieutenant Alec Arthur Crichton Maitland-Addison(Cheshire Regiment) is killed in action at age 28. He will have two brothers killed later in the Great War.
Lieutenant Christopher Leather (Northumberland Fusiliers) is killed in action at age 31. He is the first of three brothers to lose their lives in the Great War.
Lieutenant Victor Harriott Hardy (York and Lancs Regiment) is killed at age 27. His grandfather was one of a small body of Englishmen who held the Fort of Roseau Dominica West Indies in 1804 when the French landed until relived by the British fleet under Nelson.
Lieutenant Francis Edward Robinson (South Staffordshire Regiment) is killed at age 19 leading an attack. He is the nephew of ‘Sir’ Edward Carson the Irish Unionist Politician, barrister and judge who represented the Marquess of Queensberry in his libel case with Oscar Wilde and who defended George Archer-Shee in 1911.
Lieutenant Edmund Swetenham (Durham Light Infantry) becomes the second of only two Swetenham’s to be killed in the war at age 24. His cousin was killed less than two months ago.
Second Lieutenant Robert Francis McLean Gee (Wiltshire Regiment) dies of wounds in England at age 20. He is the great great grandson of Captain William Buckley Royal Scots who was killed at Quatre Bras.
Second Lieutenant Owen William Eugene Herbert(Royal Field Artillery) is killed in action at age 21. He is the brother of Alan Patrick Herbert a Member of Parliament for the University of Oxford for fifteen years from 1935 to 1950. Another brother, Captain Sidney Jasper Herbert (Royal Navy) will be the Captain of HMS Hood and is killed when that ship is sunk by the Bismark on 24 May 1941.
Sergeant Frank Goodman Line (Border Regiment) is killed at age 25. His brother will be killed next May.
Lance Sergeant Sidney Barnard Thompson (Lancers) is killed at age 34. His brother will be killed tomorrow.
Private William Campbell(Black Watch) is killed at age 30. His younger brother will die of dysentery while serving at Salonica in 1917.
Private Ernest Condick (Devonshire Regiment) is killed at age 26. In 1916 his two brothers will both be killed serving in the same regiment.
Private George Edwin Swain (South Staffordshire Regiment) is killed at age 21. His brother Henry William will also be killed in the war.
Rifleman Frederick McCracken (Irish Rifles) is killed. His brother will be killed in the explosion of HMS Vanguard in July 1917.
Lieutenant General ‘Sir’ William Edmund FranklynKCB (3rd Division) dies at home at age 58. He is the son of the Reverend J E Franklyn.
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Which is worse: Life without parole or the death penalty?
Reacting to the Juan Quintero verdict, the ADA blogger over at Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center poses the question: Which is worse? The death penalty or life without parole (LWOP)? The blogger, A Harris County Lawyer, concludes that "I don't think anyone can really make the argument that LWOP is more severe than the death penalty." I reacted thusly in the comments:
How do you know ... the afterlife isn't entirely glorious and we do every executed offender a tremendous favor by hastening their arrival? Perhaps the streets are paved with gold and all our deceased friends and family will be there to greet us on the other side. Many Christians believe some version of that to be the case, and more than a few offenders turn to Christ during their travails, just like the thief on the cross before he expired.
To repeat my earlier reasoning, everyone dies but not everyone stays locked up in a cage for decades. Death is perceived as a relatively more severe "punishment" because we don't know what comes after, so people fear the unknown. But death is also a sentence to which we're all condemned - everyone's entry card to the human condition bears an unknowable expiration date - which makes it at once as un-extraordinary as it is exceptional. That sounds contradictory, but that's because death as a punishment creates a paradox that's just not there for LWOP. With LWOP, society knows EXACTLY what punishment the offender is getting, because we're all here on earth to see it. With death, at most one can "hope" it's enough. And since vengeance cannot bring back the victim, it never is.
What do you think? Which is the harsher punishment, LWOP or the death penalty?
BLOGVERSATION: At Simple Justice, Scott Greenfield tells this related anecdote about attitudes toward prison and the death penalty in China:
I was half of a contingent meeting with a judge from Mainland China. My bookend was Larry Goldman, former president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and sophisticated New York bon vivant.
Eventually, discussion turned to China's execution of prisoners, enough to make a Texan blush. Bearing in mind that China (pre-quake) had far more people than it could handle, I anticipated that the judge would view life as a rather expendable commodity, and justify the imposition of the death penalty as being a fairly mundane sanction, where a billion fewer people would not be noticed.
The judge did not. Not at all. He was quite serious in explaining that he believed that death was a kinder outcome to the defendant than life in a Chinese prison without parole. In fact, he was critical of our view that putting a human being in prison for the rest of his life like a caged animal was less cruel.
The picture he painted (mind you, he was talking about Chinese prisons, not American) was of a slow, lingering death of 20 to 50 years, maybe even longer, making it sound like a means of horrible torture. Death by a thousand days, rather than swift and painless not too painful. He could not understand why we would think the suffering of life in prison was of a lesser quality than execution.
See recent related Grits posts:
Why choose life? Exploring possible reasons for the Quintero verdict
Danalynn Recer on the Quintero verdict
ALSO RELATED: From the Houston Chronicle, "Will death become the exception, not the rule," May 26
Labels: Death penalty, life without parole
Robbie C said...
I believe that the DP is infinitely more severe than LWP.
If it weren't why do the majority of DR inmates desperately seek every single chance at repealing the death sentence in favor of LWP?
You and I can speculate which is worse all day --- neither of us will ever be faced with either.
I think it's much more telling which one those on DR would prefer --- the least of the two severe: LWP.
Grits - Nice Sunday Blog!
robbie c - Inmates on Death row seek repeal of their sentence because of the indeniable human trait to work toward the continuation of life and prospects for improvement. Inmates with Life With Out Parole sentences, also seek release for the very same reason - the continuation of life and prospects for improvement.
I am opposed to the Death Penalty because of the finality of it. The only difference between the DP and LWP is that with death, society looses it's humanity. Humanity is "the continuation of life and prospects for improvement" and it is lost not only to the inmate but also to society.
The death penalty harms everyone and consequently is the worse of the two.
Christoph said...
Thanks for asking for my opinion. I think your point is completely stupid.
Wishful thinking aside, there is no evidence for any afterlife. The odds of such are extremely small. There is evidence each and every one of the major monotheistic religions at least — including Christianity — is untrue and cannot be true. They are certainly evil — and I include Christianity.
Why murder is a crime is it denies someone the sum total of all their future experiences.
Let's talk bluntly. Hell, let's talk crudely.
Most people don't pursue any type of hugely noble idea in their life. Some do and that's fab. But it's not the norm.
Most people like eating, sleeping, warmth, sex, orgasms (as distinct from the experience of sex), and the like. People spend their lives pursuing comfort and pleasure, for entirely good reasons.
In prison, all if not most of these things are available.
To call a life spent watching TV, talking with your mates, working out at the gym, and masturbating to pin-up photos "worse than death" is to be liberal to the point of farcical.
"robbie c - Inmates on Death row seek repeal of their sentence because of the indeniable human trait to work toward the continuation of life and prospects for improvement."
Congratulations, Anonymous 05:25:00 PM, you have achieved farcical.
Robbie C, brilliant point — indeed, it should be the end of the discussion because it's as near to an absolute proof as exists — and one I would have made had you not done so. Instead, I wanted to point out some of the things the inmates desperately grasp as opposed to face death.
Were Grits point valid — and it is instead incredibly weak — every person with a severe disability would seek death. Most don't.
People try to live as long as they can. Most people, religious or otherwise, deep down know when they die that's it. And they want every last breath they can take.
I'm curious, Grits. Your daughter is 68 years old. She meets a criminal, for the sake of this example, and impossibly powerful one.
He imprisons her for 15 years, but treats her humanely, does not abuse her, somehow manages to let her write letters and visit have her friends and family come to visit her, gives her food, organizes celebration between her and his other prisoners from time to time, lets her have religious services with fellow believers, gives her opportunities to exercise and complete medical care, and provides a chance for her to do some very lowly paid but meaningful work before your daughter finally passes away of natural causes, while receiving palliative care.
Or, upon meeting your daughter, he kills her.
Which do you prefer — which do you think she'd prefer — and why?
Mark Bennett said...
The death penalty is worse than life in prison. It's not even a close call in my mind.
I read an article by a death penalty inmate a few years back about the horror of having someone else decide the moment of your death, then tell you when that moment would be.
While we're all going to die eventually, we naturally strive against all adversity to live. It's human nature, if not the nature of all living things.
kbp said...
Tough question, so I had to put it closer to home.
Were someone to take the life of any in my family, I'd wish LWOP and a very lonnnnng life to serve that sentence.
I could not make them think about what they did every day, but I'd feel better myself believing they are.
It would be better if THEY were stuck worrying about their own death for the rest of their life, but I can't think of a way to do that without then having the pleasure of knowing they will not be put to death at some point.
jsn said...
FWIW there are cases where the DP was changed to LWOP by the Governor or BOP. I cannot recall any cases were LWOP was changed to a DP. OTOH I recall a few cases of a suicide by a person serving an LWOP sentence.
There is book of interviews of persons serving LWOP sentences in Pennsylvania and my recollection was they did not agree on the question of DP versus LWOP.
To Robbie and Mark, if the choice is so obvious that life in prison is preferable to death, why do you get volunteers? Don't you think the analysis might perhaps be different depending on your personality, values, circumstances, etc.?
To Chistoph, you describe a VERY soft and cushy version of Texas prison life. If your description were accurate, maybe they wouldn't get volunteers. Mark, I'm curious if Christoph's description representative of how your clients describe their time in Texas prisons?
If you don't believe in the afterlife, you can still believe that a life of imprisonment and torment is worse than an immediate, final, perhaps even comparatively merciful end. I don't think it's nearly as obvious as some here have claimed which outcome is preferable, or why would prisons have high suicide rates?
"high suicide rates?"
People have different opinions on the subject, Grits, and some incarcerated people prefer death to prison.
But the suicide rate of people on LWOP is less than 50%, isn't it?
The vast, vast majority of these people prefer to live.
I've some experience with jail if not prison. I'm sure prison's worse. A goal of prison is to be humane of course. Just like no part of life is without hardship, neither is prison.
After all, as convicted murderers should know as well as anyone, life on the outside can offer experiences of the most extreme horror and pain... yet most people find it worth living.
There's tough times in prison. There's also the daily pleasure of meals, watching TV, talking, reading, exercising, and some of the crude things I mentioned, which we all enjoy.
Robbie C. gave us the evidence and Mark Bennett explained the why.
If LWOP was truly worse than death, the the majority of people so sentenced would kill themselves. And they wouldn't fight to get that sentence as opposed to death.
I can see arguments against the death penalty, for example, judicial error.
But as to which is more severe, I think your point is frankly ridiculous. The vast, vast majority of people (or at least criminals who are less concerned with the nobler side of life and notions like "freedom" and are more concerned with their selfish often craven pleasures, including sadism) would prefer losing their freedom vs. death.
Consider something different, slavery. It's an awful thing, worse even, because it affects the innocent. And some people commit suicide to escape it. But most people would prefer to live as a slave than to die.
This is simply true whether you understand it or not, Grits. And while prison is just for someone who has committed the crime of murder, so is death. Whether you agree with death penalty or not, it is more severe.
Liberals like yourself just want to seem tough when you say you're sentencing people to the more severe punishment of life. It's nonsense.
I think you'll find this interesting.
I found Killing as Punishment: Reflections on the Death Penalty in America online at Google Books.
It's written by Hugo Adam Bedauhas who: "commanded a long and distinguished career as one of the most widely respected opponents of capital punishment."
He makes many arguments against the death penalty, but his are based on LWOP being less severe than the death penalty.
Please consider reading section V on page 83-86. He pretty much undercuts every part of your argument including suicide.
An ex-inmate says...LWOP is worse than the death penalty. At least with DP, the victim's family hopefully receives closure, and the suffering of the inmate ends sooner rather than later. Anyone who has been in prison will tell you it ain't a picnic. Cristoph's entries are idiotic. He has no idea what it's like to be locked up, separated from everything normal and cast into a hell where there is a completely different culture than what we have here in the free world. The main idea on most sane inmate's mind is this separation and their eventual release back into a normal society. To not have that, to know that one must spend the rest of their time on this earth in that hell is, I think, a fate many times worse than the death penalty, the pain to be multiplied by the number of days the inmate spends alive past the day he would have been executed.
Anonymous 09:17:00 PM, you're stupid.
To Christoph – I agree in principle with some, maybe much, of what you have said here.
However, I have to get this off my chest. Judging by what I have read from you today you seem utterly intolerant of some religious beliefs. That is the classic definition of a bigot. Another point; it is silly to try to discuss the ecumenical idea of life and death by concocting little fictions that begin with “What would you do if….” It is safe to say that most folks that would frown at the D.P. for rape would kill someone themselves if faced with the certain knowledge than X would violate their mother/daughter/sister/wife. It is simply an argument that proves nothing.
"However, I have to get this off my chest. Judging by what I have read from you today you seem utterly intolerant of some religious beliefs. That is the classic definition of a bigot."
No, I'm not and it isn't. I oppose religious beliefs just as religious people oppose "Godlessness". In fact, they assure me I will be tortured through all of eternity because I a free man without a "Lord", specifically theirs.
I tolerate them. I don't have to agree with them. I'm going to marry one of them as it happens.
Notice the word tolerance. It means what it means.
I don't persecute religious people. I don't refuse to hire them. I don't even refuse to bed them. However, their religious texts and the God(s) described within are profoundly evil in parts and I am proud of myself for opposing that.
I tolerate religious people. My intolerance is directed toward the God Yahweh of the Old Testament who ordered rapes, genocidal murder, and child slavery; it's directed toward Jesus in the New Testament who threatens children with lifelong torture in Hell if they don't believe the outlandish claim he is the son of God with little to no evidence for the proposition, if he even existed at all; it's directed toward the God of the Torah who directs people to cut off part of babies' penises for "God" sakes, and it is directed at Allah for being a truly evil psychopath and at Mohammed for ordering entire tribes of Jews to be beheaded marrying a girl when she was 6 and having sex with her when she was 9.
It is not directed toward people who happen to believe these ridiculous evil faiths. I disdain their positions for obvious and noble reasons, but I tolerate them.
*because I a free man = because I am a free man
Let me put it this way, Travis: I respect your right to your belief, but I may or may not respect your belief.
Why would anyone honest "respect" that which they know is untrue?
If you are a Christian and you believe Jesus was the Son of God, born of a virgin, risen from the dead, and God himself, part of the Trinitarian Godhead, all one God... and you really believe this... why would you respect my belief that Jesus probably didn't exist at all, was definitely not God, never rose from the dead, the Gospels contradict each other and are simplistic unbelievable stories, particularly the dunce disciples tho keep on forgetting Jesus' past miracles and wondering how oh how can he solve a lesser version of the exact same problem he solved two chapters ago, and that Mary, if she existed, had sex in the normal fashion (hopefully enjoying it)?
You may respect my right to believe that and to say it, but... why would you respect my belief itself?
It makes no sense at all — rationally.
Another example. Muslims believe Mohammed was God's true messenger and a noble man who revealed God's true religion. I believe he was a mass murdering dishonest psychopathic child molester who started a worldwide anti-woman anti-freedom death cult.
Why should I respect their belief and why should they respect mine?
Christoph said - No, I'm not and it isn't.
Just denying it doesn’t make it so it the real world. Outside Christophville fantasyland words have static definitions. Bigot = intolerant of any opinions differing from his own. Lets review. you called differing opinions STUPID, FARCICAL, RIDICULOUS and NONSENSE just to name a few. You labeled Christianity, and by extension Christians, evil. What part of bigot/intolerant do you not understand?
Let me see if I can put it in a way you can understand.
Dude, your not as stupid as you look. If only you could stop your mental masturbation long enough to unstick the keys from Mary’s five daughters and uncross your eyes you might maybe kinda’ definitely see that everything you defecated on the page in youse last post was total bullshit contradicted by u beforehand writings.
A few good ideas but your attitude sucks.
"Nonsense" was applied to the notion that the death penalty is less severe than life without parole. I am not intolerant of Grits because I disagree with him. The well known death penalty opponent I referred to used the word "absurdity". Take your pick.
I don't think this means he's intolerant to people who disagree with his reasoning or conclusions (and Grits actually agrees with his larger conclusion, I believe, just not his reasoning and some of his lesser conclusions), it just means he finds it absurd.
"Stupid" was applied to a really stupid comment. It WAS stupid. Incidentally, he called everything I wrote — a large part of which you say you agreed with — idiotic. I just challenge any reasonable person to read his comment and conclude it isn't stupid. I mean, it was. Perhaps it was impolite of me to say... but it's true. That person is really stupid and I can't help that. I didn't make them that way.
"Farcical" is my opinion on the idea that prison is worse than death, when the huge majority of inmates fight to avoid the death penalty and do not commit suicide. You're not being very tolerant of my opinion that his opinion is farcical, now are you? Or of my opinion that his conclusion is "ridiculous"?
Hey, I could be wrong, but don't you think you should show respect? I strongly, strongly believe the notion that modern prison is worse than the death penalty is ridiculous. Why can't you be more tolerant of my opinion?
This is a stupid discussion.
People disagree. They say the disagree. They sometimes use words like "ridiculous". It's my opinion, you're entitled to yours, and he's entitled to his.
THIS IS the meaning of tolerance.
The one who's doing mental masturbation is yourself.
To Christoph –
Once again we seem to agree on so much. A few snippets of agreement. ”This is a stupid discussion.” “People disagree.” “Everybody is entitled to their opinion.” Yahda yahda yahda.
You seem to thunk you are defending yourself in the previous post. However, taking your explanations at face value, I still say you fit the definition of a bigot.
As for you trying to turn the tables of intolerance on me. I’m trying to decide if your comments are knee jerk defensive reactions or if the nuisance of English escapes you. Perhaps English is a second language for you. Let me explain, I have not and am not denigrating your opinions just your delivery. As I continue to prove I can stoop to your level it would be hard to prove I’m intolerant of your drivel. Besides, I’m just yanking your chain. It’s been fun but I have some bad news. My attention span is not much longer than your penis so you’ll have to handle it solo once again.
sunray's wench said...
Those who talk of prison conditions as being comfortable (or imply it) I suspect have no first hand knowledge of them, or indeed have family members experiencing them. Inmates do not live in vaccuums, and while it is true that after the first 5 years of a sentence many are left with no outside support, that's not the case for all inmates.
The DP may bring closure to the victims family, but it also creates a whole new set of victims ~ the inmate's family and friends ~ who seem to share the condemned's stigma in your society of people who call themselves Christian. LWOP at least stops the cycle. It shows that the act of killing is wrong, no matter how you dress it up, and that the state is above the level of the inmate by not perpetuating it. LWOP means the inmates' family does not suffer in the way the victim's family does. How can increased suffering be a good thing for those who have committed no crime?
For some, the prospect of LWOP is tollerable, because they become institutionalised and can deal with it. For others, the prospect of death is preferable, for many reasons but guilt is one and the absense of life as we understand it to mean is another. Few people actively want to die, but for those that do, the most farcicle thing is for the state to battle to keep them alive or to ignore their request, in order to be able to kill them at a later date.
Christoph, according to the book link you gave, 12% of those executed in the US since 1982 were "volunteers," a higher figure than I suspected. IMO that bolsters instead of discredits the idea that a rational person may consider LWOP "worse" than a death sentence.
Why would they make that choice if what you say is so obviously, incontrovertibly true?
I don't think the ratio has to be 50% to make the point. Fact is, others who've faced the precise choice sometimes made different ones from what you'd consider "obvious," and for reasons that are entirely rational believed that life in prison the harsher option. It wasn't so obvious to them.
"Why would they make that choice if what you say is so obviously, incontrovertibly true?"
I think a certain percentage of the volunteers feel genuine remorse for their actions and realize the justness of the death sentence.
Of course, using my same argument†, it could be that 88% of those convicted to death feel so badly about what they've done they volunteer for life imprisonment and refrain from suicide due to their heartfelt belief they deserve a tough penalty and shouldn't take the easy way out. Undoubtedly, in self-flagellation, these noble inmates refuse desert.
But I, like the author of that book who is a death penalty opponent, find that unconvincing.
† I'm being a bit facetious. I think the proof in the pudding is the numbers which show most convicts feel that life in prison is better than death and common sense which would be that convicted murderers are at least as selfish as the general public and would tend to want the least severe penalty (in most cases).
Some people obviously do feel the same way you d,o Grits, but you're a minority, at least when drawing from the convict pop (and that's the point, isn't it?). So in the majority of cases, LWOP is less severe than death.
However, if you have a principled objection to the death penalty for the opposite reason than Bedauhas, to wit, you believe it isn't severe enough, then do you believe LWOP should be as austere and difficult as possible, just to be on the safe side?
The question is a moral one, Chrisoph. You cannot answer how many angels dance on the head of a pin by majority rule.
Our society is incredibly narcissistic, and the fact that most people choose a known (life) that panders to their narcissism over an unknown that they (perhaps irrationally) fear does not mean that their assessment of which is "worse" is accurate.
Worse than either LWOP or the DP would be having Grits as an elected official.
What a surprise to find that Dana and Grits were friends in college. Bet that was a small social group, eh?
As a society, we have got to do something to get the suicide rate on LWOP raised to at least 75%.
Grits, I bet your lawyer father reads this tripe and shakes his head in shame.
"The question is a moral one, Chrisoph. You cannot answer how many angels dance on the head of a pin by majority rule."
Yes, quite. So buy Bedauhas's book. He approaches the death penalty from a moral perspective and, using reasoning I can't fault in the main, argues against it.
The reason he reaches a different conclusion than me is because he has a different set of values than I do. He basically believes all life has great value, even people who've done terrible things. I believe the innocent have a far greater value than the guilty and guilty forfeit much of their value, in some cases, all of their moral value when they commit horrendous crimes.
It's this forfeiture of their value which makes punishment just, including the death penalty, or the far, far worse punishment of life with TV, internet, books, steady food, and worldwide penpal opportunities.
I'm not sure what your moral point is. I understand Bedauhas's point as he believes punishment for the sake of punishment is gratuitous whereas I believe it's just and virtuous: at least we're agreeing largely on facts and reason and arguing the actual morality.
You believe, don't you, that LWOP is a more severe punishment than death? Then surely if you actually believe that, then, logically, you believe death is a less severe punishment than LWOP.
a > b → b < a
So, if I buy your contention, can we use LWOP for the really SERIOUS murders and, to show our mercy, use death where the murder is less serious, their were mitigating factors, and/or genuine remorse?
Because if not, I'm going to say you're not being intellectually consistent nor intellectually honest (with yourself).
Your views are actually closer to Bedauhas's, but instead of using his rational arguments and the conclusions that flow from them, you're using the ridiculous position of LWOP being more severe than death, which it isn't.
If it were, you would have no problem with having it in the sentencing continuum, at least in theory.
Yes, there are valid arguments against it, like wrongful convictions. I wish you'd use those and not the ones which make no sense, but are used by modern liberals who devalue language and make it mean what it doesn't mean.
Death is more severe than life. I'd think that is axiomatic.
"Our society is incredibly narcissistic, and the fact that most people choose a known (life) that panders to their narcissism over an unknown that they (perhaps irrationally) fear does not mean that their assessment of which is 'worse' is accurate."
So... basically... your strategy is to punish convicted murderers with the more "severe" sentence of LWOP by indulging their narcissism and their false belief that death is worse?
Christoph, your position is summed up with this statement: "Death is more severe than life. I'd think that is axiomatic"
In other words, it's true because it's true. That's not an axiom, it's a tautology. Here are some stats on rates of belief in the afterlife. By your majority rules on moral questions argument, you are wrong. (Of course it's your "majority" argument that's wrong; no one can now whether there's an afterlife, even you.)
Also, I didn't stake out a position or a "strategy," I posed a question and asked people for their reasoning. And you gave me your answer: It's true because it's true, and people who disagree with you are wrong.
And to the troll (3 posts in 5 minutes?) who thinks he knows my father's mind, my Dad believes in the afterlife, as do most Americans his age. I'm willing to bet he wouldn't find the premise of the question nearly as off the charts as somebody like you or Christoph who appear to have nothing but disdain for religious people.
lawschoolinmate said...
Grits, I thought your post was really interesting. I remember being struck by an inmate's comment in the NY Times article on the "wave" of execution dates following the SC's ruling on lethal injections (I blogged about on the article and I think you did too): he said that LWOP was torture and far worse than the DP.
I think it's impossible to decide the question based on the inmate because it's going to depend on each inmate's circumstances. For one inmate, he may know that his case has some good facts and there is a chance that he could have his case retried and maybe even get out. For another, the facts are terrible and he may have nothing to look forward to even if he did get out, so he'd rather just get life over with.
I think the question, rather than which is worse, is what do we as a society believe to be right. Do we ultimately believe that the government should have the power to kill its citizens?
In any case, sooner or later the Sup Ct will decide it for us as the number of states outlawing the DP reaches a critical mass. Sorry, Texas, I think your days of the DP are numbered.
"In other words, it's true because it's true."
Nonsense, Grits. Robbie C. explained much of the evidence for it and Bedauhas took that in more detail and added other points. You know darn well I and others have made many of these points. Mark Bennet explained the why of it.
I don't have a majority rules on moral position argument (although it tends to when the law is set). I agreed with you when you challenged that idea. I have no idea where you're getting from.
We're talking about SEVERITY of punishment. If most people convicted of a crime prefer punishment x over punishment y, then it seems logical to presume that punishment y is more severe, at least from their perception point of view. And that's valuable data. Bedauhas gives other reasons aside from this important one.
Further, I don't have disdain for religious people. I love very many religious people (and dislike many atheists). I have disdain for religion. There is a difference.
To me, it's like a superstition. Most people have had at least some superstitions, yours truly included. I think superstitions are dumb, but don't dislike everyone who has one. Also, many people are religious and I think they're reasoning here is highly flawed, assuming they've actually read all of their religious scriptures, which most haven't.
Yet, they can be highly intelligent generals, doctors, lawyers, accountants, moms, coaches, or what have you. I've made this point before on these threads. If you missed it, there it is. Again.
Put simpler, my criticism is of God (ordering rapes, mass murder, and child slavery), Jesus (threatening lifelong torture if I don't believe in Him and I haven't even had the benefit of seeing an actual bona fide miracle, just unlikely hearsay), and for that matter the Holy Spirit (killing all innocent first born male children because of what their dictator allegedly wouldn't do) as depicted in the Bible, not of Mrs. Clarkson at church.
I've always wondered about this myself. As someone who has worked in several prisons I tend to think LWP is worse. Prisons are awful places mainly because of the other prisoners and the culture they make.
If this is so, then couldn't an argument be made that the DP is more humane than LWP? And therefore, the DP abolitionists very cruel persons indeed?
The book I referenced above is
"Doing Life" by Howard Zehr
I think it is an important book because some of the prisoners he interviewed were able to do things in prison that were beneficial to society in general. They did in fact rehabilitate themselves.
The cruel part was even though they were rehabilitated there was little chance of their sentence being commuted because of the political costs to the governor.
Zehr photographed the lifers in civilian clothing instead of prison garb (a huge difference). It would be interesting to see how the voters would react if the presidential candidates wore orange jumpsuits.
It is the people who run the prisons that make them what they are.
The inmates don't have much choice, the Guards, Wardens, State Legislators are the ones that make prisons horrible places.
I agree, the culture in prison is terrible, and very little of the blame for that falls upon the inmates. Remember S%^& rolls down hill.
I still maintain the DP is harsher because it is a choice that cannot be ammended.
Christoph, how much do I need to pay you for a good insult?
Christoph wrote: "I believe the innocent have a far greater value than the guilty and guilty forfeit much of their value, in some cases, all of their moral value when they commit horrendous crimes.
It's this forfeiture of their value which makes punishment just, including the death penalty, or the far, far worse punishment of life with TV, internet, books, steady food, and worldwide penpal opportunities."
You seem to be under the impression that all murderers are on DR; they are not. You also seem to be ignoring the fact that the families of inmates are innocent, yet you still wish to put them through the distress of losing a loved one at the hands of the state. Its all very well being philosophical about these things, but it would help your argument a little to do some empirical research instead of relying on one man's book.
As to your second paragraph, tell me which inmates in Texas have access to the internet? Are you one of those misguided people who believe TX inmates have a TV in their cells and get 3 good meals a day? And exactly what is wrong with having penpals around the world?
Sunray's Wrench:
"You seem to be under the impression that all murderers are on DR; they are not."
No, I'm not. I wonder why you missed the term "in some cases" after I not only made an effort to set it aside on its own between commas, but you actually quoted it.
"You also seem to be ignoring the fact that the families of inmates are innocent, yet you still wish to put them through the distress of losing a loved one at the hands of the state."
The families suffer as a result of the logical and legal consequences of the criminal's own actions, not because of any wrongful action of the people in seeking justice for a crime.
"...it would help your argument a little to do some empirical research instead of relying on one man's book."
I formed the reasoning on my own. Then I googled:
which is more severe death or lwop
... and lo and behold google not only brought me to that book, it also jumped me to the exact right page of that book. I cited it to be helpful to Grits because not only did it have statistical facts relevant to his views, it also presented a far more logical case against the death penalty than the one he's making here.
According to his reasoning, if I'm to take it seriously, he's being more severe than I am and I'm being merciful. There are valid arguments against the death penalty, as I've noted, but not the one he makes. You would agree with that book which was written by a death penalty opponent. Your reasoning is actually closer to his reasoning than Grits'.
"As to your second paragraph, tell me which inmates in Texas have access to the internet? Are you one of those misguided people who believe TX inmates have a TV in their cells and get 3 good meals a day? And exactly what is wrong with having penpals around the world?"
Thank you for making a good point, which I bolded. You're right about internet access, although I've since learned that some Texas death row inmates have MySpace pages for them by their friends and family and then people write letters to them.
To the best of my knowledge, Texas inmates receive three meals a day, or should. Do you have any proof they don't receive adequate food? If so, address that problem.
They have books. Books are better than TV. I don't know how much TV access they have. Nor do I care, except to say that I believe TV for inmates should be quite limited.
And no, there's nothing wrong with having penpals. I have several. It's a genuine pleasure and a good growth experience.
It also is not worse than death. That's my point.
Question for you: Which is more severe. The DP or LWOP?
Follow-up question: Should we be more severe with prisoners or less?
Follow-up question: If LWOP is more severe, then would the DP be more humane? Obviously you don't believe this.
If the DP is more severe, then you disagree with Grits, don't you, and you oppose the DP for different reasons, the reasons I cited in that book among others... correct?
Sorry, I cant do the fancy bold and italics on my machine, but I'll try and make it clear which are my words and which are yours.
Christoph wrote: " You're right about internet access, although I've since learned that some Texas death row inmates have MySpace pages for them by their friends and family and then people write letters to them.
To the best of my knowledge, Texas inmates receive three meals a day, or should. Do you have any proof they don't receive adequate food? If so, address that problem."
My reply: Inmates in TDCJ have NO access first hand to the internet, and few have any access to any computers at all. I could make a web site all about my favourite opera singer, but that wouldnt mean they had any control over it, or even have to have any imput.
While on lockdown (which can range from a couple of hours to indefinite weeks) inmates are not always given 'adequate' meals, unless you think a cold fried egg and a refried beans burrito 3 times a day constitutes 'adequate'. I dont feel they should have a full 4 course meal with coffee and mints every day, but the food on offer often does not meet government guidelines on salt, fat, sugar or fruit & veg intake. Poor diets create poor health and sickly inmates who you will end up paying more for through your taxes.
Christoph wrote: "They have books. Books are better than TV. I don't know how much TV access they have. Nor do I care, except to say that I believe TV for inmates should be quite limited.
And no, there's nothing wrong with having penpals. I have several. It's a genuine pleasure and a good growth experience."
My reply: You dont know how much TV access they have. I suspect you dont know much about the inner workings of any TDCJ unit. Most, but not all, TDCJ inmates have access to a TV during daytime hours, but usually it is 2 TVs on at the same time showing 2 different things at the whim of the guards. They do not have TV in their cells or dorms (did you know they dont all live in cells?).
If there is nothing wrong with having penpals, why lump it in with things you seem to think inmates shouldn't have?
Christoph wrote: "It also is not worse than death. That's my point.
Question for you: Which is more severe. The DP or LWOP?"
My reply: The point I think Grits made in his original blog post is, NO ONE can know for sure what is or isnt worse than death, because no one has come back to tell the tale (unless you believe in spiritualism etc). We can only guess what it might be like, if indeed there is anything at all. So the imposition of the DP or LWOP is only based on a few people's subjective views and nothing more substantial.
Christoph wrote: "Follow-up question: Should we be more severe with prisoners or less?
Follow-up question: If LWOP is more severe, then would the DP be more humane? Obviously you don't believe this."
My reply: If being severe with inmates worked, you wouldnt have growing numbers. Even the threat of death doesnt really deter anyone from committing crimes, so I dont see how it can be a reason to justify worse conditions for inmates. There is little left to take away from inmates and their families, so if you go the whole hog and take away things like visitation, the ability to correspond with the outside world, medical care, education, and the very basic rehab programs that currently exist, and inmates still misbehave, what are you going to do next? Kill them all?
As I said in my first post, for some inmates LWOP is a worse situation to contemplate than the DP. For others, death by the state is a worse option. One size does not fit all, no matter how hard we might like it to.
Christoph wrote: "If the DP is more severe, then you disagree with Grits, don't you, and you oppose the DP for different reasons, the reasons I cited in that book among others... correct?"
You may be surprised to learn that I do not opose the death penalty as a resource. However, I do not agree with the way many US states use it, I do not agree with keeping people on DR for 30+ years in the conditions they are kept in. I do not agree with the state purposefully keeping a terminally ill inmate alive solely for the chance to kill them later on the state's terms. For a country who states very vocally that God is the one who determines life or death, America seems to be full of little Gods.
Anyone can use Google. Anyone can regurgitate what they find there. Weren't you ever warned not to believe everything you read? Opinions are better formed by wide range reading and experience.
Christoph wrote: "The families suffer as a result of the logical and legal consequences of the criminal's own actions, not because of any wrongful action of the people in seeking justice for a crime."
I hope you never become an inmate family member. It may surprise you to learn that many inmate families are upstanding members of the community, you probably rub shoulders with some when you go to church or the mall. But you probably dont know it because most know the response they will get if they tell someone. I guess if you think it's ok to punish innocent people and make them feel like criminals too, just for deciding to stand by their family member who is incarcerated, then we're not going to get much further. If that's not how you feel, then please enlighten me.
Oh, and it's wench, not wrench.
Stephen said...
I think it depends, but there is a reason some people have chosen death and a reason some have not when they had the option to allow themselves to be executed or to fight for a probably successful delay.
dudleysharp said...
Clearly, death is more severe.
What percentage of capital murderers seek a plea bargain to a death sentence? Zero or close to it. They prefer long term imprisonment.
What percentage of convicted capital murderers argue for execution in the penalty phase of their capital trial? Zero or close to it. They prefer long term imprisonment.
What percentage of death row inmates waive their appeals and speed up the execution process? Nearly zero. They prefer long term imprisonment.
This is not, even remotely, in dispute.
Life is preferred over death. Death is feared more than life.
"Oh, and it's wench, not wrench."
Mmmmmm... wenches.
Dudley, I did not dispute death is "feared" more. But is it worse? How do you know?
Death is feared because it's unknown, not because it's demonstrably "worse" than the existence we know now. A lot of Christians believe it may be better.
If your question really meant "which is worse", you would have had no respondents unless you were seaking responses from zombies.
I presumed you wanted opinons from those not yet deceased.
The fact is unassailable that death is feared more than life.
It is feared more because it is perceived as worse, at least by the subject group those really counts - murderers facing the death penalty.
Remember, about 70% of those who are actually sentenced to death already know what jail is like and they prefer a lifetime of jail over death.
We know that capital murderers are saying we fear death more than life. They fear it because they believe it is wors. That is clear.
I suggest you may want to challenge everyone that responds to your question, unless they are experienced zombies who also have experience with prison, as that is the only group you may except an experienced answer from.
Regarding Christians, they believe that the afterlife may be much better or much worse, as you know.
The fear of that unknown likely scares many a death row inmate, thus the ubiquitous death row conversions.
Which is more severe? It's an intensely personal question.
I think that in a crunch most westerners would probably behave as though death were worse than LWOP.
I think the reason why living in DR in Texas is more severe is that, in the one male unit that has it, DR life is made to be very severe and confining. Male lifers can be at many units and may have different arrangements.
But lifers stay in for life while DR people are eventually killed.
It is clear that those subject to the death penalty fear execution more than LWOP.
Which is worse depends on the afterlife, I suspect.
For those subject to the death penalty, the fear of the unknown, death, is worse than that which they already know, which is life and for about 70% of those who are sentenced to death, they already know what incarceration was like.
A brief review, in the context of fear and deterrence.
Some death penalty opponents argue against death penalty deterrence, stating that it's a harsher penalty to be locked up without any possibility of getting out.
Reality paints a very different picture.
Let's look at those who actually face the death penalty and see what they choose.
What of that more rational group, the potential murderers who choose not to murder, is it likely that they, like most of us, fear death more than life?
While Dudley's statistics are accurate, they don't show the entire picture.
The decisions made in capital cases reflect the philosophy of the capital defense lawyers as well as of the capital defendants. In a typical capital case, the lawyer spends some time trying to convince the client that it's not better to just let the government kill him.
If capital defense lawyers didn't strongly believe that LWOP was better than death, you can rest assured that there would be many more "volunteers" for death.
I have spoken to several defense attorneys about the death penalty.
I think many of them look at it like they do all cases, in that they will, nearly always, seek out the lesser sanction, as either
1) an obligation to their client and/or
2)that they find the lesser sanction more appropriate.
Do you know of any case where the defense counsel and their client both felt that the death penalty was the most appropriate sanction and there was a plea of guilty, the death penalty was requested in the punishment phase and, if sentenced to death, the inmate waived appeals?
Dudley, as a general principle the client gets to choose the goals of the representation. So if a competent client is set on volunteering for death, and the lawyer can't sway him, the lawyer has a duty to seek death for him or withdraw from the case. I'm no death penalty historian, but I believe there have been several cases with true volunteers.
But the low number of volunteers doesn't reflect the choices defendants would make on their own.
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Two Marines return home for military exercise
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ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam – Two Marines with Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242 returned to their home island of Guam as part of Exercise Cope North 2019, a multinational exercise in Guam from February 16 to March 8, 2019.
The Marines were part of a contingent of more than 2,000 U.S. Airmen, Marines and Sailors who trained alongside approximately 850 Japanese and Australian service members during the annual exercise, which is designed to strengthen multilateral partnerships, sharpen lethality and improve interoperability in the Indo-Pacific region.
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“Coming back to Guam as a Marine is a little different,” said Lance Cpl. Daelankris H. Alviz, plane captain, VMFA(AW)-242. Originally born and raised in Guam, Alviz spoke about how much he had matured since becoming a Marine and how his family notices the difference now that he has returned as part of Cope North.
Cope North is a multilateral U.S. Pacific Air Forces-sponsored field training exercise conducted annually at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. The exercise focuses on the employment of combined air forces in combat and mobility air forces training in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to enhance interoperability among U.S., Australian and Japanese forces.
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Great Interest In The Conrad Dietrich Magirus Award
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The application period for the Conrad Dietrich Magirus Award is over. Two high-ranking juries of experts have passed all fire department team submissions and pre-selected the entries for the upcoming online voting. This task has been even more demanding because not only the number of applications in all categories has increased, but also the entire range of operation types has been convincingly shown.
“We are very pleased about the great interest of fire department teams and the numerous applications received from many different countries. The high quality of the operations promises a very exciting competition,” says Marc Diening, President & CEO of Magirus, summarising the completion of the application phase. In addition to the increase in the number of submissions, the even deeper commitment of the award sponsors shows the increasing importance of the award.
Your Online Vote counts
Until January 27, 2019, anyone can actively participate in and support his or her favourites under www.magirusgroup.com/award. For the “Firefighting Team of the Year”, ten international and ten national missions can be chosen from. In the category “Special prize for Social Engagement “, six teams are hoping for many votes in support of their social campaigns and projects. The winners of the title and the coveted statue will be announced at the festive award ceremony in Ulm (Germany) on March 1, 2019.
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For the first time, a partner from the UK, Emergency One, could be secured. “Firefighters are available 365 days a year in the service of society and often reach their limits during missions. With the Conrad Dietrich Magirus Award, this dedication receives special attention and appreciation beyond national borders. We are happy to support that,” explains Mike Madsen, Managing Director of Emergency One, about the sponsor’s commitment as a Gold Sponsor. The company is a leading provider of fire and rescue vehicles and the associated equipment in the United Kingdom.
For the third time in a row, Endress Electrogerätebau GmbH and Dönges GmbH & Co. KG are also supporting the Conrad Dietrich Magirus Award. Endress develops power generation units for the world market, including special equipment for firefighting and civil protection operations, and has become the leading provider of electricity producers in Europe. Among other things, the system supplier Dönges furnishes fire departments with complete ranges of devices for their vehicles. The company’s portfolio also includes equipment, tools, warning materials, extinguisher and auxiliary devices, tool sets and illumination products.
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Music and sounds of DJ Alex
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DJ Alex
One Set at a Time!
The son of a James Brown background singer, DJ Alex was raised on good music. Growing up in the 70's and 80's young Alex fell in love with music during its best years. Dancing & listening to Pop, Rock, Soul and R&B – then on to Hip-Hop, Latin Freestyle & House music. With a boundless knowledge of music he built a home studio and started creating his own sound.
Later he hooked up with an old DJ friend – and together they would gig with 2 turntables and a sampler. Alex playing beats and loops while the DJ would spin the hottest tracks around. DJ Alex learned his craft the old fashion way, on the job. From covering for his friends breaks to eventually becoming the opening DJ. Together they became the hottest local duo that every club & house party had to have. And just like that his career began one set at a time.
Today DJ Alex continues to provide one-of-a-kind soundscapes for a diverse host of audiences and clientele. From public venues, private gatherings or corporate affairs to his critically acclaimed and Numark promoted YouTube series #thaBreakdown. Whether it's mixing Pop 80’s classics and throwback 90’s Hip-Hop/R&B or segueing from EDM to the Latino rhythms of Salsa and Bachata, DJ Alex delivers mass appeal.
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Black Panther (Big Screen Review)
On February 19, 2018 May 18, 2018 By Jeremy KohIn Big Screen, Reviews
The emergence of superhero movies as a boon for Hollywood has long been frustratingly monolithic in the demographics of its said superheroes. So for that reason alone, a superhero story as profoundly and unabashedly African featuring a cast of almost exclusively non-white actors like Black Panther is an achievement worth celebrating and championing in and of itself. But Black Panther is remarkable not just for bringing some added diversity to the genre. This is because the movie is also really good.
Picking up one week after the events of Captain America: Civil War, the movie thankfully leaves most of its Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) continuity behind as it focuses in on T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and his newfound task of ruling the hidden kingdom of Wakanda. Wakanda is a highly technological society thanks to the discovery of vibranium (made-up superhero mineral that is also the source of Black Panther’s power) and is made up of five tribes who have effectively hidden their presence from the rest of the world. And with the assassination of T’Challa’s father comes a period of upheaval and change that he needs to navigate through.
Fortunately he is surrounded by a scene-stealing cadre of women starting with his tech-nerd sister Shuri (Letitia Wright) who acts as Black Panther’s weapons and technology R&D department and the one who repeatedly deflates T’Challa’s aura by constantly ribbing him. In other words, she’s a much cooler Q. She is joined by the twin powerhouses of Lupita Nyong’o who puts in a typically fiery and witty performance as T’Challa ex and Wakandan spy Nakia and Danai Gurai as Okoye, the commander of the Wakandan royal guard. The performances of these three women are some of the highlights of this movie and a breath of fresh air to a cinematic universe that up to this point has had at best a handful of compelling female characters.
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On the other side of the aisle lie the two prerequisite villains of this piece from which most (but not all) of the conflict comes. The first is Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), an arms smuggler and frequent antagonist to Wakanda whose reappearance unearths old wounds amongst T’Challa’s allies. But it is the second villain, Michael B. Jordan’s American black ops expert Killmonger with ambitions for the Wakandan throne and a desire to use Wakandan technology to inspire an uprising amongst the oppressed black people of the world who is the much more compelling antagonist.
With Killmonger Black Panther manages to overcome to usual MCU curse of having interesting protagonists match up against forgettable villains. This is primarily because Killmonger is not just a big bad with a gun, but has an underlying motive that is believable and more importantly undercuts the simplistic semblance of morality that Wakanda, and T’Challa by extension, have used to build up their society. The confrontation between Killmonger and Black Panther thus becomes as much a clash between the competing philosophies of militaristic activism and a more cautious and diplomatic approach as much as it is about people punching one another. And more importantly, Coogler and crew are wise to make Killmonger’s viewpoint sound not like the manic diatribes of a madman, but a well-developed argument from a reasoned person who might have a point. As a result Black Panther‘s central conflict is the first that actually seems rooted in actual human history, making it all the more compelling. Though Marvel has had dalliances with real-world parallels, Black Panther is the only movie in its canon that feels relevant beyond the capes and cowls.
Of course the general intelligence with which the central conflict is portrayed should not distract you from the fact that this is a superhero movie, and on that front Black Panther still provides the requisite thrills of the genre and sometimes excellently so. There is a sequence that takes place in Busan that includes a car chase to rival the best Fast and Furious set-pieces and a casino scene that evokes Bond while also including an intimate and impressive one-shot fight scene. Coogler, who cut his teeth choreographing boxing matches on Rocky spinoff Creed, has a special and distinctive knack for setting the fight scenes so that there is a grand elegance to the fight sequences while remaining visceral. And thankfully, unlike most superhero movies in the past, the end is not some mindless and impossibly enormous battle sequence, but rather is a battle in which almost every major conflict is filled with emotional and philosophical weight with an ending that is just a little subversive for our age of political ideology purity (from both the left and right).
This movie also continues the fantastic trend that started with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (which was the first MCU movie to shoot in 8K) of looking absolutely gorgeous. Wakanda is easily one of the most vibrant locations envisioned in the MCU and this is down to the superlative work by the production design. The costumes on both the men and women are not just evocative of their culture but embody their characters so thoroughly. And the visuals are complemented by an actually distinctive soundtrack that borrows heavily from traditional African music and hip hop (featuring an on-top-of-his-game Kendrick Lamar), all of which culminates in providing us a movie in the MCU that for the first time feels like it is rooted in a culture and a place, and deals with issues like race and identity in a way that feels analogous to our own world.
And this brings me to my final point. Superheroes, and the movies that portray them, are meant to inspire us regular folk to heroism of a humbler but probably more necessary kind. And for so long I, as a nonwhite comic book love, have had to view heroism through the prism of White American culture. My superheroes was never really one of my own. So while I have some minor quibbles of this not-nearly perfect film (The films sags a little in the final third as it struggles to get all the major pieces in place for a final battle. And why exactly was Martin Freeman needed for this movie?) most of these objections are negated by the simple joy and inspiration of seeing a nonwhite story of pure and unadulterated heroism, that doesn’t try to shy away from the culture in which it is set in but rather blatantly celebrates it, and is told with grace, intelligence, and depth. Clearly audiences have responded. Hopefully Hollywood would take note and take the right lessons away from the movie’s success.
As Shuri tells her brother at some point, “Just because something works doesn’t mean it cannot be improved.” It seems that Marvel has taken that to heart.
Rating: ★★★★½
Directed by Ryan Coogler
Written by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole
Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurai, Martin Freeman, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis, Letitia Wright, Daniel Kaluuya
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Like Winning the Lottery: Meet the Rider George Morris Says Has “Perfect” Position
Posted in Bestsellers, Good Reads, Recently Published, tagged eventing, George Morris, horseback riding, jumping, Kelsey Horn, Morgans, Oregon, perfect position, riding, showjumping, Swingtime, The Chronicle of the Horse, Unrelenting on December 6, 2016| 1 Comment »
In November, things changed for Kelsey Horn of Corvallis, Oregon. That’s when THE George Morris called The Chronicle of the Horse to wax ecstatic over a photo of Kelsey that appeared in the October 24 & 31 issue of the magazine. “It’s a picture of perfect form,” he said. (You can read everything George Morris said about the image and Kelsey’s position in the original article HERE.)
Now, we all know George’s reputation for caustic remarks and criticism—there are reams of memes that feature his more memorable quotations—and many of us grew up reading his often scathing commentary in Practical Horseman’s “Jumping Clinic” column. But rare do we see him heap praise upon a rider (although there are a few he elevates to the realm of “great” in his 2016 autobiography UNRELENTING).
So what does it feel like to be the rarest of birds? The momentous event? To have, in a sense, won the riding lottery by perfecting a position that stopped George Morris in his tracks, miles away, via a photograph in a magazine?
As the publisher of George’s book UNRELENTING, we at TSB were dying to know what’s been going through Kelsey’s head since The Chronicle piece came out. We caught up with her through Inavale Farm in Philomath, Oregon, where she teaches, and learned a little more about her life, her horses, and her riding goals.
TSB: How does it feel to be singled out and praised by one of the leading judges of horsemanship and equitation in the world? I mean, it’s not every day George Morris tells someone she is doing something right!
KH: It feels amazing!!!!!!! I still can’t really believe it… I feel like a lucky winner. I am honored that George Morris even looked at my picture, let alone called COTH to compliment it.
The roots of perfection! Kelsey, four years old, on the Morgan Lady at Inavale Farm. Photo courtesy of Kelsey Horn.
TSB: So how did you get here? When did you start riding and what are a few significant moments that brought you to the level of riding you currently pursue today?
KH: I started riding when I was two years old out at Inavale Farm in Philomath, Oregon. I basically grew up out there with my older sister, Kailin, and a group of other horse-crazy girls. Inavale was a Morgan show barn and with our trainer, Caroline, we traveled all over to shows. Caroline and her family also took us camping and to the beach with our horses, so we did a lot of outside riding. I showed some, but as a young girl I enjoyed exploring outside with my horse more than riding in the arena.
I have an amazing Morgan mare, Inavale Fairy Tale, who took me up to Preliminary in eventing and is now used in the lesson program at Inavale. Being able to ride to that level as a teenager on a horse I felt would do anything for me gave me a lot of confidence as a young rider that I have been able to carry over to other horses I’ve owned and competed.
My two-star horse, Smoke Alarm, was a high school graduation present from my parents that they bought for $950. Smokey was an incredible jumper with no eventing experience when I got him but a whole lot of presence. He loved to buck and could get very strong and excitable, but we worked it out. My first show on him was a one-day at Inavale. On my way to the dressage warm-up he spooked and bucked me off with an amazing buck-turn-spin move that I later succumbed to numerous times. I hit the ground before I knew what happened! Smokey took off bucking and ran through a row of Christmas trees, all the way to the top hill of the property. My mom and sister were walking behind me, and when they caught up with me I was fuming mad and shouting in Smokey’s direction, “MY SADDLE!!!” After he was caught I got back on and rode the test out of sheer determination. We jumped clear and against all odds finished on our dressage score of 29 percent, winning the Novice division. Later this horse took me to two, CCI * with roads and track and steeplechase plus a CCI**. We would have kept going if it weren’t for a career-ending tendon injury in 2008. Smokey gave me the taste of the upper levels that inspired me to make it my goal to become a four-star rider.
Since then I’ve been blessed to be the head trainer at Inavale, as well as develop some brilliant young horses. I have extremely supportive clients, and I’ve been lucky to get the ride on Pinnacle Syndicate’s six-year-old Thoroughbred, Tomlong Ratatouille. I also have a partnership with Caroline Ajootian and Gayle Atkins, and together we own four-year-old, Swingtown (the horse from the picture George spotted). Thanks to my owners, both of those horses have given me multiple wins, particularly in the Young Event Horse series. Most recently Swingtown and I won the West Coast Four-Year-Old YEH Championships in Woodside, California. I also have a three other young horses that I own, all of which, plus Swingtown, were bred by Gayle Atkins.
I am so fortunate to have such amazing people surrounding me, as well as lovely horses to ride. They are all a huge part of how I got to where I am now.
Kelsey at 18 going Prelim on her Morgan mare Inavale Fairy Tale in 2005. Photo courtesy of Kelsey Horn.
TSB: Well, George had kind words for your horse Swingtown, too. He said she jumps “like a good hunter.” Can you tell us a little more about this horse, how you brought her along to win the Young Event Horse Championship, and what kind of goals you have in mind for both of you?
KH: Swingtown almost was a hunter…she was owned by Gayle who hired me to get her under saddle and put 90 days on her. At the end of that time period I rode her in a schooling show and she won. She was scheduled to go up to Portland and be sold as a hunter, but Gayle and Caroline put their heads together and poof! That’s how the Swingtown Partners were formed.
Swingtown is a very special mare with a lot of natural talent. She believes she is a rock star…no question in her mind. I make sure not to drill her too much, so we hack out in the fields a lot, gallop on the beach, and on sunny afternoons, she is out in the pasture. She lives a good life.
My goal for her is to compete in the YEH Five-Year-Old series and aim for the FEI World Young Horse Championships at Le Lion D’Angers in France for the seven-year-old two-star championships in 2019. It’s a big goal, but how cool would it be if it happened! After that Rolex, and then we’ll see….
Kelsey on Swingtown at the Inavale Derby in 2015. Photo courtesy of Kelsey Horn.
TSB: Were you ever a student of the “George Morris style”?
KH: Yes, I am a big fan of his style. When I got the chance to audit George’s clinic last year, I thought it was very entertaining and educational. I learned a lot and hung on to his every word. I took notes on my phone to make sure I could remember! I was impressed by the detail and amount of time he spent teaching the flatwork. As an eventer, I feel that flatwork is extremely important to success in jumping. I also love that George is a stickler for classical riding. I’m a fan of traditional riding and want to learn more from George Morris.
TSB: What do you like most about eventing?
KH: Like most eventers, my favorite phase is cross-country, but I love eventing for more then just that. It’s an incredible sport that requires a horse with many talents. The variety keeps it interesting. But I do have to say that the thrill of cross-country jumping never ever gets old.
TSB: What do you like most about having horses in your life?
KH: I love that horses teach us so many life lessons. Some so simple as how to fall and get back up. I love the challenges they bring and their routine-oriented minds. I like routine as well, and they keep me grounded to that. Plus they smell good, they’re beautiful, and they have cute fuzzy noses!
Kelsey coaching student Kaylee Leonard. Photo by Travis Leonard.
TSB: You’re an instructor, as well as a rider, competitor, and trainer. What is it you like best about teaching? What challenges you the most? What’s one thing you tell all your students?
KH: Teaching is a wonderful way to learn and I love being able to share what I love with others. What a wonderful feeling it is to help a student struggle through a challenge and earn success. The biggest challenge I have is caring too much! I want all of my students to be happy. Teaching suits me because I am passionate about riding and training horses, plus I’m a rather bossy person. So shouting orders suits me 😉
When my students are heading into the ring or out of the start box I always tell them one last thing, “Leg on and stretch up!” It is basic, but when it really comes down to it, you can’t go wrong if you put your legs on and stretch up for balance. If they can remember it, they’ll get to the finish.
Future perfect positions to the left and to the right! Kelsey with her students in 2015.
TSB: Now that you’ve had him publicly name your “perfect” position, would you ride in a George Morris clinic?
KH: Yes! I plan to ride in a clinic with him as soon as I have a horse that is ready. I wanted to this year, but it didn’t work out, so I’ll shoot for next year. I will try really hard to keep the perfect position over every fence, but just in case I slip up, I plan to wear waterproof mascara…
TSB: Before you go, what is your favorite “Georgism”?
KH: I found a lot that made me laugh out loud, but this one is my favorite, “Good attitude is most important, good talent is second.”
I like this quote because it keeps you humble. Plus, a huge part of one individual’s success comes from a positive attitude.
We wish Kelsey at Pinnacle Equine Training @PinnacleEquineTraining and her team at Inavale Farm @inavalefarm a wonderful, rewarding 2017 and beyond.
George Morris’s bestselling autobiography UNRELENTING is available now from the TSB online bookstore, where shipping in the US is FREE.
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Top 16 Telegram Channels for Tech and Engineering Enthusiasts
This list of 16 best technology and engineering-related Telegram channels will keep you updated with the latest content.
Telegram, the Whatsapp alternative has gained tremendous traction in just a couple of years since its launch. In February 2016, the app maker stated that the number of active monthly users surpassed the 100 million mark, adding 350,000 users each day who send 15 billion messages per day.
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Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram in April 2017 said that the app has more than 50% annual growth rate. While the app is similar to most of the popular messaging apps available in the market, what makes Telegram more interesting is its channels feature. You can create a public channel and assign a permanent URL for others to join. There are numerous channels already that Telegram users create and join every day in different genres. Some of these public channels are worth joining, if you want to keep yourself updated with the latest news and interesting content.
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Ageing Innovators amongst first businesses to move into The Biosphere
An accelerator launched at VentureFest North East in November to tackle the challenges faced by an ageing society has selected the first nine companies to go through the programme.
Tackling issues as varied as Alzheimer’s and dementia to holistic care and symptom management, the companies will be among the first to move into The Biosphere. They will spend the next 6 months working out of this specialist facility, that is tailored to the commercialisation of life sciences and innovation, research and development.
The programme which is being delivered by the Innovation SuperNetwork in partnership with the National Innovation Centre for Ageing at Newcastle University (NICA), Newcastle City Council, Northstar Ventures and Aging2.0, worked with accelerator hopefuls to understand the breadth of challenges across the ageing space, support idea generation around potential solutions and enable new collaborations to form.
Graham Armitage, Operations Director at NICA, said: “Healthy ageing is one of the biggest challenges facing society today. We collaborate with world-leading scientists, business and healthcare providers to find solutions to support people to live independent, healthy lives for longer, so it’s exciting to see the breadth of ideas come through the accelerator so far.”
Simon Green, CEO of the Innovation SuperNetwork, added: “These ideas are testament to the region’s innovative spirit. The next step is to support the companies, through an environment of collaboration, with tailored business support to help bring these products and services to market and prepare for further investment. By the end of the year we hope to see these nine, potentially life-changing, ideas come to commercial realisation.”
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CPSidekick has developed a simple app to help people dealing with chronic conditions to regularly track the many varied symptoms they experience.
Future Homes Alliance is developing a blueprint that challenges the status quo and will provide dwellings suited to all no matter of age, back ground or lifestyle.
Your Health and Care is a ‘memory life’ platform aimed at people with dementia and other neurological conditions.
InvestAge is a unique approach to providing ethical investment for products and services to enhance later life.
Mistura Informatics is launching a digital health information system call MaPPs. The system seeks to provide medicine information and supporting tools to help individuals manage their medication.
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Seven Stories is developing Story Swap, an innovative service empowering socially isolated older people to share stories with children and young people.
Smart2City is developing a new immersive technology product called, Mind3r. The platform integrates mindfulness and meditation to support stress related issues.
MyFolks allows families to support the holistic care needs of a loved-one through a ‘compassionate concierge’ database of ‘supporters’.
The accelerator will run until October 2019. Northstar Ventures is offering companies the chance to secure £12,500 of investment from the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund, to help cover development costs.
NICA will be working with the companies to support the further development of their ideas, while the SuperNetwork will provide intensive advice on the commercial aspects of the projects as well as help to access further grant funding, investment and support as appropriate.
Based on Newcastle Helix, The Biosphere provides a home for ambitious companies within life sciences, offering high-quality biology and chemistry laboratories, Grade A offices and conference space.
Pat Ritchie, Chief Executive, Newcastle City Council said: “We are delighted to welcome nine ambitious businesses to be part of the Newcastle Helix community. Home to the National Innovation Centre for Ageing, the site brings together academics, industry leaders, businesses and top researchers – the perfect environment to bring new products and services to market.
“As our ageing population increases, we are faced with both challenges and opportunities. Newcastle is committed to being at the forefront of innovation, creating a place and environment where people can grow old easily – this accelerator programme is a perfect example of turning our ambition into action.”
Stephen Price, Northstar Ventures Investment Director, said, “The global ageing population presents enormous opportunities for ambitious entrepreneurs and businesses. We’re pleased to be supporting this accelerator programme and working alongside other regional stakeholders. We’ve been impressed with the local entrepreneurs and their innovative ideas so far and we’re really looking forward to seeing how their ideas and businesses develop further.”
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Crespo Backs Fair Tax Amendment
May 27, 2019 | Crespo
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – State Rep. Fred Crespo, D-Hoffman Estates, issued the following statement after voting for the Fair Tax amendment, a first step toward a fairer tax system that would provide relief to 99.1% of middle-class families and seniors in his community:
“Illinois’ current tax system is one of the most unfair and broken tax systems in the country as middle-class families and seniors bear too much of the burden. A Fair Tax system will ensure we build an Illinois that puts the middle class first by allowing us to invest in our local schools, infrastructure, and other services that contribute to a growing economy. While more works remains to be done, this is a critical first step toward a stronger Illinois, as we’ll be able to stabilize the state’s finances while also providing much-needed tax relief to middle-class families and seniors in our communities.”
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The Brewing Monks: The Benedictine Breweries (Part 1)
Posted August 16, 2013 August 10, 2017 Christopher Barnes
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The Brewing Monks:
The Benedictine Breweries
(Part 1)
In the first 5 parts of the The Brewing Monks, we looked specifically at the history of the Trappist order and the current Trappist Breweries. In the first part, The Brewing Monks: A Brief History of the Trappist Order and Monastic Brewing, I looked at the history of the Trappist order and how abbeys become involved in brewing. In the Second Part, The Brewing Monks: The Trappist Breweries (Part 1), I delved into the history of Rochefort, Stift Engelszell, Westmalle, and Westvleteren. In the third part, The Brewing Monks: The Trappist Breweries (Part 2), I covered the history of Chimay, La Trappe, & Achel. In the fourth segment, The Brewing Monks: The Trappist Breweries (Part 3),I looked into the origins of Zundert, Orval, & Spencer Abbey. The next section, The Brewing Monks: Almost Trappist, detailed some news about a few Trappist monasteries that are in the process of becoming full-fledged Authentic Trappist Product (ATP) breweries and a few that are producing beer but don’t qualify to use the ATP label. The next part will dive into the world of the other Monastic Breweries; the ones that belong to different monastic orders than the Trappists.
Benedictine Breweries
The Trappists aren’t the only monasteries in the world brewing beer. They’re just the most famous and well-organized. In fact, a lot of monasteries brew beer on a “homebrewing” scale for their own uses. It would be impossible to catalog all of them, especially since abbeys are private places that tend to keep their information to themselves. This sense of privacy and withdrawal from the world also tends to make it hard to find information even on the few monasteries that do sell their beer on a commercial-scale. While I don’t claim this is as an exhaustive list of every commercially producing monastery, it is pretty thorough. If I’ve missed one you know about, please feel free to post what you know in the comments and I’ll research it and add it in an update.
The Monastery of Christ in the Desert – Abiquiu, New Mexico (Est. 1964, Brewery Est. 2005)
(Picture from www.christdesert.org)
The monks of Christ in the Desert belong to the Benedictine Order, the order from which the Trappists and Cistercians originated. The monastery was founded in 1964 with monks from Mount Saviour Monastery in New York. They became an autonomous abbey in 1996. Currently, they have 3 dependent monasteries, two in Mexico and one in Chicago, that rely on the monks of Christ in the Desert for direction and aid. Like many monasteries around the world, Christ in the Desert seeks to take advantage of sustainable practices and green living. In their case, they operate solar panels to take advantage of the desert sun.
In 2005, the monks decided to add to their industries by adding a small brewery. Although they are brewing some beers in-house, the majority are brewed at Sierra Blanca Brewing near Albuquerque with hands-on help from the monks. Additionally, the monks own part of the brewing equipment. The monks control all aspects of their beer including recipes, material acquisition, and marketing. They’re also brewing select beers with a local subspecies of hops grown on their land known as “neomexicanus.” The beers are marketed under the Abbey Beverage Company name, a separate company the monks setup to facilitate the marketing of their beers. Their beers can be found throughout the South West and in select Mid-Atlantic states. They brew the following beers:
Monks’ Ale
Monks’ Wit
Monks’ Dubbel
Monk’s Dubbel Reserve
Monks’ Tripel Ale
Monks’ Tripel Reserve Ale
The Monastery of San Benedetto – Norcia, Italy (Est. 1998, Brewery Est. 2012)
(Picture from www.obsnorcia.org)
Norcia, Italy was the birthplace of St. Benedict in the 480 CE. The current Monastery of San Benedetto was founded during the 10th century and was continually occupied until the monks were forced to flee from the forces of Napoleon in 1810. It wasn’t until 1998 when Father Cassian got the idea to found a new Benedictine monastery that Norcia would once again host monks paying homage to the city’s famous historical citizen. Starting in what amounted to an apartment in Rome, the monks were offered a place of their own in the abandoned abbey located near the birthplace of their founder, St. Benedict. The monastery quickly grew and is now nearly full. The monks are now in the process of renovating a nearby 16th century former Capuchin monastery.
To further this goal, they need additional funding for the estimated 6 million Euro project and thus have started a brewery to add to their business enterprises. The beer, Birra Nursia, is only available for purchase in the local area at this time and is brewed in tiny batches. The beers are brewed entirely by the monks in their abbey. Taking inspiration from their more famous brewing cousins in Belgium, they brew two Belgian inspired beers. The Blond is a light, refreshing ale while the Extra is a richer, more complex beer.
The Abbey of St. Boniface (Kloster Andechs) – Andechs, Germany (Est. 1455, Brewery Est. 1455?)
The pilgrimage church at Kloster Andechs (Picture from www.andechs.de)
The site of Kloster Andechs has long been a holy site starting in the 10th century when the Count of Andechs-Merenia traveled to the Holy Land and returned with relics. The church quickly became a pilgrimage site and lasted until the Count’s descendents were defeated and died out. The relics were lost for a while until, as legend has it, someone saw a mouse dragging one of the relics around. The site was excavated in the 14th Century and the relics rediscovered. The new rulers of what was called the Holy Mountain began raising funds at the end of the 14th century until enough funds were raised to found a Benedictine monastery on top of the mountain in 1455.
Over the next 350 years, the fortunes of the abbey waxed and waned with reformation and 30 Years war until, like many European monasteries, they were forced to close in 1803 during the Napoleonic wars. The lands and buildings were sold off and secularized. A short 47 years later, King Ludwig I purchased the former Andechs abbey and lands in order to give them to the Benedictine monastery of St. Boniface of Munich. Since then, they have functioned as sister abbeys. The brewery, like at many brewing abbeys, provides the main income. Andechs brews over 100,000 hectolitres of beer a year (85,225 bbls). Their beer lineup includes:
Dunkel Doppelbock
Export Dunkel
Bergbock Hell
Spezial Hell
Vollbier Hell
Weissbier Hell
Weissbier Dunkel
Kloster Andechs is imported into the US by S & H Brands.
Benedictine Abbey of Weltenburg (Kloster Weltenburger) – Weltenburg, Germany (Est. 617, Brewery Est. 1050)
(Photo from kloster-weltenburg.de)
The first monastery at Weltenburg was established by Scottish monks, who followed the monastic rules of St. Columba, in approximately 617. By 800, the abbey had adopted the rules of St. Benedict and has been a Benedictine Monastery ever since. The history of Weltenburg Abbey is similar to that of most of the other Abbeys of Europe. They’ve suffered through various wars, invasions, Protestant-Catholic wars, to finally be shut down during the Napoleonic secularization of 1803. Like Kloster Andechs, they were repopulated with monks in 1858. Weltenburg returned to the status of a full, independent Abbey in 1913.
Kloster Weltenburger boasts one of the longest continuous brewing histories, second only to Weihenstephaner which was founded in 1040. Because of the bucolic location in the mountains and next to a river, their beer garden is a classic tourist destination where travelers go to drink the monks’ excellent beer. Their current lineup consists of:
Hefe-Weisbier Hell
Hefe-Weisbier Dunkel
Weisebier Alkoholfrei
Urtyp Hell
Barock Hell
Anno 1050 (A maertzen)
Asam Bock
Barock Dunkel
Winter-Traum
Kloster Weltenburger is imported into the US by S & H Brands.
Ampleforth Abbey – York, England (Est. 1802, No Brewery Yet)
(Picture from www.ampleforth.org.uk/)
Ampleforth’s modern history dates to 1792 when Benedictine monks fled from Revolutionary France and settled in North England. However, these same monks could trace their origins to pre-Reformation England, where the Benedictines enjoyed a lot of success until Henry VIII closed down the Monasteries. The final blow, after a brief Catholic reprieve under Queen Mary, happened when Elizabeth I finalized her father’s Reformation works. The English monks fled to Catholic France where they’d be relatively safe for nearly 200 years.
Currently, Ampleforth houses around 70 monks and operates a school, hosts retreats and runs a sports center. The monastery had been making cider, keeping bees, and making cheese cake as part of their works. They decided to add a beer to lineup and sought help from a Dutch brewer on what kind of beer they should produce. Currently, they’re not brewing the beer on site, but will eventually install a brewhouse next to their cider making facility. The beer is brewed at small, local brewery called Little Valley Brewery. The beer is a Belgian-style Abbey Dubbel, an amber beer of 7% ABV.
Ampleforth Abbey is currently not imported into the United States.
More About Monastic Brewing
The Brewing Monks: The Benedictine Breweries (Part 2) – A look at some more of the Benedictine Monasteries producing beer commercially.
Resources/References Great Beers of Belgium by Michael Jackson, (Brewers Publications, 2008)
brew like a monk by Stan Hieronymus, (Brewers Publications, 2005)
The Oxford Companion to Beer edited by Garret Oliver, (Oxford University Press, 2012)
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Pivní Filosof says:
Pivovar Želiv in the Czech Republic operates in the namesake monastery and it’s run by the monks themselves (though production is in charge of a layperson) Website http://zeliv.eu/klasterni-pivovar/o-nas/
ithinkaboutbeer says:
Thanks! Like I mentioned, It’s kind of hard to research these breweries. I appreciate the mention of this one. I’ll be sure to look it up and add it to the next edition.
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That’s a picture of Crazy Ludwig’s Befreiungshalle in Kelheim not Kloster Weltenburg. Here is a link to a picture of the abbey where it sits along a bend the Danube. http://kloster-weltenburg.de/
It is a beautiful spot.
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The Sloe Slippers are a group to watch for those who are fans of Americana
October 5, 2018 IAN MCFARLAND Uncategorized 0
The Sloe Slippers are making their way into the Americana/Bluegrass scene with their debut Still Around. Throughout its duration Still Around takes the listener on a seven song journey through the America all the way to California. This song brings imagery of life on the ranch drinking moonshine you brewed yourself while listening to The Sloe Slippers perform in the barn. From a glance at their most listened cities it appears the group is from the bay area but it might make more sense for them to locate to a music city such as Nashville. A couple personal favorites from the track are the opener “Oh Daddy” which opens the record with gusto. Another favorite is “The Road Is Long” because of the harmonic minor key with the turn around dominant V chord. The strings throughout the record are awesome with well thought out melodic structure but performed in a way that makes it seem as though the player was performing off the cuff. The Sloe Slippers are a group to watch for those who are fans of Americana/Bluegrass.
Angstbadan “If You Want Love” features hard hitting drums and sly guitar licks
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Juventus-linked Sarri 'wants to stay' at Chelsea after Europa League triumph
Goal.com 29 May 2019
The Blues defender has called on his club to replace their talisman internally as a rising star battles to return to full fitness
Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri has responded to links with Juventus by expressing his desire to stay at Stamford Bridge.
The Italian lifted his first trophy with the Blues in a 4-1 demolition of Arsenal in Wednesday's Europa League final.
Eden Hazard led the way with a double, with tournament top scorer Olivier Giroud and Pedro also pitching in to take the honour in the London derby in Baku.
It has not all been plain sailing for Sarri in his first season in English football, which has included plenty of barracking from the stands and rumours of his dismissal at the end of the current campaign.
Massimiliano Allegri's Juventus exit, moreover, has heightened speculation that the former Napoli coach might be ready for a return to Serie A just 12 months after leaving.
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But Sarri insists that he is keen to continue in the Premier League, pointing out that his Chelsea deal still has plenty of time left on it.
"I still have two years of contract," he remarked to RMC following the final whistle in Azerbaijan.
"After that we'll see, what we can improve and if the conditions are there to continue. I want to stay yes, because the Premier League is the biggest league and I am happy here."
One man who looks almost certain to seek new climes is Hazard, who effectively bade farewell to Blues fans after getting his hands on the Europa League trophy.
And Sarri had warm words for his Belgian star, who is expected to line up with Real Madrid in 2019-20 onwards.
"Hazard is a special lad who is also extraordinary," he said of his final hero.
"The first half was hard for us, it was our 64th game of the season, we had to put a lot of heart in.
“We had to win, and the players were very good. The second period was better, and it was entertaining for the spectators."
Chelsea have been linked with a number of managerial candidates in recent weeks as Sarri’s future has come into question, but the Italian has maintained that he has matched the goals of the club and that his desire is to stay put in England.
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A tax on a tax: U.S. customs demands bigger bonds as trade tariffs rise
Rajesh Kumar Singh
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Stephen Wang is counting the costs of President Donald Trump’s trade war. He had to put down 12 times more cash as a guarantee to U.S. customs that he would pay the bill for tariffs on the Chinese-made pumps, valves and motors he imports.
FILE PHOTO: Shipping containers are pictured at Yusen Terminals (YTI) on Terminal Island at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
The cost of the guarantee - a U.S. customs bond - has shot up, an additional hit to importers already facing steep customs bills adding up to tens of billions of dollars for tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on incoming Chinese goods, as well as steel and aluminum imports.
Since coming into effect last year, the tariffs have pushed up manufacturing costs, upended decades-old global supply chains and inflated prices for consumers, resulting in lower sales and forcing companies to defer investments. This, in turn, has dimmed global growth outlook, roiling financial markets.
Other ripple effects are less obvious, among them the rising expense of U.S. customs bonds. But for small companies that can ill afford the added cost, the impact can be crippling.
Given the extra duties associated with Trump’s tariffs, importers have been forced to post bonds that are worth much more to guarantee they can cover the added cost of bringing Chinese imports, and foreign steel and aluminum, into the United States.
In some cases, customs bond requirements have increased 500-fold, according to Reuters interviews with a dozen importers, underwriters and customs brokers.
“Managing the cash flow has become tough,” said Wang. If the tariff war drags on, he warns, companies operating with thin profit margins and a weak capital base could go bust.
Wang is the chief executive of Hengli America, which procures supplies from China for customers such as CNH Industrial’s construction and farm equipment units.
After duties on its merchandise surged from zero to $6 million a year, U.S. Customs required Hengli to post a $600,000 bond. Its previous bond was $50,000.
Other importers reported similarly sharp increases.
Lisa Gelsomino, chief executive officer at underwriting firm Avalon Risk Management, said one client recently had to replace a $50,000 bond with one worth $26 million.
The rise in tariffs means that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued thousands of importers with notices that their bonds are inadequate.
The CBP has issued about 3,500 insufficiency notices since January, it said. That compares to an average of 2,070 notices a year for the period between 2006 and 2017, according to data compiled by Roanoke Insurance Group.
(Graphic on bond insufficiency notices tmsnrt.rs/2HwR2IM)
If importers fail to post a new bond within a month of receiving an insufficiency notice, customs officials can hold the cargo and charge additional fees. The CBP has around 224,000 active bonds on file.
No importer can ship goods into the country without posting a customs bond. The bonds are set at 10 percent of the importer’s total estimated annual duties, fees and taxes.
The Trump administration’s 25 percent import tariff on $50 billion of Chinese imported goods, and another 10 percent on $200 billion of imports, has added up. The annual tariff bill on Chinese goods alone stands at $32.5 billion - requiring $3.25 billion in additional customs bonds.
Separately, Washington has levied a 25 percent duty on imports of steel and a 10 percent duty on those of aluminum.
“You are talking millions of dollars that is going out,” said David Meyer, head of customs brokerage and freight logistics company DJS International Services Inc.
“But you don’t have a million dollar tree that you are shaking in your backyard to make sure that you have got that money...it has definitely become a burden for importers.”
More than half of Meyer’s clients have seen at least a tenfold increase in their bond amounts.
SURGING BOND REQUIREMENTS
What is proving painful for some importers has been a bonanza for the firms that underwrite the bonds.
More costly bonds mean higher underwriting fees. They also mean higher collateral requirements. Since underwriters are on the hook if importers fail to pay duties, they want collateral that matches the value of the bond; underwriters usually require 1-1.5 percent of the bond amount to guarantee the bond.
At Roanoke Insurance Group, the workload has increased so much that staff are working on weekends to handle it, said Colleen Clarke, vice president at Roanoke.
In one example, she said, Roanoke required $9 million in collateral from a steel importer that was asked to post a $9 million bond after duties on its imports surged from zero to $90 million a year.
The steel importer also paid $90,000 in premium for the bond. The end result: the importer needed to come up with just over $99 million a year to continue to import $360 million of steel.
That is complicating finances for importers. The trade war has also driven up some raw material, freight and warehousing costs, raising the risks that some importers might default on payment obligations.
“Most of the importers are not used to paying these duties,” said Roanoke’s Clarke. “The risk is – do they have cash infusion from somewhere else to pay these duties?”
Amy Magnus, who heads the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, whose members work with over 250,000 importers and exporters, said a client who used to import Canadian steel went bankrupt after his shipments were subjected to a 25 percent tariff. She declined to share more details.
EXPENSIVE LOANS, DELAYED PAYMENTS
Four customs brokers told Reuters that some of their small-size clients had stopped importing goods altogether.
Hengli’s Wang says his cash flow needs have risen fourfold since July, forcing him to delay payments to his Chinese suppliers. In addition to higher costs, he is losing customers - some have switched to cheaper non-Chinese goods suppliers.
Precision Components, whose customers include Fortune 500 companies, imports bearings from China. Since July 6, when U.S. tariffs on bearings imports rose 25 percent, the cost of each container it receives from China has risen by $15,000, said Dave Hull, the firm’s president. The company imports around 40 containers a year.
It has been borrowing on average $200,000 a month since last July to meet its working capital requirements, Hull said, up from around $50,000 prior to that.
What’s more, custom brokers, who sometimes pay duties on behalf of their clients, are demanding quicker repayment, said Jane Sorensen, president of the Chicago Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association.
They are asking importers to repay in 7-10 days, she said, compared with the more typical 30-day time frame.
Bill Sharpe, a customs broker in Chicago, says he has halved his collection time to 15 days. Even so, he worries about the risks of clients defaulting.
“We are having to keep a close eye on all our clients to make sure they don’t turn into a credit risk,” Sharpe said.
Reporting by Rajesh Kumar Singh; Editing by Simon Webb and Paul Thomasch
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An introduction to approachable threat modeling
In this tale of two threat models, we explore how pairing our existing knowledge and experience with a few simple questions can help us build better systems and keep them safe.
Threat modeling is one of the most important parts of the everyday practice of security, at companies large and small. It’s also one of the most commonly misunderstood. Whole books have been written about threat modeling, and there are many different methodologies for doing it, but I’ve seen few of them used in practice. They are usually slow, time-consuming, and require a lot of expertise.
This complexity obscures a simple truth: Threat modeling is just the process of answering a few straightforward questions about any system you’re trying to build or extend.
What is the system, and who cares about it?
What does it need to do?
What bad things can happen to it through bad luck, or be done to it by bad people?
What must be true about the system so that it will still accomplish what it needs to accomplish, safely, even if those bad things happen to it?
For the sake of brevity, I’ll refer to these questions as Principals, Goals, Adversities, and Invariants. (And, in fact, that’s the name of the rubric I’m about to present.)
A good threat model also includes a system diagram, but we leave that out of the rubric name—it’s long enough already.
When we make a practice of asking these questions, try to answer them at least somewhat rigorously, and write down our answers somewhere other people can find them, threat modeling is truly revolutionary.
None of this requires specialized training or knowledge, nor does it require you to be a “security person.” All that’s required is curiosity and an interest in learning what kinds of bad luck and bad people have happened to other systems.
It also doesn’t take all that long or all that many people to answer these questions. I’ll usually give it an hour to be thorough, but even a 15-minute conversation one-on-one can produce something actionable.
At Akamai, where Brian Sniffen and Michael Stone initially developed this rubric (and many others, including myself, extended it), we used it every day to collect knowledge and communicate with each other, the rest of the engineering org, and the broader company, so that we could build better and safer products for the benefit of the company, our users, and ultimately the world.
Example one: The Dunning Incident
If you want to truly understand a system, study how it fails.
Let’s say you’re my hypothetical friend Alícia, who just got hired as an engineer for a small software as a service (SaaS) company, Kumquat.
Shortly after she joined, the company’s app stopped sending out email verification and password reset emails. By noon, there were a number of frustrated user comments on the company and the CEO’s social media feeds. The CEO flagged the issue to the engineering team, and Alícia, along with Shruti, an engineer of longer tenure on the team, sat down to investigate.
First, they checked the company’s third-party email gateway service. Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately), it appeared to be operating normally, and there were no known service interruptions listed on its status page. When they logged into its dashboard, they saw that the send queue was empty, its connection to the Kumquat backend was fine, and mail was being processed normally. But they were sending hundreds upon hundreds of messages with the subject line “ACT NOW: Reactivate your Kumquat account.”
Acting on a hunch, Alícia IMed her friend Jayla on the business team, and quickly discovered that the account reactivation emails were part of a dunning campaign Jayla had organized.
Previously, the company had only tracked active user growth and revenue in aggregate. Jayla, the company’s first dedicated business analyst, had noticed that while active user growth kept increasing, revenue wasn’t tracking linearly.
Analyzing the company’s user data, she discovered that a number of customers’ subscriptions had lapsed, most commonly because their credit cards couldn’t be charged, but they were still being allowed to use the service. She had conceived and gotten buy-in to run a dunning campaign to encourage these users to update their payment information.
The emails were overloading something, but Shruti and Alícia weren’t sure where they were coming from or what was being overloaded. Jayla said an engineer named Hana had done the work on the backend. They soon learned that Hana had written a job for the cron service to send the emails and scheduled it to run at 6 a.m.
Alícia realized that she didn’t understand how the cron service fit into the system as a whole. When she joined the company, Shruti had given a talk on the overall architecture, and Alícia remembered seeing a diagram, but she hadn’t retained much of it.
The engineers got together in a room with a whiteboard so they could talk through what was happening. Shruti drew the diagram:
Then they began to talk through it.
“The job running on the cron service is pulling a list from the database of the users whose cards haven’t been charged for at least two months. Then it’s creating an email job for each one,” Hana explained.
“And the cron service sends the email jobs to the job queue service,” Shruti said. “The job queue service hands them out to workers, which use the email gateway provider’s API to send the email.”
Alícia added a simplified sketch of the bit of the system they cared about next to Shruti’s diagram. “What have we been using the job queue service for until now?” she asked.
“Just sending emails,” Shruti replied. “Email verifications and password resets.”
Alícia wrote “Principals” on the whiteboard and underlined it. “So this is the system.” She gestured at the simplified diagram. “And its users are verifying their email addresses, resetting their passwords, or updating their credit card information.”
Users who want to…
– Verify their email address
– Reset their password
– Update credit card information
“And the goal of the system is to…”
“To deliver email reliably to them.”
– Deliver email reliably to users
“How reliably is reliably? Like timewise?” asked Alícia.
“Within five minutes,” said Shruti.
Alícia added that to the sentence.
– Deliver email reliably to users within five minutes
Alícia wrote down “Adversities.” “What are some bad things that can happen, either by happenstance or because someone made them happen?” she asked.
“Email can not get delivered,” Hana said. “More specifically, either the job queue or the email provider can get overloaded.”
Adversities
– Overload the job queue
– Hit email provider API rate limits
“The email provider could have an outage,” Hana added.
“That’s out of our control, though,” said Shruti.
“Let’s leave it out for now,” Alícia agreed. “We can always revisit it later.”
“Oh! Workers can hang and not get restarted,” Hana said. “We used this job queue technology at my last job, and we occasionally had trouble with that. It only ever affected a few workers, though. It never caused an outage this bad. We’d just need to periodically go through and clean out stuck workers.”
– Silently hang workers/infinite loop
“How many emails have we been sending before today?” Alícia asked.
“Hundreds, but not thousands a day,” Shruti estimated. “Sometimes we get a big spike in signups, but that’s the steady state.”
“And how many users were we attempting to contact with this dunning campaign?”
“About two thousand at once,” said Hana. “Out of about eight thousand paying customers total.”
“A quarter of our ‘paying customers’ aren’t actually paying?” Alícia asked, incredulous.
“I know!” said Hana. “We thought we should fix that.”
“We know we aren’t exceeding the email provider rate limits—mail is going through and not getting queued,” Shruti said. “Could the job queue have gotten overloaded?”
“These don’t feel like huge numbers for a job queueing system in general, but it’s possible,” said Alícia. “It is a lot more jobs than you say the job queue usually handles.”
“Believe me, the job queue is not great software,” said Hana, with an attitude that suggested she had seen things.
“How many workers are we running?” asked Alícia.
“I haven’t touched the job queue system recently. Let me check.”
They were silent while Hana tried to pull up the job queue system’s configuration file in source control.
“Oh,” she said. “We didn’t modify the default configuration for the job queue. Which means we only allocate one worker.”
“And it’s been fine this whole time?”
“We really didn’t ask much of it until now,” said Shruti.
“And…” Hana said, loading the job queue system’s management page, “that one worker is stuck.”
Alícia wrote “Invariants” on the whiteboard.
Invariants
– At least one unstuck worker?
“Is there a way for the job queue system to check whether workers are stuck and restart them?” she asked.
“The devs have been promising better worker health management in the next release for two years, but the release keeps slipping,” said Hana.
“How many workers did you run at your last job?” asked Shruti.
“Maybe 20? But we also ran a lot more jobs.”
“Let’s up the number of workers to five and see if the problem reoccurs.”
Alícia wasn’t very happy with that. “Is there really no way for us to monitor the health of the workers, even if we have to restart them ourselves?”
“I’m sure there is,” said Shruti. “But first we need to get mail working again.”
“Oh, I already restarted the stuck worker and it looks like mail is sending again,” said Hana. “It should take about twenty minutes to clear the backlog.”
“Good. And then let’s increase the number of workers?”
“On it.”
“I’m sympathetic to your point of view, Alícia,” said Shruti, “but we don’t have time to do surgery on someone else’s code, especially if upstream is struggling with it, too. Let’s write this down and talk it over in the incident post-mortem meeting. For now, let’s focus on what we need to do to get product out the door.”
Alícia grudgingly agreed.
The final threat model:
– More than one worker
If you’re an eagle-eyed reader, you may have noticed that although this is threat modeling, there’s no active adversary here (except perhaps Murphy, of Murphy’s law: “Anything that can go wrong, will”). This is because anything an active adversary can do can also occur by happenstance. An active adversary can cause very unlikely happenstances to occur, and particularly sophisticated active adversaries can cause multiple very unlikely happenstances to occur at once, but, generally speaking, a system that isn’t resilient against happenstance can’t possibly be resilient against active attack.
Here, it doesn’t really matter if happenstance or adversary action caused the worker to hang. In either case, the system would still need at least one unstuck worker to safely continue to achieve its goals.
However, we now have a good understanding of the system Alícia is working with. Here’s a more traditional threat modeling example where there is a potential active adversary.
Example two: Outgoing webhooks
Although Alícia wasn’t formally a security engineer, she developed a reputation inside Kumquat as someone who knew and cared about security. A couple of months after the Dunning Incident, Yasmin, a product engineer, came to Alícia with a feature she was working on. They sat down in a meeting room with a whiteboard, and Yasmin laid out the project.
“Our app has a pretty traditional model-view-controller architecture. Until now, we’ve been fine doing all computation synchronously in the model. However, we’ve recently onboarded some new users who are much larger than our existing users, and this is starting to break, so we need to move long-running bulk actions to run asynchronously.
“We’re going to use our existing job queue to run these actions outside of the app. But users’ apps need a way to find out when these bulk actions are finished, so we want to get a webhook callback URL from the user and have the job post to it when the work is done. Hana mentioned that there might be some issues, and said we should talk to you.”
“Did she say what she was concerned about?”
“How users can specify the URLs. But that’s the whole point.”
“I’m glad you came to talk to me,” said Alícia. “She’s right, it’s potentially a problem that the user can specify these URLs. But there’s another question here—whether our existing job queue system will meet your needs.”
She explained what had happened during the Dunning Incident and showed her the threat model that the team had developed.
“Delivering webhooks within five minutes should be fine, since these jobs will be running on the job queue anyway,” said Yasmin.
Alícia added that under Principals.
– Run bulk actions and receive webhook notifications
“How long do these bulk actions take to run right now?” Alícia asked. “Will the webhook notifications be sent as part of the bulk action job?”
“Some of the bulk actions can take up to five minutes for our new large users. That’s the cause of the recent increase in request timeouts. Those pages have simply been unavailable to them,” said Yasmin. “I was planning to just post to the webhook URL from within the bulk action job, but I want to guarantee that the webhook gets sent within five minutes of the completion of the bulk action job. I don’t care how long the bulk action takes—that’s very dependent on how much data the customer has.”
“Does the job queue system have the ability to queue multiple jobs that depend on each other?”
“It does.”
Alícia expanded the Goals list.
– Deliver email to users within five minutes
– Perform asynchronous bulk actions
– Deliver webhooks to users within five minutes of the completion of a bulk action
“Okay, good,” said Alícia. “It sounds like the existing job queue software will meet your needs. Now, on to the question of user-supplied URLs. It sounds like this is what you’re proposing.” She switched markers and sketched a couple additions to the system diagram.
“Adding outgoing webhooks to this system adds a new adversary power.”
Adversities/Adversary Powers
– Specify outgoing webhook URLs
“An adversary who can specify outgoing webhook URLs can specify, for example, a Kumquat internal IP address, the localhost address, or the API endpoint of our third-party email provider.”
“But how would they know what those IP addresses are?”
“The localhost address is well known. They could also have some knowledge of our internal systems, if, say, they’re an ex-employee. They could guess and get lucky. Or they could automate trying a bunch of webhook URLs until they find one that works.”
“How do we stop that from happening? Could we try to filter the webhook URLs and reject any that are internal IP addresses?”
“I think it might be productive to approach it from a slightly different direction. I would express what we want this way,” Alícia said, adding to the Invariants list.
– Workers can only make outbound connections to external IPs
“Concretely, in order for this system to be safe, it must be true that workers can only make outbound connections to external IPs.”
Yasmin looked unconvinced. “What’s better about phrasing the problem that way?”
“Well, we’re not phrasing it as a problem. We’re phrasing it as an invariant. We’re not phrasing it as something that’s wrong and therefore bad things happen, but as something that must be true in order for bad things not to happen. It’s much easier to maintain invariants than to prevent problems. Did you ever play Whack-a-Mole as a kid?”
“That arcade game with the mallets and the plastic moles that you have to hit when they pop out of their holes?”
“Yeah. Sometimes I feel like I’m playing Whack-a-Mole when I’m considering problems rather than systems and invariants. If the invariant I need to uphold is that all the moles must stay in their holes, then I’m considering the system rather than the moles individually, and that opens up other solutions to the problem.”
“You could just unplug the machine.”
“Exactly!” They shared a laugh. “So much easier! Or, if that’s not an option, I could get a bunch of friends with mallets and assign one to each mole. Or add some kind of mechanism on top of the holes to keep the moles from popping up. The fun of the game comes from constraining the problem sufficiently so that you have no choice but to chase the moles around. But I don’t want to do that for work, and the system wouldn’t be safe if I did.”
“So, since we can’t just unplug the job queue system here, how do we keep the moles from popping up—I mean, ensure that workers can only make outbound connections to external IPs? How can we constrain what connections workers make? Firewall rules?”
“Yes. Or a proxy for web requests that resolves the domain name to an IP address and filters them.”
“Can we do that?”
“Yeah, I know some software. I can help you.”
That’s all the Principals–Goals–Adversities–Invariants rubric is: a few simple questions that we can use, alongside our existing knowledge and experience, to build better systems and keep them safe.
Getting into the habit of asking these questions and writing down the answers is the best way I know of to understand and communicate the systems we work with, the threats facing them, the tradeoffs we’ve chosen, and, ultimately, what must be true about them in order for them to be safe. It reduces security teams’ frustration when communicating with engineering teams, it lets engineering and ops teams sleep soundly (uninterrupted by middle-of-the-night pages), and it lets business teams meet their goals and build better and safer products—for the benefit of our companies, our users, and ultimately the world.
Now, go forth and threat model.
Thanks to Aviv Ovadya, Cat Okita, Kep Peterson, and Nelson Elhage for their feedback on an early draft of this article.
Kevin Riggle lives in San Francisco and has worked on the security teams at Akamai and Stripe. When he’s not trying to keep people safe on the internet, he enjoys hiking and gluten-free baking.
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Researchers wanted to examine the effects of dietary composition on energy expenditure during weight-loss maintenance by comparing 3 different diets differing in macronutrient composition and glycemic load. The study involved 21 overweight adults who were followed between 2006 and 2010. After achieving 10%-15% weight loss, the participants followed an isocaloric low-fat diet (60% of calories from carbohydrates, 20% from fat, and 20% from protein; high glycemic load), a low glycemic index diet (40% from carbohydrates, 40% from fat, and 20% from protein; moderate glycemic load), and a very-low carbohydrate diet (10% from carbohydrates, 60% from fat, and 30% from protein; low glycemic load) in random order for 4 weeks.
Compared with the pre-weight loss baseline measurements: the low-fat diet had the greatest decrease in resting energy expenditure followed by the intermediate low-glycemic index diet and the low-carbohydrate diet had the smallest decrease in resting energy expenditure.5 The decrease in total energy expenditure also followed a similar pattern. In other words, the low-carb, high-fat diet resulted in the smallest decrease in the participants’ metabolic rate.
As previously mentioned, diet-induced weight loss is accompanied by compensatory changes in circulating concentrations of appetite-inducing hormones. A study was conducted to examine the effects of ketosis on a number of circulating factors involved in appetite regulation following diet-induced weight loss. Thirty-nine overweight subjects completed an 8-week ketogenic diet followed by a 2-week reintroduction of foods. Circulating concentrations of glucose, insulin, non-esterified fatty acids, beta-hydroxybutyrate, leptin and subjective ratings of appetite were compared when subjects were ketotic and after re-feeding. During the ketogenic diet, subjects lost 13% of initial weight and fasting BHB increased. While the participants were ketotic, the weight loss induced increase in ghrelin was suppressed. Glucose and NEFA were higher while leptin and subjective ratings of appetite were lower at week 8 compared to after re-feeding. Circulating concentrations of several hormones and nutrients which influence appetite were altered after weight loss induced by a ketogenic diet compared with after re-feeding. Increases in circulating ghrelin and subjective appetite which accompany weight loss were reduced when patients were ketotic.6 This study showed that a low-carb, high-fat diet could be an effective way for countering the elevated levels of appetite-inducing hormones that are typically associated with weight loss.
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1. Bangalore, S. et al. Body-Weight Fluctuations and Outcomes in Coronary Disease. N. Engl. J. Med. 376, 1332–1340 (2017).
2. Fothergill, E. et al. Persistent metabolic adaptation 6 years after ‘The Biggest Loser’ competition. Obesity 24, 1612–1619 (2016).
3. Dulloo, A. G. & Jacquet, J. Adaptive reduction in basal metabolic rate in response to food deprivation in humans: a role for feedback signals from fat stores. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 68, 599–606 (1998).
4. Dulloo, A. G., Jacquet, J. & Montani, J.-P. How dieting makes some fatter: from a perspective of human body composition autoregulation. Proc. Nutr. Soc. 71, 379–389 (2012).
5. Ebbeling, C. B. et al. Effects of Dietary Composition on Energy Expenditure During Weight-Loss Maintenance. JAMA 307, 2627–34 (2012).
6. Sumithran, P. et al. Ketosis and appetite-mediating nutrients and hormones after weight loss. Eur. J. Clin. Nutr. 67, 759–764 (2013).
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REPORT: MICK JAGGER TO UNDERGO HEART VALVE PROCEDURE
by admin | Apr 2, 2019 | Music News
Following the announcement that the Rolling Stones have postponed their upcoming North American tour, comes the news that Mick Jagger will reportedly undergo heart valve replacement surgery at a Manhattan hospital this week. The Drudge Report quoted a source stating, "Jagger is expected to make a full recovery and will be back on stage by summer. The procedure has a 95-percent success rate -- and Jagger (who is 75) is in extraordinary physical condition."
The New York Post reported that Jagger is set to have a stent placed in his heart and the Stones are already in the midst of rescheduling the stadium dates. The Stones' 15-date trek was supposed to kick off on April 20th in Miami Gardens, Florida at the Hard Rock Stadium. No make-up dates for the tour have been announced.
Although Mick Jagger is now 75, that doesn't mean that he pulls any punches or holds anything back once he hits the stage: "Listen, when you do it at 19, you do things you can't (laughs) do at my age. But I still try to make the show as (laughs) energetic as I can make it."
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Hizbul module busted in Rajouri, 4 arrested
By Press Trust of India on May 13, 2018 Comments Off on Hizbul module busted in Rajouri, 4 arrested
JAMMU: Security forces on Saturday claimed to have busted a Hizbul Mujahideen module involved in hawala transactions by arresting four people, including a former militant, in Rajouri district.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and Army personnel intercepted a car at Kallar village along Rajouri-Jammu road and arrested the four, a police official said.
One of the four is a local youth from Rajouri. The rest are residents of south Kashmir’s Shopian district, he said.
He identified them as former Harkat-ul-Mujahideen militant Aijaz Ahmad, Mohammad Arif, Sajad Ahmad Malla and Khursheed Ahmad Thokar.
The official said the four people were working for militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen.
Ahmad had surrendered to security forces in 2005 and underwent two-year detention under the Public Safety Act. Malla too was detained under the PSA for months in 2016, the official told PTI.
The preliminary questioning of the four revealed they had come to Rajouri to collect money on the directions of Zeenat-ul-Islam, who took over as the leader of Hizbul Mujahideen after the killing of its commander Sadam Paddar last week, he said.
“Arif used to collect hawala money for the outfit and used to send it to Kashmir,” he said, adding that Malla was in contact with Hizbul’s finance head Khursheed Ahmad, who is based in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The contact between the two was established by Paddar. The official said the arrested persons were being questioned and more arrests should happen in the coming days.
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Cooking The Italian Provinces – Venezia
Venice (Italian: Venezia) is a metropolitan city in the Veneto region of Italy. It is situated across a group of 117 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by bridges. These are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings, their architecture and artwork. The lagoon and a part of the city are listed as a World Heritage Site
The name, Venezia, is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region in 10th century BC. The Republic of Venice was a major financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance and a staging area for the Crusades, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially for silk, grain and spices) and art. Venice is considered to have been the first real international financial center and this made it a wealthy city throughout most of its history.
In the 14th century, many young Venetian men began wearing tight-fitting multicolored hose, the designs indicated the Compagnie della Calza (“Trouser Club”) to which they belonged. The Venetian Senate passed laws banning colorful clothing, but this merely resulted in changes in fashion in order to circumvent the law. Dull garments were worn over colorful ones, which then were cut to show the hidden colors that resulted in the wide-spread use of men’s “slashed” fashions in the 15th century.
Today, Venice is a major fashion and shopping center, not as important as Milan, Florence, and Rome, but on a par with other fashion centers. Roberta di Camerino is a major Italian fashion brand to be based in Venice. Founded in 1945, it is renowned for its innovative handbags featuring adornments by Venetian artisans. Many of the fashion boutiques and jewelry shops in the city are located on or near the Rialto Bridge and in the Piazza San Marco. There are Louis Vuitton and Ermenegildo Zegna flagship stores in the city.
Venice is known for its ornate glass-work, known as Venetian glass. It is world-renowned for being colorful, elaborate and skilfully made. However, by the 14th century, the center of the Venetian glass industry moved to Murano, an offshore island in Venice. The glass made there is known as Murano glass. Despite efforts to keep Venetian glass-making techniques within Venice, they became known elsewhere and Venetian-style glassware is produced in other Italian cities and other countries of Europe. Some of the most important brands of glass in the world are still produced in the historical glass factories on Murano. They are: Venini, Barovier & Toso, Pauly, Millemetri, Seguso. Barovier & Toso is considered one of the 100 oldest companies in the world, formed in 1295.
The Carnival of Venice is held annually in the city and It lasts for around two weeks and ends on Shrove Tuesday. Venetian masks are popular during the festival.
The Venice Biennale is one of the most important events in the arts calendar. In 1895 an Esposizione biennale artistica nazionale (biennial exhibition of Italian art) was inaugurated.
The Festa del Redentore that is held in mid July began as a feast to give thanks for the end of the plague of 1576. A bridge of barges is built connecting Giudecca to the rest of Venice and fireworks play an important role.
The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata in 1932 as the Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica. The festival takes place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido. Screenings take place in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi. It is one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals and is part of the Venice Biennale.
Venice cuisine has a centuries-long history and it is significantly different from the other cuisines of northern Italy. Venetian cuisine is characterized by seafood, but also includes vegetables from the islands of the lagoon, rice from the mainland, game and polenta. Venice combines local traditions with influences stemming from age-old practices. These include: sardines marinated to preserve them for long voyages; bacalà mantecato (a recipe based on Norwegian stockfish and extra-virgin olive oil); bisàto (marinated eel); risi e bisi,( rice, peas and pancetta); fegato alla veneziana, Venetian-style veal liver; risòto col néro de sépe (risotto with cuttlefish, blackened by their ink); cicchétti (tapas); antipasti (appetizers); and Prosecco, an effervescent, mildly sweet wine.
The most common dish is polenta, which is cooked in various ways within the local cuisines of Veneto. It is very popular to serve grilled meat (often by a barbecue that includes a mix of pork, beef and chicken meat) together with grilled polenta, potatoes or vegetables. Other popular dishes include risotto, rice cooked with many different kinds of food, from vegetables, mushrooms, pumpkin or radicchio to seafood, pork meat or chicken livers. Bigoli (a typical Venetian fresh pasta, similar to Udon), fettuccine (hand-made noodles), ravioli and the similar tortelli (filled with meat, cheese, vegetables or pumpkin) and gnocchi (potatoes-made fresh pasta), are fresh and often hand-made pasta dishes (made of eggs and wheat flour), served together with a meat sauce (ragù) often made with duck meat, sometimes together with mushrooms or peas, or simply with melted butter.
In addition, Venice is known for the golden, oval-shaped cookies called baìcoli, and for other types of sweets, such as: pan del pescatore (bread of the fisherman); cookies with almonds and pistachio nuts; cookies with fried Venetian cream, or the bussolài (butter biscuits and shortbread made in the shape of a ring or of an “S”) from the island of Burano; the galàni or cróstoli (angel wings); the frìtole (spherical doughnuts); the fregolòtta (a crumbly cake with almonds); a milk pudding called rosada; and cookies called zaléti, whose ingredients include yellow maize flour.
The dessert tiramisù is thought to have been invented in Treviso in the late 1960s and is popular in the Veneto area.
Venetian-style Capesante
Scallops are popular as a hot fish appetizer.
8 sea scallops
⅛ oz garlic
½ oz parsley
Large scallop shells for serving
Heat the oil in a pan, add the finely chopped garlic and the scallops. On high heat, add parsley and dill. Season with salt and pepper, and cook for 5 minutes.
Rearrange each shell by placing two scallops inside and pouring a little of the cooking liquid over each one. This dish can also be served with hot croutons brushed with garlic.
Bigoli With Duck Sauce
This is a typical first course. The “bigolo” is a hard wheat pasta, which had made its appearance in the area in the eighteenth century. It was produced using the special “bigolaro”, a press featuring a brass drawplate which permitted the pasta to be formed into a rough-textured “bigolo” shape. In the Veneto region, the name “bigoli” is also given to large spaghetti or “bucatini” because of their slender elongated shape, also a kind of “bigolo”.
1 lb bigoli-a hard wheat pasta
3 ½ oz liver
3 ½ oz duck meat
1 oz butter
¾ oz extra virgin olive oil
2 oz ripe tomatoes
2 oz onion
3 ½ oz red wine
Thyme to taste
Marjoram to taste
Grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese to taste
Parsley to taste
In a pan combine the oil and butter and brown the onions, add the liver and duck meat and brown that also. Mix thoroughly.
Pour the red wine over the mixture, allow to evaporate, and then salt to taste. Add the broth and cook until the broth has reduced to only a few tablespoons. Add the herbs, the bay leaf and the tomato.
Cook the pasta in abundant boiling and salted water. When the pasta is cooked, when it is still “al dente”, drain it, put it in the pan with the sauce and toss it. Remove from the heat and sprinkle with freshly grated cheese, finely chopped parsley and arrange on a serving dish.
Torresani allo Spiedo (pigeons on the spit)
4 terraioli pigeons (also known as toresani)
120 g bacon, in large slices
10 Juniper berries
Rosemary – a large sprig
Preparation for plucking pigeons: flame it to remove the hair, clean the entrails, wash well and dry them.
Grind in a mortar the juniper berries and two bay leaves, put the mixture into a shallow dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper and add plenty of extra virgin olive oil.
Dip the sprig of rosemary into the mixture and use the rosemary to brush the seasoning on the pigeons.Then wrap them in slices of bacon, with a kitchen string to tie them, putting them on the spit and after ½ hour of cooking brush with the remaining mixture prepared with oil.
After 40 total minutes of cooking, remove the pigeons, remove the string and served with grilled polenta.
Zaleti
This is a traditional cookie from the Venice area. They are often enjoyed together with a glass of sparkling wine like Prosecco.
¾ lb cornmeal
3 ½ oz sugar
½ lb all-purpose flour
3 oz raisins
2 ½ oz pine nuts
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup milk, fresh
1 pinch vanilla
Lemon zest, grated
Mix the flours with the baking powder in a separate bowl. Combine the butter and sugar. Add the flour mixture, raisins, previously soaked in warm water, the pine nuts, milk, grated lemon zest and vanilla, to form a dough mixture.
With your hands, shape the mixture into small oval cakes about 3.2 inches long. Place them onto a lightly buttered baking sheet and bake in a hot oven. Cooking time is generally 20-25 minutes, but it can vary according to the size of the “zaleti”.
Posted by Jovina Coughlin in Antipasto, Bacon, cookies, Duck, Italy, Pasta, Pigeon, scallops, Veneto, Venice Tags: Cooking the Italian Provinces
I loved Venice when I had the chance to visit, and I remember having an excellent simple fish dish with grilled polenta, similar to your scallop recipe. Sometimes simple is best! I would like to try the grilled pigeon, when the snow is gone, but with Cornish hens.
Jovina Coughlin
Cornish hens would be my choice also. Thanks Anne.
Reblogged this on ravenhawks' magazine and commented:
Thanks for the info and the recipes.
You are so welcome.
Roxanne Leiblic
Yeast is omitted from Zaleti list of ingredients. How much? Love your blog!! Thank you.
Sorry my mistake in writing yeast. Italians call baking powder yeast and I for got to change it. Fixed now. Add 1/2 tablespoon of baking powder to the flour mix.
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Ocean Bream
oh delicious! I visited Venice in 2015 and I can honestly say out of all the places I have been to I loved it the most. So unique and different, it’s nice to learn a little more about it here. The cuisine looks delicious, I feel like I should try it!
kaitiscotland
I’ve been to Venice twice. In the Doge’s Palace there is a map from the Renaissance. A town near me, Ayr, is on it, spelled Ayre. My son, who has type one diabetes, had a hypo near the Rialto Bridge. We went into a restaurant by the waterside to get something sweet for him. The waiter came up with a tray full of fantastic looking desserts. We all had one! It was eye wateringly expensive but a fantastic experience. If you look at the photo, it is the first restaurant on your left hand side.
Kaiti, love that you shared this personal story. Thank you for sharing it.
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Domaine Labet, a family affair
Posted on February 21, 2013 by Wink Lorch
I’ve long had a soft spot for the Labet family of Rotalier in the area south of Lons-le-Saunier, known as the Sud Revermont. Not only for them, but for their superbly crafted Chardonnays, tangy Savagnin Ouillé, classic Vins Jaunes and interesting Vin de Pailles. Since my first visit more than ten years ago, eldest son Julien has been on the scene, but now he and his siblings call the shots.
Domaine Labet courtyard in the sleepy village of Rotalier ©Brett Jones
“Nous sommes en pleine effervescence!” Julien told me excitedly on the phone when I made the appointment to visit in January. I could understand the sense of fizzing (their Crémants can be excellent too), but my dictionary gives the correct translation of “We are buzzing”. The big change is that Alain and Josie Labet have officially retired at the end of last year, handing the reins over to Julien, his sister Charline (a trained oenologist, as is Julien) and brother Romain (whose focus is the vineyards). A new Domaine Labet is born.
Succession is rarely easy (more on some of the issues faced by other Jura estates soon), but there never seemed any doubt that the three children of Alain and Josie would follow these thoughtful vignerons into the family business.
Yet with Alain and Julien there were always two alpha males at play, locking horns over the family lunch or in the cellar. This, despite the fact that in their different approaches both men share an utter dedication and passion for preserving the ecology of the vineyards and making wines that both uphold Jura traditions, but can appeal to a market beyond the region. Julien is excited and keen to move on together with his sister and brother.
Respect for the vineyards
When I first met Alain Labet and visited his vineyards in and around the village of Rotalier, he explained that in the 1970s he had farmed the vineyards completely organically, along with Pierre Overnoy he was a pioneer at that time but, just as with Jean Macle of Château-Chalon, the work and risks became too much – he didn’t want to lose a crop. However, just like Jean, Alain worked the minimum possible with chemicals, and was very respectful of the local environment. Julien explained on this visit that his father would use herbicide under the vines because “he didn’t want to spend all his time on a tractor”. Many of the vineyards are on the typical local marl (a clay-limestone mix), that can be very heavy to work, but is prized vineyard terroir here.
Terroir and trappings in Labet’s tasting room ©Brett Jones
When Julien took on three hectares of vines for his own personal estate in 2003 he gradually converted them to organics, later applying for certification which he received from Ecocert in 2010. These three hectares are now incorporated into the new Domaine Labet, and the siblings have embarked on an organic certification programme for the whole domaine, the main work to be done is to replace the use of herbicide with a mechanical weeding method. The estate has quite a large proportion of old vines of 50 plus years, and for the very old vines that are planted at high densities they intend to use a horse to work them. The family has recently purchased another plot of nearly a hectare bringing the total to nearly 13 hectares, reds form just a small part, around two hectares.
Rare photo of Alain and Julien in their cellar ©CharlesNealSelections.com
Thoughtful winemaking
Julien Labet took over the winemaking in 1997, initially working side by side with his father, he had previously worked both in Burgundy and in South Africa and was keen to introduce new or fairly new barrels for fermentation and ageing of the Chardonnays in particular, at the time something quite radical in the Jura. He explained to me that at this time the wines were usually a natural 13% alcohol and that the barrel element helped fill out the middle palate giving ‘gras’ as the French call it, meaning ‘fatness’ or richness. With climate warming they now regularly achieve 14-14.5% alcohol and Julien finds that he does not want so much new oak element now, and plans to move gradually to bigger oak, demi-muids (300 – 600l) and large foudres (15 hectolitres). The latter help maintain freshness and what Julien termed in French ‘tension’.
One of the differences between the two ranges of wines that that the family has produced over the past few vintages – the Domaine Labet range, overseen by Alain, and Domaine Julien Labet or Les Vins de Julien – were that the latter were often sulphur free with Julien attending certain natural wine fairs to promote his wines. In the future sibling-run Domaine Labet, there will be two ranges – a classic one retaining for now the existing label in particular for regular, long-term customers, and a ‘natural’ range, no doubt with interesting labels as Julien himself has used – zero sulphur if possible.
Julien’s arty zero sulphur wines lined up ©Brett Jones
I found Julien’s attitude to the use of sulphur dioxide in winemaking refreshingly frank and sensible. And, although Charline wasn’t there on my visit, I tasted with her at last year’s “Le Nez dans Le Vert” organic wine fair, and the two work comfortably side-by-side with the same approach. Pre-bottling the domaine wines will have a small dose of SO2 added routinely, a safety measure for their customers’ sake. However, the domaine’s future ‘natural’ range will have no SO2 unless as happens with some wines it is necessary to prevent oxidation.
They use natural yeasts for all the wines, and they are no longer pumped, instead they use gravity and a mixture of compressed carbon dioxide with nitrogen to protect the wine in the hoses. In my experience of tasting with Julien, he loves the reductive approach, something that is almost essential for no or lower sulphur wine production, even if it can cause some notes in the wines that not everyone enjoys.
Selecting the favourites
In all, with the estate wines and Julien’s own wines in the past few years there have been about 30 different labels made from the 12 hectares, and there are no plans to reduce this range. It was Alain who pioneered making ouillé or topped up, rather than oxidative or traditional (in the Jura sense) Chardonnay in 1992, with what is today one of their biggest volume wines, Fleur de Chardonnay, at the time in foudres. The other big volume wine is the simple Chardonnay Cuvée Fleurs from a blend of five parcels with vines of different ages. The 2011 was tasting delicious with lovely floral and mineral characteristics along with apples on the palate. As often on previous tastings, my favourite Chardonnays were from the plot named Les Varrons planted with 65+ year old massal selection vines. I enjoyed both Julien’s no sulphur version from 2010, from very late picked grapes giving an almost sweet yellow fruit character (high in alcohol at over 14.5%), but with fresh acidity and spice to balance, and the domaine version from the same year, which was a touch more balanced with a mineral, stony character. We also tasted the domaine 2008 Les Varrons showing greater complexity and very exotic. Julien’s Fleur de Savagnin 2010 mainly from the well-known En Chalasse plot, was fabulous with a smoky lemon character on the nose leading to a ripe but tangy taste, almost like eating a fresh Meyer lemon (a taste I acquired on a visit to California). The grapes had 5 – 10% botrytis that would have accounted for that extra richness.
The tasting room at Domaine Labet ©Brett Jones
Our tasting of oxidative wines included Chardonnay Cuvée du Hasard (meaning ‘chance cuvée’). It has taken me many years to appreciate oxidative Chardonnay in particular, but I loved the 2008 Hasard from 60+ year old vines. A blend from different barrels, it is aged under a veil of yeast (as in Vin Jaune) for around three years. The result is an amazing intense aroma of cooked fruit and nuts with an equally intense palate, balanced by spices. The 2005 Vin Jaune was good and the Labets consider their Jaunes ready to drink when bottled, this is achieved with ageing mainly in warm conditions on a higher level of the cellar.
Julien, relaxed in the garden
Onto sweet wines and we tasted a lovely 2010 late-harvest Savagnin Grains Fauves from grapes that were on the turn towards noble rot. Just two barrels were made and it has a delicious balance of nearly 15% alcohol with 12 g/l of sugar giving a lovely honeyed nose and sweetish intensity. I also really enjoyed Julien’s La Paille Perdue 2007 though whether the local authorities allow Julien to continue naming it this is in question as they don’t like the fact that he uses the word ‘Paille’ in the name. This is a non-official Vin de Paille and ironically Julien is amongst the very few to dry the grapes on straw (‘paille’ in French), in fact on organic straw in wooden boxes for around six months in the attic. Not officially approved because it is only 11.9% alcohol instead of the minimum 14% and correspondingly sweeter than usual with 169g of sugar. Usually their Vin de Paille (whether official or not) has around 70-75% Chardonnay, 20-25% Savagnin and a touch of Poulsard. However, in 2007 the mix was 55% Savagnin and 40% Chardonnay. A fabulously unctuous wine with honeyed spices.
We did not taste the Crémants or reds in a formal manner on this visit, but with a quickly put together lunch from the ever-hospitable Labets I really enjoyed a 100% Chardonnay Crémant made Extra Brut, and a pleasant, juicy no-SO2 Trousseau 2011, though so light that I mistook it for a Poulsard (whoops, but it was after a big tasting of whites!) – Julien pointed out that it was rounder and smoother than Poulsard. A few weeks later over the Percée weekend Julien’s superb Pinot Noir Les Varrons 2009 was a highlight for me, tasted in the press office.
My admiration for this estate only continues with the new generation taking over. My thanks to Alain and Josie for both the domaine and the new generation you nurtured so well.
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April 24, 2013 by Sleestak - 0 comments
Terry Austin draws for Algol (1977)
Most people are familiar with the work of illustrator Terry Austin from his tenure in the comic book industry, most notable in the classic X-Men titles. Not many people are aware of or familiar with his other illustration work for magazines and books such as the contributions to the 1978 printing of I, Alien by J. Michael Reeves.
Illustration for Richard Lupoff’s Book Week column published in Algol #17 (Winter 1977).
August 23, 2010 by Sleestak - 3 Comments
Mysta of the Moon – Chapter 1
Mysta of the Moon is a science fiction adventure serial that ran in Planet Comics from 1945 to 1952. Mysta is one of the most consistent serials in regards to art and story quality to have been published by Fiction House. Mysta originally appeared as a young woman in issue #35 of Planet Comics (March 1945) as a victim of the machinations of Mars, the God of War. Mysta, as the repository of the sum of all knowledge, takes it upon herself to fight Mars and assist humanity out of the ruins of civilization.
Mars was the featured character of an earlier and respected Planet Comics serial. In those stories, the evil Mars would travel the galaxy and possess different people, forcing them to commit horrific acts and spread terror and strife all in the name of conflict. What made this serial different is that often Mars would emerge victorious being defeated only after spreading widespread chaos.
In Planet Comics #35 Mars is waging a war against science and intellectualism when he crosses paths with Mysta and her brother. While this story details Mars’ greatest success, effectively destroying human civilization, it also marks the marginalization of the Mars character as the far more visually appealing Mysta is brought to the forefront as the protector and savior of humanity. By the following issue Mysta headlined her own series and Mars was delegated to only a final cameo.
Out of all the female characters featured in Planet Comics it is Mysta of the Moon that was the strongest in terms of characterization. Unlike many other contemporary characters Mysta largely stood on her own in her adventures. Typically in almost any comic book tale of the era, where a female would often act as the lead in a story it was not unusual to have a man show up near the end of the tale and take charge, wrapping things up as the female character shed angst-filled thought balloons expressing gratitude and unrequited love. Among the Planet Comics entries this was most common among the Gale Allen serial. Mysta, being the most intelligent person in the Universe, would have none of that even though the creative team in the beginning used the “Diana Prince” trope and there is a greater than average amount of gratuitous cheesecake in the stories. Anyone interested in researching a good example of early female empowerment in comic books could do worse than reading the Mysta of the Moon series.
Like many superheroes Mysta, who was the repository of all knowledge, maintained a secret identity so the public at large would not know she was acting as their savior and defender. In her guise as an older and unappealing librarian or technician, Mysta fought criminals, mutant zombies and solved mysteries with the aid of a lab assistant and an unstoppable robot with which she shared a telepathic link.
August 9, 2010 by Sleestak - 3 Comments
The Sensualists
From the collection. The Sensualists (Dell #D294, 1959).
Unholy Wife
The Unholy Wife (1957).
July 21, 2010 by Sleestak - 1 Comment
My True Life Intimate Secret Desire Confessions
On the first cover by the time we see our heroine she was already salaciously propositioned and is mulling over her choice. On the second she is wryly, perhaps with amusement, dismissing a wolf. Both covers are iconically lurid but what a difference four years makes in the approach.
From My Desire Intimate Confessions #4 (Fox, April 1950) & True Life Secrets #23 (Nov-Dec 1954).
Nellie the Nurse #20 (Aug 1946).
Just a gal
Fantasy versus Reality from Annie Oakley #1 (March 1948) and real life, respectively.
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CD Review: Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night
Bob Dylan (vocals), Tony Garnier (bass), Donny Herron (pedal steel guitar), Charlie Sexton (guitar), Stu Kimball (guitar) and George C. Receli (percussion).
Subterranean Lovesick Blues
For most of us, Bob Dylan releasing an album of Great American Songbook numbers, mostly associated with Frank Sinatra, would have seemed an extremely unlikely prospect. Yet here is a man who, by his mid twenties, had been through numerous musical genres - early blues, folk, protest songs, electric rock and country music (and mostly completely reconstructed them) - and simultaneously, in song-writing terms, had created his own personal Great American Songbook. So why not do an album of standards?
Unusually, the best explanation for why he has made this album is provided by Dylan himself: 'I've wanted to do this for a long time but was never brave enough to approach 30-piece complicated arrangements and refine them down for a 5-piece band. That's the key to these performances.....I don't see myself as covering these songs in any way. They've been covered enough. Buried, as a matter of fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing them into the light of day.'
As we know from his book Chronicles, albums like Self Portrait and The Basement Tapes and his more relaxed radio programmes Theme Time Radio Hour, Dylan sees music as layered upon itself over time and springing from subterranean sources. In a recent speech to the MusiCares Foundation in America he talked about his songs and said they '...didn't come out of thin air....there was a precedent. It all came out of traditional music: traditional folk music, traditional rock and roll and traditional big band swing.' All the kinds of music he was hearing as a teenager and young man, on the radio, on the streets and in the clubs. So in that context, the album makes perfect sense.
And why now? Well as Dylan himself said a long time ago 'I'll know my song well before I start singing'. These are songs of memory and desire: love experienced, rejected, lost and forgotten; a lifetime's memories tinged with sadness and regret. Emotional depth is in these songs already but needs to be brought out and Dylan does this exceptionally well. Unexpectedly, he does this not just through the lyrics but through his voice. Much criticised by some in recent years as a 'hoarse growl', on these tracks his singing is textured and tuneful, tender and moving. With his band playing with delicacy and elegant precision, complemented by horns on some tracks, the album does indeed succeed in uncovering the buried layers of these songs.
The songs themselves are carefully chosen; from the tinge of desperate longing in the first track I'm a Fool to Want You to the final Lucky Old Sun, a song about death and hoping for an afterlife. In between The Night We Called It a Day, Autumn Leaves, Some Enchanted Evening, Full Moon and Empty Arms and more make up an album of ten songs which could be seen as making a coherent narrative but each one is also a crafted gem that can be enjoyed on its own merits.
Although these songs have been recorded by many other singers, this is Dylan's take on these tunes and, strange as it may seem to some, the album not only works, it's very good.
A good review, what puzzles me is that some critics that loved this album (for right reasons as is explained here) thought that the sound was too monochrome, so that it got boring in the end. Well, I think that this says more about their failure to concentrate, and I as myself if they have the same feeling about the concept albums of Sinatra... For instance, the fabulous Where Are You sticks to a slow tempo and somber atmosphere with very much the same orchestration on all songs, would they call this boring as well? That album seems the blueprint for what Dylan has sought to achieve here and he succeeded pretty well, though for me he might have given himself a little more freedom to let his voice be like it is normally, he is singing with so much caution and elegance that sometimes a gets a bit shaky and I wished he had put in a little more of his gruff blues, but nonetheless, the emotion gets to my heart with enough force already. And the band shines!
hans altena
Thursday, March 19, 2015 8:09:00 am
Hugh said...
Interesting that this should be one of the most visited blog posts. I must get it out and listen to it again!
Richard Waddington said...
I agree entirely Hugh, though I don't have a copy to dig out and shan't be buying one.
I saw a Bon Dylan album was on the list just before hitting my bed and was quite troubled that: a Bob Dylan album was reviewed on a Jazz site (even an open-minded one), I imagine it received a good review, and I don't think a Bob Dylan album has deserved that in the last forty years, and that it was so widely read.
Of course when I read it I remembered he'd done an album of GAS. I know at the time he admitted that while he'd heavily criticised SinAtra he must have been influenced by him unknowingly.
I still don't get that Dylan (Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Bowie) can sustain so much interest amongst Jazzers.
Being a Jazzer doesn't preclude an interest in other types of music, of course, I do wonder whether some of the hits on this particular post were by people using an appropriate term in their search engine of choice, rather than accessing BSH directly and then reading the post.
For anyone interested, but who does not have (and does not propose to buy) the CD it is available on Spotify.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 8:57:00 pm
Waddington's point is interesting as, indeed, is Hugh's. In these enlightened times (musically) I'd like to think that most of us have moved from the classical v jazz/ trad v modern/ jazz v rock feuds of the past 100 years. Today, I think, most regard music as music irrespective of the genre. As Ellington once said - 'Only 2 kinds: good and bad.' Of course it would be naive to think that everyone should like everything. However, let's not forget that rock and folk came from jazz and blues, albeit not always directly and that many a country guitar lick could slot easily into a jazz performance. Waddington should read some of Steve T's reviews to realise that we are open minded. Getting back to Dylan, in his early days, when I was a bebop purist, Dylan was one of the few no jazz people I listened to - as much for the words as the music and, you know what? He's now got a Nobel Prize or something like that.
As a veteran of the Amazon discussion forum, I have always found the Dylan police are even worse than the Beatlemaniacs.
I think the point I was making was, not that people shouldn't listen to other music, but why it had SO many hits. It sometimes seems that people who regularly come to BSH are more interested in people like Bob Dylan than they are in Jazz.
I've had about 16 Dylan albums over the years on various formats so I'm a bit of a fan, though I think he's become hugely over-rated over the last quarter century and I don't think he's done anything decent in 40 odd years.
I remember somebody boasting that he'd played Sgt Pepper every sunday morning since its release and I immediately thought how much music he's missed because of a ritual.
People listen to what they like but I prefer to listen to Jazz and other media unfriendly music cos you hear all the media stuff anyway, including Bob Dylan.
Jerry Butler said some people think Curtis Mayfield is the black Bob Dylan but he thinks Bob is the white Curtis Mayfield. And yet most people only know one or two Curtis tracks despite a dozen or so classic albums and a similar golden age of around 61 to about 75, with odd moments since.
I can actually remember the first person I ever met who actually thinks Bob is a greater artist and songwriter than Curtis.
How many thousands of worthy writers didn't receive the Nobel Prize because, in their wisdom, they decided to give it to a songwriter? It's not the same thing and if he had anything about him, he'd pass it on to his favourite author or poet. Who's going to get it next? John Lennon! Morrissey! Noel Gallagher!
Thursday, December 08, 2016 1:16:00 am
As the writer of the review of this Bob Dylan album I'm intrigued by RW's amazement at the fact that a large number of people appear to have read it on the BSH web site. If I (reluctantly) leave aside the possibility that the high quality of the review meant that it quickly went viral then may it not have something to do with the fact that, love him or hate him, he is one of the most influential and important artists of the last fifty years? I think it would be reasonable to speculate that amongst the wide and diverse jazz-loving readership of BSH many more have at least one Dylan album in their collection than have a Frank Sinatra record. This is of course not to suggest that therefore Dylan is "better" than Sinatra - a pointless comparison - but rather that when a leading artist brings out a record that is different to their usual work many people might be interested to hear how it sounds.
RW says that Dylan hasn't produced any decent work in the last 40 years, so if he has listened to the 45 albums Dylan has produced in that time, including 17 albums of original material, and the many re-workings of his earlier songs which throw considerable light on his artistic development (not to mention the 100 plus live concerts he has been playing every year for the last 20 years), I would be happy to defend his right to hold that opinion.
In an earlier comment RW suggests that Dylan was highly critical of Sinatra but this is not in fact true. Speaking about the album Dylan said, "When you start doing these songs, Frank's got to be on your mind. Because he is the mountain....you have to climb, even if you only get part of the way there."
Interestingly, Sinatra asked Dylan to perform at his 80th birthday concert and requested a particular song Restless Farewell that Dylan had never sung live before. The only other time he played it live was a few days after Sinatra's death.
Anyway, if a review of a Dylan album enables more people to discover the informative jazz delights of BSH then that can only be a good thing.
PS - Keith Jarrett performs a very nice version of My Back Pages
Friday, December 09, 2016 10:53:00 pm
The review was high quality, but you don't know that until you've read it.
The problem with people going on about people being influential is that it doesn't make them good. Bowie was influential on glam, punk-rock, new romantics, Boy George, Indie and Brit-pop; thanks Dave.
Even if you believe the creation myths of Bob and the Beatles, he himself, having chastised his then girlfriend Joan Baez for pampering to teenyboppers by recording Yesterday, said that just as their song-writing was beginning to improve a little (not a view I share), they spoilt it with over-production. Bob was mainly influential on Byrds, CSN, Neil Young, Donovan, James Yaylor, Nick Drake and lots of people who think it's interesting to stand with an acoustic guitar with a harmonica attached and sing songs badly. Thanks Bob.
OK I'll give you Folk Rock, but as I said, I quite like him though it, like him, is hardly important in the general scheme of things.
It's worth noting that Blues artists were recording this type of stuff in the twenties and black artists have been writing 'their own songs' ever since, so the myth that Bob and the Beatles toppled Tin Pan Alley is precisely that. As devotees of Jazz, or Black Music generally, we have to hope that the media will not always be made by and for straight, white, middle class, middle aged (square) men and will one day stop bombarding us with how important people like Bob are. You can't listen to Kind of Blue forever.
If you re-read my initial post you'll find I became unsurprised about the review when I was reminded it was a Gas album. I remain alarmed that it proved so popular. If JC is upset that I said I wouldn't buy it, he'll know there is a large school of thought that people should listen to his songs by other people,(not a view I share; if you can't stand his voice, don't bother; you'll get Hendrix anyway)so the idea that people should listen to him sing other peoples' songs seems a little bizarre considering his voice is only really comfortable on fairly straight folk music and, as he strayed further into pop in the mid sixties, he started sounding like he was straining on the toilet.
If I've only heard 16 of his albums, JC will know I haven't heard the 17 from the last 40 years. I've heard a few of the ones which are widely regarded as the best. Every artist has their time. I haven't heard every Curtis Mayfield album after 75 and I wonder how many Curtis and Impressions albums JC has heard.
It's possible Bob was lying when he said he was critical of Sinatra but it makes sense; much has been made in the media about Bob, John and Paul singing their own songs.
I agree entirely that Bob people coming over to a Jazz site would be a good thing but I haven't heard much Jazz or Black Music here, or are we saying it's no longer a Jazz site at all.
Bob currently has an art exhibition challenging notions of celebrity. Seems he has an uphill climb against his own.
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DETROIT – September marks the three-year anniversary of the Chevrolet Cruze in the U.S., a hallmark for the global compact that is Chevrolet’s best-selling nameplate with more than 2 million units sold around the world.
Cruze has been a big contributor to General Motors’ U.S. and global sales gains since its launch in 2009. Chevrolet small cars, including the Spark, Sonic, Cruze and Volt, have seen a 229 percent increase in sales from the first six months of 2010 compared to the first six months of 2013, evidence of the brand’s success at attracting new buyers.
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Murray River Paintings
A selection of paintings showing the styles from this Aboriginal art region - some paintings may still be available for sale, while some may have been sold.
Summer Matthews | Manara – Grinding Stone
Jap 006436 | glass | 30 x 18 cm
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Jap 009445 | acrylic on canvas board | 45 x 34 cm
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The Murray River is Australia’s longest and most serviceable river, running 2500 kms from the Australian Alps through open plains country to the coast in South Australia. The Murray River forms the state border between Victoria and New South Wales. The river serves to irrigate large tracts of farmland and contributes to some of the most productive land in the country. The river hosts the towns of Albury- Wadonga, Mildura, Murray Bridge, Moama-Echuca, Swan Hill and Renmark.
The Murray River is associated with plentiful animal life including Murray cod, perch and other fish, river crayfish, turtles, yabbies, shrimps and platypus. The river has an ancient association with Aboriginal people, whose Creation stories of the river tell of the Ancestor Ngurunderi chasing Pondi the Murray Cod along the river course.
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Title The Vincent Price collection II [(BluRay) videorecording].
Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014]
Los Angeles, CA : Shout Factory.
95th Street Adult Blu-ray Fiction F VINCEN AVAILABLE
Description 4 videodiscs (585 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical mono DTS Master Audio rda
video file Blu-Ray 1080p High-Definition region A rda
Note The raven: originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.
The comedy of terrors: originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.
The tomb of Ligeia: originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.
The last man on Earth: originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.
Dr. Phibes rises again: originally produced as a motion picture in 1972.
The return of the fly: originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
House on Haunted Hill originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
The tomb of Ligeia from the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
The last man on Earth from the novel "I am legend" by Richard Matheson.
The raven special features: Introduction and parting words by Vincent Price; Richard Matheson storyteller: The raven; Corman's comedy of Poe; Promotional record; theatrical trailer; still gallery.
The comedy of terrors special features: Introduction and parting words by Vincent Price; Richard Matheson storyteller: The comedy of terrors; theatrical trailer; still gallery.
The tomb of Ligeia special features: Introduction and final words by Vincent Price; Audio commentary by producer/director Roger Corman; New audio commentary with Elizabeth Shepherd; theatrical trailer; still gallery.
The last man of Earth special features: Richard Matheson storyteller: The last man of Earth; still gallery; Audio commentary with authors David del Valle and Derek Botelho.
Dr. Phibes rises again special features: theatrical trailers; still gallery.
The return of the fly special features: Audio commentary with actor Brett Halsey and film historian David Del Valle: theatrical trailer, TV spot, still gallery.
House on Haunted Hill special features: audio commentary by film historian Steve Haberman; Vincent Price, Renaissance Man featurette; The Art of Fear featurette; Working with Vincent Price featurette; theatrical trailer.
Contents Disc 1. The raven (1963, 86 minutes, color) -- The comedy of terrors (1964, 83 minutes, color) -- Disc 2. The tomb of Ligeia (1964, 82 minutes, color) -- The last man on Earth (1964, 87 minutes, black and white) -- Disc 3. Dr. Phibes rises again! 1972, 89 minutes, color) -- The return of the fly (86 minutes, 1959, black and white) -- Disc 4. House on Haunted Hill (1959, 75 minutes, black and white)
Credits The raven : produced and directed by Roger Corman ; screenplay by Richard Matheson.
The comedy of terrors : produced by Samuel Z Arkoff and James H. Nicholson ; directed by Jacques Tourneur ; screenplay by Richard Matheson.
The tomb of Ligeia : written by Robert Towne ; directed by Roger Corman.
The last man on Earth : directed by Sidney Salkow (Ubaldo B. Ragona) ; screenplay by Logan Swanson & William F. Leicester.
Dr. Phibes rises again! : produced by Louis M. Heyward ; written by Robert Fuest and Robert Blees ; directed by Robert Fuest.
The return of the fly : produced by Bernard Glasser ; directed by Edward L. Bernos.
The house on Haunted Hill : produced and directed by William Castle.
Cast The raven : Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Jack Nicholson.
The comedy of terrors : Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Basil Rathbone.
The tomb of Ligeia : Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook.
The last man on Earth : Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart.
Dr. Phibes rises again : Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp, Peter Jeffrey, Fiona Lewis.
Return of the fly : Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, David Frankham, John Sutton.
The house on Haunted Hill : Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Summary The Raven: A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help. The Comedy of Terrors: An undertaker starts to kill people in order to get new clients.
Tomb of Ligeia: A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride. The Last Man on Earth: When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
The Return of the Fly: Fifteen years later, Andre's son does some transportation experimentation of his own. Dr. Phibes Rises Again: The vengeful Doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.
The house on Haunted Hill: A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a spooky house overnight.
Audience Rating: Not rated.
System Details Blu-ray, region A, NTSC, 1080p High-Definition widescreen (2.35:1); DTS Master Audio mono; requires Blu-ray player.
Subject Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Film adaptations -- Videodisc.
Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013 -- Film adaptations -- Videodisc.
Magicians -- Drama -- Videodisc.
Magic -- Drama -- Videodisc.
Bereavement -- Drama -- Videodisc.
Vampires -- Drama -- Videodisc.
Resurrection -- Drama -- Videodisc.
Scientists -- Drama -- Videodisc.
Haunted houses -- Drama -- Videodisc.
Millionaires -- Drama -- Videodisc.
Genre Feature films.
Science fiction films.
Added Author Price, Vincent, 1911-1993, actor.
Corman, Roger, 1926- film producer, film director.
Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013, screenwriter.
Tourneur, Jacques, 1904-1977, film director.
Fuest, Robert, film director, screenwriter.
Bernds, Edward, film director, screenwriter.
Towne, Robert, screenwriter.
Salkow, Sidney, 1909-2000, film director.
Swanson, Logan, 1926-2013, screenwriter.
Leicester, William F., 1915-1969, screenwriter.
Castle, William, film director.
Lorre, Peter, actor.
Karloff, Boris, 1887-1969, actor.
Shepherd, Elizabeth, 1936- actor.
Danieli, Emma, 1936-1998, actor.
Quarry, Robert, 1923- actor.
Halsey, Brett, actor.
Ohmart, Carol, 1927- actor.
Long, Richard, 1927-1974, actor.
Marshal, Alan, 1909-1961, actor.
Cook, Elisha, Jr., actor.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Tomb of Ligeia.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013. I am legend.
Orion Pictures.
American International Pictures (Firm), production company.
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, production company.
Cinemascope (Firm), production company.
Shout! Factory (Firm), film distributor.
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Vincent Price collection two
Raven.
Comedy of terrors.
Tomb of Ligeia.
Last man on Earth.
Dr. Phibes rises again!
Return of the fly.
House on Haunted Hill.
Music No. SF 15297 (container) Shout Factory
SF 15298 (disc 1) Shout Factory
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Adobe Kills Creative Suite, Goes Subscription Only Instead
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Adobe announced the end of their Creative Suite software, instead choosing to focus on their Adobe Creative Cloud subscription service. CS6 is the last version you can buy and download, and if you want access to tools like Photoshop and Illustrator in the future, you'll need a subscription to get them.
Adobe says that customers "vastly prefer" the cloud-based subscription options over the stand-alone downloadable suites, and say they'll give users who only want access to a single tool (like Photoshop, for example), instead of an entire suite of apps the ability to subscribe to just the program they're looking for. Plus, they've lowered the price of those individual app subscriptions to $10/mo from $20/mo. You can read all of their pricing plans here. Adobe says that signing up for Creative Cloud also gives them the ability to roll out updates and upgrades to their applications when they can, instead of waiting to bundle them all into a major CS uplift. We've done our own analysis on whether it's better to rent versus buy, and ultimately whether the change is good for you depends on the type of user you are.
If you've purchased a perpetual license or have upgrade rights based on your last purchase, Adobe says they'll smooth your transition to Creative Cloud (likely be offering a steep discount). The change also makes financial sense for Adobe, since they can get a steady stream of subscription fees instead of a major uptick in revenue with each CS release. Plus, it cuts down on piracy, since all of their apps are web-enabled and require active subscriptions to work. For more details on how the new subscription model will work, check out CNET's report below.
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MEMBERSHIP FEES ARE DUE AS OF 1 FEBRUARY. Fees for 2002 are 65 Swiss Francs or equivalent for regular members (Sodales) and 130 Swiss Francs for associate members (Sodales adjuncti; institutions, associations, and other corporations). Student members are entitled to a 50% reduction of regular member fees for a maximum of three years. Instructions for payment are given on the attached rate sheet. Payments by credit card (VISA or MasterCard) are now accepted through the General Secretary’s Office (only). Please note that rates listed on page 5 have changed in relation to revaluations of different currencies. Exchange rates for 2002 are based on those of the 1st of November 2001 in Zürich (per SIL Statutes).
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28th Congress in Melbourne, Australia
The 28th CONGRESS OF SIL, held in mid-summer 4-19 February 2001 at the Clayton campus of Monash University within Melbourne, Australia was highly successful. Sponsored by the Australian Section of SIL, Australian Society for Limnology, and entire Australian limnological contingency, the Congress drew over 750 participants. Extensive opportunities allowed evaluation of inland water resources of Australia. Despite the great travel distance for most SIL members, the meetings and opportunities to see some of the unique limnology of this enormous country was most rewarding. Some 450 scientific contributions have been edited and are now being published in the Proceedings (see below).
29th Congress in Finland
The 29th Congress of SIL will be held in the Helsinki University Lahti Research and Training Centre, slightly north of Helsinki on 8-15 August 2004. An extensive itinerary is being organized in this limnological mecca. Website: www.palmenia.helsinki.fi/congress/kongressit/2000/conglimn.html
30th Congress in Canada
The 30th Congress of SIL will be held in Montreal, Québec, Canada, in August 2007. An extensive series of scientific excursions are being planned to evaluate numerous limnological venues and activities of this region of Canada.
Call for nominations for the Naumann-Thienemann Medal Awards
A detailed summary of the contributions of Einar Naumann and August Thienemann to limnology and the foundation of SIL was presented in the lead article of SILNEWS 21. The Naumann-Thienemann Medal is the highest honor awarded for scientific contributions in international limnology. The Naumann-Thienemann Medal Committee solicits documented nominations of scientists with unusual contributions to the development and advancement of limnology. To nominate a candidate, a complete curriculum vitae, list of publications, and a statement of the outstanding merits of the individual should be submitted to General Secretary Wetzel or President Likens for distribution to and evaluation by the Committee.
Nominations for the Baldi Memorial Lecturer
The Baldi Memorial Lecturer, described in detail in SILNEWS 24 in 1998, for the 29th Congress in Finland will be Dr. Wolfgang Junk, leader of the Tropenökologie Arbeitsgruppe of the Max-Planck-Institut für Limnologie, Plön. The Baldi Memorial Lecturer Committee solicits documented nominations of limnologists that would present seminal insights on a particular subject in inland aquatic ecology. Forward nominations to General Secretary Wetzel.
Nominations for the Kilham Memorial Lecturer
The Kilham Memorial Lecture for the 29th Congress in Finland will be Dr. Dag Hessen of the University of Oslo, Norway. The Kilham Memorial Lecture Committee requests documented nominations of limnologists appropriate for this honor. Forward documentation to Gen. Secretary Wetzel for the Committee.
Tonolli Memorial Awards
The Tonolli Memorial Fund for Furthering Limnology in Developing Countries has adequate funding from the interest of the endowment and from contributions to award a few scholarships to assist the research training of young scientists from developing countries. Applications should include detailed documentation of candidates, using a form available from the General Secretary, and letters of recommendation. Submissions should be made to General Secretary Wetzel for distribution to and evaluation by the Committee. The Committee evaluates proposals twice annually, in January and July.
Publication of Dublin Congress Proceedings
The most unacceptable situation of the delays of publication of the Proceedings of the 27th Congress held in Dublin finally have been overcome. Parts 1 through 5 have been published and distributed to members in good standing. Those members receiving the entire volume on CD-ROM will receive the entire volume when completed. The final Part 6 is in final preparations and should be completed before the end of the year. Many members and authors are justly disgruntled, and the entire situation is untenable for the wellbeing of SIL. Many actions have been taken to prevent recurrence of this unfortunate situation in future congresses.
Publication of Melbourne Congress Proceedings
Some 450 manuscripts from the congress in Australia have been edited and are now being set into galley proofs. The procedures have been improved and the entire volume will be issued in 2002.
SIL Publication Index
The author and subject index of all SIL publications (Verhandlungen 1-20; Mitteilungen 1-21) continues to be well received. This valuable access source to the thousands of SIL publications is available to members at cost of production. Remit SFr 20 or US$10 to the General Secretary-Treasurer for your copy. Remittance in US dollars being sent from foreign countries must be drawn on an international bank in the USA that is recognized by the Federal Reserve System. Certain credit card payments are accepted (see payment instructions here). We are seeking to have all the SIL publications converted to electronic form and available to members digitally.
The first volume of a special book series Limnology in Developing Countries, edited by B. Gopal and R. G. Wetzel, included reviews of limnology for Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Ghana, and Tunisia. Volume 1 was completed in late 1995 and distributed to all members in good standing. Volume II, edited by R. G. Wetzel and B. Gopal, was distributed in 1999, and it included reviews of limnology of Indonesia, Morocco, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, and Uruguay. Volume III appeared in 2001 and included reviews of limnology in Algeria, Belize, Columbia, and Malawi. Further volumes are currently being completed. These publications are free to members in good standing. They are available for purchase by non-members at very nominal rates indicated through the office of the General Secretary-Treasurer.
Limnology of Developing Countries Vol. I. 1995. B. Gopal and R. G. Wetzel, Editors. 230 pp. (Bangladesh, Ghana, Malaysia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Tunisia) [$5 individuals; $12 institutions]
Limnology of Developing Countries Vol. II. 1999. R. G. Wetzel and B. Gopal, Editors. (Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Nigeria, Surinam, Uruguay) [$8 individuals; $20 institutions]
Limnology of Developing Countries, Vol. III. 2001. R. G. Wetzel and B. Gopal, Editors. (Algeria, Belize, Columbia, and Malawi). [$7 individuals; $15 institutions]
Limnology of Developing Countries, Vol. IV. 2002. R. G. Wetzel and B. Gopal, Editors. (In final preparation) (China and India) [Price to be determined]
The SIL newsletter, initiated in late 1987, is distributed three times annually to all members. SILNEWS 35 will be sent from Canada to all members in December. Our newsletter editor, Dr. Richard Robarts, requests your participation and submission of information to further increase communication and exchange among our members. Forward any information for consideration to Dr. Richard Robarts or Ms. Clara Fabbro, National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, 11 Innovation Blvd., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 3H5, Canada. E-mail: richard.robarts@ec.gc.ca or clara.fabbro@ec.gc.ca.
Archiv fűr Hydrobiologie
Ordinary members (Sodales) can obtain this publication, an official journal of the SIL, at a price reduction of 20%. Please send orders to the General Secretary for forwarding to the publisher, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. The main Volumes (Hauptbande) of the Archiv fűr Hydrobiologie are designed for short original works from the entire field of theoretical and applied limnology. Complete and critical reviews of individual subjects of limnology appear as the "Ergebnisse der Limnologie" (Advances in Limnology).
Sponsor a member
Some members have generously contributed sufficient funds to sponsor a researcher or student of limnology from developing or other countries from which it is difficult to pay our modest membership fee. Alternatively we urge you to contribute to the Endowment Fund.
Library Affiliates
SIL has shipped excess copies of all available past SIL publications to a number of libraries of developing or other countries in which it is difficult for institutional membership. In addition, institutional memberships have been provided for certain libraries from our Endowment Fund. We welcome applications from institutional libraries for assistance with their membership. Direct inquiries to the office of the General Secretary and Treasurer. Persons knowing of particularly deserving institutional libraries are urged to inform us - we are attempting to have our scientific contributions reach as many workers as possible.
Increase our membership!
The membership of SIL now exceeds 3100. In order to enhance the many roles of our membership in international limnology, particularly in education, research, and effective management of water resources, we need to increase our membership to include greater representation of active freshwater scientists and water resource managers. It is particularly appropriate and important that young researchers and students become involved in the activities of SIL. The Student Membership for fulltime students working toward a graduate degree is being used widely. Students receive a 50% reduction in annual fees for a maximum of three years. A membership form is available here ... convince a colleague or student to join SIL today!
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