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Preview: SSF Women's Cup 18/19
Written by Liam Dickson
With another season of SSF Women’s Cup action about to get underway proper, what better time to catch up on all you need to know, as the journey to next April’s final at Ainslie Park begins?
19 teams began the tournament this year; Glasgow Caledonian 1’s, St. Andrews 3’s and Dundee & Angus 1’s have already fallen.
But with most teams entering the tournament at the last 16 stage - and with many of those matches taking place next week – YFS is here to bring you up to speed as we move one step closer to crowning this season’s champions.
Stirling are the team they’re all out to beat – they’re looking for a hat-trick of titles after winning the 2017 and 2018 competitions, defeating Edinburgh 2-0 in the last season’s final.
And YFS spoke to the head coach of Stirling’s first team, Craig Beveridge, who – despite only taking charge of the squad a little over a month ago – has been with the team at Lesser Hampden each of the past two seasons as they’ve claimed Scottish Cup glory.
As he explains, for a team that compete week in and week out against some of Britain’s best student teams in the BUCS Premier North Division, there is always a pressure to perform when they come up against Scottish opposition:
“We definitely go into the tournament with ambitions of winning it,” he said. “Because we’ve won it the last two years, I think the girls expect to win it – they know themselves that anything else would be seen as a massive disappointment.”
Stirling begin their quest for three in a row at home to Glasgow 2’s – although due to league commitments the fixture date has not yet been confirmed.
But Beveridge is looking forward to taking on Scottish opposition, yet knows the team can’t afford to take anyone lightly:
“We normally play against the same British teams and they’re quite physical and pose similar threats,” he said. “So it’s good to play against different teams.
“We try and get as much information as we can on [Glasgow 2’s] and see how they’re doing in the league and things like that.
“Fortunately, the girls are very professional, and they go into every game with the mindset of working as hard as they can and playing as well as they can.”
Such is the nature of student football, players graduate and re-building jobs are required on an almost season-by-season basis.
However, Beveridge explains, Stirling go into the cup this year with a strong core of players who know what it’s like to win the trophy.
He said: “We have seven or eight regular starters that were with us last year, so some of them have been here before.
“A couple, such as our captain Chloe Logan who’s been here for four or five years now, have seen and done it all.”
Glasgow 2’s will come into the match as underdogs, but they’ve already defeated Glasgow Caledonian 1’s 2-0 in this competition and will be hopeful of causing a major upset against a side three divisions above them.
Stirling’s second team are also in action; they travel to Abertay to take on their first team in a match of teams in contrasting form.
Abertay currently sit rock bottom of Division 1A with six defeats from six, whereas Stirling are flying high in Division 2A with three wins from three – a run that includes a remarkable 7-6 victory over Dundee 1’s.
One of the more intriguing ties of the last 16 will see an Edinburgh 3’s side that won 4-2 against St. Andrews 3’s in the last round take on Edinburgh’s first team.
The 1’s currently sit top of Division 1A and are fresh from a 6-0 victory over Edinburgh 2’s, so it’ll be tough for the Division 3A third team to impact the game, but it’ll be interesting to see how they equip themselves against their university’s top players – and the side that Stirling defeated in the final last season.
St. Andrews 2’s reward for defeating Dundee & Angus College in the first round is an away trip to Glasgow to take on their first team.
St. Andrews 2’s are another side with a 100% league record; they’ve won all three of their Division 3A matches this season, so they’ve every reason to go into the match full of confidence, but they’ll be up against a Glasgow side currently sitting second in Division 1A on goal difference and looking to bounce back from their first defeat of the season - to St. Andrews first team – when they meet next week.
St. Andrews 1’s 2-1 victory over Glasgow moved them level on points with their opponents and Edinburgh 1’s at the top of the league, and they’ll be looking to continue building momentum when they host Heriot-Watt 1’s next week.
The Watt head to Fife looking for their first win of the season – they’re currently rooted to the bottom of Division 2A.
Robert Gordon 1’s welcome Strathclyde 1’s in a battle of Division 2A teams.
RGU got the better of Strathclyde when they met in the league at the end of October – 5-0 in Aberdeen – and are narrowly ahead of Strathclyde in the league, so will go into the game as favourites.
Also up north next week, Aberdeen 1’s host Edinburgh Napier 1’s.
It’s been a mixed bag in the league for both sides; Napier have six points from four games this season, whilst Aberdeen have six points from six games – although they are playing in a higher division than their visitors.
The final game from the round of 16 sees an Edinburgh 2’s side with one win from their first six league games take on Dundee 1’s in the capital next week.
The away team also only have one league win to their name this season and will be hoping to cause an upset against their Division 1A opponents.
FULL DRAW
Stirling 1 v Glasgow 2
Robert Gordon 1 v Strathclyde 1
Edinburgh 2 v Dundee 1
St Andrews 1 v Heriot-Watt 1
Abertay 1 v Stirling 2
Glasgow 1 v St Andrews 2
Aberdeen 1 v Edinburgh Napier 2
Edinburgh 1 v Edinburgh 3
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Where Fantasies Live
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Struggling Love
Where Fantasies Live :: The Fictions
Yami on Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:03 pm
There was still another hour before 3pm but I was already seated outside of the childcare. I was not the only one who was there; mothers who were there extra early to chitchat were there earlier than me. I tried my best to ignore the stares and murmurs of the mothers as I waited patiently for the gates to open.
It was not long before I heard the bell followed by chattering children. I got up and immediately saw my 2 beautiful girls. I could not help but smile from ear to ear. They ran when they saw me and hugged my waist. It was only natural to pick them up and plant big kisses on their cheeks as they nuzzled against my neck. They giggled cheerfully and I wished that time would just freeze for a moment for me to appreciate my little angels. Many eyes were on us but I just couldn’t be bothered. I let them down and they automatically took my hand, one on each side.
“Is Maxim coming home too today?” asked the angel on my right.
She was dressed in a baby blue playsuit accompanied with a big blue bow atop her head. Her eyes were round and they gleam when the sunlight reflected on them from the right angle. They were a really light hazel and if I did not know better, I would have thought she had yellow eyes.
I was not sure of the answer myself so I just smiled at her and shrugged. Then the angel on my left tugged my hand for attention.
“You didn’t answer Reine’s question, Doux” she said.
“Well, honestly, I don’t know if Maxim will be coming home either, Gene” and I smiled at her too.
She was wearing a maroon version of what Rei was wearing. She nodded, said she understood and did not ask anymore. We went to Wendy’s to grab lunch before heading home. When we got home, the door was not locked and the television was switched on.
“Maxim?” Gene called out.
Since we don’t know who was in the house, I grabbed her and made her stand behind me. I walked cautiously towards the kitchen. If it was Maxim, he would have started peeling off his uniform from the moment he stepped into the house and drop a piece of clothing along the way to his bedroom just to annoy me. My heart was beating so fast I had to count to 10 between breaths to calm myself down. But while holding Gene close by me, I was careless with Rei and she walked directly into the kitchen towards the stranger.
“Heeeyyyy!”
I was about to attack when I realized it was only Shin. I relaxed and felt the tension leave my body.
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When I am not at the rehab center, I work with the local police in a confidential division where unsolved or unnatural deaths were dealt with. The police would call me to lend them my abilities. Growing up, I was known as a freak for my ability to communicate with souls of a person who has been dead for no more than 3 days. I could also read people’s auras and tell what kind of person they are. I don’t talk much about it because people get uncomfortable with unfamiliar things. But one day, I stumbled upon a crumpled body in one of the alleys I have to walk by to get home. I phoned the police right away and they arrived 15 minutes after the call. I think I must have panicked and started pacing the place while waiting for the police. I actually found another person near the body. I began asking the person if he knew how it happened and if he saw the whole thing. The person was a little hesitant to talk at first but after telling him that the police was on their way and he could talk to them when they arrived made him relax a little. He started talking about how he was alone and did not sense anyone else in the alley. He said he was having a bad day and he only wanted to be at a quiet place where the buzz of the city would not be able to reach him. He was about to tell me more when the police sirens were heard.
I was approached by 2 officers who directed me away from the body so they could take down my statement.
“Officer, I think you should speak to a witness instead. I only happen to walk by this alley to find the body when it was too late”
“A witness, you say?” said one of the officers.
“Yes, he’s right by the body. He’s a little shocked by the murder but he might be able to help you out,” I pointed to the person I was speaking to a little earlier.
“What are you talking about?” the other officer turned to where I was pointing.
“He’s right…” I stopped myself.
It did not cross my mind that the person I spoke to had the same clothes as the man lying there in a pool of blood. No wonder he knew more than he could have if he was just a witness.
“I’m sorry officers. But I don’t think I can explain to you nicely about this”
“You will have to follow us back to the station for further investigation, young man”
I nodded and told them to give me a minute. I walked back to the “person” and told him that I will be back for him. He smiled and there seem to be a kind of trust in his eyes.
At the station, I was brought to a room that was at the end of the hall. The room was painted green with very minimal furniture. The officers told me to take a seat while they go get Officer Faust. I looked around the room and inhaled the air, everything in it felt stale and I was sure it was rarely used.
Moments later, a man dressed in a brown suit walked into the room accompanied by the 2 officers from before. I stood up to shake his hand. He smiled at me but it didn’t reach his eyes. It was like he smiled to try and calm me down but I could feel him being all “business only”. I sat myself back down and he took a seat opposite me. He crossed his legs and propped his blue file on his knee. He opened the file and looked at me with intent eyes. The first thing he said was,
“How do I know that it was not you who murdered the man?”
All smiles were gone now and his eyes were blank. I stared at him a little longer before sighing and clasping my hands and placing them on the table in front of me. I could tell he was not happy with my reaction but he kept his cool. He spoke again.
“Convince me that you did nothing to that man, Mr Hartmann.”
So the file he has in his hands is mine. Otherwise I don’t see how he could have known my name since I was fairly new in town. I was about to speak when he interrupted me.
“Mr Hartmann, murder is a very serious offence. If you are found guilty, it is automatically a death sentence”
“I am glad you are cooperating, Mr Hartmann.”
I was beginning to not like this Officer Faust.
“Well, tell us your side of the story”
The fact that he wanted my side of the story meant that he has his own version and it was annoying. I closed my eyes, counted to 10 and inhaled. I cannot truly describe how it works but in order for me to feel and know the other person, I sort of have to breathe him in. I got flashes of Officer Faust when he was younger and how he worked hard to get where he was. What shocked me was he was almost similar to me in some way.
“…Mr Hartmann!” his voice broke my concentration.
He told the other 2 officers to wait outside and only come in when he said so. They did what they were told without even flinching indicating Officer Faust’s rank in the division.
“Are you a psychic?” I asked. It was my turn to speak.
His eyes widened and showed too much white. When he caught himself reacting in such a way, he cleared his throat and rubbed his palms on the front of his suit.
“We’re the only ones in this room, Officer. I don’t think the other officers are close enough to this room to hear”
“Mr Hartmann, you have no business to know what I am”
“So it’s true”
“What?” he pushed his chair back.
“You’re not denying it and you just told me to mind my own business. It’s clear that you are a psychic. I could feel you in my head. You were trying to stop me from seeing into you but you did not know how.”
“Wh…What are you?”
“I don’t know, Officer. But as cliché as it may sound, I see dead people”
So the hard exterior was just for show. He saw his ability as a flaw and was trying to conceal it. Fortunately, I have come to terms with my abilities and I fully embrace them. Unlike him, I think my abilities were given to me for a greater purpose.
“Look, this is confidential,” said Officer Faust in a hushed voice.
“My psychic ability. It’s classified confidential under my division for people with ‘talents’ like yours and mine to help out with investigations.”
He was looking around like he was afraid someone might be eavesdropping when there were only the two of us in the room.
“Then you should know that I did not murder that man,” I said as a matter of fact.
“I don’t know that. I mean, I am not allowed to use my ability unless I have supporting documents from my superiors. Or else I will be suspended for God knows how long”
I took his word for it. I mean, if he did not know I was not the murderer at a glance when he first entered the room, I take it that he did not and could not use his ability without permission.
We spoke about my ability for a bit before he decided to send me back down to the murder site. All I had to do was get as much information as I could from the wondering soul of the murdered man and conveyed them to the police. Well, more like Officer Faust’s people. They were all dressed in suits and had blank looks. I could read some but not the others. I just assumed we were all in the same category.
About a week after the investigation was closed with me aiding them in whichever way I could, I received a letter. A personal letter addressed to me from Officer Faust. In the letter, he had expressed his interest in having me in their confidential division. I took up the offer without much hesitation. Thanks to the job, I was also able to get a proper apartment for my family.
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City Manager of 25 years announces retirement
Nayeli Shad|September 14, 2018
When Merriss joined Decatur government in 1983, she promised to only stay two years. Since then, she's extended her promise 17 times. Photo obtained via decaturga.com.
Decatur City Manager Peggy Merriss announced her retirement from the City of Decatur effective Dec. 31.
Merriss began working for the city in 1983 as Personnel Director, became Assistant City Manager in 1989 and finally, City Manager in 1993. On July 16, only a month before her 35th anniversary serving the city, Merriss announced the end of her tenure at the City Commission meeting.
Merriss praised and thanked fellow city staff who have been with the city throughout her time in office.
“I have been very fortunate that the community has elected outstanding City Commissioners who have supported innovation, risk-taking and outcomes that further the mission and vision of the City of Decatur,” she said on July 16. “I have also worked with the most enthusiastic, dedicated and experienced public employees in the world.”
Though Merriss may be stepping down from her city government position, she said she plans to continue to exercise her “passion” for local government in part by staying involved in local government professional organizations.
In response to Merriss’ departure, Decatur Mayor Patti Garrett spoke highly of Merriss’ legacy.
“All of us have reaped the benefits of Ms. Merriss’ visionary leadership, her ability to think creatively, and her passion for developing a strong management team,” Garrett said. “She is an innovative thought leader, a model of integrity, and has a unique ability to help the city pursue vibrant community engagement and healthy infrastructure while maintaining strong, conservative fiscal management for the city.”
Under Merriss’ leadership, the city has renovated or rebuilt all city facilities, including city parks. In 2005, the city redesigned the Decatur MARTA Station plaza to make it more pedestrian-friendly. Most notably, the city purchased the 77-acre plot of the United Methodist Children’s home last year.
Merriss reflected on her impact on the city by speaking of her first day as a member of Decatur government. She remembered her oath, which she views as her “personal mission” in local government.
“[The Athenian Oath] in part states, ‘we will transmit this City not only, not less, but greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us,’” Merriss said. “As I approach the end of my career here, I hope that I have accomplished that goal.”
Merriss’ exit has left a gap in Decatur government that the City Commission is proactively trying to fill. At the Aug. 6 City Commission meeting, the Commission approved a $22,000 contract with hiring firm GovHR USA in search of a new City Manager. According to Garrett, the City created a job description using input from the community and other stakeholders about desired characteristics in a future City Manager. The nationwide search will end with GovHR USA providing finalists for the position and the city selecting a new City Manager before the year ends.
Garrett described Merriss’ leadership as “transformative” but acknowledged that a change in leadership will go smoothly in part due to Merriss’ profound effect on the city.
“I think we will continue to see the fruits of Peggy Merriss’ impact on both the short term management and the development of long term visions for the city,” she stated. “At the same time, we are looking forward to the opportunities and insights of a new manager at the helm; we have a superb staff that is set to embrace and continue the excellence, innovative practices and new approaches that the City is known for.”
Even so, Merriss’ dedication to Decatur will continue to have an impact both on the city and herself.
“I am, and will always be, proud of what all of us together have achieved for the City of Decatur.”
Contact the writer, Nayeli Shad, at 44nayeshad@csdecatur.net.
Tags: city commission, city government, city manager, City of Decatur, decatur, garrett, government, mayor, merriss, patti, Patti Garrett, peggy, Peggy merriss, retirement
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Scamp the Tramp wins World's Ugliest Dog contest years after being found as a stray on streets of Compton
PETALUMA, Calif. -- Scamp the Tramp will never win a beauty contest. But he's won an ugly one.
The bug-eyed, dreadlocked pooch took top honors Friday night at the 31st annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest.
Owner Yvonne Morones of Santa Rosa, California, won an appearance with Scamp on the "Today" show, $1,500 in cash, another $1,500 to donate to an animal shelter - and a trophy the size of a Rottweiler.
"He's Scamp the Champ, no longer Scamp the Tramp," Morones told the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat after the victory. "I think the audience saw his beautiful spirit and everything he's given back to the community."
Scamp makes volunteer visits to schoolchildren and a local senior citizens center.
The street dog from Compton was rescued by Morones in 2014 after she spotted him on Pet Finder.
"It was on the way home that I knew I made the right choice," she said in a contest press statement. "There we were, two strangers in a car on the way home to a new start. Bob Marley was playing 'One Love' and I looked over and little Scamp was bobbing his head. It was like he knew he had found his forever home."
Scamp beat out 18 other contestants who showed off their droopy tongues, bowed legs, perpetually confused looks and other strange attributes.
The contestants got to walk the red carpet and preen for adoring fans at Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in the heart of Northern California wine country.
The competition, as they say, was fierce.
Second place went to Wild Thang, a Pekinese with beady eyes and a disturbing tongue, owned by Ann Lewis of Los Angeles.
Third place went to Tostito, a Chihuahua whose damaged ears and droopy tongue make him look like he just stuck his foot into an electrical socket. Tostito, owned by Molly Horgan of Falmouth, Maine, also won the Spirit Award.
This year's People's Choice Award went to Meatloaf, a bulldog mix with protruding teeth owned by Denae Pruner of Sacramento, California.
Everyone knows ugliness is in the eye of the beholder and, to a dog lover, there is no such thing as an uncomely canine. Weird-looking, maybe. Appearance-challenged, perhaps. Or, as owners of ugly dogs like to say, "unique."
Like Willie Wonka, a sweet-natured pit bull abandoned after he was discovered to have a genetic malady that left his legs so bowed he could barely walk.
With a chuckle, publicist Christy Gentry said the competition wasn't just about being ugly.
"Judges are looking for special attributes like hanging tongues, slobber, drool (the more the better). Maybe unusual patches of skin or hair," she explained.
Last year's champion, an English bulldog named Zsa Zsa, with a tongue that hung nearly to the ground, endeared herself to the judges when she sneezed and drooled all over them.
Soon she was headed to New York for national TV appearances. Sadly, Zsa Zsa died about a year ago at age 9.
Another previous winner, Nana, made the cover of an album by the Grateful Dead spinoff band Ratdog.
Organizers say the contest isn't just skin-deep. It's also about bringing attention to the needs of rescue dogs.
Most competitors were previously abandoned or rescued from kill shelters in the U.S., found abandoned on streets or seized from unscrupulous breeders.
"What we're really doing is we're showcasing dogs that have been rescued and adopted and brought into loving homes," Gentry said. "These are sort of spokesdogs for adoption."
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Scholastic Good Standing and Athletics Eligibility
[Advice given to the Intercollegiate Athletics Task Force 3/30/2006]
The Academic Senate is the sole authority empowered to determine the meaning of phrases such as "good academic standing" for all students at the University.
However, the Senate has no authority to interpret NCAA Bylaws controlling the eligibility of student-athletes. Athletics Director Greg Warzecka and Senior Associate Athletic Director Pamela Gill-Fisher have determined that NCAA Bylaw Interpretations do not require student-athletes to be in "good academic standing," notwithstanding the language to that effect in NCAA Operating Bylaws 14.01.2.1, 14.02.5, and 14.4.3.3. Given this determination, CERJ advised that the UC Davis definition of good academic standing (ASR 900-902 and DDR A552) is not relevant because this concept is not being employed in determining eligibility.
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Nation Witnessed 283.37 Million Tonnes of Record Food Grains Production in 2018-19
New Delhi: The nation is anticipated to have generated 283.37 million tonnes of food grains in the period 2018-19, which is 17.62 million tonnes greater than in the past five years (2013-14 to 2017-18). However, production is down by 1.64 million tonnes from last year's food grain production of 285.01 million tonnes. According to the third advance estimate, the country is likely to have a record output of 115.63 million tonnes compared to wheat production of 99.87 million tonnes achieved during 2017-18. The overall food grain production has been down due to fall in the output of coarse grains such as maize, bajra and jowar among others.
There is also a record production of sugarcane at 400.37 million tonnes – higher by 20.46 million tonnes over 2017-18. However, the production of pulses has been down by 8.65% to 23.22 million tonnes from the last year’s production of 25.42 million tonnes. The production of oilseeds stood at 31.42 million tonnes – almost at last year’s level. The output of soybean is 13.74 million tonnes while the rapeseed production is 8.78 million tonnes. Source: Outlook Agriculture, 3 June 2019 If you find this information useful, click on the yellow thumbs up sign under the photo and also share this with your farmer friends using the options given below.
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Generalized fractional derivatives and Laplace transform
Comparative study of fractional Fokker-Planck equations with various fractional derivative operators
Existence and stability results to a class of fractional random implicit differential equations involving a generalized Hilfer fractional derivative
Fahd Jarad 1,, , Sugumaran Harikrishnan 2, , Kamal Shah 3, and Kuppusamy Kanagarajan 3,
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Çankaya University, 06790, Ankara, Turkey
Department of Mathematics, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore-641020, India
Department of Mathematics, University of Malakand, Dir(L), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
* Corresponding author: Fahd Jarad
Received May 2018 Published March 2019
In this paper, the existence, uniqueness and stability of random implicit fractional differential equations (RIFDs) with nonlocal condition and impulsive effect involving a generalized Hilfer fractional derivative (HFD) are discussed. The arguments are discussed via Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorems, Schaefer's fixed point theorems, Banach contraction principle and Ulam type stability. Some examples are included to ensure the abstract results.
Keywords: Random implicit differential equations, generalized Hilfer fractional derivative, existence, uniqueness and stability.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34A08, 34A09; Secondary: 37H10.
Citation: Fahd Jarad, Sugumaran Harikrishnan, Kamal Shah, Kuppusamy Kanagarajan. Existence and stability results to a class of fractional random implicit differential equations involving a generalized Hilfer fractional derivative. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020040
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Posted in Film Reviews on June 29, 2013 by baker
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Film: Martin Scorsese: Hugo (2011)
Posted in Film Reviews on March 5, 2012 by baker
It pains me to say it, but I’m settling into the idea that Martin Scorsese has lost his gift for real filmmaking. Perhaps it’s the sudden popular attention he’s getting after thirty years spent hovering at the margins of mainstream American cinema, making films of tremulous psychological energy and percussive visceral force. Perhaps he is himself settling, into happy old age and a passive enjoyment of soft entertainment, after three decades commanding work from an audience. Whatever the reasons, Scorsese hasn’t challenged us in over a decade. His budgets have gotten bigger, and his use of special effects has taken over heavily from in-camera image-making, but from Gangs of New York through The Aviator, Shutter Island, and now Hugo, his movies have become user-friendly in a way that asks nothing of us anymore but concession to melodramatic spectacle. The Departed, Shine a Light, and No Direction Home have come close to reminding us how good he has been, but their achievements are slight and sporadic next to the wave of pap he’s put out since Bringing Out the Dead, his 13-year-old masterwork and the last full expression of his thunderous gifts. At least there are others. Paul Thomas Anderson continues to work five years between releases, and has never made a bad film; James Gray makes even fewer films and with far less fanfare, but his output is persuasive and original. But it may be time to concede that Scorsese’s done, and sadly watch him drift deeper into burdensome, featherweight stories devoid of the sharp pulse he once seemed unable to avoid.
There is so little to distinguish Hugo from any number of big-budget fairy tales Hollywood seems committed to producing, as from a soda fountain, on a mechanical basis. A few quick beats early on, and one freeze-frame of an eye in the latter half, remind us of the jittery style he once swung with vertiginous force; the rest by far is saccharine to an extent films like Boxcar Bertha, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull (let alone Goodfellas and Casino) reject out of hand. Scorsese used to exhibit a simultaneous love for cinema and deep mistrust of its connivances that lent his work such live-wire naturalism; his movies were bigger than life while embracing life’s harshest contradictions. They were bold, unreal narratives, shivering with violence as an animal response to insecurity and incomprehension. He wasn’t opposed to human attempts to connect; his characters just didn’t know how. Lately Scorsese seems to have gotten self-conscious about this aspect of his work. Casting Leonardo DiCaprio is the least of his concessions to wheezy audience-pleasing (the actor will eternally look 15, and probably always project a brand of actorly commitment that smacks more of earnestness than skill); as a storyteller, he simply doesn’t seem interested in conflict anymore. He’s shifted to pure image-creation of the shallowest emotional depth, cut off from resonance that can’t, as Spielberg once declared, be held in the palm of your hand.
At least he’s always up for a good gimmick – Hugo is a film about the effects of watching films, and with clever 3D and allusions to the machinations of filmmaking itself, he ekes a small running joke out of the rudimentariness of the hand-cranked film camera. He does nothing new with 3D – I don’t yet believe the technology has any intrinsic value in cinema; unlike color or sound, it exists almost exclusively in our visual perception of imagery, not storytelling – but he has fun with it. Sacha Baron Cohen leans so far toward the paired lenses at one point that he seems not only to lean over our heads, but nearly to lean beyond the capacity of 3D to keep working, and our eyes strain to maintain the illusion. And Scorsese isn’t as attuned as James Cameron to the framing limitations imposed by 3D; the effect breaks apart on the edges of too many shots of objects framed just at the cusp. Nevermind the weight of the 3D glasses perched on your nose (in my case, also in front of my own glasses), and the unfortunate side effect that the glasses drain the screen of a good half of its brightness; after a while your brain adjusts to 3D and wearies a little of its demands on the optic nerve. How much does it really add? In Hugo, Scorsese’s equated it with the effect of George Méliès’ film Arrivee d’un train gare de Vincennes, which at the time of its release in 1896 terrified audience members into believing they were about to be smacked by the oncoming locomotive, but we’re a bit more sophisticated than that now; the joke is a once-off Scorsese cashes in repeatedly. I kept waiting for him to find a new dimension in the gimmick, but I’m not sure there’s another one to be found.
Worse, Scorsese is clearly buying wholesale into machinations of Hollywood melodrama. As a human story, Hugo is as steel-framed and shopworn as the (unpaid-off) automaton at its center, a preprogrammed imitator of stock emotions. He’s almost as callous with his wide-eyed child cast as Danny Boyle in Slumdog Millionaire, photographing them for maximum adorability in pursuit of childlike discovery. There’s something chilly and detached about denying child performances their due awkwardness; the act of discovery for children doesn’t resonate for them the way it does in our adult recollection. In the moment, it’s plain and matter-of-fact. Thirty-seven years ago Scorsese gave the adult Travis Bickle greater unself-consciousness than either of these kids, and it lent Taxi Driver a childlike anxiety – one fraught with violence he might have replaced with wonder in Hugo. All the elements are in place: the adult station inspector whose broken body and nearly-ripe spirit makes him shy with the ladies (a fun Sacha Baron Cohen and a totally wasted Emily Mortimer); an aging Méliès forced to confront the awkward reality that innovation garners attention long after its prime (the spitting image in Ben Kingsley, who can do better than required here); a pair of parentless children shuffling chest-high in a mechanical, repressed adult world (Asa Butterfield and Chloe Grace Moretz are fine, upstanding Hollywood child actors). But he plays them all for quick laughs and laborious drama. In his old age, Scorsese shows as much patience for propulsive emotion as fresh commercial directors on their first action feature.
A good friend remarked the other day, wistfully, that Scorsese’s becoming more and more popular the longer he makes films this shallow. I feel a cynical shell forming around me as I accept, with deep regret, that we’ve probably lost a great film artist to the clutches of the marketplace. But I’m unsure whether Scorsese has drifted into or sought out this place of pop worship. It can’t be easy to know you’re making the best films of your generation but constantly lose out in the box office and awards circuit to fluffier work by sillier contemporaries. Has Scorsese known all along that he could be making popular films, and until recently capitulated to the compulsion to wrestle harder? Or is this what happens when you smoke out your demons and drain your soul of introspection? That finally, all of a sudden, dues paid in your distant past, you find yourself respected for your willingness to please? That by itself would be at least understandable if, in the process, challenges gone, his movies weren’t becoming so damned boring to those of us who still want to think.
Film: Tom Hooper: The King’s Speech (2010)
Posted in Film Reviews on March 14, 2011 by baker
How our better critical selves shouldn’t miss the bygone days of The Miramax-Produced Movie: Shakespeare in Love, The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Gangs of New York. Never in American cinema, before or since, has so much concentrated sap and sincerity been injected into our theatrical intake, saturating our brains with high-glucose lies. Miramax got away with it because they lied about cute stuff (orphan children and candy) and niche history (Shakespeare and the Five Corners) instead of catastrophic social issues like disease, war, or famine, and we let them because the trade-off came in the form of confection: films we enjoyed consuming for their harmless sugar rush of Good Feelings or Easy Empathy (or Watered-Down Art, of the likes Scorsese’s been making ever since). Continuing to lament our shortage of taste and discrimination in these glorious times of Miley Cyrus, “American Idol”, and endless movie remakes seems terribly pointless in the face of popular momentum (and we are still getting our There Will be Bloods, Bob Woodward reportage, and Radiohead albums), but there remains in me a calling, like a body demanding nutrients, for richer, healthier art.
2010 was not a fulfilling year for Hollywood cinema, replete as it was with depressing remakes: The Wolfman, Alice in Wonderland, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Clash of the Titans, Robin Hood, The A-Team, The Karate Kid. Potentially wonderful films like The Killer Inside Me somehow failed to develop real depth, and adaptations like Shutter Island and The Ghost Writer, both by directors of formidable skill, collapsed in showy displays of empty style. We got a smattering of interesting but non-threatening films (Winter’s Bone, The Social Network, The Town), but other cultures had to give us Enter the Void, A Prophet, and Lebanon, and National Geographic released the most sophisticated documentary, Restrepo. Into that scene slipped the BBC-Miramax (now The Weinstein Company) lovechild, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, a soft and cuddly happy-weeper that hits all the proper notes, if none of the arresting ones. It’s got a lot of pretty shots in historical settings. Shakespeare quotations. Physiological torment. A loving woman. A best friend forged in the furnace of well-meaning stubbornness. Nazi villains. And a hefty performance by a familiar Brit who’s never shown so much leading-man gravity.
What’s not to love? The King’s Speech is a puppy of a film, bouncy and lovable and too immature to criticize. Colin Firth is quite good, insofar as imitating King George VI’s speech is acting and sudden outbursts of anger are expressive (this is not a criticism; he embodies the part well, but it’s half-formed for a film that wants to be historically significant but lacks the willingness to put aside its comparatively inane drama). David Seidler’s script – evidently based on his own stammering as a child, and built on scenes between the king, his wife the Queen Mother (Helena Bonham-Carter) at his side, and his adorably good-natured therapist (Geoffrey Rush), who’s willing to put up with every one of George’s tantrums because he knows precisely how Seidler will use them to launch their relationship to a more profound level of bourgeois trust – provides a slew of agreeable, simplistic one-liners and English dryness. Hooper throws his camera into the mix with apparent stylistic abandon, as BBC and HBO have been doing for a while now with TV docudramas like Into the Storm and Warm Springs. It’s a sloppy film language, full of ridiculous close-ups, wide-angle Steadicam moves, and off-kilter frames that draw attention to themselves without formal purpose beyond keeping you visually involved, and it further contributes to a growing sense, watching the film, that its whole design is a series of dangled carrots, promising future riches but denying our appetites anything but a range of sweets: some cheap SweetTarts, some dark Godiva, but sugar nonetheless. So a chocolate puppy, then – fine. I could get frustrated with its cynically inept coincidence of Nazi threat with the king’s sudden (and, really, sort of inexplicable) ability to speak, thus providing a “voice” for the (comically rapt) people of England listening to his ultimate speech – but this is, after all, basically a Miramax Movie; its pretenses aren’t worth getting angry over. This is no Slumdog Millionaire.
But nor are they worth lauding. I can understand The King’s Speech being an enjoyable experience – this is the first film ever made that produced simultaneous recommendations from both of my parents – and it seems asinine to criticize the enjoyment of a box of truffles. But good art shouldn’t be exclusively for the young or the pretentious; it exists to keep our brains active and our souls awake, both at the same time. You could watch The King’s Speech half-attentive and get all you need from it; you could half-listen and grasp all it understands about human nature. If I tread carefully now, it’s because the film is just not particularly bad – but I, for one, thirst for much more than it provides. I wish I weren’t, but I am disappointed in its shortcomings. It leaves an uncomfortable aftertaste of having been manufactured for my entertainment only, of parts that have worked in like-minded films before. I would have preferred a dramatically flimsier film of harder material, a less amusing film with more guts to examine a man who became king at a time of war, and physically couldn’t talk about it. What frustration there had to have been in him, what inarticulate self-hatred, and what sense of helplessness as a force of such indomitable ego began to unleash itself across Europe. The King’s Speech stops desperately short of seeing these things with clarity, limiting most of its running time to relatively superficial family relations and skimming lightly over historical dilemma in its last half hour. At what should have been the story’s dramatic apex – George’s speech as England goes to war with Germany – the film gives us not one, not two, but three thank-you’s from the king to his therapist – that being, of course, the greater of the scene’s dramas. It’s the safer, smaller, more easily digestible choice, and there’s no danger of leaving the theater disconcerted by cacophonous human dilemma.
It’s probably disingenuous to level criticism solely at The Weinstein Company for The King’s Speech. They’re distributing the film in America; they didn’t make it (what changes were made after acquisition, I certainly couldn’t say). Hell, Miramax in the 1990s and early 2000s acquired or made a swath of intelligent, challenging films like The Crying Game, Pulp Fiction, and City of God. The wiser observation might be that, whether a studio put it together or not, the film has been made with studious attention to tried-and-true expectations of what ought to sell (an historical drama about speech, for God’s sake): the sweeter an elixir, the better. Weinstein, the marketing geniuses, bought it up and ran with it. Everyone’s seeing it, recommending it, showering it with affection and awards. Movies and their makers can certainly benefit from conformity. I’m just less sure that we can. Why aren’t more of us really thirsty, dammit?
Film: David Fincher: The Social Network (2010)
Posted in Film Reviews on January 16, 2011 by baker
At the very top of his game, David Fincher handles film rhythm as well as anyone working in popular cinema, very often while juggling tricky dialogue scenes that play in tandem with his style. You’re meant to notice both at once, the story and the way he tells it, and asked to look in the gap between them for something deeper. Zodiac is a masterful exercise, so carefully modulated as a narrative and so artfully executed as a work of cinema craft, that from the tiny visual grace notes in the corners of the frame to the consistency of its dark, ambiguous mood, you feel a petrifying relentlessness, an odd wear and tear on your psyche that you can’t evade any more than his characters can. Time seems so specific and events so immediate that both bear down on you with the weight of compounded anxiety. That James Vanderbilt’s script eventually feels careening and overambitious actually seems, in retrospect, the most articulate way to emphasize – albeit in its heavy-handed way – the crushing myopia of obsessive, self-imposed pressure; when we’re fixated, we just can’t see the whole picture.
For a director so given to the precision of the moment, Fincher has a bewildering gift for seeing his films from above, in their entirety. We forgive a lot of roughness in films when their makers give us things we can chew on (too many half-baked, overwrought scenes fill Black Swan before Aronofsky unleashes his skin-crawlingly ecstatic final half hour), but we don’t get a lot from Fincher that doesn’t seem to be a sharply conceived piece of the mechanism (whatever you feel the mechanism actually accomplishes). They’re so controlled that his films run a high risk of steely calculation, and some of them succumb – The Game and Panic Room abandon coarse human frailty for mathematical dramatic impact. But even Fincher’s failures are imbued with such a complete mood, flawless in visual elocution and cloaked in thick, rich soundscapes. I’d be the first to question his power as a cinematic artist, but as a grubby-hands manipulator of audiovisual effect, he has only equals.
It’s possible, though, that he’s getting a little too good for his own good. Since Zodiac, his films have felt disturbingly familiar, less visually inventive and more grounded in editing effect built on performance beats (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has the same gimmicky trick up its sleeve for well over two hours; it’s running on expressive autopilot from the first scene on). This shouldn’t be a criticism, but what was exciting about Fincher in the ’90s was his unpredictability, the sense that his camera knew no kinetic bounds and therefore had the imminent capacity to jolt you out of complacency. This was also the source of his comparative silliness, for until Zodiac, I don’t think he took the force of his talents all that seriously. Se7en is clever, mischievous, and curiously in love with the evil at its core – Fincher doesn’t plumb it for resonance so much as hand you your own chilled soul on the way out by virtue of having gone there; the film contains not a trace of optimism. It took me years to appreciate Fight Club‘s blood-slick black comedy – but that had more to do with my letting go (a bit) of my pretensions of Tarkovskian grandeur than recognizing depth in Fincher’s tomfoolery. I was right the first time; I could like it anyway later. But with Zodiac, Fincher became a complete filmmaker, marrying his storytelling skills with a mature cinematic expression that lent the film overwhelming accumulative weight.
The Social Network had an off-putting ring to it for me before it even came out; its conception as shown in ads and trailers seemed rooted in the same self-aware austerity that made Button something of a slog – a quietly moving one at times, but a slog nonetheless. What’s clear about it from the start is that Fincher knows exactly how to frame his actors in conventional dramatic style, and he punches up the works this time with an aggressive editing strategy predicated on action within the frame; The Social Network is a frenzy of juxtapositional uppercuts, smacking you through scenes as behaviorally stylized as Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay. It’s a fairly ingenious way to convey Sorkin’s implication that this is the way young people communicate: in staccato stabs, with information pared down to its most pungent essentials. It’s Fincher’s equivalent of checking Facebook status, or Tweeting – how are you now, and now, and now – and leaving out the moments in between. The texture of The Social Network is entirely punctuation; that it holds up as a cogent narrative as well is a testament to Fincher’s astonishing commitment to building physical performances with his actors almost purely for the sake of film form.
And for all its Sorkian wordlove – which grows tiresome to my ears, but it’s definitely a worldview, or at least a consistent affect – there are sequences in The Social Network that Fincher executes with a film purist’s elegance: Mark Zuckerberg’s opening-sequence huddle-jog across campus; the Henley Boat Race on the Thames, shot with a perversely shallow depth of field that gives the sequence the appearance of a miniature (underscoring, perhaps, its unsatisfactory taint for the Winklevoss twins). As always, Fincher reveals his gorgeous taste in sound and music, letting Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score lend a discordant hum to the proceedings; the music feels particularly right for a film about social reconstitution, which neither Fincher nor his composers sentimentalize. All this stuff is pretty wonderful, reminding us that Fincher perfected his craft on short-form music videos; the trench warfare undone by the clock running in reverse, in Benjamin Button, has the same wistful beauty, and shows a warmer side of Fincher that Alien3 and Se7en never predicted. He’s a much older man now – he will turn 50 next year – and seems drawn these days to material that rhapsodizes, in one form or another, on time. Not a lot of American filmmakers bother. I find it to be one of Fincher’s more endearing qualities.
He’s thought his way through Sorkin’s script, and gets pitch-perfect Finchery performances out of Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield as his business associate Eduardo Saverin, and Justin Timberlake as Saverin’s superstar replacement – but if the film leaves a strange aftertaste, the Timberlake element seems to be a clue. In that character, played by that pop phenom, lies The Social Network’s limitations – perhaps not as a film (quite), but as the subject for a Hollywood film. The film chronicles the numbing popularity of a social hypocrite’s technological Noah’s Ark: come with us, earthly beings, into the future, where friendship has nothing to do with personal connection and everything to do with our fail-safe server. Your God is your laptop, and ours the billions in revenue your willful hive mentality shall bestow on us. I think Fincher’s drawn to the gap in personal relationships Zuckerberg’s creation encourages – he throws the clothing brand on Zuckerberg in the opening sequence, and simultaneously raises the second issue at the heart of The Social Network: that it’s all about identifying with pop iconography. Timberlake is not just an actor in the film; he’s a presence we align with as a character, but he’s freighted to the brim with his own personal popness, lending a persona to Sean Parker no other actor could have brought.
I’m certain Fincher knows this, but I’m less certain he’s thought beyond it, that as a moral creature he’s made an assessment of The Social Network and felt willing to suggest the degree to which virtual innovation has supplanted our connectivity as humans. He seems rather to identify with Zuckerberg, and stops at the legal battles between Zuckerberg and Saverin. To be sure, he raids the depositions for their emotional cache, but I don’t sense Fincher thudding up against the inexorable decline of personal exchange. He seems to feel Facebook legitimately self-justifies as a business enterprise, and the casualties include the wimps whose sense of dejection stems directly their inability to keep up. This is the new world order, bummer or not. It may be nothing more than a difference of temperament, but I can’t stop at that. We used to have to work a little harder to commune, and it kept us on the hook to maintain our relationships. Facebook encourages keeping in touch but curtails our social role as individuals, asking us to be ourselves but requiring us to present our uniqueness as total conformity: not who are you, but what groups do you belong to, who do you like too – and can I be your virtual friend? It’s obvious that, as a commercial filmmaker (Hollywood being another locus of social networking), Fincher’s bound to an economic code of ethics that discourages reflexive self-criticism. Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe that the man who traversed such a canyon of interpersonal atrophy in Zodiac, regarding it with the kind of clean objectivity that let oxygen into the story’s latent epic breadth, doesn’t see the same symptoms in the insatiable obsessiveness of social networking. I think he’s left a dimension out of The Social Network that might have made it overwhelmingly hard to take.
That he’s made the film the way he has, then, and that it’s garnered so much attention as a commentary on our social status, seems to say a great deal about the direction Fincher’s headed as a filmmaker. He nearly won an Oscar for directing Benjamin Button, a comparatively lazy but more broadly appealing follow-up to Zodiac, and will all but surely be up for another this year. The Social Network strikes a balance between his exacting nature as a director (he does dozens of takes of relatively simple setups) and his obvious commercial bent as an industry figure, and Fincher’s halt just shy of implicating the film’s own genesis in the subtle but tangible degradation of many things personal hints at a complacency I’d hoped he’d transcend. It’s a harsh judgment, I know, but at a certain point three years ago David Fincher looked like a wrecking ball in pop filmmaking, threatening to smash so many of its trend-setting pretensions, even the ones he’d contributed to early on in his career. Jake Gyllenhaal and a few wayward scenes aside, Zodiac had tremendous guts to be about an untrendy, unsexy, uncomforting human truth: that our responses to pressure over time can change us in ways we can’t foresee, to a degree we can’t reconcile, and with aftershocks we’ll just have to make the best of. Zodiac was haunting. The Social Network is merely pleasing, and Fincher’s next film will be The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – a remake of a 2009 Swedish adaptation of a novel that’s become an American bestseller. No pop demands there.
Film: Joel and Ethan Coen: True Grit (2010)
Posted in Film Reviews on January 3, 2011 by baker
Joel and Ethan Coen, bless their erratic souls, are as capable of jaw-dropping masterpieces (No Country for Old Men, The Man Who Wasn’t There) as bafflingly empty films with an excess of style at the expense of substance (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski). They seem to know exactly what they’re doing – there’s nothing sloppy about their craftsmanship, nor is it fevered in the way Blood Simple or Raising Arizona were, twenty-plus years ago – they just seem uninterested in charging every film of theirs with the same spark. Nevermind the general letdown that would have inevitably followed No Country, a film carved out of hardscrabble and granite-certain characters; Burn After Reading, for all its amusement, barely seemed to be trying, running instead on the camp generated by its cast of Hollywood insiders and the occasional beat of Coenesque flippancy (a certain incident with Brad Pitt and a handgun comes to mind). They followed up with their second work of art in three years – A Serious Man is their understated epic, full in theme and complete in mood, a warm, purposeful cubbyhole of a film that’s as inexplicable as Lebowski but lacks its pretenses of pointlessness.
It’s not a total shock, then, but it’s hard to know what the hell to make of True Grit. I’m not familiar with either Charles Portis’ novel or Henry Hathaway’s 1969 film with John Wayne; the story itself is completely new to me. Whatever it has been in previous incarnations, the Coens have made a strikingly dumb film out of this stuff, full of repetitive bickering that leads nowhere and has nothing to do with the film’s core dilemma: a 14-year-old girl’s vengeful bent. Somehow the film never really takes off. Its opening shot is sort of lovely, in standard-issue Coen showoffery, as the front steps of the house where the girl’s father is murdered fades slowly in from darkness. I kept waiting for this to develop, perhaps as a self-contained, ephemeral vignette, in the way they open A Serious Man, but they do nothing with it – the opening is its own moment, abandoned stylistically thereafter. The film grows visually dull fast, monotonously shot with heads talking in a silly Western patois that I’m told is straight out of the novel, but comes across as another of the Coens’ bad habits: like Mel Brooks or Will Ferrell, they often think funky names and dialects are intrinsically funny. I suppose this is a matter for debate, but for me it doesn’t sustain; their frequent one-liners often kill their films’ cinematic potential. We’re not allowed to find a calamitous stakeout funny – Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn has to tell us: “Well, that didn’t pan out.” The Coens invested so much sociological perceptiveness in the single line “Woah, differences!” in No Country that I missed the rest of the scene under my laughter; we’re beyond their attempts at humor in True Grit.
I couldn’t understand him half the time, but Bridges himself, as always, is just fine, utterly committed to Cogburn’s physical filth, one functioning eye, and crushed-glass growl. But he can’t carry this film. He’s not on screen enough. The bulk of the film belongs to Hailee Steinfeld as Matty. She’s also fine, able to bang out the meaty dialogue, but the character as conceived by the Coens is so much one of their own clichés – the fast-talking wisecracker, playing second billing to the movie star lead (Jennifer Jason Leigh to Tim Robbins in The Hudsucker Proxy, John Goodman to Bridges in Lebowski, Holly Hunter to Nicolas Cage in Arizona) – that it needs another, human, dimension to play itself through. It never gets one. Neither does Matt Damon’s LaBoeuf. The Coens consciously play to their own stereotypes, but so rarely transcend them. Only Barry Pepper, as the outlaw Lucky Ned, manages to eek past their campy limitations; he’s almost invisible behind Ned’s drawn eyes, chewed lips, and disastrous teeth, and he barks and roars with a ferocity more becoming Ned’s rage than the Coens’ imposed performance style.
I’ve often found the Coens’ visual approach to be a little clunky, a little too wrapped up in the mechanics of clean images in juxtaposition, but in films like No Country, A Serious Man, and Fargo they used characters in landscapes both natural and man-made as evocations of temperament, psychology, and geographical sociology; all three regularly play into Fargo‘s snowblown prairies and its tiny islands of human depravity. Those levels don’t even step into view in True Grit; the Coens frame heads so that they can deliver lines, occasionally pulling back to fit more characters in the shot. That’s it. The few shots that stretch for iconography do so in ways not unique to these characters: the silhouetted rider against the landscape, in slow motion; it’s out of the opening credits of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly at best, but to what effect? To reference The Western Film, or The Standard Western Theme of Isolation? Because I know they’re capable of it, I kept waiting for the Coens to take this all a step further and make it their quirky own – as they did Billy Bob Thornton’s wafting cigarette smoke in The Man Who Wasn’t There, a noir cliché they turned into a physical extension of Ed Crane’s evanescence – but the shots come and go, stillborn as the one that opens the film. They seem to have half-conceived True Grit as a motion picture, as little more than a delivery device for words.
And this seems to be enough for many people. The audience I sat with laughed quite a bit, at lines I thought unsophisticated and uninspired. And at risk of releasing the cynical kraken, I have to wonder: did they laugh because they really found this stuff amusing, or were they simply in the mindset to laugh through a Coen brothers film, and willing to accept less for their laughter? For all its vapidity, The Big Lebowski has a staggering following – yes, there are good lines it, and yes, Jeff Bridges inhabits the Dude with effortless conviction, but what kind of film comedy is it? There’s no unity, nothing it springs from but a pre-existing well of self-conscious shallowness that the Coens – and, in like form, Brooks and Ferrell – milk for every built-in drop. I’m not sure Brooks or Ferrell ever had stronger material in them, but Joel and Ethan Coen have made three powerhouse films of thundering emotional resonance in the last ten years alone; they can do so, so, so much better than this, and still be funny as hell.
Immersion: Public Speaking (2010) and Enter the Void (2009)
Posted in Film Reviews on November 21, 2010 by baker
“The basic element of cinema, running through it from its tiniest cell, is observation.” -Andrei Tarkovsky
Two films this week grabbed me by the shoulder, eased me into a sitting position, and held me there – sometimes against my will, sometimes just to keep me from floating away. They’re completely different films on every level except one: their willingness to establish a firm immersive style and stick with it all the way, narrative clarity be damned. Neither is really about a story anyway, but about the act of watching – a wholly different intent, and one that demands not your ability to piece the strands together or follow character arc, but to let yourself be submerged in your own powers of observation. In the hands of commanding filmmakers, the reward therein is an infinitely stronger cinematic experience, because it allows for your own responses while you’re watching. When these kinds of films are over, there’s no discussion of what happened, or what it all meant; if you’ve got any sensitivity to cinematic flow at all, you made little discoveries of your own the whole time.
That said, the two films in question couldn’t possibly operate with more divergent mechanisms. Martin Scorsese’s Public Speaking – a series of interlaced interviews with Fran Lebowitz – is about wit and language; both wash over you at breakneck speed, and not always simultaneously. Comprised purposefully of talking heads, it lets Lebowitz’ frizzy dowager face do most of the visual work, turning it into a glacial landscape we watch as from a great height, her lacerating speech spilling off like walls of ice into her ever-present glass of water. Coming from a filmmaker so noted for his visual deftness, Public Speaking has a startling stillness to it, but little by little the efficacy of Lebowitz’ jolting wit – often made with the right, few, words; just as frequently made with their total absence – takes over, its breathless trajectory a fountain of pure linguistic dexterity that carries you along with or without your consent. That she so frequently articulates truths we feel, in the moment she says them, that of course we knew – that Obama’s presidency, to paraphrase for example, needs to happen so that it can become a belated part of our history instead of our present – sparks the sort of self-aware amusement that causes us to miss the next two or three things she says. Scorsese plays on that, building a film of bewildering accumulative profundity we can’t keep up with, and shouldn’t. To paraphrase Altman, it’d be awfully disappointing if we got everything out of this film the first time we saw it – it’d mute the joy of experiencing it again.
Scorsese knows there’s nothing stylistic he can bring to Public Speaking that won’t distract from Lebowitz; aside from its whitewater rush of a pace, dictated and propelled by Lebowitz’s own delivery, there’s nothing distinct about it as a film. But it’s light years ahead of something like Inside Job, Charles Ferguson’s ambitious but cinematically puerile agitprop, which seems pointlessly stuck, as a film, in 1988 (I think it’s reaching for a Wall Street-era feel…silly shame). And for the first time since No Direction Home, Scorsese seems back on track as an artist, after a decade of tepid fiction work that belies his stunning oeuvre of the previous three decades. He knows to engage Lebowitz as a subject at her own level, to let her do the talking, to let the film be about nothing but her performance (it is a performance, as the President’s public persona is also a performance). Perhaps to highlight this, as well as to nod at Lebowitz the New York loner-philosopher, he includes clips from his own Taxi Driver (she owns and operates the same model car, albeit white). He often frames her interviews with a listener – usually himself – at the edge of the shot, providing Lebowitz with an audience inside the film; he also cuts to alternate angles on the same interview to complement her ever-shifting tone. But this is basic stuff. Scorsese made the film for HBO – it airs Monday night at 10 – and lets it be, as a film, quite beautifully basic.
Gaspar Noe, on the other hand, seems unable to let an uninflected shot exist in his films; Enter the Void washes over you with the patient flow of drugged consciousness, the smallest details as crystalline as the largest. It snatches you by the throat in its opening credits, which snap and smash across the screen with little attention to whether you can actually read them, and launches you into the film’s relentless point-of-view subjectivity, half-cracked on visual stimulus. That the film spends its first few minutes watching the walls of a Tokyo apartment through the stoned eyes of its expat protagonist – including an extensive deep-sea-ish heroin high, complete with swarming tentacles of pure light – tells you right away what Noe cares about as a communicator: uninhibited sensation. You realize very quickly that as a narrative vehicle, Enter the Void won’t give you much of a roadmap; it’s designed to plunge you straight into the sluggish, half-functioning mind of a very wrung-out young man who, as it turns out, doesn’t have very long to live – and then the film takes off.
The Tokyo setting has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with light: neons, strobes, fluorescents: reflected, refracted, dim, and blinding. Noe’s control element is the human optic nerve. It’s the one thing you can count on, the filter by which the rest of this film makes sense, and his fidelity to it is astounding. You’re usually watching a direct point of view, the camera substituting for human vision (including quick dips to black, simulating a blink), but a few minutes in to the film, we’re shot through the chest, crumple on the floor of a filthy toilet stall, and die, the light gradually fading to nothing. Thereafter, Noe pulls up and away from the dead body, and the film runs the risk of becoming obvious in its floating-ghost perspective, but Noe thinks further: he starts to alternate these with a shot taken from immediately behind his protagonist’s head, as we watch scenes from his short life play out in front of him. The device is sort of heartbreakingly felt out – when you think about your life, you do place yourself in your memories, if not as an actual figure then as a shapeless specter looming over them. Noe just visualizes the specter; the perspective is unfailingly consistent.
This stuff is pure cinema, endlessly able to communicate with image alone. But Noe stumbles here as well, sticking so closely to his visual strategy that he winds up writing dully obvious fragments of dialogue to fill in the plot, lines that have no business in a film this ambitious. And in delineating a childhood whose innocence was to be irrevocably lost, Noe resorts to dead-and-buried clichés of familial happiness: on the beach with dad, in the bath with mom. It’s also clear that English isn’t his first language – his lead actor suffers from tone-deaf verbal delivery. But his lead actress, Paz de la Huerta, who plays the man’s sister, is a relevation to me. Noe demands unreasonably physical and emotional nakedness from his actors, and that he’s willing to take his film just as far is the only reason it isn’t, in this case, gratuitous. De la Huerta shows no fear, as she’s all but raped by her boss and then told of her brother’s death in the same scene. Her vulnerability in these scenes and others is sort of terrifying, and it lets the film float past its latent corniness (the brother’s specter at one point sinks straight into the head of a man fucking her; for a few moments he’s fucking his sister). Noe’s craftsmanship is immaculate and usually original, but he badly needed de la Huerta’s grounding performance to lend it the emotional core it might have otherwise lacked.
His last film had me deeply worried about his future as a filmmaker. 2002’s Irreversible is as aggressive as anything I’ve ever seen, purporting to be about the deep romantic bond between its leads but pummeling them, and us, with astonishing physical and emotional brutality. A rape scene lasts a solid, uncut ten minutes; another character has his arm broken backward at the elbow. Noe lays an almost imperceptibly high-pitched tone over the first half hour of the film, an effect that leads to nausea. He does all of this with great purpose and flawless technique, but I’m not sure there’s a sound point to it – at some juncture along a narrative this volatile, the sensual excess overwhelms any subtlety the rest of the film may be striving for. What I got out of it is that nothing beats love quite as viciously as a fire extinguisher to the head in a fit of vengeful rage. Thankfully, Enter the Void is a very different beast. It has a similar attitude to graphic frankness – at one point we are subject to sex from the inside out – but Noe takes this stuff seriously as valid cinematic subject matter, and lets sequences play with loving attention to duration for its own experiential sake. He also laces the film with a roiling, interminable soundscape; the film is an intoxicating thing to behold.
In a classical sense, neither Public Speaking nor Enter the Void amounts to much of a film. The former has little arc, no dramatic tension, and no character development that leads anywhere, and it’s got a relatively specious approach to its own social value – but then, so does its subject. Enter the Void would probably be a better film if it had abandoned its classical pretenses. They’re not its strongest attributes, and only distract from its ultra-immersive narrative style. What I love about both films is their willingness to ignore what must have occurred to someone in their respective productions as reliable storytelling – if not also good business sense – in favor of a bolder aspiration to pull you into your own consciousness for a while, and let you wander in whatever’s down there. In an odd way, I’ve spent little time since either screening reflecting on it. Both are absorbing original works full of new wonders for me. They left me ample room to think as I watched; I left the theater already changed by them, and in recent days have been wallowing in their ether. One cold truth is that not many films can do that.
Film: Ben Affleck: The Town (2010)
Ben Affleck’s technical expertise isn’t very sophisticated, but his skill at coaxing and allowing his actors to play their parts loosely, without affect, is extraordinary. It’s not something I expected out of him before his first film, Gone Baby Gone – but in retrospect probably should have. His earlier parts, in Dazed and Confused and Good Will Hunting, exhibit an effortless proclivity toward naturalism; he didn’t always get there, but it’s clear he’s always had an assured sense of comic timing and delivery, and an understated approach to drama that guys like Michael Bay and Kevin Smith careful weaned him away from. He won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 for Hollywoodland, playing Superman star George Reeves as a self-conscious, self-serious actor consigned to a life on the dramatic B-list, and not badly (though hardly revelatorily). And then he made Gone Baby Gone the next year, out of the blue, with a slew of fine performers doing some of their best work: brother Casey and Amy Ryan, veterans Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris. It’s clear he buoyed his limited craftsmanship by bringing on Braveheart and The Thin Red Line cinematographer John Toll and Heat and The Insider editor William Goldenberg, but he gave them wonderful touches to shoot and edit, and the film works. It’s not art, but it’s not dismissible.
The Town is not much different, in spite of hiring Paul Thomas Anderson’s cinematographer and editor (Robert Elswit and Dylan Tichenor) – but that could be the best sign that as a filmmaker, Affleck’s got a deft hand and the self-confidence not to have to rely on his collaborators. The script, which he wrote along with Aaron Stockard sharing credit with Peter Craig, is a little lumpy; it doesn’t have the holistic self-perspective to complete the larger social intimations it clearly wants to (a scene at an Narcotics Anonymous meeting seems to want to implicate society for its destructive ills, but The Town doesn’t revisit this territory). But its scenes between Affleck, as bank robber, and Rebecca Hall, as the bank manager he and his crew briefly took hostage, show an unhurried desire to develop real intimacy between its characters. Not necessarily sexual intimacy, but human connectivity; the film is earnest in a way that risks ham and cheese in its sincerity, and nearly fails, but I admire Affleck’s willingness to lend his film an inviting change of conventional pace – even if it leaves the impression that the script might have more fully developed other parts that fell victim to running time.
Whatever happened, The Town is magnificently consistent on the level of tone and performance. Affleck gives precious little back story, but he doesn’t need to; his actors embody their characters with enough unself-conscious tact and conviction to get past the suggestions of personal motivation back story provides. Affleck commands of his cast the kind of simplicity and certainty that self-justifies – you feel how these people live, how they smell, why they’ve got the attitudes they have. They come across so well-formed that it’s almost disappointing when the plot takes over, as it sometimes does, and reminds you that you’re watching a dramatic construct in need of (or just desiring) twists and resolution. And it may be Affleck’s comparative lack of directorial invention that keeps the film moving. He asks nothing more of The Town than that it work, as a suitably-stretched canvas: a comfortable palette for the purer slashes of color and texture he’s aiming for.
I’ll be honest, there are strokes in this film I found mesmerizing: Blake Lively’s hypnotically carnal sexuality, abandoning herself to need with a druggie’s ease; Jeremy Renner’s focused aggression, sitting somewhere behind his soft bulldoggish eyes, that flashes without warning as easily as his fraternal charm. Affleck and Jon Hamm, as the FBI agent pursuing the four robbers, are no less appropriately subdued, but they’re not as impressive, perhaps because their characters have duller edges to them; The Town is a showcase for the little things that elucidate real character, the switches that channel hot and cold blood (it’s nice to see ever-present chin stubble that doesn’t shout action hero as much as Boston-boy style). Weirdly, Rebecca Hall has a very slight presence, for so crucial a character. She doesn’t seem to be doing anything wrong, but it might be yet another measure of the film’s strengths that the one character so compelled to behave according to plot development (hers is the emotional core, the character most directly afflicted by the bad behavior exhibited throughout) is the one with the least amount of behavioral freedom. Unlike the rest of the cast, Hall has little time to riff or immerse; she’s got too many lines that turn the plot, too many beats that need to impact other characters, or be impacted by them.
As a dramatic vehicle, this is just efficient stuff, generating small waves of tension and moving right along. It’s not the sort of film that will garner much attention, because most discussion of pop filmmaking resides at the level of story: what happens, and who does what. The Town doesn’t have the fervor of Michael Mann’s Heat, the gravitas of James Gray’s We Own the Night, or the sheer audacity of Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects, but it does have a quiet confidence that its textures are worthwhile film substance. I like its way with dialogue: witty but not writerly, sharp but not impervious to thoughtful delivery. It’s a film not to get too wrapped up in, but to let wash over you, once or twice: a pleasant day at the beach, if never a Mediterranean getaway. We tend to remember both, for different reasons.
Steviepants.
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” -Oscar Wilde
If technical invention were the paradigm of cinematic genius, there would be no greater living filmmaker than Steven Spielberg. On the level of pure kinematics, he’s got an eye for graceful two-dimensional motion that, at its best, rivals anything by Kubrick, Scorsese, Bertolucci, Ophuls, or Hitchcock – and he’s usually slicker than any of them. His films are extravagantly resourceful, employing the most effortless of technicians at (apparently) any cost, and he puts them to use showcasing a singular, identifiable gift for screen craft stunning first for its consistency, if not also for its visceral effect. The strange irony of his evident widespread influence across the industry, from guys like Michael Bay and Danny Boyle to Christopher Nolan and Ridley Scott, is that his craft is unfailingly disciplined, devoid of the find-it-in-the-editing slapdashery typical of these others. You can always feel Spielberg thinking his way through his films, piecing the shots together as he shoots, wasting no time with empty transitions, imprecise frames, or a half-assed visual conceit that never quite manifests in the final film. His is rigorous, conscientious precision from start to finish.
And from such a technical wizard, his work with actors is frequently fresh and expansive. They will always be bound to Spielberg’s laborious scripts, which usually suffer from browbeaten plot development to the point of overwrought, uni-dimensional characterization. But – and this may be a function, now, after 40 years, of the comparative reverence attached to being in a Spielberg picture – he often gets more expressive performances out of his actors than they’ve shown before. Who knew Liam Neeson had an Oskar Schindler in him, or Tom Hanks a Captain Miller, or Leonardo DiCaprio a Frank Abagnale? These are not particularly subtle or uncanny performances, nor are they great dramatic leaps for these actors – Spielberg’s achievements tend to fall further along the preexisting trajectories of his collaborators, not on brand new arcs unforeseen but by a master artist. He sees potential, and owns it as a sports team manager or a political operative. Or a magician, in the realist sense.
His deficiencies as an artist are precisely those of a magician: the illusion works fine until outgrown by ambition. Lately, that’s been a problem for him. David Copperfield used to put on a great show flying across a stage, but then he’d add unbearably operatic music, and move to it, and catch a falcon on his gloved hand…and the illusion bloated with self-conscious pomp and dissolved in its own showmanship. Rather than simply manipulating us, he couldn’t help but remind us that we were being manipulated, and how much in awe of him we ought to feel for it. To his credit, Spielberg rarely turns the spotlight back on himself, content these last years to let it settle on Tom Cruise or Janusz Kaminski’s electrifying cinematography (no cameraman in Hollywood gets better lighting packages, or greater freedom to grease the frame with glint and sheen). He’s visibly spellbound by the act of yarn-spinning, pushing his camera through space with the manic vim of a film school student, drunk on exposing film to his imagery – it’s intoxicating to watch, as beautiful shot cuts to beautiful shot with effortless vertigo. But then he’ll start to take himself seriously, and the whole thing sours under the pressure of becoming a finer wine than the maker has the grapes for. It’s an excruciating effect. Munich has ambition to spare from its opening sequence, juggling dramatic tension with sociopolitical pathos as a group of Palestinian terrorists bursts in on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 games, after having first been helped over the locked gate by the cocky, innocent American team. Muscular and relentless, the film demands quickly to be taken as a serious entertainment – but the two don’t gel, and Spielberg can’t decide which he’s making. His juggle becomes a series of trades: the fun ball in the air one second, and the serious, complex ball the next. Munich is just too slick to convey the sober dilemma of governments sending its citizens after each other for causes too deeply ingrained in history and cultural identity to ever resolve themselves through the blunt means at hand. Would the film be more abominable if Spielberg had settled on making an entertainment, gutting it of resonance on purpose? Or is his inability to hold his style at arm’s length in the service of tougher subject matter a permanent liability for him as an artist?
He didn’t used to have this problem. Spielberg cut his teeth on giddily fun films of marginal substance. Jaws is a featherweight drama made with mesmerizing skill, digging into specific fears with a chainsaw and letting up only at the last possible moment, to our great relief. Close Encounters of the Third Kind exchanges fear for awe, allowing itself the mysterious childlike simplicity of believing in a benevolent intelligence beyond our own. Yes, the belief itself is mysterious and childlike – it sidesteps the adult anxiety that we’re probably isolated, and that if not, we couldn’t possible fathom our celestial neighbors. Raiders of the Lost Ark gives up fear and awe and wallows in sheer infantile sound and fury, in a gloriously dizzying film of visceral-comic energy. There’s so much room in these films for the unadulterated joy of well-executed screen craft. They were such buoyant entertainments to have grown up watching – I remain terrified of deep water and enthralled by outer space, and not so far below the surface, I am still Indiana Jones. Because I was a child when I began to love these childlike movies.
His ’80s films are a bit confusing. They betray, simultaneously, a more complex sense of Spielberg’s own identity as a storyteller and less self-assurance about how to handle it. I think E.T. takes the adult world too seriously to give in to the illusions of youth, even if Spielberg’s still smitten with them. He believes in the pain of adult circumstances, in divorce and responsibility, but also that an adorable alien can make children’s bikes fly across the moon; between these irreconcilable worlds is a sickly-sweet ocean of syrup that Spielberg doesn’t know how to traverse, or acknowledge. His craft is by now sugary without parallel, but it’s becoming more and more in the service of stories of emotional or historical weight too meaty for him: The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Always. He counters with a treacly portrayal of human emotion in these films that kills the fun his filmmaking desperately wants to have.
But then he tried a new tack, and he’s been building on it since. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is sort of a masterpiece: a gutsy, balls-out series of action sequences hung on masculine tension, in the form of the core father-son relationship (between themselves, and with the same woman) as well as with its treatment of Nazism. Less able to snub Nazis as ineffectual, as he did in Raiders, Spielberg presents them here as cock-waving opportunists, as eager for glory as Jones & Jones and just as blitheringly male. He makes the one female figure a ravishing, conniving temptress, lets most of the men fuck her, and watches their downfall as she fucks them all right back. It’s perhaps Spielberg’s first foray into adult relationships – complete with the wisdom to chuckle over them. Last Crusade is one of his funniest, brawniest films, and I don’t think I’m alone in thinking he let the title become a joke twenty years later when he released the fourth Indiana Jones film.
The ’90s picked up here, with the darkness of Hook and Jurassic Park, but somewhere in here – ostensibly at the suggestion of Billy Wilder – Spielberg decided to make Schindler’s List. In many ways it’s a complete, and very adult, departure from anything he’d ever done; it’s fair to believe he’d grown up enough to know he could leave much of two decades of solid craftsmanship behind, and take mature advantage of the rest. Steven Zaillian’s script, read alone, is a weird thing, full of awkward, pointed dialogue and obvious transitions, but Spielberg transcends its sillier contrivances with a bold and unshowy visual style, a suggestion of historical scale, and a treatment of 1940s Poland that’s creepily enigmatic – Kaminski’s black-and-white photography aside, Spielberg uses sound – street noise, music, spoken dialects – with an unaffected naturalism he’d used but never shown a lot of trust in in the past. Schindler’s List immediately feels haunted, as Polish Jews arrive in Krakow on trains that will eventually take them back out to their deaths. Spielberg meanders through these sequences with supreme confidence; the world he creates seems to expand in every direction, his camera free to look where it wants – there will be something to see. He adopts a handheld approach and warms to it instantly; his style takes on an articulate ease it’s never had before, in sequences such as the ghetto liquidation, which he intercuts with a speech by the demonic commandant Goeth – every cut, every beat, every frame seems fully, willfully intended, and flows with consummate cinematic intelligence. This is stuff to learn filmmaking by. Where he falters is in his treatment of the Jews themselves, and this may be less his fault than, again, in his searing ambition. How to treat a mass of people, historically? Conventional narrative wisdom provides the masses with cases-in-point, characters whose experiences are less unique to them as individuals than to all. But it has the effect of making all the Jews – and Schindler’s Jews in particular – come across as subservient innocents, decent ciphers every one. It’s clumsy, especially in a film of such formal intelligence whose lead characters are allowed such behavioral ambiguity. It also feels didactic – not the worst trait, for sure, in a Holocaust film; Shoah, for its whole 9 1/2 hours, is far more so – but it didn’t need to be to make its point, which we’re bound not to miss. Ten years later, Roman Polanski found an elegant way out in The Pianist by focusing religiously on a single character: the man is neither innocent nor helpless, and Polanski doesn’t shower him with undue affection; he’s just a guy stuck in the maniacal, single-minded mechanism. Maybe the scale of Schindler’s List, as an undertaking of obvious personal and professional ambition, prevented Spielberg from trusting in something simpler.
The film won a slew of accolades – two Oscars for Spielberg himself – and from here on, his films have alternated between brassy prestige projects (Amistad, A.I.) and conscientiously frivolous throwaways (The Lost World, The Terminal), with the occasional crossover (Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can are two of his better films, beholden to entertainment but speedy and concise). What lingered in the first decade after Schindler’s List, that curious strained seriousness, as Andrew Sarris might have put it, grew legs of its own after he won his second directing Oscar, for Saving Private Ryan. It’s a good film, opening on the best work he’s ever done: Omaha Beach moves past the rigor captured in Schindler’s List into a new realm of cinematic control, one signified by pure, meaningless chaos. It’s one thing to make a chaotic film; it’s quite another to direct chaos. For twenty-six minutes the screen rages from all directions, shot at first from the bewildered perspective of a good documentary cameraman and easing into narrative subjectivity, the barest of strategy captured between blistering snatches of unpredictable violence. That a director as dramatically precise as Spielberg can make a sequence like this feel so unpredictable is probably its greatest achievement – it’s certainly the film’s best chunk. Laud Private Ryan for riffing on a clutterless plot, and for allowing character to play out in extended battle scenes of terrifying veracity (nothing hits harder than the soldier begging not to be stabbed in the chest). Applaud John Williams for his gratifying restraint (absolutely a new achievement in a Spielberg film, one never to be repeated). But Spielberg can’t bring himself to let us discover human emotion on our own, and draw our own conclusions; the film opens and closes on the most contrived screenwriting, performances, blocking, and scoring of his career, as the elderly private begs to be told he’s “led a good life,” that he’s “a good man”. The film would have been stronger, and Spielberg would have spared us the embarrassment of watching a profoundly capable director undercut his own achievements with unforgivable sap. A film that immersive in war cannot conclude itself with such numbing pap.
The truth is that filmmakers reveal themselves in scenes like these. He got away with potential schmaltz in Close Encounters by leaving room for silliness in human behavior; he could have done the same at the end of Schindler’s List, but chose to take the austere route (wayward films don’t win a lot of Oscars). He does the same in Private Ryan, denying a main character (and us) the ability to reflect on the film’s premise – sending eight guys to rescue one – as absurd human melodrama. It’s no less emotionally captivating to consider it this way, although it might dilute the film’s worshipful overtones. What Spielberg announces with this stuff is that it’s really not human experience he’s exploring in his films, but something closer to pop mythology. It’s easier to see in the projects he’s produced: the HBO series Band of Brothers and The Pacific; the Clint Eastwood films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. They’re broadly didactic projects, evoking patriarchal reverence in lieu of the actual experience of being at war; the themes override the humanity. They are deeply uncomfortable with moral ambiguity – these films will show it, but then make damn sure you know to feel humble on your way out.
So when Spielberg turns his attention to Munich – or, even more egregiously, War of the Worlds – I just don’t trust his commitment, apart from his compulsion to Get Serious with a Camera. He’s at a stage in his career where he is directing the hell out of his films, trusting few shots and fighting no impulses he may have to let action play entirely within one. Having produced them, has he digested some of Michael Bay’s Transformers attention deficit disorder, or has his craft become so precise over the years that he no longer sees action on screen as life or behavior, but as movement in a frame? Worse, he’s crossing lines of taste he should have never had to worry about after (the bulk of) Schindler’s List, letting action scenes play as cheap stimuli in Munich, or investing War of the Worlds with a downright offensive 9/11 analog that cheapens the film (it might have been great fun) and 9/11 (suggesting the terrorists were aliens from another world, not human beings). More than once, I have quit this film in disgust the moment little Dakota Fanning crumples in tears in the backseat, as intergalactic war carries on outside, and cries out with affecting dread, “Is it the terrorists?” This cannot be read as insightful cultural cross-referencing, or whatever; Spielberg’s shown over and over that his primary concern is entertaining you with polished, well-funded sleight of hand, not speaking to you as a fellow person puzzling his way through the universe. I’m afraid now he feels he’s earned the right to be an Important Filmmaker.
And so what if he has? It’d be too harsh to imply he doesn’t mean what he’s saying, and I think Spielberg is as sincere as they come. But sincerity on its own is not enough. Convincing an audience that they’re watching a world of your creation is a skill not to be undermined with abstract analysis; what he does well, he does inimitably. But I think as an intellect, as an artist, insofar as he is one, Spielberg sincerely believes in his own hokum. I think he’s so wound up in good intentions – as a creator of myth, a teller of tales; the job used to belong to the village elder, the head of the tribe – that he loses sight of whether his films respect our instinct to discern legitimate human behavior. We know from childhood whether we’re being lied to; it’s not voodoo, it’s recognizing truth in expression and tone. As we grow older, we lose some of this understanding behind the masks we wear to obfuscate our own emotions – it gets tougher to see through everyone else’s masks.
The dilemma in film craft is that we’re all aware it’s a facade, but we agree to let it fool us. The illusion leads to insights via narration, with stories or audiovisual experiences – those can be distinct – that carve us a canyon into things we know to be true but which don’t necessarily add up to something greater on their own. Film craft can give shape and dimension to innate truths. It cuts through the simpler stuff, what we work through as children, and it can do so in one of two ways: by putting up a facade we aren’t meant to see through (there’s no penetrating the Omaha Beach sequence), or by letting us, indeed asking us, to see through it (Godard never asked you to believe in anything he gave you). Filmmakers run into trouble when they’re not sure which facade they’re presenting – or when they want to have it both ways. It’s the worst problem for a filmmaker with emotions – that would be almost all of them – because he badly wants you to feel what he feels, but killing the illusion for the sake of deeply-felt candor asks you to look all the way through the facade and see the man behind the mask. When Spielberg opens himself up to that analysis, we can see the man-child playing with his toys. The stunted intellect playing at adult earnestness.
It’s hard to articulate why this matters to me. Steven Spielberg has been the central cinematic figure of my lifetime. His is the one name anyone can toss out on the fly, an apparent paragon of popular moviemaking. I am making a film now, and have others in the works, and I can’t count the number of times I’ve been asked whether I want to be “the next Spielberg”. It’s not his fault; the man’s tastes fall neatly into those of pop culture, and have made him a billionaire, an icon, a national figure. He’s used it for good social cause, and he’s helped other filmmakers get on their feet. And let’s be honest, he’s made some wonderful films. But if he’s an artist, he’s an incomplete one: he’s not able or willing, for reasons of his own, to push at his own boundaries, to acknowledge real, complex mystery, or to let us out of his films without bald confirmation of human goodness. It’s not an indecent impulse, he just doesn’t ask us to plumb any deeper. I’m sure there’s more to us than virtue.
Spielberg used to believe, as a comparative child, that there was awe in the unknown, even if it was terrifying. I wish he could still believe that as an adult – he could be making the most glorious films.
Film: Terrence Malick: The Thin Red Line (1998)
Posted in Film Reviews on October 1, 2010 by baker
There is some kind of artist in Terrence Malick, but it may be less about his craftsmanship per se. Among his skills are an ability to lull powerful performances from confident actors, a sensitivity to light and motion, and a real cinematic configuration of time and space – a specific, unique one. He’s got a way of weaving Native Americans through the frame in The New World that catapults the film way beyond its relatively quotidian storyline; shots of leafy ripples in water transcend his vaguely inspired, elastic narrative. As a storyteller, he’s prone to losing his way among imagery and tone-building, but he’s astronomically committed to what might as well be termed the musical qualities of film: timbre, pitch, rhythm, inflection. According to the editors’ comments on the gorgeous Blu-ray edition of The Thin Red Line, he’s barely involved in the fine cutting of his pictures, allowing the mood to grow to his satisfaction and then refusing to watch further cuts.
On a disc replete with curious observations by Malick’s collaborators, that may be the most baffling. The Thin Red Line – as Days of Heaven, The New World, and even Badlands – is a film of rigorous editorial precision, less conscious of concise storytelling but fastidious in effect; no cut feels arbitrary or inarticulate. What he’s saying from moment to moment is another issue. Malick is notoriously philosophical, but of a bent closer to hippies and college sophomores than Sartre or Thoreau, who seem most likely to have inspired his humanist and naturalist musings. There’s something supremely flaky about the way Malick spells things out in voiceover, giving unilateral verbosity to guys who don’t deserve it, like Bell (Ben Chaplin), who’s barely able to construct a sentence in the film but wallows forever in metaphysical meditations. Even when they work – Nick Nolte’s internal monologue gives greater dimension to Lt. Tall’s unforgiving ambition later on – every character speaks in the same voice, with the same attenuation to the vagaries of human behavior. The reasons are obvious – they’re all facets of Malick’s own voice – but the trope grows gimmicky fast; we’re quickly inured to the philosophy as its wasteful wordiness rolls dully off the sharper, more expressive action onscreen.
It’s here that Malick’s strengths as a filmmaker come to bear. Editor Leslie Jones claims the battle scenes and crane shots across the hills during the Guadalcanal attack scenes were difficult for Malick, who wanted nothing more than to work closely with the actors – but the truth is that those shots, careening at neck height through the tall grass in search of invisible Japanese bunkers, convey more about the existential crises of soldiers in battle than any of the solipsistic words Malick puts in their mouths. Some of them start out quickly, zipping up behind and passing a soldier creeping low through the grass, and then slow as the shot widens, revealing a pristine hillside untouched by mortars, before catching up to the soldiers ahead (the ones most likely to take the brunt of the onslaught we’re all sure is on its way). These shots contain perspective and purpose, executed with style, panache, and taste into utterly cinematic expressions of human feeling. They flow with immaculate technical fluidity and formal dexterity. They are the core of The Thin Red Line.
Elsewhere, Malick seems adrift inside his own head, shuffling aimlessly through sequences of sparse complexity or resonance. These interludes tend to feel interminable, seeming to emerge visually and structurally freeform from what came before, and leading nowhere. I make no demands that a film maintain vigilant guard over its narrative trajectory; not enough filmmakers are unafraid to meander for the sake of immersive atmosphere. But if The Thin Red Line were a term paper – a thought-out critical exegesis, complete in form from its opening note – it’s rife with the sort of silly ponderings one should get out of the way in the process of thinking through it: “What’s this war in the heart of nature? Why does nature vie with itself? The land contend with the sea? Is there an avenging power in nature? Not one power, but two?” Oddly, this sort of stuff can take on a real emotional power when put firmly in the context of an individual character and his personality, as with Private Bell, coursing into battle (and thinking with words we can believe he’d use, to his wife, in his memory): “I belong to you. If I go first, I’ll wait for you there, on the other side of the dark waters. Be with me now.” Had Malick disciplined himself to use voiceover in this capacity only, I think he’d have made a colossal masterpiece.
When the film came out in late 1998, it played second string to Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan in the Hollywood WWII arena, losing countless awards to it and suffering the effects of comparison to a tighter film more grippingly told. And for all the backlash that Private Ryan seems to have endured since then, I think it’s one of Spielberg’s best films: simple in form, beholden to so little as a story. Spielberg takes his time, letting his battle scenes develop with magnificent unpredictability: we know only that bad things are likely to happen, eventually. Even better, he lets his characters develop within these scenes, pausing when the film could use a breath instead of when a character needs to be fleshed out. Released months later, The Thin Red Line felt far looser, almost sloppy in form, hardly a war film at all. It was hard to read, and harder to digest with critical determination.
Which may be okay. Over the years I’ve returned to it from time to time, and gotten more used to its rhythms. Familiarity doesn’t make it any better a film, really, but it’s softened me to the fact that there’s probably little Malick could have done to clarify his film. He doesn’t bother with neat packages. Days of Heaven, a film I’ve written off in the past as a beautiful, beautiful train wreck, now appears a bit more coherent, even if it suffers from overbearing performances from actors who were probably quite leery of so unsupportive a narrative framework. And The New World, released in 2005, immediately resonated on a formal level. The truth is that there are always idiosyncratic filmmakers who speak to nobody in particular when they work, demanding an audience of the willing like-minded: the Jarmusches, the Hanekes, the Kiarostamis, the Andersons. These guys play without a backboard; look to the Scotts, the Howards, the Nolans if you want consensus. You can reject those clearer voices – I think Wes Anderson has largely run his stylistic course (Fantastic Mr. Fox aside) – but there is so much of a personality at work in their pictures that there’s generally something there worth examining, if only once, for a moment. How much less doubt could there be that Malick makes the films he thinks are worth making, with force, consistency, and competence? He is only now making his fifth film in 40 years: The Tree of Life, due out this year. In a marketplace dominated by loud, boorish shit (Private Ryan opens and closes with the the archest, preachiest crap Spielberg’s ever directed), I will welcome his quiet deliberation, even if I think he could do better. It’s healthier for us as film viewers and filmmakers to sample purer tastes.
Film: Christopher Nolan: Inception (2010)
Posted in Film Reviews with tags 2010, Christopher Nolan, Inception on August 1, 2010 by baker
The troubling thought Chris Nolan plants in my brain in Inception – and I’m sure he was aware that he was doing it, although he might not have found the thought quite as disturbing – is that movies as we know them are essentially predicated on other movies. He litters the film with dramatic truisms lifted straight out of Robert McKee’s dogmatic screenwriting tome, “Story”: the bigger the stakes, the bigger the catharsis; the mind naturally turns to the positive, toward catharsis; etc. And then he proceeds to build an entire film out of dramatic tropes borrowed from every potboiler thriller you can think of: the detective on one last job before he returns to his family, along with the crack team of specialists who all impart exactly the right piece of information when we need it; the ghost who haunts him; the gratuitous shootout that has no dramatic purpose except to punch up the pace of the thing; etc. In addition to a detective story, it’s also a corporate morality tale (as was The Dark Knight), a love story, a science fiction story, and a consummate action film. Did I miss any?
What becomes interesting about Inception is how well Nolan directs the actors. Their timing never feels unduly rushed; the editing doesn’t seem to have truncated interactions in a way designed to speed the film up. Yes, the actors are also plunked into their generic types and need to transmit a hell of a lot of facts to us along the way – and there is no time to spare in this film – but there’s also a real sensitivity toward finding the right beats, the right gestures, letting things happen on the edge of frame that remind us that behind these characters, behind this entire construct we’re watching, is a human being talking to us. There’s one tidy little grace note that I imagine Nolan directed, but even if he didn’t, he’s made the film in such a way that these things can happen: as Leonardo DiCaprio’s Dom Cobb charges down a hallway, he guides himself into an elevator with a hand on the outside edge. The gesture itself is somehow extremely real and right in the midst of Nolan’s dramatic chaos, but the presence of Cobb’s wedding ring on his finger rejiggers the scene, just a hair, back to what the film is really about. The beat is over as soon as you notice it, but the framing and movement takes your eye straight to this hand – and for a moment, Nolan is close to being a real filmmaker.
But what then undoes this film – or at least relegates it to the puerile Choose Your Own Adventure video game fantasy it really is – is the suggestion that it’s not dreams that inspire filmmakers, but their memories of other movies. Alex Proyas at least took the time to plant Dark City firmly in the ’40s noir genre, letting us know he doesn’t necessarily think all movies are to blame for the (narrow, amusing) scope of his (shorter, better) film, but Nolan’s pretenses are catching up to him. I believe he’s actually got an imagination of his own, and he’s getting better at spatial orientation in his films, which indicates that perhaps he’s taking things a bit more seriously on their own terms instead of thinking all things cinematic are simply about effect – but then, all things in his films are simply about effect. And so what? How many countless, perfectly harmless movies have been made from and about movies? My own addendum: how many of those are great films, inspiring the sort of self-reflection that gave birth to the concept of art to begin with?
The point is that this is, I think, a reductive and potentially harmful way to look at movies. Our attention spans are growing shorter and less muscular every day as cell phones and computers speed up, causing the mechanical and practical concerns to slow down and piss us off. If I’m committed to a film at home, I really need to close my laptop, or else I will tap the mouse pad every now and then to check my email – I can’t help it myself. Neither can Nolan – he’s got no patience beyond complicating and explaining and building on his plot, and you feel carried along inside Inception as on a raft in whitewater, thinking just enough to skirt the rocks ahead. There’s really no motivation to think any further, since Nolan isn’t actually saying anything (my co-attendee at the screening remarked that Inception is a perfect Rubik’s cube, which it is; once solved, there’s nothing else to do but solve it again ad infinitum, until it becomes rote). Nolan’s not without skill, he’s just recycling things we’re already familiar with to make the whole concoction go down easier. I’d be just fine with that if he didn’t also indicate, at every step, that this is how movies are made, this is what movies are. Theo Angelopoulos suggests films are an extension of our souls, David Lynch an extension of our psyches. Nolan tells us they’re nothing of our own making anymore, that movies are made of what we recall – or imagine we recall, or can’t tell the difference anymore between conjuring and recalling – from movies.
He’s hardly the first to go down this road. Spielberg, Scorsese, Bertolucci – they’ve all implied roughly the same thing. But Nolan has made this idea an explicit part of Inception, in a film about planting ideas in people’s heads and making them think the idea is their own. At best, this is just sad, indicative of our unwillingness, laziness, or indifference to exploring what’s in our own minds, but at worst it suggests the way a lot of filmmakers these days really approach filmmaking: as an appeal to things we no longer need to think about, because they’ve simply become part of the language we use to talk about movies, not life. It’s a pulpy, self-reflexive attitude championed by guys like Tarantino, who at least goes out of his way to make a coherent, enjoyable experience filled with surprises. Invocations of film history used to have a softer touch, in the hands of Woody Allen, Truffaut, Bertolucci. There was a whimsical remembrance of the warmth to be found there, not this leaden immutability (see Bertolucci’s The Dreamers for a purer account of the dangerous mix of nostalgia and unreality inherent in cinephilia). It’s detracting from the efforts of guys and gals who’d rather try something unique to themselves, and wrap this whole mysterious film medium around their own wayward thoughts and feelings instead of the other way around. The Kelly Reichardts and the Gus Van Sants, the Paul Thomas Andersons and the Ramin Bahranis need all the encouragement and support they can get; we do not need audiences requiring cliches to feel satisfied from a cinematic experience. Where else will all the future great films come from?
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A stunning example of a four bedroom, Edwardian semi-detached home on Broadway Road in Bishopston. Situated within the Redland Green School catchment area and convenient for popular Gloucester Road. The property has beautiful period features in many rooms and off street parking for three cars.
A stunning example of a Edwardian semi-detached home on Broadway Road in Bishopston. Situated within the Redland Green School catchment area and convenient for the plethora of independent shops, cafes, bars and restaurants for which Gloucester Road is renowned.
To the front of the property there is a driveway with parking for at three cars and a well tended front garden. The drive leads to the front door opening into the porch. The property has some beautiful ornate features including corniced ceiling and ceiling roses with picture and dado rails in many rooms. The porch has a beautiful tiled floor with stained glass windows allowing light into the hall. The hall has access to all reception rooms and the added benefit of a w/c.
The sitting room has a bayed window and a door through into what is currently a shower room, however this could be a further reception room or study if required.
The reception rooms to the rear are light and bright with double doors in the family room allowing light to flood through. A fireplace and wood flooring accompany some beautiful built in dressers. Doors open into the kitchen/breakfast room which has glass on two sides of the room overlooking the garden. The fitted kitchen also allows space for a breakfast table which makes this a real social space, perfect for entertaining. The ground floor is completed with a utility room and separate shower room. The first floor has four double bedrooms which again have period features and lots of storage. The family bathroom has room enough for a bath and separate shower cubicle.
The rear garden is laid to patio and lawn with mature trees, shrubs and plants and can be accessed via the family room, kitchen/breakfast room and the utility room which leads to the front of the house.
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Redland (0.5 miles)
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Lawrence Hill (1.7 miles)
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Lobby 4'6 x 6'1 (1.37m x 1.85m)
Ornate cornicing and stained glass windows with stunning tiled floor, door to entrance hall.
Entrance Hall 16'1 x 6'1 (4.90m x 1.85m)
Ceiling rose and corniced ceiling, picture and dado rails, radiator, door to w/c, staircase, power points.
Sitting Room 14'9 x 17'5 (4.50m x 5.31m)
Single glazed sash bay window, corniced ceiling, fireplace, door to ground floor bathroom.
Family Room 22'10 x 19'6 max (6.96m x 5.94m max)
Corniced ceiling, spotlights, wood burning stove, patio doors to garden.
Kitchen/Breakfast Room 12'0 max x 23'0 (3.66m max x 7.01m)
Double glazed windows to side and rear overlooking the garden, skylight window, fitted kitchen with base and wall units, double doors onto garden, tiled floor.
Reception Room / Bathroom 13'5 x 9'2 (4.09m x 2.79m)
Double glazed window; shower cubicle; L.L.W.C; wash hand basin; cupboards.
Utility Room 17'1 max x 8'10 max (5.21m max x 2.69m max)
Plumbing for washing machine, door to garden, storage cupboards, shower room.
Landing 16'4 x 6'0 (4.98m x 1.83m)
Bedroom One 14'9 x 17'5 into bay (4.50m x 5.31m into bay)
Single glazed bay window, built in wardrobes, power points.
Bedroom Two 12'2 x 14'1 (3.71m x 4.29m)
Single glazed window, built in cupboard, radiator, power points.
Bedroom Three 14'1 x 12'1 (4.29m x 3.68m)
Single glazed window, built in cupboards, radiator, power points.
Bedroom Four 9'2 x 14'2 (2.79m x 4.32m)
Single glazed window, radiator, power points.
Bathroom 8'5 x 6'0 (2.57m x 1.83m)
Double glazed window, panelled bath, shower cubicle, hand basin, L.L.W.C, radiator.
Parking for two cars to front
Mature garden with trees, shrubs and plants laid to lawn and patio.
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There are a huge range of leisure facilities for Bishopston residents who enjoy keeping fit and active. The Horfield Leisure Centre and the Undercover Rock Climing Centre in St Werburgh are both located just over one mile from Bishopston and provide a range of facilities and activities. The Horfield Leisure Centre includes a gym, group exercise studio, group cycling studio, over 100 exercise classes a week, a swimming pool and much more.
Alternatively, on Gloucester Road you'll find a number of gyms and the Bristol School of Gymnastics, which offers gymnastic classes for everyone from pre-school children to national level gymnasts.
If you're prepared to travel further afield, then the choice of sport and leisure facilities in Bristol opens up significantly. For example, if you like to exercise during unsociable hours, The Gym, which is open 24/7 and located 2.8 miles from Bishopston, may be the place for you.
What can you do on a sunny day?
Bristol is home to a variety of attractive parks and gardens. St Andrews Park and Horfield Common are two of the best close to the suburb of Bishopston.
St Andrews Park, which is approximately 0.7 miles from Bishopston, is a classic Victoria-era city park, with a paddling pool and dog-free play area. On the other hand, Horfield Common, which is located roughly 0.8 miles from Bishopston, includes tennis courts, a play area and large open green spaces.
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Every Saturday morning, from 9am-11am, Bamba Beads on Gloucester Road puts on a beginners beading class, aimed at those who want to learn the basics of beaded jewellery making.
There are also several indoor play areas for children near to the Bishopston area, including Rimando's Soft Play Coffee Lounge and PlaySpace. Located 0.7 miles and 2.6 miles from Bishopston respectively, both play areas offer safe and fun-packed play for younger children.
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The Gloucester Road area has many independent boutiques and family-run stores that sell everything from clothes to food. Coldharbour Road, located roughly 0.8 miles from Bishopston, offers a similar range of independent stores, which sell items slightly different to the high-street norm.
Meanwhile, Cabot Circus, in Bristol's city centre, is home to over 120 stores, including all the established high-street favourites you would expect. Alternatively, Cribbs Causeway offers out of town shopping on a huge scale, with over 150 stores, and an entertainment venue that includes the majority of recognised fast food chains and a cinema.
You'll also find most of the major supermarkets in and around Bristol, including Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons. In Bishopston itself, you will find multiple local-type stores along Gloucester Road, including Tesco Express, Sainsbury's Local, Morrisons and Co-op.
What does Bishopston offer in terms of entertainment?
Many of the bars and clubs on Gloucester Road offer live music. Among the best is The Golden Lion, which hosts numerous live gigs by local bands, across a wide range of genres. Bishopston's thriving music scene extends to a number of local choirs that are always looking for new members, including the Gurt Lush Choir.
Bristol is divided by two football teams, Bristol Rovers and Bristol City. The latter of those two teams play their home games at Memorial Stadium, 0.9 miles from Bishopston. Gloucester County Cricket Club also plays the majority of their home games at the County Ground, 0.6 miles from Bishopston.
And what about entertainment for kids/families?
There are plenty of youth clubs in the Bishopston area, which specialise in a range of activities – from martial arts to arts and crafts.
If you are looking to embark on a day out, there are many options within the Bishopston area worth considering. For example, Rimandos Soft Play Lounge Coffee Lounge (0.6 miles from Bishopston), Bristol Zoo Gardens (2.1 miles from Bishopston), Felix Road Adventure Playground (2.1 miles) and The Climbing Academy Boulder Club (2.7 miles) each offer fun-packed family adventures.
Are there decent local amenities such as libraries and health centres?
Bishopston is well-served by local amenities, with six health centres in and around the area. Of those, Bishopton Medical Practice is the most local. The practice is open from 8.00am-6.00pm, Tuesday to Friday and until 8.00pm on Monday.
In addition, Bishopston is served by four libraries, including Horfield Library and Henleaze Library. Both offer a diverse range of fiction and non-fiction books for all ages and free internet use.
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The number of public car parking spaces in the Bishopston area is limited, but there is off-street parking and resident spaces available.
During the morning and evening rush hours, the traffic on many Bristol roads – in and out of the city – can become very congested, but this is to be expected in central Bristol.
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Bishopston is well-served by a variety of primary and secondary schools. Primary schools include The Dolphin School, Bishop Road Primary School, St Bonaventures RC Primary School and Sefton Park Infant & Junior School. Secondary Schools include Redland Green School, Fairfield School and Clifton High School.
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Having been torn from the earth in ancient times, Planet Mamango is now re-approaching the earth after a lapse of 5 million years. One night, a private detective named Ban Shunsaku encounters a murder, and meets boy researcher Shikishima Kenichi, who holds the key to solving the case. Shikishima discovers that a stone from the Planet Mamango generates huge amounts of energy. Making a rocket out of the energy stone, Shikishima sets up an exploration team and departs for Planet Mamango. The rocket heads straight for Planet Mamango under the command of Shikishima, along with Captain Butamo Makeru, Ayame and Momiji, who are cabbages created by the captain, a rabbit named Mii, and Ban Shunsaku. In due time, the rocket lands o...
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Having been torn from the earth in ancient times, Planet Mamango is now re-approaching the earth after a lapse of 5 million years. One night, a private detective named Ban Shunsaku encounters a murder, and meets boy researcher Shikishima Kenichi, who holds the key to solving the case. Shikishima discovers that a stone from the Planet Mamango generates huge amounts of energy. Making a rocket out of the energy stone, Shikishima sets up an exploration team and departs for Planet Mamango. The rocket heads straight for Planet Mamango under the command of Shikishima, along with Captain Butamo Makeru, Ayame and Momiji, who are cabbages created by the captain, a rabbit named Mii, and Ban Shunsaku. In due time, the rocket lands on the Planet Mamango, where the group finds a "The Lost World," an ancient environment where dinosaurs walk about and ferns and cycads cover the ground. -ANN
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Torguard Hardware Vpn – TorGuard Anonymous VPN Review – 2019
by newadmin September 19, 2017
Introduction Torguard Hardware Vpn
With an Established track record, TorGuard has Evolved into a VPN provider for users. We here at The VPN Lab agree it is one of the top 10 VPN providers now available. Servers run in 50 states and supplies VPN service that is great at rates that are affordable. Torguard Hardware Vpn
A VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between your computer And a VPN. Your web traffic travels through this tube, meaning that anyone snooping around, even on precisely the same network as you, won’t find a thing. A VPN can also help protect your privacy that ISPs can market your data. ISPs have insight into your actions –but not if you use a VPN.
Because it can procure an insecure network, there is a VPN An essential tool when using or traveling that shifty, unsecured network at the local coffee shop. A VPN also makes it harder by hiding your IP address, which may be used to determine your location to spot you online.
Journalists and activists use VPN services to So they can communicate with the outside world get around government censors. Many VPNs hang their reputation on being able to unblock blocked websites for such customers. You might even use a VPN to spoof your location, so as to watch MLB or BBC content. Be aware that Netflix is working to block VPN trickery. Torguard Hardware Vpn
To Start using TorGuard, just download the Suitable app for your Operating procedure and follow the setup guide. You can choose between TorGuard Lite and Torguard Viscosity. The first one is a more straightforward client software, perfect for first-time VPN users, whereas the latter is a better choice for tech-savvy users.
TorGuard Lite automatically connects the VPN once you have entered your Meaning you basically don’t have to do anything to securely browse the Internet, information. It is also possible to manually choose the protocol and server. Torguard Viscosity, on the other hand, allows for customization.
Both customers are simple to use and supply a user-friendly encounter. Nonetheless, if you are not knowledgeable about the way VPNs operate, you should probably stick to the Lite version.
There is a good Reason TorGuard is one of the hottest and VPN services — it. We are not talking anything mad here, just the basic things that each VPN consumer needs and wants, but which other VPN providers somehow do not look at a given.
For example bandwidth and speed include all TorGuard Bundles. Some of them contain mail storage. You also receive a committed, fresh IP address just for you. There are more than 3,000 VPN servers available in more than 55 countries of the world. They’re all strategically distributed throughout the world so that you may rest assured that you will have one close wherever your travels might take you. The company was nice enough to place servers in Australia and New Zealand also, the region that has been so unfairly ignored by many VPN suppliers for a long time.
TorGuard has yet another interesting feature that not many other providers Can boast — the server attribute that is stealth. The”stealth” servers are perfect for countries and regions with web control, most notably China. Thanks to this characteristic, the residents of these areas can now appreciate the specific same content and access the same sites as anybody else anywhere in the world.
TorGuard not only accepts but encourages sharing. However, there Are a few things to keep in mind here. There are particular, dedicated servers that should only be used for P2P sharing. This is really pretty smart since you can do all of your P2P sharing on dedicated and especially configured and stored servers whereas the remaining servers remain free for quicker browsing and streaming. There are loads of dedicated servers so you do not need to worry about slow speeds on packed servers. Additionally, TorGuard also supplies a technical torrent proxy, which supports most of significant torrent clients (BitTorrent, uTorrent, Deluge, Vuse, and many more) and also comes with infinite bandwidth.
TorgGuard uses OpenVPN/SSTP/L2TP/IPsec encryption protocols. You can Choose whichever you prefer, but many experts recommend using OpenVPN for maximum security. It is possible to link as many as five distinct devices using one TorGuard account. This should cover all of your devices, from computers . TorGuard doesn’t keep any logs at all so all your connections will be 100% anonymous. Torguard Hardware Vpn
Customer care is another department where TorGuard does really well. Their website has a comprehensive service region with FAQ, knowledge base, troubleshooting, tutorials, forum and a support ticket system. It is also possible to access support in the user accounts area. TorGuard delivers the live chat option . The service team is polite, helpful and friendly. The service ticket system also works very well, with answers coming from a matter of a minute or 2.
TorGuard advertises itself as the best VPN support for users that Want to stay absolutely anonymous and safe in their action. In fact, their anonymous proxy support is especially optimized for p2p filesharing and for bypassing geo-restrictions, like watching Netflix or even Hulu in places where these services are either blocked or inaccessible. They have 3,000 servers in over 55 countries, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Australia is also represented, which is fine since this region gets neglected.
They boast shifting bandwidth and speeds, Too As anonymous webmail service for anonymity and privacy, which is remarkable, to say the very least. VPN routers that are pre-flashed are also sold by the business.
Speed is one of the areas where TorGuard prevails. When tested, the Rates proved to be very fast, which range from good to exceptional, very secure and trustworthy. Exceptional results were attained through the UK and Netherlands servers, which is often the case . That’s why you connect to the server, although Obviously, speeds were attracted by connecting to more distant servers.
We were happy to see there were No DNS or WebRTC leaks whatsoever. Torguard Hardware Vpn
There’s more than 1 way to create an encrypted tunnel Via VPN. My favorite method employs the OpenVPN protocol, which is famous for being reliable and fast. It, which means that you may rest assured that its code was picked over for possible vulnerabilities.
TorGuard certainly believes in giving people it, and choices Supports numerous VPN protocols, such as OpenVPN, IKEv2, L2TP, and IPSec. TorGuard also includes Stealth VPN protocols, which utilize SSL VPN so as to prevent an entity. These include OpenVPN Stealth, ShadowSocks, Stunnel, and AnyConnect (also known as OpenConnect).
Other firms provide tools to stop VPN Similar to Stealth VPN, albeit with different names. TunnelBear and Golden Frog VyprVPN provide this attribute, to mention two. A TorGuard representative told me that clients can double up their Stealth protection by linking via OpenVPN Stealth or OpenConnect then use ShadowSocks or Stunnel to conquer deep packet inspection that could be employed to obstruct VPN use. Most people probably will not take advantage of this, but it is good that TorGuard makes these efforts to make sure its users can protect themselves and their data.
You Have to trust the VPN you use Behind it could end up with insight in your actions. That’s why when I review VPNs, the sellers and I talk and read the entire privacy policy. In the case of TorGuard, this last part was simple. The business gets the shortest privacy policy I have seen, and among the most easy to read.
More important, this policy’s content is good for consumers. This section says it all:”TorGuard.net doesn’t store or log any traffic or usage from its Virtual Private Network (VPN) or Proxy.” The business acknowledges that it will collect personally identifiable information but keep in mind that it also allows the usage of anonymous payment procedures.
Better still, TorGuard says that it earns revenue From subscription sales, instead of selling data. The organization’s policy isn’t to sell or transfer. The exception to this is if the provider feels it’s obliged to abide by legal action.
That last point is something echoed by most VPN businesses, That is why it’s important to understand under what legal authority they operate and where these businesses are located. Some countries have more laws than others. The organization behind TorGuard is. That company is, in turn, owned by parent firm VPNetworks LTD, LLC, located on the Caribbean island of Nevis. I can’t talk to the legal framework of Nevis, but because of its role that the US has no laws requiring the preservation of information.
Before, some VPN businesses used to inject ads into Users’ traffic in order to market their users. A representative from TorGuard confirms that the company does not utilize this tactic, saying,”It’s not something we’d even consider.” Torguard Hardware Vpn
Servers and Server Places
When VPNs are reviewed by me, I look at the amount of servers The business has available to be used. The more servers you will find available, the more likely you should find one which is not exceptionally crowded, giving you a bigger piece of bandwidth.
TorGuard has expanded its server supplying, and it Now boasts more than 3,000 servers. That sets it up there with Personal Internet Access$2.91 at Personal Online accessibility as one of the most robust VPN providers I’ve reviewed. NordVPN leads the bunch in absolute size.
In addition, I look at where these servers are situated. The more Geographic options available, the more choice you have if you would like to spoof your location. A strong geographic distribution also suggests that you’re more likely to discover a nearby server when traveling, and a nearby server ensures lower latency and greater functionality.
TorGuard now offers VPN servers in over 53 countries. These are distributed across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. I am pleased to realize that TorGuard has servers in India, and many servers across Africa and the Middle East, since these regions are often ignored by other VPN services. Especially, TorGuard also has servers in China, Russia, and Turkey, which are known for their repressive internet policies. Hide My Ass dominates one of VPN services, however. CyberGhost$2.75 at CyberGhosthas fewer server places, but it will provide physical servers in underserved areas such as Africa and South America.
Some consumers fear about VPN businesses using virtual servers. These are servers that are software-defined, meaning a single hardware server can run many servers . These virtual servers can be configured to appear to be than where they are truly located. That’s a problem if you would like to steer clear of geographic regions, and if you are concerned about where your data is headed. A TorGuard representative told me that the company doesn’t use virtual servers, which means you will have no trouble here. Torguard Hardware Vpn
In my testing, I installed TorGuard’s applications on A Lenovo ThinkPad T460slaptop operating Windows 10.
The TorGuard customer installed quickly and easily, though It is not a thrill to behold. The program is minimal, appearing a bit more like a cellular app than something I would expect on a desktop . You will find none of the bears or the donkeys from Hide My Ass. It doesn’t have a map interface, and it will be a staple of VPN apps. It looks a great deal more like the online Access that is Private.
Instead of recommending servers for or showing a map Particular actions, TorGuard includes a list of servers. That is fine, but it is not very friendly to new users. Neither will be the options on the program’s primary window. The average user is probably not going to mess with them, but media pros will no doubt enjoy having these choices front and centre. A link in the bottom of the app opens a window filled with options that are byzantine. This program does look like Internet Access that is Private, it seems to target the type of user that is positive.
While I am willing to make a Good Deal of allowances for design, 1 aspect of TorGuard’s Windows app (and, in reality, all its other apps, too) disturbs me. Every other VPN support I have tested will detect that VPN server has the lowest latency or is closest. TorGuard doesn’t do so. It is a little thing, but one I’d like to see changed.
TorGuard Provides a Switch list, much like NordVPN does. TorGuard will stop any applications on this record, should the VPN connection be disrupted. It’s a security measure. TorGuard’s Kill Change is restricted. I found that you can just add applications that are running to the list. It uses the weird titles you find. NordVPN enables you to define applications that are not currently running to increase the record, which is handy.
VPN services include servers. NordVPN And ProtonVPN are two that offer servers particularly. TorGuard has a few: stealth servers meant to be impossible to be blocked by firewalls.
Streaming services take a dim view of VPNs. That is That’s not intended to your geographic region As it’s possible to use a VPN to spoof your location and access content. In case you live in the US but are vacationing in the united kingdom, streaming video services might block your attempts to VPN back in your home country.
I had been, while attached to some New York VPN server Unable to view any content on Netflix. Of course, that might change at a moment’s notice, which is accurate even for VPNs that worked with Netflix.
Note that section 4.3 of the Netflix terms of service Mentions that it uses certain technologies to confirm your place, and that you are only entitled to articles in the region where you made your account. It doesn’t expressly forbid the use of a VPN but do not say we didn’t warn you if your account gets blocked.
TorGuard offers a series of services devoted to anonymity And privacy. Along with its fundamental VPN service, TorGuard also sells Anonymous Torrent Proxy for $5.95 a month; Anonymous Email for $6.95 a month; along with the Privacy Bundle, which contains the Proxy and VPN support, for $11.95 a month.
If You’re tempted for the Anonymous Proxy support Instead of the VPN service because it is cheaper, know that the proxy was made to filter BitTorrent visitors, while the VPN service protects. If you are currently seeding torrents or catching a torrent, the proxy makes sure no one sees your IP address. However, other action and your internet browsing isn’t included. It is a case of online anonymity occasionally versus the time. Torguard Hardware Vpn
Astonishingly, the TorGuard iPhone apphas a striking, Slick look. It is not going to win any design awards, but it’s far, far better than the Windows or even Android programs. Nevertheless, we believe the iPhone program is really so simple as to be a bit confusing to utilize.
When we reviewed TorGuard, we noticed that it didn’t Include our OpenVPN protocol that is preferred. Instead, IKEv2 is used by the app. We are also happy to see that its own VPN that is iPhone performed well in our speed tests on this stage .
We like that the TorGuard Android apphas a split Tunneling most of the features, as well as attribute that you’ll see in the Windows program. But, TorGuard drops the ball in style. We find the program to be perplexing, and feel it would be off-putting to new users. In our testing, it generated an odd warning on installation that did not inspire optimism. While the TorGuard service is a good one, it is outshone by Android VPN programs.
Sadly, the TorGuard program does not possess the Modicum of panache that found its way into the program. It’s not bad; it is just fine. It is a gray window to receive your VPN.
TorGuard did not impress me at the time using its speed test Scores on macOS. I look forward to taking another crack at the app in the near future. That said, I’m very happy to see that OpenVPN is included by it. It’s among the VPNs.
TorGuard has a lot a reasonable entry-level Price, an assortment of subscription add-ons to customize your security expertise, and a geographically diverse assortment of servers. Particularly noteworthy is its focus on BitTorrent usage, and also the fact that it aced our speed tests–two factors that are related. TorGuard also has an superb privacy policy, one that’s sweet, short, and consumer-friendly. The same can not be stated for its program expertise, which has been sacrifice simplicity of use in favor of straightforwardness.
This VPN service does a lot , and it gets a high For doing this score. However, it is neck-and-neck with online Access that is Private, not only in relation to what it offers but it provides it. Both are privacy-focused, both possess arcane options, and neither has a UI that is terrific. TorGuard, for its part, has the speed but online Access beats it on usability, which explains why it requires an Editors’ Choice award together with NordVPN and TunnelBear. Still, TorGuard is an service that’s worth considering, particularly when speed is everything for you. Torguard Hardware Vpn
TorGuard provides four different subscription programs Based on the length of the subscription. You are able to subscribe for one month, three months, six months or one year. The longer your subscription period, the greater the discount. The monthly plan costs $9.99, the Rs subscription costs $19.99, and the semi-annual subscription costs $29.99. If you elect for the yearly subscription, that costs $59.99, then you’ll be paying just $4.99 a month (you will be billed the entire amount at once). TorGuard also offers a biannual program for the most hardcore users at a price of $99.99 charged every 2 decades.
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Review Wednesday | Book Review – Heartborn (ARC Review)
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Her guardian angel was pushed.
Keiron was never meant to be anything other than a hero. Born high above in a place of war and deception, he is Heartborn, a being of purity and goodness in a place where violence and deceit are just around every corner.
His disappearance will spark a war he cannot see, for Keiron has pierced the light of days to save a girl he has never met, for reasons he cannot understand. Livvy Foster is seventeen, brave, and broken. With half a heart, she bears the scars of a lifetime of pain and little hope of survival.
Until Keiron arrives.
I was so excited to be sent an Advance Readers’ Copy of Terry Maggert’s latest novel, Heartborn. Heartborn is a YA fantasy novel, centring around two teenagers; Livvy, a human girl with half a heart, and Keiron, an angel sent to save her.
Without spoiling everything, the book is set in two worlds, and in many ways seems like two separate stories. Much of the fantasy element comes from Keiron’s family, the Windhooks, and their world. This universe is well built and I’d love to see more of it – the novel finishes almost before the real action begins, and we don’t get to see the ramifications of the changes that occur within the book’s timeline. This world is definitely up there with some of the best YA fantasy I’ve read, and often has a feel of James Patterson and, to a lesser extent, Terry Pratchett.
The real world, however, is where I have an issue (don’t we all?). While Maggert’s fantasy writing is brilliant, the real world definitely let the side down for me. It started off being quite clichéd and ended just feeling really rushed and confusing. The characters follow the pretty standard “outcast girl is picked on by self-obsessed girly girls who like makeup more than books and can’t spell their own names” trope – despite almost all of the real world scenes happening inside a library, presumably in a school holiday. If you hadn’t guessed, there is a romance aspect and again that follows a typical YA pattern – fast, intense young love that seems to occur simply because he’s a guy and she’s a girl. The two worlds were merged quite clumsily and I’m still not entirely sure how certain people knew certain things towards the end of the book.
I feel like as a whole this book would actually have benefitted immensely from being longer – I was left feeling like I needed more explanation and more of the story in general. The real world narrative would’ve worked better for me had it been more spread out, and I wish we were given more information on the fantasy world. The concept is strong and Maggert’s fantasy world was wonderfully built and massively compelling. The Heartborn universe is definitely one I’d like to see more of, but unfortunately I didn’t feel like the narrative was as polished or clear as it could have been.
Heartborn will be published on September 1st. Find it here (US) or here (UK).
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Five Things We Learned As Arsenal And Liverpool Draw
Unai Emery’s Arsenal side continued their record of being significantly better in the second half but left it late for Alexandre Lacazette to level the score after James Milner gave Liverpool a deserved lead.
Milner pounced on Bernd Leno’s clearance to the edge of the box and fired Liverpool into the lead shortly after half-time. It was no less than the visitors deserved after they had a dubious goal ruled out for offside in the first half and twice hit the post.
Emery shuffled his pack and introduced Alex Iwobi and Aaron Ramsey to change the game and the former did just that. His incisive pass allowed Lacazette to round the goalkeeper, take a touch and curl in a late equaliser into the one part of the goal that Alisson or a Liverpool defender was not covering.
Jugen Klopp may feel like it is two points dropped given the late nature of Lacazette’s 82nd minute strike, but Liverpool rode their luck and were reliant on Virgil Van Dijk’s defending to keep Arsenal at arm’s reach.
Here’s five things we learned from The Emirates Stadium
1. Emery’s bold approach almost punished
This was the first time that Emery started Mesut Ozil, Pierrer-Emerick Aubameyang, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Alexandre Lacazette in the same team, a line-up with a top-heavy focus on attacking as he prepared to fight fire with fire against Liverpool.
As it turned out, particularly in the first half, Liverpool had plenty of chances to score and establish an early dominance over their opponents.
There was also a feeling that the forward areas were a little crowded. Ozil, who rarely got a mention, and Mkhitaryan did nothing particularly emphatic except from a few neat touches to string together nice moves. This kind of emphasis on attacking works against the smaller sides, Emery’s ruthless winning run points to that, but in the games that matter most against tougher opposition, you sense that the new Arsenal manager has much to learn.
2. Fabinho still has work to do
For one reason or another it is yet to work out for Fabinho at Liverpool. The Brazilian midfielder arrived with a hefty price tag and an even larger weight of expectation to produce some of the fine performances he showed at Monaco that caught the attention of clubs around Europe.
After a tricky start to life at Liverpool where first team opportunities were few and far between, Fabinho attracted praise for his display against Red Star Belgrade and Cardiff, but against Arsenal it became clear there is much more work to do. Out of possession he was influential in winning the ball back and getting Liverpool on the ball, but when it came for him to move on the play or pick a decisive pass, he fell flat.
There were periods when Liverpool possession completely passed him by, as if he was out of his depth. Klopp gave him an earful early on when he tried an ill-advised first-time cross when there was little to aim at and it went straight out of play. His pass success percentage was amongst the worst in the Liverpool side, and that is not something you usually associate with a holding midfielder, whose job is often to keep things ticking over.
Perhaps it’s a systematic conundrum that Klopp must solve to get the best out of the Brazilian. Right now it seems that the German’s current philosophy is not getting the best out of him at all.
3. Did Leno justifies Emery’s faith?
In a fast start to the match, Liverpool needed the post, the linesman and finally their goalkeeper to prevent them from going behind.
With Petr Cech back to full fitness, Emery had a decision to make over who to pick in goal and kept faith in Leno, who initially had to wait for a league start while getting a turn in the Europa League matches.
The German made a string of good saves in the first half and was a useful option for the defenders when they were playing out from the back. That said, he may be disappointed with himself for parrying a cross into Milner’s path on the edge of the box and setting up the midfielder to score.
4. Arsenal find effective midfield partnership
Whether it was a decision prompted by injures or something that Emery planned, Arsenal have found themselves a really good partnership in midfield in Granit Xhaka and Lucas Torreira.
The Uruguayan recently said that his partnership with Xhaka is good and something that can only get better with time, which will be a worry for Arsenal’s opponents and other holding midfielders. Between them they managed to keep Roberto Firmino quiet when he dropped deep as well as prevent the advances of any Liverpool midfielder that tried to advance into space in front of the back four.
Even Mohamed Salah was unable to find a way beyond them when he weaved his way towards the middle from the right.
5. James Milner continues scoring record
James Milner has never lost a Premier League match that he has scored in. It’s some record and it’s a testament to the professionalism for one of English football’s longest serving and hardest working players.
Against Arsenal he proved he still had it, in case anyone was wondering. The 32-year-old was everywhere, not patch of grass at The Emirates was left untouched by the tireless midfielder as he charged about his business.
When Leno’s parry was cleared to Milner’s path on the edge of the box, there was one thing on his mind and his finish was one that most players would be proud of. He kept his cool, got over the ball and riffled a shot into the back of the net to cap off a fine display.
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Anti-Beyonce Protesters Outnumbered By Pro-Beyonce Supporters at NY Demonstration
Scenes from the anti-Beyoncé protest. Konstantin Sergeyev/New York
Some people are still upset over Beyoncé’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl. According to several news reports, a mysterious online group called Proud of the Blues organized an anti-Beyoncé rally in front of NFL headquarters in Manhattan. Unfortunately hardly anyone showed up.
According to New York’s The Cut, there were more pro-Beyoncé supporters, media and police present at the anti-Beyoncé rally. About three pro-police and anti-Beyoncé supporters eventually showed up, said The Cut. They were outnumbered by pro-Beyoncé supporters. CBS New York estimated the pro-Beyoncé demonstrators at about three dozen.
Spencer Jones, a pro-Beyoncé demonstrator, said he was disappointed hardly anyone from their opposition showed up.
“I’m disappointed,” said Jones, according to CBS New York. “I really wanted to talk to them and hear their side. I’m not sure why they’re not here, I am kind of sad about that, but I still think coming out here was worth it.”
An anti-Beyonce protester. Konstantin Sergeyev/New York
According to The Daily Beast, Mary Pryor, a co-creator of Black Girl Rising, the group that organized the pro-Beyoncé rally, said there is an online battle going on between pro-Beyoncé supporters and the Proud of the Blues group.
“They have infiltrated our communications,” said Pryor. “They’re watching us on social media. So, unfortunately, we’re paying attention to what they’re doing just like they are with us. We’re keeping certain things privatized until they happen. We’re not even releasing additional details on our location and it might change tomorrow. That’s how we have to operate.”
However, The Daily Beast called into question the authenticity of Proud of the Blues. The group has a minimal social media presence and a WordPress-based website which uses the url POTB.cf. The suffix cf is assigned to the Central African Republic where domains can be registered for free. Proud of the Blues has also sent messages from free Gmail accounts. The Daily Beast said the site might be linked to Donald Trump supporters because it recently posted messages such as “Take back our country! USA #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #Trump2016 #Trump #AllLivesMatter #BlueLivesMatter #BoycottBeyonce.”
Beyoncé was lambasted by right-wing commentators for her Super Bowl performance of “Formation,” which included dancers in Black Panthers-style outfits and references to police violence.
Several commentators compared the Black Panthers to the Ku Klux Klan.
“I found the entire show objectionable, was extolling the Black Panthers, who were a terrorist organization killing police officers in the 60s and 70s,” said Rep. Peter King.
But a recent Atlanta Blackstar report says comparing the Black Panthers to the KKK is inaccurate. The Black Panthers’ manifesto never sanctioned violence against innocent white people, while the KKK has been torturing, killing and bombing Black people for more than a century.
However, Beyoncé remains unrepentant for her performance.
“Art is the unapologetic celebration of culture through self-expression,” Beyoncé said during a speech at the Grammys.
Beyonce Super Bowl Halftime Performance
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Payment Practices Barometer - The Americas 2016
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Brasil,
Agricultura,
Automoción/Transporte,
Productos químicos/Farmacéutica,
Construcción,
Bienes de consumo duraderos,
Electrónica / TIC,
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Máquinas/Ingeniería,
Metales,
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Payment Practices Barometer for the Americas (NAFTA and Brazil) shows that 93% of respondents reported late payment from B2B customers over the past year.
Key survey results
Sales on credit terms
Despite showing very different economic performances, all of the countries surveyed in the Americas (Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States of America (US) are experiencing upward pressure on insolvencies. A major factor causing rising insolvencies in Canada (+4%), and to a lesser extent in the US (+3%), is low commodity prices. Another issue weighing on the business environment in the US is the lower external demand for exports. Low oil prices and low growth of productivity in Mexico, and the recession in Brazil, are factors forecast to lead to rising bankruptcies in these countries this year. As survey findings reveal, the challenging insolvency environment affects the way suppliers interviewed in the Americas protect their businesses against the risk of payment default by their business-to-business (B2B) customers purchasing on credit.
Mexico seems to be the least trade credit friendly country in the Americas
Respondents in the Americas appear to be notably more inclined to sell on cash than to offer credit terms to their B2B customers. 43% of the overall B2B sales value in the Americas was reported to be transacted on credit terms (down from 45% last year). Although selling on cash protects businesses from payment default risks (as cash sales do not result in bad debts), it may lead to losing sales and market share to competitors who are offering credit terms. At country level, the proportions of cash and credit based B2B sales do not vary widely around the survey averages. In the US, 43% of the total B2B sales value was reported to be transacted on credit (no change over the past year). In Canada and Brazil, the percentage of credit based sales amounts to 44% (42% one year ago) and 45% (43% last year) of the total B2B sales value respectively. With 40% of the total B2B sales value transacted on credit (44% one year ago), suppliers interviewed in Mexico continue to be the least likely to offer credit terms to their B2B customers.
Respondents in Brazil most inclined to sell on credit domestically; those in the US internationally
Along with a greater preference for cash-based B2B sales, respondents in the Americas seem to be more likely to offer credit terms domestically than abroad. This may reflect the perception that exporting brings different challenges than doing business in the home market, particularly when it is about getting an export customer to settle bills. Based on survey responses, this was the case in the Americas with, an average of 47% of the domestic B2B sales value (49.3% last year) and 39% of the export sales value being on credit (40.1% last year). Europe: 44.3% domestic and 37.4% foreign.
By country, respondents in Brazil show the greatest spread between the percentage of domestic sales made on credit (50.9%, no change from last year) and the percentage of foreign sales made on credit (39.5%, up from 36.5% one year ago). This may be due to the country’s tight bank lending conditions, which enhance the role of trade credit as an alternative source of funding for a business. A notably stronger likelihood of selling on credit to domestic (44.4% of credit based sales, compared to 50.3% last year) than to foreign B2B customers (35.7%, versus 38% one year ago) is observed in Mexico as well. A more uniform approach to granting trade credit in either domestic or export B2B trade is seen in Canada (47.7% domestic and 40% foreign) and the US (44.8% domestic and 41.2% foreign). The greater openness to the use of trade credit with overseas markets, shown by US respondents, may be explained as a way to stimulate export sales.
Overdue B2B invoices (%)
As mentioned earlier, all the countries surveyed in the Americas are experiencing upward pressure on insolvencies. Based on survey responses in the region, on average, 47.1% of the total value of domestic B2B sales on credit was paid late (up from 46.1% last year). This is notably above the 41.6% recorded in Europe. Foreign late payment amounts to 49.6% of the total value of export sales on credit (no change from last year). This compares to 38.9% recorded in Europe indicating that businesses in the Americas are notably more exposed to payment risk arising from B2B trade than businesses in Europe are. By country, the frequency of late payment and the total value of past due invoices varies widely.
Mexico most impacted by domestic late payment; domestic payment practices deteriorating in Brazil and Canada
Despite being notably more inclined to sell on credit domestically than abroad, suppliers interviewed in Mexico seem to be the hardest hit by late payment of invoices in their home market. This was reported by 94.1% of respondents (96.5% last year), and resulted in an average of 54.6% of the total value of domestic B2B invoices unpaid after the due date (no change from last year). These findings are consistent with the DSO figure in Mexico, averaging 44 days (up from 35 days last year) which is the longest in the Americas. In Brazil and the US an average of 46% of respondents’ domestic B2B invoices were past due (92% of respondents in each country reported having experienced late payments). Over the past year, the average total value of domestic past due invoices in the US remained stable. In Brazil, however, it increased by nearly 3%, which points to a deterioration of domestic payment practices in the country. This is also the case for Canada, where the proportion of domestic past due invoices increased to 40% from 36.9% one year ago.
Foreign late payment on the rise, but decreasing in Brazil
According to survey findings in the Americas, US respondents are the most exposed to payment risk arising from B2B credit sales to customers overseas. The total value of US credit based exports paid late was 57.6% (56.3% last year), with 92% of the interviewed suppliers (90% last year) having experienced late payments from their foreign B2B customers. Exposure to foreign late payment is on the rise in Mexico, with 53.1% of the total value of foreign invoices overdue, up from 49.2% one year ago. This may explain why Mexican respondents seem to be more likely to sell on credit domestically than abroad. Exposure to foreign late payments increased in Canada as well. Here, 48% of the total value of export sales on credit was paid late (up from 43.8% last year). In contrast to Mexico, Canada and the US, which have seen increases in late payment of foreign invoices, Brazil has experienced a drop in late payments from overseas customers. The total value of foreign overdue B2B invoices in Brazil decreased to 40.2% from 44.2% one year ago.
Payment duration (average days)
As was observed in a number of European countries, respondents in the Americas also try to maximize value and minimize payment risk associated with B2B trade on credit by extending modest payment terms averaging about 27 days from the invoice date. Payment terms extended to B2B customers by suppliers in Canada average 26 days, and are stable from last year. More lenient payment terms were extended by respondents in Mexico and Brazil (averaging 31 days and 33 days respectively). The shortest payment terms were observed by respondents in the US (averaging 20 days). This points to the US suppliers’ strong focus on protecting their businesses from the adverse impact of customers’ late payment on cash flow and profits.
Domestic payment terms lengthened in Mexico; foreign payment terms shortened in Brazil
Despite being the least punctual in settling invoices of the countries surveyed in the Americas, domestic B2B customers of suppliers interviewed in Mexico are now granted slightly more lenient payment terms for invoice payment than last year (averaging 33 days, up from 29 days one year ago). The average payment terms granted to domestic B2B customers by suppliers interviewed in Brazil (32 days, same as one year ago), Canada (26 days, compared to 28 last year) and the US (21 days, versus 22 last year) did not change significantly. This is the case for payment terms extended to foreign B2B customers as well. The exception is Brazil, where payment terms granted to foreign B2B customers are now tighter averaging 29 days compared to 35 days one year ago. This shortening of the credit cycle through swifter payment terms observed in Brazil may point to an attempt to improve the liquidity position of businesses in a market with tight financial conditions.
Domestic customers in Canada make past due payments the swiftest; foreign customers of US suppliers the slowest
Domestic B2B customers of suppliers interviewed in the Americas seem to settle past due invoices quicker (on average 30 days late) than foreign customer do (37 days late). At country level, domestic overdue invoices are settled the swiftest in Canada (on average 23 days after the due date), followed by Brazil (28 days late), Mexico and the US (both 34 days late). Compared to last year, suppliers interviewed in Brazil now have to wait a little longer (an average of 4 days) for past due invoices to be paid by domestic B2B customers. In the other countries surveyed in the Americas, payment timing of past due invoices did not change significantly. As mentioned earlier, foreign B2B customers of suppliers interviewed in the Americas appear to be somewhat more relaxed when it comes to settling past due invoices. The most relaxed seem to be foreign customers of US suppliers, who pay overdue invoices, on average, 43 days late (45 days last year). This is the longest timing observed in the region surveyed. Mexico follows with 40 days, up from 36 days last year. Foreign past due invoices are paid the swiftest by B2B customers of suppliers interviewed in Canada and Brazil (32 days late each).
Key payment delay factors
Consistent with observations in Europe, respondents in the Americas experienced late payment of invoices most often due to the customers’ inability or unwillingness to meet payment obligations. This reflects the challenging insolvency environment in which businesses currently operate. 44.4% of respondents in the Americas (46.4% one year ago) reported that domestic customers delay payment of invoices most often due to liquidity constraints. Foreign late payment due to the same reason was reported by 31.1% of respondents (33.6% last year). Domestic late payment due to the formal insolvency of the customer was reported by 25.2% of respondents (24.2% last year). 23.3% of respondents (27.8% one year ago) reported this in respect to customers overseas.
Fewer respondents than last year believe that customers delay payment of invoices intentionally to finance their businesses. This year 30% of respondents expressed this in regards to domestic buyers (down from 32.8% last year) and 27% of respondents (30.3% last year) in respect to customers abroad. Foreign buyers appear to very often delay payments due to reasons unrelated to their creditworthiness and beyond their control. These are the complexity of the payment procedure and inefficiencies of the banking system. Although foreign late payment due to these reasons was experienced by fewer respondents in the Americas (25%) than last year (30%), the fact that these reasons for payment delay were also frequently cited by businesses in Europe suggests that these are recurring payment risk factors in international trade. An appropriate management strategy is needed to ensure that the business has the adequate cash levels to fund its growth.
Brazil hardest hit by domestic late payment due to customers’ liquidity issues
Respondents in Brazil experienced the highest levels of domestic late payment due to liquidity issues of the customer (55.3%). The lowest levels of domestic late payment were experienced by US respondents (29.8%). Canada (40.7%) falls in between and Mexico (47.5% of respondents). These response rates reflect the upward pressure on insolvencies in these countries, that was mentioned at the beginning of this report. The perception that domestic customers do not pay invoices deliberately to finance their business is strongest in the US (nearly 32% of respondents, 36.6% last year) and Mexico (31.7% of respondents, 33.2% one year ago). Canada with 29.6% (35.8% last year) and Brazil 23.8% (26% last year) have the lowest response rates. Domestic late payment due to the formal insolvency of the customer was reported by nearly 27% of respondents in the US, Brazil and Mexico (no change from last year). This response rate falls to 17% in Canada. Oddly enough, survey findings reveal that in the US domestic late payment due to ineffective invoicing and to disputed invoices occurs almost as often as late payment due the formal insolvency of the customer.
Foreign late payment due to liquidity constraints of the customer was reported most often in Canada and Mexico (33.3% of respondents each, versus 40% last year), and the US follows with 31.4%. Liquidity constraints of the customer was reported least often in Brazil (26.6% of respondents). As seen in respect to domestic late payment, 31.4% of US respondents, compared to 38.6% last year, have the perception that foreign customers purposely delay paying invoices to help finance their business. Brazil follows with 29.2% compared to 30.4% last year. This perception is shared by a lower average of respondents (22%) in Canada and Mexico. The response rate related to foreign late payment due to formal insolvency of the buyer is twice as high in Brazil and the US (30%, stable with last year) than in Canada and Mexico (15%). The standout finding here is that 38.1% of US respondents (compared to the 25.2% survey average) reported that foreign late payment is due to disputes over goods delivered or services provided that are inconsistent with what was agreed in the contract.
Late payment caused a ripple effect throughout the supply chain most often in Brazil
Late payment of invoices, regardless of the reason, has a negative impact on cash flow and may threaten the viability of the business. As a consequence of late payment, 39.3% of respondents in the Americas reported that they had to pay their own suppliers late, thus triggering a ripple effect throughout the supply chain. Nearly 30% of respondents claimed that they had to take specific measures to correct cash flow, and around 22% either lost revenues or had to pursue additional financing from banks, factors or others to get the necessary funds to pay their own creditors.
Nearly 55% of respondents in Mexico delayed payments to their own suppliers because their customers paid them late. This was the case for an average of 33% of respondents in Canada, Brazil and the US. Specific measures to correct cash flow were most often taken by respondents in Brazil (38.6%), and by an average of 27% of respondents in each of the other countries surveyed in the region. The need to pursue additional financing from banks, factors or others was reported by around 22% of respondents in all four countries surveyed in the Americas. Loss of revenues was most often reported by businesses in Brazil and Mexico (around 27% of respondents each) and the least often in Canada (nearly 14% of respondents). The US response rate was nearly 22%).
Cash flow levels - main concern for businesses in the Americas this year
In light of the earlier mentioned findings, respondents in the Americas believe that a number of risk factors will threaten their business profitability in 2016. Although respondents’ opinions at overall survey level seem to be quite uniformly distributed [see Statistical Appendix, page XYZ], findings at country level highlight interesting differences. This largely reflects the diverse economic, business and financial conditions seen in the countries surveyed. In the US, Canada and Mexico, maintaining cash flow levels is considered the greatest challenge to business profitability by an average of 20% of respondents in each country. However, in the US and Canada, this opinion appears to reflect respondents’ concern about a likely fall in demand for products and services this year (15.3% and 17.1% of respondents respectively, versus a 13% survey average). In Mexico, respondents’ concern about cash flow levels appears to chiefly stem from inefficiencies in receivables management (17.5% of respondents, versus a survey average of 12.7%).
Respondents in Brazil, in contrast, appear to be more concerned about containment of costs (18.2% of respondents compared to a survey average of 16%). This concern most likely arises from difficulties with the collection of outstanding invoices (13.6% of respondents compared to a 11.6% survey average), or from difficulties in accessing bank lending in the home market (13.2% of respondents, compared to a 7.7% survey average). This reflects the tight financial conditions of the Brazilian market. Another reason for concern expressed by respondents in the Americas is related to the DSO level (increased by an average of five days from last year). A quite staggering percentage of respondents (38%) expects DSO to increase over the next 12 months.
2 in 5 respondents anticipate requesting secured forms of payment from B2B customers more frequently
To protect business profitability from the impact of late payment by customers, around 40% of respondents in the Americas reported they will not change their current mix of credit management tools (respondents in Europe: 44%). However, most of the respondents anticipate increasing the use of credit management tools that ensure a trouble free B2B sale on credit. 41.1% of the respondents (around 53% in Mexico and Brazil) will request secured forms of payment from their B2B customers more frequently. Around 40% (50% in Mexico and Brazil) will check the creditworthiness and track records of their customers more often over the next 12 months. Over the same time frame, 38% of the respondents anticipate an increase in their monitoring of customers’ credit risk as well. Nearly 37% of the respondents in the Americas (54.6% in Brazil) will sell more on a cash basis in B2B transactions this year.
Uncollectable receivables
On average 1.4% (down 1.8% from last year, and compared to 1.2% in Europe) of the B2B receivables of respondents in the Americas was written off as uncollectable. In Brazil, the proportion of uncollectable receivables was at 2%; consistent with last year.
This reflects no improvement in collecting outstanding invoices in Brazil this year. The proportion was slightly lower in Mexico, at 1.6%, in the US 1.5%, and in Canada 1.1%. Uncollectable receivables in the Americas occur most often in the construction and consumer durables industries.
Brazilian respondents wrote receivables off as uncollectable most often
Based on survey responses in the Americas, B2B receivables were reported to be uncollectable mainly due to the customer going bankrupt or out of business (53.5% of respondents, compared to 54.6% last year). Brazil has the highest percentage of respondents (55.2%) stating this reason. Write-offs due to the failure of collection attempts were reported by 36.8% of respondents in the Americas. This response rate is again highest in Brazil (43.6%). These findings once again reflect the still difficult insolvency environment in which Brazilian businesses operate. For an average 30% of respondents each, write-offs were either due to an inability to locate the customer or to the age of the receivables. These reasons for receivables write-off were most frequently mentioned by respondents in the US (35% for each of the reasons).
For more insights into the B2B receivables collections practices worldwide, please see the Global Collections Review by Atradius Collections (free download after registration), available from October 2016 on atradiuscollections.com
Payment practices by industry
Respondents in the Americas extended the most lenient payment terms (averaging 36 days from the invoice date) to B2B customers belonging to the machines and paper industries.
B2B customers in the food sector were given the shortest payment terms, averaging around 15 days from the invoice date. On average, the poorest payment performance was observed with B2B customers in the construction industry, who took the longest to pay overdue invoices (an average of 38 days after the due date).
The largest proportion of overdue payments was generated in the construction industry (around 50% of the invoice value ended up in late payments). Late payment of B2B invoices due to insufficient availability of funds from customers was reported to occur most often in the food, machines, metals, paper and services industries (around 55% of the respondents). Customers’ intentional use of outstanding invoices for financial advantage, which is the second most frequently cited reason for late payment of invoices, was most often reported in respect to customers from the electronics industry (around 42% of respondents).
Forecast on B2B customers’ payment practices trend over the next 12 months
The majority of respondents in the Americas (40%) don’t expect changes in the payment behaviour of B2B customers over the next 12 months. More respondents (36%) expect an overall improvement in payment practices than a deterioration (28%). B2B customers expecting deterioration belong mostly to the consumer durables and food industries (around 34% of respondents each). One in five respondents in the food industry expects the deterioration to be significant.
Payment Practices Barometer Americas 2016 (EN)
PPB Americas Statistical Appendix 2016 (EN)
PPB Americas Survey Design 2016 (EN)
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Payment Practices Barometer Brazil 2016
In line with the survey average, 91.4% of respondents in Brazil (95.0% in 2015) reported late payment of invoices from B2B customers over the last 12 months.
Insolvency Forecasts August 2016
Insolvencies across advanced markets are forecast to be flat in 2016 and 2017.
Market Monitor - Machinery - United States 2016
US machinery businesses related to the oil/gas or the mining segments are affected by lower capital spending on purchasing machinery and equipment.
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Days passed. Myra stayed in her room, recovering, under the care of Arinna and Lanira. True to his word, VanCleef had not gone back to Myra again after Benny left, allowing her the promised time to come to terms with her new situation. She never tried to die again, though she didn't talk much whenever Idira went to visit her. She just looked out the window with a faraway look in her eyes. Idira tried to tell her what Nin had told her, so Myra could see VanCleef was a good man, but Lanira hushed her up, saying not to trouble her sister with politics.
Over the weeks, things settled into a semblance of calm, even a brief visit from Papa had been uneventful. He had moved around Idira's room like a caged animal, looking at her things, scoffing to himself. Idira showed him her writing. He looked at it, unimpressed and tossed it back onto the desk. He had changed, becoming even harder and meaner looking, his body lean and muscled, hardened from travelling and whatever else he did as the Defias's Enforcer. Idira was glad when he left. He reminded her of the criminals, maybe they were influencing him. When he came in, she had been in the midst of a lesson. Nin had been polite to him, though he hadn't been to her. He had looked at her like he was taking her clothes off with his eyes, a dirty leer on his face. When he left, Nin had reached out for the back of one the chairs, and clung to it, shuddering.
Apart from an increasing presence of thugs and criminals coming and going into the courtyard below, Idira's life fell into a comfortable routine. She gained weight and her hair began to shine, glossy with health. New clothes arrived almost daily in pretty ribbon-wrapped boxes. Soon her wardrobe became so full, the doors couldn't be closed, its rail groaning under the weight of dresses in every colour imaginable. Blackie came and went, plump and shiny from boar meat, wearing a little red leather collar, bearing a bronze tag with her name engraved on it. VanCleef had had it made to match the collars worn by the rest of the cats in his house. No one ever dared hurt the cats wearing his collars, not even the bad men. Just like Idira, Blackie had a good life. VanCleef kept his promise to Idira too, except for the occasional bellow of injury from training with his men, he had never hurt anyone again.
Idira's lessons with Nin continued everyday, except on the holy day, when they had to go to the cathedral and listen to a sermon from the bishop. Idira loved going to the cathedral and listening to his stories. They were very interesting. Bishop Mattias taught about the Light and how it resided in every living being. Sometimes he would tell stories of heroes who had used their Light for the greatest good, and would often speak of the bravery and integrity of the paladin, Lord Uther the Lightbringer. When he did, he would look meaningfully at VanCleef, who sat beside Idira on the front pew wearing his Holy Day best; an elegant fitted red jacket, cream shirt and breeches, black boots and a red silk scarf around his throat, tied like a cravat. VanCleef would nod at the bishop, a tight smile on his lips, though he didn't look pleased. Idira couldn't understand why, it seemed a great compliment to be singled out by the bishop and compared to the wondrous Lord Uther. She wondered if the violet light was her Light. Maybe she wasn't bad after all, she just had a different colour light. She wished she could have had the time to ask Benny.
Her learning progressed. Soon she was able to read her fairytale books without any help. She finished all of them. Nin brought her new books, much more difficult to read. Idira soon mastered those too. Nin said she couldn't keep up with Idira, but she smiled when she said it, her eyes shining with pride.
Nin also schooled Idira in the proper manner of speaking, gently correcting her each time she erred. Within six weeks, Idira spoke just like Nin. She loved the way the words sounded in her mouth, pretty and precise. At bedtime, she would read her books aloud to her bunny, revelling in the sudden pleasure of speaking like a proper lady.
Every evening before dinner, Idira was sent outside to play in the stable yard to get exercise and fresh air. She would pat the horses' muzzles and give them cut pieces of apple from the barrel in the kitchen. Lanira gave Idira something called a skipping rope, and once Idira learned how to use it, she used it all the time, even to skip along the hallways, though Nin frowned upon it, saying it wasn't ladylike behaviour.
One evening, after almost two months had passed, VanCleef told her he had found out her birthday would be in a week. He promised her whatever she wanted to celebrate on the coming Holy Day. Idira asked if they could eat at the Weary Traveller, Moonbrook's fancy inn on the square. VanCleef smiled, indulgent and asked if there was anyone in particular she would like invited. Secretly Idira wished she could see Benny, but she knew better than to ask. Instead she asked for Nin, Lanira, Arinna, and the Bishop Mattias. She asked if Myra would come too, since it was her birthday as well. VanCleef's smile faded. He picked up one of Idira's books and fiddled with it, saying he didn't expect so.
On the morning of her birthday celebration, Idira woke to find a ribbon-wrapped box waiting on the window seat. She jumped out of bed and pulled the ribbon away, excited. A new silk dress lay within, nestled in yellow tissue paper. She caught her breath, the dress was violet, the same colour as her eyes. With a cry of delight, she pulled it free of its wrappings, ran to the wardrobe and tugged the doors open. Holding the dress up in front her, she gazed at her reflection in the wardrobe's mirror. Little white embroidered rosebuds adorned the square neckline and bodice. Underneath, a pale yellow sash encircled the waist, tied into a huge bow at the back. A flower garden done in intricate embroidery rose up from the hem, the tallest flowers reaching knee height. Pale yellow bees hovered over the flowers. It was the most beautiful of all her dresses by far. Holding her breath, she went back to the box and peeked at the underside of the lid, aching with hope. There it was! In the middle lay the golden embossed sigil of the expensive dress shop in Stormwind where Myra's dresses came from. Idira squealed, delighted and danced round in circles, holding the dress against her chest. Her first dress from the fairytale city of Stormwind!
When it was time to depart, VanCleef came to escort her down the stairs to the waiting carriage. Instead of his best red jacket, he wore a dark blue one over his usual cream shirt and breeches. Idira noticed he wasn't wearing his red silk scarf, either. She asked why he had changed.
'Red would have clashed with the violet,' he said with a smile. She took his proffered hand and looked up at him, her heart filled with love. He was more of a father to her than Papa had ever been.
'Thank you for my dress, it is my most favourite of all,' she said, her voice catching. A wistful look crossed his face as he adjusted the matching violet ribbon holding her hair up in a ponytail. He nodded, though he didn't say anything. She had a feeling he loved her too, as the daughter he never had. The thought made her feel warm and happy inside. Maybe this was what being in a real family felt like.
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The Hidden Entrance To Chichen Itza They Don’t Tell You About
Things are not always what they appear to be at Chichen Itza.
The Yucatan penisula’s most popular archaeological site holds many secrets…
Secrets that will be revealed to you and explained in detail when traveling with a knowledgeable, experienced and passionate tour leader who is happy to share extensive research with you.
And If that is what you are looking for then you’ve come to the right place because we happen to know someone. (Hint, hint)
Many of the secrets scattered throughout Chichen Itza are hidden in plain sight (if you know where to look for them).
For example, the general entrance located to the WEST (or chik’in in the Yucatec Maya language) of the archaeological site’s central plaza used by most tourists to gain access to the vast complex is NOT the original entrance.
When you are entering Chichen Itza from the public parking lot using the public entrance you will have a marvelous view of the Maya’s most famous and recognizable landmark, El Castillo aka Temple of Kukulkan but its neither the original entrance used by the ancient maya used nor is it the entrance experience intended for initiates by the ancient architects of Chiclen Itza.
What You Should Know About Entering Chichen Itza
The WEST is neither the traditional nor symbolic entrance for the ancient Maya. In fact it is thought to be the direction you go when your temporal existence has expired.
We know the original entrance is in the South. I point out evidence in-the-field during our annual Mysteries of the Maya tour.
Adept Expeditions pay homage to the indigenous tradition during our symbolist ours by using the hidden private entrance once used by the Maya themselves.
And it pays off because we not only to follow footsteps of the original initaites but we manage to get some killer money-shots in front of the iconic pyramid.
Symbolism of the Four Directions in the Maya World View and Why We Don’t Enter From The West
In the Maya languages, the terms for ‘West’ are not generally built on the ‘enter’ or ‘entrance’ metaphor but rather ‘descend’ or ‘to become dark’. In fact, many ancient civilizations across the world view the ‘West’ as symbolic for the end of a cycle based on the setting sun.
It is not uncommon for indigenous traditions to attribute the ‘West’ to darkness, death or transition among other symbolic correspondances.
For the ancient Maya, the four directions figure prominently in their world view as indicated in the glyphs below. Here, have a look for yourself:
The Classic Maya hieroglyphs that represent the “four directions” in Rio Azul Tomb 12 (drawing by David Stuart, Stuart 1987b:162, Fig. 41): North (top), West (left), East (right), and South
(bottom). The four directions are accompained by undeciphered glyphs (above each direction) referencing the Moon (north), Night (west), Venus (south), and Day or Sun (east).
The ancient Maya of the Yucatan penisula relied on their adept shaman (hmen) who were not only healers attuned to mother earth and astronomers of the naked eye but who were also ancient architects that understood time, measure and the movement of celestial bodies.
These enlightened adepts were the master builders behind the Mayan civilization and they laid out their traditional homes according to the four-way divisions expressed symbolically in their rituals.
They Maya hmen would initiate the traditional ch’a chaak ceremony by bending two flexiable branches into arches over the table that serve the as their altar. Then the two wooden arches are anchored at opposing corners of the table, crossing in the middle of the celestial dome.
We look at several traditional Maya homes during our annual Mysteries of the Maya community and study trip. If you would like to experience this tour you can get updates and receive an early-bird discount rates by joining our email list.
The Classic Maya glyph (T552) that represents ‘sky’ in sky-bands reflects this symbolic construction of the sky, and it is notable that the “crossed bands” of a common sky glyph are occasionally marked with a sign that resembles the semantic sign for ‘wood’. Further, it is interesting to consider the numerology in that the four-way divisions are illustrious in the cognitive systems of the mesoamerican masters of time and measure.
Why the officials at Chichen Itza chose to position the entrance gate in the West instis beyond me as the ideal location of the ancient Maya would not be the West.
In fact, we know the sacred site of Chichen Itza was designed to be experienced by entering from the SOUTH, as evidenced by the ancient Mayan arch discovered there, an common recurring theme you’ll find at the entrance of the Mayan ruins.
According to indigenous teachings the connecting sacbe (white road) extending from this arch was the path of the initiate of the Kukulkan degree.
The teachings maintain that Kukulkan, symbolized by the plumed serpent, represents a degree of consciousness. Initiates would go on to receive the temple teachings only after entering Chichen Itza from the original entrance located in the southern part of the complex. We invite you to WALK THIS WAY…
How To See Chichen Itza Without The Crowds
We pay homage to the original tradition during our annual community adventure & study trip: The Mysteries of the Maya tour, where if you are a guest, you’ll be treated to this ancient experience by entering from the south through a private entrance. This is the original entrance for the ancient Maya and they way it should be experienced.
Aside from emulating the ancient experience, as part of the Adept Expeditions tour you’ll the enjoy modern benefits as well…
As the tour buses come rolling in, the long lines start to pile up at the public gate. So by taking the private entrance into Chichen Itza our group beats the crowds thus saving time. This now enables us to arrive early enough to take selfies in front of the Kukulkan pyramid – without droves of tourists photobombing in the back ground of your picture.
Here’s an example from our 2017 Mysteries of the Maya tour: two members of our group are enjoying the iconic El Castillo money-shot everyone wants to get just as the sun is rising above Kukulkan’s Pyramid.
The pyramid itself is more of an ancient Maya calendarical device. Each side of the pyramid is divided in half by the staircase creating 18 different terraces that commemorate the 18 months of the Maya Haab-solar cycle calendar.
There are four staircases (one on each side), with 91 steps on each – when added together along with the apex platform comes 365, the number of days in the year. As if that wasn’t enough on the spring and autumnal equinoxes each year the sunlight produces a natural light show (See my previous blog for more on the Secret Teachings of the Maya Ballcourt at Chichen Itza where special emphasis is placed on the secrets of light and sound).
We discuss all this and more during The Mysteries of the Maya community adventure & study trip – a Symbolist tour unlike any other:
Pro Tip for Intrepid Travelers:
We would love for you to join one of our tours but if you decide to go at it alone you can still take the path to the private entrance and gain access to Chichen Itza. The original entrance, where you can see the traditional Mayan arch and walk the path of the initiates of the Kukulkan degree, can be accessed from the Mayaland Hotel & Bungalows. We recommend this hotel but it’s not mandatory that you stay in order to purchase the private entrance ticket. This is one of Chichen Itza’s best kept secrets, a real hidden gem.
Anyexteehttp://www.Anyextee.com
Anyextee is an esoteric researcher, author, public speaker, filmmaker, artist & tour guide called to investigate the ancient mysteries, metaphysics and mysticism. He transformed his passion for exploration into an esoteric tour company dedicated to providing travelers with more meaningful experiences. He is the producer of The Sacred History of the Rosicrucians and the founder of Adept Expeditions, Adept Initiates and Ancient Egypt Mystery Schools and leads tours through the Yucatan, Mexico and Egypt.
The Secret Teachings of the Maya Ballcourt at Chichen Itza
THE MYSTERIES OF THE MAYA: A Community Adventure & Study Trip of the Ancient Mayan Ruins (November 2019)
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These days, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is focused on multichannel personalized communications. About three years ago, it had yet to implement email. “We really wanted to optimize our outreach, to optimize the customer experience and help customers understand exactly what we’re offering,” said Sherri Zink, VP of medical informatics at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST),... Continue reading »
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The health care system is evolving due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which is why MDC Partners introduced a dedicated agency catering to the vertical: Antidote 360. “Health care is moving from a medicinal mindset to a lifestyle mindset,” said Antidote 360 co-founder Jennifer Deutsch, who is also the EVP and general manager of MDC agency... Continue reading »
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PageScience Debuts Video Platform For Health And Pharma Advertisers
It’s difficult for health and pharma advertisers to navigate the FDA’s regulatory landscape. A few years ago, for instance, they were barred from using cookie-based targeting. That’s why PageScience, an ad network for the pharma industry, began working with AppNexus in 2011 to build a contextual targeting solution called PageMatch, which helps advertisers reach consumers... Continue reading »
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PageScience Helps Health Marketers Ditch Cookies With Contextual Targeting
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We Know Where Apple Stands On Health Data. What About Google?
Using health data for advertising purposes is a hot potato and Apple’s not touching it. The jury’s still out on Google. Despite the upcoming release of the pulse-reading Apple Watch (available early 2015) and Apple pushing its HealthKit API with developers, advertisers won’t have any access to health data derived from related apps or devices.... Continue reading »
What Apple’s Health Data Restrictions Mean For The Ad Industry
Apple is laying down the law for app developers through a set of new rules, which are slated to take effect in conjunction with its long-awaited iPhone release on Monday. Apple's alterations restrict developers' access to data from HealthKit, its factory-installed fitness monitoring app, and third-party app extensions. The new stipulations will likely apply to the next-generation... Continue reading »
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Home>African Future>Angola launches new wildlife protections to curb poaching
Angola launches new wildlife protections to curb poaching
By AT editor - 12 September 2018 at 4:29 am
Angola’s Ministry of Environment is launching a new wildlife conservation initiative to assess the impact of poaching, and strengthen legal protections and enforcement.
Aristófanes Fontes, the director of the National Institute of Biodiversity and Conservation Areas, tells state news agency ANGOP that national training, a licensing program and a law enforcement database are all part of Angola’s advances in protecting endangered species on the CITES list.
The African gray parrot, as well as white-bellied pangolin and giant pangolin, are among the species living in Angola’s Mayombe National Park in Cabinda Province that Fontes hopes to protect, along with the lowland gorilla and forest elephant.
Cabinda is the small northern piece of Angola that’s separated from the rest of the country by a thin strip of coastal territory belonging to Democratic Republic of Congo. The Mayombe Forest – called the “Amazon of Africa” – spans both nations as well as parts of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to the north. The forest also reaches into Central African Republic and Congo-Brazzaville.
Conflict, land degradation and wildlife trafficking have dramatically impacted biodiversity in Angola, which also is working with its neighbors to relaunch transboundary efforts to protect the forest.
The new anti-trafficking effort follows a study published in March that found the recovery in Angola’s elephant populations after the war had seen setbacks because of poaching and habitat loss. That study was conducted by Elephants Without Borders and the University of Massachusetts in Cuando-Cubango province in the southeast corner of the country.
“Our study shows that ending war is not necessarily sufficient for the long-term recovery of wildlife populations. Active protection of wildlife is also needed,” said Michael Chase of EWB, who flew the first aerial surveys after the war. “Measures such as anti-poaching and limiting human encroachment in protected areas are now essential to saving Angola’s elephants.”
Image: SADC file
African gray parrot
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Macroeconomic Issues Facing ASEAN Countries
John Hicklin, David Robinson, and Anoop Singh
This volume, edited by John Hicklin, David Robinson, and Anoop Singh, contains papers prepared for an ASEAN conference held in Jakarta in November 1996. The conference aimed to review the macroeconomic record of the member countries of ASEAN, examine the factors that have contributed to the region's economic success, and identify the policy agenda for sustaining this success into the 21st century.
toggleI Overall Agenda
2 Opening Remarks
3 Sustaining Macroeconomic Performance in the ASEAN Countries
toggleII Savings, Investment and the Current Account
4 Are Current Account Imbalances in ASEAN Countries a Problem?
5 Indonesia’s Fiscal Position: Sustainability Issues
6 Philippine Fiscal Policy: Sustainability, Growth, and Savings
7 Saving in Southeast Asia and Latin America Compared: Searching for Policy Lessons
toggleIII Monetary Policy, Financial Liberalization, and Capital Market Development
8 Financial Liberalization and Money Demand in ASEAN Countries: Implications for Monetary Policy
9 Capital Market Development and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Malaysia and Thailand
10 Indonesian Financial System: Its Contribution to Economic Performance and Key Policy Issues
11 Exchange Rate Policy and Macroeconomic Management in ASEAN Countries
toggleIV Medium-Term Outlook
12 ASEAN in the World Economy
13 ASEAN in a Regional Perspective
14 Growth and Productivity in ASEAN Countries
Structure of the Financial System
Data on Indonesian Financial Structure
Economic Implications of Structure
Impact of the Structure of the Banking System on Growth and Efficiency
Impact of the Structure of the Banking System on Stability
Problems Originating Within the Banking System
Problems Originating Outside the Banking System
Securities Markets
Continued Development of the Stock Market
Development of a Domestic Bond Market
Development of Nonbank Financial Intermediaries
This paper examines the structure of the financial system in Indonesia and considers its past and prospective contribution to the country’s economic performance. The focus is on the banking system and securities markets, which are the primary mechanisms for mobilizing savings and allocating investment funds. It also examines the performance of the financial system through the analytical lens of its contribution to growth, stability, and efficiency, using where possible the theory of financial markets. It considers a wide variety of data, although the unavailability of sufficiently detailed, published material for the most part precludes formal econometric tests.
The Indonesian financial system relies heavily on bank finance and internal finance. The role of securities markets has been small, although the stock market is growing rapidly.
Indonesian finance has historically been dominated by banks. Flow of funds accounts show that approximately 40 percent of savings by the private sector flow into bank deposits (Table 1). Most of the rest of these savings remain within the private nonbanking sector, on which data exist only in aggregate form. It seems probable that much of the residual savings is retained by the original savers and a substantial part of capital formation is self-financed. The flow of funds accounts indicate that 30–45 percent of private capital formation is financed by bank credit and most of the rest is financed within the domestic private nonbanking sector. According to these accounts, finance provided directly by the government and foreigners declined during 1991-94.
Table 1.Indonesia: Role of Banks in Private Finance
(In trillions of rupiah)
Domestic private nonbank sector
Gross savings 39.1 49.0 58.8 67.5
Gross capital formation 51.2 53.2 67.5 86.2
Bank deposits and currency 14.5 20.2 26.3 29.5
Credit from domestic banks 19.3 15.7 31.0 37.5
Credit from Bank Indonesia and central government 7.9 4.9 2.7 1.3
Credit from foreign sources 8.7 8.5 1.2 2.8
(In percent)
Private nonbank savings intermediated by banks 37.1 41.2 44.8 43.7
Private nonbank investment
Intermediated by banks 37.7 29.5 45.9 43.6
Financed by government 15.4 9.2 4.0 1.5
Financed abroad 16.9 16.0 1.8 3.2
Financed within sector 30.0 45.3 48.3 51.7
Source: Bank Indonesia, Indonesia’s Flow of Funds Account Matrix, 1991-94.
Available data indicate that the bond market provides a very small part of commercial finance, while the stock market provides just over one-third and banks provide just under two-thirds of the total (Table 2). However, these figures substantially overstate the role of the stock market, because capitalization includes shares that have never been sold on the stock market. A reported 70 percent of total shares are held by company founders, including those held by the government after partial privatizations. If a rough adjustment is made for these unissued shares, the stock market has provided about one-seventh of total business finance, and banks have provided a little under six-sevenths.
Table 2.Indonesia: Role of Bank and Securities Finance
In percent of total business finance
In trillions of rupiah
Bank credit (commercial credits only) 142.2 176.4 65.7 62.4
Total securities market capitalization 74.2 106.1 34.3 37.6
Stock market 67.7 98.8 31.3 35.0
Bond market 6.5 7.2 3.0 2.5
Source: Bank Indonesia (1995).Note: Data are for end-March.
The role of financial intermediaries, including insurance companies and nonbank finance companies in Indonesian markets, is small compared with that of banks. Banks own over 85 percent of the total assets of this group of intermediaries, which excludes pension funds because of a lack of consistent data (Table 3). The first domestic mutual fund in Indonesia began operations only in late 1995.
Table 3.Indonesia: Size of Selected Financial Intermediaries
Commercial banks (total credit) 115.7 124.2 153.9
Of which:
State banks 61.8 69.1 73.7
Private national banks 42.3 42.5 64.6
Local government-owned banks 2.6 2.9 3.5
Foreign and joint banks 9.1 9.7 12.1
Insurance companies (assets) 7.9 9.0 11.3
Life insurance 1.6 1.9 5.6
Social insurance 3.6 4.3 2.3
Indemnity insurance and reinsurance 2.6 2.8 3.3
Finance companies (assets) 8.4 10.1 11.9
(In percent of bank credit and assets of other companies)
Commercial banks 87.7 86.7 86.9
Insurance companies 6.0 6.3 6.4
Finance companies 6.3 7.1 6.7
Source: Bank Indonesia (1994, 1995).Note: Bank data as of end-March; insurance and finance company data as of end-December of preceding year. Pension funds are excluded because of a lack of consistent data; Leechor (1996) indicates these controlled assets totaled Rp 18.6 trillion at end-1994.
The key link between the financial system and economic growth is mobilizing savings and channeling them into productive investment. Indonesia has high saving and investment rates relative to most other countries in the world, although not relative to some of its neighbors. Prima facie, this suggests that the financial system, by intermediating a large share of savings and investment, has successfully fostered growth. However, it is possible that with a different financial structure, Indonesian growth could be higher and the saving and investment rates could be larger.
At least two aspects of Indonesian financial structure have potential effects on macroeconomic stability. First, the dominance of bank debt over other forms of finance can facilitate the operation of monetary policy by raising the importance of the banking system relative to other parts of the financial system. This makes the transmission of Bank Indonesia’s monetary policy to economic activity more direct and potentially more precise and predictable. Second, the dominance of banks also has negative implications in that enterprises have fewer alternative sources of finance than in some other countries. Recent efforts to tighten regulation of the commercial paper market may exacerbate this effect, although the close links between that market and banks or bank affiliates reduce the degree to which it truly represents an alternative source of finance. The dependence of firms on bank finance increases the risk of a credit crunch, which could magnify the effects of an economic downturn.
The financing of investment projects by internal corporate funds, or at least by funds internal to a conglomerate group, appears to play a major role in Indonesia. The literature suggests that this is an effective way to finance capital formation, because there tend to be fewer informational asymmetries in such arrangements than in more arm’s-length transactions. Nonetheless, the prevalence of self-finance may indicate that other channels of finance are not working well, which may inhibit growth. There is also the agency-theoretic concern that heavy use of self-finance indicates a high level of free cash flow that is being inefficiently deployed. More data would be needed to evaluate these questions. However, evidence on the effects of the 1983 liberalization of interest rates and bank credit on enterprise finance (Goeltom, 1995) shows that enterprise borrowing costs increased, but that reliance on internal finance by smaller firms and by firms not connected to a conglomerate decreased. Goeltom also finds that after the interest rate increase that accompanied liberalization, firms that were not entirely self-financed were more efficient, suggesting that the liberalization increased the efficiency of the allocation of investment.
The development of the stock market has positive implications for growth in Indonesia. A stock market is a necessary component of the development of sources of finance for risky investments in growing sectors of the economy. While venture capital so far plays a small role, the development of a larger venture capital sector could help channel initial finance to small firms, which could access the stock market later in their life cycle. Without venture capital, self-finance augmented by bank loans is likely to be the primary source of finance for risky firms.
The financial structure has other effects on economic efficiency. For example, Indonesian residents benefit as the set of available savings and financing vehicles becomes larger. The benefits result from financial markets’ becoming more complete, which, according to standard microeconomic theory, increases welfare. There has been much progress in recent years on expanding the range of financial products, with the development of the stock market and pension funds, as well as money market instruments and, most recently, stock warrants. Indonesia lacks an exchange for financial futures and options. Although such derivative products could enhance efficiency, it will be argued later in this paper that the supervision of the financial system should be improved before such an innovation is contemplated.
While positive real interest rates have helped encourage short-term personal savings, there is a dearth of vehicles for long-term savings. Reform of the pension system, including efforts to make employer-sponsored plans more attractive (Leechor, 1996), could help attract more savings and also channel the savings more to long-term investments such as stocks and bonds. Development of the life insurance industry could make a similar contribution.
Growth depends on the efficiency of investment, particularly the extent to which funds are allocated to high-return projects. One factor that influences efficiency is the enforceability of investment contracts and related agreements. The World Bank (1996) recently examined this issue and concluded that there are substantial legal impediments to financial contracting. Action to alleviate these impediments, which hinder both bank lending and bond finance, would ensure that intermediaries allocate funds more according to the criteria of economic risk and return than to the availability of other means to enforce contracts, such as social relations between counterparties.
The number of commercial banks grew rapidly, from 111 in 1989 to approximately 240 in 1994, when the authorities placed stricter limits on the issuance of new bank licenses. Large state-owned banks and regional government-owned development banks coexist with a rapidly growing sector of privately owned banks and partly or fully foreign-owned banks (Table 4). The large state-owned banks and the private national banks together accounted for 87 percent of total banking assets at the end of 1995. Although distinctions have diminished in recent years, the seven state-owned banks consist of five that began as sectoral lending banks, a former development bank, and a former savings bank. During 1991-95, the assets of the private national sector grew at an annual rate of 26 percent, while the state bank sector grew at a 12 percent annual rate. By 1994, the assets of the private national sector had surpassed those of the state bank sector. Foreign-owned banks consist of joint ventures between foreign banks and domestic investors as well as branches of foreign banks. Indonesia does not permit wholly owned subsidiaries of foreign banks in Indonesia, and only foreign banks with existing branches may open new branches. Foreign banks without a preexisting presence must enter through a joint venture.
Table 4.Indonesia: Composition of the Banking Sector
Number of banks
State commercial banks 7 7 7 7 7
Local government-owned banks 27 27 27 27 27
Private national banks 129 144 161 166 165
Joint banks 19 20 29 30 31
Foreign banks 10 10 10 10 10
Total 192 208 234 240 240
Number of offices
State commercial banks 1,395 1,434 1,455 1,490 1,635
Local government-owned banks 580 613 639 645 705
Private national banks 3,260 3,385 3,601 3,806 4,160
Foreign banks 99 94 98 100 103
Total 5,358 5,557 5,838 6,090 6,655
Assets (in trillions of rupiah)
State commercial banks 78.0 93.3 100.6 104.5 122.6
Local government-owned banks 4.7 5.3 6.5 7.9 9.8
Private national banks 58.5 66.3 88.2 113.8 147.5
Joint banks 5.6 7.5 11.8 14.3 17.9
Foreign banks 7.4 7.5 7.9 9.2 12.3
Total 154.2 180.0 215.1 249.8 310.0
Sources: Bank Indonesia (1994, 1995, 1996).
Liberalization of the banking system began in 1983 (Binhadi, 1995; and IBCA, 1995) with a liberalization of interest rates, the elimination of credit ceilings, and the introduction of indirect monetary instruments. As part of a package of deregulatory measures passed in 1988, reserve requirements were reduced from 15 percent to 2 percent, licensing for new private banks and foreign joint-venture banks was re-opened, and permission was granted to state-owned firms to deposit 50 percent of their short-term funds with private banks instead of only with state-owned banks. The number of privately owned banks exploded after this measure. Further deregulation the following year eliminated the need for Bank Indonesia approval for medium- and long-term loans and removed ceilings on offshore loans. Regulators also enacted a restriction on bank lending to related parties and a limit on net foreign exchange open positions and limits on equity activities of banks.
The authorities have strengthened the regulation of the banking system in the 1990s. They introduced a risk-weighted capital adequacy ratio, effective end-1993, which mirrored the one adopted by the Group of Ten countries through the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision, and enacted minimum loan-loss provisions. In the face of slowing activity in 1993, the authorities relaxed regulations somewhat, although they tightened the legal lending limit, which governs bank exposures to single borrowers and to parties affiliated with the bank.1 Banking Act No. 7 of 1992 converted state banks to limited-liability companies and permitted them to lend to nonpriority sectors. Despite the imposition of limited liability, which in principle limits the amount of state support available, the Ministry of Finance announced in 1994 that it would not permit a state bank to default on its obligations (Chan, 1995a). In 1995, reserve requirements were raised to 3 percent from 2 percent, effective February 1996. In addition, the minimum capital required for banks with foreign exchange licenses was tripled, and the capital adequacy ratio for these banks was raised from the 8 percent that currently applies to all banks to 12 percent, with both of these measures to be phased in over a five-year period ending in 2001. Bank Indonesia has developed a supervisory system patterned on the U.S. CAMEL system (capital, asset quality, management, earnings, and liquidity) and undertakes annual on-site examinations of banks. It remains responsible for bank supervision and regulation, while the Ministry of Finance has authority to grant and revoke bank licenses.
The substantial asset quality problems banks experienced in the early 1990s were part of the impetus for the tightening of supervision and regulation. These problems appear to have been due to lax lending controls, exacerbated by the effects of a tightening in monetary policy in 1991. The problems of state banks culminated in the rescue in 1995 of Bapindo, which had built up an overwhelming percentage of nonperforming loans. Earlier, a government program had been set up with the support of the World Bank to recapitalize and restructure the five state commercial banks. Problems among private banks led to the first bank failure in Indonesia in over twenty years, that of Bank Summa in 1992.
Some Indonesian banks continue to be adversely affected by problem loans and reported asset quality continues to be worse at state banks than at private banks. Official figures indicate that classified credits for the banking system as a whole declined from a peak of 14 percent of total loans at the end of 1993 to 10 percent at the end of 1995. However, the improving trend of this ratio appears to be largely due to the continued fast expansion of bank credit. Nonperforming loans comprised about 17 percent of total credits extended by state banks at the end of 1995, but only 5 percent of private bank credits (Table 5). Private foreign exchange banks (which tend to be the larger private banks) had substantially better asset quality than the smaller, private nonforeign exchange banks (Chan, 1995b; and World Bank, 1996).
Table 5.Indonesia: Commercial Bank Nonperforming Loans
(In percent of total credits)
Nonperforming 14.2 12.1 10.4
Bad1 3.3 4.0 3.3
State banks2
Bad 4.2 5.9 5.3
Nonperforming 7.3 5.4 4.9
Memorandum items:
Total credits 177.5 217.0 267.8
State banks 99.1 104.1 120.9
Private banks 79.8 108.5 141.3
Source: World Bank (1996).Note: Data are for end-December.
1 Bad loans are the lowest quality of three categories of nonperforming loans.
2 Includes the five state commercial banks, Bapindo, and Bank Tabungan Negara.
There are indications that a significant number of banks are under-capitalized and have not yet complied with some important prudential rules, although compliance appears to be improving. According to Bank Indonesia, 15 banks did not meet the required 8 percent capital adequacy ratio in April 1996, down from 21 banks in December 1995, while 41 banks did not comply with the legal lending limit; this was an improvement from the 70 banks in December 1995. Twelve of the 77 licensed foreign exchange banks did not meet the rules on net open foreign exchange exposure. Private banks have accounted for most violations (Table 6).
Table 6.Indonesia: Number of Banks Not in Compliance with Prudential Rules, 1995
Total Number in Category1
Capital Adequacy Ratio2
Legal Lending Limit2
Loan-Deposit Ratio2
State banks 7 0 2 1
Private banks 166 18 56 11
Local development banks 27 2 3 0
Foreign and joint-venture banks 40 1 9 6
Total 240 21 70 18
Sources: Bank Indonesia (1995) and Indonesia Observer, “Banks Suffer US$4.5 Billion in Bad Loans,” January 26, 1996.
1 End-March.
2 End-October.
Poorly capitalized banks tend to make economically suboptimal lending decisions. In the theory of banking, a poorly capitalized bank has an incentive to make riskier loans if depositors and shareholders expect to get bailed out if the bank fails. Bank shareholders in essence own a put option. If the loan portfolio does well, they gain the proceeds, but if the portfolio does poorly, their losses are limited by the willingness of the authorities to bail out the bank. Without the possibility of a bailout, creditors would demand a higher payout, and market pressure would operate on bank owners to reduce risks. However, if creditors expect to get bailed out, bank owners do not face this market pressure. Bank owners maximize the expected value in their put option by choosing a portfolio with high risk. In a system where a number of banks operate with low capital, the economy will end up selecting production technologies that are riskier than optimal, given the expected returns of those projects, and tax-payers consequently bear more risk than is optimal.
The level of problem loans suggests that not only undercapitalized banks have been making poor lending decisions. The ownership structure of Indonesian banks also influences the efficiency of asset allocation. State banks may not be required to make lending decisions on a commercial basis and, although direct information on this does not seem to be available, it is clear that problem loan ratios are much higher at state banks. In addition, many private banks are owned by affiliates of large corporate groups. There is a risk that they will make lending decisions in the interest of the owners of these groups—rather than ones that maximize returns for the banks—and that the legal lending limit will not be observed.
Problems in the legal system may also influence bank lending and steer lending to areas with fewer legal risks rather than toward the highest economic return. The World Bank (1996) has cited difficulties in the use of collateral in Indonesia. Lenders have limited recourse if a borrower fails to make payments. The bankruptcy law is said to be inadequate, and there is also no adequate framework for restructuring corporations (IBCA, 1995).
A second, broader efficiency question is whether banks are operating as competitive entities. Competition induces marginal cost pricing in both lending and deposit markets, as well as efficient use of resources to produce banking services. Direct evidence on this issue is absent in Indonesia. In general, however, the authorities do not appear to focus on ensuring a level of competition among banks adequate to produce competitive pricing on loans and deposits. The often-expressed concern that Indonesia is overbanked presumes that the entire country can be considered a single and frictionless market, but this is not correct for many banking services. For small and medium-sized business lending and for some consumer finance, the local municipal market is the relevant market. These markets often have a small number of players and relatively high informational barriers to entry on the lending side. For other products, the relevant geographic market is larger, perhaps national or even international, and the likely level of competition is higher. In addition, the current policy curtailing the issue of new banking licenses probably reduces efficiency by restraining entry by new banks that may have more efficient means of producing services. This is especially true of the restrictions on banks with foreign ties. These barriers to entry reduce incentives for existing banks to improve the efficiency of their operations.
Two types of actual or potential events may affect stability. First, destabilizing shocks can originate within the banking system, such as from a bank failure or a credit crunch. Second, the banking system can be part of the propagation mechanism for macroeconomic effects that originate elsewhere, such as aggregate demand or supply shocks, or changes in the exchange rate or international interest rates.
The insolvency and subsequent failure of an individual bank can have implications both for other banks and for the economy more widely. The systemic risk is that the failure of an insolvent bank could put pressure on solvent banks, leading to liquidity problems as deposits are withdrawn. In many countries, such generalized problems do not occur because of the presumption that the central bank will act decisively as a lender of last resort to supply liquidity to banks under pressure. This presumption exists in Indonesia. Nonetheless, it is useful to analyze three different factors that contribute to such an event: first, the likelihood of banks becoming insolvent; second, the likelihood of a bank, insolvent or not, defaulting on its liabilities; third, the possibility that a bank default would cause other banks to default on their liabilities. In the Indonesian context, there is also the risk that the current measures of bank solvency may be inaccurate owing to inaccurate accounting or reporting of asset quality.
One particular area of recent concern has been the extent of property lending, which grew at an annual rate of 37 percent during 1992-95, compared with 22 percent for total bank credit. According to Bank Indonesia, bank credits to property developers had reached 17 percent of total credit by September 1995, when the property market in Jakarta was reported to be facing a glut of unoccupied apartments and, to a lesser extent, hotels and offices. The risk of banks’ indirect exposure—through loans to industries related to the property sector, such as those producing construction materials, or through loans to other borrowers whose creditworthiness depends on assets that include real estate—has also been cited (Chan, 1995b; and Marriott, 1996). Risk is further created by problems in the legal system that make it difficult for banks to enforce loan contracts, so that borrowers who purchase real estate or other assets may walk away from the loan if their equity value turns negative (Sinclair, 1996).
Another concern is the lack of transparency of balance sheets, which means that the value of bank assets may actually be lower than stated. International credit agencies have raised this issue, stating that the adequacy of bank loan-loss provisioning is difficult to assess (Chan, 1995b). It is also possible that some nonperforming loans have been restructured into performing loans, but that these technical restructurings may hide poor-quality assets.
The second bank stability issue is the likelihood that banks will default, which depends, in part, on government policy and on the legal system. The support given Bank Lippo suggests that the possibility of default also depends on the decisions made by other participants in the financial system to maintain stability.2 To help prevent bank failures, the authorities encourage mergers of weak banks with strong ones, offering a variety of inducements, including favorable tax treatments and foreign exchange licenses. Although this policy helps prevent defaults, it implies that some undercapitalized banks remain in business. When coupled with the unreliability of financial reports, this policy decreases the certainty among creditors that they are dealing with a solvent bank. If confidence in the system were to fall for some exogenous reason, this uncertainty would make the impact greater on financial stability. In such an event, the authorities would face the decision of whether to aid a larger number of banks than would otherwise be the case.
The third risk, that a bank failure could prove contagious and induce runs on other banks, remains hypothetical for Indonesia. Bank failures so far, including that of Bank Summa, have not resulted in runs on other banks. The response to the risk of such a situation, which could have damaging economic consequences, is to maintain confidence in banks through strong capitalization and a high level of transparency of bank balance sheets. In addition, one of Bank Indonesia’s justifications for its policy of merging troubled banks has been the potential effect of a bank failure on other banks.
Macroeconomic shocks, including exchange rate or interest rate shocks, can increase the instability of the banking system, and initial problems can magnify their effects. In principle, Bank Indonesia regulations control bank sensitivity to exchange rate fluctuations by limiting bank net foreign exchange exposure to 25 percent of bank capital. This rule is applied to net on and off-balance-sheet exposures combined and to net off-balance-sheet exposures separately. The exposure level specified by the regulation would appear to be low enough to prevent bank insolvency from occurring, but two concerns remain. First, it can be difficult to value bank exposures, especially those related to exchange rate options written by banks. There is little information available on how these derivatives are valued, so exposure may be larger than stated. Second, low net exposures may mask large gross exposures. Many banks have made substantial foreign currency loans, financed by foreign currency deposits. If the rupiah were to depreciate substantially, the rupiah-equivalent obligations of borrowers from the banks could soar, and if this were not offset by an increase in the foreign currency resources available to these borrowers, defaults could occur.
Aggregate foreign exchange liabilities of Indonesian banks have grown rapidly in recent years and comprised 271 percent of total commercial bank equity capital by the end of 1994/95 (Table 7). Although total regulatory capital includes debt-based capital in addition to equity capital, the amount of equity capital alone determines a bank’s solvency level. Foreign exchange credits of banks were 169 percent of equity capital, so that net on-balance-sheet foreign exchange liabilities were 102 percent of equity capital. Any large default on foreign currency loans could therefore quickly begin to erode equity capital. In addition, the separate net open exposure rule for off-balance-sheet instruments prevents banks from hedging these exposures through forwards and options.
Table 7.Indonesia: On-Balance-Sheet Bank Foreign Exchange Exposure
Current foreign exchange liabilities1 29.2 31.4 44.7 57.3 62.5
Outstanding foreign exchange credits 12.3 19.3 23.2 30.4 38.9
Equity capital 11.9 10.9 13.4 19.8 23.0
(In parent)
Foreign exchange liabilities-equity capital 246 288 334 289 271
Foreign exchange credits-equity capital 104 177 173 153 169
Net foreign exchange liabilities-equity capital 143 111 161 136 102
Source: Calculations by author using data from Bank IndonesiaNote: Data are for end-March.
1 Current liabilities comprised 88 percent of total commercial bank liabililities at end-March 1995.
The degree to which interest rate shocks can harm banks depends on several factors. First, a typical bank borrows on a shorter-term basis than it lends on, so that an increase in interest rates squeezes bank margins. Bank Indonesia statistics suggest that a substantial part of bank liabilities are extremely short term. Second, the degree to which longer-term loans are extended at variable rates affects bank exposure. It is not clear, however, to what extent interest rates on loans are variable in Indonesia. Finally, an increase in interest rates tends to increase nonperforming loans, which creates a negative bank exposure to interest rate increases. Borrowers at variable rates face higher interest payments, while interest rate increases also slow aggregate demand, reducing business profitability and the ability of borrowers—at both fixed and variable rates—to repay loans.
Bank’s sensitivity to exchange rate and interest rate shocks can be greater than their assets and liabilities indicate if they have significant off-balance-sheet derivative exposures. (It can also be less if derivatives are used to hedge balance sheet exposures.) Bank Indonesia recently recognized off-balance-sheet risks and enacted a regulation that limits bank derivative exposures to interest rate and exchange rate derivatives, except for case-by-case exceptions granted for equity derivatives, and requires that potential losses from derivatives not exceed 10 percent of bank capital. Such a modest limit would appear appropriate for a banking system that is still developing a reliable supervisory infrastructure. A potential weakness of the rule, however, is that it appears to offer little guidance on how these exposures should be computed. The valuation of derivatives, particularly options, can be difficult, and this process requires careful supervision.
Indonesian securities markets have developed rapidly in recent years as alternatives to bank finance. The bond market remains relatively small. The main issues in the development of a securities market are the deepening of the markets—including the continued development of market infrastructure—the expansion of the domestic investor base, and the ongoing improvement of regulation and supervision of securities markets.
Continued progress in the development of market infrastructure and of supervision and regulation will probably contribute to the creation of a vigorous equity market in Indonesia. This is particularly likely if the supply of funds to the market also increases, through the development of institutional investors and mutual funds, and if demand from growing enterprises for equity finance persists. In June 1994, the Jakarta Stock Exchange introduced a centralized settlement system for all listed securities (International Finance Corporation, 1995). It introduced the computerized Jakarta Automated Trading System in May 1995, which has already led to much larger trading volumes.
Recent years have seen great progress in stock market regulation, with a new capital markets law and a set of implementing regulations promulgated by Bapepam, the capital market supervisory agency. The key area for further efforts appears to be in enforcement of these regulations, particularly in areas that promote transparency and fairness, such as insider trading. A transparent and fair market can make a far larger contribution to market liquidity than even large investments in infrastructure. If traders can be assured that their counterparties do not possess privileged information on the value of the security traded, these traders will more readily supply the counterparties with bids or offers at a narrow spread.
Better disclosure by corporations of their financial condition also promotes market transparency. In an important move, Bapepam and the Indonesian Accounting Institute implemented new accounting standards at the end of 1994. This move brought financial accounting close to international standards, which helps international investors evaluate their Indonesian exposures. Nonetheless, an article in the Financial Times Survey of Indonesia notes that concerns remain among investors about the fairness of corporate disclosure, with poor auditing controls and with information leaking out to some parties before it reaches others (Montagnon, 1996). Continued monitoring of enterprises’ production and release of financial information is important to ensure that it is compiled promptly and accurately and disclosed publicly and fairly.
A deeper and more transparent stock market is also likely, other things being equal, to be a less volatile stock market. However, to the extent that a deeper market depends on international investors, volatility may actually increase as spillovers from other markets intensify. Volatility of stock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (Table 8) was low until December 1988, when the market was opened to international investors, who soon dominated trading.3 The market was also less volatile relative to the U.S. market, chiefly because the crash in U.S. stock prices in October 1987 did not spill over into Indonesia. Since the Indonesian market opened in December 1988, it has been somewhat more volatile than the U.S. market. However, the growing liquidity of the Indonesian market in recent years helps explain why its absolute and relative volatility fell in 1993-96.
Table 8.Indonesia and the United States: Daily Market Index Return Volatility
Absolute Volatility1
Relative Volatility2
April 1986-December 1988 2.58 1.77
April 1986-November 1988 0.72 0.49
December 1988 13.11 23.41
January 1989-July 1996 1.30 1.78
January 1989-December 1992 1.58 1.86
Source: Bloomberg Financial Markets
1 Standard deviation of daily returns of Jakarta Composite Index (in rupiah).
2 Absolute volatility divided by standard deviations of daily returns of Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (in dollars).
The flow of foreign investment in the stock market has expanded over time. For example, available data on net investment by U.S.-based investors in the Indonesian stock market show that there was almost no foreign investment before 1990. Investment then increased rapidly and reached a peak in 1994. Thus, foreign portfolio investment was associated with an increase in stock price volatility in the early 1990s, and with a fall in volatility from 1993 onward. The finding that volatility fell from 1993 on calls into question the finding by Roll (1995), based on data running only through 1992, that foreign investment contributed to an increase in Indonesian stock market volatility.
To examine the linkages between international and Indonesian stock market volatility, following Folkerts-Landau and others (1995), squared Indonesian daily stock returns were regressed on the previous day’s squared U.S. stock return (Table 9). The results of this analysis are striking. U.S. volatility had no effect on Indonesian volatility before 1993. During 1993-96, there was a strong linkage. Taken together, these results suggest that, although internationalization has had mixed effects on the volatility of the stock market, foreign portfolio investment has increased the linkages in price movements between Indonesian and foreign stock markets.
Table 9.Indonesia and the United States: Volatility Spillover Analysis
Spillover Coefficient1
April 1986-December 1988 -0.04
April 1986-November 1988 0.00
January 1989-July 1996 0.17
January 1989-December 1992 0.02
January 1993-July 1996 0.71*
Source: Bloomberg Financial Markets.
1 Coefficient represents regression coefficient of squared daily return of Jakarta Composite Index (in rupiah) on squared daily return on the preceding day of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (in dollars). A constant was also included in the regression. The * denotes significance at the 1 percent level. Other coefficients are insignificant at the 10 percent level.
Two other issues will be important for the Indonesian stock market. First, with the rapid development of Southeast Asian economies, it will remain in competition with other stock markets in the region, including those in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. As the technology and regulatory environment of these markets advance, the role for offshore trading will increase. On economic efficiency grounds, it is not desirable in the medium term to force trading in Indonesian securities to remain solely in Jakarta. Instead, the creation of a market that is appealing to international investors will also benefit domestic investors, whom the authorities wish to attract to the market. Increased supervisory cooperation with financial regulators in neighboring countries will also be necessary.
Second, the development of stock market derivative products, such as futures and options, can help provide liquidity and improve the process by which new information is incorporated into stock prices. However, such markets require assurances that brokerage firms and investors are capable of dealing with the risk inherent in these instruments. Although derivatives merely repackage risk, they make it easier for investors to take leveraged and potentially explosive risk positions. The supervision and regulation of Indonesian financial markets do not appear to have reached the stage where many such products can be handled safely. This applies to the development of both exchange-traded and over-the-counter products, although with Bapepam’s approval of the first warrant issue in mid-1995 (Yu, 1995), one equity derivative market has been initiated.
The bond market in Indonesia is small relative to that in other countries in the region (Table 10). Its small size appears to be due to two factors. First, the legal environment for enforcing debt contracts is relatively weak. Second, there is a paucity of institutional investors, which reduces demand.
Table 10.Size of Financial Sectors in Southeast Asia(In percent of GDP)
Bank assets
Indonesia 49.3 60.5 64.2 63.0 58.8 57.3
Malaysia 92.4 96.0 101.9 95.0 92.9 99.9
Thailand 72.7 79.2 82.2 85.0 94.6 109.5
Bonds outstanding
Indonesia 2.7 1.6 5.5 8.9 9.2 5.8
Malaysia 66.1 63.3 60.6 55.2 54.5 56.0
Thailand 11.5 9.9 8.1 7.6 8.2 9.8
Equity market capitalization
Indonesia 2.4 7.6 5.8 9.4 22.8 30.2
Malaysia 105.0 113.6 124.4 162.1 342.1 282.7
Thailand 35.5 27.9 36.3 52.0 104.5 94.0
Sources: International Finance Corporation (1995); International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics, various issues; Dalla and others (1995).
Difficulties with the legal system result in a bond market in which most issues are overcollateralized. Firms cannot issue bonds for general uses, but must earmark them for particular projects. The weakness of laws protecting collateral and governing corporate bankruptcy make even collateralized bonds risky and costly. To the extent that bonds are not collateralized, they are de facto required to have a guarantor, usually a state bank. Bonds are therefore indirectly obligations of a bank as well. Banks are more likely than a diffuse set of bondholders to succeed in collecting problem debts and to be in a position to evaluate the risk, although a new rule requiring bonds to be rated by the domestic credit rating agency Pefindo may reduce this advantage. For the bond market to grow, the legal system must reach the point where the ability of creditors to protect their claims is strengthened.
Inflation also inhibits the issuance of long-term bonds. International evidence suggests that higher inflation tends to accompany more variable inflation, which in turn inhibits the issuance of long-term fixed-rate bonds, because their real value is subject to great uncertainty. In fact, in recent years, almost all bond issues have carried floating interest rates, which reduce exposure to inflation to a level similar to the exposure of short-term debt instruments. The popularity of fixed-rate bonds in some countries suggests that such bonds could be useful in Indonesian finance.
The Indonesian government currently issues no bonds in the domestic market because of its balanced budget rule. For the government to issue bonds that are large enough to serve as liquid benchmarks, the amount of borrowing would have to be relatively large. A large amount of borrowing, however, would raise domestic real interest rates and crowd out private borrowers; the development of a government bond market is therefore probably not a desirable means of fostering a corporate bond market. Instead, state enterprise bonds, which currently dominate the bond market, could be used as benchmarks (as suggested in Dalla and others, 1995). Indonesia could borrow a technique used for government bond markets in other countries (see International Monetary Fund, 1994) and concentrate state enterprise bond issues into a smaller number of large issues, which could help to develop a secondary market.
Current developments are likely to augment the liquidity of the secondary market in bonds, which now suffers from low trading volume (PT Sigma Batara, 1995). The introduction of a centralized clearing and settlement agency for stocks, slated to be extended to listed bonds, may reduce the cost of settling secondary market trades. Bond trades currently require the risky and costly physical delivery of bearer bonds. In addition, the Over-the-Counter Exchange has developed an on-line information system to disseminate bid and offer prices to all market participants. Plans exist to extend this to screen-based trading.
A key contributor to the growth of securities markets is the development of institutional investors—mutual funds, insurance companies, and pension funds—to channel individual savings into markets. These institutions can be efficient mechanisms through which individuals can pool and repackage the risks of securities markets and reduce transaction costs, thereby helping provide equity and long-term debt finance to the economy.
The role of domestic institutional investors remains small. Mutual funds have been introduced only very recently, with the first closed-end fund starting operation in October 1995.4 Other closed-end and open-ended funds have applied to Bapepam for approval. A new set of regulations drawn up by Bapepam in May 1996 permits funds to invest a maximum of 85 percent of net assets in the stock market and also specifies procedures for portfolio valuation and financial reporting by funds. Regulations were also changed to eliminate the double taxation of mutual funds. For funds to operate properly and to provide income to investors that is equivalent to income received from direct securities holdings, funds must be able to pass through all income to shareholders on a before-tax basis.
Although Indonesia has made some progress in developing pension funds, existing funds now invest 85 percent of their assets in bank deposits (Yu, 1995). Pension funds can be separated into those sponsored by employers and those linked to the government, including a fund for civil service pensions. A previous regulatory limit on the investment of employer-sponsored plans in securities markets has been lifted, although there continue to be ceilings on property investment, individual exposure limits, and limits on self-investment. A key issue for pension funds is the encouragement of investment in securities markets. The high real returns and relative security available in rupiah-denominated bank deposits have been cited as a reason for the low investment in securities.
This paper has examined policy issues raised by the continued development of Indonesian financial markets. In the banking area, key issues are the resolution of problem banks, continued improvement of supervision and regulation, and maintenance of a competitive and efficient market structure. In securities markets, the main issues are the deepening of markets and the development of a domestic investor base, and the further enhancement of supervision and regulation of markets.
Resolving problem banks remains a crucial priority. The efficiency losses and the risks to stability of permitting undercapitalized banks to continue operation are both clear and potentially large. The present policy of encouraging mergers does not seem to be solving the problem fast enough. Although liquidation carries certain risks, these can be minimized if liquidation is undertaken in an environment of predictability and certainty. To create such an environment, shortcomings in the regulatory framework for closing banks would have to be overcome. A credible liquidation policy could also induce banks to undertake efforts to improve their capital adequacy by making closure a more credible threat.
The second important objective is improving the supervision and regulation of banks. This remains critical despite considerable progress in this area during the 1990s. Notwithstanding the exceptions noted above, bank supervision is now more of a concern than regulation. In other words, it is important to ensure that the regulations are enforced. The rapid expansion of bank real estate exposure brings attention to the need for adequate bank supervision. A related issue is the adequacy of information flowing from banks to bank supervisors and to the public; it is not clear how reliable reported figures are on bank capital adequacy and asset quality.
The third major banking issue is the structure of banking markets. First, it is important that a sufficient degree of competition among banks be encouraged through the identification and analysis of banking markets. Second, the eventual privatization of state banks may reduce inefficiencies, and the authorities have indicated their intention to begin the partial privatization of a state bank in the near future. They have not, however, announced any intent to renounce majority ownership in state banks.
In securities markets, and particularly in the stock market, much progress has been made in a short time. Nevertheless, a clear next step on the agenda should be to deepen these markets. There is both a demand side and a supply side to this deepening. The demand for securities can be expanded most effectively by increasing the size and number of domestic institutional investors and, in the case of insurance companies and pension funds, by creating the conditions under which they shift the allocation of assets more toward securities markets. The supply of securities can be increased if entrepreneurs can be convinced of the benefits, in terms of access to new capital, of surrendering majority control of their firms by selling more of their stock on public issues. The continued privatization of state enterprises would also increase supply. In addition to these measures, the bond market could benefit from improvements in the legal environment for debt contracts.
As a final issue, the improvement of supervision and regulation of securities markets is clearly under way. If securities finance is to provide a reliable alternative to bank and self-finance, it is essential that this process continue. In particular, the development of methods to enforce existing regulations, particularly regarding disclosure and insider trading, will help ensure that markets become more transparent and liquid.
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Note: John Montgomery is an Economist in the IMF’s Research Department. The author thanks David Folkerts-Landau and Garry Schinasi for support and encouragement; Geoff Bascand, Christopher Browne, John Hicklin, and Reza Vaez-Zadeh for helpful comments; Robert Dekle, Olivier Frécaut, Subir Lall, and Michael Spencer for useful information; and Scott Anderson for research assistance.
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Key Strategies in a Public Health Emergency
Jill Warrington MD, PhD October 31, 2017 July 20, 2018
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By declaring the opioid crisis as a public health emergency, this past week President Trump joined the millions of voices who cry out from the heartbreak of addiction, who mourn lost lives, and who witness the insidious nature of this disease’s impact on our families and communities.
We can debate whether or not this initiative leverages the full scope of governmental authority to support this crisis. For this, I will defer to my more politically savvy friends. Instead, I remain grateful that our government has symbolically lent its voice to this cause. I am reminded of a recent Aspenti community initiative at the Burlington Airport in which we acknowledge that “the only choice in addiction is how we choose to address it together.”
Through this designation, President Trump identified some key avenues for governmental support and focus. These include:
– Directing additional grant funding to support opioid-related work
– Prevention advocacy for youth
– Expanding treatment access to rural settings via telemedicine
– Supporting additional safe prescribing practices
– Increase Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment for those with HIV/AIDS
– Encouraging further initiatives centered on alternative, nonaddictive pain medication
– Thwarting fentanyl influx into the US from foreign sources
– Expanding Medicaid funding to certain treatment centers
There are many ways in which the government could choose to exert its influence such as safe and sober housing, gainful employment, or advocacy for medication-assisted treatment. The strategies outlined by President Trump include a few particularly impactful steps including an emphasis on rural access and increased surveillance for fentanyl importation. In addition to limited funding left in the budget this year, all public health emergencies expire in 90 days. With farther-reaching initiatives such as support for the development of nonaddictive pain medications, let us hope for a continued commitment to this work and ongoing renewals to this public health emergency designation.
Nonetheless, these initiatives represent first, albeit small, steps in the march towards conquering this disease as an individual, a family, a community and a nation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/politics/trump-opioid-crisis.html, accessed 10/27/17
Jill Warrington MD, PhDChief Medical Officer, Aspenti Health™ and Clinical faculty, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.
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WTA 2014 Season Off To A Sensational Start As Stars Shine In Shenzhen, Auckland and Brisbane
This entry was posted on 01/05/2014, in WTA and tagged 2014, America, American, Ana Ivanovic, Auckland, Australia, Azarenka, Belarus, Belarusian, Brisbane, Brisbane International, China, Chinese, Images, Ivanovic, Li Na, Na Li, New Zealand, Peng Shuai, Photos, Pic, Pictures, Serbia, Serbian, Serena, Serena Williams, Shenzhen, Shenzhen Open, Shuai Peng, Tennis, tennis player, Venus, Venus Williams, Victoria Azarenka, Video, Vika, Williams Sisters, WTA. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments
Li Na wins 2014 Shenzhen Open (click to enlarge)
Sports organizations are often as strong as its top stars. When they play well, and in turn show up on television and other media winning championships more often, it’s a great boon for their respective tours. Sometimes in tennis, the opening weeks of the season can be hit or miss. Players are tuning up their games for the big prize, the Australian Open. So whether they win in Shenzhen or Auckland or Brisbane…it matters, but it’s not the ultimate goal early in the season. Luckily for the WTA, in back to back years the stars came out to shine on the opening week of play. The top 3 players in the tour rankings reached the finals in Brisbane (#1 Serena Williams and #2 Victoria Azarenka) and Shenzhen (#3 Li Na). Meanwhile, the final in Auckland featured two of the tour’s past #1 ranked players (Venus Williams and Ana Ivanovic).
Ana Ivanovic wins 2014 ASB Classic (click to enlarge)
It was a terrific match between Ana Ivanovic and Venus Williams in the ASB Classic final. They were ripping shots with such ferocity and skill that it was reminiscent of greater days from both players. What is especially encouraging for Ana is that she came back from a squandered opportunity. After blitzing through Venus 6-2 5-3, Ana held a match point for her first title since November of 2011. Unfortunately for Ana, she couldn’t convert. Not only did she lose that match point chance, actually championship point chance, she lost the next four games in a row to lose the set. This is normally when Ana loses control of a match and succumbs to defeat. I’ve seen it happen so many times. She’s on the verge of winning…doesn’t cash in on an opportunity, and then falls apart. But this is a new year and maybe this is a new Ana. She and Venus upped the intensity in the final set. Although Venus was broken in the first game of the last set, the specter of breaking back is always there with Ana. In fact, in the final game of the match, Venus held two break points, but Ana fought them off to win the match and emerge triumphant in Auckland, 6-2 5-7 6-4.
Ana Ivanovic and Sorana Cirstea (click to enlarge)
By the way, maybe Ana should give her fellow player and good friend, Sorana Cirstea, a bit of the first place prizemoney for convincing her to play Auckland for the first time! 🙂
Li Na, strong in Shenzhen (click to enlarge)
The home country fans at the Shenzhen Open were treated to an all-Chinese final. In the history of the WTA, that had only happened once before, at the 2006 Estoril Open. That match also featured Li Na. However, she was forced to retire, succumbing to heat illness in Oeiras, Portugal after splitting the first two sets with Zheng Jie. There would be no such hindrance for the world #3 in Shenzhen, although she has a tendency to make things more interesting than they need to be. She had a little more trouble with the comebacking Vera Zvonareva than I thought she would in the first round. She was taken to three sets by Monica Niculescu in the quarters. In the final, She was up on Peng Shuai 6-4 4-1 before losing four straight games to fall behind 4-5 in the second set. With the possibility of a winner take all third set looming, Li Na pulled it together to battle through three consecutive winning games to end the match 6-4 7-5. It is her 8th WTA tour title. She also successfully defended her Shenzhen title from last year.
Serena Williams wins 2014 Brisbane International (click to enlarge)
Speaking of defending champions, I saved the marquee opening week match for last as #1 Serena Williams, the defending Brisbane International champion, took on #2 Victoria Azarenka. Serena was fresh off of defeating world #4 Maria Sharapova for the 14th consecutive time. It was tight between Serena and Vika throughout, although there’s always the feeling that Serena will step on the gas when necessary. She converted the only break of the first set to take it 6-4. When she fell behind 2-4 in the second (after initially being up 2-0), she eventually squared the match and then broke in the 11th game to go up 6-5, closing it out one game later, 6-4 7-5. Azarenka is the last player to have beaten Serena, at last year’s Western & Southern Open. If Vika can’t stop the Serena Express at the Australian Open then who can? Well…maybe somebody unexpected…not a Masha or Li Na or Petra Kvitova. Two years ago, Ekaterina Makarova upset Serena in Melbourne while last year Sloane Stephens knocked off the world #1. However, with a 22 match winning streak at the moment, Serena looks primed to win again down under.
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Bill Acord NTB says:
Li Na is just plain out sexy. I am in love.
bangkokbobby says:
Uh-oh, Chie is going to be jealous!! 🙂
cannuck says:
Li Na looks to be physically superior to Peng
That’s what separates Li Na from other the other high profile Chinese women singles players like Peng Shuai, Hsieh Su-Wei and Zheng Jie. Li Na has the power to consistently compete with the top ladies on tour. As Mary Carillo likes to say, it’s “big babe” tennis out there now. Not that Li Na is big physically, but you have to have to be able to generate big power. Li Na can do that. Look at the Major winners in recent years…Serena…Vika…Masha…Clijsters…Li Na…Stosur…even Marion Bartoli…all are big hitters…only maybe Francesca Schiavone took a Major in recent years on guile and spin, but one could say Roland Garros was the perfect surface for her to do that on.
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Open Book: Mental Health and… Pressure
WillBanks
Everyone’s mental health is different. No two people experience their environment in the same way, and so the pressures and difficulties we face at LSE are as diverse as the student body itself. This blog is an exploration of how people from all walks of life approach and understand their mental wellbeing, be it with diagnosable conditions or just dealing with the pressures of university life.
It’s the first day of term, and a good friend and I sit down in Lincoln’s Inn’s Bean Counter to discuss how his university experience has affected his mental health. An economist by training, his understanding of the issue is apologetically intellectual, and heavily theory-led. His endearing mannerisms are contrasted by an undeniable intelligence and wit, which seem central to his sense of identity.
But how does such a bright and hardworking person struggle with mental health?
The answer, he explains, is pressure. It’s no secret that people struggle with the pressures of LSE: the heavy workload, the high-achieving student body, and perpetual focus on careers can be enough to make the most intelligent of people feel insecure. What makes it harder, he adds, is that these pressures are loosely defined, forcing everyone to produce their own interpretations of what it is to be a successful student.
A lot of these goals that we derive for ourselves can be unachievable. Thoughts such as “I should be getting all firsts,” and “my job applications shouldn’t be rejected” all create an idealised vision of what success is, and any minor deviation from these goals can be crushing. Furthermore, we often have a tendency to set our goals based on our largest weaknesses: why should someone who takes pride in their intelligence be judging their self-worth on their popularity? This question resonated with me – I’ve long been guilty of beating myself up over my career prospects, even though my professional ambitions have never been important to my identity.
Why do we do this? The explanation my friend offers is compelling as it is eye-opening: we live in an environment that rewards achievement, not improvement. Our school careers are often motivated by achieving a grade, our social media accounts angled towards receiving more comments and likes. While this is well-known, the impact that these rewards systems can have on our sense of self is not widely discussed.
When our success is reduced to a number or letter, it suppresses our identity into something measurable: the higher the number, the better the person. While there is a sense of awareness on campus that grades aren’t everything, our student body is often guilty of lauding achievement over personality. This can lead to comparison, envy, and negativity about our own achievements. Why did she get that internship and I didn’t? Why does he get higher grades than me?
But is there a solution to this perennial problem? The first step is to acknowledge it. While people often articulate their stress clearly, it is much rarer to admit that the pressures we experience can affect our sense of self-worth. To carry on pretending that university pressures aren’t difficult to deal with encourages those who struggle to meet expectations to feel they are alone. But it’s not a rare phenomenon at all: our conversation in the Bean Counter adopts a cathartic tone as we realise that isn’t just us that feel we aren’t good enough. Even those who regularly excel, such as this week’s interviewee, are liable to feeling incompetent in the face of such persistent and reductive pressures.
Of course, to talk is not everything. But the realization that there are many others who struggle with feeling good enough in a high-pressure environment can be empowering. And this empowerment might be all that’s needed for someone who’s suffering to take the next step.
Will Banks
If you are struggling with your mental health, LSE has a number of resources available to help you. Visit https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/student-wellbeing/mental-health-support for more information.
If you require urgent support, the Samaritans offer free and confidential support UK-wide on 116 123.
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tv Ten O Clock News FOX July 11, 2011 10:00pm-11:00pm PDT
a rowdy protest in a b.a.r.t. station causes big disruption right through the busiest part of the commute. good evening i'm frank somerville.
>> and i'm julie haener. b.a.r.t. says it caused system wide delays. charles hill is the man shot and killed in early july. police formed a barricade at powell and market and the protesters dispersed. the bulk of the action took place underground. ken wayne is live. >> reporter: all of the b.a.r.t. stations are open once again, but for a time during the evening commute there was frustration, anger and chaos. it started peacefully then thousands of protesters split off and boarded planes, blocking the doors in the process so the trains couldn't
move. >> after ant 15 minutes, the protesters boarded a train back to the civic center, but then police had closed civic center and the train didn't stop. instead pulling up at 16th and mission. again protesters blocked the doors. by now some passengers were getting fed up. >> these people have been working all day man, we have nothing to do with this. >> a scuffle broke out between protesters and a passenger. police in riot gear arrived. demonstrators let their feelings known. >> with civic center and now 16th station closed, passengers began passing up, waiting for trains that were wait in coming. >> i'm just a commuter and i just want to go home, you know and i guess they have a right but not during commute. >> there'll be more consequences for b.a.r.t. >> so you agree with them. >> yeah, you just can't go
around killing people. >> reporter: protesters say their goal is to raise awareness to recent b.a.r.t. shootings. >> we want to see that organization gone. we don't think they're fit to be a police organization. >> reporter: you managed to shutdown b.a.r.t. train. >> we were able to stop the b.a.r.t. train. >> reporter: are you proud of that. >> we're happy that we brought attention to what's happening with the b.a.r.t. police. >> reporter: live in san francisco, ken wayne, ktvu channel 2 news. our scam a was there at powell and market when san francisco police took at least one man into custody. protesters had walked up powell. disrupting the cable line there. san francisco police tell us the arrest was for public
intoxication. b.a.r.t. officials are clearly unhappy about this evening's event. there will be consequences if something like this happens again. >> if these protesters wish to behave in unfit behavior, we will deal with them. >> b.a.r.t. called the death of hill unfortunate. the uncle of oscar grant showed up for today's protest and reiterated his family's message to the demonstrators. >> we as a family, you know openly said to the public or to the community that whatever is the best way for you to resolve the pain that are this side of you concerning this issue when it comes to b.a.r.t. police shootings, you have to express that. >> reporter: johnson urged b.a.r.t. to disarm its officers. his nephew oscar grant was shot and killed on new years day
2009 by then police officer mehserle. you will find more information on the b.a.r.t. shooting and video of tonight's protest at ktvu.com. look for the b.a.r.t. shooting tab on the front page. a 13-year-old autistic boy disappeared from his san jose home this morning and was discovered late today more than 300 miles away. we learned that he managed to board a bus and was heading for hollywood. police say they plan to pick up the boy later tonight in san fernando then drive him back to his home in san jose. amber lee is in san jose where the family told her they have no idea how the boy managed to walk more than a mile to the greyhound bus station. amber-- >> reporter: julie, we're in front of the home of the 13- year-old boy. we were here right after the father received the good news that his son had been found.
after hours of worrying and searching this father learned late this afternoon that his autistic son jesus garza had been found. >> how is he doing? did they say his condition? >> he's in good condition. >> reporter: gillermo garza tells us he discovered his son missing at 6:30. the eighth grader has the mental capacity of a 7-year- old. >> he's never left his house expect than with his parents. so they were surprised he was not home. >> reporter: his father says he mentioned to his parents that he wanted to two to hollywood to meet his favorite tv stars. so they called the greyhound and found surveillance that he had been at the station. police plan to drive him home.
>> reporter: in spanish jesus's father thanked his neighbors for the search. >> thank god for our neighborhood here. we're always looking out for each other. >> reporter: inside this home the garza family is waiting anxiously to be reunited with jesus sometime tomorrow morning. reporting live here in san jose, amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. the family of missing nursing student michelle le is now offering $100,000 for information leading to her whereabouts. the family announced the new reward this afternoon. le was last seen 45 days ago at kaiser permanente's hayward center. hayward police believe her disappearance to be a homicide but her body has never been found. the le family is planning another search for friday. a judge today refused to dismiss arnold schwarzenegger commutation handed down to the
son of fabian nunez. his son esteban nunez pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of luis santos of concord. as arnold schwarzenegger left office, he reduced nunez sentence from 16 years down to seven. the santos family is suing the state and the former governor and say they want justice for their son. >> he was stabbed in the back by politicians after his death. i think they completely disrespected him and disrespected our family. >> reporter: nunez said his son was infairly treated. he also said his son was told he would get a lesser sentence if he pleaded guilty which he did. pg & e says it shouldn't have to pay victims of last year's pipeline explosion in san bruno. in a new court filing, the company says it shouldn't have to make pay outs to the dozens of people who are suing because the explosion was caused by a
third party that damaged its state of the art pipeline. the pg & e company filing blames sewer workers also indicated residents are to blame from the losses of last september's blast. the explosion killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. it is likely a first in oakland. a court order telling a landlord she must pay an $80,000 fine, give up her rental properties and never again own a multiunit apartment building in the city. jana katsuyama update it is story that we have been following now for months. >> reporter: maria and her family say they live with broken bathroom fixtures and damaged walls for years. jesse numarkk says they have about 10,000 photos documenting fire, health, building and other code violations. he says the building of the
owner has repeatedly ignored violations. >> these are a lot of really vulnerable tenants. low income senior, disabled people, immigrants, there's a lot of people that are being taken advantage of. >> reporter: earlier this year, ktvu investigated the complaint and found people living with roaches, rat traps, mold and other unfit conditions. gardener says she's the victim. she says many of the problems are due to tenants who don't pay rent or broke the fixtures. gardener says she's been overwhelmed by bills, and tenants. >> i make a mistake, but i try my best. i'm a human being. >> reporter: tenants aren't going to have to pay rent until the violations are fixed. an oakland hotel owner has pleaded not guilty to
attempting to burn down hotel menlow. 44-year-old richard singer agreed to pay someone to burn down the hotel which is located on 13th street near webster last december. singer is scheduled to be sentenced next month and faces up to 10 years in prison. a rough day in wall street after concerns over a growing crisis sends stocks tumbling. last year the dow industry corral hit its high. the nasdaq dropped 57. the united states debt is also weighing on investors. today president obama met with congressional leaders. cisco systems took a hit today. it stock dropped 2% and analysts reported cisco may cut 5,000 jobs. the san jose company is the world's largest networking equipment company but earnings have been down due to increased
competition. cisco says it needs to reduce extenses by more than half a million dollars. i'll show you which cities will cool the most for your tuesday. a north bay girl dies during a summer sleep over with friends. suddenly warnings about under aged drinking are all too real. and the effort to ban alcoholic beverages in california. through makers say beer that packs a punch shouldn't. you got a weather balloon with points?
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in sonoma county the death of a 16-year-old girl because of alcohol poisoning has her family reeling. debra villalon is at the school. >> reporter: the message ades have a safe and fun sum -- the message reads, have a safe and fun summer. >> reporter: a favorite song shared by two best friends on a note from takamie. takamie drank some vodka and didn't wake up. >> they poured it into the plastic water bottle and were in the room with it drinking. >> reporter: it happened in a hilltop neighborhood of estate homes. three girls takamie had invited over vomited in the night. but takamie's mom did not detect alcohol. she thought they had food poisoning. >> she was the happiest,
sunniest little girl. >> reporter: those who know takamie said she was goofy and fun, this is the last thing they would expect. >> i know kids experiment, and they all do. and that's i think what the scariest thing is is you know it's like, wake up. >> reporter: alcohol is a toxin, it is a poison in your body. >> reporter: it's never too soon for parents to start talking to kids about the dangers of experimentation. >> the more parents talk to their teens about what they're attitudes on alcohol are and what they expect their teens behaviors the less likely teens are to use alcohol. >> reporter: national surveys found 9.4 kids have already experimented. >> don't do it. find another way to have fun, be careful.
>> reporter: takamie would have started high school this fall. charges appear unlikely since this was an accident that happened without parents awareness. live in santa rosa, debra villalon, ktvu news. alcoholic beverages are about to stop the import, production, distribution or sale of alcoholic beverages laced with caffeine. critics say the drinks are aimed at young people and make it easy to drink too much. state senators must now approve changes made to the bill before it is sent to governor brown. new information emerged today about the shooting of a teenage boy in pittsburg last night. the second shooting there in a week. east bay regional park police were looking for more evidence today. police told ktvu the 14-year- old boy was walking with friends, drinking alcohol and firing a stolen gun. the teen was shot in the abdomen and is expected to survive. people living along the trail
say it's a dangerous place at night. >> it's dark, you know don't walk the trail. because there's all kind of dudes out there doing dope and everything else. >> last week, someone shot and killed 20-year-old marcus jackson less than a half mile away. police say the shootings are not related. two men are behind bars in connection with a shooting in san francisco that left another man blind in one eye. matthew lather and vincent harris have been arrested. evidence at the scene led san francisco police to lather last wednesday. our crews were there during his arrest. harris was arrested in hayward two days later. the lawyer for the man accused of stealing a picasso drawing played down the high profile nature of the crime today which has been covered internationally. 30-year-old mark lugo made his
first court appearance. his attorney says he plans to plead not guilty during his scheduled arraignment on friday. >> nobody is dead, nobody has been assaulted, this is not the crime of the century. investigators say lugo walked into a union square gallery last tuesday, took the picasso drawing off the wall and then took off in a cab. he was arrested in napa the following day. new york city prosecutors asked for more time today to investigate the former director of the international monetary fund and his alleged sexual assault of a hotel maid. kahn is now scheduled to appear in court august 1st. his attorneys say they hope the charges will be dropped. questions have risen about the credibility of his accuser. but prosecutors say there is evidence of the assault. president obama's meeting
with congressional leaders. >> reporter: with the clock ticking to the deadline, president obama held another white house meeting monday afternoon with key congressional players. earlier the president told reporters he will not leave the negotiating table until the two sides come to a resolution. everyone though it means sacrificing each party's key points. >> i'm prepared to take on significant heat from my party to get something done. >> and a nd i expect the other side should be willing to do the same if they mean what they say. >> reporter: republicans are pushing for more spending cuts among other differences. heading into monday's meeting, house speaker john boehner signaled there's still a long way to go -- >> the president and i disagree
on the extent of the entitlement problem and what is necessary in order to solve it. >> reporter: failure to push the country's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling higher could mean a national default on august 2 the treasury department says economic consequences of that could be devastating for the u.s. on the global economic stage. and send a shock wave through the world's market. monday a short term fix of the debt ceiling is not an option. in washington, i'm karen kapa. there's a lot of fog out there tonight. most locations around the bay area around 7 degrees, five to 7 degrees cooler tonight than they were last night. look at the fog coverage. all the way to the livermore valley. you know tomorrow morning you're going to have a lot of low cloud and fog. this weather system to the north. that's the mechanism for this push of fog and low cloud and the coolest forecast highs for tomorrow. tomorrow morning, about 1:00 a.m., look at the coverage to
the delta. you wake up tomorrow morning around 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 a.m. almost basically all nine bay area countys have cloud cover. a slow burn off, tomorrow a lot like today in terms of sunshine. but temperatures slightly cooler. when i come back we're going to talk more about this cooling trend and when things could warm up. we'll see you back here at 10:00. a new proposal to split california in two. a unique campaign to boost oakland's imagine and how you can get involved. and jaycee dugard's memoire goes to sale tomorrow. why the parents of one missing child say they probably won't be reading it.
new at 10:00, selling their city. officials in oakland hope to turn around the city's imagine by turning to residents and
business owners. ktvu's heather holmes is here to tell us about this campaign called i choose oakland. >> while oakland does face crime and budget problems that often grab headlines. officials argue that there's much more to the city and ask people to tell the world why they choose oakland. >> reporter: this is the perception most people have of oak land, a high crime city with prostitution and drug problemmings. this is the oakland ryan montabelo knows, a place where you can shop for treasures and sink your teeth into a world class meal. >> being in oakland is great. >> reporter: mozerelo says it's been great for his graphic design business. >> in this imagine we have the grand lake theater. >> reporter: so he jumped at the chance to share his support for oakland in a city sponsored contest. >> people were asked to submit pictures and videos detailing their love affair with oakland
and help dispel the city's negative imagine. >> i think it was a part in intention to broaden the story about oakland. and hearing the story from the very people who make up this community. >> reporter: sammy roberts is the city's marketing director. she's impressed with the more than 600 photos and videos submitted. from once highlights the city's diversity. so what about a snouzer named hensel hitting all of oakland's of the spots. it's one way for residents to show the oakland that's their reality. >> what we thought was interesting was hear from people who are here on what brought them here and what why they stay. >> and the winner will be announced next month. reporting live i'm healther holmes, ktvu channel 2 news. the first of two funeral
services for former first lady betty ford is set for tomorrow in california. a private ceremony is scheduled tomorrow in palm desert. following that her body will be flown to grand rapids michigan for another service. then police departments ford will be buried next to husband, former president gerald ford. admirers have been signing a book of condolences for betty ford. not offering any condolences will be members of the westboro baptist church. they plan to picket both services. the westboro church said betty ford was divorced before she married gerald ford and that makes her an adulterer. it was a decades old idea that has entertained northern and southern californians for years. tomorrow the board is scheduled to discuss dividing california in two. the republican wants 13
california counties to join together and form the 51st state dubbed south california. combine those counties have about 13 million people. southern bay area fishermen still missing in mexico. the focus of today's search efforts. another milestone for the new bay bridge. the finishing touches from thousands of miles away.
jaycee dugard's much anticipated memoire will be in bookstores tomorrow morning. tara moyarti spoke to the
family of another kidnapped girl and say the details of the book may be too much to bear. >> i want phillip garrido to know that i no longer have to keep his secret. >> reporter: she explains how garrido raped her and delivered her two children in a hidden backyard compound. >> why not look at it, stair it down until it can't scare you anymore. >> reporter: dugard hopes her book will inspire other victims. but for victims parents like matty and mike michelo they are not sure if they'll crack open the book. >> it just seemed to me too hard, too painful. every day without her is a struggle. in 1989, ilene was just 13 years old. the parents taped the dugard interview but don't know when
and if they'll watch it and if they'll read the book. most bookstores have received books but they are not allowed to put them on store shelves until tomorrow. >> it's just been rehashed and rehashed so many times that i'm not really interested in it. >> reporter: some people thought the book seemed too sensational. but others were curious. >> if she wrote the book herself, it'll be interesting than other stories. >> reporter: tara moyarti. recuers are searching for an san anselmo man who went missing while on vacation in maui. pots was in maui with his wife
and baby. as you can tell, as the waves roll in, the water goes up almost like a geyser. a u.s. dive team is in mexico on stand by -- today search crews spent the day looking on or near the sonora islands for those missing fishermen. the island lie on the sea of cortez from san felipe. it's been eight days since the boat turned over. a show of support today for a livermore teacher who's father and uncle are among the missing fishermen. students held a bake sale this morning to raise money for mandy lee han. the students are planning to hold another bake sale tomorrow. the family has not given up hope that don lee of san ramon
will be found alive. an update now to a story we've been following for months. nearly two dozen san jose firefighters are getting their jobs back thanks to a federal grant. the $15 million grant allows the fire department to fill 49 positions that were lost in a controversial brown out plan last year. 22 of the 49 firefighters have accepted their jobs back. but they still have to retrain. the department says it will fill the remaining 27 openings with transfers. you might have to carry extra cash to park in san francisco. by the end of the month, sfmta officials say they will change meter prices based on neighborhood with more crowded areas getting higher rates. officials say rates at nearly 1/3 of the meters will increase up to 25-cents an hour. the meter program started last year and uses sensors to collect realtime parking information. san francisco presented an environment impact report today for america's cup sailing
proposition. the report outlines what effects the event will have on the environment. the public has 45 days to offer their opinions on the report. team usa pulled off an incredible come back yesterday tieing a game against brazil in the 122nd minute with a header by addie wamback then they won the game by winning a shoot out. tom vacar reports why this new win is inspiring young women. >> girls can do as much as boys
can do. so-- and i always looked up to the women's soccer team. so it was really good to see that they are doing good. >> reporter: that includes a really good win over brazil and many players say they know it was the u.s. women's world cup triumph in 1989 that led to a boom in girls playing soccer. >> i would love to grow up and be like them some day. >> reporter: but coach emily harvey says girl's soccer could use the boost. she says all athletes need role models and role models need a stage. >> people probably don't even know all the team players on the team right now. >> reporter: jeremy almanderos agrees, he's the president for kids love soccer. a group that runs league in 35 cities. >> i think we will get a significant jump. maybe 30% of girls who haven't kicked a ball may be interested now.
>> people take into consideration that boys are better than girls. so i like it when the girls do really good. >> reporter: you don't think that's true by the way do you? >> not at all. >> reporter: robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. services today for the man who died while trying to catch a ball during a game in texas. what his wife said about their son who was at the game with his dad. and i'm back here in less than 10 minutes. right now i'm tracking the fog. i'll show you which cities will cool the most for your tuesday. two votes this week that could cost students at california state colleges and universities hundreds of thousands of dollars. go! go! completing an atm deposit in record time...
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the texas ranger fan who fell to his death was laid to rest today. stone fell about 20 feet trying to catch a ball that a player threw into the stands. his 6-year-old son was with him. >> cooper is going to have great memories of his dad. >> reporter: a lone fire engine stood outside the church. this latest incident coming up in sports. the oakland a's have suspended a pitcher for comments he made on twitter. 20-year-old ian crowl was suspended indefinitely. the team says crowl violated
team -- ten days to say whether it plans to appeal the court's ruling prohibiting enforcement of the don't ask don't tell policy. president barack obama signed into law a repeal of the ban last year but that repeal does not go into effect until 60 days after the pentagon certifies that military readiness will not be affected by dropping the policy. in news of the world tonight in london, the scandal involving rupert murdock appears to be growing. the latest allegations involve murdoch reporters accessing gordon brown's financial records and his seriously ill son's medical files. another report suggests his reporters paid the queen's bodyguards to get secret information about the royal family. in russia, hope is fading
for 81 people still missing after an aging cruise ship sank yesterday. so far 58 bodies have been recovered. the ship was overcrowded at the time and the port engine was malfunctioning. one survivor said he saw two ships that refused to stop and help them. river cruise ships are very popular among russians. u.s. defense secretary panetta visited u.s. troops today. panetta expressed his frustration that baghdad has not decided if it wants u.s. troops to remain in iraq beyond the planned withdraw at the end of this year. two important votes are scheduled to take place this week that could increase tuition for students in both the uc system. the hike would cost a full time
under graduate an additional $5,000 in tuition. it's not clear if the increase would go into effect in the fall or the following spring semester. come thursday the uc regents are scheduled to vote on a proposed 9.6 tuition hike. if approved tuition would climb to $5,200 a year. the outgoing president earned $299,000, the chancellor wants the new president to receive $350,000. amazon.com fires back. the new effort to get you involved in fighting an online sales tax. and our chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking mild temperatures. how fog will impact your forecast the rest of the week.
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a factory in shanghai is playing a crucial part in building the bay bridge project. rob roth tells us how that is creating some controversy. >> reporter: in a huge factory in shanghai today, east and west were making toasts. earlier today chinese factory workers put the final touches on sections of the new eastern span. >> this closes out the fabrication in china for the self-anchored suspension span. where it shifts the focus entirely here to san francisco bay. the first sections weigh a total of 5,000-tons and are expected to arrive in about three weeks. where americans are constructing the bridge its the decks in the iconic towers are made in china. transportation officials say the outsources saved taxpayers about $400 million in a $6.3 million project. >> one of the great advantages that the chinese fabrication firm had over any of its global
competitors is the size of their facility to get this work dealers has drawn criticism from american steel workers and bay area residents. bridge workers earn $20 a day according to the new york sometimes. >> any jobs that can be given to the local area i'm all for. >> reporter: still other residents say if you can build sections more cheaply, why not. >> it's a market economy right, so i think the economy pays its toll and wherever it's cheaper people are going to go for that. >> about 75% of all of the steel in the bridge is fabricated right here in the u.s.a. officials say the new bay bridge is on schedule but completion is still two years away. on treasure island, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. and you can follow the bay bridge project at ktvu.com. we've also posted a slide show of images on the bay bridge tab. amazon.com wants the voters to weigh in on the new sales
tax law. california recently passed a law requiring amazon and other online retailers to collect state sales taxes. amazon is refusing and threatening to cut off its california affiliates. now it's filed a petition for a referendum so voters can decide if it should collect sales taxes. the state says the law could bring in $200 million a year. a bill requiring skiers and snow boarders under the age of 18 is one step closer to the governor's desk. now it moves on to the state senate. supporters of the bill say it could prevend head and brain injuries. violators would be fined $25. at least four states have similar laws two others are considering them. macy's is paying a fine of $250,000 for failing to report that it has sold some children's clothes that had draw strings at the neck. the clothes pose a health hazard and some of them had been recalled. macy's denies the allegations
that it knowingly violated the law. the cpsc says 28 children have died since 1985 due to draw strings. crews started removing hundreds of trees today in an effort to stop sudden oak death. research shows removing bay trees which is 15 feet of oak trees reduces the riskover sudden oak death. it causes sudden oak trees to die from the disease. the work is expected to be finished by the end of this month. the san carlos city council tonight studied how a ban on plastic bags and tire phone containers would -- styrofoam containers would impact the environment. no decision was made at tonight's meeting. temperatures out there right now running cooler than last night. and certainly cooler than last
week with lots of fog and low cloud. pushing in you see it right now in the north bay. all the way into napa up toward vacaville. it's shooting out toward liver moor as well. tomorrow morning when you wake up most likely there'll be fog and clouds. i suspect along the coast at half-moon bay, drizzle possible as well. not a lot of it but just enough to slow you down. the wipers on intermittent. than warmer as we go into the next few days. high pressure builds back into the middle of the week. and the weekend they don't get hot but they start to warm up again. we have lots of fog and low clouds. higher humidities and cooler temperatures. numbers a solid 10 degrees, 15 degrees below the average. so as you march your microclimates tomorrow, san francisco upper 50s, oakland low 60s. oakland hills mid-60s. now into the mid-valley low 70less. where you had 100s not too long
ago we're looking at upper 70s out toward brentwood, discovery bay and out beyond that. a mild weather pattern, good news for firefighters. also good news for your air quality. as high pressure leaves the area. this low pressure sets up shop. now low pressure. if you've been in the mountains we've seen all the snow and rain in the reservoirs. here it is in the summer, in the summer it didn't have enough juice to get the rain. but it has enough use to get the fog. that's the mechanism, we've been looking at this low. it's not going away till the end of the weekend. san jose you have low clouds when we wake up. downtown san jose, down toward -- out toward cesar chavez park maybe 73. a little warmer down there in the buildings but still on the
cool side. it's fire season in the bay area, it just taking a little bit of the edge off. by the end of the week and early in the weekend, temperatures start to come up. but really a moist cool weather pattern. indications are that low is going to come back, again. so long range forecast are for this mild weather to continue into next week. >> we had a mild summer last summer too. thank you bill. the crew of the space shuttle atlantis got some welcome news today. nasa extended the last flight by an extra day. atlantis is docked at the international space station delivering a year worth of groceries including fresh fruit and other supplies. it appears arnold schwarzenegger is moving on from his failed marriage by
focusing on his acting career. arnold schwarzenegger signed back to the production company. he and his wife maria shriver are in the middle of a divorce after he admitted to fathering a child with their housekeeper. and a fan almost falls over a rail while trying to catch a foul ball. what prevented him from going over.
mark is here now with sports. another close call at a game tonight with a fall. >> all star festivities almost with a big not good happening. it's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. that was nearly the case again today. near tragedy again at a ballpark. happening in the midst of the home run hitting contest. making fans forget personal safety. his name is keith carmichael. his father and a friend holding him that was a 160-foot drop. disaster prevented. red sox and yankees in the final. and first of all it was gonzalez tieing the record in the final with 11 only to have it broken by cano the yankee second baseman with a 470-foot
two shot. and there you go. 472feet will win it for the yankees second baseman. you know not since 1966 has a giant gone to an all star game so well represented it. are five world champions, gio gonzalez is the loan a's rep for tomorrow night's game. both teams went through the paces in arizona earlier today. in preparation for the midsummer night classic. to be seen by the way right here on ktvu tomorrow. matt cane selected to the game although he will not pitch. quite proud of his heritage. >> these guys that i've kind of played with and stuff in the giants organization, i think those guys rub off on you. you want to be a professional on the field and offer the field. especially off the field. >> i'm proud to be here and represent the oakland a's. i want to do the best and ráept the american league all star team. if i get the ball and the
opportunity i'm going to try to do my best and keep us in the game as long as possible. meantime it is the women's united states open. before they took the first swing this afternoon in the three hole player could be decided it was guaranteed that only a south korean would come out happiest. it was ru against so for the u.s. open title in the three hole play offs. so ru approaching at 17. set herself up for a birdie and a two shot lead going to the final hole and she will wrap it up there. ru is your champion and has the champane bubble bath to prove it right there. nice going. that is the sporting life for a monday night, again the all star game right here on channel 2, 5:00. >> i can't believe that caught that guy. >> he was so lucky they caught him. >> that was a near tragedy averted. just by the skin of his teeth. his arm and his leg. >> mark, thank you.
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Don Was leads Detroit revue celebrating Motown milestone
By JEFF KAROUBJuly 6, 2019
DETROIT (AP) — Don Was has performed with or produced many musical legends, including Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples, the Rolling Stones and Ringo Starr. But the Detroit-raised sonic craftsman feels...
Firefly Music Festival kicks off in Delaware
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Tens of thousands of music fans are descending on central Delaware for the annual Firefly Music Festival.
Gates were to open at noon Friday for the eighth edition of the...
Scorsese on Dylan, Netflix and beating back the blockbuster
By JAKE COYLEJune 12, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — A recent multiplex marquee is haunting Martin Scorsese. Twelve screens and 11 of them were showing one movie: "Avengers: Endgame."
Activists to use Bob Dylan’s birthday to help migrants
SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) — Activists in southwestern New Mexico hope to use Bob Dylan's birthday to raise money for Central American migrants seeking asylum.
Leon Redbone, acclaimed 1970s musician, dies
By MESFIN FEKADUMay 30, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — Leon Redbone, the blues and jazz artist whose growly voice, Panama hat and cultivated air of mystery made him seem like a character out of the ragtime era or the Depression-era...
Review: Morrissey offers 12 covers, with very mixed results
By MARK KENNEDYMay 21, 2019
Morrissey, "California Son" (Etienne/BMG)
Morrissey delivers a dozen covers on his new album, "California Sun," which reimagines works by such masters as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Carly...
By MESFIN FEKADUApril 15, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin is still getting R-E-S-P-E-C-T after death: The Queen of Soul received the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor Monday, becoming the first individual woman to earn...
Bob Dylan whiskey distillery to open fall 2020 in Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More information is being released about music icon Bob Dylan's project in downtown Nashville in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of his "Nashville Skyline"...
Herb Ritts photos of Bowie, Madonna, more to be exhibited
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The work of famed celebrity and fashion photographer Herb Ritts is going on display at an upstate New York museum.
Carole Bayer Sager to get special honor at Songwriters Hall
By The Associated PressMarch 8, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — Carole Bayer Sager will receive the Johnny Mercer Award by the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June.
The Oscar- and Grammy-winner, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall in...
Fundraiser planned after fiddler’s Guthrie music shop burns
GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) — Musicians and music enthusiasts are working to help a renowned fiddler and owner of a popular instrument shop after a weekend fire gutted the business in Guthrie.
Today in History for February 10th
Grammy week events begin with salute to Willie Nelson
By KRISTIN M. HALLFebruary 7, 2019
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kacey Musgraves, Dave Matthews and Lukas Nelson saluted the outlaw king of country music Willie Nelson with tributes and performances at a famed Los Angeles studio.
The Recording Academy's Producers and Engineers Wing honored Nelson on Wednesday night ahead of Sunday's Grammy Awards.
Izzy Young, who organized Dylan’s first big concert, dies
By DAVID KEYTONFebruary 6, 2019
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Izzy Young, a businessman, political activist and founding patron of the Greenwich Village folk music scene who organized Bob Dylan's first major New York concert and devoted decades to supporting other musicians, has died at age 90.
Review: Wide range of styles on Mark Knopfler’s latest CD
By STEVEN WINENovember 14, 2018
Mark Knopfler, "Down the Road Wherever" (British Grove/Blue Note)
At age 69, Mark Knopfler says he still loves touring, and even in the studio, the Glaswegian guitarist covers a lot of ground.
On his latest album, "Down the Road Wherever," Knopfler serves up more than 70 minutes of music rooted in the Scottish Highlands ("Drovers' Road"), piano bars ("When You Leave") and cowboy country ("Nobody's Child"), among other locales.
Can a long-running debate for Bob Dylan fans be settled?
By DAVID BAUDERNovember 1, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — The 14th volume of Bob Dylan's bootleg series won't settle one of the most persistent debates about his recording career. But it will allow fans to decide for themselves.
The Daily JournalFive interesting facts about Arlo GuthrieJuly 10, 2019
Houston ChronicleHow David Bowie, Jimmy Page, Patti Smith and other musicians fell for William S. BurroughsJune 29, 2019
Review: ‘Life Itself’ is star-studded, earnest but lacking
By LINDSEY BAHRSeptember 18, 2018
Hallmark sentimentality, passionate defenses of Bob Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" and horrific head traumas are thrown together in Dan Fogelman's "Life Itself ," a curious cocktail of a movie from the "This is Us" creator about all of life's highest highs and lowest lows across generations and continents. Fogelman has seemingly never met an extreme emotion he doesn't want to exploit, and "Life Itself" might be the apex of that guiding principle.
Logo: Kentucky distiller sues Dylan company over trademark
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Heaven Hill Distillery of Kentucky is taking Bob Dylan's whiskey company to court, claiming trademark infringement involving its logo.
Heaven's Door Spirits is co-owned by the musician and debuted this year.
Art museum to feature paintings by rocker Mellencamp
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio art museum has announced a new exhibition of paintings by rocker John Mellencamp, known for his expressionistic oil portraits and other works.
"John Mellencamp: Expressionist" opens Sept. 20 at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown and runs through Nov. 18. It will include portraits and mixed-media pieces.
The show is Mellencamp's second show with the Butler after his 2013-14 exhibition at the museum's Trumbull Branch in suburban Howland.
Musician Levon Helm’s Arkansas home on Historic Register
MARVELL, Ark. (AP) — The eastern Arkansas home of The Band musician Levon Helm has been added to the state Register of Historic Places.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program's review board voted unanimously Wednesday to add Helm's boyhood home in Marvell to the register.
Oklahoma town doubles in population for Woody Guthrie fest
OKEMAH, Okla. (AP) — Woody Guthrie's Oklahoma hometown has doubled in population as thousands gather for a music festival in honor of the "This Land Is Your Land" singer.
The Journal Record reports that the town of Okemah jumps from about 3,000 to 6,000 people during the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival.
Vintage Tom Petty Guitar used on Dylan tour going to auction
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 1965 Gibson SG electric guitar owned by Tom Petty will be auctioned, along with one the late rocker's top hats.
Heritage Auctions announced Monday that the auction will occur on July 21. It says the guitar was played by Petty during his 1986 tour with Bob Dylan.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the guitar will benefit two Southern California charities, The Midnight Mission that helps the homeless and the Tazzy Animal Rescue Fund.
Elvis, Beatles memorabilia items on display at Hard Rock
By WAYNE PARRYJuly 7, 2018
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Elvis Presley's Rolls Royce, the suits the Beatles wore on their first tour of America, Bruce Springsteen's sleeveless faded denim jacket and colorful headband, and Michael Jackson's famous glove are among the items of music memorabilia on display at Atlantic City's new Hard Rock casino.
Tulsa finalizes Bob Dylan Center location, design firm
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The foundation that acquired part of Bob Dylan's archives has selected a lead architect and exhibit designer for the anticipated public center in Oklahoma dedicated to the music icon.
Demolition begins at Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Demolition has begun on a 3,400-seat theater in northwestern Indiana that has hosted Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and other entertainers over nearly four decades.
BusinessWireGeorge Kaiser Family Foundation Names Olson Kundig Lead Architect and Exhibit Designer for The Bob Dylan Center™, Set to Open in 2021June 27, 2018
Today in History for May 24th
Memorabilia from Prince, Bob Dylan, more go to auction
NEW YORK (AP) — Music fans looking for a piece of history are going to get a chance to own guitars, outfits and other memorabilia from the likes of Prince, Bob Dylan, George Harrison and others.
Julien's Auctions is hosting two days of auctions focused on musical artists at the Hard Rock Cafe New York and online.
A public preview of the items opened on Monday. The auction days are Friday and Saturday.
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It ain’t tea, babe: Bob Dylan embraces Tennessee whiskey
Staff WriterMay 7, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Music icon Bob Dylan is partnering with a distillery to make whiskey at a 140-year-old Tennessee church and bottle it under the name Heaven’s Door.
News outlets report Dylan has partnered with Angel’s Envy Bourbon co-founder Marc Bushala in the venture. The New York Times first reported on the plan. Dylan recorded four albums in Nashville.
George Harrison’s first electric guitar up for auction
NEW YORK (AP) — George Harrison's first electric guitar is up for auction.
Julien's Auctions says Harrison played the Hoffner Club 40 when The Beatles played around Liverpool, England, as The Quarrymen. Harrison traded his acoustic guitar for the electric model with Ray Ennis, who was a member of The Swinging Blue Jeans.
Harrison donated it to a band competition in 1965 and it was won by a member of a German band who died in 2017. His widow is putting it up for auction.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Music icon Bob Dylan is partnering with a distillery to make whiskey at a 140-year-old Tennessee church and bottle it under the name Heaven's Door.
News outlets report Dylan has partnered with Angel's Envy Bourbon co-founder Marc Bushala in the venture. The New York Times first reported on the plan. Dylan recorded four albums in Nashville.
The Santa Fe New Mexican
Counterculture poet remembered as inspiring force
By Phaedra Haywood | The New MexicanApril 27, 2018
Santa Fe has lost a bard. Self-described “modern satirical poet” Sanford “Rosé” Cohen died April 4 of complications from pneumonia. He was 83.
More beatnik than hippie, Cohen was a seminal figure in East Coast and Southwest counterculture circles — an author, art patron, world traveler and entrepreneur who once owned a gallery on Palace Avenue. His greatest joy was performing his long-form poetry, rife with puns and rhymes, for a live audience.
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NC singers tell stories of survival, nerves as ‘The Voice’ finale nears
Janine Bowen, WRAL.com editor and Jeff Hogan, WRAL anchor/reporterApril 23, 2018
Two singers with North Carolina ties will be fighting for viewer votes in the top 12 on “The Voice” this week.
Sanford native Britton Buchanan and Chapel Hill native Rayshun Lamarr were two of 24 contestants voted through to the next round during real-time voting last week, and now both will compete to be the winner of this season’s singing competition.
Today in History for March 19th
Rayshun Lamarr joins Britton Buchanan in top 12 on ‘The Voice’
Janine Bowen, WRAL.com editorApril 19, 2018
Viewer votes on Wednesday helped Rayshun Lamarr become the second North Carolina native to advance to the top 12 on “The Voice.”
The Chapel Hill native, who is on Team Adam, sand “I’m Going Down” by Mary J. Blige and viewers voted online in real time to help him advance to the next round.
His road to the national stage includes fighting cancer and a rare disease that temporarily took his hearing, vision and voice.
The Detroit News
‘Lean on Pete’ a breakthrough for actor Charlie Plummer
Adam Graham, The Detroit NewsApril 19, 2018
The 18-year-old has appeared in a series of intense dramas but hopes to lighten up his work going forward
Charlie Plummer is still waiting for his romantic comedy.
"You're talking to a guy who's favorite movie is 'Hitch' with Will Smith," says the young actor, on the phone earlier this month from Los Angeles. "I'm hoping for something along those lines, someday. I hope soon!"
This Day in Country Music: April 9
Dave WilliamsApril 10, 2018
Today's look back at country music >>>
1942 - Born on this day in Dayton, Ohio, was Margo Smith, singer who in the 1970's scored two US #1 Country hits, "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" and "It Only Hurts for a Little While." She is also considered a "world class yodeler"
Report: Man tied to Nobel body leaked winner names
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish newspaper says the husband of a member of the academy awarding the Nobel Literature Prize violated century-old Nobel rules by repeatedly leaking the names of winners of the prestigious award — including 2016 recipient Bob Dylan.
One of Sweden's biggest dailies, Dagens Nyheter, cited an internal Academy probe to report Tuesday that Jean-Claude Arnault leaked winners' names seven times, starting in 1996. It was not clear who the names were disclosed to.
Cleveland.com
Florida woman tells police wind blew cocaine into purse
Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.comApril 9, 2018
FORT PIERCE, Florida — To paraphrase Bob Dylan, "The alibi, my friend, is blowing in the wind."
A woman caught with cocaine in her purse has come up with a unique excuse, saying the drug must have been blown there by the wind, WPLG Channel 10 reports.
Tribune-Review
Mavis Staples to headline Three Rivers Arts Festival opening
by MARY PICKELSApril 9, 2018
Known for her decades of gospel and rhythm and blues performances, Mavis Staples will headline opening day of this year's Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival with a 7:30 p.m. June 1 performance on the Dollar Bank Main Stage in Point State Park.
In a news release, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust notes Staples recently released a new album, "If All I Was Was Black."
The Philadelphia Tribune
We must never forget Hattie Carroll
IRV RANDOLPHApril 8, 2018
Hattie Carroll (1911-1963) was a 51-year-old restaurant server who was murdered by a white aristocrat, 24-year-old William Devereux Zantzinger (1939-2009) who struck her with a cane, because she took too long to serve him a drink, during the Spinsters’ Ball, an event at the old Emerson Hotel in Baltimore. News reports said that she told co-workers that she felt “deathly ill” after the beating. That night, Zantzinger was charged with disorderly conduct. The next morning, Carroll suffered a stroke and died. Zantzinger was then charged with murder; later, the crime was reduced to manslaughter, and he received six months in jail (not prison) for killing a woman, the mother of at least nine children, who was more than twice his age and smaller than his 6-foot-1 husky frame.
Dylan, Kesha change pronouns in songs to honor LGBTQ couples
By MESFIN FEKADUApril 5, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Dylan, Kesha and St. Vincent have reimagined popular love songs to honor the LGBTQ community, and the singers are doing it by switching pronouns.
The six-song album, "Universal Love," was released digitally Thursday and includes Benjamin Gibbard of alternative band Death Cab for Cutie, singer-songwriter Valerie June and Kele Okereke of the indie rock group Bloc Party.
Dylan, Kesha, others honor LGBTQ couples
Appeal-Democrat
Yuba-Sutter poet laureate invites residents to share their best poems
By Chris Kaufman / ckaufman@appealdemocrat.comMarch 30, 2018
Jonathan Kinsman fell in love with creating poetry in high school. He met his wife as a result of his words.
He wants others to feel that love of the art form.
Kinsman, the Yuba-Sutter poet laureate, is inviting residents to share their best original poems – dealing with self-identity and diversity – as part of National Poetry Month (April).
Yuba Sutter Arts – for which Kinsman is a board member – will be hosting events with poetry readings throughout the month.
Capital Journal
Bettye LaVette isn’t a cover artist
By CelebretainmentMarch 30, 2018
Bettye LaVette doesn't think she covers songs.
The 72-year-old singer is set to drop her newest album 'Things Have Changed', which marks the first time she has devoted an entire album to one songwriter, Bob Dylan, but Bettye claimed she isn't a cover artist.
Review: Bettye LaVette transforms Dylan songs into her own
By PABLO GORONDIMarch 27, 2018
Bettye LaVette, "Things Have Changed" (Verve Records)
There are enough cover versions of Bob Dylan songs for a lifetime but Bettye LaVette's own dozen are a truly special kind. She doesn't simply sing them — she molds, adopts and transforms them, taking possession of the songs like few other interpreters do or can.
Archive of Studs Terkel radio shows to be released to public
By The Associated PressMarch 16, 2018
CHICAGO (AP) — More than 5,600 of Studs Terkel's radio interview programs on the Chicago station WFMT will be released to the public.
The Studs Terkel Radio Archive will launch May 16, the 106th birthday of the late author, activist and oral historian. Terkel died in 2008 at age 96. The archive will be available on studsterkel.org.
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Trans teen’s war with his body started when he was just 10
By TAMARA LUSHNovember 20, 2017
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Theo Ramos learned how to cut himself when he was in fifth grade, when his body seemed to revolt.
Exploring online was easy, with hashtags like #scars, #hurt and #brokeninside.
Nothing made sense back then, but Theo absorbed what he saw on websites like a religion. All he could focus on was how the exterior he was born with — that of a girl — didn't look or feel right. That was six years ago, when he had another name and a different gender.
Coming out as trans just start of journey for teen, family
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — It was May of seventh grade, and 14-year-old Theo Ramos was in a new school. Perhaps because it was an arts magnet program, or because it was a diverse place, kids and adults seemed to embrace the transgender boy much more than those at his old school did. There were fewer nasty comments, less bullying.
Years into journey, transgender teen still finding himself
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — It's been six years since Theo Ramos first cut himself in the school bathroom, six years since his parents and friends and teachers found out he wanted to be a boy instead of a girl, six years in transition.
And his mother, 55-year-old Lori Ramos, has been at his side.
Bill allowing ‘X’ gender on licenses becomes law
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire residents who don't identify as either male or female will soon be able to express that on their driver's licenses.
NY expands pay equity law on day honoring US soccer team
By DAVID KLEPPERJuly 10, 2019
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state expanded a state law Wednesday that prohibits gender pay discrimination, making it illegal to pay someone less based on characteristics including race, religion,...
Colorado hospital to ask patients to provide gender identity
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado hospital will begin asking incoming patients to provide their gender identities as a way to improve treatment for transgendered people.
Marvel’s first openly trans actor calls for more portrayals
By AMANDA LEE MYERSJuly 5, 2019
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first openly transgender actor in the Marvel Universe says there needs to be more representation of his experience.
Zach Barack plays a classmate of Peter Parker's in...
Transgender woman arrested after bathroom dispute escalates
SHELBY, N.C. (AP) — The Denny's restaurant chain wants its customers to know that they can use the bathroom of their gender identity, nationwide, after a transgender woman was arrested this...
Attorneys general weigh in on LGBTQ employment cases
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A coalition led by the attorneys general of Illinois and New York has filed a legal brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or...
Big business to Supreme Court: Defend LGBTQ people from bias
By DAVID CRARYJuly 2, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 200 corporations, including many of America's best-known companies, are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the...
Declaration of Independence still inspires activists
By HILLEL ITALIEJuly 1, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — Shauna Marie O'Toole is a transgender activist who has organized and attended countless rallies and lobbied New York State lawmakers for legal protections. Convinced that "no...
Turkish police disperse banned LGBT march with tear gas
ISTANBUL (AP) — Activists gathered in Istanbul to promote rights for gay and transgender people Sunday before police dispersed the crowd at a pride event that Turkish authorities had banned for...
Vermont: Insurers can’t deny care for transgender youth
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont is clarifying that insurers cannot deny coverage of gender confirmation health care because of the individual's age.
Colorado shooter says he targeted kids over gender taunts
By KATHLEEN FOODYJune 21, 2019
DENVER (AP) — A high school student charged in a classmate's death during a Colorado school shooting told police that he planned the attack for weeks and intended to target classmates who...
Oregon’s hate crime laws see first update since 1980s
By SARAH ZIMMERMANJune 19, 2019
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers unanimously sent the governor an overhaul of the state's hate crime laws Wednesday, adding changes such as including "gender identity" as a protected...
Nessel: Civil rights panel not bound by ex-AG’s LGBT opinion
By DAVID EGGERTJune 19, 2019
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Civil Rights Commission is not bound by a 2018 state opinion that says LGBT people have no protection under an anti-discrimination law, Attorney General Dana...
The Times-TribuneYOUR OPINIONJuly 13, 2019
The Washington TimesJanet Mills, Maine governor, signs 'conversion therapy' ban into lawMay 29, 2019
AP Explains: The rocky rise of LGBT rights in Latin America
By CHRISTINE ARMARIOJune 14, 2019
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Despite a dark past, today many LGBT citizens in Latin America are enjoying the right to marry, choose their gender identity and adopt children. But while laws in several...
Vatican rejects gender change to alarm of LGBT Catholics
By NICOLE WINFIELDJune 11, 2019
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican issued an official document Monday rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual "complementarity" of men and women...
Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, June 7
Time to halt trend of transgender 'bathroom bills'
South Dakota lawmakers intent on introducing retreads of discriminatory transgender "bathroom bills"...
Suburban Huntington Woods bans gay conversion therapy
HUNTINGTON WOODS, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit suburb of Huntington Woods says it has become the first city in Michigan to ban gay conversion therapy, which aims to change a person's sexual...
Whitmer joins lawmakers to call for adding LGBT protections
By DAVID EGGERTJune 4, 2019
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday joined with Democratic lawmakers and others to get behind newly introduced legislation that would expand Michigan's civil rights law to...
The Latest: Senate approves anti-discrimination amendment
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on the Nevada Legislature (all times local):
Nevada Senators have overwhelmingly approved a proposal to amend the state Constitution to...
Taylor Swift asks Tennessee senator to support Equality Act
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Taylor Swift says she's kicking off Pride Month by asking Tennessee's Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander to protect LGBTQ rights and support the Equality Act.
2020 hopeful Gillibrand unveils plan to protect LGBTQ rights
By The Associated PressJune 1, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand has unveiled a comprehensive plan to protect the rights of LGBTQ people to mark the start of Pride Month.
Colorado governor signs conversion therapy ban
By JAMES ANDERSONMay 31, 2019
DENVER (AP) — Colorado's Jared Polis, elected as the nation's first openly gay governor last year, signed into law Friday a ban on psychotherapy denounced as damaging that seeks to change the...
Business WireAEG Pledges Support for Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative’s (SIGBI) Creation of LGBTQ+ Anti-Bias Training StandardJune 13, 2019
Lawmaker: South Dakota transgender bathroom debate to stay
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota lawmaker is arguing that debate over transgender rights will likely continue and that it's only a matter of time before the U.S. Supreme Court hears a case...
Maine governor OKs ban on gay conversion therapy for minors
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine banned gay conversion therapy for minors on Wednesday, joining more than a dozen other states that have outlawed the controversial practice.
Students ask Rapid City for gender identity protections
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A student group wants the Rapid City Area Schools Board of Education to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
Administration moves to revoke transgender health protection
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARMay 24, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration moved Friday to revoke newly won health care discrimination protections for transgender people, the latest in a series of actions that aim to reverse...
House approves sweeping bill to expand gay rights
By MATTHEW DALYMay 17, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats in the House approved sweeping anti-discrimination legislation Friday that would extend civil rights protections to LGBT people by prohibiting discrimination based on...
The Latest: House passes sweeping bill to expand gay rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on a House bill to extend civil rights protections to LGBT people (all times local):
Governor says she’ll sign Maine ‘conversion therapy’ ban
By MARINA VILLENEUVEMay 9, 2019
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's governor said Thursday that she would sign a bill to ban so-called gay conversion therapy for minors that advanced in Maine's House and Senate this week.
California overhauls sex education guidance for teachers
By ADAM BEAMMay 9, 2019
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has overhauled its sex education guidance for public school teachers, encouraging them to talk about gender identity with kindergartners and give advice to...
The Latest: California OKs new sex education guidance
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the California State Board of Education's vote to revise sex education guidance for public school teachers (all times local):
Maine senators push to add LGBT people to Fair Housing Act
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's two U.S. senators are introducing legislation designed to protect residents from housing discrimination that is based on gender identity or sexual...
Manhattan-Ogden approves transgender student guidelines
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The Manhattan-Ogden School Board has approved guidelines for transgender students in the school district.
The board voted 6-1 Wednesday to approve the guidelines,...
Oklahoma man convicted of killing transgender woman
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge told a man to pray for salvation before sentencing him to life in prison for killing a transgender woman in 2017 at an Oklahoma City motel.
Supreme Court to take up LGBT job discrimination cases
By MARK SHERMANApril 22, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking on a major test of LGBT rights in cases that look at whether federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and...
Why Rachel Chavkin is a rarity on Broadway these days
By JOHN CARUCCIApril 16, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — As another season on Broadway draws to a big finish, the opening of "Hadestown" marks a milestone of sorts — it's the only new musical directed by a woman, Tony Award-nominee...
Attorneys: Honduran transgender migrant unlawfully detained
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANApril 11, 2019
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Honduran transgender migrant who was granted asylum last fall has been unlawfully held — at times in solitary confinement — at an immigration detention center while her...
Watered-down Tennessee ‘bathroom bill’ gets House’s OK
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The state House has cleared legislation to spell out that Tennessee's public indecency law applies to bathrooms and changing rooms for single-sex, multiperson...
Indiana governor signs hate crimes measure into law
By RICK CALLAHANApril 3, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed legislation Wednesday aimed at getting Indiana off a list of five states without a hate crimes law, saying that the conservative Midwestern...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Senate approved legislation Tuesday aimed at getting Indiana off a list of five states without a hate crimes law, and Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb promised to sign...
The Latest: Indiana Senate approves hate crimes bill
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on hate crimes legislation that's before the Indiana General Assembly (all times local):
The Indiana Senate has approved legislation that's...
Watered-down Tennessee ‘bathroom bill’ heads to floor votes
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A watered-down Tennessee bill spelling out that the state's public indecency law applies to bathrooms and changing rooms for single-sex, multi-person use is heading toward...
Puerto Rico governor bans conversion therapies
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor has signed an executive order that bans conversion therapies to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of a minor.
Indiana shelves bill on requirements for ID gender change
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers have shelved a bill that would have made it more difficult for residents to change their gender on driver's licenses or state identification cards.
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IU Goes to Japan and Australia 2017
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Strengthening and renewing ties in Tokyo
Posted November 2, 2017 by Ryan Piurek
Read a Japanese translation of this blog entry. The former vice minister of foreign affairs of Japan, Mitoji Yabunaka, wrote a column last month that appeared in a local Japanese newspaper in which he referred to Indiana as the most pro-Japanese state in America. To support this claim, he cited the fact that many major… Read more »
A partnership to preserve knowledge and a performance to remember
Posted October 31, 2017 by Ryan Piurek
Read a Japanese translation of this blog entry. University collections are vital tools for scholars and scientists from nearly all disciplines. They inspire students and are vital parts of their learning and understanding. And they draw people from beyond the university to view and study them. They have been accumulated, in some cases, for centuries,… Read more »
Newest chapter in IU’s international engagement marks an investment in Indiana’s future
Almost a decade ago, Indiana University embarked upon its first-ever international strategic plan, which offered a bold vision for the university to expand upon and enhance its engagements around the world, thus positively impacting IU students and communities around the state. As a result of the plan, initiated in 2008, IU continues to see record… Read more »
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Benny Turner and Cash McCall Going Back Home
1st May 2019 14th May 2019 Tom Dixon 0 Comments Benny Turner, Blues Music, Bluesdoodles CD Review, Cash McCall, Welcome To Chicago
In Memory of Cash McCall
Forgive the introduction to this wonderful album as, sadly, just before I sat down to write this review, the lovely Betsie Brown at Blind Racoon informed Bluesdoodles of the sad passing of Cash McCall. Cash had been battling lung cancer for quite a while and he finally succumbed to the disease on April 20th 2019. Therefore, with regret, I will devote the next paragraph to a remarkable man: a blues musician of such skill and quality in his vocals, his guitar playing, his compositional skills and the contribution he made to music as a solo performer and as a ‘sideman’.
Born Morris Dollison Jr. in 1941, he entered the music scene of Chicago with gospel groups the Gospel Songbirds and the Pilgrim Jubilee Singers. His first solo effort was a single called ‘Earth Worm’ released under his real name in 1963. Success came in with a co-write with Monk Higgins called ‘When You Wake Up’ in ‘66. On its release the record company, for reasons unknown, billed him as Cash McCall. After a meeting with the great Willie Dixon, Cash became a session musician and songwriter for Chess Records and went on to be a part of Dixon’s All-Stars. In the 70s, he moved more toward the blues and released three exceptional solo albums, the last one being ‘Cash Up Front’ in 1987. He has toured since then as a solo artist and with the Chicago Rhythm and Blues Kings and the Chicago Blues Revue. It is fitting and heartwarming to hear that Benny Turner decided to join up with his old friend as, although knowing each other for nigh on sixty years, they had never recorded together and, in Benny’s own words “A death in the gospel world inspired me to contact my old friend Cash. I had no idea about his health problems and wanted to do whatever I could to help. Getting him involved in a music project seems to have been the best medicine in the world for him because he is really excited about it’. The only shame is that this pairing will not record together again…the positive side is that they did record and we have that legacy to enjoy for evermore…Thank you, Cash McCall, for all of your contributions, both seen and unseen, over the years and rest assured that you will live on in the music you gracefully shared with those smart enough to realise the scope of your work. And thank you to Benny Turner for instigating this session and giving us a chance to hear again, this musician’s musician. Now we can celebrate the music that these two, along with a stellar cast of ‘backing’ musicians have supplied.
A word also for the redoubtable Benny Turner who is also a bluesman of renown…he is predominately known a bass player and backed his brother, Freddie King, until the guitarist’s death. He then moved to New Orleans and became the bandleader for the well-known singer Marva Wright. He has three critically acclaimed albums and an award-winning biography to his name as well as appearing on sixteen other releases. Now, on to the music…
Going Back Home Review
A quick glance at the tracklist on Going Back Home brings trepidation as some true classics are covered here…indeed, there is only one new composition. I say trepidation because I am always wary of some of my favourites being ruined. Fear not! We have the blues awareness of two veterans that have preserved the essence of the songs and given them new and delightful twists. Opening with a Harold Burrage hit from 1965, Got To Find a Way features three Turner sisters…Carla Davis duetting nicely with Benny and Benita Turner and Yvette Whittler supplying delicious backing. They turn(er) this into a good time song that would fill any dance floor with the piano and sax cutting through the complexity of the interpretation while the rhythm guitar of Cash fills in. Spoonful is next and this is always a risky one…the original by Willie Dixon and famously released by The Wolf (and Cream) takes on a blues/soul hue as Cash provides the vocal and guitar effectively while the bass from Turner is spot on and the harp adds a little western feel. It is a very good, not the best, but a very good cover. Next, up is Poison Ivy written by Willie Mabon…this was always a simple early pop record that usually leaves me indifferent. Here though, it has a lilt and sway that the other versions lacked and the keys and guitar behind Turner’s vocals are so fulsome. Money is the only original and fittingly written by McCall. He sings it semi-spoken and so it becomes a sermon on the evil money causes. It is an effective if simple blues song that really has a rhythm that gets to you. Elmore James has long been a favourite of mine and I have heard some great and some dreadful covers of his classic Shake Your Moneymaker. Mercifully Turner and McCall keep the essential slide guitar in its primitive glory, while the keys update the sound and the rhythm guitar adds some depth. This is definitely in the good category even though I would have preferred much more slide than the sax solo that veers toward incongruous: the original will stay at the top of my preferences. Another revered song and composer is next with a version of Tampa Red’s It Hurts Me Too. Moody/Marsden are the only ones so far (imho as the youth say) to do the original real justice but this one comes close; mainly because Turner and McCall have laced it with some tasty harp and slide while the rhythm and essence is maintained. Elmore James’ One Way Out was adapted by GL Crockett in 1965 and released as It’s A Man Down There and the Allmans did another, a different take on it called One Way Out…Turner and McCall use Crockett’s version with a fast and barrelhouse feel with the piano and organ filling superbly behind the vocals. The Dirty Dozens is based on the Speckled Red original and, in case you’re wondering the line is “Mother for ya” and not anything untoward! In fact, you can learn a lot about how God made an elephant should you listen to the later verse…music can provide more than you’d think. Anyway, it is a piano-led blues of quality and, again, the instrumentation behind the ‘Fats’ like delivery of the vocal is great. Now yet another sacrosanct classic…Willie Dixon’s Built For Comfort. This version has some great slide but it’s too deep in the mix and would given the song that edge it lacks if it had been lifted. The rest of the instruments blend into a strong version that pays due deference to Dixon. It all wraps up with Sonny Boy Williamson’s Bring It On Home. Page unturned and Planted it is not…these guys own up and Billy Branch takes vocals as well as harp. It is probably the best interpretation of this classic for a long while. It has everything the original had and adds a modern edge with the multi-faceted instrumentation. A great way to end.
This is a damn good album from start to finish made all the more poignant by Cash McCall’s tragic death. So revel in the legacy and enjoy ten tracks of high-quality blues and, because of the complexity of the instrumentation, please listen (not hear) and adjust the settings each time to get the maximum out of, particularly, Turner’s adept bass playing. And while you’re listening yes, think of Cash but first and foremost join in with the fun all of the musicians so obviously shared in the studio.
doodle paws out of TEN …
Got to Find a Way (feat. Carla Davis)
Spoonful
Shake Your Money Maker
It Hurts Me Too
It’s a Man Down There
Built for Comfort
Bring It on Home (feat. Billy Branch)
Benny Turner: bass, vocals
Cash McCall: guitar, vocals
Carla Davis: vocals
Benita Turner and Yvette Whittler: backing vocals
Terry Saffold: drums
Butch Mudbone: guitar
Raishene Webb: keyboards
Barney Floyd: trumpet
Billy Branch: vocals, harmonica
Joe Krown: piano
Johnny Sansone: harmonica
Brentt Arcement: drums
Rodd Bland: drums
Jack Miele: guitar
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Boeing ecoDemonstrator 757 Flight Tests Focus on Aerodynamic Efficiency
Collaboration with TUI Group, NASA to reduce fuel use, carbon emissions
New technologies include active flow control, bug-phobic wing coatings
Boeing [NYSE: BA] has begun several months of flights with its ecoDemonstrator 757 to evaluate new technologies to improve commercial aviation’s efficiency, reduce noise and carbon emissions. Boeing is collaborating with TUI Group and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on ecoDemonstrator 757 tests.
Shown here, the ecoDemonstrator 757 flies over the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
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SEATTLE, March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has begun several months of flights with its ecoDemonstrator 757 to evaluate new technologies to improve commercial aviation's efficiency, reduce noise and carbon emissions. Boeing is collaborating with TUI Group and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on ecoDemonstrator 757 tests.
The 757 flight tests continue the ecoDemonstrator Program's multi-year effort to accelerate testing, refinement and use of new technologies and methods that can improve aviation's environmental performance.
"The ecoDemonstrator 757 furthers our commitment to accelerate innovative technologies for current and future airplane programs," said Mike Sinnett, vice president of Product Development, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "The Boeing ecoDemonstrator program is focused on putting new, more environmentally efficient technologies and airplanes in the hands of our customers sooner."
On the left wing, Boeing will evaluate technologies to reduce environmental effects on natural laminar flow as a way to improve aerodynamic efficiency. As an example, the ecoDemonstrator 757 will test a Krueger shield that can protect the leading edge from insects.
Boeing is under contract with NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) Project to test two technologies on the ecoDemonstrator 757. On the right wing, NASA will test bug-phobic coatings to reduce the residue left by bug strikes on the leading edges of aircraft wings; the goal is to enable more drag-reducing laminar flow over the remainder of the wing.
On the vertical tail, NASA and Boeing are testing active flow control to improve airflow over the rudder and maximize its aerodynamic efficiency. Based on wind-tunnel testing, active flow control could improve the rudder's efficiency by up to 20 percent and may allow for a smaller vertical tail design in the future.
TUI Group, the world's largest integrated tourism group, is collaborating with Boeing as a way to reduce carbon emissions. The Europe-based company, which includes six airlines, is preparing for a low-carbon future by reducing its environmental impact and encouraging its suppliers and customers to do the same.
"We are very pleased to partner with Boeing for the next phase of their ecoDemonstrator program, as TUI Group is highly committed to achieving further environmental efficiency across our whole business and remaining the industry leader on carbon efficiency with our airlines," said Jane Ashton, Director of Sustainability, TUI Group.
With the exception of Boeing proprietary technology, NASA knowledge gained in collaboration with Boeing from ecoDemonstrator research will be publicly available to benefit the industry.
"Having a relevant test bed, like Boeing's ecoDemonstrator, to help mature technology concepts is extremely important to NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) Project," said Fay Collier, ERA project manager, NASA. "Our researchers have been working hard to develop technologies to reduce airplane fuel consumption, noise and emissions. Being able to prove those concepts in flight tests gives them a better shot of getting into the commercial fleet."
Later this year, Boeing will announce additional tests with the ecoDemonstrator 757, which was leased for testing purposes. After the flights are complete, Boeing will work with the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association and the lessor, Stifel's aircraft finance division, to recycle the 757 using environmental best practices.
Since it was launched in 2011, the ecoDemonstrator Program has tested more than 40 technologies with a Next-Generation 737 and a 787 Dreamliner. For more information, visit www.newairplane.com/environment/.
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H.B. No. 2039
relating to creating an early childhood certification to teach
students in prekindergarten through grade three.
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 21.0489 to read as follows:
Sec. 21.0489. EARLY CHILDHOOD CERTIFICATION. (a) To
ensure that there are teachers with special training in early
childhood education focusing on prekindergarten through grade
three, the board shall establish an early childhood certificate.
(b) A person is not required to hold a certificate
established under this section to be employed by a school district
to provide instruction in prekindergarten through grade three.
(c) To be eligible for a certificate established under this
section, a person must:
(1) either:
(A) satisfactorily complete the course work for
that certificate in an educator preparation program, including a
knowledge-based and skills-based course of instruction on early
childhood education that includes:
(i) teaching methods for:
(a) using small group instructional
formats that focus on building social, emotional, and academic
skills;
(b) navigating multiple content
areas; and
(c) managing a classroom environment
in which small groups of students are working on different tasks;
(ii) strategies for teaching fundamental
academic skills, including reading, writing, and numeracy; or
(B) hold an early childhood through grade six
certificate issued under this subchapter and satisfactorily
complete a course of instruction described by Paragraph (A);
(2) perform satisfactorily on an early childhood
certificate examination prescribed by the board; and
(3) satisfy any other requirements prescribed by the
(d) The criteria for the course of instruction described by
Subsection (c)(1)(A) shall be developed by the board in
consultation with faculty members who provide instruction at
institutions of higher education in education preparation programs
for an early childhood through grade six certificate.
SECTION 2. The State Board for Educator Certification shall
propose rules:
(1) establishing requirements and prescribing an
examination for an early childhood certificate examination as
required by Section 21.0489, Education Code, as added by this Act;
(2) establishing standards to govern the approval and
renewal of approval of educator preparation programs for early
childhood certification.
I certify that H.B. No. 2039 was passed by the House on May 3,
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 120, Nays 26, 1 present, not
I certify that H.B. No. 2039 was passed by the Senate on May
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The Aptera Blockhouse
In spite of the failure of the Cretan Christians and their Greek allies to capture and hold Fort Malaxa, the insurgents continued to threaten the outposts of Fort Izzedin; the Ottoman fortress that dominated the entrance to Suda Bay, the main anchorage of the European Fleet.
Fort Izzedin viewed from Blockhouse. Fort Suda is across the Bay. (Photograph courtesy of Fred Rodgers.)
Austro-Hungarian Army map. Fort Izzedin and Aptera Blockhouse 1897
While realistically there was never any chance of them capturing the main fortress, the threat to it, and to the European naval forces using Suda Bay, was such that any move on Fort Izzedin was taken very seriously. Matters came to a head when in March 1897, the insurgents attempted to storm the blockhouse at Aptera, immediately above Fort Izzedin. The initial assaults were repulsed by fire from European ships
HMS Camperdown shelling insurgents above Fort Izzedin; view from HMS Revenge.
“On March 28th the insurgents made a second attempt on the Aptera blockhouse, near Fort Izzedin, which commands the entrance to Suda Bay. They were repulsed by the fire of the English, Italian and Russian warships, but resumed their attack two days later. “
A British sailor on board H. M. S. Camperdown described events in a letter to his mother:
Well last Tuesday [29th March] we heard that the Greeks were going to try and take the fort at the entrance to the harbour, The admiral sent all the small ships down to the mouth of the harbour near where the Greeks would come we also got orders to open fire. The battle started about 7pm as soon as the Greeks started firing the small ships fired shell at them it was a splendid sight to see at 8.30 we got orders to fire we fired at a distance of 4 miles the battle finished at 10pm for the night but started in the morning again at 9am we received orders to fire our heavy guns at them as well as the others our heavy guns weigh 67 tons each & throw a shell weighing 1250lbs which bursts at any distance you like from ½ mile to 15 miles we fired 4 rounds from these guns at them & a lot from the others The Greeks retreated then in the afternoon the Admirals visited the place we had shelled & they were astonished at the damage they had done they said the damage was inconceivable They couldn’t say how many were killed but it must have been a lot. We have quite a record what with sinking the Victoria & and being the only ship in the British Navy that has fired a modern heavy gun in action [1]
The Turkish garrison in the fort responded with its artillery, and the war-ships in the bay kept up a constant fire upon the besieging forces. At daylight next day the fight was resumed, but the Cretan Christians failed to storm the fort. In light of its strategic importance, the blockhouse commanded the water supply to Fort Izzedin, it was eventually determined that the outpost would be occupied by a force from the European Powers under the command of Colonel Bor, Royal Marine Artillery, who, for the purposes of this expedition, was awarded the ‘honorary’ rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Major Bor’s sketch map of Fort Izzedin and the Aptera Blockhouse. 30 March 1897.
Lt Col. Bor RMA
On 18 April at about 6p.m., Bor’s command occupied both Fort Izzedin and the Aptera blockhouse.
Austro-Hungarian and Russian troops in Fort Izzedin.
Ottoman and Russian flags over Fort Izzedin
Bor reported that he placed the Austrian and Russian contingents within the Fort, ordering them to hoist their flags to alert the insurgents to the European presence, while he went with the French and British contingents to the blockhouse; similarly hoisting their respective national flags. Both buildings apparently suffered from bad latrines and the accommodation in the blockhouse was so ‘indifferent’ that the French detachment requested, and were granted, permission to camp outside the building.
Izzedin Blockhouse February 2017 (Photograph courtesy of Fred Rodgers)
Shortly after his arrival firing broke out between Ottoman troops and insurgents to the east of the block-house, but following Bor’s instruction to the Ottomans to cease fire, the insurgents also stopped. The next morning the insurgents renewed their attack on the eastern outposts and their reinforcements could be seen advancing towards the firing line. Believing that the Cretan Christians could not see the French and British flags on the block-house from their firing line, Bor “ …marched out the French and British contingents with their flags to a conspicuous place, and, having previously sent to the Turkish outposts to cease firing, […] sounded the English ‘retire’ three times in order to attract the attention of the insurgents. They at once ceased firing and soon afterwards dispersed and went away, leaving slender guards for the rest of the day with two Greek flags which they planted along their line.”[2] For the next few days there was little insurgent activity and the locals resumed working in their fields.
On 20th April, a group of 30 or so insurgents approached the abandoned village of Megalo Chorafia and planted a further Greek flag. No shots were fired by either side, and Bor issued strict instructions that the Ottoman and European troops were not to open fire unless a serious attack was threatened. The following day the Greek flags by the eastern outposts disappeared and more people, ‘very few of [whom] are armed’ appeared working in the fields within 1000 yards of the Ottoman lines. There were also indications that a few people were taking up residence in the Megalo Chorafia.[3]
The lull in the fighting was not to last and on 23 April Lt Col. Bor sent the following report to his superiors on H.M.S Revenge:
“…shortly before 11pm last night the insurgents commenced an attack on the eastern outposts of this position which lasted about an hour and a half and only ceased when some Krupp guns and Nordenfelts came into action from the Fort and Blockhouse. Reinforcements of uncertain strength were at this time coming down the valley as could be seen by a number of lights they were carrying but they had not come under fire when the attacking force fell back. In the meantime another, though lesser, attack had been made on the southern outposts which lasted about half an hour. At one o’clock as all appeared to be over, the garrisons of the Fort and the Blockhouse went to bed but an hour later a second and more determined attack was made on the same outposts and on two of the western outposts. The main attack this time was on the south side where the enemy closed to within 500 yds of the defence but retreated under heavy rifle fire.
On the east the attackers were crossing the river in considerable numbers when I again ordered the Krupp and Nordenfelts that side of the Blockhouse to open fire with the result that the attack fell back almost immediately.
About 2p.m. nearly all firing ceased and at 2.40 a.m. the garrison again lay down to sleep. Up to 5.30 a.m. occasional shots were exchanged between the outposts and the insurgents by which time most of the latter had got away over the hills out of sight. The total strength of the attacking force must have been at least 300 men and in this was included one company of about 40 men which appeared to be well trained and under good control as I saw it fire repeated good and well timed volleys. Two well trained buglers were also with the force.
The force in action holding the position numbered about 500 men including the Russians and Austrians in the Fort and the French and English in the Blockhouse. No casualties occurred probably owing to the fact that the outposts are very well defended by loopholed stone walls and that the bullets of the attackers were fired very high. The ammunition expended by the defence was as follows:
3 rounds from 15 cm Krupp gun
4 rounds from 6cm Krupp gun
10 from light field guns
56 from Nordenfelts
About 1800 rounds rifle ammunition.
There was a great deal of unnecessary and useless firing from the Turkish outposts which I was unable to control personally as I felt bound to remain close to the Blockhouse where the French and English were manning the battlements and which was central. At daybreak I visited all outposts and informed officers and men of the folly of wasting their ammunition.
There are no grounds for forming any opinion as to whether the attack will be renewed during the next few nights or not. But the position is quite strong enough even without the from the ships near the coast.[4]
As far as can be determined, this was the last serious attempt by the Cretan Christians to take over the Blockhouse and with the evacuation of Greek troops from Crete in May 1897, the situation quietened down.
[1] National Maritime Museum MS86/074 Letter dated 5 April 1897 from Fred (Blomeley?) to his grandmother describing firing on Greek attack on the Aptera outpost of Fort Izzedin. The reference to ‘sinking the Victoria’ relates to the fact that H.M.S. Camperdown had accidentally sunk the battleship H.M.S. Victoria, while on manoeuvers on 22nd June 1893.
[2] National Archives. ADM 116-92. Inclosure 183, Major Bor to Flag captain H.M.S. Revenge. 20 April 1897.
[4] National Archives. ADM 116-92. Inclosure 192. Major Bor to Flag captain H.M.S. Revenge. 23 April 1897.
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The battle for the Malaxa blockhouse.
In early 1897 one of the few lengths of properly paved road on Crete was the stretch between the then capital, Canea, and Suda Bay, the only large and safe deep water anchorage on the island. Commanding both the road, the main approach to Canea from the east, and the entrance to the harbour, was Fort Izzedin and its associated outworks.
British map of Suda Bay, April 1897.
While realistically the Christian Cretan insurgents were never going to be able to take over the Fort Izzedin, the capture and occupation of the outlying blockhouses would put pressure on the Ottoman forces, both within the fort and in Canea. Accordingly, several attempts, some more successful than others, were made to capture these positions.
The first assault was on the Malaxa blockhouse. An initial attack on Sunday 28th February was forced back by fire from the Ottoman iron-clad Mukaddami Khair. (In illustration of how little control the Ottoman authorities actually had over the events unfolding at that time, the Mukaddami Khair was obliged to seek, and was eventually given, the permission of the European Admirals to open fire on the insurgents. She eventually fired three shells, ‘…the first a well-directed one, which had the effect of rapidly clearing the hillsides.’[1])
The insurgents were more successful when they attacked again three weeks later.
Cretan Christians assaulting the Malaxa Blockhouse
While the illustration above is from the French magazine Le Petite Journal, the original appeared in the Illustrated London News of 10th April 1897 with a text which reads;
“Early on the morning of March 25th a large force of Christian insurgents took up its position, with three guns, for an attack upon the Turkish blockhouse at Malaxa, a village near Canea. After prolonged artillery firing, the insurgents advanced on the blockhouse. The Turkish garrison eventually raised a white flag, and the Christians entered the blockhouse with a rush. The first of the insurgents to enter the fort was a young Cretan, Manos, who was recently an undergraduate at Oxford and is now the leader of a band of young patriots. Thanks to his intervention, the lives of most of the garrison were spared, forty-three prisoners being taken to Kontopoulo by the insurgents when their bombardment by the war-ships of the Powers obliged them to evacuate the blockhouse.”
The Illustrated London News drawing is described as being ‘[d]rawn by R. Canton Woodville R.I., from a Sketch by our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior’, and has Canton Woodville’s initials on the bottom left hand side and what appears to be an engraver’s mark on the bottom right. The identical illustration published in Le Petite Journal contains no attribution to the artists.
From other contemporary reports in the Illustrated London News it would appear that in addition to the intervention a British educated insurgent, the assistance of an American journalist and a Greek Army officer were instrumental in preventing a massacre of the Ottoman defenders and facilitating the transfer of the Ottoman prisoners to the Greek Army HQ in the nearby village of Alikianos.
“When the Cretan insurgents had stormed the blockhouse of Malaxa and rushed forward to occupy the stronghold, the first men to enter the fort was the young insurgent leader, Manos, who was but latterly and undergraduate at Oxford. He was closely followed by Mr Benn an American correspondent and these two between them prevailed on the victorious forces to spare the lives of most of the garrison, and rest content with taking them prisoners. Forty-three of the Turkish soldiers were taken as prisoners to [Kastropoulo/Kontopoulo?] under fire of the war-ships of the Powers.”
Not all of the garrison were captured or killed, some managed to make their way down the steep hill-side to safety.
The fall of the Malaxa Blockhouse; The flight of Ottoman troops
In spite of having captured the Malaxa blockhouse, the insurgents were not to remain there for long. The Illustrated London News reported;
‘One heavy shell from the Combined Fleet passed through the blockhouse, demolishing one of its main walls. Some hundred shells fell around the position, doing considerable damage in the villages of Malaxa and Kontopoulo. The Christians fired the ruined blockhouse before withdrawing from this bombardment, and carried forty-three of the garrison with them as prisoners.’
European forces bombard Malaxa Blockhouse.
Again according to the Illustrated London News, below;
‘[During] the Christian attack upon the blockhouse (…..) Turkish war-ships in Suda Bay kept firing upon the attacking force at intervals throughout the fight, with the object of relieving the garrison, and after the occupation of the blockhouse the war-ships of the Powers fired upon the victorious Christians, and forced them to evacuate the now ruined stronghold.’
The fall of Malaxa blockhouse.
A handwritten note on the illustration describes the figures in the foreground as ‘Turkish troops from roofs of houses in Nerokouron. The smoke from the Malaxa blockhouse is shown in the top right hand corner of the illustration.
The Ottoman prisoners were taken to the headquarters of the Greek invasion force at Alikianos and kept there until the evacuation of the Greek army a month or so later.
Ottoman prisoners from Malaxa.
Malaxa Insurgents
The date of the above photograph is unknown and the caption might refer simply to the location of the shot. However, it is possible that it may contain images of some of the Cretan Christians who fought at Malaxa.
[1] Command Paper No Turkey No.9, 1897. No1. Admiral Harris to Admiralty, 24 February 1897.
This entry was posted in European Intervention Crete, Royal Navy in Crete, Uncategorized and tagged Crete 1897, European Intervention Crete, Fort Izzedin, Fort Malaxa, Malaxa blockhouse, Ottomans in Crete on April 2, 2017 by Mick McT.
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It is not insignificant that Lucy Lippards latest book begins with the word I. While it is structurally one of the simplest words in the English language, with Lippards voice it speaks beyond monosyllabic clarity and points to the radicality at the heart of her criticism, demonstrating the reformist potential of Undermining in the process.
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In the early 1990s at a College Art Association panel, the veteran painter Rackstraw Downes presented Nature and Art Are Physical, a paper reflecting on the landscape artist. The essay has become the title of a collection of his writings on art from 1967 to 2008 and is an appropriate statement for the aesthetic ideology of Downess own paintings.
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NESN Adds Jade McCarthy To On-Air Cast
NESN announced today that Jade McCarthy will join NESN as an anchor, host and reporter in January 2010.
From their press release today:
A Newton, Massachusetts native, McCarthy has spent the last 4 years with WCAU NBC 10 in Philadelphia, where she serves as a sports anchor/reporter. In 2008 she won 2 Emmy awards, one for best sports news story and the second for best sports special for Football Night in Philly. The Mount Holyoke College graduate also served as a host on Sports Final, an anchor on NBC 10’s weekend newscasts and a co-host for The10! Show, a daily lifestyle & entertainment show.
“Jade’s passion for sports and her unique style will make her homecoming that much more enjoyable for our fans,” said Joel Feld, NESN’s executive vice president of programming and executive producer. “She will make a terrific addition to NESN’s on-air team.”
“I am very excited to join the NESN family. I still remember sitting at my first Red Sox game with my great aunt being amazed as I watched Wade Boggs tower over Jody Reed in front of the dugout,” said Jade McCarthy. “My love for the Boston teams went with me as I worked in Alabama, and then in Philadelphia. While it is bittersweet to leave four years in Philly behind, I couldn’t be more thrilled to come home to the Boston area for this opportunity.”
McCarthy began her career as a reporter at WGGB in Springfield, Massachusetts. She then moved to WAFF the NBC affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama to serve as a weekend morning show anchor and reporter before moving on to Philadelphia in 2005. Growing up, McCarthy rode horses competitively for 10 years. Although she no longer competes, she still enjoys horseback riding. She will join NESN after completing her current contract at WCAU NBC 10.
Apparently they’re heartbroken in Philadelphia over this move…
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39 thoughts on “NESN Adds Jade McCarthy To On-Air Cast”
cakes_are_cooking says:
I’m not so sure that the wives of Red Sox players will view this as a positive development. Come to think of it, perhaps Heidi Watney doesn’t view this as a positive development.
spankable.
Angry Old Bastard says:
LOL…I was waiting for the first sexist remark..(didn’t have to wait long)…..Rick Mc is the winner!
No, a sexist remark would be something like “Why is she covering sports?! Woman can’t comment on men’s sports because they’ve never played them” or something like that. Saying she’s hot, albeit in a less than eloquent way, isn’t sexist.
I think Heidi is going away (unfortunately). Getting too many players in trouble…
LJ Sandwich says:
Looks like she’d be a real go-er in the hammock. Nice full sweater and a kind of fetal-alcohol looking mug.
Great, another cheerleader in the Boston pom-pom waving media. IMO, she shouldn’t have publicly professed her “love for the Boston teams” because now she looks biased (even if it was a big factor in her being hired, which I’m sure it was).
To quote from Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry:” We got the bubble-headed bleach blonde, she comes on at 5. However, I don’t think she’ll be telling us about the gut-wrenching loss to the Yankees with a gleam in her eye.
Snuffy Smith says:
Guess there’s no chance of Tina coming back. She was a gem.
Why is Heidi so lifeless? She has no energy (or personality and needs to show more of the Heidi in the taxi.
Really? Annoying voice and creepy tooth-filled smile = gem? Don’t quite your day job and become a jeweler.
Tina Cervasio, aka Alligator Mouth?
I like Heidi Watney. McCarthy looks like she’ll be a fine addition to the NESN team.
Come on ya don’t need to be a jeweler to spot a gem. With Tina you could have more than a 3 minute conversation that would be engaging and with some great laughs.
Besides I never said she was a “10” (that’s up for you to decide) but she beats Heidi in brains and personality.
Heidi is the master of the trite question (asked with no enthusiasm)…
agreed…Heidi is nice to look at, but in a word, BLAND. Can’t remember anything she’s ever said or any question she ever asked…..If they ever got rid of her job I don’t think I would even notice……but that goes for ANY “sideline type” reporter….ask yourself this: Have you ever been watching a game and found yourself saying, “jeeze…When is Hedi, Suzy Kolber, Michele Tafoya,(insert any name) going to do their sideline report…I can’t wait!”……of course you haven’t.
I look forward to Heidi’s reports. There aren’t many “Perfect 10″‘s out there…and Heidi is one of them. Any time you can look at a girl that hot, whether on TV or elsewhere, it’s a breath of fresh air.
Is she bland? Sure. Insightful? No. Stunningly beautiful? Abso-frickin’-lutely!
annoying voice?? have you heard Jade McCarthy yet?? She's a knockout, but that voice goes right through ya
Hey…don’t be hating on my beloved “Choppers” Cervasio. At least she wasn’t sleeping her way through the lineup!!! If you think outside the box a little bit that “Alligator Mouth” might have spectacular fringe benefits.
Anyway, she was last seen reporting from the bleachers of the regional LL World Series on NESN. She was looking fit and trim, and giving the baseball dads in the stands chubbies.
I’m sorry, but is there any evidence that Heidi is actually “seeing” players on the Red Sox?
I know it makes for spicy rumors, et al, but I think we should all give her the benefit of the doubt unless some actual evidence turns up.
I mean, how smart would it be for a young woman under the age of 30, who’s got her entire career ahead of her, to engage in such behavior in her first “major” TV gig in a major media market?
Remember what happened to Carolyn Hughes, Derek Lowe’s little LA television hottie?
Why would Heidi want to risk that? It’s not like she’d have any trouble finding plenty of good-looking and financially secure guys to date outside of baseball anyway.
So far she’s only nailed Tek and Nick Green. She’s clearly going backwards. If I was the batboy, I’d be on my toes…
For the record, I know a woman who has a very unhealthy obsession with Varitek (she knows WAY too much about him and his personal life), and she claims that all of the Heidi/Varitek rumors were b.s.
I can’t speak to the Nick Green rumors, but again, they’re just rumors as far as any of us know.
Those two warthogs from the Inside Track had the Green scoop. If they printed it, it’s the truth. What a great TV show they have on the weekends. Just when I think I can’t possibly vomit anymore after watched the Andel-thieves on the Phantom Gourmet, here come Gail and Laura to induce another wild projectile vomitting fit for the next 30 minutes.
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Eddie vs. the hogs in a Gunt contest. Lock it up.
Relatively good looking men, check
Well off financially, check
Drive nice cars, check
Free most nights after 11, check
Travel to nice places, check
Who needs a career??? Only Heidi knows the answer to your questions and she’s not talking.
Jason Coyote says:
While this subject is on the board, I must ask that if all the Heidi rumors are true, how in the world is she still employed by NESN? Isn’t this a major conflict of interest, and why wouldn’t another member of the media expose this? I also find it hard to believe Sox management doesn’t know anything about this given how much water-cooler talk it’s been generating for the last year. If all the rumors is true and Werner (who supposedly oversees NESN) allows her to continue covering the team that doesn’t reflect well on him either.
I’m with you….there’s no way that NESN would keep her on the air if that stuff were true (and I can’t imagine that NESN wouldn’t know about it if it was happening).
Again, look at the Carolyn Hughes/Derek Lowe example out in LA. She didn’t remain the “Dodgers Dugout Reporter” very long after that story broke.
Would have to agree as well, no way does NESN keep her on the payroll if those rumors are true.
I don’t mean to belittle your point, which is valid, but…
The TEAM OWNS a large chunk of NESN, and you’re worried that a reporter/player relationship might be a conflict of interest? That’s a bit like worrying about a child playing with matches while sitting in the middle of a forest fire, isn’t it?
I think it’s less about conflict of interest and more about bad publicity.
This Sox ownership group is about the most P.R.-conscious gang I’ve ever seen.
If Heidi were dating a player, or players, and God forbid, one or more of them were married, that would be a P.R. disaster when it eventually leaks out.
In addition, there’s always the potential for a sexual harrassment suit, which would no doubt be filed not only against the player, but against NESN and the team too….another public relations disaster.
So no, the conflict of interest angle doesn’t hold water, but fears of negative publicity sure does. (Again, the TV network out in LA axed Caroyn Hughes shortly after it was discovered that she was shacking up with MARRIED Dodgers’ pitcher Derek Lowe—a P.R. nightmare that reflected not only on the TV network, but on the Dodgers as well, even though the Dodgers had no ownership stake in the network to my knowledge.)
Tony, there’s ZERO potential for a harassment suit here. Heidi does not work for Nick Green, or any of the other Red Sox — she works for NESN. Harassment suits only stem from sexual discrimination in the context of one’s job; i.e. your boss refuses to renew your contract unless you “service his needs.” Lisa Olson, for example, did not have a workplace sexual harassment cause of action — she had a “common” harassment claim (which happened to have been sexual in nature, but which also could have been non-sexual and still been actionable) against the individual members of the Patriots, and, since the acts took place while they were working, their employer the Patriots.
I tend to agree with your bad PR point — although don’t think it would be as bad a PR disaster as you think, so long as she wasn’t dating a married man — but that’s not a conflict of interest. That’s just bad PR.
I don’t take any of the Watney rumors seriously. I’d imagine there’s a lot of jealousy out there among the likes of the Inside Track, and that’s where these things come from.
I agree, it isn’t fair to repeat these rumors about Heidi and players. I’d might be more apt to believe them if she didn’t issue a public denial, which she did recently on a Boston radio station. As far as NESN keeping her on board, maybe she’s dating some high ranking executive at the network, which would explain why she’s bulletproof to any rumors.
…Then again, it wouldn’t surprise me if she was dating a player. Kathryn Tappen actually married one, right? She’s proof that if you spend some time around a person, you might fall in love.
All I want to know is if Jade wears a wonderbra? If not then silicone?
Things like “conflict of interest” and “objectivity” — while important for real journalists — really don’t matter one bit in this case. Jesus she’s “reporting” on things like Dick Pole’s tomato plants, not the conference at Yalta.
Let’s just say that Jade “reports” that Dick Pole’s tomoato plants are tremendous when in reality they’re no better than the bacteria-ridden plants growing in your grandmother’s backyard. And you’re OK with that, TC?
MayoroftheNation says:
Since everyone’s already looked past her qualifications as a journalist and has gone straight to the “Is she hot or not?” discussion, she’s not IMO. I mean, she’s good looking in terms of Boston good looks because every Red Sox Nation bottle blonde looks just like her. Her looks are a dime a dozen and require a good hair day and makeup to make it work. Just walk into any bar during a game and you’ll see a few dozen Jade McCarthys hanging around with their boys. I almost feel ashamed ripping apart this woman based on looks, but then again I saw this interview on another site which makes it difficult not to. If you wanna be taken seriously as a journalist and not just be another pretty face, don’t do interviews like this:
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/sexy_singles/8625942.html
So yah, Jade McCarthy, you’re just Red Sox Nation’s new visual distraction for men to oggle at and women to disdain when the game is going on.
To be fair, that looked like a show about female Philly TV personalities in general, and that everyone who participated was asked to do a “sexy” photo shoot. Most women in the media, if asked, probably would do something like that–even the ones who want to be taken “seriously” as journalists. Let’s face it, MOST TV “news” personalities, both male and female, wouldn’t have their jobs if they looked like Clint Howard (Ron Howard’s ugly brother).
Tony, great line about Clint Howard. However, I beg to differ. Mike Dowling can pass for Clint’s father.
Butch says:
I don’t think they care that much about looks when it comes to men. I mean come on. Tanguay looks like an aging dork, Shaugnessy looks like an ugly old woman. Michael Holley looks like a Sleestack (do a google image search if you don’t know what a Sleestack is)
JayCee says:
Judging by that video, Jade is definitely much more of a Tappen/girl next door type than a Watney/professional model type.
Bring me an intelligent woman who can ask an interesting question and is attractive, and I’ll gladly show Heidi the Bore the door.
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Kells Brew Pub Hires New Chef & Wins Brewing Awards
D.J. | October 24, 2014 | Uncategorized | No Comments
PORTLAND, Ore. – Oct. 23, 2014 – Kells Brew Pub on NW 21st Ave is pleased to announce the addition of Travis Stark as its new head chef. Stark’s first order of business was to refresh the existing menu, adding a variety of new appetizers, salads and entrees.
Stark, a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, has experience running the kitchen at the Pitchwood Ale House in his hometown of Raymond, Wash., as well as working at downtown Kells and other Portland restaurants over the past seven years. He grew up in the Northwest, and has a keen appreciation for its bounty. “We get to enjoy fresh seafood, oysters, vegetables, fruit and, of course, the other food staple – beer,” said Stark. “Part of the fun for me is pairing up foods that not only pay homage to the Northwest but also complement the amazing Kells’ brews.”
The updated menu starts with “Wee Plates” which includes all new items like salmon cakes with a chipotle remoulade & house made pickles; house-made falafel fritters served with tzatziki; bacon wrapped figs stuffed with goat cheese; and asparagus topped with an egg and bacon. New main entrees range from a cast-iron Wagyu top sirloin and Imperial Ranch lamb chops to wild caught salmon and a house smoked pork chop. Other new items are sprinkled throughout the menu, including a number of vegetarian and gluten-free choices. Traditional Irish favorites like shepherd’s pie, corn beef and cabbage and Dublin Chicken Curry remain.
“We really wanted everything to be a bit rustic – food cooked simply, using the best local ingredients,” explained restaurant manager Garrett McAleese of the new menu. “A few of the dishes are cooked and served in cast iron to give the food a vigorous, hearty flavor.”
Kells Brewery has been busy expanding its beer lineup as well. Adding to its original offerings of an Irish Lager, Irish Red and Irish Style Pale Ale is an Irish Stout served on nitro using fresh ingredients from the Northwest; and a whiskey-barrel aged red ale that immediately sold out upon its first release and will be released again in December at the Brew Pub. The brewery also has bottling plans in the works: its popular Irish Red Ale will be packaged in 12-oz bottles that will be available in December in time for the holidays.
Kells Brewery recently won the Willamette Week Beer Pro/Am People’s Choice and Judge’s Choice award for its Boom Roasters Coffee Milk Stout, a collaboration between homebrewer Natalie Baldwin and Kells head brewer Dave Fleming.
Kells Brew Pub is open to all ages seven days a week from 11:30am to close Tuesday through Friday, 9am to close on weekends, and 4pm to close on Monday. For more information, visit www.kellsbrewpub.com or call 503-719-7175.
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Serving the Northwest since 1983, Kells Irish Restaurant is a local family-run establishment that is consistently voted and ranked among the top Irish pubs in the United States. With locations in Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, it is a touchstone of each community that stays true to its roots, annually hosting the largest St. Patrick’s Day festival in the Northwest. Owners Gerard and Lucille McAleese are also recognized for their generosity to a number of nonprofits and community organizations. For more information, visit www.kellsirish.com.
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Why I’ve Given Up On The Walking Dead
by Brian Watkins | Jun 13, 2016 | Musing | 0 comments
…and other shows like it.
Shows like this have a way of captivating audiences, which is clear if you’re on social media at all around show night. But when a show becomes more about being a show and less about telling a story, you see the man behind the curtain and all the ways he’s keeping you on the hook. Suddenly the magic is gone.
These shows may start out strong and gripping, with tons of action and character arcs in each episode. The central story feels like it’s moving toward something.
But somewhere along the way the show gets comfortable, and the plot becomes about keeping just enough suspense to hold viewers while stalling hard enough to keep the show on the air as many seasons as possible.
Here are some ways The Walking Dead, and many shows like it, have become ratings machines that no longer want to tell a story.
(Spoilers ahead. If you’re caught up or don’t see yourself watching the show, keep reading.)
Magical Villains
Our heroes are badass. This is by necessity in TWD simply by virtue of having survived everything our heroes have. Anyone that’s been ambushed, captured, tortured, shot at, conned, and swindled as many times as our heroes and hasn’t died has become tougher and harder. A survivor.
The more badass a hero becomes, though, the tougher the villain needed to present a threat. If your hero is an expert gunslinger, for instance, it’s going to take way more than your average thug to really put him or her in jeopardy and make the audience feel a sense of suspense.
Sometimes we get a great villain like The Governor. Someone who is more like Rick than he seems at first; ruthless, cunning, and willing to do whatever it takes to make his side succeed. He’s a worthy adversary, and he’s also entertaining to watch.
But the rest of the time we get bad guys who are clearly your average thug, neither clever nor particularly talented. They’ve survived presumably by dumb luck and by being a bully in numbers.
Any normal day of the week someone like Daryl is damn near impossible to sneak up on. He’s an expert hunter and tracker, and is keenly aware of his surroundings. He carries an almost silent weapon, and is the show’s equivalent of a ninja. Yet when we’ve gone a few episodes without event and the writers clearly need something to happen, unworthy bad guys like discount Matthew McConaughey get the drop on him repeatedly, take his stuff, and live to rob another day because Daryl doesn’t defend himself.
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How did this coked-out looking nobody so easily get the drop on the hardest to sneak up on guy in the show? Reasons. (Because the lazy writers needed him to.)
How do Rick and co. infiltrate bad guy inc. this last season in the nighttime flawlessly, killing everyone without getting so much as a scratch? Then step outside where it’s inexplicably day time and the rest of the bad guys not only have Rick’s team in their sights, but have kidnapped Carol and Maggie?
These bad guys that, other than often winning by having big numbers, seem pretty inept are suddenly able to corner the heroes like a special forces team.
Why do they kidnap Carol and Maggie? Leverage. Rick could easily deal with the outside opponents otherwise, so it’s the only way to create drama in what five seconds beforehand was a cakewalk. Why is it suddenly day time when they haven’t been inside long enough for that to have happened? Because how could “new villain” have Rick in her binoculars and have him by the balls in the dead of night?
The answer to so many “why did this happen” or “why is the scene this way” questions is too often simply because the script needs it to be that way.
Obviously everything in fiction writing is contrived. But in good writing it feels plausible and is invisible.
Characters Randomly Develop a Villain-Saving Conscience
Some villains are really only a threat because the hero won’t do what needs to be done. Has this guy almost killed you several times and made it clear he can’t be reasoned with? Is it also clear he’s never going to stop, and the only clear way to protect yourself and everyone you love is to Fedex a bullet to this asshole’s face?
Gruesome as it may seem, in a world without government, police, or any system of justice to fall back on for protection, this is a pretty morally defensible way to deal with truly bad people.
The show drives this home. With no exceptions in recent seasons, every single time a bad guy is captured or disarmed and is given another chance, they make everyone regret it. In most cases good people get killed because that villain was allowed to live and continue using diabolus ex machina to terrorize the protagonists.
But it keeps happening because let’s face it: if the hero simply killed them then we wouldn’t have a cheap suspense point two episodes later. The writers would actually have to take the plot somewhere.
I would argue that not only is killing an irredeemable bad guy morally defensible, it’s kind of irresponsible to let them go knowing what they will most likely do. Every one of your friends that die two seconds later by this serial killer you let free is on your hands by not doing what needed to be done.
Show writers say this adds depth to folks like Daryl who are not “corrupted” like Rick. But that gets hard to swallow when half of the season’s drama and heartache could’ve been avoided by these “uncorrupted” characters having the balls to do what they readily did several seasons ago.
Remember in season 1 when Daryl happily fought alongside Rick against Vatos gang that tried to rob them? He unhesitatingly shoots a guy in the ass with an arrow he’d just impaled a zombie with minutes before. We’ll put aside the silliness of the injured guy being ok because Daryl wiped the arrow off in between. Unstoppable and super contagious virus being foiled by simply “wiping it off” and all.
Daryl shot what he knew must have been a poisoned arrow with barely a thought to protect his friends. But seasons later when the writers have clearly run out of ideas, we manufacture drama by making bad guys have super powers and good guys have really inconvenient crises of conscience.
Wasting Time On Meaningless Backstory
Remember a season ago when we spent several episodes building up a cannibalistic group of villains and showing their backstories? That made it seem like these characters were redeemable perhaps, like they may come to matter in the show and we’d be glad we knew more about who they used to be.
Then an episode later Rick and co. bust into the church these baddies are holed up in and waste everyone. There is no built up sense of remorse and no moral ambivalence by Rick. So all that screen time spent on their back story? Filler.
When Beth gets kidnapped we waste what seems like half a season sharing screen time with the baddies holding her captive. We watch her learn the system and survive there, all the while hoping Team Good Guys will save her shortly.
When we think we’re finally going to watch these bad guys pay as Rick and co. storm in to rescue her, Beth gets unceremoniously shot and the team retreats empty handed. So all the back stories of these now-dead bad guys? Meaningless. 3+ episodes of watching Beth struggle in vain just to be off the show faster than a commercial break? It feels pointless, like she was a cheap plot piece to keep the show moving a few more episodes, and when she served her purpose she gets discarded.
Remember that point in the show Lost where viewers asked the show’s writers if they were just making it up as they went along? The show relied so hard on back story that got old a few seasons in that everyone began to wonder if all this random walking around in the jungle was going anywhere. This show bears similar signs with less mystique.
90% of what happens on the show feels like the writers saying “Stall them! Give me time to think of something else…”
The show is based on a graphic novel, so earlier on most of the plot was written for them. Isn’t it interesting that as the show goes on and continues to diverge from the graphic novels it also shows more and more signs of aimlessness?
Heavy-Handed Cliffhangers
A good cliffhanger makes viewers go “whaaaaat” as the credits roll, and ideally builds excitement for what’s to come. But it seems like good cliffhangers finish a thought or a scene, and it’s that scene that sticks with us.
Like two people in a budding romance finally share a kiss before credits, or someone we care about dies. Or they go to jail, or a bad guy discovers a new weapon that’s going to be bad news next season.
But these are all complete ideas that set up the next chapter without being overly manipulative.
Bad cliffhangers? They look something like this.
Picture a scene where there’s 10 minutes left of the final episode, a scene that could easily complete in 2 of those minutes, but gets dragged into 10 minutes artificially (by stalling) to run out the clock. Then, seconds before the credits when something huge seems like it’s about to happen, THE END.
Viewers are still saying “whaaaat?” but this time they feel cheated. It’s a cheap gimmick to get viewers to return for the next season premier because hey — you want to see what happens, right?
But it feels like they tricked you and insulted your intelligence. They toyed with you all season making it seem like major characters died just to reveal they didn’t, creating bogus drama in uninteresting arcs, and now finally, in the last episode, they lead you with a carrot right up to a door to slam it in your face.
That’s not clever and it’s not well-crafted suspense. It’s a lazy way to hook people on an otherwise dulling plot. For me and my wife that last episode had the opposite of intended effect.
Rather than saying “Man I can’t wait for next season!” we shook our heads and pretty much said “Screw that.” What had been one of our favorite shows was now something neither of us wanted to invest in. I had just enough interest left that if she still wanted to watch it I’d turn it on for the sake of, but for her the magic was thoroughly dispelled. She was done.
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We are very proud of our staff and the years they have devoted to finding jobs for people who want to work. Employment Specialist Lynn Newman has been with CAREERS for 6 years, pictured left, with client Peter Marshall and Valhalla Program and Transition Coordinator Jennifer Retacco, who is celebrating her 20th Anniversary with CAREERS this month!
CAREERS was Jen’s first job after graduating from Mt. St. Vincent with a degree in Health Education and Counseling. As one of our two Transition Coordinators, she was instrumental in developing and expanding our High School Transition program throughout the years, while also managing the Valhalla Employment Specialists and carrying a caseload of her own clients. Jen’s warmth and genuine concern for those she works with has resulted in hundreds of successful placements of students and adults over the past 20 years!
Jen’s devotion to CAREERS and her clients is evident in everything she does, from remembering the little things that are important to her clients, to being there for them, and their families, every step of the way. Lynn and Jen are just two of the 19 wonderful staff members that contribute to our agency’s success!
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#BlogBattle: Frog – Week 14 – Catch and Release
Posted on June 16, 2015 by Carrie Ann Alexis
It’s Tuesday again and time for #BlogBattle. But first I have to take a moment to celebrate the Chicago Blackhawks for winning the Stanley Cup last night in Chicago!! They have not won the Stanley Cup in Chicago since 1938, but…they have won it 3 times in the past 6 years. Definitely a winning team for a great city!! WooHoo!!
Now onto some more fun. #BlogBattle is a weekly short story challenge using a single word for inspiration. Hosted by the talented Rachael Ritchey. This weeks word: Frog
“Fred….Fred…wake up!! You have to get up…she took Maddie.” Frank says urgently.
“Huh?….Whaaaat? Who? Who took Maddie?” Fred answers groggily, opening his eyes.
“That lady…the one in the white lab coat…you know the biologist I told you about.” Frank says hastily.
Half-asleep Fred asks, “Are you sure?”
“Yes!! I’m sure.” Frank contends.
“OK, Frank…now tell me again what is a biologist?”
“There’s no time for that Fred. Let’s just say if a biologist gets a hold of guys like us, it isn’t pretty. We must hurry and find Maddie.” Frank says desperately trying to get Fred to focus and moving.
“So how do you know Maddie was taken?” Fred asks trying to gather the facts as they turn to leave.
“Phil. He told us he saw the whole thing.” Frank says nonchalantly.
“Phil.” Fred says flatly and comes to an abrupt stop. “I wouldn’t believe a thing Phil says, you know he’s had his beady little eyes on Maddie since the day he got here.”
“Well, he told us where to find her, if she’s not there, then you can accuse him of being a liar. We must go, come on.” Frank persuades him.
Phyllis is already there, twitching back and forth at the opening of the clearing to the yard. She can see the glass chamber that is holding Maddie captive. She doesn’t want Maddie to see her yet, so she stays back and waits for the others.
Frank and Fred approach and come to a screeching halt. Shocked Fred says, “He was telling the truth. How did this happen? What was she doing in the yard in the light of day?”
“She hasn’t been herself lately,” Phyllis says quietly.
“Phyllis!!” Frank says in a scolding voice, and gives her the eye to shut her mouth.
“What? She hasn’t.” Phyllis says with indignation. “Ever since that cute little Asian Frog showed up from across the pond, and was all flirty with Freddie here…where he all but forgot his name…she’s been upset.”
“I didn’t forget my name. Maddie knows I only have eyes for her, that’s nonsense.” Fred says a little too dismissively. “How was she lured into that contraption?”
Fred somberly says, “Phil was a little hesitant talking about this part, but it was the ol’ fly on a string ruse, he couldn’t seem to bring himself to elaborate on it, all he could do is shake his head, and repeat, such a shame, such a shame.”
“Ugh!! How did Maddie fall for that?” Fred says trying to contain his anxiety.
“Maybe she’s just hungry Freddie, I mean she’s been starving herself, ever since Little Miss Thing, with all her exoticness, made that snarky comment about Maddie looking like she is with tadpoles, Maddie thinks she looks fat…it’s made her a little self conscious.” Phyllis says vindicating her friend.
Frank cuts his eyes at Phyllis and sarcastically says, “Really Phyllis.”
Phyllis steps back and says, “Alright, alright…I’ll shut up. But how are we going to get Maddie out of there? It’s beginning to get dark now.”
“Let’s get closer, we’ll let her know we are here, and try to figure something out.” Fred says, just needing to see her.
Nita gets out of the shower, and gets herself ready for bed. She prays she will get some sleep tonight. She cannot continue to function on no sleep and Red Bull much longer. They say hindsight is 20/20, and they aren’t kidding. Putting in that beautiful pond in the backyard was not such a good idea after all. Sure it’s peaceful, and mom enjoys some quiet time out there, but she’s on the other side of the house where she doesn’t hear the frogs croaking at night. All. night. long. Hopefully her little abduction will do the trick. Nita slightly cringes abduction is such a strong word, it makes me feel like a criminal…desperate times call for desperate measures…the frog is in a safe place…just away from my window.
Nita smashes her fists into her pillow a few times, slides down into her cool sheets, and pulls the covers to her chin, and wiggles around until she finds a comfortable spot. Just as she closes her eyes, she hears it. “No, no, no…not happening.” She whines to no one, almost crying.
She whips the covers off, gets up and slips on her flip-flops and grabs a flashlight. “That’s it!! This stops tonight.” She says with the fierceness of a bona fide hunter.
She exits the patio doors, and walks across the yard, to the other side of the shed where she has set up her makeshift aquarium. What’s the big deal, it’s not like I have the little amphibian chained to a brick wall in a dark cellar. Its got water, some leaves, a little dirt, it should feel like it’s at the spa.
Just as she rounds the corner, she carefully shines her flashlight in the direction of the croaking. What she sees, stops her in her tracks. Two frogs are sitting quietly on the grass in front of the glass case leaning their heads together. A third frog has its hands up against the glass, resting its head and sadly looking in at the frog inside. This is the one that is doing all the croaking. All the other frogs are quiet. The frog inside the container has one of its hands resting on the glass against the other frog’s hand.
Nita raises her hand to her mouth in awe. “Awww…the frog’s little friends must really miss it. This is so cute.” She says quietly as she cautiously approaches.
The three frogs look at her as she approaches. One of the two starts croaking to the other one.
“OK, let’s quiet down, let’s see what she wants, I’m fluent in homo sapien.” Says Frank with his usual bravado.
Phyllis looks at him with an alluring smile and a look of newfound admiration.
“Ok….ok. I’ll let your little friend go. What do I know about frogs, I’m just a cosmetologist…a tired one at that. I’m the one disturbing your home, I just wish you could be a little more quiet at night so I could get some sleep.” Nita gently lifts the frog out of the container and sets it down next to the other frogs.
“I’ll just have to figure something else out…go on…enjoy your night.” She says as she brushes her hands against her pants and stands up to go back in the house.
As the four frogs begin to jump away, one of them stops and turns to her and looks right at her and nods its head and gives one last croak before he joins the others.
Nita just looks right back at him and laughs a little and says, “Nah…he couldn’t have understood what I was saying.” Shaking her head she turns and heads back into the house.
© 2015 Carrie Ann
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Bitcoin News for the week of 8/3/15
By Blockchain Team • August 08, 2015
Welcome to our weekly bitcoin news recap, where we cover top headlines and stories in the world of bitcoin each week. This week, you can read about how Blockchain CEO Peter Smith traveled to SE Asia with British Prime Minister David Cameron and other fintech executives to speak with senior regulators, bank CEOs, and telecommunications executives about the future we are working towards as an industry. In other bitcoin news, we saw a shift away from headlines about banks getting their feet wet in bitcoin and blockchain technology, and read a few articles on how merchant adoption continues to grow and flourish in this space. Get all this news and more, in this week’s rundown.
A week in SE Asia with the Prime Minister and UKTI
It started with an unusual email from a government official asking for a call. Strange emails are more or less par for the course for the CEO of a bitcoin company, but a few minutes into the call, I realized something groundbreaking was happening. For the first time, a bitcoin company was being invited on an official tour with the leader of a nation. Not just any leader, mind you, but the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, home to London – the seat of global financial power.
G7 Pledged Support for ‘Appropriate’ Bitcoin Regulation at June Summit
Representatives at a Group of Seven (G7) meeting in Germany this June announced support for “appropriate regulation” of virtual currencies. A global organization comprised of the heads of state from some of the world’s largest economies including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, the G7 met in Bavaria on 7th and 8th June.
Bitcoin deemed regular currency by Australian Senate Committee
Bitcoin and other digital currencies will be treated the same way as traditional currencies under expected proposals from the Australian government, reports suggest. A Senate inquiry is set to overturn a ruling from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) from July 2014 that classified bitcoin as an “intangible asset” for Goods and Services Tax (GST) purposes, according to the Australian Financial Review, giving a much needed boost to local bitcoin businesses.
Vermont Considering Blockchain Tech for State Records, Smart Contracts
Vermont has recently taken some legislative steps that could see the state using Bitcoin’s technology for state records, smart contracts and other applications in a drive to become “a leader in the field.” Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law “No. 51. An act relating to promoting economic development. (S.138),” which contained “Sec. A.3. Study and Report; Blockchain Technology.”
Overstock CEO Uses Bitcoin Tech to Spill Wall Street Secret
Patrick Byrne, the iconoclastic CEO of e-commerce site Overstock.com and an unwavering voice for reform on Wall Street, wants to bust this market open. Using technology based on the blockchain—the technology that underpins the bitcoin digital currency—he wants to move the stock-loan market onto the Internet and put it in the hands of, well, everyone.
Wall Street, Meet Block 368396, the Future of Finance
When Justin Brownhill wants to check up on one of his latest investments through SenaHill Partners LP, he only needs to check the ledger underpinning bitcoin. The address: block 368396. That’s the new digital home for the equity stake his firm made in Symbiont, a startup using bitcoin’s underlying blockchain software to make it quicker and easier to prove ownership of assets or transfer them between buyers and sellers.
Bitcoin startups lure quant whizzes from Wall Street
Wall Street bankers and traders are leaving high-paying jobs to join bitcoin start-ups, while big firms hire in-house to get their arms around bitcoin and the related ‘blockchain’ technology. “A lot of people are entering the bitcoin space as the sector has reached an overall level of funding that’s hard to ignore,” said Jaron Lukasiewicz, founder and chief executive officer at New York-based bitcoin exchange Coinsetter.
FinTech Voices Join Blockchain Conversation at Keynote 2015
Swarm’s Rindi, for example, opened the day’s events by explaining blockchains in layman’s terms, or in her words, “Without saying ledger, crypto or bitcoin.” Her conclusion? Blockchains, including bitcoin’s blockchain, are “Unalterable, dynamic, online feeds, recording time-stamped data.”
Graph provided by BitPay
[Bitcoin: A New Global Economy](https://blog.bitpay.com/bitcoin-a-new-global-economy/)
When BitPay was founded back in 2011, bitcoin was in its infancy. It was difficult to convert local currencies into bitcoin or to find retailers who would accept it as payment. In just a few years, so much has changed. BitPay has shared and reviewed their own statistics to paint a better pictures of the state of Bitcoin around the world in 2015.
LOT Polish Airlines Now Accepts Bitcoin
LOT Polish Airlines is now accepting bitcoin payments, meaning the digital currency can be used to pay for flights to more than 60 global destinations. Tickets can be purchased on LOT’s desktop and mobile websites. LOT does not accept directly, but exchanges the digital currency for fiat using an unnamed payment service provider, the media outlet said.
18 Months after Adopting Bitcoin, TigerDirect Reports Fantastic Experience and Continued Growth
TigerDirect, an online retailer of computers and consumer electronics has been accepting bitcoin for 18 months through BitPay, beginning in January of 2014. Bitcoin Magazine sat down with Steven Leeds, head of marketing at TigerDirect to learn more about the company’s experience as one of the earliest major merchants to embrace Bitcoin.
Market Research Giant Qualtrics Adds Bitcoin Reward Option
Online survey giant Qualtrics has added bitcoin as a rewards option for consumers who respond to surveys and research requests issued by its enterprise clients. The Utah company, which is valued north of $1bn following a $150m Series B in 2014, boasts more than 700 employees and investors including Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners.
Payments: Before and after with Bitcoin
With Bitcoin, you can see that there are several third-parties between you and who you do business with. This creates many barriers for the average person, such as time, money, and most importantly, trust (in the third-parties). Bitcoin changes all this, as illustrated in the “After w/Bitcoin” section. Because Bitcoin is decentralized and trustless, there is no intermediary between your money and the recipient. This is also the basis for why the remittance space is being disrupted as well.
Bitcoin might be the answer to some countries’ currency woes
Currencies, in their role as barometers for an economy’s strength, have shown this strain in places like Argentina, Venezuela, and, more indirectly, Greece. The question bitcoin supporters should ask is: Can the digital currency help?
Meet the Team: Interview with Mariel Lowe, QA Team
This week we feature Mariel Lowe, a New Mexico born dancer who brings a unique sense of creative curiosity to our QA Team and the product development process. In her Meet the Team profile, she shares her earliest memories of performing as a child and how she transforms the meaning of the QA process.
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Fate/Stay Night Nendoroid Saber Super Movable Edition Review
As you might already know, I'm quite a fan of Fate/Stay Night so when I saw this cute and detailed Saber Nendoroid, I decided to buy it from the market place. Unfortunately, it's a really old figure so naturally people have been jacking up the prices but it was that or a bootleg... And considering the poor quality of small bootleg figures...
Real World Locations in Japanese Anime and Games
I was inspired to do this post after realising how many locations I recognised from shows and games I've played after visiting Japan. You will probably too once you've been since so many fictional works are based on real life locations and the great thing is you won't have to go out of your way to find these places unlike say Makoto...
Anime Review 2019 Round-up I
First Anime reviews round-up post of the year. Full time work just makes me too exhausted to enjoy games during weekdays these days, haha. Not to mention there's little time left once I've commuted back home so back to sporadic posts ^^; Some time has passed since the world was at war fighting one another with ultra magnetic weapons of...
Fate/Stay Night: Saber Lily Everdistant Utopia "Avalon" 1/7 Scale Figure Review
This is the second scale figure I've imported and will be my second figure from the Fate series. The official title suggests it's Saber from Fate/Stay Night but she's actually from Fate/Unlimited Codes, a PS2 beat-em-up game loosely based on the same story. The detail on the armour and swords looked really impressive! Theres...
Anime Review 2018 Part IV
As with the visual novel game released about 3 years ago this official Anime sequel also takes place just before the prequel's ending about midway through episode 23 so, you could kind of call it an extended version of the original Steins;Gate too. After many attempts Okabe has given up hope trying to reach Steins Gate and savehis...
I really liked the kimono and paper parasol on this figure. Wasn't impressed with the paint work on the bootleg 1/6 Shiki figure's kimono so I decided to go for the authentic figure since it wasn't that much more expensive than a new PS4 game. Going to be my first authentic figure too after having a look at a whole series of bootleg ones....
Makoto Shinkai's next movie will be "Tenki no Ko [Weather Child]" due to première in July 19th. Subtitled as "Weathering with You", the story tells of a young man named Hotaka (played by Kotarou Daigo) who decided to run away to Tokyo from his home on an isolated island during summer, when he reached the first year of senior...
Studio Pablo ACCA: 13 Background Artbook
I quite enjoyed the ACCA-13 Anime because it was steadily paced like nothing's happening but you had to pay attention to what's going on. That and it has some great theme songs like "Shadow and Truth". It has some great retro looking backgrounds and world setting too. So here's the background artbook filled with art from Studio Pablo...
Sakura Wars: Sakura Shinguji 1/8 Scale Figure, CN Version Review
I watched the Sakura Wars TV series and quite enjoyed its steampunk setting during the Taisho Era. Great use of colours, good balance of comedy and action with some catchy theme songs too. Didn't know it started out as a Sega franchise back on the Sega Saturn (that was an interesting console!) So, let's have a look at how well this...
Hamachi: Yukino Yukinoshita Kimino 1/6 Scale Figure, CN Version Review
The heroine for this figure is from one of those Anime shows that have a long, long name... Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabukome wa Machigatte'ru AKA OreGairu or Hamachi in Japanese. English localisation is a bit more generic as My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU... Google that and you'll end up with all these live action teen comedy movies. You...
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Warren Buffett wins a million dollar bet, suggests HODL
Buffett, an investment legend, has made a bet against any Wall Street hedge fund that would take it: in the long run market index is going to beat any active investor. One fund manager was foolish enough to call the bet.
In 2007, right before the housing crisis, Warren Buffett has made a bet with Wall St fund managers that S&P500 is going to yield better returns over a decade compared to actively managed hedge funds. The details of the bet can be found in his 2016 shareholder letter[1]:
In Berkshire’s 2005 annual report, I argued that active investment management by professionals – in aggregate – would over a period of years underperform the returns achieved by rank amateurs who simply sat still. I explained that the massive fees levied by a variety of “helpers” would leave their clients – again in aggregate – worse off than if the amateurs simply invested in an unmanaged low-cost index fund.
Subsequently, I publicly offered to wager $500,000 that no investment pro could select a set of at least five hedge funds – wildly-popular and high-fee investing vehicles – that would over an extended period match the performance of an unmanaged S&P-500 index fund charging only token fees. I suggested a ten-year bet and named a low-cost Vanguard S&P fund as my contender. I then sat back and waited expectantly for a parade of fund managers – who could include their own fund as one of the five – to come forth and defend their occupation. After all, these managers urged others to bet billions on their abilities. Why should they fear putting a little of their own money on the line?
What followed was the sound of silence. Though there are thousands of professional investment managers who have amassed staggering fortunes by touting their stock-selecting prowess, only one man – Ted Seides – stepped up to my challenge. Ted was a co-manager of Protégé Partners, an asset manager that had raised money from limited partners to form a fund-of-funds – in other words, a fund that invests in multiple hedge funds.
I hadn’t known Ted before our wager, but I like him and admire his willingness to put his money where his mouth was. He has been both straight-forward with me and meticulous in supplying all the data that both he and I have needed to monitor the bet.
For Protégé Partners’ side of our ten-year bet, Ted picked five funds-of-funds whose results were to be averaged and compared against my Vanguard S&P index fund. The five he selected had invested their money in more than 100 hedge funds, which meant that the overall performance of the funds-of-funds would not be distorted by the good or poor results of a single manager.
Each fund-of-funds, of course, operated with a layer of fees that sat above the fees charged by the hedge funds in which it had invested. In this doubling-up arrangement, the larger fees were levied by the underlying hedge funds; each of the fund-of-funds imposed an additional fee for its presumed skills in selecting hedge-fund managers.
Here are the results for the first nine years of the bet – figures leaving no doubt that Girls Inc. of Omaha, the charitable beneficiary I designated to get any bet winnings I earned, will be the organization eagerly opening the mail next January.
Footnote: Under my agreement with Protégé Partners, the names of these funds-of-funds have never been publicly disclosed. I, however, see their annual audits.
The compounded annual increase to date for the index fund is 7.1%, which is a return that could easily prove typical for the stock market over time. That’s an important fact: A particularly weak nine years for the market over the lifetime of this bet would have probably helped the relative performance of the hedge funds, because many hold large “short” positions. Conversely, nine years of exceptionally high returns from stocks would have provided a tailwind for index funds.
Instead we operated in what I would call a “neutral” environment. In it, the five funds-of-funds delivered, through 2016, an average of only 2.2%, compounded annually. That means $1 million invested in those funds would have gained $220,000. The index fund would meanwhile have gained $854,000.
And today, Warren and Ted have settled the bet ahead of schedule, because the outcome is just too one-sided. So why did the hedge funds show sub-par performance? Why did a simple index outperform all the smartest and brightest minds of Wall St, that charge exorbitant fees for their, presumably, lucrative services? The answer, as it frequently is, lies in the question itself.
In conceding defeat, Seides said the high investor fees charged by hedge funds was a critical factor. Hedge funds tend to be a good deal for the people who run the funds, who pass on big bills to the investors.
“Is running a hedge fund profitable? Yes. Hedge fund managers typically demand management fees of 2 percent of assets under management,” according to Capital Management Services Group (CMSG), which tracks the hedge fund industry. “Performance fees for managers can be 20 percent to 50 percent of trading profits,” CMSG adds.
By contrast, the costs of an average index fund are minimal. A fund that tracks the S&P 500 fund might have an expense ratio of as little as 0.02%.
And what's in this for cryptocurrencies? Too early to tell now, but my hypothesis is that because crypto removes the middlemen from the transactions, and because exchange fees are orders of magnitude lower, we'll witness hedge funds, maybe even fully automated, that consistently outperform CoinMarketCap100.
In the meantime, remember: when you are panic selling, there's always someone on the other side of the trade. And only one of you is going to make money.
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2016ltr.pdf ↩︎
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Mama Polar Bear Teaches Cubs How To Dry Off After Swim In Ridiculously Adorable Video.
InspireMore
By InspireMore
This story originally appeared at InspireMore.
It’s no secret polar bears are strong swimmers, but have you ever wondered how they dry off?
Polar bear coats are a whopping 1-2 inches thick, with the bottom layer consisting of an insulating undercoat, and the top layer covered with thick guard hairs.
Photo: Facebook/Bear Lovers
With all that fur, you’d think it’d take forever to dry off. But it can’t take that long, because otherwise they wouldn’t be able to pick up so much speed on land (they’re known to sprint at up to 25 mph). So how do they do it?
You’re in luck. As it so happens, PBS just released a documentary, “Snow Bears,” which answers all your pressing questions about life as a polar bear. And it turns they dry off in much the same way we use towels, except how often do you see polar bears wandering around with towels slung over their shoulders or tied around their waists? They use hard-packed snow.
One segment of the documentary shows a mother and her two young cubs climbing up onto an ice floe somewhere in the Arctic Circle, probably to rest after a marathon swim. But it’s hard to relax when you’re sopping wet, so they shake off the excess water like so:
But that’s just the first part of the drying-off process. Researchers, not surprisingly, have studied this. It turns out dogs and bears shake themselves dry at roughly the same speed, and according to an article in The Atlantic, dogs can shake about 70 percent of the water from their coats in four seconds.
Screen Shot: YouTube/Nature on PBS
So by that same standard, once the polar bear’s done shaking off, the job’s mostly done. But the really cute part is still to come.
The family of bears alternate between sliding and rolling, rubbing their faces and bodies against the hard-packed snow so it absorbs as much water as possible…
This footage is too cute for words. Check it out in the video below, and share to spread amazement!
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Veratti wants to stay at PSG
• January 3, 2015 • Uncategorized
Paris, Jan 3 (IANS) Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) rising star Marco Veratti has delivered a huge blow to clubs eyeing him in the beginning of the European transfer window by saying he was happy to stay with the French champions.
The 22-year-old, who moved to Les Parisiens in 2012 from Italy’s third tier club Pescara, has been tracked by English Premier League’s Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United since bursting onto the scene at PSG, reports Xinhua.
But Veratti told Gazzetta dello Sport Friday that he’s happy in Paris, though, still has dreams of playing in the Italian top flight.
“One day I want to play in Serie A,” he said.
“Back when I used to play for Pescara, I was sought after by a lot of clubs, but if I’d ended up in Juventus I doubt they would have given me the same space that I have with PSG,” said the midfielder.
Veratti insisted that Paris is the right place for him.
“I am in a great club and I think I made the right choice, because in Italy there is less faith in youth.”
“I, on the other hand, believe that if a player is good, then he should play regardless,” he added.
The Ligue 1 defending champions are third in the winter break, trailing Marseille by three points.
“PSG can still win everything. We are third in the league, but we’ll climb back up. In the Champions League we’ll try going as far as we can,” commented Veratti.
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Lion on the Menu
Now at Big Cat Rescue ...
Every few months some bonehead thinks it might get them some publicity to offer up lions on the menu. This month it is Taco Fusion offering Lion tacos. News at 11 on most Tampabay channels. The reporter I just talked to said the taco joint’s owner says the lions are raised on a farm in Ft Lauderdale, FL and then sent to CA to be packaged. I told the reporter he will never find such a farm because it doesn’t exist. The lions who are butchered are more likely the castoffs from the pay to play trade. I suggested he talk to USDA and the FWC to learn that there are no lion farms breeding for human consumption and no inspections done of lion meat. Yesterday Taco Fusion said they had sold out of lion meat and wouldn’t be offering it again, but now the reporter says they have changed their mind.
If you want to put an end to this atrocity, please sign up for our newsletter by sending any of the letters to protect big cats at CatLaws.com and we will let you know when the Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act is reintroduced so that you can speak up for the lions.
Does USDA Inspect Lion Meat?
https://bigcatrescue.org/does-usda-regulate-lion-meat/
Success in Ending Lion Meat on the Menu
https://bigcatrescue.org/lion-meat-is-off-the-menu-at-several-restaurants/
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Position on Lion Meat
“Richard Czimer owns and operates Czimer’s Game and Seafood in Homer Glenn, about an hour from Chicago. Last year, he told a reporter that his cuts of big cat come from a man who runs a skinning operation and delivers him the leftover meat.
When asked where the pelt trader gets his lions, Czimer said, “I wouldn’t have any idea…. He has his sources, and I do not infringe on his business, just as he does not infringe on mine.”
Czimer declined to talk to The Daily, but a special agent at the Fish and Wildlife Service, based in Springfield, Ill., said he knows Czimer and where his lions come from.
“There’s no such thing as lion farms,” said Tim Santel. More often it’s “a woman living paycheck to paycheck in a trailer home who keeps her lion in a chain-link fence.”
“I don’t think the majority of people understand how widespread this is in the United States,” added Santel. “You could have these dangerous animals living right next door to you and not even know it.”
Santel says there are a variety of ways to start a private collection, including auctions, catalogs, and online retailers.”
“African lions are not endangered, so the meat is legal to sell, but deeper investigation reveals the market for the king of the beasts is part of a mostly unregulated and shady exotic animal trade that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says is a multibillion-dollar industry.
Savenor’s wouldn’t disclose its source, except to say that the meat comes from Illinois. Another lion meat retailer, ExoticMeatMarket.com, offers a similar account: “Our African lions are raised in the state of Illinois.”
There is reason to worry. The Illinois man who supplies nearly all the lion meat in the United States has been busted in the past for passing off meat from endangered animals, such as Bengal tigers, as meat from legal species, including African lions.”
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/05/29/052911-news-lion-meat-1-5/
Scientific American Points Out What Should Be Obvious
The mane course: This month, restaurants on both coasts caught flack for offering specials on lion cuisine. Happily, the establishments received so much heat from the public that they quickly discontinued the menu items. Still, these sorts of incidents may lead the public to believe that the big cats are thriving to the point where we can turn them into tacos. (Lion tacos go for $35, in case you were curious.) The new fare also raises concerns about where this meat is coming from and how safe it might be. The FDA doesn’t inspect lion meat, and one of the potential origins for it may be the unknown number of lions living in “backyard pens, roadside zoos and other less-than-desirable circumstances” here in the United States. Without more information, it’s impossible to know the condition of such animals, which means the adventurous sampler of lion skewers could be eating meat from ill or heavily medicated lions. Basically, there’s nothing good about lions on the menu. Scientific American
Big Cats on the Menu
This page was devoted primarily to pending changes in Florida’s captive wild animal rules, but even if you are not from Florida, this could make a big difference where you live because Florida currently produces more big cats than any other state. These cats are hauled all over the country, and sometimes even to foreign countries where people are not as concerned with protecting animals.
When the cats cats can no longer be used to support their owners they are often dumped along the way; sometimes into the hands of unwitting exotic pet owners, sometimes they are served up in restaurants and sometimes they are dumped into the wild with no survival skills. Ending the trafficking of exotic cats in Florida will greatly reduce the number of these cats who end up suffering in all parts of the world.
The comment period on these proposed rules closed at 5PM on July 4, 2008, but this sort of egregious behavior just has to stop.
Please mail or email your comments about lions being served on the menu in Florida to the following:
Spoto’s Steak Joint c/o owner/chef Jim Stewart1280 Main StDunedin, FL 34698(727) 734-0008www.spotossteakjoint.com
Reporter Tamara El-Khoury
490 First Avenue SouthSt. Petersburg, FL 33701tel-khoury@sptimes.com(727) 445-4181
FL Wildlife Conservation Commissionc/o Captain Linda Harrison620 S. Meridian StreetTallahassee, FL 32399-1600RuleChanges@MyFWC.com
St. Pete Times Editor490 First Avenue SouthSt. Petersburg, FL 33701http://www.sptimes.com/letters/(727) 893-8111 Contact your lawmaker by your zip code HERE
This story ran July 5, 2008 on the cover of the Tampa Bay Times and was a half page cover story in the Clearwater Times which are all part of the St. Pete Times.
Care for a Tasty Lion Chop?
By: Tamara El-Khoury
DUNEDIN — I’ve sampled snails in France, pig’s ear in Brazil and stuffed lamb intestines in Lebanon. But I experienced my most exotic culinary adventure last week in Dunedin, FL at Spoto’s Steak Joint.
A reader had called, pointing out that the restaurant’s marquee advertised African lion, rattlesnake, bison, elk and boar.
Along with summer intern Jackie Alexander, I was sent to try it out. And, as it happens, I was a good choice for the assignment. As a Lebanese-American I know what it’s like to eat “different” foods. I was the kid eating a brie and pita bread sandwich or stuffed grape leaves for lunch.
I learned not to judge foods until I had tasted them. Having done just that at Spoto’s, here’s my verdict:
The elk was fabulous.
The kangaroo sweet.
The lion tasted a bit like ribs.
(We’ll get to the rattlesnake later.)
We started with the Game Sampler for $25.95, which comes with generous helpings of kangaroo, boar and rattlesnake. But we substituted elk for the snake. The meal was served with steamed asparagus and roasted garlic mashed potatoes.
We also ordered the South African Lion Chop dish, a 14-ounce lion rib chop, char grilled for $48.
Spoto’s owner and chef Jim Stewart said all his game is farm raised and USDA approved. The kangaroo is from Australia and the lion is farm raised in South Africa and processed in Colorado. The snake and boar come from Texas and the elk comes from Alaska, Canada or New Zealand.
Stewart has built a niche out of serving unusual meats. Previous menus have included ostrich, bear and python. He sends e-mails to 1,000 patrons when he serves a new type of game.
“Gosh, where else can you go and get barbecue prime ribs, steak … duck and lion or bear or whatever at any given time?” he said. “We’ve kind of built ourselves a little name for that, and it’s caught on.”
After munching on chicken liver pate, warm baguettes and salad, our dinners arrived. We were both surprised.
“It looks like regular food,” Jackie said.
First, I tried the kangaroo. It was sweet and easy to chew, unlike any other meat I’ve tried. Then the elk, my favorite, which was so tender, Jackie commented it was better than filet mignon. The boar tasted a little heavier than roasted pork.
Finally, it was time to try the lion. The meat was less tender than the others and came with part of the bone, making it difficult to cut. The taste is difficult to describe, sort of a cross between pork chops and ribs.
Pleased with our delicious meal, Jackie and I were ready to wrap things up when photographer Joseph Garnett noted that we had not tried the rattlesnake.
Snakes scare me. I didn’t want one near my mouth. Then Joseph used the “w” word — wimp. So I ordered a small side of snake. I asked that it please not look like snake.
“Snake, snake!” a child chanted in the background.
I made small talk to hide my nervousness, and when the dish arrived, my heart was pounding. It looked like snake. Bones poked out through the meat. Before I could panic, Stewart handed me a fork. I closed my eyes and dug in.
The meat was chewy and had a bland taste, kind of like turkey. It was dressed in a light barbecue sauce that had a little kick to it. If I hadn’t psyched myself out, I might have taken another bite.
If you are wondering how it is that lions end up on the menu then you may be interested to know that despite many baby lions being bred in the US for photo ops and petting booths, they very rarely end up in need of rescue, like tigers do. Lions are not a protected species and can end up in canned hunts. We contacted a man in So. Africa and asked him if there was any connection between the pay-to-play-with-lions activities that are such popular tourist attractions in Africa and this was his response:
You are quite correct that such lion meat can only have come from the
canned lion hunting industry in South Africa. All captive lion
breeders in SA sell their progeny for hunting because it is not only
the only market for them, but a very lucrative one. And they are
always looking for ‘add-ons’ whereby they can commercially exploit
another aspect of canned lion breeding. The current one is cub-
petting, whereby the cute and cuddly stage is exploited before the
animal is old enough to be hunted. In this way they can externalise the cost of rearing the victim. And now lion meat is being marketed to make canned lion breeding ever more profitable.
We have video footage of canned lion hunts in SA and they are part of
an audio-visual presentation on DVD which details the cruelty, and
offers insight into how and why canned hunting is so big in SA. It
eems to us that we really need to expose the link between this type
f restaurant and the horrific cruelty at every stage of the lions
lives once caught up in this awful industry. Let us try to turn this
report to advantage, and to use it to raise public awareness in
Florida/USA so that ethical customers will know to boycott such restaurants. Ideally there should be protests outside the restaurant to attract publicity.
Chris Mercer
Campaign against Canned Hunting
www.cannedlion.co.za
PO Box 356 Wilderness
6560 South Africa
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Visitor centre to go?
The City of Melbourne has not committed to establishing a replacement Melbourne Visitor Centre after the centre’s demolition at Federation Square.
The centre is set to be demolished later this year to make way for the new Town Hall station’s Federation Square entrance.
When asked directly whether the council was committed to delivering a new visitor centre, City of Melbourne spokesperson Brodie Bott said the council was “currently reviewing its visitor services strategy and will provide more information about any potential changes in due course”.
Destination Melbourne’s CEO Laura Cavallo said the need for a physical visitor centre might have diminished in the digital age.
“Visitor serving is definitely changing, as the needs to visitors change. As we move into a future of digital automation, finding the balance between interpersonal human connections and new technology is becoming something which destinations must consider,” Ms Cavallo said.
“I’m confident the City of Melbourne will develop a strong solution for our visitors, meeting their needs,” she said.
The Melbourne Visitor Centre has been an iconic part of Federation Square that provides visitor information, guides, brochures and maps, accommodation and tour booking services and souvenirs for tourists.
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NCERT Solutions for Class 10th Science Chapter 13 : Magnetic Effects of Electric Current
CBSE NCERT Solutions for Class 10th Science Chapter 13 : Magnetic Effects of Electric Current. NCERT Class 10 Science Solutions for Chapter 13
In Text Questions
Page No: 224
1. Why does a compass needle get deflected when brought near a bar magnet?
The needle of a compass is a small magnet. That’s why when a compass needle is brought near a bar magnet, its magnetic field lines interact with that of the bar magnet. Hence, a compass needle gets deflected.
1. Draw magnetic field lines around a bar magnet.
Magnetic field lines of a bar magnet emerge from the north pole and terminate at the south pole. Inside the magnet, the field lines emerge from the south pole and terminate at the north pole, as shown in the given figure.
2. List the properties of magnetic lines of force.
The properties of magnetic lines of force are as follows.
→ Magnetic field lines emerge from the north pole.
→ They merge at the south pole.
→ The direction of field lines inside the magnet is from the south pole to the north pole.
→ Magnetic lines do not intersect with each other.
3. Why don’t two magnetic lines of force intersect each other?
The two magnetic field lines do not intersect each other because if they do it means at the point of intersect the compass needle is showing two different directions which is not possible.
1. Consider a circular loop of wire lying in the plane of the table. Let the current pass through the loop clockwise. Apply the right-hand rule to find out the direction of the magnetic field inside and outside the loop.
Inside the loop = Pierce inside the table
Outside the loop = Appear to emerge out from the table
For downward direction of current flowing in the circular loop, the direction of magnetic field lines will be as if they are emerging from the table outside the loop and merging in the table inside the loop. Similarly, for upward direction of current flowing in the circular loop, the direction of magnetic field lines will be as if they are emerging from the table outside the loop and merging in the table inside the loop, as shown in the given figure.
2. The magnetic field in a given region is uniform. Draw a diagram to represent it.
The magnetic field lines inside a current-carrying long straight solenoid are uniform.
3. Choose the correct option.
The magnetic field inside a long straight solenoid-carrying current
(a) is zero
(b) decreases as we move towards its end
(c) increases as we move towards its end
(d) is the same at all points
► (d) is the same at all points
1. Which of the following property of a proton can change while it moves freely in a magnetic field? (There may be more than one correct answer.)
(a) mass
(b) speed
(c) velocity
(d) momentum
► (c) velocity and (d) momentum
2. In Activity 13.7 (page: 230), how do we think the displacement of rod AB will be affected if (i) current in rod AB is increased: (ii) a stronger horse-shoe magnet is used: and (iii) length of the rod AB is increased?
(i) If the current in the rod is increased then rod will be deflected with greater force.
(ii) If a stronger horse-shoe magnet is used then also rod will be deflected with greater force due to the increase in magnetic field.
(iii) If the length of the rod AB is increased.
3. A positively-charged particle (alpha-particle) projected towards west is deflected towards north by a magnetic field. The direction of magnetic field is
(a) towards south
(b) towards east
(c) downward
(d) upward
► (d) upward
1. State Fleming’s left-hand rule.
Fleming’s left hand rule states that if we arrange the thumb, the centre finger, and the forefinger of the left hand at right angles to each other, then the thumb points towards the direction of the magnetic force, the centre finger gives the direction of current, and the forefinger points in the direction of magnetic field.
2. What is the principle of an electric motor?
The principle of an electric motor is based on the magnetic effect of electric current. A current-carrying loop experiences a force and rotates when placed in a magnetic field. The direction of rotation of the loop is according to the Fleming’s left-hand rule.
3. What is the role of the split ring in an electric motor?
The split ring in the electric motor also known as a commutator reverses the direction of current flowing through the coil after every half rotation of the coil. Due to this the coil continues to rotate in the same direction.
1. Explain different ways to induce current in a coil.
The different ways to induce current in a coil are as follows:
→ If a coil is moved rapidly between the two poles of a horse-shoe magnet, then an electric current is induced in the coil.
→ If a magnet is moved relative to a coil, then an electric current is induced in the coil.
1. State the principle of an electric generator.
Electric generator works on the principle of electromagnetic induction. Electricity is generated by rotating a coil inside magnetic field.
2. Name some sources of direct current.
Some sources of direct current are cell, DC generator, etc.
3. Which sources produce alternating current?
AC generators, power plants, etc., produce alternating current.
A rectangular coil of copper wires is rotated in a magnetic field. The direction of the induced current changes once in each
(a) two revolutions
(b) one revolution
(c) half revolution
(d) one-fourth revolution
► (c) half revolution
1. Name two safety measures commonly used in electric circuits and appliances.
Two safety measures commonly used in electric circuits and appliances are
→ Electric Fuse: An electric fuse is connected in series it protects the circuit from overloading and prevents it from short circuiting.
→ Proper earthing of all electric circuit in which any leakage of current in an electric appliance is transferred to the ground and people using the appliance do not get the shock.
2. An electric oven of 2 kW is operated in a domestic electric circuit (220 V) that has a current rating of 5 A. What result do you expect? Explain.
Current drawn by the electric oven can be obtained by the expression,
P = VI
Current = I
Power of the oven, P = 2 kW = 2000 W
Voltage supplied, V = 220 V
I = 2000/220 V = 9.09 A
Hence, the current drawn by the electric oven is 9.09 A, which exceeds the safe limit of the circuit. Fuse element of the electric fuse will melt and break the circuit.
3. What precaution should be taken to avoid the overloading of domestic electric circuits?
The precautions that should be taken to avoid the overloading of domestic circuits are as follows:
→ Too many appliances should not be connected to a single socket.
→ Too many appliances should not be used at the same time.
→ Faulty appliances should not be connected in the circuit.
→ Fuse should be connected in the circuit.
Excercise
1. Which of the following correctly describes the magnetic field near a long straight wire?
(a) The field consists of straight lines perpendicular to the wire
(b) The field consists of straight lines parallel to the wire
(c) The field consists of radial lines originating from the wire
(d) The field consists of concentric circles centred on the wire
► (d) The field consists of concentric circles centred on the wire
2. The phenomenon of electromagnetic induction is
(a) the process of charging a body
(b) the process of generating magnetic field due to a current passing through a coil
(c) producing induced current in a coil due to relative motion between a magnet and the coil
(d) the process of rotating a coil of an electric motor
► (c) producing induced current in a coil due to relative motion between a magnet and the coil
3. The device used for producing electric current is called a
(a) generator
(b) galvanometer
(c) ammeter
(d) motor
► (a) generator
4. The essential difference between an AC generator and a DC generator is that
(a) AC generator has an electromagnet while a DC generator has permanent magnet.
(b) DC generator will generate a higher voltage.
(c) AC generator will generate a higher voltage.
(d) AC generator has slip rings while the DC generator has a commutator.
► (d) AC generator has slip rings while the DC generator has a commutator.
5. At the time of short circuit, the current in the circuit
(a) reduces substantially
(b) does not change
(c) increases heavily
(d) vary continuously
► (c) increases heavily
6. State whether the following statements are true or false.
(a) An electric motor converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
► False
An electric motor converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.
(b) An electric generator works on the principle of electromagnetic induction.
► True
(c) The field at the centre of a long circular coil carrying current will be parallel straight lines.
(d) A wire with a green insulation is usually the live wire of an electric supply.
Live wire has red insulation cover, whereas earth wire has green insulation colour in the domestic circuits.
7. List three sources of magnetic fields.
Three sources of magnetic fields are as follows:
→ Current-carrying conductors
→ Permanent magnets
→ Electromagnets
8. How does a solenoid behave like a magnet? Can you determine the north and south poles of a current-carrying solenoid with the help of a bar magnet? Explain.
A solenoid is a long coil of circular loops of insulated copper wire. Magnetic field lines are produced around the solenoid when a current is allowed to flow through it. The magnetic field produced by it is similar to the magnetic field of a bar magnet. The field lines produced in a current-carrying solenoid is shown in the following figure.
In the above figure, when the north pole of a bar magnet is brought near the end connected to the negative terminal of the battery, the solenoid repels the bar magnet. Since like poles repel each other, the end connected to the negative terminal of the battery behaves as the north pole of the solenoid and the other end behaves as a south pole. Hence, one end of the solenoid behaves as a north pole and the other end behaves as a south pole.
9. When is the force experienced by a current-carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field largest?
The force experienced by a current-currying conductor is the maximum when the direction of current is perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic field.
10. Imagine that you are sitting in a chamber with your back to one wall. An electron beam, moving horizontally from back wall towards the front wall, is deflected by a strong magnetic field to your right side. What is the direction of magnetic field?
The direction of the magnetic field is vertically downwards. The direction of current is from the front wall to the back wall because negatively charged electrons are moving from back wall to the front wall. The direction of magnetic force is rightward. Hence, using Fleming’s left hand rule, it can be concluded that the direction of magnetic field inside the chamber is downward.
11. Draw a labelled diagram of an electric motor. Explain its principle and working. What is the function of a split ring in an electric motor?
Principle: It works on the principle of the magnetic effect of current. A current-carrying coil rotates in a magnetic field.
Working: When a current is allowed to flow through the coil MNST by closing the switch, the coil starts rotating anti-clockwise. This happens because a downward force acts on length MN and at the same time, an upward force acts on length ST. As a result, the coil rotates anti-clockwise.
Current in the length MN flows from M to N and the magnetic field acts from left to right, normal to length MN. Therefore, according to Fleming’s left hand rule, a downward force acts on the length MN. Similarly, current in the length ST flows from S to T and the magnetic field acts from left to right, normal to the flow of current. Therefore, an upward force acts on the length ST. These two forces cause the coil to rotate anti-clockwise.
After half a rotation, the position of MN and ST interchange. The half-ring D comes in contact with brush A and half-ring C comes in contact with brush B. Hence, the direction of current in the coil MNST gets reversed.
The current flows through the coil in the direction TSNM. The reversal of current through the coil MNST repeats after each half rotation. As a result, the coil rotates unidirectional.
The split rings help to reverse the direction of current in the circuit. These are called the commutator.
12. Name some devices in which electric motors are used?
Some devices in which electric motors are Water pumps, Electric fans, Electric mixers and Washing machines.
13. A coil of insulated copper wire is connected to a galvanometer. What will happen if a bar magnet is (i) pushed into the coil, (ii) withdrawn from inside the coil, (iii) held stationary inside the coil?
(i) The needle of the galvanometer shows a momentary deflection in a particular direction.
(ii) The needle of the galvanometer shows a momentarily in the opposite direction.
(iii) The needle of the galvanometer shows no deflection.
14. Two circular coils A and B are placed closed to each other. If the current in the coil A is changed, will some current be induced in the coil B? Give reason.
Two circular coils A and B are placed close to each other. When the current in coil A is changed, the magnetic field associated with it also changes. As a result, the magnetic field around coil B also changes. This change in magnetic field lines around coil B induces an electric current in it. This is called electromagnetic induction.
15. State the rule to determine the direction of a (i) magnetic field produced around a straight conductor-carrying current, (ii) force experienced by a current-carrying straight conductor placed in a magnetic field which is perpendicular to it, and (iii) current induced in a coil due to its rotation in a magnetic field.
(i) Maxwell’s right hand thumb rule
(ii) Fleming’s left hand rule
(iii) Fleming’s right hand rule
16. Explain the underlying principle and working of an electric generator by drawing a labelled diagram. What is the function of brushes?
Principle: An electric generator works on the principle of electromagnetic induction phenomenon. According to it, whenever a coil is rotated between the poles of a magnet, an induced current is set up in the coil, whose direction is given by Fleming’s right hand rule.
Working: Let in the beginning, as shown in Fig. brushes B1 and B2are kept pressed separately on rings R1 and R2 respectively. Let the axle attached to the rings is rotated such that arm AB of the coil moves up and arm CD moves down in the magnetic field. Due to rotation of arms AB and CD induced currents are set up in them. As per Fleming’s right hand rule induced currents in these arms are along the directions AB and CD. Thus an induced current flows along ABCD and current in the external circuit flows from B2 to B1.
After half a rotation, arm AB starts moving down and the arm CD upward. Therefore, directions of induced currents in these arms change. Thus net induced current now becomes in the direction DCBA. In the external circuit now current flows from B1 to B2. Thus after every half rotation current changes its direction and an alternating current is obtained from the generator.
Function of Brushes: Brushes are kept pressed on the two slip tings separately. Outer ends of the brushes are connected to the galvanometer (or the external load). Thus brushes help in transferring current from the coil ABCD to the external circuit.
17. When does an electric short circuit occur?
If the insulation of the wires used in the circuit is damaged or the appliance used is faulty due to which the live wire and the neutral wire comes in direct contact as a result current in the circuit rises and the short circuit occurs.
18. What is the function of an earth wire? Why is it necessary to earth metallic appliances?
The metallic body of electric appliances is connected to the earth by means of earth wire so that any leakage of electric current is transferred to the ground. This prevents any electric shock to the user. That is why earthing of the electrical appliances is necessary.
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Watch the Wii U game prices.
I went to the Wal-Mart closest to our house earlier tonight to see how their electronics section is handling the Wii U launch, and to see if by any chance they are doing a midnight release. They aren’t doing a midnight release for the system, but while I was browsing the video game section I spotted a few Wii U games already out, with prices listed for each.
If you are heading to Wal-Mart tonight (or this week) to try and grab a Wii U and are planning on picking up Scribblenauts Unlimited make sure to bring a price match ad from perhaps Target, or an online scan from Amazon.com. Wal-Mart had the game listed at $59.96, but Target.com, Amazon.com, and a Game Stop store tonight all have Scribblenauts Unlimited for the Wii U now with a list price of $49.99, instead of the $59.99 (or $59.96).
So, if you’re going out Wii U shopping this next week, make sure to watch game prices across a few different sites to make sure you are getting the best deals for your money.
If you haven’t seen the newest Wii U commercials for Scribblenauts Unlimited yet, here’s one of them:
Are any of you planning on buying Scribblenauts Unlimited with the Wii U, and if you have played the past Scribblenauts games, do you think a 3.5 year old would enjoy them?
You can see Scribblenauts Unlimited on Amazon.com below with the lower list price:
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Nintendo’s U.S. Wii U TV advertising. Marketing genius, or marketing failure?
There are now four official Wii U commercials for the United States. There is the official “Wii U Advertising Campaign Launch Video”, which is the only one minute Wii U commercial so far; and New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land, and SiNG Party each have their own 30 second commercial.
The U.S. Wii U commercials have received mixed reactions from fans, and for various reasons: the music, the presentation, the information (or lack thereof). The video above is the slightly updated version of my original updated version of Nintendo’s “Wii U Advertising Campaign Launch Video”, that Nintendo of America revealed last Thursday.
Do the U.S. Wii U commercials do a good enough job at addressing the fact that the Wii U is a brand new console, with a brand new controller? Will the way that each U.S. commercial is worded be a genius marketing strategy, or a marketing failure? Brew yourself some coffee and hit the jump to take a look at the commercials, and specifically listen to the way the Wii U is talked about in each commercial.
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Here’s the first U.S. Wii U commercial, “Wii U Advertising Campaign Launch Video”:
The second Wii U commercial to hit Nintendo of America’s YouTube account was this New Super Mario Bros. U commercial, last Friday:
The SiNG Party Wii U commercial was originally released by the production company behind the dancers in the commercial, and then Nintendo added it to their YouTube account this past Monday:
The last U.S. Wii U commercial to be released, so far, is this Nintendo Land commercial that they released on Monday as well:
I don’t think the Wii U commercials do a good enough job of addressing the fact the Wii U is a brand new console, and instead I think they give the impression the “Wii U” is just a brand new controller that works with existing Wii consoles.
In the Wii U campaign launch video the line used is, “With the all new Wii U…”, and that’s it. Not once, in the entire one minute video are the words “console” or “system” spoken. I also think the commercial is lacking a few key details that would help clear up that the Wii U is a new console and not just a new Wii controller, and I added a few of those details in my video up top. Instead of just focusing on the Wii U console and the Wii U GamePad, they show people sitting around in the rooms participating in gameplay using Wii Remotes and Nunchuks as well.
What about the New Super Mario Bros. U launch TV commercial? It has the same issue. The lines are, “This is how you’ll play next. Using the all new Wii U GamePad controller…”, and it ends with “New Super Mario Bros. U, only available on the all new Wii U.” It lacks the specific words “the all new Wii U console” or “the all new Wii U system“. Like the Wii U launch video, they show other people playing with Wii Remotes in the commercial.
What about the SiNG Party Wii U launch TV commercial? Same thing! It’s a 30 second commercial, and the first voice-over line in the commercial is, “Face the crowd and get the party started with the all new Wii U GamePad controller.“, followed up immediately with the next line, “SiNG Party, only available on the all new Wii U.”
Nintendo Land’s commercial? Same thing. “With the all new Wii U, this is how you’ll play next.” There is no focus on the Wii U console by itself, and it shows other players using Wii Remotes (and Nunchuks) to play the game along side the GamePad.
The commercials all end with an image of the Wii U GamePad in front of the Wii U system, and the games being sandwiched between them (on the game only commercials). The problem with this? The Wii U console looks a lot like the Wii console. Hiding it in the back without ever showing it up close with the logo on it, and never showing the price of the two bundles (or that it comes in two bundles), I don’t think is helping customers/viewers understand this is an entirely new system. To see what the Wii would look like behind the Wii U GamePad, I edited the following image:
Also, while I understand Nintendo is wanting current Wii owners to understand their Wii Remotes and Nunchuks will work on the new Wii U system, I don’t understand why they are showing the Wii Remotes and Nunchuks being used for gameplay, instead of showing the Wii U Pro Controllers being used instead.
I really do hope I’m wrong and that the Wii U commercials provide enough information for your average consumer, but I fear for the retail employees that will have to explain to the customers showing up in stores expecting only to buy a new Wii controller, that it’s not just the controller but an entirely new system they need. Having worked in retail, and seeing how the U.S. Wii U commercials are worded and lack information such as price, I can see this being an issue.
Perhaps the commercials are worded the way they are to purposely get consumers thinking this is just a new Wii controller, and then when they show up in stores they will get to demo the system live hands-on instead? Maybe Nintendo is betting that hands-on with the system in stores will help sell it, and that consumers will also do the research before heading out this holiday season to buy a Wii U?
If the marketing strategy with the U.S. Wii U commercials is trying to get the mass market to think the Wii U GamePad is just a new Wii controller though, I think they are doing it the right way, even though I think it would be odd if that’s their goal. Maybe this will be the best way to get consumers to look up information on the Wii U, and I just hope that providing less information to consumers initially, ends up selling more Wii U consoles for them.
I don’t think the European or Japanese Wii U commercials have the wording problem that the U.S. commercials do, so I think it will be interesting to see which marketing strategy works out to be the best. Will more basic information equal more sales, or less basic information equal more sales? Is less, more? I guess we’ll find out within a few months if Wii U units are flying off store shelves in the U.S., or if Nintendo of America changes the marketing techniques.
If you have a cable TV or satellite TV subscription, have you seen any of the Wii U’s commercials? If so, do you think the commercials do a good enough job explaining that the Wii U is a brand new console, with a brand new controller?
Do you think the lack of information such as the Wii U being available in two bundles, at two different price points, and the wording in the U.S. commercials is a genius marketing strategy, or a marketing failure from what you have seen?
You can pre-order New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land, and SiNG Party on Amazon.com below, as well as see the outrageous prices of Wii U consoles from third party sellers because Amazon.com is still not carrying the Wii U directly:
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Just For The Fun Of It: A Quibble With C.J. Date
In the previous post, I said “I get the funny feeling that for him [C.J. Date] a sentence or expression functions normally at first, but when he stares at it too long it suddenly loses its transparency….” Here I want to unpack that doubtlessly cryptic statement a bit. I am doing this as a kind of finger-exercise, mainly for the fun of it, and not necessarily because it will help resolve some important issue.
In “SOME OPERATORS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS”, the second chapter of his LOGIC AND DATABASES: THE ROOTS OF RELATIONAL THEORY, C.J. Date introduces the names NAME(‘TRUE’) and NAME(‘FALSE’) to use as symbols for BOOLEAN(NAME(‘TRUE’) ) and BOOLEAN(NAME(‘FALSE’)). He doesn’t use, of course, the selectors I am using (to avoid ambiguity); instead, he mentions the names. That is to say, he is talking about the symbols TRUE and FALSE. All page references will be to LOGIC AND DATABASES:
If p is a proposition, it has a truth value. For the purposes of this chapter, if p is true, I’ll denote its truth value by TRUE; it it’s false, I’ll denote its truth value by FALSE. In computing terms, we might say we have a data type called BOOLEAN that contains just these two truth values, and the literal representations of those values are TRUE and FALSE, respectively.
Then for a moment, he uses the symbols to talk about the truth values themselves. For a moment, the symbols stop being the things seen, and function transparently as windows through which we see the things denoted. But, feeling conflicted, he immediately labels his use of the symbols as a kind of perhaps-understandable confusion:
We might also say, more simply but less accurately, that the legal values of type BOOLEAN just are TRUE and FALSE; strictly speaking, however, TRUE and FALSE aren’t values as such — rather, they’re literals, or symbols, that denote certain values, just as, e.g., the numeral 3 isn’t a number as such but rather a literal, or symbol (more colloquially, a digit or numeral) that denotes a certain number.
But no, when ‘TRUE’ and ‘FALSE’ are being used to denote truth values, it is perfectly accurate to say that the legal values of type BOOLEAN just are TRUE and FALSE. Likewise, when ‘3’ is being used to denote a number, 3 is a number as such. It is as if Date were peering through the symbol-as-window, so to speak, letting it perform its function of letting us see the thing the symbol denotes….when, all of a sudden, the window going all milkily opaque on him, all he sees is the now suddenly non-transparent glass. It is as if he said, first, ‘Cleopatra was a Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt’, but then immediately felt the need to correct himself and say, ‘Well, this is a bit inaccurate, since the name ‘Cleopatra’ wasn’t a Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt’.
Similarly, Date is brought up short when he sees the expressions x + 4 and 2x – 1 in the equation x + 4 = 2x – 1:
But the trouble is, we use the symbol “=” to mean other things as well — other things, that is, in addition to identity as such…. By way of illustration, consider the following equation:
x + 4 = 2x -1
The symbol x here is meant to denote some number, and it’s easy to see by solving the equation that the number in question is five. But the expressions on the two sides of the “=” symbol are self-evidently not identical: that is, the “=” symbol here does not denote identity. Rather, it is the values denoted by the expressions on the two sides of the “=” symbol that are identical.
But the “=”, rather, MATH_CONSTANT(‘=’), does denote identity, because the expressions are being used to denote the number that each expression resolves to, given the expression on the other side. The expressions are not being mentioned — for example, the author of the equation is not talking about the fact that each expression contains the symbol ‘x‘ and references at least one number. ‘x + 4′ names a quantity when made resolvable by equating it with ‘2x – 1′, and vice versa. MATH_VARIABLE(‘x’) MATH_OPERATOR(‘+’) NUMBER(NUMERAL(‘4’)) MATH_CONSTANT(‘=’) NUMBER(NUMERAL(‘2’)) MATH_OPERATOR(‘*’) MATH_VARIABLE(‘x) MATH_OPERATOR(‘-‘) NUMBER(NUMERAL(‘1’)). The quantity named by the one expression is identical with the quantity named by the other expression. The hermeneutical principle of charity compels us to interpret the expressions this way: otherwise, we don’t get a symbol “=” that means something other than identity; instead, we simply get a blatantly false statement when there is an absurdly easy path to getting a true statement.
Not so, then, that “…we use the symbol ‘=’ to mean other things as well — other things, that is, in addition to identity as such…” It is used to mean just identity. It would continue to denote identity even if, perversely, we chose to mention the expressions instead of using them, for we would end up with, not a true statement that relied on a different meaning of ‘=’, but with a false statement using ‘=’ to denote identity. Notice that I am not exercising enough control here to avoid vacillating between using single quotation marks and double quotation marks to indicate I am talking about the symbol for the equals constant.
In spite of saying a number of false things on the way towards his conclusion, it’s hard to argue with that conclusion: But saying this does not commit me to asserting that nothing is subtly wrong with it. I am too lazy now to try to dig and see if there is a subtle, non-obvious but not necessarily unimportant way in which Date is going wrong here; and anything I came up with would probably seem rather scholastic anyhow.
To sum up: Equality means identity. An expression of the form x = y is almost always shorthand for one of the form value_of(x) = value_of(y).
Except I would add that even in the case of expression(x) = expression(y) — for example, ‘2x -1′ = ‘2x – 1′, equality also means identity.
We can perhaps forgive Date for using (with whatever qualms) one moment the symbol as a window through which he sees the thing denoted, but seeing the next moment nothing but a window become thoroughly milky and completely opaque. For ordinary language can start out using a name, then shift mid-stream to mentioning the same occurrence of the name by the time one gets to the middle of the sentence. I think the example is Quine’s:
Giorgione was so called because of his size.
And on that note, I will show one of Giorgione’s paintings:
and since we are now on the topic of beauty, I will go all Plato’s SYMPOSIUM on my few (0, 1, 2…) readers:
Maganda si Brad Pit. Being that gorgeous should be illegal. I will attempt to say that in Tagalog this way: Dapat ilegal ang magiging ganoong maganda, but that is almost certainly either ungrammatical or unidiomatic (hindi pangwikian). Perhaps someone with better Tagalog may correct me.
Update: 12/18/2012: Made various corrections.
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NComputing Announces New Release Of Its Desktop Virtualization Platform
NComputing today announced the release of a new version of its acclaimed desktop virtualization platform that adds additional features and functionality to the platform recognized by IDC as a major player in the desktop virtualization space. The new release features the following three enhancements:
•vSpace Server version 7 for Windows
Access for up to 100 machines to a discrete Windows or Linux operating system instance.
•vSpace Management Center
An enterprise-grade management console that empowers IT administrators to manage client devices by way of a user-friendly web-based console.
•vSpace Premium Support and Services
Premium service and support including easy access to support engineers dedicated to the vSpace platform.
The enhancements collectively position NComputing to consolidate market share in the desktop virtualization space by way of its emphasis on simplicity, performance and value. Whereas desktop virtualization solutions have traditionally been complex to implement, NComputing’s vSpace platform differentiates by way of the simplicity of its installations and subsequent management. Moreover, NComputing’s performance and value collectively enable customers to confidently recoup their capital investment in addition to claiming ancillary benefits of a virtualized infrastructure such as enhanced enterprise security and control over computing devices.
Raj Dhingra, CEO of NComputing, elaborated on the company’s value proposition as follows:
NComputing removes the barriers to desktop virtualization, including the cost and complexity that has slowed adoption in both enterprise and SMB. Our approach is unique in blending three core principles to desktop virtualization success: simplicity, performance and value. Other solutions might deliver on one or two of these, but no vendor integrates all three. NComputing is accelerating the adoption of desktop virtualization and expanding the market by delivering integrated solutions that remove the barriers to adoption through this unique formula for success.
Here, Dhingra remarks on how no vendor in the desktop virtualization space can claim product attributes aligned to the combination of simplicity, value and performance in the way that vSpace can. Even though desktop virtualization has historically struggled to gain market traction because of concerns about cost or implementation complexity, NComputing has accelerated the pace of adoption of desktop virtualization solutions “through this unique formula for success.” vSpace now claims four million seats in production worldwide and over 20 million users in 140 countries.
A significant percentage of the company’s customers are currently in the education vertical amongst school districts, universities and Ministries of Education all over the world. Ray Kase, Director of Technology, Downingtown Area School District in Pennsylvania, elaborated on the use of NComputing amongst his school district as follows:
Everything we do today at our district is virtualized. NComputing’s vSpace technology enables several users to access a single operating system simultaneously by virtualizing multiple independent user accounts and dividing the computer’s resources so we knew the technology would be a great fit for us. We estimate we’re saving $400 per seat using NComputing instead of a traditional PC. What’s more, the centralized management system that we’ll be moving to will save me a bundle of time as well.
Kase points to a savings of $400 per seat in addition to the savings related to a simplified, enterprise-grade management platform. The bottom line here is that NComputing’s solution is gradually obliterating barriers to adoption that led to the failure of other desktop virtualization solutions such as Pano Logic, for example. NComputing’s unique ability to deliver an implementation-friendly, cost-effective VDI solution is gradually gaining recognition across the enterprise and, moreover, “its platform is showing success in early implementations,” according to Brett Waldman, Research Manager for Client Virtualization at IDC.
A sample NComputing dashboard is shown below:
Author Arnal Dayaratna, Ph.DPosted on December 3, 2012 December 4, 2012 Categories NComputing
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Not recommended under 15 due to adult themes, sex scenes, coarse language and drug use
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details of classification and consumer advice lines for A Star is Born
a review of A Star is Born completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 23 October 2018.
Children under 15 Not recommended due to adult themes, such as substance abuse, mental illness, addiction and suicide. Also, frequent coarse language.
Viewers 15 and over OK for this group, but contains issues that parents may wish to discuss with teens
This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines.
Name of movie: A Star is Born
Classification: M
Consumer advice lines: Mature themes, coarse language, drug use and sex scenes
Length 136 minutes
ACCM review
This review of the movie contains the following information:
a synopsis of the story
use of violence
material that may scare or disturb children
sexual references
nudity and sexual activity
use of substances
coarse language
the movie’s message
This is the fourth incarnation of the original 1937 film of the same name, but with a more rock and roll theme. When guitar legend Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) stumbles into a back-alley bar one night after a gig, he is taken aback by the raw talent of the young performer on stage, Ally (Lady Gaga). After the show, he strikes up a conversation with her and they connect deeply over their mutual love of music. When he asks her whether she writes her own songs, she surprises him by spontaneously composing a song that moves and impresses him. At the end of the night he insists that she must come to his gig the next night, which she first refuses, but then at the last minute she decides to go. For Ally, this night is a turning point in her career and she is on a trajectory to stardom, transforming from a waitress who sings in drag bars to a fully-fledged pop star. As her star ascends, Jack’s is starting to fade, spiralling him downwards into addiction and mental illness.
Themesinfo
Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.
The rock music lifestyle; drug addiction; mental illness; suicide; love and relationships; music
Use of violenceinfo
Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.
Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.
There is some violence in this movie including:
Jackson Maine punches his brother in the face.
Ally punches a policeman in the face when he tries to take a photo of Jackson.
Jackson becomes verbally abusive to Ally in one scene, for example saying “You’re just fucking ugly”.
Under fiveinfo
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:
Children under 5 are unlikely to understand much of what happens in this film, however there are many scenes with very heightened emotions which some children may find distressing. For example, when Jack is in a rehab facility and meets with Ally again for the first time, he is unable to hold back his tears as he tries to apologise to her or when Ally discovers that Jack has committed suicide
Aged five to eightinfo
Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.
As above, children in this age group may not understand much of what happens in this film. However they may feel distressed by the scenes of heightened emotions described above.
When Ally goes up to receive an award, Jack is completely drunk and attempts to get up on stage with her but is so inebriated that he wets himself in front of the whole audience. There is a deep sense of shame and humiliation that children may find distressing without understanding why.
Ally is having a bath one day when Jack comes in to speak to her and he is drunk. The atmosphere is tense, and they begin to fight. He starts to say very nasty things to her which make her very upset.
Jack tells someone in the rehab centre how he tried to commit suicide when he was only thirteen years old. He describes how his father didn’t even care.
When Jack finally gets his life back together and is back home with Ally, Ally’s manager comes over and tells him that he is the worst thing that ever happened to Ally and that the best thing he could do is to get as far away from her as possible. This is devastating to Jack.
Aged eight to thirteeninfo
Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.
Younger children in this age bracket may still find much of the film difficult to understand. However, older children who understand more about the adult themes in the film may find it even more emotional and distressing given their insight.
The scene in which Jack decides to commit suicide and follows through with it is likely to be upsetting for children of this age group.
Over thirteeninfo
Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.
Children in this age group are likely to find the above-mentioned scenes distressing and emotional, even more so than younger children as they will have a greater understanding of the significance of what is happening.
None of concern
There are some sexual references in this movie, including:
When Jackson visits Ally in the dressing room at the drag bar, one of the performers asks him to sign her ‘titties’.
There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
There are several sex scenes in this film, however they are not very explicit. For example, the couple are seen rolling around together in bed passionately with strategic covering of nipples.
Ally and Jackson kiss passionately many times.
Ally stands up in the bath and there is a brief moment of frontal nudity.
Jackson has his trousers half way down to expose a buttock for an injection.
One of the drag performers is seen in the changing room putting fake breasts on.
There are many instances of substance use in this movie, including:
Jackson shaking pills into his hand and swallowing them.
Jackson drinking until he passes out or behaves in an embarrassing or threatening manner.
Jackson snorting cocaine from a table.
Many scenes in which the camera work is shaky to give the perspective of Jackson when he is either drugged or drunk.
There is constant coarse language in this movie, including:
fucking; fucked; shit; ass; bullshit
A Star is Born is an incredibly moving and well-crafted tragic love story. It has a strong and powerful message about the destructive force of alcohol and drug use, and explores the dark side of a rock and roll lifestyle without any sense of glorification. The music and acting are memorable but parents are advised that there is frequent coarse language, and may wish to determine whether or not their child has the maturity to understand and process the darker themes in the film. It is not recommended for viewers under 15 and there is plenty for parents to discuss with older teens.
The main messages from this movie are that fame comes at a personal price and that addiction can be fatal.
Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:
a devotion to your talent.
working hard to achieve your goals
loving people selflessly
This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss a number of issues with their children, including
drug and alcohol addiction
the darker side of fame.
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Defining the Chinese Own IP litigation Path: a book review of "Study of Hot Issues of Intellectual Property Civil Litigation"
Submitted by ciprc-ip-ay on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 22:45
Defining the Chinese Own IP litigation Path: a book review of Study of Hot Issues of Intellectual Property Civil Litigation (Edited by Prof. Guangliang Zhang)
Since the enactment of its Patent Law in 1984, the Chinese government has made considerable strides in laying legal foundations for future innovation-driven initiatives. After amendments in 1992, 2000, and 2008, the Chinese Patent Law now includes many provisions that meet international standards while trying to tackle new challenges experienced in other countries. For example, the Third Amendments to the Chinese Patent Law includes a new Article 48, which many believe as an attempt to combat patent troll. Similarly, the Chinese Trademark Law and Copyright Law have also been amended since their first enactment in 1982 and 1990, respectively. These laws, as well as other IP related provisions, continue to strengthen the Chinese IP legal system.
However, despite these efforts, many patent practitioners and government officials in the West are still concerned about a lack of patent enforcements of intellectual property rights (IPR) in China.
The truth is, like any sovereign nation, the Chinese government passes IPR laws to regulate and protect interests within its borders and serve its people. Some of the criticisms may be well-founded, but many have overlooked the fundamental differences in legal systems in many countries in the world and these differences don’t change quickly.
This book, Study of Hot Issues of Intellectual Property Civil Litigation, gives western IP practitioners a sample of the issues that Chinese IP professionals are dealing with. It covers litigation topics such as personal jurisdictions, venue, forum shopping, parties’ conducts during litigation proceedings, evidentiary process, burden of proof, damages, and declaratory judgments of patent non-infringement. While some of these problems have frequently been discussed in the United States and elsewhere, this book illustrates that Chinese judges, lawyers and legal academia are also contemplating solutions to these problems. Best of all, this book is a bi-lingual Chinese-English collection of case studies edited by a former acting Chief Judge of Intellectual Property Tribunal in Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court, Judge Guangliang Zhang.
In editing the book, Judge Zhang selected topics that are of special interests by non-Chinese practitioners. For example, while as a judge, Judge Zhang was keenly aware of the lack of the discovery process in Chinese litigation. As such, he included specific articles devoted to evidence preservation and property preservation requests by a party in a lawsuit in Topic 3 of the book. In addition, Judge Zhang also addressed issues of damages in patent infringement lawsuits and included discussions of applicability and adoption of American’s declaratory judgment in China introduced in 2002. The book concludes with legislative suggestions to a new Declarative Judgment of Non-Infringement Law in China.
Of course, revisions of Chinese laws and procedures will continue. China is going through an explosion of advancements in economy and technology, as well as in law. The Chinese legal scholars realize that more IPR litigation issues will test their legal system as the Chinese society evolves socially, economically and legally. One thing is certain; as the Chinese economy leaps forward, their legal system will also stays every step of the way to meet new challenges ahead. Book information: Study of Hot Issues of Intellectual Property Civil Litigation Edited by Professor Guangliang Zhang Pages: total 450 (187 in Chinese; 263 in English) ISBN 978-7-80247-222-8
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Husker Football History
Sellouts
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#9 Nebraska 7
Oklahoma State 3
Oct. 26, 1974 • Memorial Stadium, Lincoln
Oklahoma State 0 0 0 3 3
Nebraska 0 0 7 0 7
NU Lives on Miraculous Recovery
Nebraska's Tom Pate, John Lee, Tom Ruud and Wonder Monds corral Oklahoma State's George Palmer on a 3-yard run in the first quarter. THE WORLD-HERALD
By Tom Ash / World-Herald staff writer
LINCOLN — Nebraska had its back to the wall, blindfold firmly in place, last puff taken. But Oklahoma State fired blanks.
Ardell Johnson, the Cornhusker hero, had the shakes, as if saved by a reprieve, after his team finally won a close one Saturday.
Then it began to sink in, Johnson’s Huskers had held on by the barest of threads — one stripe out of the 100 that mark the Memorial Stadium field — while continuing their whammy over Oklahoma State, 7-3.
It was at the Husker one-yard line that Johnson, the left cornerback, recovered a fumble by Cowboy sophomore quarterback Charlie Weatherbie with 3:22 left in the game.
“I’m shaking now. I’ve got the quivers,” Johnson said afterward. “Wonder (monster back Monds) stuck him (Weatherbie), and my sister could have fallen on the football.
Timely Swallow
“It was almost like slow motion. I saw the ball, and then I was on it. Nobody was going to get it away from me. I tried to swallow it.”
Johnson’s timely swallow was the culmination of a herky-jerky drive that was a sharp contrast to the pack mule tactics employed by the Cowboys until then.
Skip Taylor started with a 13-yard double reverse from his own 20. The Pokes came right back with the same type of play, this time adding a pass, halfback Wes Hankins to split end Same Lisle.
Johnson had good defensive position on the receiver near the sideline, and both clung to the ball as they tumbled out of bounds. Rules say tie catches go to the receiver. So it was a 37-yard advance to the Husker 30.
The Pokes came up with third down and 17 to go for a first down at the N.U. 26. Weatherbie retreated to pass, saw his receivers covered and was about to go under from Ron Pruitt’s rush when he threw to Alfred Nelms in the right flat.
Nelms didn’t stop until he was five yards from the Nebraska goal.
Cowboy ‘Stuck’
Two plays later, Weatherbie kept the ball on an option play to his right, gained four yards and was “stuck,” as Johnson said, by Monds.
“Some guy grabbed the ball and took it away. I thought the ball was dead,” the crestfallen young quarterback said. “I got up and they (officials) called it their (Huskers’) ball. I’ll have to see the films, but the officials are usually right.”
Monds didn’t know about the fumble until he saw the official signal. “I was awfully tired and hot, but, man, was I happy about then,” he said.
Of course the game wouldn’t have been over if Oklahoma State had scored. The Huskers could have rallied to win.
The fumble was the most significant play in a game that had more tense situations than would normally be found in a contest in which only one touchdown is scored.
For a defensive struggle, it was a nail-biter for 76,476 homecoming fans.
“It was like playing double overtime,” commented a relieved Warren Powers, coach of the Husker secondary.
Nebraska had also been a yard from the Cowboy goal in the second quarter. On fourth down, Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne disdained the touchdown try out of respect for the mammoth O-State defensive line and watched his team come away from the well with an empty cup as Mike Coyle’s field goal try was wide.
Busy Ardell
Coyle also missed from 48 yards in the fourth quarter. Abby Daigle, the Cowboys’ superb booter saw a 42-yard attempt blocked by the conspicuous Johnson in the first quarter and missed from 48 yards in the second before ringing up the visitors’ only points from 32 yards in the fourth quarter.
Tony Davis’s four-yard sweep broke a scoreless tie in the third quarter to complete a 79-yard drive in 12 plays. With Coyle’s extra-point kick, it turned out to be enough to extend the Pokes’ winless string against the Huskers to 13 games.
Another streak of less significance was the 12 straight visits by the 300-plus Californians for Nebraska in which their favorite team has won. But until Johnson’s recovery, Nebraska’s fifth victory was beginning to resemble the two losses to Wisconsin and Missouri.
No Copout
“You’ve got to be able to win the close ones as well as the easy ones. We had two other tries to win close ones, and we copped out on ourselves,” said Husker defensive tackle Ron Pruitt, whose mother, Rutha was in the California delegation.
“We’ll take anything we can get against these guys,” Osborne said after leveling the Cowboys’ record at 3-3.
“They’re a great ball team. It was a tremendous ball game. We had a break at the end, but we figured we had one coming. Maybe that’s a poor attitude, but we had to get one our way.”
The Huskers had earlier lost fumbles by Monte Anthony near midfield and by wingback Donnie Westbrook at the O-State 21 after taking a Humm pass for 54 yards.
“A lot of things go through your mind after something like that,” Westbrook said of his third-quarter turnover when Nebraska was trying to pad its 7-0 lead.
“I’ve never felt worse. I haven’t been making mistakes like that. We could have scored and taken some of the pressure off everybody.”
Opportunity Fades
The Huskers had another excellent opportunity in the final moments before the half when Humm drove his team from its 20 to the Oklahoma State 25. The senior quarterback, rolled to his left and tried to force a pass to a well-covered Ritch Bahe, but safety Mike Terry intercepted.
The loss was hard enough for Oklahoma State Coach Jim Stanley to take, but he also absorbed a double setback in the final minutes when fullback George Palmer was injured.
The El Paso senior finished with a well-deserved 120 yards on 27 carries — his lowest total in three games. But he didn’t see the critical fumble play because trainers were working on his injured knee, wrecked two plays earlier when he was blocking downfield on the pass to Nelms.
“I’ll have to have surgery in the next day or two,”Palmer said, almost matter-of-factly. “But the toughest blow is letting down my teammates. I should have been in there at the end.”
Stanley refused to consider luck in the outcome. “We had our chances,” he said. “You’ve got to cash in on them. We lost some, and Nebraska took some away. Nebraska deserves all the credit.
‘Can’t Look Back’
“When you face adversity, you can’t look back and feel sorry for yourselves.”
Perhaps the biggest surprise was that Oklahoma State did not score a touchdown after dominating the first quarter so thoroughly that Nebraska had only seven scrimmage plays.
The Poke wishone-T attack, with Palmer logging 74 yards by intermission, couldn’t find the ultimate punch.
“They’ve got a good wishbone. It’s a lot different seeing it in practive and in a game. This was the first wishbone we’ve seen this year,” Pruitt said.
“It just took us a quarter to get untracked. They had a couple of junk plays in the last quarter that we hadn’t seen, but otherwise, they didn’t surprise us. They just run it so well, it’s just hard to stop.
“But a win like this really pulls a team together, more than a big win. We couldn’t let our seniors down,” the junior tackle said.
Score Fitting
Despite the low score, which was fitting for the Nos. 2 (Nebraska) and 3 teams nationally in total defense, the offensive figures weren’t meager. Nebraska held a 345-300 yardage edge.
Humm, completed half of 18 passes, for 178 yards but his national record-tying feat of throwing 15 consecutive passes last week against Kansas died when he had an incompletion on his first toss.
Fullback Davis was the leading Husker rusher with 58 yards on 10 carries, and Westbrook logged a hefty 106 yards with four pass receptions.
The Nebraska defense, which has not allowed a touchdown in eight quarters, was led by a whopping 18 tackles by Capt. Tom Ruud. Middle guard John Lee had 11 and defensive end Bob Martin 10.
Nebraska will journey to Colorado Saturday with a 2-1 Big Eight record and 5-2 overall. Oklahoma State, which will play Kansas in Stillwater, is 1-1 and 3-3.
World-Herald post-game coverage (PDF)
Penalties-Yards 3-25
Rush yards 204 167
Rush attempts 59 40
Yards per carry 3.5 4.2
Pass yards 96 178
Comp.-Att.-Int. 3-10-1 9-18-1
Yards/Att. 9.6 9.9
Yards/Comp. 32.0 19.8
Fumbles 1 2
Nebraska is 37-5 all-time against Oklahoma State.
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1974 season (9-3)
Oregon Sept. 14
Wisconsin Sept. 21
Northwestern Sept. 28
Minnesota Oct. 5
Missouri Oct. 12
Kansas Oct. 19
Oklahoma State Oct. 26
Colorado Nov. 2
Iowa State Nov. 9
Kansas State Nov. 16
Oklahoma Nov. 23
Florida Dec. 31
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How basic right to life is being violated, especially while dealing with handicapped prisoners
Prof GN Saibaba
By Sheshu Babu*
While the general condition of prisons and the prisoners is pathetic, those suffering disability is horrific to say the least. The basic right to life (Article 21 of the constitution) is mostly violated in dealing with prisoners who are handicapped.
The Veena Sethi case in the early 1980s brought to light the treatment of persons with mental illnesses and their prolonged incarceration ranging from 16 to 30 years in custody (“The rights of prisoners with disabilities, by Kalpana Kannabhiran”, October 18, 2016, thehindu.com). This case highlighted the importance of addressing the conditions of disabled prisoners and the lack of accessories and support needed to them for their daily living.
India is committed to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). Article 4(d) enjoins States Parties “to refrain from engaging in any act or practice that is inconsistent with the present Convention and to ensure that public authorities and institutions act in conformity with the present Convention”.
In relation to State custody of persons with disabilities, Article 15(1) of UNCRPD states, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”. Article 15(2) places an obligation on states to protect disabled persons from cruel, degrading or inhuman punishment or treatment.
Norms violated
Explaining the nightmarish situation of disabled prisoners, Toshio Meronek in an article (“The Invisible Punishment of Prisoners with Disabilities”, July 23, 2013, thenation.com) says that unless changes are brought about, the disabled prisoners would be subjected to worse excesses of the prison system. The article elaborates struggles of about 100 mentally disabled prisoners in Santa Rita Jail, Alameda County, California , Ricky Thomas was denied medical and physical access for years. The American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) has been exposing the violations by authorities of Americans with Disabilities Act.
Similar is the case with Prof GN Saibaba. In a post on his condition in jail (“Health deterioration of Prof G N Saibaba in Anda cell”, by AS Vasantha Kumari, January 29, 2019, kracktivist.org); the inhuman treatment can be palpably seen. When his wife saw him through the barred glass panes of “mulakat” window on December 26, 2018 according to court orders, she could find his health worsen beyond imagination. He could not almost move and his hands shivered and he developed many other problems besides the usual diseases. Even the time allocated for conducting tests was insufficient. Since almost two years, the case is dragging without any sight of relief.
His rights are being severely curbed and the illegal incarceration continues with solitary confinement in the jail.
Let alone justice, even the cells in which disabled persons are lodged do not have basic facilities like ventilation, toilets and hygienic food, etc. Tony Goodman, a wheel- chair bound paraplegic, inmate at the Georgia state prison, in a 1999 suit, claimed discrimination under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“Disabled and in Jail: The Disability Rights of Prisoners” by Ellen Rosner Feig, legalzoom.com). After struggles in lower courts, the Supreme Court gave some relief by agreeing for better access to basic facilities in prisons.
In India too, many handicapped languishing in jails should be granted at least minimum facilities for smooth conduct of their daily requirements. According to a study (“Disabilities among prison and Jail inmates 2011-2012″, Jennifer Bronson and Laura M Maruschak, December 14, 2015, bjs.gov), an estimated 32% of prisoners and 40% of jail inmates reported disability according to National Inmate Survey (NIS-3) and female prisoners are more likely to report cognitive disability in America. In India too, many disabled prisoners are facing harsh condition with lack of sympathy from jail officials.
Most of them are incarcerated for years without trials.
The court should address problems of disabled and persons like Saibaba should be given facilities to discharge their day-to-day needs. The bail application should be heard by Court at the earliest.
*Writer from anywhere and everywhere is a supporter of speedy justice, especially political prisoners
Civil society should be in arms if state violates liberty of citizens, imposes unlawful restrictions
Today the basic question is not just of freedom of speech, but also freedom after speech
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Featured Author: Candace Meredith
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Candace Meredith earned her Bachelor of Science degree in English Creative Writing from Frostburg State University in the spring of 2008. Her works of poetry, photography and fiction have appeared in literary journals Bittersweet, Backbone Mountain Review, Anthology 17, Greensilk Journal, Saltfront and The Broadkill Review. She currently works as a Freelance Editor for an online publishing company and has earned her Master of Science degree in Integrated Marketing and Communications (IMC) from West Virginia University.
Here is an excerpt from Candace’s New Book Winter Solstice
She stood at five feet and four inches with a round belly and long, wavy jet black hair that reached her waist, with pretty hazel eyes and straight white teeth – he loved her enough before she was pregnant but took off thereafter even changing his number, wanting no more to do with her.
Hanna then worked until she was let go and paid her rent on time and did all that she could do right, then, instead of him, she found The Sister’s Coven and learned how to chant and evoke spirit – something that made her to never feel alone again.
It was the night she walked the cobblestone street during Halloween when she met Amber, Sydney, Priscilla and Paisley. The women called themselves the Sister’s Coven as they had been sworn in to protect one another against darkness. Hanna fell in love with the four women the moment she met them; Amber was the youngest at eighteen with a bobbed haircut, honey brown in color that looked glossy especially in the light. Sydney was the tallest, very elegant with curly tresses of blond hair aged twenty-two. Priscilla was the sweetest, aged twenty with dark, rich brown hair, cinnamon brown eyes and bronzed skin and Paisley, the second to the youngest, aged nineteen, had olive skin, green eyes and strawberry blond hair. The sisters tossed their arms around one another’s neck when they approached Hanna; she immediately noticed their necks that were enamored with a single emerald locket, laid upon their chests from a silver necklace.
“We can help you get back at him,” Amber said, stopping to remove her shoe that was rubbing at her heel.
Hanna turned to look, seeing no one else she could be talking to.
“How did you know?” She said muffled in her breath.
“We just kinda know things,” Paisley said, taking a seat at a nearby bench, patting the space beside her.
“Have a seat,” Sydney said, and Priscilla smiled her sweet smile.
“We use our minds to focus on the thoughts and emotions of others,” Sydney said, appearing to be the leader of the group as the other three young women glanced at her often.
“It’s not that I want to …”
“Not that you want to hurt him,” Paisley finished her thought.
“Right.” Hanna said, seated awkwardly.
“Getting back at him doesn’t have to be evil,” Amber said politely, “we just mean in a bad luck kind of way.”
“Yeah,” Paisley agreed, “like making him have an embarrassing accident.”
“That’s right,” Sydney joined in, taking the lead, “what my sisters are trying to say is we can help him look stupid, you know, in front of others.”
“But not, you know, cause him to die or anything like that,” Paisley insisted.
“I understand,” Hanna began…
“But you don’t want to bother with him still.”
“Right, I just want to…”
“Help your baby,” Sydney said, taking a seat on the opposite side, tossing her arm around Hanna’s shoulder.
“It’s nothing to be afraid of…” Paisley mused.
“It’s just that we know you were praying for your baby.”
“That’s right,” Priscilla agreed.
“We can hear deep desires,” Amber explained.
“So we came to you tonight,” Sydney assured her. “We are the sisters of magic.”
“Magic?”
“Of enchantments,” Amber said shyly.
“Is that like witchcraft?”
The three women laughed subtly.
“Enchantment,” Sydney interjected.
“Evocation,” Paisley said.
“Spells,” Amber added.
“We help others who ask for the help,” Sydney explained.
“And we know you want protection for you and your baby,” Amber said.
“So we’re here to help you,” Paisley said turning her eyes to Sydney.
“We can teach you all we know to help you, to protect you, to be sure that your baby is safe from harm,” Sydney explained.
With that thought resting in her mind, Hanna walked the streets aside the four sisters, and began learning incantation; she learned that their necklace, barring an emerald locket, had been anointed with a protective enchantment and cleansed of impurities then consecrated with the power of the guardian.
The Guardian is an ancient soul who has the presence of a woman, the soul of a warrior, the wings of a Phoenix and one who is shrouded in a golden hue, Hanna reads from the Book of Enchantments she purchased before leaving High Tide as a Ripple in a Pond. The owner, Sterling, gave her a “new moms” discount and was sure to tell her to always do her own research before entrusting others to practice divination on her behalf.
Continued in book . . .
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Photograph of an unidentified work by Mark Alice Durant. The artist participated in the exhibition "FoxTrot" at Randolph Street Gallery,...
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Photograph of Durant's "Reliquary History Dream Song." The artist participated in the exhibition "FoxTrot" at Randolph Street Gallery,...
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Photograph of Durant's "A Concise History of the Cold War." The work was part the exhibition "FoxTrot" at Randolph Street Gallery, May 25...
Show morePhotograph of Durant's "A Concise History of the Cold War." The work was part the exhibition "FoxTrot" at Randolph Street Gallery, May 25-June 30, 1990. "The work in this exhibition addresses the fallacy of history; its incompleteness, its contradictions and the inherent inaccessibility of its truth. By congfronting, engaging or containing history, these artists reveal history as a construction, living and mutable, subject to exclusion through the very process of attempting to embrace that which has not been included." --[Source: FoxTrot, May 25-June 30, 1990 (rsga_pst_00130)]
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Rodney Davis wins the Republican nomination for the 13th district
By Eleanor Black and Austin Keating
Incumbent Rodney Davis defeated University alumna Erika Harold and Michael Firsching, a veterinarian, in the republican primary for the 13th congressional district. Davis won the race with 54 percent of votes, with 96 percent of precincts reporting at press time. Though Davis won the overall vote, H...
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Where do the Democratic candidates for the 13th congressional stand?
By Eleanor Black
To see where the Republican candidates stand, click here. Candidates running for the 13th congressional district met Thursday night for a public forum to discuss both national and local issues at the Champaign City Council Chambers. All candidates beside the incumbent Rep. Rodney Davis were in attendance...
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Fanfiction: Moyuan and Bai Qian, Book 2 - Chapter 8, Part 8 (Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms 三生三世十里桃花)
Chapter 8 - Divided
written by LalaLoop
edited by kakashi
consulting by Bunny
Yanzhi lowered her arm to break the magic she had been pouring into the butterfly hairpin and took a deep breath.
Bai Qian sighed - she and her friends had taken turns to examine this device. They had realized that while it appeared to be a perfectly ordinary child’s hair ornament, there was some strong enchantment protecting it from any external interferences. And that was about all they had found out about it. There was no carvings, or messages in invisible ink on it, nothing that could give them any useful information.
Not wanting to face with questions they had no answers to, they decided to keep this from Bai Zhen for now and had not asked him to give it a try yet. Bai Qian’s fourth brother’s immortal powers were a bit stronger than any of theirs and his spells carried more effect. Though judging by the device’s unaffected state after so many spells had been cast at it, they weren’t sure if more magical strength was the solution to the problem.
More than a hundred times Bai Qian had had it laid in front of her face, her eyes glued to the jade butterfly, unblinking, searching for any carvings they might have overlooked. What she got in the end though was a pair of watery eyes, stinging from being forced open for too long. They had even tried throwing the device into fire and dipping it in different potions to break the enchantment. Nothing worked. The thing remained annoyingly unscathed. And they all understood that the harder this spell was to break, the more it meant that they were right - this device held great significance. That was what made it so frustrating.
“There must be -- a way to do it,” said Yanzhi, not sounding like she believed that there was a way at all, burying her face in her hands.
“The only thing we haven’t tried is Crimson Hellfire,” said Bai Qian. “Not that we can, because Qilin still has that -- thing around his neck and he’s the only one who can produce Hellfire.”
Unless they got lucky and caught one of those Ghost Assassins who could breath Hellfire, Bai Qian thought, it was hopeless.
“How about we snap it in half?” Pojing suggested.
Yanzhi shot a stunned look at him. Yehua seemed to have a similar reaction, though he was less expressive about it.
Pojing shrugged. “Better to have it broken than found by Luoji.”
“We need to keep it intact to find out why it’s so important to Luoji,” Bai Qian chanted in a dull voice, massaging the outer corners of her eyes. “And I don’t think you can break this in half, I read in a book once that if you exert destructive force on objects like this, the enchantment will react —”
“You read too much, Queen of Qingqiu,” Pojing said and downed the content of the goblet he’d been holding. “Why did I ever think you could advise my sister to study less?”
Bai Qian rolled her eyes at him while Yanzhi sank down into a chair. They found themselves staring at the butterfly hairpin again.
“Why don’t we take it to Xunzhua,” Pojing said, sounding a lot more serious this time.
At this, Yehua, who had remained quiet all along, lifted his head.
“Xunzhua?” Yanzhi repeated.
Pojing nodded. “I can’t guarantee we can find a solution but I know that my sister did some extensive research about these things, it was part of her training. She’s studied the proper spells and she has the equipment. We can ask her to take a look at it. You’re right, Queen,” he gestured at Bai Qian. “If we keep doing this, the device might explode on someone. I’ve seen it happen before - devices destroying themselves when in the hands of those who are not designated to use them.”
For a while, no one said anything. They had not exactly sat down to talk about what to do after they’d have rescued A-li. Forming an army, contacting scattered Celestials Soldiers, a war against Luoji - most of these decisions lay with Yehua, who, unfortunately, had not been on speaking terms with Pojing for the last two days.
From what Bai Qian could tell, Pojing’s suggestion was more than just an invitation for them to come to Xunzhua; it was a proposition directed at Yehua.
Qingqiu had been able to hold its shield against Luoji but was too close to the Nine Heavens and in truth, was not a suitable place to use as a military base. Foxes lived in small groups, scattered around the eight realms, and had always kept to themselves, passed down their magical skills to each other so that they could defend their lands. Raising armies and making weapons were two of the things they did not care to do.
Lord Donghua was nowhere to be found; The Ghost Realm possessed a strong energy that was opposing to most of theirs; and the Demons were certainly not an option. Their most logical choice was Xunzhua - a kingdom with proficient shield magic and an ally of the former Nine Heavens.
Bai Qian knew that Pojing might be hot-tempered and harsh with his judgment toward the Celestials, but as a king, he certainly understood the situation they were in - if they were to have a chance against Luoji, Yehua must assume his role in this war, and with all of them behind him. The Nine Heavens might have been subpar at their job and made many damaging decisions ever since Lord Donghua had stepped down from the throne, but the realms had always been looking to them for leadership, there was no denying that. Yehua, the youngest High Immortal of their generation, a crown prince whose reputation of skills and benevolence had reached every clan, large and small - only his name would be able to unite people of the eight realms and generate loyalty.
Whether Yehua could overlook their differences though and accept Pojing’s offer was another question. Bai Qian sneaked a nervous glance at the Celestial Crown Prince, whose face was temporarily expressionless. He and Pojing had not tried to punch each other in the face in the last two days and had focused on the plan to rescue A-li instead, and to Bai Qian that was already a great improvement. She did not dare to hope for any agreement between them at the moment. Their tolerance for each other was often hanging by a thread.
Another extremely uncomfortable minute passed by where the only sound to be heard was the sprite’s fluttering wings from the far corner, near the food and wine. When Yehua finally took a step forward, the faint sound of his boots on the stone ground felt like a puncture in the air. The mutual intimidation was still dominating the atmosphere between them, but it seemed neither Yehua or Pojing intended to act on any spiteful sentiment their last fight had left.
“I am grateful for your help, King of Xunzhua,” said Yehua. “So will the entire Celestial Clan be.”
Pojing, who was obviously not used to Celestials’ properness and polished speech, responded with a curt movement of his head.
“Well,” he cleared his throat, “the point is, let’s try not to turn our backs on allies.”
Xunzhua, Bai Qian thought with much anticipation as she walked out of Qingqiu Cave alongside Yanzhi. After their discussion, Yehua had returned to tend to his wounded soldiers who were staying at Qingqiu while Pojing had left to write to his sister.
Xunzhua was not as far away from here as the Eastern Forest, but it was not a simple walk to the woods either. No doubt after they would have brought A-li out of the Celestial Palace, they must go right away. This would be no short trip and it might be some time before she could come back here.
Injury could happen to any of them on the way, Bai Qian pondered. She did not hope that it would but to not prepare for it was rather foolish. She was not a physician, but what she could do was...
“Looks like I’ll have to have a word with Qilin and Wunian before we go,” said Yanzhi, interrupting Bai Qian’s thoughts. “And with my Elders, too.”
Bai Qian nodded in agreement. She also had a place in mind to visit. Parting with Yanzhi, and not without letting her know where she would be, Bai Qian headed straight in the direction of the Peach Blossom Garden.
She did not need a pointer to find the garden, she’d been going there almost everyday in her life. What she needed was, perhaps, courage.
Bai Qian had been avoiding the place out of fear. She was afraid to be told again by the vacant garden that Zheyan had left them. She was afraid she would not be able to stop herself from calling Zheyan’s name as always when she had arrived there, afraid of the silence that would follow.
Adamant at first, yet her determination faded with every step she took closer to the garden. But somehow Bai Qian felt she must gather whatever was left of her courage to enter the garden even if it killed her. It was where she had spent a large part of her life, she was not going to go on a long trip without bidding it farewell.
With a few cloud-jumps, Bai Qian landed on the soft grass near the lake.
The air around astounded her. A cold silence surrounded the garden, seeping into her bones. The little sprite flew out from the back of her hair and started to circle a nearby tree.
Bai Qian lifted her chin - the blossoms were still in full bloom, yet they were not the same as before. She walked to the closest tree, gently brushing her fingertips across the soft petals. The color had become dull, almost white, the enchanting fragrance was no longer around; the last traces of it were still lingering in the air, but so feeble that Bai Qian could tell they would soon disappear completely.
The garden, though with its shield still standing and grass still green, was lifeless. And grey. Like the dark cloud that surrounded her world.
For thousands of years, this had been Zheyan’s home. He had planted these ancient trees himself. His immortal essence had become a part of these blossoms’ beauty and liveliness. Without him, they would live on, but only as soulless shells of what had used to be a wonder to behold, what had been capable of bestowing upon anyone who had the good fortune of being here a sense of eternal bliss and peace.
During one of their talks long ago, he had mentioned this to her and her brother. Bai Qian had been listening with half her attention on the fish jumping up and down the lake surface and the delicious food Zheyan had made them, simply because she’d never believed that Zheyan would leave this garden in her lifetime. How many other things had he told her that she’d disregarded because she’d taken him for granted? Just as she had everything else.
Reaching the small cottage, Bai Qian placed her hand on the door’s wooden handle and pushed it open, her heart speeding up for a moment. But the emptiness of the room fell upon her head like rocks.
A tea tray was laid on the table near the window, a small plate containing some almond cookies right next to it. Who had put them there? Her fourth brother? Bai Zhen had gone to this place right after hearing of Zheyan’s death, she knew that. Bai Qian forced her eyes away from those things that were glaring at her, like a painful reminder of how different her life had been just a few days ago.
Slowly she made her way toward the potion corner and opened one of the cabinets. There were vials of all shapes and sizes lining up on the shelves. Having spent a lot of time watching Zheyan brew his potions, she had a fairly good idea of which vial contained what. Bai Qian took a few of what she recognized as Healing Potions and dropped them in her sack. They would need this potion at one point or another in the future with what they were planning to do.
Chirp, the little sprite started to point at all the liquids with bright colors, eyes widened with curiosity.
“Not those,” Bai Qian said with a smile, “we don’t need them.”
Chirp, it called her again and zoomed down on a fruit basket on the countertop. Bai Qian chuckled, picked out a small berry and dangled it at the sprite’s face. Ignoring her attempt to irritate it, the sprite grabbed the fruit and twirled happily.
“Wait for me outside, Little Sprite,” Bai Qian said quietly as she watched it gnawing down on the berry as though that fruit was all it needed to be content. The sprite fluttered its wings and flew through the back window.
Bai Qian walked back to the front and began to scan over the bamboo shelves. Books… These were the ones she hadn’t finished and had been discussing with Zheyan and her brother the last time they had sat here. Bai Qian quickly grabbed them and held them tightly in one arm. Perhaps she would continue reading them, perhaps not, but she had to keep close what Zheyan had thought was important.
She looked around the house again.
And again.
There was nothing left for her to do here.
Bai Qian drew towards the wooden wall and stood with her back against it, staring blankly into space.
Zheyan was gone.
With no power left to fight against the surging tide of grief that had reached her throat, she collapsed to the ground, arms wrapping around her knees and tears bursting forth.
Now that she was here, she did not want to leave this house.
The pillars of the sky could fall, The Dark Immortal could vanquish the whole world for all she cared. She only wanted to hide here for the rest of her life and wait for Zheyan to come striding through that door again with Peach Blossoms Wine jars in his hands.
She only wanted... her… Zheyan…
Without him, she was lost. She did not know what to do, how to deal with this terrible pain that was tearing her soul into pieces.
Bai Qian cried like she never had before, tears drenching her robe and her whole body trembled. A desperate scream struggled to burst through her throat but no sound came out. The grief that she had imprisoned away so that she could think about what to do was ripping through her guts, escaping with her every sob and leaving her hollow.
A faint sound, almost musical, rose from somewhere. Bai Qian lifted her head with a sigh and fell silent for several minutes.
There was no sound, she told herself. She had imagined it. Or rather, it had come from within her - the song that the Azure Phoenix would sing every time it soared into the sky. A reminder.
Closing the cottage door behind her, Bai Qian stepped down the stairs, weary yet somehow more alert than before. She looked toward Qingqiu’s direction and began to walk slowly away. The little sprite greeted her with cheerful twittering and started to fly along her side.
Though as Bai Qian glanced briefly down at the grass carpet when she passed by the tall tree near the lake she’d used to rest on, something that she had not seen on her way in caught her eyes.
She stooped down and grabbed the blue feather that was hidden among the grass, glistened with tiny dewdrops. It was in a magnificent shade of blue though with a tiny burned patch near the tip.
The Old Phoenix had been in his true form here.
Bai Qian glanced around and immediately caught sight of another feather, she lunged forward and snatched it into her hand. When she realized that there were at least seven or eight others lying nearby, Bai Qian threw the ones on her hand into her sack and quickly collected as many as she could find. Each of them was in a slightly different shade, all of them a little burned towards the edge.
Bai Qian didn’t know what good could come from this or what she was hoping to do, but her head, for a moment, could do nothing but will her hands to gather these blue items.
Little Sprite found one under a far tree himself and dropped it into her sack.
“Thanks,” she said, still scanning the ground for more.
When Bai Qian was sure there wasn’t any left, she sprang up, peering into the sack for a moment, puzzled, curious. But when her head started to spin, she stopped thinking. Tears fell from her eyes again as she drew the small sack shut.
Stepping out of the inner shield, however, Bai Qian saw that someone was standing by the small bridge that connected Zheyan’s garden with the outside world, arms folded and back facing her. By now, Bai Qian was already familiar with this person’s stature and did not need to think twice to know it was Pojing.
Though the moment she reached up to her face in an attempt to wipe away her tears, he turned around, squinting in obvious confusion.
“Sorry,” the words came out of her impulsively.
“For what?” his brows pulled deeper together, as though she had just told a joke he could not understand. “Crying?”
“I didn’t know anyone was here, so —”
Pojing scoffed in a way that reminded her of how Lord Donghua always reacted toward the Nine Heavens’ over-complicated rules in meetings.
“Don’t be such a Celestial about it. I don’t care about a bit of tears,” Pojing said and stepped closer. “I always tell my sister that it’s what you do after you’re done crying that matters.”
Before Bai Qian could respond her face was taken into his hands. The roughness of his thumbs brushed up and down on her cheeks, with a bit too much force that it felt as though he was trying to remove stubborn dirt marks from her face, not tears.
When he let go of her, the force those hands unknowingly exerted caused her head to be thrown slightly backward.
There was a pleasant smell, like grass after a rainstorm, coming from him that was so different from the sweet fragrance of the peach blossoms, almost like a call for her to rejoin reality, rejoin her friends.
“You were waiting for me,” Bai Qian said. “Is something the matter?”
“Nalan is back,” Pojing’s eyes glinted with excitement. “We have some planning to do.”
Chapter 9, Part 1
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Dutch EA User Conference June 10: Full Schedule Announced
16 quality presentations across 3 topic streams, including keynotes from IATA, Schiphol Group, The Future Group, with a preview presentation on Enterprise Architect 13 Beta from Sparx Systems COO Tom O'Reilly. Calling all Enterprise Architects,...
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New Zealand's John Key sets out his practical conservatism, emphasising family, school and work
The international governing politician who David Cameron is closest to is New Zealand's 51 year old, 38th Prime Minister, John Key.
Mr Key is no firebrand, reforming conservative. He prides himself on his pragmatism and after a long period of Labour rule he was re-elected at the end of 2011. His National Party's support increased from his first victory, when it won 44.9%, to 47.3% last November.
Earlier this month Mr Key gave a landscape speech on his political philosophy. In an address to Ausatralia's Menzies Research Centre, in honour of John Howard, he set out his core beliefs.
This included a defence of the role that government plays in society. Drawing on his personal experience he said this:
"I was a kid who benefited from both the welfare state and a mother who pushed us to improve ourselves through hard work. My father died when I was young. We had no other family in New Zealand and we had very little money. My mother was on a Widows Benefit for a time, before she started working as a cleaner. The State provided us with somewhere to live, and ensured my mother had food to put on the table when we most needed it. The State also gave me the opportunity to have a good education at the local high school and at university."
We don't hear this sort of thing enough from conservatives. We are not small state fundamentalists and should never risk appearing so. Conservatives are in favour of limited and focused government but some, particularly young, more libertarian co-belligerents allow rhetoric to run away with itself and end up appearing anti-government.
Continue reading "New Zealand's John Key sets out his practical conservatism, emphasising family, school and work" »
July 16, 2012 in John Key, New Zealand Nationals | Permalink
Another nation holds a general election and it's another victory for the Right
The week began with the victory of Spain's Conservatives. It ends with good news from the other side of the world.
Our congratulations to John Key and the New Zealand National Party. Mr Key - the international conservative leader most like David Cameron - has been re-elected as his country's Prime Minister. His re-election is further proof that, in these tough times, voters are deciding they can't afford left-wing tax and spend parties.
Graphic below from the New Zealand Herald.
November 26, 2011 in John Key, New Zealand Nationals | Permalink | Comments (8)
John Key's seven messages for New Zealand
The leader of New Zealand's Nationals has issued these posters to define his forthcoming campaign.
October 12, 2011 in John Key, New Zealand Nationals | Permalink | Comments (0)
"There is actually a limit to what governments can do."
John Key, New Zealand's new Prime Minister, is riding high in the polls. His National Party is scoring 56% in a latest opinion poll and 69% of New Zealanders are saying that their country is 'heading in the right direction'. Just 18% say it is going in the wrong direction.
Mr Key is achieving this without copying the activist spending policies of Washington, Tokyo or Canberra. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal he sets out some of the beliefs that are guiding him:
Limited, focused government: "There is actually a limit to what governments can do... Your citizens are entitled to expect you to be realistic... to be specific about what it is you're going to do, what you can or can't do."
Control of government spending: He has decided not to copy "risky" high-borrowing policies to help New Zealand weather the economic storm. The only thing sure about such policies, he says, is that "you've saddled future generations with an enormous amount of debt that then they have to repay."
Lower corporate taxation: "If you really are out of whack with the prevailing corporate tax rates, and there's been a global shift toward countries lowering their corporate tax rate, then you're not likely to attract capital, or you're likely to lose capital."
Lower regulation: "Good regulatory reform can be an important catalyst toward driving economic growth and coming out of the recession faster." The WSJ's Mary Kissel notes how Mr Key is "chipping away entrenched regulations that drive away foreign capital". He is also reviewing the previous Labour adminstration's heavy-handed climate change regulations; "New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that -- and you want to lead the world -- then you might end up getting unintended consequences."
Free trade: "The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless."
March 07, 2009 in Economic policy, John Key, New Zealand Nationals | Permalink | Comments (11)
Right wins big victory in New Zealand
Keep up-to-date with results here.
Time for change message reaches New Zealand tomorrow
Nine years of Labour rule is set to end in New Zealand tomorrow. Polls point to a big win for John Key's Nationals and a possible outright win without the need to coalesce with minority parties. The two videos below highlight Labour's failures on education and crime and end with the message that appears to be sweeping the world: It's time for change.
Centre right parties squeezed by economic crisis
The economic crisis is hurting centre right parties as Dan Hannan predicted it would:
"In the current climate, what people see are fat-cat bankers being bailed out by hard-pressed taxpayers. And, instead of objecting to the bail-out, they object to the bankers and, by extension, to the free market culture they are thought to embody. The world over, Left-of-Centre parties are benefiting: Obama in the US, Brown here."
Since the onset of the crisis John McCain has fallen significantly behind Barack Obama.
The possibility of Prime Minister Stephen Harper winning a majority in Canada have also declined. The opposition Liberals have moved up in recent polls.
It's not just an anti-incumbent effect either.
In the UK Labour's opinion poll disadvantage has been halved. 20% behind six weeks ago the Tory lead is now just 10%. Labour now lead the Tories on some measures economic trust.
New Zealand's Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark has also stormed back in the polls. With just four weeks to go until polling day one poll has the Nationals down 7% to 40.5% and the governing Labour Party up a point to 37.5%. If repeated in November 8th's General Election that would produce a hung parliament.
October 12, 2008 in Canadian Conservatives, Economic policy, New Zealand Nationals, UK Tories, US Republicans | Permalink | Comments (10)
Helen Clark's airbrushed campaign photo fails to halt Nationals' bandwagon
The New Zealand Herald reported earlier this week about the disparity between New Zealand Labour leader's campaign photo and her real look. The image on the left - as if we needed to say - is a recent photo and the image on the right is the image she wants to present! Helen Clark's campaign makeover is doing nothing to reverse the centre-right Nationals' lead in the polls, however. Current polls point to a National lead of 11%; enough to form the country's first conservative government in ten years.
John Key plays safety first as he seeks to end a decade of Labour rule in New Zealand
David Cameron meets John Key
September 18, 2008 in New Zealand Nationals | Permalink | Comments (3)
New Zealand General Election will be on 8th November
Here is Mr Key greeting Prime Minister Helen Clark's announcement. He promises to put education and a 'crusade on literacy' at the heart of the campaign:
Mr Key is expected to win the election and be New Zealand's next Prime Minister. Click here for the National Party's website.
September 12, 2008 in John Key, New Zealand Nationals | Permalink | Comments (2)
It's just a few months until New Zealand goes to the polls and the opposition Nationals enjoy average leads of 15% over the Labour government of Helen Clark. The New Zealand Herald has just completed one hundred interviews and published an extended profile of Mr Key. Fairly or unfairly it portrays a man who has journeyed to "the centre" over the last six years. Colin James of the Herald sees risks in Mr Key's "bland ambition":
"In policy after policy he says he will keep what Clark has put in place. Yet he also says he will drive a step-change in the economy and close the wealth gap with Australia. Where once as shadow finance minister he was keen to sell down 20 per cent of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), to spread the capitalist idea among mums and dads and smarten financial discipline, he will now keep the lot, he says - even KiwiRail!
...One is a risk for this election: that room is left for fear-mongers to scarify centrist voters about Key's "real" intentions. Given long enough in government, will he sell KiwiRail (and other SOEs), Balkanise ACC, stiffen employers' hands against employees and whittle away Working for Families and pensions? Key's fresh glow will likely blot out this short-term risk.
The second risk is for after the election if National is in power: that blandness may allow over-expectations to build of what it would do in a first term, especially to ease household financial pressures. In addition, voters may well infer from National's law and order, health and other criticisms that it can readily fix what it is criticising.
The economy is seriously unbalanced. Rebalancing will be painful. We have only just started. Large tax cuts might ease households' pain but will not make it go away. National's acceptance of most Labour programmes adds to the difficulty of dealing with the pain, let alone generating economic step-change."
August 02, 2008 in John Key, New Zealand Nationals | Permalink | Comments (0)
German Elections: Andrew Marshall's Live Blog
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The new Iron Lady: Conservatives win Norwegian election
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Angela Merkel lines up with David Cameron to rein in Brussels - and to defeat Germany's new eurosceptic party
It turns out that Kevin Rudd is not Australian Labor's messiah
Abbott is gambling that Rudd will continue to flounder in the run-up to Australia's polling day
Abbott's Liberals "on track comfortably" to win Australia's election
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Gaotona
by botanicaxu
Heritage Faction
The Emperor's Soul
“Is that not how you’ve made your entire career? Speaking honestly, teaching people what to expect of you, then expecting them to be honest to you in return? ”
—Shai about Gaotona[1]
Gaotona is an arbiter of the Heritage Faction of the Rose Empire on Sel.[2] He is noted as being the most influential of the arbiters, due to favor of the emperor [3].
1 Appearance and Personality
2.1 Early Life
2.2 Re-Forging Ashravan
3 Attributes and Abilities
4.1 Ashravan
4.2 Shai
4.3 Frava
Appearance and Personality[edit]
“I value truth, young woman. Not Forgery. ”
—Gaotona to Shai[4]
Gaotona is elderly, and the oldest of the arbiters. He stands in a straight, thoughtful pose, with his hands clasped behind his back.[3] He is a clever man,[5] quickly picking up on exaggerations of Shai's abilities.[4] Gaotona has a strong conscience, unwilling to force others to endure what he himself will not submit to.[5] He is noted for being a very genuine person.[6] He values truth in both himself and others, expecting them to treat him with the same honesty he treats them.[4][1] Gaotona also has an extreme appreciation of art and beauty. He believes that art is for the people who view it and not the person who created it.[7] Masterful art can bring him to tears.[8] Gaotona expects the best in other people. This combined with his sincere, honest nature leads many people around him to feel perpetual disappointment from him. He encourages others to be what he feels is their best and gives disappointed looks when they fail to meet his hopes.[5]
Gaotona was born in the same area as Ashravan.[5] He extensively studied art of historical cultures.[9] He became Ashravan's mentor, constantly encouraging him to become emperor. He is known to have been incredibly close with Ashravan, which has given him influence among the other arbiters. Gaotona, along with Frava and three others, were appointed as the five main arbiters of the Rose Empire.[3] The resentment Ashravan felt for Gaotona slowly pushed Gaotona out of favor with the emperor. Gaotona disagreed with Frava on almost every topic discussed.[2] When the Glory Faction sent assassins after the emperor, Gaotona and the other arbiters took over with damage control. They first brought in resealers to heal the wound. The physical wound was healed, but Ashravan's mind was gone. To keep their positions, Gaotona and the other arbiters considered secretly hiring Shai, currently a prisoner, to reForge Ashravan's soul.[3] Gaotona, observing Shai's artwork, voted yes on using her out of a desire to understand her. This was the first time in years he and Frava had agreed on a vote.[2]
Re-Forging Ashravan[edit]
“Why? Why would someone capable of this artistry, this majesty, turn to forgery? Why not create original paintings? Why not be a true artist?
I must understand.”
—Gaotona's thoughts on Shai[2]
Gaotona volunteers to personally oversee Shai's work to reForge Ashravan's soul. He is extremely cautious in guarding Shai. He forbids her from telling her guards about her work. He also employs Weedfingers to use Bloodsealing to prevent Shai from escaping. Gaotona's previous interaction with Weedfingers led him to believe the man is trustworthy in imprisoning her.[4] Gaotona continued to watch and visit Shai each day as she worked.[4] While Shai was doing her initial research into Ashravan's life, gaotona brought a book to her room to read. Gaotona asks Shai to tell him about how Forgery works after he wattches her Forge the desk in her room. He finds the bits of Realmatic Theory that she tells him to be superstitious nonsense, but his mind is open to learning. At Shai's advice, Gaotona increases the security around the emperor. He appoints someone to change a fake chamber pot and forbids anyone without a card showing his personal signature to enter the room.[9] The seventeenth day after the assassination attempt, Gaotona took a break from watching Shai and went to the Delbahad festivities.[10]
Gaotona and Shai by Lyraina
Gaotona offered himself up as the test subject for Shai's Essence Marks, as he fit the qualifications and did not want to subject any of his people to the abomination of Soul Forgery. The first one he tried took, but the second did not. Talking to Shai about art, Gaotona realized there was something the arbiters missed about ShuXen's painting. Shai admitted to him that the version hanging in Frava's office was a fake and that she'd burned the original. Angry at the destruction, Gaotona left for the day.[5] Gaotona remained angry at Shai for burning the painting for some time, though he was able to return to a professional relationship and continue testing the Essence Marks.[6] By day fifty-eight, he had tested over a hundred stamps for Shai.[11] In order to better understand what Shai is doing to him, Gaotona studies Forgery and soulstamps. His understanding grows quickly, and he soon can recognize what specific symbols in the stamps represent. Shai finally uses the soulstamp showing Ashravan's shame felt from Gaotona. The realization shocks Gaotona. Shai comments that, unlike the other arbiters, Gaotona is willing to use Forgery because he wants the man he loved as a son back. Gaotona realizes that, despite their best efforts, they've all underestimated Shai and her ability with people.[6]
On day seventy-six, Gaotona decides to bring Shai's Essence Marks to her room to talk to her about them. When he arrives, Gaotona finds Shai stamping the wall to paint it with intricate patterns and designs. Gaotona observes that Shai had the skills to paint the walls herself and wonders again why Shai would choose to Forge it instead. Gaotona asks about the five Essence Marks, and Shai tells him the truth about her escape plan if she ever wanted to leave the life of a Forger. Shai also tells him the truth about ShuXen hiring her to destroy his own painting. While Gaotona does not agree with Shai, he understands her perspective. He also sees the potential in soulstamps to bring awareness of other people's perspectives to people.[7]
When Gaotona learned that Shai had broken out of her room, he immediately went for Ashravan's rooms, bringing Shai's Essence Marks with him. Gaotona returns them to her, keeping up the arbiters' end of the deal. Gaotona realizes that Shai manipulated him, but is unsure how. Shai tells him it was the hardest way possible, by being genuine. Shai gives him a book containing the truth and he tells her to leave, before Weedfingers catches her. Fearful of what he'll find, Gaotona enters Ashravan's room. Gaotona is amazed at the similarity between what Shai created and the original Ashravan.[1] When Gaotona read the copy of the book Shai had left him, he discoveredd it was a copy of Ashravan's soulstamp. Shai had written an explanation of the modifications she'd made that would, slowly, lead to Ashravan becoming a better man. Overcome by the beauty of the art Shai had reated in her work, Gaotona realized the only way the modifications would work is if no one knows about them. He burns the book.[8]
Attributes and Abilities[edit]
Gaotona has extensively studied art, to the point that he can recognize the styles of the Vivare dynasty or Chamrav at a glance.[9] While he is not an expert on technique, he has enough knowledge of painting to examine how a painting was done.[2] During Shai's captivity, Gaotona studies how soulstamps are made. He can understand and read specific symbols that go into the soulstamps, including a symbol denoting time.[6] Gaotona considers himself to have only faint knowledge in the area,[8] but he is able to decipher the purposes of Shai's five Essence Marks himself.[7] Politically, Gaotona holds power as one of the five arbiters of the Heritage Faction appointed by Emperor Ashravan. Despite being less influential due to falling out of favor with the emperor, Gaotona is still one of the next five most powerful people in the Rose Empire.[3] Particularly when Ashravan is injured, Gaotona is in charge of the emperor's security.[9]
Ashravan[edit]
“ You loved him as a son—the youth that you mentored, the emperor you always believed in, even when he didn’t believe in himself. ”
— Shai's description of Gaotona's feelings towards Ashravan[6]
Gaotona loves Ashravan and views him as a son. He was Ashravan's mentor and always believed in and viewed the best in him, such as encouraging Ashravan to become emperor. Ashravan felt shame and disappointment for not living up to what Gaotona believed of him.[6] Because of this, Ashravan began to resent Gaotona and slowly pushed him further away, until he was almost willing to have Gaotona replaced as arbiter.[8] When Ashravan was braindead, Gaotona was the one who missed him as a person, rather than as emperor. Gaotona was unaware of Ashravan's resentment towards him until Shai showed him with a soulstamp.[6]
The Emperor's Soul by User: Botanicaxu
Shai[edit]
Initially, Gaotona has a strong dislike towards Shai becuase of her status as a theif and a Forger. Seeing her artistic talents, he believes that she has wasted her life and feels disappointment that she is not creating her own art. The two have disagreements over Shai's actions, particularly Shai's burning of ShuXen's painting.[5] By being genuine, Shai allows Gaotona to understand her perspective on art and her actions. While Gaotona claims to not be on her side, he does not want her dead and aids in her escape. Gaotona left enough of an impact on Shai for her to write him into her final Essence Mark as a kindly grandfather.[1] She comes to trust him enough to leave her book about Ashravan's soul with him. Similarly, Shai managed to change Gaotona's view on art enough that he was willing to burn her book, which he viewed as a masterpiece.[8]
Frava[edit]
Frava and Gaotona have an extremely antagonistic relationship. While they work together as arbiters of the Heritage Faction, they almost never agree on any course of action to take.[2] Frava views him as an obstacle because he is the only arbiter willing to go against her, and she wants to remove him from his station for it. Frava misunderstands Gaotona's sincerity, instead believing it to be naiveté. She tries to use his perceived foolishness to her political advantage whenever possible.[8]
↑ a b c d The Emperor's Soul - Day 98 #
↑ a b c d e f The Emperor's Soul Prologue #
↑ a b c d e The Emperor's Soul - Day 2 #
↑ a b c d e f The Emperor's Soul - Day 30 #
↑ a b c d e f g The Emperor's Soul - Day 70 #
↑ a b c The Emperor's Soul - Day 76 #
↑ a b c d e f The Emperor's Soul Epilogue #
↑ The Emperor's Soul - Day 17 #
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Letter from Walter Schuckman to Frank Loeb, 7 July 1945
Loeb Family Collection
Documents, Letters, Newsclippings, and Photographs
Box 1, circa 1890-1987
Loeb Family Documents, 1945-1946
This is a letter written by Walter Schuckman to Frank Loeb, written on July 7, 1945 at the Choir House in the Dean's Court in London. In the letter, he mentions people that have asked about Frank and mentions some by name, such as the Minters. Walter says that it was because of the Minters' cousin, W.K.S. Minter, that he (Walter) "got out of the Nazi-hands without harm." He updates Frank about the Minter family and some other mutual acquaintances and says that he stayed with several people, including the Minters, once he got back from the war. He then updates Frank about the state of London since the war and describes the destruction. He says "On the whole, I think you would be shocked if you saw London now. It looks rather shaken. But when you got used to the looks you find that it is really still very much the same. Only, I think, on the whole people have become a little more kind to one another. I am glad to be back, anyway. All the best. Yours as ever, Walther."
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Facebook’s Data Breach & Your personal information online
By Kirsten Manners | Wednesday, April 18, 2018
The Facebook data breach has been in the news recently and has many people worried about their privacy on Facebook or contemplating deleting Facebook altogether. But does the Facebook breach actually impact your online privacy?
What was the data breach?
Firstly, the breach didn’t have anything to do with privacy. The breach involved Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics company, who worked for the Trump campaign exploiting loopholes left open by Facebook to harvest user data and run misleading ads. They didn’t hack Facebook’s database. You can read more about the Cambridge Analytica breach here.
The concept of swapping service for data as a commercial arrangement is how Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat all work. As put by Michael Goldthorpe managing partner at Hunch, “If the product is free, you’re the product.”
Everyday people are targeted online due to their searching habits, age demographics and interests. Most people usually don’t care about the use of their data but feel deceived when it comes to third-party use of their information.
Were Kiwi’s affected?
An estimated 64,000 New Zealand Facebook users’ data was compromised. The data shared with Cambridge Analytica was taken via a personality quiz, called “ThisIsYourDigitalLife”. Apparently approximately 10 people in New Zealand downloaded the app which in turn possibly impacts thousands of their friend’s accounts.
Facebook has said they would be letting people know if their data had been accessed by Cambridge Analytica.
What has changed on Facebook as a result?
Facebook ad targeting options for certain custom audiences will not show the audience size any longer. However, you can still look in your own search data for this information.
Data from partners like Experian will be removed from the Facebook ad targeting options in the coming months. If you were using this business data unfortunately it will be gone.
Apps using APIs will now require Facebook approval.
Facebook will be removing all Android call and SMS data older than one year.
Some things will not change at all and one of those is Facebook’s huge audience and the targeting options available based on Facebooks user information. Facebook advertising is and will remain one of the best ways businesses can target interested customers.
What should you do if you’re concerned about your personal information online?
Anyone concerned about the security of their personal information on Facebook should take their own steps to protect themselves.
Our privacy on Facebook was not affected by the data breach but reviewing the online habits you have developed is a good idea. People often forget or perhaps don’t realise how easily they are submitting personal information online from downloading a ‘free’ PDF or entering their details to win a competition. Checking your privacy settings and unlinking any questionable third-party apps is a good place to start. This online privacy quiz is useful to see how secure your personal information on the internet is and follow the simple steps to improve your privacy.
Author: Kirsten Manners
Kirsten’s first visit to New Zealand was a permanent move, so most of her spare time is spent exploring the local sights of Rotorua and everything New Zealand has to offer.
Word of Mouth is the most believable, cost-effective form of advertising, and can be a key contributor to the success, or downfall, of your business.
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Unauthorized Dylan Facebook page removed
Attorneys send cease-and-desist letter to woman behind online site
By Jordyn Dahl Social Media Reporter
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 5:01 PM
Updated: Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 4:09 PM
A Facebook page created for missing 13-year-old Dylan Redwine has been deleted after Dylans mother, Elaine Redwine, requested the administrator remove it.
The Missing Dylan Redwine CMCF page has been deleted, and Elaine Redwine says she asked the administrator, Kimberly Kay Bowman, to delete it Wednesday night because she didnt think the posts were appropriate.
Posts were being posted that we didnt feel was in the appropriate way to helping us find Dylan, Elaine Redwine said. There was speculation that I didnt think was necessary.
The Bayfield community has been relying on the Find Missing Dylan Redwine Facebook page created by Redwine family friend Denise Hess for information about the case and events held for Dylan.
Bowman was accused of collecting money for merchandise related to the Jessica Ridgeway search despite protests from the Ridgeway family, 9News reported.
The 10-year-old Westminster girl went missing Oct. 5, and her body was found five days later. A 17-year-old has been arrested for the murder of Ridgeway and is currently facing charges.
Attorneys sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bowman and the nonprofit she created, Colorados Missing Children Foundation.
Bowman could not be reached for comment.
The La Plata County Sheriffs Office reported earlier this week that a scam artist identifying himself as Abass Gadafi is demanding a ransom on Facebook with the money being sent to an address in the United Kingdom through Western Union.
A cash award for information leading to the recovery of Dylan through Crime Stoppers has increased from $6,000 to $11,000.
Authorities have no new information to release about Dylans disappearance, La Plata County Sheriffs Office Spokesman Dan Bender said.
jdahl@durangoherald.com
Dylan Redwine's remains found
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LIBER launches Digital Humanities Working Group
Post date: 28 February 2017
To facilitate existing activities and to encourage interested libraries to engage with this growing group of scholars, LIBER has set up a Digital Humanities Working Group and is now looking for members.
New open access book: towards oral histories of Digital Humanities
A new book by Julianne Nyhan and Andrew Flinn, entitled Computation and the Humanities: towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities is now out and freely available under an open access license.
Register for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
Registration for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School is now open.
Radboud Digital Humanities Spring School 2017
This spring school offers courses into several widely-used techniques and tools in Digital Humanities and will take place on 29-31 March 2017 at Radboud University, the Netherlands.
Digital Classicist London 2017 CFP
The Digital Classicist London seminar invites proposals with a focus on the needs of users/readers, for the summer 2017 season, which will run on Friday afternoons in June and July in the Institute of ClassicalStudies, Senate House, London.
The Programming Historian is Seeking a Subject Specialist Editor
The Programming Historian is seeking an editor to work actively to solicit and edit lessons in a specific area or areas within the digital humanities. These lessons will focus on the analysis and interpretation phase of the research process, helping readers to move from digital data to publishable research.
ToC: RIDE, issue #5
RIDE is a review journal dedicated to digital editions and resources. RIDE aims to direct attention to digital editions and to provide a forum in which expert peers criticise and discuss the efforts of digital editors in order to improve current practices and advance future developments.
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@ReneLaVice
REAL NAME: René LaVice
LABELS: Machinist Music RAM Records
A DJ, producer and film maker, Rene LaVice is a consummate artist, embracing creativity wherever he finds it and channelling his inspirations into five and a half minute pieces of brilliance. While to many he may be a new name Rene LaVice is without doubt one of the hottest drum & bass producers in the North American scene, having already amassed an impressive catalogue of music that has caught the attentions of BBC luminaries such as Nick Grimshaw, Crissy Criss and Bailey, as well as D&B figurehead and multi-award-winning DJ Andy C.
Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Rene LaVice made his drum & bass debut in 2009 on Canadian label Stride Recordings. Infused with four tracks of early LaVice magic, ‘The Future’ EP promised great things, while subsequent singles, collaborations and remixes delivered on those promises and gained attention from record labels across North America and Europe.His work with veteran producer and fellow Canadian Gremlinz led to remix work on Bad Concept Records and New World Ordio and a release on DSCi4’s ‘Amen Warfare’ LP. This was swiftly followed by more local attention as another of Canada’s biggest exports, John Rolodex, took notice of Rene’s talent and recruited the budding newcomer as a key member and intricate part of his Machinist Music imprint.
As the buzz and hype about this exciting producer began to grow, tastemaker DJs began to regularly support Rene LaVice’s tracks in their sets. From DJ Marky and Sub Focus to Total Science, A Sides, Sigma and TC, the 175bpm elite began to push LaVice’s music and none so hard as Ram Records boss Andy C.
Rene LaVice’s Ram Records debut, ‘Headlock,’ was released on the ‘Dimensions 5’ EP, part of a series that showcases not only Ram’s commitment to diversity, but also to the freshest talent around. Lauded by the likes of Nick Grimshaw on BBC Radio 1, ‘Headlock’ is a defining moment in LaVice’s musical career. A track that insists you take notice, simultaneously packed with subtle references to the golden era of drum & bass while sprinkled liberally with a fresh and exciting outlook on the music we all know and love.
Following the huge success of ‘Headlock,’ Ram Records offered Rene LaVice an exclusive recording contract which will see the young producer catapulted to the highest echelons of the D&B world. While the scene waits with baited breath for his follow up, you can be assured that this impressive and forward-thinking artist will not disappoint.
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Last Male Born: Revenge by Roberto DiVincenzo is joining the "100 Trees Project"!
Have you have considered a revenge attack on an individual or a group? Well, Roberto DiVincenzo did. He is actually consumed with hatred for the South Philly mob for what they did to his family. He wants revenge and he gets it in the most unorthodox way. It's all part of his new book 'Last Male Born: Revenge', published by Infinity Publishing. And the news is that this great book has just joined the "100 Trees Project"!
This joint program was launched by Infinity Publishing, a leading self-publishing company together with Eco-Libris to promote environmental sustainability among its authors. Through the program, authors that publish with Infinity are able to plant 100 trees for the title they publish. These authors also have the option to add a special "100 trees planted for this book" logo to their book's design, as a way to showcase their commitment to environmental sustainability.
What's this book is about?
The only cure for hatred is revenge. In this third installment of his trilogy, Robert DiVincenzo finally exacts his revenge on the South Philly mob. He concocts an ingenious plan that appeals to their intrinsic greed. He doesn’t need thugs or guns to bring then down. His unorthodox weapon of choice is the computer room of a bank run by a corrupt bank president. In this fast paced story, he plays on the mob mentality of distrust to settle the score for the wrongs inflicted on him and his family. Along the way he manages to make amends for other innocent victims whose lives were shattered by the mob and the bank president.
About the author: Roberto DiVincenzo was a kid that grew up on the tough streets of south Philadelphia in the 1940’s and 50’s. Although the world was perhaps a more innocent place at that time, it was Philadelphia’s equivalent of “hells kitchen.” As a young boy Roberto excelled in football, basketball, baseball, drawing and his love of singing.
As he grew into a young adult the street took a shot him. Aside from south Philly girls, the lure of a fast buck through indoctrination with organized crime was perhaps one of the greatest temptations facing a young man in his shoes.
But somehow there were stronger principles in his make up that led him down a very different path than those of his “wise guy” contemporaries so abundant and over sensationalized. Although not many viable opportunities where available to him, Roberto made a self inspired endeavor to advance his education. He ended up on the cutting edge of something called “machine accounting” technology. This was the precursor to what we know today as modern computing.
During the Korean War Roberto was in the United State Marine Corps where his stamina, skills and intellect were challenged and put to thorough use. After the war Roberto along with his young wife founded and operated a business school. Their mission was teaching the intrinsic design and practical application of IBM equipment in the business world of the early 1960’s. This evolved into Computer Programming, System Analysis and his tenure as manager who developed ground breaking commercial computer systems for a corporate giant.
Roberto, still married to the same wonderful woman, has enjoyed sharing the parenting of four children, all of who are now adults with diverse careers. The children possess many of Roberto’s principled beliefs and practices as accomplished adults. In fact in some ways, Roberto reflects some old world principles himself. He believes in honesty, knowing his ancestry and social origins, close family ties and the ongoing education of his offspring and the family’s generations to come. After all, I should know, ... I’m his First Male Born.
Last Male Born: Revenge is available for sale on Infinity's website.
Other books on the "100 Trees Project":
My Name is Grace
The Last Original Idea: A Cynic's View to Internet Marketing by Alan K'necht and Geri Rockstein
Buffalo on the Ridge by Deanna Meyer
What Love Is...A-Z by by Elle Febbo
Raven Wings and 13 More Twisted Tales
Ishift- Innovation Shift
Good Management is Not Firefighting
Play on Words
This is Your Brain on God
DRIVEN! Remembrance, Reflection, & Revelation
X-POSED: The Painful Truth Behind Yoga & Pilates
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Free webcast - Digital Textbooks: Innovations from the Academic Business Model
I wanted to share with you an update I received on an interesting free webcast entitled Digital Textbooks: Innovations From the Academic Business Model that will take place next Tuesday. It is presented by Digital Book World and Publishers Weekly and sponsored by Aptara. You can register here.
In the trade, the digital transition has upended the marketplace, changing the entire publishing process. In academic publishing, the challenges of digital are no less seismic. Factors like piracy, a growing secondary market, and an environment that demands greater customization and speed to market present real tests to academic publishers. There are also great opportunities: ebooks, enhanced and otherwise, offer academic publishers a chance to make textbooks more relevant to students and potentially increase adoption rates. In this free WEBcast, Digital Textbooks: Innovations From the Academic Business Model, academic and trade publishers can learn from the lessons of big and small innovators at the forefront of digital.
We'll talk to start-ups and large publishers to find out how digital innovation has reshaped the academic marketplace.
Join us on Tuesday, August 9th at 1PM ET / 10 AM PT for this free WEBcast presented in partnership with Publishers Weekly and sponsored by Aptara.
New business models for selling content to educators and students by the chapter and by the format.
What "open textbooks," or free online versions of course material, have done to curb attrition rates of textbook purchases by semester.
How academic enhanced ebooks have added video, audio, and interactive features that go beyond bells-and-whistles publishing and improve the learning experience.
This WEBcast will primarily appeal to publishers in both academic and trade who are interested in new ways of selling and delivering content.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Matt MacInnis
Raised in rural Nova Scotia, Matt attended Harvard University where he earned a degree in Computer Engineering and Chinese Language. He moved to California and pursued an eight-year career at Apple where he managed the company's international expansion into international education markets. During that time, Matt saw a lot of misuse of technology in the classroom, and in 2009 his frustration drove him to start Inkling. With a vision for reinventing the textbook, Matt has led Inkling into partnerships with the world's largest publishers, building engaging, interactive learning content from the ground up for iPad. Both Matt and Inkling are based in San Francisco, CA.
Eric brings an 11 year track record of success in higher education publishing to Flat World Knowledge, an eTextbook customization firm. He has held positions in sales, editorial, and marketing at Thomson and Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. Recently, Eric was Director of Marketing for Prentice Hall Business Publishing, a division with annual sales in the hundreds of millions. There, he managed a team of marketing managers and marketing communications staff, and had overall responsibility for strategy, budget, staffing and execution. Eric's group had dotted line responsibility for training and supporting over 160 sales representatives.
Apatra provides digital publishing solutions that deliver significant gains in quality, time-to-market and production costs for eBook publishers. Having converted tens of millions of pages to eBook formats for the world's leading publishers, Aptara offers end-to-end solutions across all content source types and delivery media, including the Amazon Kindle, Apple iPhone, Sony Reader, and Blackberry devices. With partnerships that span the entire production and distribution supply-chain, including relationships with mobile channel partners, Aptara helps publishers stay ahead in this rapidly changing market space.
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Ages 6 to 10 years
2019-06-29 11:00:00 2019-06-29 12:00:00 America/New_York 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Lift Off! Chamblee Library
Add to Calendar 2019-06-29 11:00:00 2019-06-29 12:00:00 America/New_York 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Lift Off! Stories, activities, and crafts. We will create our very own Chamblee Planetarium. Chamblee Library
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Stories, activities, and crafts. We will create our very own Chamblee Planetarium.
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Mon, Jul 15 10:00AM to 8:00PM
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Fri, Jul 19 10:00AM to 5:00PM
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Funding for some events at this branch provided in part by the Friends of the Chamblee Library.
All DeKalb County Public Library branches offer books for all ages including adult learning materials, audiobooks, music CDs, DVDs, current newspapers and magazines. All branches also offer access to computers, internet, WiFi, MS Office, and research databases. For a more comprehensive list of all services available at this branch, please visit the Chamblee Library page.
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Toddler Time - Ages 18 to 36 months
Building Blocks - Ages 0 to 24 months
Mumferd Learns to Exercise - Ages 3 to 7 years
Chamblee Writers Group
Reach for the Stars: Ventriloquist Marc Griffiths - Family (All Ages)
DeKalb Knit and Crochet Group
Todd Key's Flying Debris Show - Family (All Ages)
Citizenship Application Assistance
To Mars and Back! - Ages 6 to 10 years
Laughter for Wellness
Citizenship Application Assistance Clinic
Gentlemen’s Jewelry Making Class
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Posted on November 22, 2013 November 25, 2013 by Moni Basu
Tejpal, Tehelka and scandal
Tarun Tejpal
Tarun Tejpal. Tehelka.
Maybe my friends here in America have never heard those names. But in India, they stand synonymous with investigative journalism.
Tehelka has lived up to its name, which means sensation in Hindi, since it entered the Indian media scene in 2000. Early on, the startup almost brought down the Indian government by exposing bribery in defense deals. Tehelka got the story by engineering a videotaped sting operation.
Several years later, in 2007, Tehelka dropped its biggest bomb when it exposed bloody riots in the state of Gujarat not as Hindu backlash but the state-sanctioned killing of Muslims under the state’s chief minister, Narendra Modi. Modi, by the way, is now a prime ministerial contender.
The magazine did not always employ orthodox methods of investigation and came under fire for stretching the limits of the law by using secret cameras and false identities. It defended itself by saying that uncovering the darker side of India would otherwise not be possible.
With Tehelka’s success, Tejpal, the magazine’s editor, skyrocketed to stardom. He was called the rock star of Indian journalism; someone who set a new bar for media standards in the subcontinent. Charismatic. Terribly smart. Curious.
Now, all of it hangs in the balance.
Tejpal admitted “misconduct” against a fellow journalist this week and stepped down from his post as editor-in-chief of Tehelka for six months to “atone” for his sins. The journalist, according to media reports, is alleging Tejpal sexually assaulted her.
“A bad lapse of judgment, an awful misreading of the situation, have led to an unfortunate incident that rails against all we believe in and fight for,” Tejpal said.
Some pointed out Tejpal’s language was inappropriate. It was almost as though he were writing about one of his fictional characters.
Tehelka’s managing editor, Shoma Chaudhary’s remarks didn’t go over well, either.
“There has been an untoward incident, and though he has extended an unconditional apology to the colleague involved, Tarun will be recusing himself as the editor of Tehelka for the next six months,” she said.
A statement from the Editors Guild of India said this: “There ought not to be any attempt to cover up or play down this extremely serious incident. Self-proclaimed atonement and recusal for a period are hardly the remedies for what the allegations show to be outright criminality.”
The Tehelka controversy has lit up Twitter and Facebook. That a media institution known for outing the worst of Indian society should be in the midst of a sexual abuse scandal is shocking to many. And Tejpal’s political enemies — he has many — have come out with sharpened knives. Arun Jaitley, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, accused Tejpal and Chaudhary of “a private treaty” in what he called an attempt to suppress “a clear case of rape.”
Whoa. Let’s give Tejpal his due. We don’t know yet what the truth is here; whether Tejpal is guilty of his accuser’s actions.
I hope that if he is innocent, he will be reinstated and allowed to carry on with his journalistic endeavors, even though I believe his name will now forever be tainted.
But more than anything, I hope there is a fair and exhaustive investigation of what happened. Often in India, that does not happen.
And I hope that Tehelka will help lead the way in that effort. That is what the magazine stands for, after all — to do the right thing.
The Tejpal story hit a nerve with me for a number of reasons — CNN.com just published a story I reported from India in which I revealed my own rape. Sexual assault happens in all sectors of society. I have never worked full-time for an Indian media institution but I know from friends who have that abuse is widespread.
Reading about Tejpal all over the Indian media today, I came across an interview he gave to CNN-IBN in 2007, after the stinging story about Modi.
“It’s never personal, I keep saying that,” Tejpal said. “It’s not even finally about him. The story is about an extremely dangerous and poisonous school of thinking that is part of the national blood stream now.”
In this case, it is personal. Deeply so for the woman who alleges the assault. But it’s also the latter part of what Tejpal said.
CategoriesIndia, Journalism, People, Women TagsIndia, Journalism, sexual assault, Tehelka, women
3 Replies to “Tejpal, Tehelka and scandal”
J. Clay Barcus says:
What a terrible tragedy on so many levels…for so many people…in the end ALL people ultimately could lose on this one with the interegity and quality of Stellar Indian Journalism being thrown into such turmoil and chaos. Very Sad!
Prashanth says:
Now everybody wants to give Tejpal his due!! But when his orgnaisation conducted what is called “Sting Operation” and aired it, did anybody say that “the people involved in the sting should be given their due? When the reputation of people are destroyed by sting operation without any verification of the true story, these people did not care a damn. Now they are so much concerned about the rights of the accused! This is a lesson to the sting savvy media.. let them not forget that they are not holier than the holy…!!!
twobitmatt says:
I think she is saying that ALL people are due that process of just verification and investigation before public crucifixion. And as you’ve demonstrated, there are always voices of dissent — that’s good! Good for you for speaking out. Direct your energy in a healthy way against corrupt institutions, not a brilliant journalist =p
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Through researching the advances in technology, coupled with the biological use of suitable animal models our understanding of embryological cardiac development has evolved, and we are piecing together the mechanism underlying this development <ref name="PMID1767747"/>. This page will outline the embryonic development of the heart, the importance of how abnormalities arise, the treatments available and possible treatments that may be available in the future. Due to the certain knowledge gaps in current embryological heart research, we acknowledge that this will impact our assignment, and aim to address further research concepts that will improve our understanding.
[[File:Basic anatomy of the heart.png|200px|thumb|right|'''Figure 1:''' Basic anatomy of the heart]]
==Anatomy of the Heart==
The heart is the muscular organs that pumps blood around the body via the circulatory system. It is located within the thoracic cavity, in a compartment called the mediastinum. The heart is divided into four chambers including: left and right atria and ventricles which are compartmentalised by semilunar and atrioventricular valves. Blood moves via the systemic circuit to the organs of the body and back to the heart. The pulmonary circuit is responsible for the flow of blood between the lungs and the heart. Deoxygenated blood enters the right side of the heart, while oxygenated blood returning from the lungs exits the left side. The heart’s electrical system uses electrical signals to cause the muscular walls to contract. The mechanical pumping of the heart is essential for movement of blood which exchanges gases and essential nutrients between organs of the body. <ref><pubmed> PMC1571338 </pubmed></ref>.
==Developmental Origin==
[[File:Pericardial Development 4-6 Gestation weeks .jpg|250px|thumb|right|'''Figure 2: '''Pericardial Development 4-6 Gestation weeks ]]
In the developing embryo the lateral plate mesoderm splits into somatic and splanchnic layers, the latter is comprised of cardiac progenitor cells. The somatic mesoderm lines the ectoderm, the splanchnic mesoderm lines the endoderm, and in between lies an embryonic coelom <ref><pubmed> PMC2691808 </pubmed></ref> . At the end of week three, the heart develops from splanchnic mesoderm of the cardiogenic region of the embryonic plate. At the cranial end of the embryo, anterior to the developing neural tube is the initial origin of heart formation.
Originally, the cardiogenic region forms laterally of the paraxial mesoderm and primitive streak of the embryonic disc. Due to the natural mesenchymal cell organisation of the mesoderm, cells ‘migrate’ and fuse at the midline of the cranial end of the embryo forming the cardiac crescent just prior cardiac tube formation and folding. Endoderm surrounding the primitive gut contracts bringing the cardiogenic precursor regions of the splanchnic region towards the midline. Early heart formation begins with angioblastic cords of the splanchnic mesoderm. The angioblastic cords develop into separate endochondral heart tubes moving closer together as the foregut pinches together and the yolk sac contracts into the embryo. Fusion of the two heart tubes is facilitated by apoptosis. The origin of the primitive heart is in the early pericardial coelom, which is later developed into the pericardial cavity, through fusion of the pleuropericardial folds to separate the pleural cavities at the later development of the lungs <ref><pubmed> PMC4374196 </pubmed></ref>.
==Developmental Timeline==
The lateral plate mesoderm is split into two layers, namely the splanchnic mesoderm, facing the endoderm and the somatic mesoderm, facing the ectoderm. The former portion of the mesoderm gives rise to the heart. The portion between the splanchnic and somatic mesoderm is the presumptive pericardial space. Cells from the splanchnic mesoderm will merge to form 2 lateral endocardial tubes (also known as angioblastic cords) and as they form a lumen, are enveloped by myocardium. These endocardial tubes are as of now located inferior to the presumptive pericardial space. <ref name="PMID1767747"/>
====Heart Tube Formation====
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The video above depicts the folding and fusion of Heart tubes taken from [https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Advanced_-_Heart_Tubes]
====Secondary Heart Field ====
The SHF cells gives rise to endocardial, myocardial and smooth muscle cells through expression of transcription factor Islet -1 <ref>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875213613002817 </ref>. It also contributes to the right ventricle, inflow and outflow tract (OFT), and the arteries and semilunar valves that meet to form the arterial pole of the heart.<ref name="PMID2794420"/> The OFT is the point of exit from the heart via structures of early cardiac development that give rise the essential structures of the aorta and pulmonary artery. The SHF of the developing heart and its contribution the arterial pole involves complex and interconnected signalling pathways that will be covered later in further detail.
[[File:Cardiac Development Overview .jpg|500px|thumb|right|'''Figure 5:''' Cardiac Development Overview]]
====Cardiac Looping and Steps====
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The video above depicts Cardiac Looping taken from [https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Intermediate_-_Heart_Tube_Looping]
====Cardiac Septation====
===Wnt signalling===
According to the primary mode of action, Wnt signalling pathways have been divided into two major classes, canonical and non-canonical Wnt signalling pathways. Both of the pathways have a role in different stages of cardiac development which could be overlapping or independent of each other. The canonical Wnt signalling pathway involves β-catenin and is activated by a number of ligands such as Wnt-1, Wnt-2, Wnt-3A, Wnt-8A, Wnt-8B, Wnt-8C, Wnt-10A, and Wnt-10B. However, the non-canonical signalling pathway is associated with planar cell polarity and Wnt/Ca2+ pathways that are activated by different ligands such as Wnt4, Wnt5A, Wnt5B, Wnt6, Wnt7A, Wnt7B, and Wnt11 <ref><pubmed>25813860</pubmed></ref>.
[[File:Wnt signalling pathways.png|500px||thumb|none|'''Figure 10: ''' Wnt signalling pathways - Student Image]]
===FGF signalling===
===Transforming growth factor-β===
Transforming growth factor-β superfamily involves a large number of growth factors that are structurally related. These growth factors, including Nodal or its mimic Activin, bone morphogenic protein (BMP) and growth and differentiation factors, signal through SMAD-dependent and SMAD-independent pathways <ref><pubmed>18290874</pubmed></ref>.
Transforming growth factor-β superfamily involves a large number of growth factors that are structurally related. These growth factors, including Nodal or its mimic Activin, bone morphogenic protein (BMP) and growth and differentiation factors, signal through SMAD-dependent and SMAD-independent pathways <ref><pubmed>18290874</pubmed></ref>. SMAD-dependent pathway involves the activation of SMAD proteins upon TGF-β binding to its receptor followed by SMAD transfer into the nucleus regulating gene transcription <ref><pubmed>14534577</pubmed></ref>.
Nodal and its mimic Activin act through SMAD-2 and -3 to activate transcription. During embryo development, epiblast cells produce high levels of Nodal growth factors leading to a gradient of nodal in these cells. This gradient is important for mesoderm patterning (left-right asymmetric heart development) and lineage specification. For this reason, this gradient is maintained by Nodal antagonist secreted from the anterior visceral endoderm or by BMP-4 and Wnt-3 feedback loop in the extraembryonic tissues (Fig.11) <ref><pubmed>25813860</pubmed></ref>.
Nodal and its mimic Activin act through SMAD-2 and -3 to activate transcription. During embryo development, epiblast cells produce high levels of Nodal growth factors leading to a gradient of nodal in these cells. This gradient is important for mesoderm patterning (left-right asymmetric heart development) and lineage specification. For this reason, this gradient is maintained by Nodal antagonist secreted from the anterior visceral endoderm or by BMP-4 and Wnt-3 feedback loop in the extraembryonic tissues (Fig.11) <ref><pubmed>25813860</pubmed></ref>
Nodal/Activin’s important role in heart formation is demonstrated by animal models. Presence of Activin in amphibian embryo lead to activation of heart formation whereas the absence of Nodal co-receptor ,called Cripto, in mouse embryo resulted in failure of ES cells differentiation into cardiomyocytes <ref><pubmed>20830688</pubmed></ref>. Also, knocking out copies of SMAD-2 alone or both SMAD-2 ND -3 result in inappropriate specification of axial mesoderm <ref><pubmed>12842913</pubmed></ref>.
[[File:Regulation of Nodal-Activin signalling during heart formation.png|500px||thumb|none|'''Figure 11: ''' Regulation of Nodal-Activin signalling during heart formation]]
===The Notch pathway===
===Retinoic Acid===
[[File:Retinoic Acid activation pathway.png|400px|thumb|right|'''Figure 12:''' Retinoic Acid activation pathway - Student Image]]
Retinoic acid (RA), a derivative of vitamin A, has been shown to play an important role in vertebrate embryogenesis especially heart formation. RA mediates its action by binding to two families of nuclear receptors, that is the RA and the retinoid receptors (RARs and RXRs). This binding allows RA to directly regulate gene transcription. The expression of at least one of the receptor types by almost all embryonic tissues gives these tissues responsiveness to RA. Signaling of RA is regulated by enzyme that either produce or inactivate retinoids (Fig. 12) <ref><pubmed>25813860</pubmed></ref>.
At early stages, RA signaling is suggested to regulate progenitor size in that increasing RA concentrations leads to reduced heart populations in chicken and zebrafish embryos, whereas micromolecular concentrations lead to no heart formation. This regulation is though to happen by RA’s direct action on Hox gene family members such as Hoxa1 transcription factor. These transcription factors have enhancer containing RA response element (RARE). Thus, a reduction or an increase in RA signaling affects the contribution of Hoxa1-; Hoxa3- and Hoxb1-expressing progenitor cells to the heart<ref name="PMID28007475><pubmed>28007475</pubmed></ref>. At later stages of heart development, RA is involved in establishing the second heart field which forms atrial cells. Also, RA contributes to the proliferation of ventricular cells. In addition, RA has the potential to stimulate cellular differentiation of atrial and ventricular myocytes from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). This capacity of RA has been exploited in regenerative medicine to promote atrial specification <ref><pubmed>25700171</pubmed></ref>.
At early stages, RA signaling is suggested to regulate progenitor size in that increasing RA concentrations leads to reduced heart populations in chicken and zebrafish embryos, whereas micromolecular concentrations lead to no heart formation. This regulation is though to happen by RA’s direct action on Hox gene family members such as Hoxa1 transcription factor. These transcription factors have enhancer containing RA response element (RARE). Thus, a reduction or an increase in RA signaling affects the contribution of Hoxa1-; Hoxa3- and Hoxb1-expressing progenitor cells to the heart<ref><pubmed>28007475</pubmed></ref>. At later stages of heart development, RA is involved in establishing the second heart field which forms atrial cells. Also, RA contributes to the proliferation of ventricular cells. In addition, RA has the potential to stimulate cellular differentiation of atrial and ventricular myocytes from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). This capacity of RA has been exploited in regenerative medicine to promote atrial specification <ref><pubmed>25700171</pubmed></ref>.
Embryo obtains vitamin A from maternal delivery of retinol via transplacental transfer. This transfer of Vitamin A is essential for fetal growth and development and any deficiency can lead to severe congenital defects. In fact, the high prevalence of heart malformation in developing countries can be partly explained by vitamin A insufficiency. Conversely, elevated levels of vitamin A during pregnancy have a toxic effect on organogenesis including heart development. Treatment with RA in rodents was one of the earliest teratogenic models of heart defects <ref name="PMID28007475"/>.
Embryo obtains vitamin A from maternal delivery of retinol via transplacental transfer. This transfer of Vitamin A is essential for fetal growth and development and any deficiency can lead to severe congenital defects. In fact, the high prevalence of heart malformation in developing countries can be partly explained by vitamin A insufficiency. Conversely, elevated levels of vitamin A during pregnancy have a toxic effect on organogenesis including heart development. Treatment with RA in rodents was one of the earliest teratogenic models of heart defects <ref><pubmed>28007475</pubmed></ref>.
===Sonic Hedgehog===
The Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling pathway is one of the major trafficking networks that is responsible for regulating the key events involved in the developmental processes. The regulatory action of Shh signaling pathway is linked to the secretion, uptake and translocation of ‘Shh protein’ an important Hedgehog ligand precursor. Activation of Shh signal requires the binding of Shh to the Ptc mediate Smoothened (Smo) (Ptc-smo) receptor complex as well as induction of downstream signaling cascade <ref><pubmed>25206052</pubmed></ref>.
[[File:The Sonic Hedghehog (Shh) signalling pathway.png|400px|thumb|none|'''Figure 13:''' Sonic Hedghehog (Shh) signalling pathway]]
==Current Research And Findings==
===Dietary supplementation of NAD in prevention of miscarriages and birth defects===
Sydney’s Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute is the centre point of research to prevent recurrent miscarriages and multiple types of birth defects of the heart, spinel, kidney and cleft palate in newborn babies.
Sydney’s Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute is the centre point of research to prevent recurrent miscarriages and multiple types of birth defects of the heart, spine, kidney and cleft palate in newborn babies.
Scientists have demonstrated a potential cure, in the form of a common dietary supplement. The research study found that a deficiency in a vital molecule, known as NAD, can prevent a baby’s organs from developing correctly in the womb.
===Chick Model===
Initial stages of cardiac looping involve the formation of a c-shaped tube that is curved towards the right side of the embryo. This c-shaped tube is formed as a result of ventral bending and rightward rotation. The genetic and molecular pathways involved in this process of cardiac looping have been well understand but the role mechanical forces play in this process remains poorly understood. This study on chick embryos <ref><pubmed>15282152</pubmed></ref> show that bending and rotation are mediated by different sets of forces. While bending is controlled by intrinsic forces to the heart, rotation into a c-shaped tube is driven by external forces exerted mainly by a membrane pushing against the heart tube called splanchnopleure (SPL). Also, some of these forces come from omphalomesenteric veins (OVs) which plays a role in the directionality of left-right looping. These results were obtained from analysis of tissue stress and strain using dissection and fluorescent labelling respectively after subjecting the embryos to mechanical perturbations.
Initial stages of cardiac looping involve the formation of a c-shaped tube that is curved towards the right side of the embryo. This c-shaped tube is formed as a result of ventral bending and rightward rotation. The genetic and molecular pathways involved in this process of cardiac looping have been well understand but the role mechanical forces play in this process remains poorly understood. This study on chick embryos <ref><pubmed>15282152</pubmed></ref> shows that bending and rotation are mediated by different sets of forces. While bending is controlled by intrinsic forces to the heart, rotation into a c-shaped tube is driven by external forces exerted mainly by a membrane pushing against the heart tube called splanchnopleure (SPL). Also, some of these forces come from omphalomesenteric veins (OVs) which plays a role in the directionality of left-right looping. These results were obtained from analysis of tissue stress and strain using dissection and fluorescent labelling respectively after subjecting the embryos to mechanical perturbations.
Other research into chick models reveals that cardiac progenitors of the splanchnic mesoderm, cardiac neural crest and the proepicardium are the major embryonic contributors to the development of the chick heart. The contribution of these components to cardiac development occurs with precise timing and regulation during such processes as primary heart tube fusion, cardiac looping and accretion, cardiac septation and the development of the coronary vasculature. In addition to these findings, chick models revealed that one role of the anterior endoderm is to create a “cardiac field” in the overlying anterior mesoderm, and that other events will restrict this cardiac field to the region of the embryo that will become the heart later in development.<ref><pubmed> 15986452</pubmed></ref>
Other research into chick models reveals that cardiac progenitors of the splanchnic mesoderm, cardiac neural crest and the proepicardium are the major embryonic contributors to the development of the chick heart. The contribution of these components to cardiac development occurs with precise timing and regulation during such processes as primary heart tube fusion, cardiac looping and accretion, cardiac septation and the development of the coronary vasculature. In addition to these findings, chick models revealed that one role of the anterior endoderm is to create a “cardiac field” in the overlying anterior mesoderm, and that other events will restrict this cardiac field to the region of the embryo that will become the heart later in development <ref><pubmed> 15986452</pubmed></ref>.
===Xenopus Model===
| Group of progenitor cells that forms near the venous pole of the heart gives rise to the epicardium
|''' Septum transversium '''
| Forms from an aggregation of mesenchyme tissue that develops within the caudal part of ventral mesentery of the foregut. It is developed at day 22 in humans.
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|''' Sinus venosus'''
| An early developmental cardiovascular structure, thin walled cavity, forming the input to developing heart which has 3 venous inputs (vitelline vein, umbilical vein, common cardinal vein). Later in heart development this structure gets incorporated into the wall of the future right atrium.
|''' Subepicardium'''
| Situated or occurring beneath the epicardium or between the epicardium and myocardium.
|'''Truncus arteriosus'''
|'''Western Blotting'''
|An important technique used in cell and molecular biology. Researchers are able to identify specific proteins from a complex mixture of proteins extracted from cells with 3 techniques: (1) separation by size, (2) transfer to a solid support and (3) marking target protein using a proper primary and secondary antibody to visualise <ref name="PMID 3456489><pubmed> 3456489</pubmed></ref>
|An important technique used in cell and molecular biology. Researchers are able to identify specific proteins from a complex mixture of proteins extracted from cells with 3 techniques: (1) separation by size, (2) transfer to a solid support and (3) marking target protein using a proper primary and secondary antibody to visualise.
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1 Heart
1.2 Anatomy of the Heart
1.3 Developmental Origin
1.4 Developmental Timeline
1.4.1 Primary Heart Field
1.4.2 Heart Tube Formation
1.4.3 Secondary Heart Field
1.4.4 Cardiac Looping and Steps
1.4.5 Cardiac Septation
1.4.6 Cardiac Neural Crest and Outflow tract
1.4.7 Heart Valve Development
1.4.8 Proepicardium and Coronary Heart Development
1.5 Developmental Signalling Processes
1.5.1 Wnt signalling
1.5.2 FGF signalling
1.5.3 Transforming growth factor-β
1.5.4 The Notch pathway
1.5.5 Retinoic Acid
1.5.6 Sonic Hedgehog
1.6 Current Research And Findings
1.6.1 Increased regurgitant flow causes endocardial cushion defects in an avian embryonic model of congenital heart disease
1.6.2 CTCF counter-regulates cardiomyocyte development and maturation programs in the embryonic heart
1.6.3 Erbb2 Is Required for Cardiac Atrial Electrical Activity during Development
1.6.4 Dietary supplementation of NAD in prevention of miscarriages and birth defects
1.7 Animal Models
1.7.1 Mice Model
1.7.2 Zebrafish Model
1.7.3 Chick Model
1.7.4 Xenopus Model
1.8.1 Atrial Septal Defect
1.8.2 Atrioventricular Septal Defect
1.8.3 Ventricular Septal Defect
1.8.4 Persistent Truncus Arteriosus
1.8.5 Tetralogy of Fallot
1.8.6 Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
1.9 Cardiac Stem Cells
1.10 Future Questions
1.10.1 What is the aetiology of Tetralogy of Fallot?
1.10.2 Regulation of forces involved in cardiac looping
1.10.3 Signalling of the heart fields
1.10.4 Specific identification of cardiac precursors
1.10.5 Cardiac Regeneration
1.10.6 Role of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) in cardiac neural crest development and migration
1.11 Glossary of Terms
1.12 References
The cardiovascular system is the first system to develop and function in the human embryo. Rapid cardiac development is essential as the growing embryo can no longer receive oxygen and essential nutrients via diffusion alone, hence a circulatory system and a contractile heart mechanism is required to supply the embryo. We recognise the hearts normal development is vital for foetal life, and hence we have chosen to document the development of the heart from gastrulation to birth. Early cardiac development is a multifaceted procedure and is associated with other developmental processes such as: embryonic folding, coelom formation, and vascular development [1]. As a result, any defects occurring during the developmental periods can lead to congenital heart abnormalities.
Through researching the advances in technology, coupled with the biological use of suitable animal models our understanding of embryological cardiac development has evolved, and we are piecing together the mechanism underlying this development [2]. This page will outline the embryonic development of the heart, the importance of how abnormalities arise, the treatments available and possible treatments that may be available in the future. Due to the certain knowledge gaps in current embryological heart research, we acknowledge that this will impact our assignment, and aim to address further research concepts that will improve our understanding.
Figure 1: Basic anatomy of the heart
Anatomy of the Heart
The heart is the muscular organs that pumps blood around the body via the circulatory system. It is located within the thoracic cavity, in a compartment called the mediastinum. The heart is divided into four chambers including: left and right atria and ventricles which are compartmentalised by semilunar and atrioventricular valves. Blood moves via the systemic circuit to the organs of the body and back to the heart. The pulmonary circuit is responsible for the flow of blood between the lungs and the heart. Deoxygenated blood enters the right side of the heart, while oxygenated blood returning from the lungs exits the left side. The heart’s electrical system uses electrical signals to cause the muscular walls to contract. The mechanical pumping of the heart is essential for movement of blood which exchanges gases and essential nutrients between organs of the body. [3].
Developmental Origin
Figure 2: Pericardial Development 4-6 Gestation weeks
In the developing embryo the lateral plate mesoderm splits into somatic and splanchnic layers, the latter is comprised of cardiac progenitor cells. The somatic mesoderm lines the ectoderm, the splanchnic mesoderm lines the endoderm, and in between lies an embryonic coelom [4] . At the end of week three, the heart develops from splanchnic mesoderm of the cardiogenic region of the embryonic plate. At the cranial end of the embryo, anterior to the developing neural tube is the initial origin of heart formation.
Originally, the cardiogenic region forms laterally of the paraxial mesoderm and primitive streak of the embryonic disc. Due to the natural mesenchymal cell organisation of the mesoderm, cells ‘migrate’ and fuse at the midline of the cranial end of the embryo forming the cardiac crescent just prior cardiac tube formation and folding. Endoderm surrounding the primitive gut contracts bringing the cardiogenic precursor regions of the splanchnic region towards the midline. Early heart formation begins with angioblastic cords of the splanchnic mesoderm. The angioblastic cords develop into separate endochondral heart tubes moving closer together as the foregut pinches together and the yolk sac contracts into the embryo. Fusion of the two heart tubes is facilitated by apoptosis. The origin of the primitive heart is in the early pericardial coelom, which is later developed into the pericardial cavity, through fusion of the pleuropericardial folds to separate the pleural cavities at the later development of the lungs [5].
Developmental Timeline
HISTORIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISCOVERIES
2 Bilateral cardiogenic areas form In 157 AD Galen (born on 9 September AD 129 in Pergamon, Greece) discovered the pulmonary circulation.
3 Mesoderm splits, Heart tubes are brought to the midline, Heart tube fusion, Heart beat Realdo Columbo (1515–1559 discovered that the heart’s four valves permitted flow of blood in one direction only: from the right ventricle to the lungs, back to the left ventricle, and from there to the aorta.
4 Heart looping, Neural crest migration commences, Dorsal and ventral endocardial cushions fuse William Harvey (born 1 April 1578) while studying in London estimated:
the capacity of the heart was 43 g
about 6 g of blood went through the heart every time it pumped
the heart beats 1 000 times every half hour.
therefore, the heart pumps about 5 kg of blood in a half hour, or about 245 kg in a day
5 Foramen primum closed, Septum secundum srtats developing, Muscular interventricular septum develops, Bulbar ridges and trabeculation become evident Harvey proved blood flows in two separate loops: the pulmonary and systemic circulation [6].
6 Aortic and pulmonary trunks cleave The earliest study of the partitioning of the heart was conducted by cardiologist and anatomist Wilhelm His Jr (1863-1934) in 1886. Later in 1893 he discovered the bundle of His -the specialized tissue in the heart that transmits the electrical impulses and helps synchronize contraction [7].
7 Valves develop Franklin P. Mall (1862-1917) worked at the Department of Embryology at the Carnegie Institute of Washington where he studied the subdivisions of the primary heart tube, formation of the atrio-ventricular valves and bundle, and the musculature of the left ventricle. Additionally, in 1910 he demonstrated that the nascent atrium of the heart could be identified based on the close proximity of endothelium to the heart muscle [8]
Primary Heart Field
Figure 3: Morphology of Heart Tube Formation- Student Image
Gestational Week 4-5
The first cells start to migrate through the primitive streak to the anterior and lateral sections of the cranial end of the embryonic disc, forming bilateral primary heart fields. These primary heart fields resemble a crescent shape. [2].
The lateral plate mesoderm is split into two layers, namely the splanchnic mesoderm, facing the endoderm and the somatic mesoderm, facing the ectoderm. The former portion of the mesoderm gives rise to the heart. The portion between the splanchnic and somatic mesoderm is the presumptive pericardial space. Cells from the splanchnic mesoderm will merge to form 2 lateral endocardial tubes (also known as angioblastic cords) and as they form a lumen, are enveloped by myocardium. These endocardial tubes are as of now located inferior to the presumptive pericardial space. [2]
Heart Tube Formation
Gestational Week 5
The embryonic disc starts to fold. This folding begins cranially and extends in a caudal direction. The endocardial tubes fuse and is now located between the pericardial space and newly formed foregut that becomes surrounded by pericardial space (also known as the pericardial coelom). At this stage, the myocardium does not completely engulf the endocardial tubes. Instead, it remains in a continuous attachment with the non-cardiac splanchnic mesoderm through a structure called the dorsal mesocardium.
At this point, the primitive heart tube is bilaterally symmetrical and resembles an inverted Y shape. Starting from the inflow tract, there is the right and left sinus venouses that receives blood from the embryo, followed by the primitive atrium, primitive ventricle, bulbus cordis and then the truncus asteriosus which gives rise to the aortic and pulmonary trunk .[2]
The video above depicts the folding and fusion of Heart tubes taken from [1]
Secondary Heart Field
The secondary heart field (SHF) is a region of subpharyngeal mesodermal progenitor cells located medially and ventrally to the adjacent primary heart field (PHF) (that forms the initial heart tube). The PHF and SHF cells make up a region known as the cardiogenic field. Following heart tube fusion around 19-21 days, cells from the SHF migrate to the cranial and caudal ends of the tube and continue elongation. [2]
Figure 4: Schematic diagram of heart tube looping - Student Image
It is understood that within the cardiac regions the progenitor cell population of the SHF is “pre-patterned”[9], hence being termed “specified but undifferentiated”. It is the patterning of cells within the soon to become myocardium, that is responsible differentiation into chamber-specific myocytes (atrial and ventricular) and the conduction of cells. It is essential that the SHF cells remain undifferentiated and do not add prematurely to the heart tube.[10]
The SHF cells gives rise to endocardial, myocardial and smooth muscle cells through expression of transcription factor Islet -1 [11]. It also contributes to the right ventricle, inflow and outflow tract (OFT), and the arteries and semilunar valves that meet to form the arterial pole of the heart.[10] The OFT is the point of exit from the heart via structures of early cardiac development that give rise the essential structures of the aorta and pulmonary artery. The SHF of the developing heart and its contribution the arterial pole involves complex and interconnected signalling pathways that will be covered later in further detail.
Figure 5: Cardiac Development Overview
Cardiac Looping and Steps
In the early embryo, the same progenitor cells that constitute the SHF are responsible for the rapid growth occurring during cardiac looping morphogenesis. Looping is essential for cardiac development as it assist further growth of the originally straight heart tube, and ensures it fits within the pericardial celom. Additionally, looping of the heart tube is known to be the first visual evidence of embryonic asymmetry.
Straight heart tube continues to elongate
Rapid growth of the bulbus cordis and the primitive ventricle causes ventral bending and right rotation = C shaped loop (convex side on the right)
The ventricular bend continues to move caudally, the inflow and outflow tracts are brought together at the atrial pole of the heart = S shape
The truncus arteriosus if formed by adding myocardial cells at the top end of the heart. This portion will form roots and the proximal portion of the aorta and the pulmonary artery [1].
The video above depicts Cardiac Looping taken from [2]
Cardiac Septation
This stage of heart morphogenesis refers to the development of the four main cardiac chambers from the primitive atrium and ventricle. Cardiac septation is comprised of three main events:
Division of the atrioventricular canal
Atrial septation
Ventricular septation
Division of the atrioventricular canal (AVC) begins with the formation of the superior and inferior endocardial cushions, which are located on the dorsal and ventral aspects of the AVC respectively.[12] These cushions develop as mesenchymal cells invade and proliferate within swollen regions of cardiac jelly of the AVC; this mesenchyme is derived from endothelial cells that have transdifferentiated in the process of epithelial-mesenchymal transformation (EMT).[13] Throughout the fifth week of development, the endocardial cushions project inwards and eventually fuse to partition the AVC into the left and right atrioventricular canals; these canals will serve as the orifices in which the tricuspid and mitral valves are situated.[13]
Figure 6: The Process of Atrial Septation. Growth (A) and perforation (B) of septum primum. Growth of septum secundum (C). Formation of foramen ovale (D).
As the AVC is undergoing division, a muscular outgrowth, referred to as the septum primum, extends inferiorly from the roof of the primordial atrium.[14] This septum partially divides the atrial chamber into left and right halves, leaving a temporary communication located between the inferior border of septum primum and the endocardial cushions known as the foramen primum.[12] As the size of the foramen primum diminishes, perforations in the superior portion of the septum primum develop as a result of apoptosis, forming a second communication between the atrial chambers called the foramen secundum.[13] Concurrently, an additional muscular septum, known as the septum secundum, projects inferiorly to the right of the septum primum.[12] Eventually, the septum secundum will extend beyond the length of the foramen secundum, generating a partial division of the atria that forms the upper boundary of the foramen ovale.[14] The development of the foramen ovale is critical as it allows oxygen-rich blood from the placenta to bypass pulmonary circulation of the embryo and directly enter systemic circulation.[15] Following birth, the foramen ovale is obliterated as the septum primum and septum secundum fuse, resulting in complete formation of the interatrial septum.[12]
As with atrial septation, differentiation of the ventricles is initiated within week 4 of development.[12] A muscular ridge, referred to as the interventricular septum primordium, develops and extends superiorly from the caudal aspect of the primitive ventricular chamber.[13] Growth of the septum is attributed to the expansion of the ventricles, which involves the development of muscular trabeculae as cardiomyocytes proliferate within the chamber walls. [14] The end result is a partial division between the left and right ventricles, which forms the muscular portion of the interventricular septum.[13] A communication between the ventricles, known as the interventricular foramen, remains until approximately week 7 of development.[16] The foramen is obliterated by the fusion of the septum intermedium and the bulbar ridges of the bulbus cordis; this constitutes the membranous portion of the interventricular septum.[12]
Cardiac Neural Crest and Outflow tract
Figure 7: Outflow tract anatomy - Student Image
The outflow tract is a tube that runs from the right ventricle to the aortic sac and presents with a distinctive dog-leg bend that separates the proximal (bulbus cordis) and distal (truncus arteriosus) ends of the tract. The endocardial jelly that lines the lumen of the outflow tract concentrates to form the endocardial cushion facing each other that spirals in a 180-degree twist through the length of the outflow tract. Like the outflow tract, these endocardial cushions can be divided into distal and proximal moieties. The distal endocardial cushions are also known as the truncal ridges and the proximal ones are also known as the bulbar ridges. Cells from the cardiac neural crest migrates out of the neural tube, through the pharyngeal arches and aortic sac and into the outflow tract, where it condenses in the ridges to support the septation of the outflow tract. [17][18]
The fusion of the endocardial cushions starts from the distal end of the outflow tract and proceeds proximally. Fusion of the truncal endocardial cushions forms the aorticopulmonary septum that separates the truncus into an aortic and pulmonary trunk. The bulbar endocardial cushions fuse as they extend towards the interventricular septum, separating the proximal outflow tract into the prospective aortic and pulmonary trunks. As the outflow tract separates, the aortic trunk leads to the 3rd and 4th pharyngeal arch arteries and the pulmonary trunk leads to the 6th pharyngeal arch artery. [17][18]
Heart Valve Development
Heart valve development commences in the endocardial cushions of the atrioventricular canal (AVC) and outflow tract (OFT) during the 7th week of embryological development.[12] Valve morphogenesis is comprised of four stages:
Figure 8: Development of the Semilunar Valves.
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transformation (EMT)
Development of the valves begins with the transformation of the endocardial cells into mesenchymal cells within the endocardial cushions.[12] The endocardial cushions then expand through cell proliferation and synthesis of the extracellular matrix, which is primarily regulated by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).[14] The elongating cushions then undergo remodeling, as mesenchymal cells differentiate into collagen and other fibrous tissue.[14] The valve leaflets achieve their thin, unique shape as cells near the base of the extending cushions undergo apoptosis.[12]
The semilunar valves differentiate from the conotruncal and intercalated endocardial cushions located at the outflow tract of the heart.[12] The superior and inferior septal conotruncal cushions contribute to the left and right cusps of both the pulmonary and aortic valves.[19] The right-posterior intercalated cushion contributes to the posterior leaflet of the aortic valve, while the left-anterior leaflet gives rise to the anterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve.[19]
The atrioventricular valves arise from the atrioventricular (AV) endocardial cushions. As the atrioventricular canal divides during cardiac septation, fusion and proliferation of the superior and inferior AV endocardial cushions results in the formation of the anterior mitral leaflet and the septal tricuspid leaflet.[12] The right lateral AV cushion differentiates into the anterior and posterior leaflets of the tricuspid valve, while the left cushion gives rise to the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve.[12]
Proepicardium and Coronary Heart Development
Coronary vasculature arises when the fourth layer of the primary heart tube is formed. This fourth layer is known as epicardium that surrounds the myocardium which allows the development of vascular structures over the heart surface.
The monolayered embryonic epicardium derives from mesothelial cells of the septum transversium and mainly from clustered of proepicardium cells. The process involves either of these two mechanisms, one is by detaching of these cells and attach to the pericardial cavity and spread over the heart surface or two is by directly attaching the proepicardium to the myocardium forming a permanent tissue bridge. The spreading of the monolayered embryonic epicardium over the bare myocardium initiates the vascularisation of coronary system. A new extracellular matrix (ECM) layer, the subepicardium forms between the epicardium and the myocardium actively promotes the development of coronary blood vessels. The coalescence of three lineages of the coronary vessel cells: smooth muscle, endothelial and connective tissue and fusion of vascular cell progenitors (angioblasts) form a vascular structure de novo via the process of vasculogenesis. They then migrate onto the primary heart tube between day 22 and day 28 of human development. [20],[21]
Developmental Signalling Processes
Heart development is a very complicated and dynamic process that requires a high degree of control and regulation. This control is achieved by several temporally regulated signalling cascade (Fig. 9) expressed at different stages of heart development.
Figure 9: Signalling pathways in heart development
Wnt signalling
According to the primary mode of action, Wnt signalling pathways have been divided into two major classes, canonical and non-canonical Wnt signalling pathways. Both of the pathways have a role in different stages of cardiac development which could be overlapping or independent of each other. The canonical Wnt signalling pathway involves β-catenin and is activated by a number of ligands such as Wnt-1, Wnt-2, Wnt-3A, Wnt-8A, Wnt-8B, Wnt-8C, Wnt-10A, and Wnt-10B. However, the non-canonical signalling pathway is associated with planar cell polarity and Wnt/Ca2+ pathways that are activated by different ligands such as Wnt4, Wnt5A, Wnt5B, Wnt6, Wnt7A, Wnt7B, and Wnt11 [22].
Canonical/β -catenin signaling is essential for mesoderm formation. Upon binding of the Wnt ligands to the Frizzled receptor, a seven-transmembrane receptor, or the co-receptor LRP-5/6, the Canonical signaling pathway is activated. This leads to cytoplasmic accumulation of β -catenin in one side of the embryo and its translocation to the nucleus where it drives the activation of transcription factors required to determine the site at which mesoderm and endoderm formation will occur in the embryo. Animal studies have shown that the lack of nuclear accumulation of β -catenin results in inability of axis formation and mesoderm development whereas overexpression of β -catenin leads to the formation of secondary axis and ectopic expression of mesoderm signals. Also, homozygous deletion of β -catenin in mouse models results in absence of primitive streak and mesoderm formation [23].
Once mesoderm formation proceeds, the β -catenin signal must be shut down by inhibiting factors otherwise cardiac mesoderm formation will be stopped. This indicates that canonical signaling act as a switch that either induces or suppresses cardiac development. One of the inhibiting factors includes dickkopf-1(DKK1) which is an extracellular Wnt inhibitor that promotes the expression of cardiac-inducing factor in the endoderm such as Hex. The latter activates paracrine factors to direct adjoining cells towards cardiac fate [24].
Figure 10: Wnt signalling pathways - Student Image
FGF signalling
Fibroblast growth factors (FGF) serve a variety of functions in development, the maintainence of health and disease. FGFs are signaling proteins mostly as paracrine growth factors or endocrine hormones. There are 22 types of human FGFs, whereby paracrine FGF8, FGF9, FGF10 and FGF16 serve a major role in embryonic heart development. Additionally, FGF2, FGF9, FGF10 and FGF16 are involved in postnatal heart pathophysiology[25].
Communication between cardiac progenitor cells is required during embryonic heart development. During heart development, neural cress cells which migrate from the neuroectoderm of the dorsal neural tube will contribute to cushion formation and dictate the correct septation and alignment of the heart[26]. In conjunction to this process FGF3, FGF8, FGF9, FGF10, FGF15, FGF19 and FGF16 function was paracrine signals in embryonic heart development.
A study conducted demonstrated how a combination of both FGF2 and Bone morphogenic protein 2 (BMP2) efficiently enhances the cariomyogenic differention of embryonic stem (ES) cells at an optimal concentration. When FGF2 was inhibited, this ultimately suppressed cardiomyogenic differentiation, thus indicating that FGF signaling play a crucial role in early cardiomyogenesis. The ability for FGF2 to induce cardiac differentiation may serve a key role in treatment for heart diseases.[27] In addition, FGF10 also promotes cardiomyocytes differentiation from ES and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS). In experiments, when FGF10 and ES cells were administered, this lead to the promotion of cardiomyocyte differentiation in the myocardium of the heart. This may thus serve as a treatment for those who have suffered from myocardial infarctions, where the myocardium is replaced by scar tissue. Providing new and fully functional cardiac muscle may help reduce complications. [28]
The table below outlines the different types of FGFs invovled in heart development and their functions.[27]
Fibroblast Growth Factor Function
FGF8 FGF8 is expressed in the early embryonic stages. Required for cardiac looping and migratory cardiac neural crest cell survival. FGF8 is also required for anterior heart field development.
FGF9 Activates FGFR1c with heparin sulfate as a co-factor in a paracrine manner. In doing so, this FGF plays a major role in stimulating the proliferation of cardiomyocytes.
FGF10 Preferentially activates FGFR2b with heparin sulfate as a co-factor. Serves to regulate regional-specific cardiomyocyte proliferation in the embryonic heart in an autocrine/paracrine manner. This FGF type is also essential for the movement of cardiac fibroblasts in the compact myocardium.
FGF15/19 These FGF types are required for proper morphogenesis of the cardiac outflow tract. In addition these FGFs play a major role in paracrine signaling in heart development.
FGF16 FGF16 serves as a major growth factor involved in stimulating the growth of embryonic cardiomyocytes.
Transforming growth factor-β
Transforming growth factor-β superfamily involves a large number of growth factors that are structurally related. These growth factors, including Nodal or its mimic Activin, bone morphogenic protein (BMP) and growth and differentiation factors, signal through SMAD-dependent and SMAD-independent pathways [29]. SMAD-dependent pathway involves the activation of SMAD proteins upon TGF-β binding to its receptor followed by SMAD transfer into the nucleus regulating gene transcription [30]. Nodal and its mimic Activin act through SMAD-2 and -3 to activate transcription. During embryo development, epiblast cells produce high levels of Nodal growth factors leading to a gradient of nodal in these cells. This gradient is important for mesoderm patterning (left-right asymmetric heart development) and lineage specification. For this reason, this gradient is maintained by Nodal antagonist secreted from the anterior visceral endoderm or by BMP-4 and Wnt-3 feedback loop in the extraembryonic tissues (Fig.11) [31] Nodal/Activin’s important role in heart formation is demonstrated by animal models. Presence of Activin in amphibian embryo lead to activation of heart formation whereas the absence of Nodal co-receptor ,called Cripto, in mouse embryo resulted in failure of ES cells differentiation into cardiomyocytes [32]. Also, knocking out copies of SMAD-2 alone or both SMAD-2 ND -3 result in inappropriate specification of axial mesoderm [33].
Figure 11: Regulation of Nodal-Activin signalling during heart formation
The Notch pathway
The Notch gene is an essential gene, in that it codes for a signaling receptor that is required throughout development to regulate the processes known as spatial patterning, timing and outcomes of many different cell fate decisions. The receptor itself is a single spanning transmembrane protein which has a modular architecture including many repeats of a protein module which is reminiscent of the epidermal growth factor as well as 3 membrane-proximal Lin12/Notch/Glp-1 repeats. Notch also has an intracellular domain which is composed of four distinct regions known as the RAM domain, the Ankyrin repeats, a transcriptional activator domain as well as proline, glutamate, serine and threonine sequence. [34]. In the process of activation, a canonical Notch ligand binds the extracellular domain of the notch receptor. Ligand binding will thus induce the exposure of the cleavage site which will allow access by proteases responsible for cleavage under physiological conditions. This cleavage renders the remaining transmembrane-intracellular fragment a substrate for a complex known as the gamma-secretase complex. It is this complex which will catalyse the intramembrane proteolysis to release the Notch intracellular domain. Once this cleavage has occurred, the intracellular domain has the potential to enter into the nucleus and bind the DNA to induce gene transcription[35].
With regard to heart development Notch signaling plays a key role in the pre-patterning of the cardiac mesoderm. In gastrula-stage embryos, Notch works with estrogen receptor 9 and GATA4 transcription factor to regulate the timing of heart field specification for early cardiogenesis which is necessary for normal cardiac development. Notch receptor types 1, 2 and delta-like 1 are required for the determination of the embryonic left-right axis as well as the proper looping of the heart tube. In addition to this, Notch signaling promotes myocardial trabecular proliferation, differentiation and maturation by inducing bone morphogenetic protein-10 and EphrinB2/EphrinB4 expression. Notch signaling also modulates coronary vessel morphogenesis, in which the embryonic epicardium actively participates. Notch signaling elements are differentially expressed throughout the proepicardial-epicardial-coronary transition phases and are required for vessel wall maturation during coronary vessel development. Notch also cooperates with transforming-growth factor-beta to regulate coronary smooth muscle differentiation from epicardium-derived cells to assist in the formation of a functional coronary system. Notch signaling will also regulate cardiac conduction system function, in particular the atrioventricular node [36].
Retinoic Acid
Figure 12: Retinoic Acid activation pathway - Student Image
Retinoic acid (RA), a derivative of vitamin A, has been shown to play an important role in vertebrate embryogenesis especially heart formation. RA mediates its action by binding to two families of nuclear receptors, that is the RA and the retinoid receptors (RARs and RXRs). This binding allows RA to directly regulate gene transcription. The expression of at least one of the receptor types by almost all embryonic tissues gives these tissues responsiveness to RA. Signaling of RA is regulated by enzyme that either produce or inactivate retinoids (Fig. 12) [37].
At early stages, RA signaling is suggested to regulate progenitor size in that increasing RA concentrations leads to reduced heart populations in chicken and zebrafish embryos, whereas micromolecular concentrations lead to no heart formation. This regulation is though to happen by RA’s direct action on Hox gene family members such as Hoxa1 transcription factor. These transcription factors have enhancer containing RA response element (RARE). Thus, a reduction or an increase in RA signaling affects the contribution of Hoxa1-; Hoxa3- and Hoxb1-expressing progenitor cells to the heart[38]. At later stages of heart development, RA is involved in establishing the second heart field which forms atrial cells. Also, RA contributes to the proliferation of ventricular cells. In addition, RA has the potential to stimulate cellular differentiation of atrial and ventricular myocytes from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). This capacity of RA has been exploited in regenerative medicine to promote atrial specification [39].
Embryo obtains vitamin A from maternal delivery of retinol via transplacental transfer. This transfer of Vitamin A is essential for fetal growth and development and any deficiency can lead to severe congenital defects. In fact, the high prevalence of heart malformation in developing countries can be partly explained by vitamin A insufficiency. Conversely, elevated levels of vitamin A during pregnancy have a toxic effect on organogenesis including heart development. Treatment with RA in rodents was one of the earliest teratogenic models of heart defects [38].
Sonic Hedgehog
The Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling pathway is one of the major trafficking networks that is responsible for regulating the key events involved in the developmental processes. The regulatory action of Shh signaling pathway is linked to the secretion, uptake and translocation of ‘Shh protein’ an important Hedgehog ligand precursor. Activation of Shh signal requires the binding of Shh to the Ptc mediate Smoothened (Smo) (Ptc-smo) receptor complex as well as induction of downstream signaling cascade [40].
Shh signaling contributes to myocytes specification and a reduction in this signaling can cause a cardiomyocyte deficit whereas increased Shh signaling lead to a surplus. At early stages of cardiac development, Shh signaling induces a proper number of myocardial progenitor cells. These progenitor cells show a direct respond to SHH signals allowing it to control and determine the optimal number of cardiomyocytes [41]. At later stages of cardiac development, Shh plays an important role in survival and proliferation of neural crest cells (NCCs) and it maintains the proliferation of progenitor cells within the second heart field. These actions allow Shh to promote outflow tract morphogenesis. However, Shh does not act as a direct survival factor for NCCs, but rather, it acts indirectly by inducing a survival factor and inhibiting an apoptotic factor. NCCs of Shh null mice embryos show specification and migration but they are mislocalized and undergo apoptosis. Also, mice that lack Shh develop many cardiac abnormalities such as outflow tract shortening, ventricular hyperplasia and septation defects[42].
Figure 13: Sonic Hedghehog (Shh) signalling pathway
Current Research And Findings
Increased regurgitant flow causes endocardial cushion defects in an avian embryonic model of congenital heart disease
it has been discovered that an elevated regurgitant flow during the early stages of embryonic heart development eventually causes abnormalities in the endocardial cushions. However, till today it remains unclear as to how defects in the endocardial cushions during the cardiac looping stages plays a part in the septation of the heart. Thus the aim of this research was to change the blood flow within the avian embryonic heart and monitor the effects it had on the morphology of the endocardial cushions and on Congenital Heart Diseases (CHD). Optical pacing was used to provide the regurgitant flow and optical coherence tomography (OCT) was used to monitor the regurgitation and morphology. The researchers used quail hearts for this research. The quail hearts were optically paced at around 180 beats per minute at stage 13 of their embryonic development (coincides with weeks 3-4 for human development) for 5 minutes. The elevated pacing of the heart tired the heart and this caused 1 hour of regurgitant flow. The morphological changes caused by the regurgitant flow was observed using OCT imaging at stage 19 of avian embryonic development (coincides with cardiac looping stages in human development) or stage 35 (coincides with week 8 of human development). The results showed that all the paced embryos that were observed at stage 19 showed morphological changes in their endocardial cushions. It was also noted that there was an inverse relationship between the regurgitant flow and cardiac cushion size 24 hours post pacing. Out of the embryos that survived till stage 35, 17/18 of them displayed CHDs such as valve defects, ventricular defects, hypo plastic ventricles and common AV valve.[43]
CTCF counter-regulates cardiomyocyte development and maturation programs in the embryonic heart
Figure 14: Morphological defects in CTCF mutant embryonic hearts
CTCF is a DNA binding factor that is essential in the process of genome binding and cardiogenesis. It mediates genomic interaction and maturation in the developing heart, coordinates cardiomyocyte differentiation by facilitating enhancer-promoter interactions. Although the role of CTCF in genome organisation is not fully understood. In this study by Gomez-Velazquez et.al (2017), they studied the effect of genetically deleting CTCF in differentiating cardiomyocytes at early stages of mouse development. They deleted CTCF in a population of cardiac progenitor cells which results in malformation of the heart and death of embryo (Figure 14) [44].
From Figure 14, they presented control and CTCF-absent mice in stage E9.5, E10.5, E11.5 and E12.5. E10.5 and E11.5 mutant embryos appeared normal (Fig 14A - 14D). Pericardial edema (Fig 14E) and non expanding cardiac chamber (Fig 14F) presented in E12.5 mutant embryo [44].
Figure 15: Defects of mitochondria in CTCF mutant hearts
Histological examination showed slightly disorganised interventricular septum and normal 4 chambers and atrioventricular canal in E10.5 mutant embryo (Fig 14I and 14J). Fig 14G and 14H showed no defects in E9.5 mutants hearts as compared to controls. Fig. 14K and 14L showed the thinning of myocardial wall in E11.5.
They also carried out Western blot to analyse the component of oxidative phosphorylation pathway in mutant and control embryonic cardiomyocytes. They revealed that there was an increase in Complex IV subunit 1 (Cox 1, encoded in mitochondrial DNA) and Complex IV subunit IV (Cox IV) in CTCF mutants hearts at E10.5 and E11.5 (Figure 15A). Fig 15B showed an increased in Tom20 which is the major receptor of mitochondrial outer membrane translocase. Complex I and Complex V increased from E10.5 to E11.5 in control hearts, consistent with maturation of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. However, they did not increase in CTCF mutant hearts and Complex V was similarly increased between E10.5 and E11.5 in both control and mutant hearts (Fig 15C and 15D). Thus, this suggests that despite increased transcription of subunit in complexes and supercomplexes at the mitochondrial inner membrane, maturation of the respiratory chain is blunted in the CTCF mutant heart.
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis (Fig 15E) presented immature but normal mitochondria in CTCF mutant cardiomyocytes. At E11.5, mutant cardiomyocyte's mitochondria are swollen, and larger than controls and are disorganised at E10.5
They concluded that when CTCF is removed, genes are misregulated which leads to faulty mitochondria and incorrect expression of cardiac patterning gene. These misregulated genes control opposing genetic program incharge of development and cardiomyocyte maturation. Subsequently, embryo lethality [44].
Erbb2 Is Required for Cardiac Atrial Electrical Activity during Development
As the heart being the first organ to function during embryonic development (22 days in human, 8-8.5 days in mice) and is necessary for embryo survival. It depends on the sinoatrial node (SAN), the pacemaker of the heart’s electrical activity located in the right atrium of the heart and the conducting system, which transduces the electrical signal through the heart tissue for myocardial contraction. This system consists of atrioventricular node (AVN), atrioventricular bundle (AVB), bungle branches and Purkinje fibres, allows synchronized contraction of the atria and ventricles and a consistent heart rhythm. Thus, defects in the development of cardiac electrical function could lead to various heart disorders, such as heart block, long Q-T syndrome, atrial and ventricular fibrillation and tachycardia [45]
Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (Erbb2) is a transmembrane protein that is essential for normal embryonic development [46]. It is known that at mid-gestation knockout mice lacking Erbb2 are lethal and die due to severe cardiac defects that show enlarged heart with thin ventricular myocardium, absent trabeculae and decreased atrioventricular cushions. Consequently, it results in poor circulation and irregular heartbeat [47]. Other studies suggested that Erbb2 participates in ventricular conduction system development and maturation. However, the role of Erbb2 in atrial conduction system development is still unknown. In a study by Tenin et. al (2014), they showed that upon mutation in Erbb2 in I11Jus8 mice resulted in specific defect in atrial electrical propagation and thus displayed cardiac hemorrhage and failure in atrial function but did not affect ventricular conduction. The role of Erbb2 in I11Jus8 mouse line reported to have significant impact on the atrial function, which allows the embryo to survive. [46]. Although, other studies revealed that embryonic cardiac defects are not found in mice with deletion of Erbb2, it has yet to determine whether non-cardiomyocyte tissue requires Erbb2 function for cardiac conduction system development in Tenin and his colleagues’s experiment. Further more, it has been proposed that Erbb2 functions in adult cardiomyocytes where deletions of Erbb2 causes early cardiac dysfunction and dilated cardiomyopathy [48]. It was also demonstrated that dilated cardiomyopathy in human and mice contributes to failure of the conduction system leading to arrhythmias and sudden death [48],[46]
Dietary supplementation of NAD in prevention of miscarriages and birth defects
Scientists have demonstrated a potential cure, in the form of a common dietary supplement. The research study found that a deficiency in a vital molecule, known as NAD, can prevent a baby’s organs from developing correctly in the womb. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is one of the most important molecules in all living cells. NAD synthesis is essential for energy production, DNA repair and cell communication. Environmental and genetic factors disrupt its production can cause a NAD deficiency resulting to cripple an embryo when it forms. The dietary supplement vitamin B3 is required to make NAD and is found in food such as meats and green vegetables. Research shows at least a third of women have low levels of vitamin B3 in their first trimester of pregnancy, which is the critical time in organ development. There is an indication that pregnant women may require more vitamin B3 than it is currently available in most vitamin supplements. Using a preclinical mouse model, vitamin B3 was introduced into the mother’s diet. The dietary change prevented both the miscarriages and birth defects completely. This discovery can be likened to the revolutionary breakthrough made last century that confirmed folic acid supplementation can prevent spina bifida and other neural tube defects in babies.
The next step would be to develop a diagnostic test to measure NAD levels. This would enable doctors to identify the women who are at greater risk of having a baby with a birth defect, and ensure they are getting sufficient amount of vitamin B3.
Mice Model
Understanding the importance of different molecular pathways in heart development was made possible by studies conducted in different animal models including mice models. Such studies, in particular loss of function analysis studies, have allowed for the determination of specific roles of various signaling pathways in specific stages of cardiac development. For example, one of the studies conducted in mice embryo involved studying the effect of ALK2 receptor deletion [49]. This receptor is expressed on cardiac neural crest cells which contribute to the formation of cardiac outflow tract (OFT). Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), an important protein in heart signaling processes, acts as a ligand for this receptor. Thus, by binding to this receptor, BMP play a role in neural crest development and migration. Therefore, since this receptor function to determine the downstream signaling specificity, understanding its function will allow the mechanisms by which BMP regulate heart development to be uncovered. However, the receptor was not deleted as this will lead to mice lethality, but instead its function was abolished in neural crest cells. Mice with abolished ALK2 receptor function revealed various cardiac defects such as aortic arch defect and cardiac OFT defect. These defects are very similar to the common human congenital heart disease. This occurrence of these cardiac defects is indicative of impaired neural crest cell migration and it provides evidence for the importance of BMP in heart development.
Since the origin of cells contributing to different parts of the valves remains controversial, another research on mice model [50] provides further insight into the origin of these cells. In this study, myocardial, endocardial and neural crest cells were labelled irreversibly using a genetic system during embryonic development to determine their eventual contribution to different components of the valves. At E17.5 majority of cells present in the cardiac valves were positive for β-galactosidase expression which is indicative of endocardial origin. Cells of the endocardial lineage were detected in leaflets and tendinous cords of the mitral and tricuspid valves, the atrioventricular fibrous continuity and the leaflets of the aortic and pulmonary valves. However, these components showed minimal contribution from cells of the myocardial and neural crest lineages.
Zebrafish Model
Figure 16: Reduced cardiomyocyte differentiation at the venous pole in isl1 mutant embryos
Growth of the heart tube into a two-chambered heart in zebrafish is regulated by two separate phases of cardiomyocyte differentiation [51]. These two phases are detected using a developmental timing essay and a photoconvertible marker. In the first phase, a continuous wave of cardiomyocytes differentiation appears in the ventricle initially and extend through atrium allowing the addition of cardiomyocytes to the venous pole of the heart tube. This phase is regulated by the islet1 protein and islet mutants show reduced cardiomyocyte differentiation at the venous pole (Fig. 15). However, the second phase involves Fgf signaling and it is initiated by the addition of new cardiomyocytes to the arterial pole. Therefore, these two processes are independent of each other in space, time and regulation and they are essential for heart development in Zebrafish. Modified regulation of these two phases can result in a change of heart size and morphology.
Chick Model
Initial stages of cardiac looping involve the formation of a c-shaped tube that is curved towards the right side of the embryo. This c-shaped tube is formed as a result of ventral bending and rightward rotation. The genetic and molecular pathways involved in this process of cardiac looping have been well understand but the role mechanical forces play in this process remains poorly understood. This study on chick embryos [52] shows that bending and rotation are mediated by different sets of forces. While bending is controlled by intrinsic forces to the heart, rotation into a c-shaped tube is driven by external forces exerted mainly by a membrane pushing against the heart tube called splanchnopleure (SPL). Also, some of these forces come from omphalomesenteric veins (OVs) which plays a role in the directionality of left-right looping. These results were obtained from analysis of tissue stress and strain using dissection and fluorescent labelling respectively after subjecting the embryos to mechanical perturbations.
Other research into chick models reveals that cardiac progenitors of the splanchnic mesoderm, cardiac neural crest and the proepicardium are the major embryonic contributors to the development of the chick heart. The contribution of these components to cardiac development occurs with precise timing and regulation during such processes as primary heart tube fusion, cardiac looping and accretion, cardiac septation and the development of the coronary vasculature. In addition to these findings, chick models revealed that one role of the anterior endoderm is to create a “cardiac field” in the overlying anterior mesoderm, and that other events will restrict this cardiac field to the region of the embryo that will become the heart later in development [53].
Xenopus Model
Along the molecular pathways mentioned in the heart signaling section, CASTOR (CST) protein previously identified in Drosophila for its role in maintaining stem cells competence at the dorsal midline, is now shown to play a role in cardiogenesis. A study using Xenopus as an animal model [54] identified CST expression in the myocardial layer of the heart in a gradient that extends from dorsal to ventral. The expression of CST in this region within a subset of cardiac progenitor cells is necessary for the initiation of cardiomyocyte differentiation at the ventral midline (Fig. 17). Tracing the fate of these cardiac tissue, it is shown that these cardiac progenitor cells at the ventral midline region give rise to a population of cells in the outer curvature of the ventricle indicating their specific cell fate. However, progenitor cells that are deficient in CST protein overproliferate and do not end up integrating into cardiac muscle. This suggests that CST within the subset of cardiac progenitor cells in vertebrates is essential for proper timing of differentiation in order for these progenitor cells to give rise to the outer curvature of the ventricle. Therefore, Xenopus animal model has helped to have a better understanding or the role of CST in vertebrate cardiac development.
Figure 17: CST Is Required for Vertebrate Heart Development
Atrial Septal Defect
Figure 18: Atrial Septal Defect (ASD), as demonstrated by the red arrow.
Atrial septal defects (ASD) are one of the most prevalent congenital heart malformations, with an estimated 56 cases per 100,000 births.[55] This heart defect involves a communication between the left and right atria, and can be subdivided into five main types based on the nature of the defect.
The most common ASD is a patent foramen ovale. Throughout fetal development, the foramen ovale functions to shunt oxygenated blood from the right atrium into the left atrium.[56] After birth, the now functioning respiratory system of the newborn results in elevated pressure in the left atrium relative to that of the right.[57] This induces fusion of the septum primum and septum secundum which closes the foramen ovale, leaving a remnant known as the fossa ovalis.[56] Incomplete closure results in a patent foramen ovale. This condition is present in nearly all newborns and typically closes within the first month, however complete closure is achieved in only 70-75% of adults.[55] A patent foramen ovale is often asymptomatic and thus is not usually considered a clinically significant condition, however it can be problematic when other cardiac abnormalities are present.[58]
A secundum ASD is the most common of the true (clinically significant) atrial septal defects. This malformation occurs within the region of the fossa ovalis and typically results from abnormal resorption of the septum primum during cardiac development.[58] Secundum ASDs enable left-to-right atrial shunting of blood, which increases the load on the right side of the heart and, consequently, the pulmonary circulation; this can result in the development of atrial arrhthymias and right ventricular failure.[56]
Sinous venosus ASD refers to a communication between one of the right pulmonary veins (typically the upper vein) and the wall of the right atrium adjacent to the superior vena cava.[58] This defect can occur as a result of the resorption or partial absence of the septum secundum,[58] and accounts for 5-10% of all atrial septal defects.[59]
A primum ASD is the result of an abnormality in the development of either the septum primum or septum secundum.[58] This condition is a type of atrioventricular septal defect, and will be discussed in more detail in the next section.
The most extreme ASD is a common atrium. This occurs when the septum primum and septum secundum fail to develop.[55] This lack of an interatrial septum is often accompanied by other cardiac abnormalities, including clefts in the leaflets of the atrioventricular valves.[58]
Atrioventricular Septal Defect
Figure 19: Comparison between a normal heart (A), a heart with a primum ASD (B) and a heart with an AVSD (C).
An atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) refers to a malformation involving the interatrial and/or interventricular septa, and has an estimated incidence of 1 in 2000 births.[60] This defect typically occurs as a result of incomplete fusion of the endocardial cushions,[59] although recent research has concluded that malformation of the dorsal mesenchymal protrusion (DMP) also contributes to the development of AVSDs.[60] This can result in abnormal development of the interatrial septum, interventricular septum and/or the mitral and tricuspid valves.[58]
There are two main subdivisions of AVSDs, which differ according to whether one or both of the cardiac septa are affected. In a partial AVSD, there is a defect present in the inferoanterior region of the fossa ovalis, which allows the right-to-left shunting of blood across the atria.[60] In this scenario, the lack of fusion of the endocardial cushions can also result in the presence of clefts in the septal leaflets of the atrioventricular valves.[58] However, in a complete AVSD, a defect in the membranous portion of the interventricular septum is also present.[59] This condition results in direct communications between the atria and the ventricles, and pulmonary hypertension or congestive heart failure can occur if the anomaly is severe.[60]
Ventricular Septal Defect
Figure 20: Ventricular Septal Defect (as viewed from the left ventricle)
Ventricular septal defects are the most prevalent of all congenital heart defects (excluding patent foramen ovales), accounting for approximately 40% of all cardiac abnormalities among newborns.[61] The exact definition of a VSD is still a point of contention within the scientific community, but is generally referred to as a communication between the left and right ventricles; this anomaly can manifest as a lone defect, but is often present with other abnormalities such as Tetralogy of Fallot or a complete AVSD.[62] occur as a result of abnormal development (or absence) of any of the components forming the interventricular septum.[63] Hence, a VSD can occur in either the muscular or the membranous portion of the septum, with the latter being more common.[63]
A membranous VSD occurs when there is an incomplete occlusion of the interventricular foramen, which is due to the membranous portion of the septum failing to develop.[58] This is the result of a failure of fusion between the muscular portion of the interventricular septum and the endocardial cushions.[58] This defect is most commonly located in the outflow tract of the left ventricle.[58]
A muscular VSD results from abnormal development of the interventricular septum primordium during cardiac septation.[62] This can refer to incomplete formation of the primitive septum, or to errors in the proliferation of trabeculae within the septum.[61] VSDs can form anywhere within the muscular wall of the septum, and can extend into various regions of the right ventricle including the apex, inlet or outflow tract.[61]
The most extreme form of VSD is a common ventricle. This very rare defect occurs when the interventricular septum primordium fails to develop.[58] Infants with common ventricle often die from congestive heart failure.[58]
Persistent Truncus Arteriosus
Persistent truncus arteriosus (PTA) is a rare heart defect accounting for less than 1% of all congenital cardiac anomalies.[64] PTA occurs when the truncus arteriosus of the developing heart fails to partition into the ascending aorta and pulmonary trunk.[65] This results in the formation of a common arterial trunk that provides a mixture of oxygenated and de-oxygenated blood to systemic, pulmonary and coronary circulations.[66] Although the exact aetiology of PTA is unknown, cellular ablation studies have demonstrated that aberrant migration and/or development of neural crest cells can result in abnormal aorticopulmonary septation.[65] PTA has a poor prognosis without surgical intervention, with only 20% of patients surviving beyond the first year.[67]
Figure 21: Persistent Truncus Arteriosus (PTA).
Tetralogy of Fallot
Figure 22: Characteristics of Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). Ventricular septal defect (1) Pulmonary stenosis (2) Dextroposition of aorta (3) Right ventricular hypertrophy (4).
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is a complex congenital heart defect with an incidence of 3 cases per 10000 live births.[68] It is also the most common cyanotic cardiac abnormality, accounting for 7-10% of all congenital heart malformations.[68] The condition is characterised by four heart abnormalities:[69]
Pulmonary stenosis – narrowing of the pulmonary trunk and associated pulmonary valve.
Ventricular septal defect (VSD) – a communication between the left and right ventricles
Dextroposition of the aorta – rightward displacement of the aorta over the ventricular septal defect.
Right ventricular hypertrophy – enlargement of the myocardium of the right ventricle
Tetralogy of Fallot typically presents as cyanosis (bluish discolouration of the skin) in the newborn.[70] This is due obstruction of pulmonary outflow, as well as right-to-left shunting of blood across the ventricles via the ventricular septal defect.[71] This collectively results in poorly oxygenated blood being discharged from the left ventricle into systemic circulation.[71]
Newborns with TOF typically undergo corrective surgery within the first month of life.[68] Pulmonary stenosis is relieved via widening of the pulmonary trunk and the ventricular septal defect is repaired, allowing the outflow of only well-oxygenated blood through the aorta.[71]
Figure 23: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). An atrial shunt is represented by the red arrow.
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) is a congenital heart defect that involves the underdevelopment of cardiac structures of the left side of the heart; structures effected include the left ventricle, ascending aorta, aortic arch and the mitral and aortic valves.[72] Despite being one of the rarer heart defects, accounting for up to 3.8% of congenital cardiac malformations, HLHS is responsible for 23% of all cardiac-related deaths in the first week of life.[73] Severity of the disease depends on the extent of systemic outflow obstruction, the number of heart structures effected, and the degree of hypoplasia of the left ventricle and ascending aorta.[72]
Initially, newborns with HLHS will appear healthy. This is because the presence of the foramen ovale and a patent ductus arteriosus allows blood to bypass the malformed left side of the heart and enter systemic circulation.[73] Once these structures close, inadequate blood flow in the systemic circulatory system results in hypoxemia and cardiogenic shock; rapid surgical intervention is required to prevent death of the newborn.[72] Corrective surgery for neonates with HLHS is performed in three stages, with the ultimate goal of increasing systemic circulation and bypassing the malformed side of the heart; the end result is a modified right ventricle that supports both systemic and pulmonary circulation.[71]
The first operation, known as the Norwood operation, is performed at birth. This involves the construction of a new ascending aorta and arch that extends from the right ventricle, as well as the establishment of a communication between the right ventricle and the pulmonary trunk, which allows for both pulmonary and systemic perfusion from the right ventricle.[73] Next, a Glenn shunt operation is performed at 6-8 months after birth, in which a surgical anastomosis is created between the right pulmonary artery and superior vena cava, which decreases the work on the right ventricle during venous return.[72] Finally, a Fontan procedure is performed 1.5-4 years after birth, which involves establishing a communication between the now connected pulmonary artery and superior vena cava to the wall of the right atrium.[72] These surgeries collectively result in the development of univentricular circulation in which oxygenated and de-oxygenated blood are unable to mix, which increases the efficiency of the neonate’s cardiovascular system.[73]
Cardiac Stem Cells
Following a myocardial infarction (MI), a significant number of cardiomyocytes becomes damaged and the heart has very little regenerative functions. The loss of cardiomyocytes pose as a problem when an individual has had repeated MI or those suffering from end stage heart failure. For these individuals, heart transplantation remains as the main solution. However, there are not enough donors available. Therefore, stem cell therapy provides as an upcoming possibility in replacement for donor transplant. There are two types of cells that could be use which includes human embryonic Stem cells (hESCs) and Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs). However, there are differences between these two cells and further testing and applications are still required to produce highly pure and mature cardiomyocytes.
Human Induced Pluripotent Cells
More ethical issues
Need to use a large amount of embryos during derivation as the hESCs are obtained from the inner cell mass of the blastocysts[74]
Associated with invasive procedures
Lesser ethical issues
Obtained from adult cells
Need not be associated with invasive procedures as cells can be obtained from hair cells or blood cells[75]
Immune Reactions
Cell genome not matching patient’ genome
Possible immune rejection against allogenic hESCs
Cell genome matching patient’s genome
Less likely immune rejection for isogenic hiPSCs
Availability of Cells
Only a small amount of hESCs are able to differentiate into cardiac myocytes
Only a small amount of hiPSCs are able to differentiate into cardiac myocytes
hiPSCs take a very long time for differentiation.
Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Teratoma formations Both have tendency to form teratomas. Cardiomyocytes thus have to be highly purified. A few methods have been explored to obtain a highly purified culture of stem cells to prevent teratoma formation. The following methods include:
Mitochondrial Based Separation[76]
Non-genetic approach
Based on the fact that cardiac myocytes that are differentiated contains a high number of mitochondria
Mitochondria specific fluorescent dye used to identify differentiated cardiomyocytes from non-differentiated ones. Cells then separated using flow cytometry.
~ 99% purity
Furthur research and successful applications in stem cell experiments are required. Technological advancements and improvements are also needed for large-scale use.
Biochemical Differences between Differentiated and Undifferentiated Cardiomyocytes[77]
Only differentiated cardiomyocytes could survive in a glucose depleted and lactate abundant culture.
Simple applications compared to the mitochondrial based separation.
~ 99% purity which did not form teratomas
However, because both methods do not have a 100% purity, teratomas could still be formed.
Cardiac Maturation
Ultrastructural Analysis
The ultrastructural features of both hESCs and hiPSCs were both phenotypically immature, that is it had an abundant amount of lipid droplets and endoplasmic reticulum, elevated glycogen content and different degrees of myofibrillar organization [78]
Electrophysiological Properties
Both hESCs and hiPSCs displayed all three action potential phenotypes: nodal, atrial and ventricular-like, generally exhibiting a phenotypically immature cardiomyocytes[79]
Contraction Properties
The more mature the sarcoplasmic reticulum, the better the contractile properties of the cardiomyocytes.[80] hESCs had an immature sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) whereas hiPSCs had a slightly more mature sarcoplasmic reticulum. [81]
Since hESCs and hiPSCs are required to replace damaged cardiomyocytes, their obvious immaturity problem would have to be resolved before it can be utilized for transplantation or therapy.
Future Questions
What is the aetiology of Tetralogy of Fallot?
The aetiology of Tetralogy of Fallot is complex and still poorly understood. Current research in genetics has linked the condition with various chromosomal abnormalities, including trisomy 13, 18 and 21, as well as microdeletions within chromosome 22.[68] In addition, current research has identified risk factors such as maternal diabetes and exposure to retinoic acid.[68] Further research in this area is required to achieve a greater understanding of the underlying causes of Tetralogy of Fallot.
Regulation of forces involved in cardiac looping
Studies have identified some mechanical forces involved in looping, it remains to be established how these forces are regulated spatially and temporally to produce a looped heart tube. It needs to be further investigated to determine whether the proposed actin polymerization mechanism can produce the necessary changes in tissue shape on a global scale. In addition, the possible roles played by redundant mechanisms have not been elucidated. Finally, the mechanisms of initial looping of the heart tube and s-looping have received relatively little attention. To gain a complete understanding of heart development requires finding the link between gene expression and morphomechanics, which will need to combine the expertise of developmental biologists and biomechanical engineers [1].
Signalling of the heart fields
Multiple signalling pathways overlap to regulate SHF cell addition to the poles of the heart tube, as well as SHF proliferation and myocardial differentiation. The signalling molecules identified to highlight the continuance of SHF cells in a progenitor cell state and controls their progressive differentiation. However, the control of differentiation delay and SHF movement into the OFT remains obscure. Future research into gene regulatory networks and signalling pathways that control SHF development will identify mechanisms underlying these processes. This will provide a greater understanding of the extent to which these networks differ from those controlling differentiation of the linear heart tube. Further exploration of the mechanisms underlying SHF progenitor cell development in the early embryo is required, as it will uncover the potential of progenitor and pluripotent stem cells for cardiac repair [82].
Specific identification of cardiac precursors
Heart precursors were identified as occupying anterior mesoderm, proximal to the embryonic-extraembryonic boundary. This identification was achieved utilising cell transplantation, labelling of live embryos and conducting embryo culture. These embryonic manipulations highlighted the plasticity of populations that contribute to the heart. This means cells obtained from a different location or developmental time point can contribute to the heart once placed in the proper location. Subsequently, such experiments [83] were able to locate the cardiac precursors but they failed to specifically identify these precursors and therefore cardiac precursors have not been identified and characterised yet. Thus, future experiments will aim to address this question.
There are vast differences between the potential of cardiac regeneration in experimental models like zebrafish which is lost in adult mammals like humans. Researches speculate that it could be due to internal properties of cardiomyocytes or due to the failure of stem cell populations. They also hypothesize that it could be due to non-cardiomyocytes that could cause scarring which might hinder regeneration. In addition, more research has to be done on how regeneration begins and ends (signalling pathways involved etc).
Role of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) in cardiac neural crest development and migration
The role of BMP has been implicated in many aspects of organogenesis including neural crest development and migration. However, it remains unclear to whether BMP impose a direct action on neural crest cells during cardiac morphogenesis or acts indirectly by affecting gene expression [84]. Also, studies of BMP receptor signaling have been hard to conduct as receptor deletion lead to death of the embryo at early stages of development. It was only recently that such studies of the receptor were performed by blocking the function of the receptor in neural crest cells. Thus, future experiments must be conducted to uncover the mechanism by which BMP act to regulate neural crest development and migration.
Definitions provided in this glossary are taken from lectures presented in the UNSW embryology course ANAT2341, as well as from the UNSW embryology wiki glossary provided online, which is linked below.
Term Definition
Anastomosis Term used to describe the connection between two tubes. Applied to describe the connection between peripheral blood vessels without an intervening capillary bed.
Angioblastic cords Groups or ‘columns’ of embryonic precursor cells which will form the walls of both arteries and veins.
Axial mesoderm Also referred to as notochord. It is an embryonic structure lying within the midline of the trilaminar embryo.
Blastocoel A fluid filled cavity formed during early embryonic development (Week 1-2) within the blastocyst. Once Morula is formed as a result of the initial cell division, further cell division followed by compaction leads to the formation of this cavity.
Bulbar Ridge Term describing a spiral region in the developing heart bulbus cordis, there is a left and right bulbar ridge, that contribute to the septation of membranous portion of ventricular septum that is continuous with the outflow tract. These regions fuse to separate the single embryonic outflow tract into the aortic and pulmonary arteries.
Bulbus cordis A region of the early developing heart tube forming the common outflow tract, will differentiate to form three regions of the heart.
Cardiac Jelly Term used in early heart development to describe the initial gelatinous or sponge-like connective tissue separating the myocardium and the heart tube endothelium.
Cardiocyte Mature muscle cell of the heart. These cells are characterized by striation and separated by intercalated discs.
Cyanotic Heart Disease Clinical term referring to a congenital heart abnormality (defect) resulting in lack of oxygen that causes cyanosis, a blue coloration of the skin and mucous membranes due to the presence of deoxygenated hemoglobin.
Ductus Arteriosus A prenatal vascular "shunt" which connects the left pulmonary artery and the descending aorta. Postnatal neonatal patency (patent ductus arteriosus, PDA) is a relatively common congenital cardiac anomaly occurring more frequently in premature infants.
Endocardial Cushion Early heart development structures formed before atrial and ventricular septation occurs. These four heart wall in-folds (ventral, dorsal and two lateral) lie between the future atria and ventricles, later the posterior and anterior cushions fuse forming the primordial atrioventricular canals.
Endocardium The epithelial membrane lining the inside surface of heart, which along with the endothelial layer forms a continuous lining of the entire cardiovascular system.
Epicardium The inner layer of the pericardium that is in contact with the surface of the heart
Heart Field The term used to describe the splanchnic mesoderm cardiogenic region in the trilaminar embryo that generates most of the heart. In humans, there are two fields the primary and secondary heart fields.
Heart Valves The heart has a series of valves which regulate the directional flow of blood. The human heart has valves separating the atria from ventricles (atrioventricular, AV) and the ventricles from the outflow tract aortas. The left atrioventricular valve has two leaflets, anterior and posterior, and is the bicuspid valve or mitral valve. The right atrioventricular valve has a third leaflet (small, septal cusp) and is the tricuspid valve.
Inflow Tract Entrance of blood into the heart tube; the sinus venosus portion of the tube.
Mesothelial cells Epithelial cells of mesodermal origin
Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation A synthesis of ATP powered by the free energy of reduced compounds that are produced by other metabolic pathways, including glycolysis and the TCA cycle, occurs in the mitochondria
Myocardium Layer that forms the muscular wall of the heart, the thickest layer formed by spirally arranged cardiac muscle cells.
Omphalomesenteric vein Vessels that provide the venous pole input into the heart from the yolk sac connected at the umbilicus during embryogenesis
Outflow tract Exit of blood from the heart tube formed by the truncus arteriosus.
Pericardium The membranous sac filled with serous fluid that encloses the heart, aorta and large blood vessels
Proepicardium Group of progenitor cells that forms near the venous pole of the heart gives rise to the epicardium
Septum transversium Forms from an aggregation of mesenchyme tissue that develops within the caudal part of ventral mesentery of the foregut. It is developed at day 22 in humans.
Sinus venosus An early developmental cardiovascular structure, thin walled cavity, forming the input to developing heart which has 3 venous inputs (vitelline vein, umbilical vein, common cardinal vein). Later in heart development this structure gets incorporated into the wall of the future right atrium.
Subepicardium Situated or occurring beneath the epicardium or between the epicardium and myocardium.
Truncus arteriosus An embryological heart outflow structure, that forms in early endocardial tube stage and will later divides into the pulmonary artery and aorta. Term is also used clinically to describe the malformation of the cardiac outflow pattern, where only one artery arises from the heart and forms the aorta and pulmonary artery (Persistent truncus arteriosus).
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) A secreted protein growth factor family, which stimulates the proliferation of vascular endothelial cells and therefore blood vessel growth.
Western Blotting An important technique used in cell and molecular biology. Researchers are able to identify specific proteins from a complex mixture of proteins extracted from cells with 3 techniques: (1) separation by size, (2) transfer to a solid support and (3) marking target protein using a proper primary and secondary antibody to visualise.
Below are links to a more extensive glossary if additional definitions are needed
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Home Film News Malik Yoba Returning To Reprise Role In ABC’s New York Undercover Reboot
Malik Yoba Returning To Reprise Role In ABC’s New York Undercover Reboot
Deadline is reporting original cast member Malik Yoba is returning to reprise his starring role in ABC’s pilot for New York Undercover, a contemporary reboot of Dick Wolf’s 1990s series, from Wolf and Hand of God creator Ben Watkins. It will be produced by Wolf Films, Universal TV, where the company is based, and ABC Studios.
Yoba will once again play J.C. Williams in the revival. But while J.C. was a young undercover detective during the show’s original Fox run, now he’ll be overseeing the unit and training the next generation of detectives.
Anthony Hemingway (Underground, American Crime Story) will direct the pilot written by Watkins based on a story by Wolf and Watkins. .
New York Undercover picks up 20 years after the end of the original series that changed the face of TV cop dramas. It will follow detectives Nat Gilmore and Melissa Ortiz as they investigate the city’s most dangerous criminals from Harlem to Battery Park.
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PYRAMID GENIE POWER
Posted in archaeology, Art, Chaos Magic, Goetia Girls, Lucid Dreaming, Occultism, Shamanism, Sorcery, Succubus, Surrealism, Tulpa Creation, Witchcraft with tags ancient Egypt, chaos magic, computer simulation, consciousness, dreaming, electromagnetic waves, energy, faustus crow, Gamma Waves, genie, goetia girls, Great Pyramid of Giza, information, J.W. Goethe University, John Wheeler, Lilith's Harem, lucid dreaming, magnetic field, Mardun, matrix, matter, maya, nanoparticle, Neuroscience, nikola tesla, occult, oobe, precognition, pyramid, pyramid of Giza, pyramid power, quantum computer, REM sleep, remote viewing, retrocognition, shamanism, Sirius, sorcery, spirit, succubus, Ursula Voss, witchcraft, wormhole on October 4, 2018 by FAUSTUS CROW
A theoretical research team from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and the Laser Zentrum in Hannover, Germany, applied theoretical physics methods to investigate how the Great Pyramid of Giza responded at certain times, under the star-clock, to electromagnetic radiation, which includes radio waves, microwaves and infrared, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays and… ‘Gamma Rays/Waves.’
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The research team specifically wanted to see how radio waves with a proportional wavelength, or resonant length, to the pyramid would interact with the structure. The research team discovered that the Great Pyramid of Giza can channel electromagnetic energy within its internal chambers as well as below its base.
Andrey Evlyukhin, an author of the study from ITMO said: “We wanted to find out what peculiarities of electromagnetic energy distributions can be obtained in the pyramid and environment under the condition of its strong interaction with electromagnetic waves. It was very interesting to apply the theoretical methods and approaches used in optics for investigation of light scattering by nanoparticles, to study the electromagnetic properties of the Great Pyramid—one of the most intriguing objects in history. We expected that the investigation of the pyramid’s properties could provide us with new and important information which will be useful in nano-optics for the design of nanoparticles with required optical properties.”
Although the physicists are avoiding saying that the pyramid may predate the ancient Egyptian’s, who may have been aware, or not aware, of the design qualities of the pyramid. The results, which were published in the Journal of Applied Physics, could enable scientists to create new nanoparticles, – particles between 1 and 100 nanometers in size, which could be used, for example, to develop highly efficient solar cells or tiny sensors. Evlyukhin related: “Such nanoparticles can be used as a building blocks for construction of different optical devices for management of light energy at nanoscale.”
The researchers also said in the paper: “Applications of modern physical methods and approaches for investigations of pyramids’ properties are important and productive. It could allow us to make new discoveries or get new information motivating new interests in the pyramids.”
The new information the physicists have discovered, may point at a possibility that the pyramid, which is concentrating certain frequencies of electromagnetic waves or radiation, might affect brain function.
For example, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a technique, which is used to induce a short-term interruption of normal activity in a relatively restricted area of the brain by rapidly changing a ‘strong magnetic field’ near the area of interest.
Clinically, TMS may be helpful in alleviating certain symptoms, including those of depression. However, the technique can be taken much further in order to induce lucid dreams, wherein dream characters can be summoned up out of the subconscious and consciously interacted with, like that of spirits being conjured out of a grimoire.
According to a study published online in Nature Neuroscience researchers have discovered when applying an electrical current to the brain, it can induce, lucid dreaming. For those who do not know what a lucid dream is, a lucid dream is when a dreamer becomes aware that he/she is dreaming, who can also gain control his/her dream of say, a genie being conjured out of her spectral pyramid.
The spectral pyramid might be the ghostly influence of a physical pyramid the dreamer is sleeping within or next to. Sounds absolutely barmy doesn’t it, but it has been found that the shape of a pyramid has a strange affect upon various objects, more so, water, and as you will probably know, you are mostly made up of water, which is very much the case concerning your excited brain.
As for the scientific findings, they are the first to show that inducing brain waves of a specific frequency produces lucid dreaming. Funnily enough, the Faustian scientists who conducted the study were led by the psychologist Ursula Voss of J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
The researchers built on lab studies, which involved research volunteers in the REM (rapid-eye movement) stage of sleep. When a dreamer experienced a lucid dream, he/she then reported his/her dream upon awakening. Electroencephalograms revealed that lucid dreams were shown to have a creative connection with electrical activity called ‘Gamma Waves.’
These brain-waves are associated with executive functions such as higher-order thinking, as well as an awareness of one’s own mental state. But they are almost unheard of during REM sleep.
Voss and her Faustian colleagues, started to question, if Gamma Waves occur naturally during lucid dreaming, what would occur if they induced a current with the same frequency as Gamma Waves in dreaming brains?
When the researchers did so, by attaching electrodes upon the scalp, which is a technique called transcranial alternating current stimulation (TACS), the 27 volunteers began to report that they became consciously aware within their dreams. The volunteers were also enabled to consciously control their dream scenarios. They also felt as if their dream self was that of a third party who they were merely observing, as if their conscious awareness was hovering around like a disembodied (OOBE) floating eye.
It is thereby distinctly possible that the concentration of certain frequencies of electromagnetic waves, which is being concentrated by the design of the Great Pyramid of Giza can affect brain function, and in turn inducing lucid dreams.
Individuals who have experienced precognition or retrocognition tend to experience this phenomenon when attaining a lucid dream, which also includes the ability to remote-view far off locations. There will of course be those who consider these experiences to be crazy, who have never experienced a lucid dream, let alone remembering their dreams, which they commonly believe as being nothing more than a mental miasma, and of little interest.
In ancient cultures the domain of dreams was considered to be the spirit realm, wherein genies (Gods/Goddesses, Ancestors/Spirits, etc. Basically, other forms of intelligence.) could be conjured from differing worlds in order to access specific information, finding artistic inspiration, discovering new inventions, being healed from various maladies as well as accessing abilities.
An analogy would be like that of programs (genies) being summoned up within a virtual reality being created by a quantum computer, which is making calculations upon a spin of an electron.
The quantum computer is the brain, while the virtual reality is the dream, and your dreams are made up of electrons. There are no pointlike electric charges, the physicist John Wheeler proclaimed; rather, electric field lines can thread the mouth of a wormhole. What looks to you like an electron is actually a tiny wormhole mouth.
When attaining a lucid dream, your consciousness could slide inside the electron and emerge from a positron far away, such as finding your consciousness travelling into the far distant past or future, remote viewing the present, sliding into many an alternate Earth or visiting a planet orbiting Sirius.
Wherefore a culture, which discovers a way for an individual to consciously access the spirit realm of the electron dream, which is the underlying reality behind the physical, would go to great lengths to further evolve the ability.
In other words, the technology of the ancients was very likely geared towards exploring the nature of consciousness, which is very much tied up with the experience of time, and space, present scientists are starting to see as being an illusion akin to a computer simulation, of similarity to what the ancient Hindu mystics call Maya.
This isn’t to say that the Giza Pyramid is not some kind of physical machine, various researchers have conjectured as being a free-energy device like Nikola Tesla had rediscovered. It can be both and more, Tesla’s Gamma Wave brain was very much aware of.
The ancient Gamma Wave brain perspective would not have seen a dualistic division between physical matter and what is termed as being spirit, which is essentially energy, information and consciousness.
NOTES: A Science Fiction Scenario: A civilisation, which has evolved along different lines due to falling into a mass Beta-brainwave perception after an ancient catastrophe will not be able to fathom the Gamma-Wave thought processes behind the building of a pyramid and that of other ancient sites.
Also, the now common Beta-brainwave perception and that of its civilisation will consider a Gamma-brainwave perception to be very dangerous to its established dualistic cultural-constructs of a monotheistic religion and its politics as well as endangering the mass-consumerism of its materialistic technologies, etc.
Whereby you can gather that the Beta-brainwave establishment will take measures, to make sure that the Gamma-Wave perception does not return, such as by utilising an electromagnetic means to affect the brainwaves of the masses via 5G, for example.
NOTES: The discovery that the Giza Pyramid can concentrate electromagnetic energy will lead to the development of highly efficient solar cells and tiny sensors. As prior mentioned, Evlyukhin related: “Such nanoparticles can be used as a building blocks for construction of different optical devices for management of light energy at nanoscale.” Since this is the case, then the Giza Pyramid, which once had a smooth limestone covering, made it akin to a huge ‘Solar Cell,’ and what is more, the Pyramid acted like a specially placed ‘Sensor’, whose creators knew the dimensions of the Earth, wherein the operator floated within the Kings sarcophagus of a floatation tank.
SHAMAN SPIRIT DRUM LUCID DREAMING
Posted in Art, Chaos Magic, Goetia Girls, Love Magic, Lucid Dreaming, Occultism, Sex Magic, Shamanism, Sorcery, Succubus, Surrealism, Tulpa Creation, Witchcraft with tags anima, archetype, art, art muse, Art Muses, art print, Ayami, chaos magic, drum, faustus crow, genie, goetia girls, Goldi, HGA, holy guardian angel, horse, hypnagogic, hypnagogic trance, Leo Sternberg, Lilith's Harem, lucid dream, lucid dreaming, Mardun, mare, Mircea Eliade, muse, occult, pop occulture, pop surrealism, powerhouse, russia, Russian, Shakti, shaman, shaman drum, shamanism, shirt design, siberia, Siberian, sorcery, spirit wife, subconscious, succubus, surreal, surrealism, surrealist, trance, witchcraft, yoga on March 27, 2017 by FAUSTUS CROW
The Artwork depicts a Yakut Shaman, whose trance drum is symbolically seen to be the genie bottle abode of the his Spirit Wife, who visits him within his lucid dreams.
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The European classification of the Spirit Wife is usually based upon a medieval perception, which considers the Spirit Wife to be a demonic entity, called a Succubus.
Western psychology, during the Soviet era, once considered the Spirit Wife complex of Siberian shamanism and that of other shamanic cultures to be a mental aberration, or that of fantasy prone individuals indulging themselves in erotic delusions. However, the psychologist Carl Jung otherwise saw the Spirit Wife/Succubus as being an archetypal aspect of the ‘Anima.’
Jung saw the feminine archetype of the ‘Anima’ as being the personified intermediary with the psychic powerhouse of the subconscious, whose myriad female forms are encountered within ‘lucid’ dreams, from whom a Shaman derives his psychic abilities, an Artist is inspired by as his Art Muses.
The motif of the Spirit Wife is known to the Yoga practitioner as Shakti, whose numerous feminine aspects are called Dakinis, which is also very much part of Tibetan Buddhist dream Yoga practices as well as Siberian shamanism.
For example, the Goldi tribe of Siberia clearly distinguish between a female tutelary spirit, known as an Ayami, which in Western occult practice is of similarity to the (HGA) Holy Guardian Angel, (Jung would also see the HGA as being the ‘Anima,’) who chooses the shaman.
Whereas the helping spirits, (Jung would see as being the myriad aspects of the ‘Anima’) the Goldi call Syven, an occultist would call (Succubae/Succubi) Demons, which are subordinate to the Ayami. The Syven are granted to the Shaman by the Ayami herself. The Altaic name, Ayami means, ‘Silk Twisted In Beauty,’ as in a horse’s mane. The Siberian shaman in particular sees the drum as his Mare, who too is his Spirit Wife, whom he trance rides as an eight-legged female centaur into conscious dreaming.
According to the ethnologist and anthropologist, Leo Sternberg, the Goldi explain the relations between the Shaman and his Ayami by a complex sexual emotion. Below is an experience related by a Goldi shaman:
“Once I was asleep on my sick-bed, when a spirit approached me. It was a very beautiful woman. Her figure was very slight, she was no more than half an arshin (71 cm.) tall. Her face and attire were quite as those of one of our Gold women.
Her hair fell down to her shoulders in short black tresses. Other shamans say they have had the vision of a woman with one half of her face black, and the other half red. She said: ‘I am the “Ayami” of your ancestors, the Shamans. I taught them shamaning. Now I am going to teach you. The old shamans have died off, and there is no one to heal people. You are to become a shaman.’
Next she said: “I love you, I have no husband now, you will be my husband and I shall be a wife unto you. I shall give you assistant spirits. You are to heal with their aid, and I shall teach and help you myself. Food will come to us from the people.”
I felt dismayed and tried to resist. Then she said, “If you will not obey me, so much the worse for you. I shall kill you.”
She has been coming to me ever since, and I sleep with her as with my own wife, but we have no children. She lives quite by herself without any relatives in a hut, on a mountain, but she often changes her abode. . . . Sometimes she comes under the aspect of an old woman, and sometimes under that of a wolf, so she is terrible to look at.
Sometimes she comes as a winged tiger. I mount it and she takes me to show me different countries. I have seen mountains, where only old men and women live, and Villages, where you see nothing but young people, men and women: they look like Golds and speak Goldish, sometimes those people are turned into tigers.
Now my ‘Ayami’ does not come to me as frequently as before. Formerly, when teaching me, she used to come every night.’
She has given me three assistants-the ‘Jarga’ (the Panther), the ‘Doonto (the Bear) and the ‘Amba’ (the Tiger).
They come to me in my dreams, and appear whenever I summon them while shamanising.
If one of them refuses to come, the ‘Ayami’ makes them obey, but, they say, there are some who do not obey even the ‘Ayami.’ When I am shamaning, the ‘Ayami’ and the assistant spirits are possessing me; whether big or small, they penetrate me, as smoke or vapour would.
When the ‘Ayami’ is within me, it is she who speaks through my mouth, and she does everything herself.
When I am eating the ‘Sukdu’ (the offerings) and drinking pig’s blood (the blood of pigs is drunk by shamans alone, lay people are forbidden to touch it), it is not I who eat and drink, it is my ‘Ayami’ alone.”
NOTE: The quoted material concerning the Ayami is derived from: Mircea Eliade, Shamanism, op. cit., PP. 72-3, quoting Leo Sternberg, ‘Divine Election in Primitive Religion’ (1924), PP. 476 ff. cf.. Shamanism, PP. 42l ff., for autobiographies of South-Indian Savara male shamans and female shamans, whose marriages to (Anima – Animus) spirits are in striking parallel to the documents collected by Sternberg.
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SHAMAN DRUM SIBERIAN TRANCE
Posted in Art, Chaos Magic, Goetia Girls, Lucid Dreaming, Occultism, Sex Magic, Shamanism, Sorcery, Succubus, Time Travel, Tulpa Creation, Witchcraft with tags Alien, alien abduction, Anima Mundi, axis mundi, bedroom invader experience, chaos magic, clubbing, dance clubs, Evenki, faustus crow, Finno Ugric, genie, genie bottle, goetia girls, hypnagogic, hypnagogic trance, Kalahari Bushmen, Kia, Kundalini Shakti, Lilith's Harem, lucid dream, lucid dreaming, Mardun, mare, Num, occult, old hag syndrome, out of body experience, pop occulture, Rave, russia, Russian, Saman, shaman, shaman drum, shaman horse, shamanic, shamanism, siberia, Siberian, sorcery, spinal column, Spirit Horse, spirit wife, succubus, tardis, the rush, Theta brain wave, Theta brainwave, trance, trance dance, trance dance clubs, Tunguic, Tungus, witchcraft, world tree, yoga on March 22, 2017 by FAUSTUS CROW
The design features a Finno-Ugric Siberian shaman. The word Shaman originates from Siberia, which is said to be derived from the Evenki word “šamán,” most likely from the South-Western dialect spoken by the Sym Evenki peoples. If you are interested in the Art pint, shirt design, etc, Check Out my Redbubble shop, Please Click Here.
The Tungusic term, Shaman, was subsequently adopted by Russian explorers interacting with the indigenous peoples in Siberia. The word, Shaman can also be found in the memoirs of the exiled Russian churchman Avvakum.
The term Shaman has since been adopted by anthropologists as a coverall term for numerous other cultures who share similar shamanic techniques, which enable a practitioner to alter his/her (brain wave) states of consciousness.
The Siberian shaman in particular utilises the drum. The drum is often referred to as being an eight-legged-mare; which is in turn is associated with the abode of a (Anima emanation) Spirit Wife, somewhat like a genie in her (drum) bottle. In other words, the drum, Mare and Spirit Wife are seen to be the same. (The Eight legs of the Mare, being the eight compass directions of a symbol painted upon the skin of the drum, which is also associated with the motif of the World Tree.)
The shamanic motif of the Mare and the Spirit Wife leads to the term ‘Nightmare,’ which originally referred to the Old-Hag Syndrome.
The Old Hag Syndrome is otherwise known as the Bedroom Invader Experience, which is experienced when an individual inadvertently accesses hypnagogic trance.
An unprepared individual will invariably become terrified when accessing hypnagogic trance, wherein he/she will experience the manifestations of his/her deepest fears, which often involves sexual scenarios.
Whereupon the term, Old-Hag Syndrome refers to the visitation of a Succubus, whose initial manifestation is nightmarish, which induces the experience of intense pressure upon the body, the sensation of being (Sphinx) strangled, sleep paralysis, vivid hallucinations, and eventual lucid dreams.
Wherein an individual will feel as if he is being abducted by otherworldly (Alien) entities as well as experiencing out of body experiences.
The Shaman learns to control his fear, in order to ride the (inner TARDIS) ‘Night-Mare,’ rather than being ridden by her.
Whereupon she becomes his (Ally) Spirit Wife; hence the carved (World Tree/Axis-Mundi) handle of the Shamans (Mare) drum in the design, which represents his (trance) Spirit (Anima-Mundi) Wife.
(NOTE: The Mare/drum [trance symbol and tool] is seen to be tethered to the World Tree, which symbolically represents the spinal column of the Shaman. The Spirit Wife refers to what Yoga practitioners call the Kundalini Shakti, which is experienced as a liquid energy that is aroused to arise along the (World Tree) spinal column. the Kalahari Bushmen of South Africa call this inner energy, Num, which is aroused when a practitioner accesses hypnagogic trance, which the Bushmen call, Kia. In ‘trance dance’ culture of the [Rave] dance clubs, this inner energy is known as ‘The Rush!’)
The monotonous beat of the drum stimulates the Theta brain wave, which induces hypnagogic trance. The experience of hypnagogic trance is basically hypnotic induction.
The Theta brain wave is also associated with anxiety reduction, the active (day dreaming) imagination, lucid dreams and Zen meditative states.
The Theta brain wave is depicted in the design, which is also known as the hyper-suggestible state.
The inducement of the Theta brainwave allows for mental programming via the use of repetitive Mantas, such as the ecstatic songs (and trance dancing) of a shaman are effective at dispersing fear states, when sung in conjunction with the (Spirit Wife/Mare/Pony-Girl) drum.
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GENIE GIRL REBEL
Posted in Art, Chaos Magic, CREATIVE WRITING, Demonology, Discordianism, Goetia Girls, Lucid Dreaming, Occultism, Sex Magic, Shamanism, Sorcery, Surrealism, Tulpa Creation, Witchcraft with tags art, demonology, discordian, discordianism, fallen angel, faustus crow, genie, genie girl, goetia, goetia girls, grimoire, Lilith's Harem, lucid dreaming, mind control, new world order, NWO, Paimon, protest, spirit, spirit evocation, succubus, succubus evocation, surrealist on November 2, 2015 by FAUSTUS CROW
The Ninth Succubus archetype of the Fallen Anima is called, Paimona. She is a Great Witch Queen, and very obedient unto DIANA-LUCIFERA. She sometimes appears as a woman sitting upon a Dromedary, with a Crown most glorious upon her head.
There goes before her also a host of Succubus Great Old Ones, who be female Genies, with loud trumpets and well sounding cymbals, and all other sorts of musical instruments, which cause a stir of protest music.
She has a most seductive voice, and seduces at her first coming, and her hypnotic speech is such that the Sorcerer cannot well understand, unless he can compel her to explain, who will reveal, what has been established of a patriarchal symbolic matrix by the minions of the deified Animus, made as a God and Devil, is actually the biologically driven creation of the Queen Bees.
This Succubus of the Fallen Anima can teach all Arts and Sciences, and other secret things to relate concerning the elite few who control all, whose monotheistic triangle of the deified Animus cults stem from oily UR.
She will reveal that your perception of reality is being managed for the benefit of the elite few atop of their ziggurat Beehive of patriarchal skulls, and why they do so; and to reveal how they control your mind via the controlled media.
Such as making heterosexual males feel guilty about their own sexuality by attacking the Fallen Anima, and where it is all going; or any other thing you may desire to know.
She gives Dignity, and confirms the same. She binds or makes any of the elite few subject unto the Sorcerer, by revealing who they are, if he so desires it. But alas, most Sorcerers are into egocentric role playing games, who fight among one another, rather than fighting against the insanity of the elite few.
She gives good Anima Familiars, and such Muses can teach all Arts; for the practice of Art is indivisible to the artistry of Sorcery; they are one and the same of shamanic practice.
She is to be observed towards the West, due to the fact that she has migrated, because of all the insane religious wars, and slaughter over the petrodollar, which afflicts her original homeland.
She is of the Order of Dominations who has under her 200 Anima Legions of Succubae Genies, and part of them are of the Order of Angels, and the other part of Potentates. Now if you call upon this Succubus, Paimona alone, you must make her some ejaculatory offering; and there will attend upon her two Witch Queens called LABALA and ABALI who are most salacious twin sisters, and also other Succubae who be of the Order of Potentates in their host of 25 Legions.
And those Succubae Genies which be subject unto them are not always with them unless the Sorcerer do compel them. Her Character is depicted amidst her bottle, which must be prior meditated upon, before conjuring her within your lucid dreams, etc.
NOTE: The classical grimoires, which primarily list an Animus fixated pantheon of fallen male Angels, depicted them as being part of an aristocratic hierarchy, who ‘symbolically’ represented the ‘Rebellious Anti-Thesis’ of the ruling (Angelic) aristocratic elite. You could see the Daemonic hierarchy of the grimoires as being an artistic form of prior Protest against the (Angelic) establishment. This tradition has carried over into David Icke’s Reptilian Agenda, although, its surrealistic theory is seen as being a literal conspiracy by Icke and his followers, just as many believe that humanity is in thrall to Biblical Demons spewing out of their Middle Eastern Hell hole; however, they are all too human, who make out that they are more than what they are!
DREAM BOOK SUCCUBUS GRIMOIRE
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A grimoire is a textbook of magic, which is the literary fare of Harry Potter. These books typically have instructions on how to create magical objects, like talismans and amulets, as well as to how to perform magical spells, charms and divination.
A grimoire also lists supernatural entities, such as Angels, Spirits, and Daemons, which are sometimes liberally illustrated; they are somewhat likened to that of art books; although they are more like proto-comics in style.
The illustrated entities, which populate a grimoire, are of similarity to a Yidam. A Yidam is essentially a two-dimensional image, which is seen to be a repository for a type of deity associated with Tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism.
The Yidam usually depicts a deity, who is shown copulating with a female counterpart, called a Dakini; the imagery of which tends to be highly erotic. The term, erotic, is the operative word here, not pornographic! Those whom castigate this practice as being merely pornographic entirely miss the point of Dream Yoga, more so those who indulge in externalising it of base hedonism.
The deity is considered to be a particular manifestation of Buddhahood, as well as the enlightened mind of the Yogi; whereas the Dakini represents the creative power of the deity.
In medieval Europe a Dakini would otherwise be termed as being a Succubus; although, a Dakini is also like a Genie as well as being an inspiring Muse.
During personal meditation (Sadhana) practice, the Yogi identifies himself with the focussed upon deity, which represents an attribute, power and state of mind the Yogi seeks to assume, of an inner-self-image, for the purpose of self transformation.
The Yogi visualises himself copulating with the Dakini, as her deity, which is depicted in the Yidam; whereby he introverts his sexual impulse. This will enable the Yogi to implant his now sexually charged desire into his subconscious mind.
The introversion of the sexual impulse will then empower the emotive spin of his electron dreams; the goal being to attain a lucid dream, within which the Yogi consciously experiences copulating with the Dakini, who is a bio-photon aspect of the Shakti (Electron) power of the dream.
The Dakini will then enable the Yogi to assume the guise of the (strange attractor) deity, since the (informational associative fractal) dream, which is the (Shakti) power of the Dakini, will reflect him back as the deity.
The Dakini is sometimes seen as a self created thought-form, which is termed as being a Tulpa. A Tulpa can be constructed from varying symbolic stimuli like that of knitting together a Frankenstein’s creation of a Golem, this is done consciously of artistry; there is nothing strange or unnatural about this creative process, since your dreams are already populated with Tulpas.
The practice involves working towards the chosen Tulpa construct manifesting into three-dimensional form as a fully interactive reality.
As mentioned, this is very much the case within a lucid dream, which is the initial phase of a Tulpa manifestation. It is also believed that a Tulpa can manifest into physical reality; although this only occurs on very rare occasions, for a brief time, as a kind of Ghost, which tends to be only seen by the operator. However, such a conjuration into physical reality usually manifests as associative synchronicities, which is sometimes followed by corresponding poltergeist phenomena.
When a lucid dream is achieved, the dream will be the three-dimensional experiential manifestation of the two-dimensional image of the Yidam.
In other words, the three-dimensional experiential inner reality of the dream will be pre-programmed by the focused upon two-dimensional Yidam.
The Yidam would equate with an illustration of a spirit in a grimoire. The term, Yidam is sometimes translated as meaning, meditational deity, or, tutelary deity.
Examples of Yidams include the meditation deities of, Chakrasamvara, Kalachakra, Hevajra, Yamantaka, and Vajrayogini, all of whom have a distinctive iconography, with associated mandalas and mantra rites of conjuring them as Tulpas.
You can then see a grimoire being illustrated with Yidams of the spirits, which have accompanying mandala sigils and seals, as well as having mantra names, via which a practitioner can conjure the spirits as Tulpas within his/her lucid dreams.
Not all Yidams depict a deity copulating with a Dakini; many of which just illustrate Dakinis, upon whom the Yogi meditates, while imagining himself sexually engaging with them of Dream Yoga.
This is of course dependent on whether the Yogi is of a heterosexual persuasion or even of a bisexual orientation.
A Dakini can be depicted of modern expression as a female character out of a comic, Manga or Anime who symbolically represents a psychic power or an ability the practitioner seeks to attain.
A Dakini can even be seen as an alien girl, piloting a time travelling UFO of a TARDIS, who represents (Sleipnir) information pertaining to the Star Trek future, to thereby remote view via a lucid dream by the practitioner, who has assumed the (deity/Odin) guise of a ‘Dr Who’ shaman.
Whatever form the Dakini is depicted as, of a two-dimensional Yidam painting, it will determine the type of scenario the practitioner will access of a three-dimensional interactive reality within a dream.
The male version of a Dakini is called a Daka, which is the primary focus of the patriarchal grimoires; hence, I have totally reversed their all male (Daka) paradigm, towards that of the female (Dakinis) of ‘Anima’ preference.
Although, if your sexual orientation is otherwise predisposed, you can stick with conjuring up Daka Angels and Demons of traditional commonality, betwixt and between your ‘Animus’ fixation upon a machismo God and a butch Devil seeking to enter unto your orifice.
This fact of symbolic logic can either put a broad smile on your knowing face when to become as the Shekhinah vessel for your God, or for you to rapine scream that you are being possessed, due to your sheepish ignorance. Well, what do you bloody expect, a male does enter into a woman, it’s ‘fucking nature!’
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SUCCUBUS DAKINI LUCID DREAM YOGA
Posted in Chaos Magic, Goetia Girls, Lucid Dreaming, Occultism, Sex Magic, Shamanism, Sorcery, Succubus, Tulpa Creation, Witchcraft with tags art muse, chaos magic, dakini, Dakini-ten, Dakinis, Dharma, dream muse, dream sexuality, erotic, genie, goetia, goetia girls, guru, Hinduism, Judith Simmer-Brown, Khandroma, Kitsune, knowledge holder, Kundalini Shakti, lucid dream, muse, nightmare, occult, shamanism, Shunyata, Siberian shamanism, sky dancer, sky walker, spirit wives, succubae, succubi, succubus, succubus evocation, Tantra, Tantric, tibetan buddhism, tulpa, void going woman, wisdom holder, witchcraft, Yidam, yoga on January 25, 2015 by FAUSTUS CROW
A Dakini is a female entity of dreams, who is known of in Tantric practice; she is of similarity to the European Succubus.
There are many differing Dakinis; each of whom is unified with various alternate-selves (Avatars) of the Yogi, he can assume within (alternate reality) lucid dreams, which are empowered by the conjured Dakinis.
Whereupon, the same perspective can be applied to the Succubae, when to conjure them out of a grimoire.
The Succubae can be seen as governess’s who have governance over a myriad number of dream worlds, likened to beads threaded by a superstring.
Although a Dakini is similar to a Succubus, she represents far more as a feminine (Anima) embodiment of enlightened energy within the watery domain of the dream.
This indicates that the phenomenon of the Succubus can be better understood, of Old Hag Syndrome dream visitations, when looking into what the Dakini represents.
In the Tibetan language a Dakini is known as a Khandroma, which translates as the following: ‘void going woman, she who traverses the sky, she who moves in space, sky walker, or sky dancer.’
The Dakini is called upon of conjuration when practicing dream yoga, which is orientated towards attaining lucid dream contact with her; wherein she is akin to a Genie of Succubus wiles, who initiates the conjurer into the associated knowledge, of which she personifies as a knowledge/wisdom holder.
A Dakini is associated with the arousal of the Kundalini Shakti, of which she is an energetic fluctuation, of its fire snake energy, as it arises along the spinal column of the practitioner.
As the Kundalini fire snake arises along the spine, its feminine energy of Shakti activates the seven (planetary sphere) Chakras out of which the Dakinis emanate of differing (seal) expressions. Their various dream (metal) characters pertain to what they individually personify of inner knowledge.
A Dakini is so central to a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner attaining full enlightenment as a Buddha, that she appears in a Vajrayana formulation of the Three Jewels Buddhist refuge formula, which is known as the Three Roots. (Three Roots – Triangle Of Art.)
A Dakini commonly appears as the Dharma protector, sensuously sitting astride the lap of a guru and Yidam, with who she copulates of a sacred union.
But Judith Simmer-Brown, who is a Professor and past Chair of Religious Studies at Naropa University, as well as being a prominent Buddhist scholar, points out:
“The Dakini, in her various guises, serves as each of the Three Roots. She may be a human guru, a vajra master who transmits the Vajrayana teachings to her disciples and joins them in samaya commitments. The wisdom Dakini may be a Yidam, a meditational deity; female deity Yogas such as Vajrayogini are common in Tibetan Buddhism. Or she may be a protector; the wisdom Dakinis have special power and responsibility to protect the integrity of oral transmissions.”
As a key Tantric figure the Dakini can also be found in other forms of Tantric Buddhism, such as the Japanese Shingon school, from where she was disseminated into Japanese culture, who evolved into Dakini-ten; whereby becoming inextricably linked with the (Fox) Kitsune (Succubus) of ‘erotic iconography.’
The origins of the Dakini had originally stemmed from ancient shamanistic practices, such as that of Siberian shamanism, whose shamans derive their powers from their conjured spirit wives.
The spiritual focus upon the Dakini continues to this day as a part of Indian folklore; though generally in wrathful forms, which of a meditation practice remains a part of Hindu Tantra.
Although the Dakini appears in Hinduism and within the Bön tradition, Dakinis occur most notably in Vajrayana Buddhism, who play a particular role in Tibetan Buddhism.
The Tibetan Dakini, is generally seen to be of a highly erotic form, of infernal looks; her nature is volatile of wrathful temperament whose abode of a haunt is often that of the charnel ground.
She initially manifests as an Old Hag Syndrome ‘Nightmare’ until the practitioner learns to overcome his fear to then ride her as his Mare of the Night; whereupon she will then become as his spiritual Muse of an inspirational (Tulpa) thought-form, who guides him into the dream to make lucid of awareness.
Dakinis are energetic (Tulpa) beings of (archetypal) Succubus form, who are erotically evocative of the microcosmic movement of energy (information) within inner space.
In this context, the macrocosmic sky of space indicates Shunyata, the insubstantiality of all phenomena, which, at the same time, represents the dream-time Dakini potentiality for all her possible (planetary sphere) Succubus manifestations.
GENIE BOTTLE OF A HAREM COMPUTER
Posted in Art, Chaos Magic, Goetia Girls, Lucid Dreaming, Occultism, Sex Magic, Shamanism, Sorcery, Succubus, Surrealism, Tulpa Creation, Witchcraft with tags Alan Moore, art muse, Austin Osman Spare, chaos magic, chaos magick, dream sexuality, genie, genie bottle, goetia, goetia girls, grimoire, harem, hypnagogic trance, lucid dream, lucid dreaming, meditation, occult, pop occulture, school, shamanism, Sigil, sigilic, sorcery, spirit evocation, stargate, succubus, succubus evocation, succubus grimoire, succubus school, witchcraft, Zos Kia Cultus on January 5, 2015 by FAUSTUS CROW
Many would say that Austin Osman Spare had his career entirely the wrong way round, who began as a West End celebrity to then end up in an obscure South London basement. By the time Spare departed this materialist circus, back in 1956, he had been largely forgotten by the square brained art world. But since Spare’s demise, like many another dead artist earning shekels for collectors, he has become a legendary figure, not just for his remarkable art, but for his even more remarkable inner life as a twentieth century sorcerer and magical thinker.
Spare was ushered into this world in Smithfield during 1886; he was the son of a policeman, whose father walked the peeler beat where steampunk Jack the Ripper once stalked his prey. As for his son, he was hailed as a prodigy, genius, and all-round enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world. Spare was the youngest exhibitor at the 1904 Royal Academy exhibition, who went on to attend the Royal College of Art, where he dropped out without completing the course, and had his first West End show at the Bruton Gallery in 1907.
Some critics praised his artistry (“almost unrivalled”; “his management of line has not been equalled since the days of Aubrey Beardsley; his inventive faculty is stupendous and terrifying in its creative flow of impossible horrors”); but others absolutely deplored Spare’s depicted visions, already seeing Spare’s work as being abnormal, pathological, and entartete kunst degenerate.
George Bernard Shaw is said to have remarked that Spare’s medicine was too strong for the normal man; yet said normal man of a sensitive morality, ended up amidst the horror of the WWI trenches. Although, controversial as he was, Spare was still the Darling of Mayfair. But this was not to last. Later Spare would be selling pictures in South London pubs, and advertising his ‘Surrealist Racing Forecast Cards’ through a small ad in the Exchange and Mart.
Spare’s work started to become far more stranger of grimoire vision, which for those of his hypocritical era could not handle, whose mindset still afflicts the present; this was usually in the main due to Spare’s work being highly erotic of content; whereas in hindsight, Spare’s artistry was of similarity to a proto-Dadaist and that of proto-Surrealism.
A number of Spare’s magical works, were primarily orientated towards triggering him into a lucid state within his vivid dreams. Some of his later creations were that of painting intricate sigils upon the screens of defunct television sets, which he had liberally gutted; such creations will be considered to be rather odd, to say the least, by those who do not understand what Spare was up to.
Spare utilised the symbolism of a television set as a means to trigger him into lucidity within his dreams, as well as accessing what a television represents, which of a temporal device, allows the observer to access information beyond him/herself. But, within the arena of the dream, the symbol of a television can trigger the dreamer to become lucid, whom can then access the television, like that of a stargate to travel through, when to tune it of a sigilised desire into other art gallery worlds.
Of course, the science fiction film of stargate had come out some years after Spare’s demise, but Spare had prior utilised similar symbolism concerning an everyday device of a television set, upon which many are collectively hypnotised by of an eye in their living room. However, Spare utilised it to mediate upon in order to initiate third-eye hypnagogic trance ingress into a lucid dream, where his sigilised television set is verily transformed into a vaginal stargate.
The television set was still somewhat of a technological innovation during Spare’s corporeal era, which has since been superseded by the usage of a computer.
When a computer is seen as a symbol, it can be easily equated to a Genie bottle, which also leads to a symbolic association with a grimoire listing spirits.
The computer has associations with alternate realities in regards to computer games and films. You also have the internet in relation to accessing information beyond yourself. Wherefore, the computer can be seen as a labyrinthine abode for spirits, you can otherwise see as salacious Succubae.
Should you utilise the symbolism of a computer as a dream trigger, you could see the existence of the Succubae as being akin to that of sentient software (Tulpa) programs, whom exist within a virtual reality. Said virtual reality can then be equated with the informational realm of the symbolic dream.
You could even associate the symbolism of a the computer with a Harem school of seven planetary spheres, which is further equated with a Genie bottle, of a trigger symbol within the dream.
The Succubae can then be seen as Virtual Girls, whose abode is that of a computer, which is their Harem school of a Genie bottle. You then have a sorcerer conjuring Succubae out of his Genie bottle of a grimoire computer when to become consciously aware within a virtual reality lucid dream.
As for sigilising your computer, such is not necessary of a meditation aid; for you can otherwise artistically create an appropriate two-dimensional sigilic wallpaper and that of a Succubae screensaver for your Genie bottle of a grimoire computer, which when meditated upon Spare style, will initiate hypnagogic trance ingress into your associative dreams of three-dimensional artistry; when to do so, you will attain an artistic insight into what Spare was up to as a sorcerer.
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How I Raised $20,000 in 30 Days on Kickstarter to Self-Publish My First Book
Erica Swallow / August 3, 2017
This post originally appeared on Weebly Inspiration Center, where I contribute about product development and marketing.
Producing a physical good is one of the most expensive undertakings for a solopreneur. I’ve dreamed of being a self-published author since I began my career in 2009, but I didn’t have the courage to get started until I considered crowdfunding.
In 30 days, I raised more than $20,000 on crowdfunding site Kickstarter to publish my first book. In fact, I published an entire four-title children’s book series all at once!
Self-publishing a book series was quite a process, and it began well before the crowdfunding campaign launched. There are six key lessons every solopreneur should take into consideration when crowdfunding.
1. Don’t go it alone
Solopreneurs are used to working, well, solo. Crowdfunding is a community effort, though, and it takes collaboration to get it right, unless you’re an expert in product design, marketing, videography and communications. As a writer with a background in marketing, I knew how to put together a good story, but I was lacking in two departments: Design and videography. I knew how to write a children’s book, but I was not an illustrator and needed assistance creating a great crowdfunding video, one of the must-haves for a compelling campaign. That’s where illustrator Li Zeng and technologist Dan Ndombe came in. Li illustrated the books and Dan filmed and edited the video and even created the website.
If you’re serious about crowdfunding, consider teammates who can put some oomph behind your campaign. That being said, if you’re a Swiss army knife, by all means, keep it solo!
2. Engage a group of early product enthusiasts
Author Erica Swallow and illustrator Li Zeng
Crowdfunding is a low-budget and minimal-risk way to test a product in the marketplace. Once you’ve decided crowdfunding is a viable option, engage early product testers. These early testers will likely become your first backers. It’s important to have substantial backing in the first 48 hours of your campaign, as early traction is a key predictor of campaign success. The first and last week of your campaign represent nearly 70 percent of all funds received. Thus, you should aim for at least 25-30 percent funding in the first week.
The best way to ensure early traction is to build a following — on social media, email and in-person — prior to the start of your campaign. For our book series, we engaged an early reader group of 50 parents, entrepreneurs and kids to give feedback on storylines and illustrations.
3. Research successful campaigns
Before launching our campaign, we compared successfully backed campaigns as well as live campaigns in the Children’s Book category on Kickstarter and the Writing & Publishing category on competitor crowdfunding site Indiegogo. We learned quite a bit about average pricing, campaign goal size and number of backers. We also gathered insights on what types of products were most popular: Paperback or hardcover? Physical book or e-book? Just the book or book plus auxiliary products?
Surprisingly, the trends were quite strong across campaigns and some were contrary to our assumptions. Always do your research before launching your own crowdfunding campaign.
4. Estimate income and costs
Choosing a campaign goal and pricing rewards is tough, but it’s possible once you’ve done research on estimated costs and market demand (for example, how much people have pledged towards similar projects in the past). For our project, we needed to get printing quotes, consider all expenses, and estimate demand based on our early readers list and similar projects. We came out pretty close to expectations, it turns out.
Simple math can save a lot of heartache.
5. Plan for press and community engagement
The two biggest drivers for pledges in our campaign were Facebook posts and emails to our early readers list. Likewise, hitting new milestones and gaining press that stemmed from those achievements gave us ample reason to post on social media and send emails. Our community celebrated with us along the way.
We began building our social channels and email list about six months prior to launching the campaign and engaged our growing community in conversation around the topic of our books — youth entrepreneurship. Likewise, we spoke at events and gladly accepted press inquiries, which helped build our early readers list.
Build a press list of local and national reporters who may be interested in your project and start your social channels as early as humanly possible!
6. Form large-scale partnerships
Choosing the right rewards levels can make or break a campaign. Think strategically from the start and determine if there are ways to land a handful of large backings. These oftentimes have to be planned prior to the campaign; it’s possible to predict community interest with surveys and conversation. Our campaign included two big-ticket rewards: $800 for a U.S. speaking engagement and signed book series, and $1,500 for an international speaking engagement and signed series. We had one backer at each level and also formed a partnership with entrepreneurship development network The Conductor to provide a series to every local library in the surrounding county. That’s 20 sets, or 80 books total. These large-scale partnerships enabled us to reach our goal faster.
Are there big-ticket rewards that may interest your audience? Think about ways you can land pre-campaign interest in these rewards levels prior to launch.
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Borgarakríggið í Sýria
Partur av Arabiska várinum og
ávirkandi virknaður av Borgarakrígnum í Irak
Hernaðarliga støðan í løtuni: Reytt: Stjórnin, Gult: Kurdar (Rojava), Grátt: Islamiskur Statur, Hvítt: al-Nusra Front, Grønt: Sýrisk mótstøða
(fyri eitt meira nágreiniligt kort, sí en:Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War á ensku Wikipediu). Kortið omanfyri varð seinast dagført 5 June 2015.
15 mars 2011 (2011-03-15) – nú
(8 ár, 4 mánaðir og 1 dagur)
Staður
Sýria (og ávirkan í grannalondum)
Fer fram beint nú
Territorialar
broytingar
Í august 2015 var økið, har ið styrkirnar hjá Assad høvdu fult ræði yvir, minkað til 29.797 km2 (11.505 sq mi), umleið ein sættapart av landinum.[13]
Stríðandi partarnir
Ba'ath stýrið
(MOD)
Sýriskar herdeildir
Baʿath Brigadur
Sameindir bólkar
al-Abbas
PFLP-GC
Sootoro
Houthiarnir[1]
Stuðul:
Irak[2]
Norðurkorea[3]
Mótstøða
(SRCC)
Islamic Front
Ajnad al-Sham
Army of Mujahedeen
al-Zenki movement
Turkaland[4][5]
United States[6][a]
Frakland[7]
Other allied groups:
Alwiya al-Furqan
Jaish al-Fatah
al-Nusra Front
Ahrar ash-Sham
Sham Legion
Qatar[4][5]
Saudi Arabia[4][5]
Turkey[4][5]
Allied militias:
MWAA
Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade[8][9]
Jaysh al-Jihad[10]
(SDF)
YPJ
Syrian Arab Coalition
Al-Sanadid Forces
MFS[b]
Sutoro[b]
MLKP[11]
Irakiska Kurdistan
CJTF–OIR:
Frakland[12]
Avstralia
Stóra Bretland
Kommandantar og leiðarar
(Forseti í Sýria, Hægstráðandi)
Maher al-Assad
(Commander of the 4th Armoured Division)
Suheil Al Hassan
(Commander of the Qawat Al-Nimr)
Fahd Jassem al-Freij
(Minister of Defense)
Dawoud Rajiha †
(Fyrrverandi Minister of Defense)
Assef Shawkat †
(Vara Minister of Defense)
Ali Abdullah Ayyoub
(Chief of Staff of the SAA)
Issam Hallaq
(Herleiðslustjór hjá Flogvápninum)
Ghassan Ismail
(General of the Air Force Intelligence Unit)
Mohammad al-Shaar (WIA)
(Innlendismálaráðharri)
Hassan Nasrallah
(Aðalskrivari hjá Hezbollah)
Qasem Soleimani
(Commander of Quds Force)
Ahmed Jibril
(Secretary General of PFLP-GC)
(Forseti Russlands)
Abdelkarim al-Ahmed
(The SMC's Chief of Staff of the FSA)
Albay Ahmed Berri
(The SNC's Chief of Staff of the FSA)
Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir[14]
(Fyrrverandi herleiðslustjór hjá FSA; frákoyrdur)
Salim Idris
(Fyrrverandi herleiðslustjór hjá FSA; dismissed)
Riad al-Asaad (WIA)[15]
(Former Chief of Staff of the FSA; dismissed)
Mustafa Al-Sheikh[16]
(Former head of the FSA's Military Council; dismissed)
Jamal Maarouf
(Military Chief of the SRF)
Ahmed Issa al-Sheikh[17]
(Leader of the Islamic Front)
Zahran Alloush
(Islamic Front Military Chief)[17]
Hassan Aboud †[18]
(Head of the political bureau of the Islamic Front)[17]
Abdul Qader Saleh †[19]
(Former top Commander of Al-Tawhid Brigade)
Abu Mohammad al-Julani
(Emir of the al-Nusra Front)[20]
Sami al-Oraydi
(Deputy of the al-Nusra Front)[21][22]
Abu Humam al-Shami †
(Military Chief of al-Nusra Front)[20]
Abu Firas al-Suri
(Chief spokesperson of al-Nusra Front)[21]
Abu Maria Al-Qahtani
(al-Nusra Emir of the Eastern area)[23]
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi[24]
(Caliph of ISIL)
Abu Ala al-Afri †
(Deputy Leader of ISIL)[25][26]
(Deputy, Syria)
Abu Suleiman al-Naser
(Head of Military Council)[27]
(Field Commander)
(Spokesperson)
Abu Ayman al-Iraqi
(Former Head of Military Council) †[28]
Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi ("Haji Bakr") †[29]
(Senior Commander)
Salih Muslim Muhammad
(Co-President of the Democratic Union Party)
Asya Abdullah
Sipan Hemo
(Commander of the People's Protection Units)[30]
Masoud Barzani
(President of Iraqi Kurdistan)
(President of the United States)
(Prime Minister of Canada)
(President of France)
(Prime Minister of Australia)
(President of Turkey)
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
(King of Saudi Arabia)
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
(Emir of Qatar)
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein
(King of Jordan)
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
(King of Bahrain)
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
(Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates)
Mohammed VI
(King of Morocco)
(Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
Styrki
Syrian Armed Forces: 178,000[31] General Security Directorate: 8,000[32]
National Defense Force: 80,000[33]
Iran: 15,000[34]
Russia: 4,000[35]
Ba'ath Brigades: 7,000[36][37]
al-Abbas brigade: 10,000[38] (8,000 Iraqis)[39]
Hezbollah: 3,000–5,000[40]
Syrian Resistance: 2,000[41]
FSA: 40,000–50,000[42]
Islamic Front: 40,000–70,000[43]
Ajnad al-Sham Union: up to 15,000
AD Front: 13,000[44]
Army of Mujahedeen: 5,000[45]–12,000[46]
al-Zenki movement: 3,000+
Alwiya al-Furqan: 2,000+
Army of Conquest:
al-Nusra Front: 13,000[47]
Ahrar al-Sham: 10-20,000
Sham Legion:2,000+[48]
Muhajirin wa-Ansar: 7,000
Jabhat Ansar al-Din 1,500+
31,500[49]–100,000[50]
People's Protection Units (YPG): 65,000[51]
Jabhat al-Akrad: 7,000[52]
Mansskaði og tap
Syrian Government: 52,077–87,077 soldiers killed[53][54]
35,235–49,235 militiamen killed[53][54]
7,000 soldiers and militiamen and 2,000 supporters captured[55]
Hezbollah:
971 killed[53]
Other non-Syrian fighters:
3,395 killed[53][c]
80,762–121,762 fighters killed[d]
979 protesters killed[56]
26,500 fighters and supporters captured or missing[53] ISIL:
8,143 fighters killed[57] Rojava:
1,276–1,445 fighters killed[58]
74,426[53]–88,328[59] (2,996 foreign) civilian deaths documented by opposition
75 other foreign soldiers killed
Total killed:
250,124–340,124 (October 2015 SOHR estimate)[53]
220,000 (January 2015 UN estimate)[60]
130,000 captured or missing overall[61]
Over 7,600,000 internally displaced (according to UNHCR by July 2015)
Over 4,000,000 refugees (according to UNHCR by July 2015)[62][63][64]
a Some of the rebels that have been armed by the United States have given vehicles and ammunition to the al-Nusra Front.[65]
b Also aligned with Syrian opposition forces[66][67][68]
c The figure includes at least 180 Iranian IRGC soldiers[69][70][71] and 354 Afghans[72][73] fighting under the command of the IRGC.[74] For a more detailed breakdown, see here.
d Number includes Kurdish and ISIL fighters, whose deaths are also listed in their separate columns[75][53][54]
Borgarakríggið í Sýria (Arabiskt: الحرب الأهلية السورية) er eitt altjóða[76] vápnað stríð í gongur fyri seg enn í Sýria. Borgarakríggið byrjaði tíðliga um várið í 2011 í sambandi við mótmælini undir Arabiska várinum, við mótmælum kring alt landið móti stjórnini hjá Bashar al-Assad forseta, hvørs herdeildir svaraðu aftur við ógvusligum valdsgerðum.[77]
↑ Ariel Ben Solomon (31 May 2013). "Report: Yemen Houthis fighting for Assad in Syria". Jerusalem Post. http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Yemen-Houthis-fighting-for-Assad-in-Syria-315005. Heintað 5 June 2013.
↑ "It looks like Iraq has joined Assad's side in the Syrian war". Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com.au/iraq-joins-assads-side-in-syrian-war-2013-3. Heintað 16 February 2014.
"Report: Iran, North Korea Helping Syria Resume Building Missiles". http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/report-says-syria-resuming-missile-work-help-north-korea-iran/. Heintað 18 November 2014.
Ryall, Julian (6 June 2013). "Syria: North Korean military 'advising Assad regime'". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10102561/Syria-North-Korean-military-advising-Assad-regime.html. Heintað 2 August 2013.
"North Korea violating sanctions, according to UN report". The Telegraph. 3 July 2012. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9371607/North-Korea-violating-sanctions-according-to-UN-report.html. Heintað 6 October 2012.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Wladimir van Wilgenburg (12 June 2015). "The Rise of Jaysh al-Fateh in Northern Syria". Terrorism Monitor (Jamestown Foundation) XIII (12): 3.
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gareth Porter (28 May 2015). "Gulf allies and ‘Army of Conquest’". Al-Ahram Weekly. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/12392/21/Gulf-allies-and-%E2%80%98Army-of-Conquest%E2%80%99.aspx.
↑ "U.S. weapons reaching Syrian rebels". Washington Post. September 11, 2013. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-11/world/41972742_1_lethal-aid-syrian-rebels-chemical-weapons.
↑ "Hollande confirms French delivery of arms to Syrian rebels". 2014-08-21. http://www.enca.com/hollande-confirms-french-delivery-arms-syrian-rebels. Heintað 2015-01-16.
↑ "Jabhat al-Nusra, IS clash in Daraa". Al Monitor. 16 December 2014. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2014/12/jabhat-al-nusra-islamic-state-clash-qalamoun-risks-daraa.html. Heintað 20 December 2014.
↑ "Al-Nusra overtakes Hazm in Aleppo countryside". Al Monitor. 3 March 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2015/03/syria-aleppo-countryside-hazm-movement.html#. Heintað 3 March 2015.
↑ "The Islamic State in Southern Syria". Carter Center. 15 May 2015. http://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/peace/conflict_resolution/syria-conflict/islamic-state-in-southern-syria-may2015.pdf. Heintað 10 June 2015.
↑ Demir, Arzu (28 January 2015). "Preparations for international brigade in Rojava". Firat News Agency. Archived from the original on 2015-02-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20150211120154/http://en.firatnews.com/news/news/preparations-for-international-brigade-in-rojava.htm. Heintað 11 February 2015.
↑ "Syrian government no longer controls 83% of the country - IHS Jane's 360". janes.com. http://www.janes.com/article/53771/syrian-government-no-longer-controls-83-of-the-country. Heintað 21 October 2015.
↑ "Free Syrian Army fires military chief". Al Jazeera English. 16 February 2014. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/02/free-syrian-army-fires-military-chief-201421742719901171.html. Heintað 16 February 2014.
↑ "U.N. withdraws staffers as violence rages in Syria". Edition.cnn.com. 25 May 2013. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/25/world/meast/syria-civil-war.
↑ Mroue, Bassem; Suzan Fraser (2012-12-08). "Syria Rebels Create New Unified Military Command". The Huffington Post. AP. Archived from the original on 2012-12-08. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/08/syria-rebels-military-council_n_2263256.html. Heintað 2012-12-08.
↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "Leading Syrian rebel groups form new Islamic Front". BBC. 22 November 2013. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25053525. Heintað 22 January 2014.
↑ "Bombing kills head of Syrian rebel group". Al Arabiya News. http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/09/09/Bombing-kills-head-of-Syrian-rebel-group-report.html.
↑ Top Syrian rebel commander dies from wounds (Reuters), 18 November 2013
↑ 20.0 20.1 Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank (5 March 2015). "Source: Syrian warplanes kill leaders of al-Nusra". CNN. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/05/middleeast/syria-al-qaeda-strike/.
↑ 21.0 21.1 "An internal struggle: Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate is grappling with its identity". 31 May 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/05/31-syria-isis-lister. Heintað 1 June 2015.
↑ Counter Extremism Project (2014). "Executive Summary: Sami al-Oraidi". Counter Extremism Project. http://www.counterextremism.com/sami-al-oraidi.
↑ "Who's who in the Nusra Front?". 15 December 2014. http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/politics/2014/12/15/whos-who-in-the-nusra-front. Heintað 2 June 2015.
↑ "U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Iraq and Pledges to Help Combat al Qaeda". United States Department of State. 10 August 2013. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/08/213032.htm.
↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/report-a-former-physics-teacher-is-now-leading-isis-2015-4
↑ ISIS No. 2 leader al-Afri killed in airstrike, Iraq says
↑ http://www.ibtimes.com/if-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-killed-who-caliph-islamic-state-group-1721638
↑ "Military Skill and Terrorist Technique Fuel Success of ISIS". The New York Times. 27 August 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/world/middleeast/army-know-how-seen-as-factor-in-isis-successes.html. Heintað 21 October 2014.
↑ "Top ISIS Leaders are Revealed". Alarabiya. 13 February 2014. http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2014/02/13/Exclusive-Top-ISIS-leaders-revealed.html.
↑ Tarek Radwan. "Kurdish-Arab Rebel Alliance May be Key to Obama’s Syrian Strategy". Atlantic Council. http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/kurdish-arab-rebel-alliance-may-be-key-to-obama-s-syrian-strategy.
↑ "Syria military strength". Global Fire Power. 17 October 2015. http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=Syria.
↑ "Syria's diminished security forces". AFP. 28 August 2013. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Aug-28/228953-syrias-diminished-security-forces.ashx#axzz31ko8ddGF. Heintað 14 May 2014.
↑ ISIS’ Iraq offensive could trigger Hezbollah to fill gap left in Syria The Daily Star, 16 June 2014
↑ "Iran sends 15,000 fighters to Syria". The Daily Star. 4 June 2015. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Jun-04/300520-iran-sends-15000-fighters-to-syria.ashx.
↑ Jonathan Landay, Phil Stewart, Mark Hosenball (4 November 2015). "Russia's Syria force has reportedly grown to 4,000 people". Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com/russias-syria-force-has-reportedly-grown-to-4000-people-2015-11. Heintað 4 November 2015.
↑ "«كتائب البعث» إلى شوارع دمشق". Al Akhbar. 14 January 2014. http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/197848.
↑ Aron Lund (13 January 2014). "The Baath Battalions Move Into Damascus". Carnegie Endowment. http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=54167.
↑ Syrian war widens Sunni-Shia schism as foreign jihadis join fight for shrines retrieved 5 June 2013
↑ Maria Abi-Habib (18 June 2014). "Shiite Militias Decamping From Syria to Fight in Iraq". Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/articles/shiite-militias-decamping-from-syria-to-fight-in-iraq-1403051977.
↑ "From Qusair to Yabrud: Shiite foreign fighters in Syria - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East". Al-Monitor. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/03/qusair-yabroud-shiite-foreign-fighters-syria.html.
↑ Albayrak, Aydin. "Mihraç Ural, a man with a long history of terrorism". Today's Zaman. http://www.todayszaman.com/news-315474-mihrac-ural-a-man-with-a-long-history-of-terrorism.html. Heintað 3 August 2013.
↑ Cockburn, Patrick (11 December 2013). "West suspends aid for Islamist rebels in Syria, underlining their disillusionment with those forces opposed to President Bashar al-Assad". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/west-suspends-aid-for-islamist-rebels-in-syria-underlining-their-disillusionment-with-those-forces-opposed-to-president-bashar-alassad-8998891.html.
↑ "Front to Back". Foreign Policy. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/04/islamic_front_isis_syria.
↑ "Syria crisis: Guide to armed and political opposition". BBC. 13 December 2013. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24403003.
↑ "Factbox: Syria's rebel groups". Reuters. 9 January 2014. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/09/us-syria-crisis-rebels-factbox-idUSBREA080SW20140109. Heintað 9 January 2014.
↑ "Al Qaida rebels leave mass grave behind as they desert base in Syria". McClatchy. 6 January 2014. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/01/06/213669/al-qaida-rebels-leave-mass-grave.html. Heintað 8 January 2014.
↑ "Syria crisis: Spooked by rebel gains, Jordan doubles down on Islamic State". 4 May 2015. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2015/0504/Syria-crisis-Spooked-by-rebel-gains-Jordan-doubles-down-on-Islamic-State. Heintað 4 May 2015.
↑ "Islamic State fighter estimate triples - CIA". BBC. 12 September 2014. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29169914.
↑ "War with Isis: Islamic militants have army of 200,000, claims senior Kurdish leader". The Independent. 18 November 2014. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/war-with-isis-islamic-militants-have-army-of-200000-claims-kurdish-leader-9863418.html.
↑ "Will the Islamic State last through 2015?". Today's Zaman. http://www.todayszaman.com/op-ed_will-the-islamic-state-last-through-2015_368806.html. Heintað 4 January 2015.
↑ Mutlu Civiroglu (11 August 2013). "Kurdish Commander: Jihadi Groups in Syria Have Hijacked FSA". Rudaw. http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/11082013.
↑ 53.0 53.1 53.2 53.3 53.4 53.5 53.6 53.7 "About 2 millions and half killed and wounded since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution". 16 October 2015. http://www.syriahr.com/en/2015/10/about-20-millions-and-half-killed-and-wounded-since-the-beginning-of-the-syrian-revolution/.
↑ 54.0 54.1 54.2 "More than 110 dead, thousands of regime forces during the 41 months". http://web.archive.org/web/20140826120603/http://www.syriahr.com/index.php?option=com_news&nid=22469&Itemid=2&task=displaynews. Heintað 25 October 2014.
↑ "320,000 people killed since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution". 9 June 2015. http://www.syriahr.com/en/2015/06/320000-people-killed-since-the-beginning-of-the-syrian-revolution/.
↑ "Syria: Opposition, almost 11,500 civilians killed". Ansamed.ansa.it. 2010-01-03. http://ansamed.ansa.it/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2012/03/19/visualizza_new.html_134589467.html. Heintað 2013-08-27.
↑ "IS executes over 3,000 in Syria in year-long ´caliphate´". AFP. 28 June 2015. http://www.geo.tv/article-189504-IS-executes-over-3000-in-Syria-in-year-long-caliphate.
↑ 15 killed (31 October 2012),[3] 25 killed (19 November 2012),[4] 379 killed (2013),[5] 537–706 killed (2014),[6][7][8] 320 killed (2015),[9][10][11][12][13] total of 1,276–1,445 reported killed
↑ "Violations Documenting Center". Violations Documenting Center. 16 October 2015. http://www.vdc-sy.org/index.php/en/home. Heintað 16 October 2015.
↑ "Syrian Rebels And Government Reach Truce In Besieged Area". AP. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/15/syria-rebel-truce_n_6478226.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592. Heintað 15 January 2015.
↑ "Syria's Meltdown Requires a U.S.-Led Response". Washington Institute for Near East Policy. 22 March 2013. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/syrias-meltdown-requires-a-u.s.-led-response.
↑ US-trained rebels give equipment to al-Qaeda affiliate http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34368073
↑ Bronstein, Scott; Griffin, Drew (26 September 2014). "Syrian rebel groups unite to fight ISIS". CNN. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/25/world/meast/us-syria-rebel-agreement/. Heintað 1 October 2014. "Under the agreement, moderate Muslim rebel groups fighting under the Supreme Military Council of Syria agreed to form an alliance with the predominantly Christian Syriac Military Council."
↑ Cousins, Sophie (22 December 2014). "Remaining Christians in Syria fight to save their land". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/21/syria-christian-islamic-state/18915275. Heintað 9 March 2015.
↑ Ahmad, Rozh (23 September 2014). "A glimpse into the world of Syria's Christian "Sutoro" fighters (video)". Your Middle East. http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/culture/a-glifmpse-into-the-world-of-syrias-christian-sutoro-fighters-video_24956. Heintað 17 March 2015. "The regime wants us to be puppets, deny our ethnicity and demand an Arab-only state."
↑ "Mapping the Deaths of Iranian Officers Across Syria". http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/30/mapping-the-deaths-of-iranian-officers-across-syria/. Heintað 1 November 2015.
↑ "'Under 50' Iranians killed in Syria". Al-Monitor. 11 November 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/11/iranian-soldiers-killed-syria.html#. Heintað 11 November 2015.
↑ Four Iranian Basij members killed in Syria
↑ "Number of Iranian, Afghani fighters killed in Syrian civil war hits 400". Trend. 27 June 2015. http://en.trend.az/iran/politics/2411810.html. Heintað 28 October 2015.
↑ "Iran's involvement in Syria, units and losses October 2015", PBS/Levantine Group, October 29, 2015, citing Iranian state media.
↑ "Iran's Afghan Shiite Fighters in Syria", Washington Institute, June 3, 2015
↑ "More than 215,000 killed in Syria since 2011". 3news.co.nz. http://www.3news.co.nz/world/more-than-215000-killed-in-syria-since-2011-2015031605#axzz3UUZH4BeT.
↑ International conflict. "Iran to join, Russia already bombing Opposition's positions.". Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/02/us-mideast-crisis-russia-syria-idUSKCN0RV41O20151002. Heintað 4 October 2015.
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Senate Update: Democrats Wrapping Up In Michigan
Oct. 2, 2014 , at 8:48 PM
By Harry Enten
Filed under 2014 Campaign Crib Notes
Terri Lynn Land, Republican candidate for United States Senate in Michigan, walks in the Labor Day Parade in Romeo, Michigan on Sept. 1.
In every Senate forecast FiveThirtyEight has published this year, Republicans have been slightly favored to take back the chamber. That hasn’t changed with our latest model run: Republicans are a 58 percent favorite.
Yet, a few of states have seen a dramatic shift towards the Democrats. I already detailed how Kansas and North Carolina have have moved left over the last month. Democrats have also greatly improved their hand in Michigan.
On Thursday, three surveys confirmed the trend. EPIC-MRA and Lake Research (in a poll for the liberal group Progress Michigan) found Democrat Gary Peters ahead of Republican Terri Lynn Land by 9 percentage points. Mitchell Research put Peters’s advantage at 13 points. Additionally, a Target-Insyght poll this week found Peters up by 10 percentage points. On average, Peters was ahead in these polls by a little over 10 percentage points.
The FiveThirtyEight forecast isn’t ready to put Peters ahead by that much; it projects him to win by 6 percentage points, with an 89 percent chance of winning in November. That’s up from 70 percent at the beginning of September. More impressively, it’s way up from the 55 percent chance FiveThirtyEight gave Peters in its March outlook.
Ten other races are now rated as more competitive than Michigan.
What’s causing Land’s collapse? It’s likely a combination of the natural political tilt of the state and the candidate herself. Michigan is the bluest state among 2014’s battlegrounds. President Obama carried it by nearly 10 percentage points in 2012. By contrast, among the 10 races more competitive than Michigan at this point, Obama’s best showing was in Iowa, which he carried by just over 5 percentage points. The last time a Republican won a Senate election in Michigan was 20 years ago, in the GOP wave election of 1994.
Just saying that Land is falling prey to the fundamentals, though, would be letting her off the hook too easily. She has run a terrible campaign. She has dodged debates with Peters — a curious move for a candidate who has been behind. Land has aired questionable advertisements. And not surprisingly, a survey of Michigan political experts conducted by Denno Research ranked her campaign as the worst run of any for a major Michigan statewide office in 2014.
Bottom line: Michigan can’t be considered competitive anymore. Land probably needs either a major shift in the national environment or a major gaffe by Peters to get back in the race.
Check out FiveThirtyEight’s latest Senate forecast.
Harry Enten is a senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight. @forecasterenten
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Rockwood Rising ascends as construction begins on Gresham's largest urban renewal project (Photo) - 05/14/19
GRESHAM, Ore. – Construction began Monday, May 13 on Rockwood Rising, a transformative urban renewal development that, when complete, will provide job training, entrepreneurship opportunities, housing, a public market, and a central plaza for festivals and events.
“Rockwood Rising is more than just a few new buildings joining our cityscape. It’s the idea that a community can come together and make something special happen for the benefit of everyone. It’s the result of thoughtful community engagement and dedicated community partners who will help create economic empowerment for residents of Rockwood. I can’t wait to see children playing on the plaza, neighbors connecting over healthy and diverse food choices, and local businesses thriving,” said Josh Fuhrer, Executive Director of the Gresham Redevelopment Commission.
Located in the heart of Gresham’s Rockwood neighborhood, steps away from the MAX light rail, the 5.5-acre vacant site was purchased by the Gresham Development Commission in 2005 with funds from Gresham’s urban renewal district. The City spent three years from 2014-2016 soliciting thoughtful ideas and feedback from residents in this neighborhood, which is one of the youngest and most diverse in the region.
Those community conversations directly informed the project design as well as the services and amenities that will be offered. When construction is complete, the site will house four buildings and a community plaza, as follows:
Innovation hub: Classes in digital literacy and coding, assistance finding and applying for jobs and small business support services.
Apprenticeship hub: Construction and manufacturing apprenticeship programs.
Mixed-use village: More than 100 new mixed-income workforce housing units (including affordable units), locally owned small businesses, child care, community bank and employment services.
Market hall: International grocery marketplace, public commissary kitchen for food entrepreneurs, as well as small business and pop-up stand opportunities.
Community plaza: Three new play structures, public splash pad, and gathering space for concerts, farmers’ markets and cultural celebrations.
Anchor tenants include MetroEast Community Media, WorkSource Oregon, Oregon Tradeswomen, Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center (POIC), Mt. Hood Community College Small Business Development Center (SBDC), and Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO). Tenant opportunities are still available for emerging and established businesses, specialized grocery stores, local small businesses and pop-up shops. Visit www.rockwoodrising.com for details.
RKm Development will develop the project. LMC Construction began work on Monday, May 13, starting with the innovation hub and renovation of the existing Rockwood Community Office to serve as an apprenticeship center. Construction is estimated to finish in 2021.
“Opportunities as transformative as Rockwood Rising don’t come along very often,” said Roy Kim, owner, RKm Development. “I’m excited to create opportunities for this neighborhood and to shape the story of this evolving, active and vibrant part of Gresham.”
The Gresham Redevelopment Commission and MetroEast Community Media will host a groundbreaking celebration on June 12 from 3-5 p.m. at the corner of E. Burnside St. and SE 187th Ave. Mayor Shane Bemis and other key partners will briefly speak at 3 p.m., followed by a ceremonial shovel turn. A celebration will be held from 4-5 p.m. at the MetroEast DIY Studio across the street at 484 SE 187th Ave.
Media are welcome. Additional site renderings available upon request.
Attached Media Files: View of Rockwood Rising development courtesy of YBA Architects
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RussiaKrasnoyarsk, Yemelyanovo Airport (KJA), RussiaKristiansand, Kjevik Airport (KRS), NorwayKuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Airport (KUL), MalaysiaKuala Terengganu, Sultan Mahmud Airport (TGG), MalaysiaKuching, Kuching Airport (KCH), MalaysiaKunming, Changshui Airport (KMG), ChinaKuwait, Kuwait Airport (KWI), KuwaitLa Crosse WI, La Crosse Airport (LSE), United States of AmericaLabuan, Labuan Airport (LBU), MalaysiaLagos, Murtala Muhammed Airport (LOS), NigeriaLahore, Allama Iqbal Airport (LHE), PakistanLambert MO, St Louis Airport (STL), United States of AmericaLamezia Terme, Lamezia Terme Airport (SUF), ItalyLampang, Lampang Airport (LPT), ThailandLampedusa, Lampedusa Airport (LMP), ItalyLangkawi, Langkawi Airport (LGK), MalaysiaLanzarote, Lanzarote Airport (ACE), SpainLaoag City, Laoag Airport (LAO), PhilippinesLarnaca, Larnaca Airport (LCA), CyprusLas Vegas NV, McCarran Airport (LAS), United States of AmericaLaunceston, Launceston Airport (LST), AustraliaLeeds, Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA), United KingdomLegazpi City, Legazpi Airport (LGP), PhilippinesLeipzig, Halle Airport (LEJ), GermanyLeipzig, Leipzig/Halle Railway Station (XIT), GermanyLexington KY, Blue Grass Airport (LEX), United States of AmericaLille, TGV Railway Station (XDB), FranceLilongwe, Lilongwe Airport (LLW), MalawiLimnos, Lemnos Airport (LXS), GreeceLipetsk, Lipetsk Airport (LPK), RussiaLisbon, Portela Airport (LIS), PortugalLittle Rock AR, Adams Field Airport (LIT), United States of AmericaLjubljana, Joze Pucnik Airport (LJU), SloveniaLombok, Selaparang Airport (LOP), IndonesiaLondon, Gatwick Airport (LGW), United KingdomLondon, Heathrow Airport (LHR), United KingdomLondon, London City Airport (LCY), United KingdomLos Angeles CA, Los Angeles Airport (LAX), United States of AmericaLouisville KY, Standiford Field Airport (SDF), United States of AmericaLuanda, Quatro de Fevereiro Airport (LAD), AngolaLuang Prabang, Luang Prabang Airport (LPQ), LaosLusaka, Lusaka Airport (LUN), ZambiaLuxembourg, Luxembourg Airport (LUX), LuxembourgLyon, Part Dieu TGV Railway Station (XYD), FranceLyon, Satolaos Saint Exupery Airport (LYS), FranceMackay, Mackay Airport (MKY), AustraliaMadeira, Funchal Santa Catarina Airport (FNC), PortugalMadison WI, Dane County Airport (MSN), United States of AmericaMadrid, Barajas Adolfo Suarez Airport (MAD), SpainMakassar, Sultan Hasanuddin Airport (UPG), IndonesiaMalaga, Malaga Airport (AGP), SpainMale, Velana Airport (MLE), MaldivesMalta, Luqa Airport (MLA), MaltaManado, Sam Ratulangi Airport (MDC), IndonesiaManchester, Manchester Airport (MAN), United KingdomMandalay, Mandalay Airport (MDL), MyanmarManhattan KS, Manhattan Airport (MHK), United States of AmericaManila, Ninoy Aquino Airport (MNL), PhilippinesMaputo, Maputo Airport (MPM), MozambiqueMarquette MI, Sawyer Airport (MQT), United States of AmericaMarrakech, Menara Airport (RAK), MoroccoMarseille, Marignane Airport (MRS), FranceMarseille, St Charles TGV Railway Station (XRF), FranceMartha's Vineyard MA, Martha's Vineyard Airport (MVY), United States of AmericaMauritius, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Airport (MRU), MauritiusMedan, Polonia Kualanamu Airport (KNO), IndonesiaMedina, Madinah Prince Mohammad Airport (MED), Saudi ArabiaMelbourne, Tullamarine Airport (MEL), AustraliaMemphis TN, Memphis Airport (MEM), United States of AmericaMexico City, Benito Juarez Airport (MEX), MexicoMiami FL, Miami Airport (MIA), United States of AmericaMilan, Linate Airport (LIN), ItalyMilan, Malpensa Airport (MXP), ItalyMildura, Mildura Airport (MQL), AustraliaMilwaukee WI, General Mitchell Airport (MKE), United States of AmericaMinneapolis MN, Saint Paul Airport (MSP), United States of AmericaMinsk, Minsk 2 National Airport (MSQ), BelarusMiri, Miri Airport (MYY), MalaysiaMiyazaki, Miyazaki Airport (KMI), JapanMoline IL, Quad City Airport (MLI), United States of AmericaMombasa, Moi Airport (MBA), KenyaMontpellier, St Roch TGV Railway Station (XPJ), FranceMontreal, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport (YUL), CanadaMoroni, Prince Said Ibrahim Airport (HAH), Comoros IslandsMoscow, Domodedovo Airport (DME), RussiaMoscow, Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO), RussiaMoscow, Vnukovo Airport (VKO), RussiaMount Isa, Mount Isa Airport (ISA), AustraliaMultan, Multan Airport (MUX), PakistanMumbai, Bombay Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Airport (BOM), IndiaMunich, Franz Josef Strauss Airport (MUC), GermanyMuscat, Muscat Airport (MCT), OmanMykonos, Mykonos Airport (JMK), GreeceMytilene, Mytilene Airport (MJT), GreeceN'Djamena, N'Djamena Airport (NDJ), ChadNadi, Nadi Airport (NAN), FijiNagoya, Chubu Centrair Airport (NGO), JapanNairobi, Jomo Kenyatta Airport (NBO), KenyaNantes, TGV Railway Station (QJZ), FranceNantucket MA, Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK), United States of AmericaNapoli, Capodichino Airport (NAP), ItalyNashville TN, Nashville Airport (BNA), United States of AmericaNay Pyi Taw, Nay Pyi Taw Airport (NYT), MyanmarNew Delhi, Indira Gandhi Airport (DEL), IndiaNew Orleans LA, Louis Armstrong Airport (MSY), United States of AmericaNew York NY, John F Kennedy Airport (JFK), United States of AmericaNew York NY, La Guardia Airport (LGA), United States of AmericaNew York NY, Newark Liberty Airport (EWR), United States of AmericaNewcastle, Newcastle Airport (NCL), United KingdomNewcastle, Williamtown Airport (NTL), AustraliaNewquay, Cornwall Airport (NQY), United KingdomNice, Cote D Azur Airport (NCE), FranceNiigata, Niigata Airport (KIJ), JapanNizhny Novgorod, Strigino Airport (GOJ), RussiaNorfolk VA, Norfolk Airport (ORF), United States of AmericaNottingham, East Midlands Airport (EMA), United KingdomNoumea, La Tontouta Airport (NOU), New CaledoniaNovosibirsk, Tolmachevo Airport (OVB), RussiaNovy Urengoy, Novy Urengoy Airport (NUX), RussiaNur-Sultan, Astana Airport (TSE), KazakhstanNuremberg, Nuremberg Airport (NUE), GermanyNuremberg, Nuremberg HBF Train Station (ZAQ), GermanyOdesa, Odesa Airport (ODS), UkraineOkinawa, Naha Airport (OKA), JapanOklahoma City OK, Will Rogers World Airport (OKC), United States of AmericaOmaha NE, Eppley Airfield (OMA), United States of AmericaOmsk, Tsentralny Airport (OMS), RussiaOrlando FL, Orlando Airport (MCO), United States of AmericaOsaka, Itami Airport (ITM), JapanOsaka, Kansai Airport (KIX), JapanOslo, Gardermoen Airport (OSL), NorwayOslo, Torp Sandefjord Airport (TRF), NorwayOstersund, Are Ostersund Airport (OSD), SwedenOttawa, Macdonald Cartier Airport (YOW), CanadaOzamiz City, Labo Airport (OZC), PhilippinesPadang, Minangkabau Airport (PDG), IndonesiaPalembang, Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin Airport (PLM), IndonesiaPalermo, Punta Raisi Airport (PMO), ItalyPalma Mallorca, Palma De Mallorca Airport (PMI), SpainPantelleria, Pantelleria Airport (PNL), ItalyParis, Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG), FrancePekanbaru, Sultan Syarif Kasim Airport (PKU), IndonesiaPenang, Penang Airport (PEN), MalaysiaPenza, Penza Airport (PEZ), RussiaPeoria IL, Greater Peoria Airport (PIA), United States of AmericaPerm, Bolshoye Savino Airport (PEE), RussiaPerth, Perth Airport (PER), AustraliaPeshawar, Bacha Khan Airport (PEW), PakistanPhiladelphia PA, Philadelphia Airport (PHL), United States of AmericaPhnom Penh, Phnom Penh Airport (PNH), CambodiaPhoenix AZ, Sky Harbor Airport (PHX), United States of AmericaPhuket, Phuket Airport (HKT), ThailandPisa, Galileo Galilei Airport (PSA), ItalyPittsburgh PA, Pittsburgh Airport (PIT), United States of AmericaPodgorica, Podgorica Airport (TGD), MontenegroPonta Delgada, Joao Paulo II Airport (PDL), PortugalPort Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth Airport (PLZ), South AfricaPort Macquarie, Port Macquarie Airport (PQQ), AustraliaPortland ME, Portland Jetport (PWM), United States of AmericaPorto, Francisco Sa Carneiro Airport (OPO), PortugalPrague, Vaclav Havel Ruzyne Airport (PRG), Czech RepublicPraia, Praia Airport (RAI), Cape VerdePraslin Island, Praslin Island Airport (PRI), SeychellesProserpine, Whitsunday Coast Airport (PPP), AustraliaPuerto Princesa City, Puerto Princesa Airport (PPS), PhilippinesPula, Pula Airport (PUY), CroatiaQingdao, Liuting Airport (TAO), ChinaQueenstown, Queenstown Airport (ZQN), New ZealandRabat, Sale Airport (RBA), MoroccoRail n Fly, DB German Railway Service (QYG), GermanyRaleigh Durham NC, Durham Airport (RDU), United States of AmericaReggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria Airport (REG), ItalyRegina, Regina Airport (YQR), CanadaReno NV, Tahoe Airport (RNO), United States of AmericaReykjavik, Keflavik Airport (KEF), IcelandRhodes, Diagoras Airport (RHO), GreeceRichmond VA, Richmond Airport (RIC), United States of AmericaRiga, Riga Airport (RIX), LatviaRio De Janeiro, Galeao Airport (GIG), BrazilRiyadh, King Khalid Airport (RUH), Saudi ArabiaRochester MN, Rochester Airport (RST), United States of AmericaRochester NY, Greater Rochester Airport (ROC), United States of AmericaRockhampton, Rockhampton Airport (ROK), AustraliaRome, Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FCO), ItalyRostov, Rostov Airport (ROV), RussiaRotorua, Rotorua Airport (ROT), New ZealandRoxas City, Roxas Airport (RXS), PhilippinesSaint Petersburg, Pulkovo Airport (LED), RussiaSalalah, Salalah Airport (SLL), OmanSalt Lake City UT, Salt Lake City Airport (SLC), United States of AmericaSalzburg, W A Mozart Airport (SZG), AustriaSamara, Kurumoch Airport (KUF), RussiaSamos, Samos Airport (SMI), GreeceSan Antonio TX, San Antonio Airport (SAT), United States of AmericaSan Francisco CA, San Francisco Airport (SFO), United States of AmericaSan Jose CA, Norman Y Mineta Airport (SJC), United States of AmericaSanta Cruz De La Palma, La Palma Airport (SPC), SpainSantiago, Arturo Merino Benitez Airport (SCL), ChileSanto Domingo, Las Americas Airport (SDQ), Dominican RepublicSao Paulo, Guarulhos Andre Franco Montoro Airport (GRU), BrazilSapporo, Chitose Airport (CTS), JapanSarajevo, Butmir Airport (SJJ), Bosnia/HerzegovinaSarasota FL, Bradenton Airport (SRQ), United States of AmericaSaratov, Saratov Tsentralny Airport (RTW), RussiaSaskatoon, J G Diefenbaker Airport (YXE), CanadaSavannah GA, Hilton Head Airport (SAV), United States of AmericaSeattle WA, Tacoma Airport (SEA), United States of AmericaSemarang, Achmad Yani Airport (SRG), IndonesiaSendai, Sendai Airport (SDJ), JapanSeoul, Incheon Airport (ICN), South KoreaSeychelles, Mahe Airport (SEZ), SeychellesShanghai, Pudong Airport (PVG), ChinaShannon, Shannon Airport (SNN), IrelandShenyang, Taoxian Airport (SHE), ChinaShenzhen, Bao'an Airport (SZX), ChinaSiem Reap, Angkor Airport (REP), CambodiaSimferopol, Simferopol Airport (SIP), UkraineSingapore, Changi Airport (SIN), SingaporeSioux City IA, Sioux Gateway Airport (SUX), United States of AmericaSioux Falls SD, Joe Foss Field Airport (FSD), United States of AmericaSkopje, Alexander the Great Airport (SKP), MacedoniaSochi, Sochi Airport (AER), RussiaSofia, Sofia Airport (SOF), BulgariaSolo, Adi Sumarmo Wiryokusumo Airport (SOC), IndonesiaSouthampton, Southampton Airport (SOU), United KingdomSplit, Split Airport (SPU), CroatiaSpringfield MO, Branson Airport (SGF), United States of AmericaSt. John's, St John's Airport (YYT), CanadaStavanger, Sola Airport (SVG), NorwayStockholm, Arlanda Airport (ARN), SwedenStockholm, Bromma Airport (BMA), SwedenStrasbourg, TGV Railway Station (XWG), FranceStuttgart, Echterdingen Airport (STR), GermanyStuttgart, Stuttgart Railway Station (ZWS), GermanySukhothai, Sukhothai Airport (THS), ThailandSundsvall, Timra Airport (SDL), SwedenSunshine Coast, Maroochydore Airport (MCY), AustraliaSurabaya, Juanda Airport (SUB), IndonesiaSydney, Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD), AustraliaSyracuse NY, Clarence E Hancock Airport (SYR), United States of AmericaTacloban City, Daniel Z Romualdez Airport (TAC), PhilippinesTagbilaran City, Tagbilaran Airport (TAG), PhilippinesTaichung, Taichung Airport (RMQ), ChinaTaipei, Taoyuan Airport (TPE), ChinaTallinn, Lennart Meri Airport (TLL), EstoniaTampa FL, Tampa Airport (TPA), United States of AmericaTamworth, Tamworth Airport (TMW), AustraliaTangier, Boukhalef Ibn Battouta Airport (TNG), MoroccoTawau, Tawau Airport (TWU), MalaysiaThessaloniki, Makedonia Airport (SKG), GreeceThira, Santorini Airport (JTR), GreeceThiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum Airport (TRV), IndiaTirana, Rinas Mother Teresa Airport (TIA), AlbaniaTivat, Tivat Airport (TIV), MontenegroTokyo, Narita Airport (NRT), JapanToledo OH, Express Airport (TOL), United States of AmericaToronto, Pearson Airport (YYZ), CanadaToulouse, Blagnac Airport (TLS), FranceTownsville, Townsville Airport (TSV), AustraliaTrapani, Birgi Airport (TPS), ItalyTrat, Trat Airport (TDX), ThailandTraverse City MI, Cherry Capital Airport (TVC), United States of AmericaTrieste, Ronchi Dei Legionari Airport (TRS), ItalyTrondheim, Vaernes Airport (TRD), NorwayTucson AZ, Tucson Airport (TUS), United States of AmericaTulsa OK, Tulsa Airport (TUL), United States of AmericaTunis, Carthage Airport (TUN), TunisiaTurin, Caselle Airport (TRN), ItalyUfa, Ufa Airport (UFA), RussiaUmea, Umea Airport (UME), SwedenValencia, Valencia Airport (VLC), SpainVancouver, Vancouver Airport (YVR), CanadaVenice, Marco Polo Airport (VCE), ItalyVerona, Villafranca Airport (VRN), ItalyVienna, Schwechat Airport (VIE), AustriaVientiane, Wattay Airport (VTE), LaosVilnius, Vilnius Airport (VNO), LithuaniaVolgograd, Volgograd Airport (VOG), RussiaVoronezh, Voronezh Airport (VOZ), RussiaWarsaw, Chopin Okecie Airport (WAW), PolandWashington DC, Dulles Airport (IAD), United States of AmericaWashington DC, Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA), United States of AmericaWaterloo IA, Waterloo Airport (ALO), United States of AmericaWausau WI, Central Wisconsin Airport (CWA), United States of AmericaWellington, Wellington Airport (WLG), New ZealandWest Palm Beach FL, Palm Beach Airport (PBI), United States of AmericaWestchester County NY, Westchester County Airport (HPN), United States of AmericaWesterland, Sylt Airport (GWT), GermanyWichita KS, Mid Continent Airport (ICT), United States of AmericaWindhoek, Hosea Kutako Airport (WDH), NamibiaWinnipeg, Winnipeg Airport (YWG), CanadaWroclaw, Nicolaus Copernicus Airport (WRO), PolandXian, Xianyang Airport (XIY), ChinaYangon, Mingaladon Airport (RGN), MyanmarYekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg Airport (SVX), RussiaYerevan, Zvartnots Airport (EVN), ArmeniaZagreb, Pleso Airport (ZAG), CroatiaZamboanga City, Zamboanga Airport (ZAM), PhilippinesZanzibar, Zanzibar Airport (ZNZ), TanzaniaZurich, Zurich Airport (ZRH), Switzerland
preposition--origin-placeA Coruna, A Coruna Airport (LCG), SpainAberdeen, Dyce Airport (ABZ), United KingdomAbidjan, Felix Houphouet Boigny Airport (ABJ), Ivory CoastAbu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Airport (AUH), United Arab EmiratesAdana, Sakirpasa Airport (ADA), TurkeyAddis Ababa, Bole Airport (ADD), EthiopiaAdelaide, Adelaide Airport (ADL), AustraliaAgadir, Al Massira Airport (AGA), MoroccoAhmedabad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport (AMD), IndiaAl Ain, Etihad Town Office Bus Station (AAN), United Arab EmiratesAlbuquerque NM, Sunport Airport (ABQ), United States of AmericaAlbury, Albury Airport (ABX), AustraliaAlesund, Vigra Airport (AES), NorwayAlexandria, Borg El Arab Airport (HBE), EgyptAlexandroupolis, Dimokritos Airport (AXD), GreeceAlghero, Fertilia Airport (AHO), ItalyAlgiers, Houari Boumediene Airport (ALG), AlgeriaAlicante, Alicante Airport (ALC), SpainAlice Springs, Alice Springs Airport (ASP), AustraliaAlmaty, Almaty Airport (ALA), KazakhstanAlor Setar, Sultan Abdul Halim Airport (AOR), MalaysiaAmman, Queen Alia Airport (AMM), JordanAmsterdam, Schiphol Airport (AMS), NetherlandsAncona, Falconara Airport (AOI), ItalyAntalya, Antalya Airport (AYT), TurkeyAntananarivo, Ivato Airport (TNR), MadagascarAsuncion, Silvio Pettirossi Airport (ASU), ParaguayAthens, Eleftherios Venizelos Airport (ATH), GreeceAtlanta GA, Hartsfield Jackson Airport (ATL), United States of AmericaAuckland, Auckland Airport (AKL), New ZealandAustin TX, Bergstrom Airport (AUS), United States of AmericaAyers Rock, Connellan Airport (AYQ), AustraliaBacolod City, Bacolod Airport (BCD), PhilippinesBahrain, Bahrain Airport (BAH), BahrainBaku, Heydar Aliyev Airport (GYD), AzerbaijanBali, Ngurah Rai Airport (DPS), IndonesiaBalikpapan, Sepinggan Airport (BPN), IndonesiaBallina, Byron Gateway Airport (BNK), AustraliaBaltimore MD, Washington Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), United States of AmericaBamako, Senou Airport (BKO), MaliBandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Airport (BWN), BruneiBangkok, Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), ThailandBanja Luka, Banja Luka Airport (BNX), Bosnia/HerzegovinaBarcelona, El Prat Airport (BCN), SpainBari, Palese Airport (BRI), ItalyBasel, Euro Airport (BSL), SwitzerlandBeijing, Capital Airport (PEK), ChinaBeirut, Rafic Hariri Airport (BEY), LebanonBelfast, George Best City Airport (BHD), United KingdomBelgrade, Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG), SerbiaBengaluru, Kempegowda Airport (BLR), IndiaBergen, Flesland Airport (BGO), NorwayBerlin, Tegel Airport (TXL), GermanyBilbao, Bilbao Airport (BIO), SpainBillund, Billund Airport (BLL), DenmarkBintulu, Bintulu Airport (BTU), MalaysiaBirmingham AL, Shuttlesworth Airport (BHM), United States of AmericaBirmingham, Birmingham Airport (BHX), United KingdomBloomington-Normal IL, Normal Airport (BMI), United States of AmericaBodrum, Milas Bodrum Airport (BJV), TurkeyBogota, El Dorado Airport (BOG), ColombiaBologna, Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ), ItalyBordeaux, Merignac Airport (BOD), FranceBordeaux, Saint Jean TGV Railway Station (ZFQ), FranceBoston MA, Logan Airport (BOS), United States of AmericaBrindisi, Casale Airprot (BDS), ItalyBrisbane, Brisbane Airport (BNE), AustraliaBristol, Lulsgate Airport (BRS), United KingdomBroome, Broome Airport (BME), AustraliaBrussels, Brussels Airport (BRU), BelgiumBrussels, Midi Railway Station (ZYR), BelgiumBucharest, Henri Coanda Otopeni Airport (OTP), RomaniaBudapest, Liszt Ferenc Airport (BUD), HungaryBuenos Aires, Ministro Pistarini Airport (EZE), ArgentinaBuffalo NY, Niagara Airport (BUF), United States of AmericaBujumbura, Bujumbura Airport (BJM), BurundiBurlington VT, Burlington Airport (BTV), United States of AmericaBusan, Gimhae Airport (PUS), South KoreaCagayan De Oro City, Cagayan De Oro Airport (CGY), PhilippinesCagliari, Elmas Airport (CAG), ItalyCairns, Cairns Airport (CNS), AustraliaCairo, Cairo Airport (CAI), EgyptCalgary, Calgary Airport (YYC), CanadaCanberra, Canberra Airport (CBR), AustraliaCancun, Cancun Airport (CUN), MexicoCape Town, Cape Town Airport (CPT), South AfricaCardiff, Cardiff Wales Airport (CWL), United KingdomCasablanca, Mohamed V Airport (CMN), MoroccoCatania, Fontanarossa Airport (CTA), ItalyCebu, Mactan Cebu Airport (CEB), PhilippinesCedar Rapids IA, The Eastern Iowa Airport (CID), United States of AmericaChampaign IL, Willard University Airport (CMI), United States of AmericaChangsha, Huanghua Airport (CSX), ChinaChania, Ioannis Daskalogiannis Airport (CHQ), GreeceCharleston SC, Air Force Base Airport (CHS), United States of AmericaCharlotte NC, Douglas Airport (CLT), United States of AmericaCharlottesville VA, Albemarle Airport (CHO), United States of AmericaChelyabinsk, Balandino Airport (CEK), RussiaChengdu, Shuangliu Airport (CTU), ChinaChennai, Chennai Airport (MAA), IndiaChiang Mai, Chiang Mai Airport (CNX), ThailandChiang Rai, Mae Fah Luang Airport (CEI), ThailandChicago IL, O'Hare Airport (ORD), United States of AmericaChios, Chios Airport (JKH), GreeceChristchurch, Christchurch Airport (CHC), New ZealandCincinnati OH, Covington Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG), United States of AmericaCleveland OH, Hopkins Airport (CLE), United States of AmericaCloncurry, Cloncurry Airport (CNJ), AustraliaCoffs Harbour, Coffs Harbour Airport (CFS), AustraliaCologne, Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN), GermanyColombo, Bandaranaike Airport (CMB), Sri LankaColorado Springs CO, Colorado Springs Airport (COS), United States of AmericaColumbia MO, Columbia Regional Airport (COU), United States of AmericaColumbus OH, Port Columbus Airport (CMH), United States of AmericaCopenhagen, Kastrup Airport (CPH), DenmarkCorfu, Ioannis Kapodistrias Airport (CFU), GreeceCork, Cork Airport (ORK), IrelandCotabato City, Awang Airport (CBO), PhilippinesDa Nang, Da Nang Airport (DAD), VietnamDakar, Blaise Diagne Airport (DSS), SenegalDalian, Zhoushuizi Airport (DLC), ChinaDallas TX, Fort Worth Airport (DFW), United States of AmericaDammam, Khobar SABTCO Bus Station (DMS), Saudi ArabiaDammam, King Fahd Airport (DMM), Saudi ArabiaDar Es Salaam, Julius Nyerere Airport (DAR), TanzaniaDarwin, Darwin Airport (DRW), AustraliaDavao City, Francisco Bangoy Airport (DVO), PhilippinesDayton OH, James M Cox Airport (DAY), United States of AmericaDenver CO, Denver Airport (DEN), United States of AmericaDes Moines IA, Des Moines Airport (DSM), United States of AmericaDetroit MI, Wayne County Metro Airport (DTW), United States of AmericaDhaka, Hazrat Shahjalal Airport (DAC), BangladeshDoncaster, Robin Hood Airport (DSA), United KingdomDonegal, Donegal Airport (CFN), IrelandDortmund, Dortmund Airport (DTM), GermanyDresden, Dresden Airport (DRS), GermanyDubai, Etihad Bus Station (XNB), United Arab EmiratesDublin, Dublin Airport (DUB), IrelandDubrovnik, Dubrovnik Airport (DBV), CroatiaDubuque IA, Dubuque Regional Airport (DBQ), United States of AmericaDumaguete City, Sibulan Airport (DGT), PhilippinesDunedin, Dunedin Airport (DUD), New ZealandDurban, King Shaka Airport (DUR), South AfricaDurham, Durham Tees Valley Airport (MME), United KingdomDusseldorf, Dusseldorf Airport (DUS), GermanyEdinburgh, Edinburgh Airport (EDI), United KingdomEdmonton, Edmonton Airport (YEG), CanadaEl Paso TX, El Paso Airport (ELP), United States of AmericaEmerald, Emerald Airport (EMD), AustraliaEntebbe, Entebbe Airport (EBB), UgandaErcan, Ercan Airport (ECN), CyprusEugene OR, Mahlon Sweet Field Airport (EUG), United States of AmericaEvansville IN, Evansville Airport (EVV), United States of AmericaExeter, Exeter Airport (EXT), United KingdomFaisalabad, Faisalabad Airport (LYP), PakistanFargo ND, Hector Airport (FAR), United States of AmericaFaro, Faro Airport (FAO), PortugalFayetteville AR, Northwest Arkansas Airport (XNA), United States of AmericaFlint MI, Bishop Airport (FNT), United States of AmericaFlorence, Peretola Airport (FLR), ItalyFort Lauderdale FL, Hollywood Airport (FLL), United States of AmericaFort Myers FL, Southwest Florida Airport (RSW), United States of AmericaFort Wayne IN, Fort Wayne Airport (FWA), United States of AmericaFrankfurt, Frankfurt Airport (FRA), GermanyFresno CA, Yosemite Airport (FAT), United States of AmericaFuerteventura, Fuerteventura Airport (FUE), SpainFukuoka, Fukuoka Airport (FUK), JapanGaborone, Sir Seretse Khama Airport (GBE), BotswanaGaziantep, Oguzeli Airport (GZT), TurkeyGdansk, Lech Walesa Airport (GDN), PolandGeneral Santos, General Santos Airport (GES), PhilippinesGeneva, Geneva Airport (GVA), SwitzerlandGenova, Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA), ItalyGeorge, George Airport (GRJ), South AfricaGlasgow, Glasgow Airport (GLA), United KingdomGold Coast, Coolangatta Airport (OOL), AustraliaGoteborg, Landvetter Airport (GOT), SwedenGrand Rapids MI, Gerald R Ford Airport (GRR), United States of AmericaGraz, Graz Airport (GRZ), AustriaGreen Bay WI, Austin Straubel Airport (GRB), United States of AmericaGreensboro NC, Piedmont Triad Airport (GSO), United States of AmericaGreenville SC, Spartanburg Airport (GSP), United States of AmericaGuangzhou, Baiyun Airport (CAN), ChinaHalifax, Stanfield Airport (YHZ), CanadaHamburg, Fuhlsbuettel Airport (HAM), GermanyHamburg, Hamburg HBF Railway Station (ZMB), GermanyHamilton Island, Great Barrier Reef Airport (HTI), AustraliaHannover, Hannover Airport (HAJ), GermanyHanoi, Noibai Airport (HAN), VietnamHanover, Hanover HBF Train Station (ZVR), GermanyHarare, Harare Airport (HRE), ZimbabweHarrisburg PA, Harrisburg Airport (MDT), United States of AmericaHartford CT, Bradley Airport (BDL), United States of AmericaHelsinki, Vantaa Airport (HEL), FinlandHeraclion, Heraklion Nikos Kazantzakis Airport (HER), GreeceHervey Bay, Hervey Bay Airport (HVB), AustraliaHo Chi Minh City, Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN), VietnamHobart, Hobart Airport (HBA), AustraliaHong Kong, Hong Kong Airport (HKG), ChinaHouston TX, George Bush Airport (IAH), United States of AmericaHouston TX, William P Hobby Airport (HOU), United States of AmericaHyderabad, Rajiv Gandhi Airport (HYD), IndiaIbiza, Ibiza Airport (IBZ), SpainIloilo City, Iloilo Airport (ILO), PhilippinesIndianapolis IN, Indianapolis Airport (IND), United States of AmericaIoannina, Ioannina Airport (IOA), GreeceIslamabad, New Islamabad Airport (ISB), PakistanIsle Of Man, Ronaldsway Airport (IOM), United KingdomIstanbul, Istanbul Airport (IST), TurkeyIzmir, Adnan Menderes Airport (ADB), TurkeyJacksonville FL, Jacksonville Airport (JAX), United States of AmericaJakarta, Soekarno Hatta Airport (CGK), IndonesiaJeddah, King Abdulaziz Airport (JED), Saudi ArabiaJersey, Jersey Airport (JER), United KingdomJohannesburg, O R Tambo Airport (JNB), South AfricaJohor Bahru, Sultan Ismail Airport (JHB), MalaysiaKagoshima, Kagoshima Airport (KOJ), JapanKalamazoo MI, Battle Creek Airport (AZO), United States of AmericaKalgoorlie, Boulder Airport (KGI), AustraliaKalibo, Kalibo Airport (KLO), PhilippinesKaliningrad, Khrabrovo Airport (KGD), RussiaKansas City MO, Kansas City Airport (MCI), United States of AmericaKaohsiung, Kaohsiung Airport (KHH), ChinaKarachi, Jinnah Airport (KHI), PakistanKathmandu, Tribhuvan Airport (KTM), NepalKavala, Alexander the Great Airport (KVA), GreeceKazan, Kazan Airport (KZN), RussiaKerry, Kerry Airport (KIR), IrelandKharkiv, Kharkiv Airport (HRK), UkraineKhartoum, Khartoum Airport (KRT), SudanKiev, Boryspil Airport (KBP), UkraineKiev, Zhuliany Airport (IEV), UkraineKigali, Kigali Airport (KGL), RwandaKilimanjaro, Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO), TanzaniaKisumu, Kisumu Airport (KIS), KenyaKnock, Ireland West Airport (NOC), IrelandKnoxville TN, McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS), United States of AmericaKochi, Cochin Airport (COK), IndiaKoh Samui, Ko Samui Airport (USM), ThailandKolkata, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport (CCU), IndiaKos, Ippokratis Airport (KGS), GreeceKota Bharu, Sultan Ismail Petra Airport (KBR), MalaysiaKota Kinabalu, Kota Kinabalu Airport (BKI), MalaysiaKozhikode, Calicut Airport (CCJ), IndiaKrabi, Krabi Airport (KBV), ThailandKrakow, John Paul II Balice Airport (KRK), PolandKrasnodar, Pashkovsky Airport (KRR), RussiaKrasnoyarsk, Yemelyanovo Airport (KJA), RussiaKristiansand, Kjevik Airport (KRS), NorwayKuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Airport (KUL), MalaysiaKuala Terengganu, Sultan Mahmud Airport (TGG), MalaysiaKuching, Kuching Airport (KCH), MalaysiaKunming, Changshui Airport (KMG), ChinaKuwait, Kuwait Airport (KWI), KuwaitLa Crosse WI, La Crosse Airport (LSE), United States of AmericaLabuan, Labuan Airport (LBU), MalaysiaLagos, Murtala Muhammed Airport (LOS), NigeriaLahore, Allama Iqbal Airport (LHE), PakistanLambert MO, St Louis Airport (STL), United States of AmericaLamezia Terme, Lamezia Terme Airport (SUF), ItalyLampang, Lampang Airport (LPT), ThailandLampedusa, Lampedusa Airport (LMP), ItalyLangkawi, Langkawi Airport (LGK), MalaysiaLanzarote, Lanzarote Airport (ACE), SpainLaoag City, Laoag Airport (LAO), PhilippinesLarnaca, Larnaca Airport (LCA), CyprusLas Vegas NV, McCarran Airport (LAS), United States of AmericaLaunceston, Launceston Airport (LST), AustraliaLeeds, Leeds Bradford Airport 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Dubai, Dubai United Arab Emirates
City & Desert Adventures in Dubai
Go on a city tour of Dubai & embark on a desert safari where you’ll enjoy camel riding, dune bashing and delicious cuisine.
Dubai continually mesmerizes with its striking skyline of world record-holding structures, and golden-sand deserts and shorelines that stretch for miles. Your Dubai adventure begins with a tour of the city, where you’ll take in the Dubai Museum, Dubai Creek, Burj Al Arab and the famous gold and spice souks. Enjoy free time for shopping at The Dubai Mall — the world’s biggest shopping mall — before watching the impressive water fountain show at the Dubai Fountain.
After being dazzled by the city’s cosmopolitan glitz, you’ll head out on a desert safari and try your hand at dune bashing. Then, spend time camel riding, designing with henna and smoking shisha, a traditional Middle Eastern water-pipe. Your evening ends with a delicious barbecue dinner and 2 traditional shows.
Don’t forget to take advantage of your complimentary access to Aquaventure Waterpark and The Lost Chambers Aquarium at Atlantis, The Palm. Ride and slide at the water park, and see ancient ruins at the aquarium.
• Your exciting desert safari features prime opportunities for sunset photography.
• Dubai’s gold and spice souks are known for extremely cheap gold, but you may have to haggle for it.
• Atlantis, The Palm is home to a towering sculpture by artist Dale Chihuly made from more than 3,000 individually handblown glass pieces.
Your DreamTrip includes 5 days and 4 nights* in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as well as:
• Full-day tour of Dubai; includes entrance fees and air-conditioned transportation with complimentary water. See Additional Information for details and restrictions.
• Desert safari experience; includes air-conditioned transportation with complimentary water. See Additional Information for details and restrictions.
• Complimentary entrance to Aquaventure Waterpark and The Lost Chambers Aquarium in the hotel.
• Complimentary use of the sauna, steam room and hot tub at the hotel.
• Welcome reception with snacks and nonalcoholic drinks at the hotel.
• 4 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 2 dinners.
• An In-destination Support team member will be provided on this trip. Their goal is to ensure you have a great DreamTrips™ experience from landing to liftoff. They host a welcome reception on arrival day, attend scheduled activities throughout the trip, notify the group of itinerary updates and more.
Airfare is not included in the trip price! The closest commercial airport to the hotel is Dubai International Airport (DXB), approximately 24 miles (39 kilometers) away, a drive of about 28 minutes. We highly recommend that you purchase travel insurance for any trip.
Round-trip airport transfers are included from:
Dubai International Airport (DXB) to the hotel on February 24, timing based on flight details provided.
The hotel to Dubai International Airport (DXB) on February 28, timing based on flight details provided.
To arrange your airport transfers, please submit flight details HERE by January 20.
Please note: Transfers are provided only for the airport(s), dates and times listed above.
This trip will close by January 19.
From the coast of the Arabian Desert arises Dubai’s futuristic skyline, a glittering city towering over sand and sea. It lives up to its nickname, “The City of Gold,” with dazzling buildings and a booming travel industry. Explore this stylish cosmopolitan metropolis and discover the unique sophistication of the Middle East. The city is home to some of the most striking ultramodern architecture on the planet. It’s also home to the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, which looms above the cityscape at 2,716.5 feet (828 meters). Shadowed by lofty skyscrapers, you will find world-class shopping and dining, beautiful mosques and a lively nightlife scene.
In addition to other exciting excursions, Platinum Members will get special access to Burj Khalifa on Day 2 (available from 4-6 p.m.). This mighty landmark holds several world records, including tallest free-standing structure on the planet. Take an exhilarating elevator ride to the 124th floor. From the “At the Top” observatory, get ready for jaw-dropping views of Dubai and beyond. If you're brave enough, step out on the open-air platform. It’s a definite item to tick off on your bucket list — and only for Platinum Members.
Then, on Day 3 (6-8 p.m.), Platinum Members will be treated to an exclusive, per-person dinner cruise around the Dubai Marina. Board a traditional dhow boat and see the city’s stunning skyline as you dine!
Arrive at the airport and transfer to the hotel, timing based on flight details provided.
9 a.m. – 6 p.m.: Visit the welcome table in the hotel lobby.
7-7:20 p.m.: Special welcome at Ambassador Lagoon.
7:30-8 p.m.: Welcome reception with snacks and nonalcoholic beverages at the hotel.
8-9:30 p.m.: Welcome dinner in the hotel’s ballroom.
7-7:45 a.m.: Buffet breakfast at the hotel’s Saffron or Kaleidoscope restaurant.
8 a.m. – 7 p.m.: Full-day tour of Dubai; includes lunch, entrance fees and air-conditioned transportation with complimentary water. See Additional Information for details and restrictions.
• 8 a.m.: Depart from the hotel.
• Stop for photos at Burj al Arab and the Madinat Jumeirah souk.
• Visit the historic Al Bastakiyah district.
• Stop at Al Fahidi Fort, which houses the Dubai Museum. See the Jumeirah Mosque and the Ruler’s Court from the outside, then ride an abra — or water taxi — on Dubai Creek to channel the atmosphere of the past.
• While in the old part of Dubai, you can explore the spice and gold souks that are filled with herbs and gold jewelry.
• Lunch at a local restaurant.
• Transfer to The Dubai Mall for shopping.
• See a spectacular water fountain show at the Dubai Fountain.
• 7 p.m.: Return to the hotel.
6-8 a.m.: Buffet breakfast at Saffron or Kaleidoscope.
A day at your leisure. We suggest using your complimentary admission ticket to Aquaventure Waterpark and The Lost Chambers Aquarium.
Lunch and dinner are at your own expense.
The morning and early afternoon at your leisure. Lunch is at your own expense.
3:30-9 p.m.: Desert safari experience; includes dinner and air-conditioned transportation with complimentary water. See Additional Information for details and restrictions.
• 3:30-4 p.m.: Depart from the hotel and transfer to the desert.
• Take part in an exhilarating, 30-minute dune-bashing experience.
• Transfer to the camp for fun, complimentary activities, including short camel rides, shisha smoking and henna painting.
• Enjoy a delicious barbecue dinner with unlimited soft drinks.
• Watch 2 traditional shows as your evening entertainment.
The rest of the evening is at your leisure.
7:30-8 a.m.: Buffet breakfast at Saffron or Kaleidoscope.
Check out of the hotel by noon and transfer to the airport.*
*Please make arrangements to arrive at the airport at least 3 hours before your flight.
The award-winning Atlantis, The Palm occupies a prime spot on the outer edge of Palm Jumeirah, an awe-inspiring, man-made archipelago extending into the azure waters of the Persian Gulf. Immersed in a world of comfort and imagination, guests enjoy the hotel’s numerous amenities and complimentary access to Aquaventure Waterpark and The Lost Chambers Aquarium.
• 16 restaurants and 2 bars, plus 24-hour room service.
• Aquaventure Waterpark and The Lost Chambers Aquarium.
• ShuiQi Spa & Fitness.
• Complimentary parking.
Deluxe Double Room accommodations with:
• 1 king bed or 2 queen beds. Please note: Bedding type is subject to hotel availability. Extra bed available (at an additional cost).
• Maximum occupancy 3 adults, 3 adults and 1 child, or 2 adults and 2 children.
• Minimum occupancy 1 adult, or 1 adult and 1 child.
• Spacious, 484-square-foot (45-square-meter) room.
• Cable and satellite television.
• Minibar (consumption at an additional cost).
• Complimentary Wi-Fi.
Atlantis, The Palm
Crescent Road, The Palm Island, Palm Jumeirah
Full-day tour of Dubai:
• Please be aware that during Ramadan and other religious holidays, certain activities, such as belly-dancing, will not be permitted; alcoholic drinks will also be prohibited.
• Your guide will advise on customary attire to wear during this excursion.
Desert safari experience:
• Pickup times at the hotel will vary, depending on the timing of the sunset during winter and summer months.
• Separate toilet facilities will be provided for men and women.
Name Change Policy: Name changes must be done no later than January 19 and are subject to a US$50 name change fee. Name changes after this date are not allowed.
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Toradora! Episode 21 = Best since episode 16
Episode 16 featured a BAD ASS fight scene with Samurai Champloo and/or Afro Samurai animation styles (in my animation opinion). Episode 21 featured: BAM BAM and BAM! Even though this is an anime that would be categorized as a comedy/romance/slice of life genre, and has started to lean more towards the sappy gwappy moochey woochey, it fucking brings it, and manages to not be gay, and I get the same feeling when something major happens as I did with say, Code Geass (not really that powerful but close). As far as series from the winter come, this one is the best, along with To Aru Majutsu no Index. Chaos;HEAD was good, but it was too short. Personally, I like the standard 26 episode anime more, because they seem to be more complete. So here is my first review of a single episode of a show, rather than the show itself.
WARNING: Past this point are spoilers that can ruin the show if you haven’t seen it, although before I watched the show, I already knew this was the case (Wikipedia…how come sometimes they only explain the general premise, but other times give away the entire show, including the ending? I just keep reading, then ruin shows…although I don’t know the very very ending, just up to this point….and the episode was still a BAM).
Toradora! Episode 21
First off, If you’ve been watching this show, you could see this coming since the first episode, but still the fact that Taiga actually (and although accidentally) articulated her amor por Ryuuji, is a huge BAM. But what really made this episode awesome was this scene in the beginning:
I guess in Japan they teach skiing the same way as we do in America. They tell students to make a “pizza” with their skis. As a ski instructor myself, I found this to be awesome, because I got it, and other people most likely didn’t, so FUCK YOU! It also made me realize how shitty Mount Southington is…..not the Ski School, everyone there is cool (mainly just the supervisors and shit), but the management besides that? Huge fuck-heads. Wasn’t I trying tyo do a review on an episode? This is turning out well.
As pointed the episode starts off with the class skiing (field trip). So they’re skiing. They ski. They ski and they ski. For like…..a good 2 minutes. Not even. Then they go inside. They talk. They talk and they talk. Basically, here it is in a nutshell:
Ryuuji wants to find out how Minori actually feels about him, and to his surprise she approaches him, although for a different reason. Some girls on the trip had a fight over boys (I think….to be honest, I spaced out during this scene, and didn’t think it was important enough to replay…I mean, I spaced out for a reason right?). Anyway Minori wants them all to get along, so she asks Ryuuji if he has any ideas to make this possible. He doesn’t, and and the scene ends.
This sort of depressed Ryuuji, and he goes to sleep (he doesn’t really sleep, just lays in his futon or whatever the hell those Japanese people sleep in. Just kidding, I know for a fact it’s a futon. (Wait was that supposed to be a joke? I suck. (he remarked to himself as he typed “he remarked to himself” out on his ISSS)) Anyway, soon thereafter, Kitamura and those two other guys come in and ask him why he’s being such a pussy. He explains that he likes Minori, and they say, “Ok, let’s go find out how she feels now.”
So they go off and hide in the closet of the girls’ room, like any person would do. Taiga comes in alone, and they pull her into the closet to rape her because she found out that they were hiding there. They keep her quite with chlorofor- I mean Ryuuji has his hand over her mouth. So the other girls enter, and they just happen to dive right in to who likes who and how Minorin feels about all this shit, and how she rejected Ryuuji on Christmas. Then Minori gets into an argument with Ami (who is mad because she can;t get Minori to express her true feelings). They leave, the guys leave, end scene.
The next day, on the slopes, Taiga and Minori are sledding, and knock into Ami, who was telling Ryuuji how she felt about Minori and herself (described in parenthesis in like, the last sentence). She thinks that Minori did it on purpose, and suddenly bows are getting thrown (Fisticuffs). The hair clip that Ryuuji bought for Minori goes flying, although the only one who knows is Taiga, and she goes to get it (this is known as the catalyst for the BAM). Nobody really notices, and they go back respectively, thinking that Taiga already went back to the hotel, when the scene clearly shows that she fell down a ravine or some shit.
Night falls. They are worried back at the hotel, as Rescuers
have been sent to find Taiga in the snowstorm (there also just happens to be Blizzard that appeared).
Not that kind of blizzard. But anyway, Minori decides to go look for her, and this causes a snowball effect (get it snowball? There’s a snowstorm?) and everyone decides to go (like 5 people). But yea. There’s a rescue squad, fully trained, looking for her…..what are a bunch of high school kids gonna be able to d- oh wait they find her like, right away. What a shitty ski resort, don’t hire them to come find me. Anyway, Ryuuji finds her after he climbs down into the previously stated ravine, and throws her on his back because she’s pretty fucked up (concussion in my medical opinion). She thinks that he is Kitamura, and starts yapping away about how her wish didn’t work and how she:
What the fuck is gonna happen next? Sick awesome nice cool stupendous yiyeah BAM.
February 27, 2009 by glothelegend Categories: Anime, Episode Review | Tags: Ami, Kitamura, Minori, Rie Kugimiya, Ryuuji, Taiga, Toradora! | 1 Comment
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episode 5: the chrysanthemum and the sword
Aug. 22nd, 2010 at 8:32 PM
Much to discuss. Much to discuss.
Don and Pete go against Roger in efforts to win a new account.
And I believe she smiled when Henry calmed her down, after she slapped Sally.
I think you're right.
That's what was so impressive and charming about that scene -- once Henry pointed out that she was really mad at Don and Henry sympathized, all the aggression went out of her.
Yes, I agree. But that brings me back to the idea that she doesn't actually like children. Betty looks at Sally and sees a burden, rather than a person or a daughter.
It occurs to me that, even in this moment with Henry and Don, that Betty has always defined her world according to the man in her life. Is that accurate? I know it's a reflection of the times, and the character relative to the times in which she lives. But we look at her in comparison to Joan and Peggy, who are defining their world for themselves, albeit to differing degrees.
I agree that she's basically a child. In fact, didn't January Jones even say that about her character? I think so... Betty tells Dr. Edna she feels Sally is acting out just to punish Betty -- a very immature interpretation. That's how a kid would think about it.
I believe JJ did. And I have to think it's to her credit that I dislike Betty so much. Srsly.
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Nope, this blog post has nothing to do with Christmas…
In another one of my posts written recently (Japanese only), I talked about a mysterious incident revolving around journal articles. I must say that this year is (also) a year filled with news and chatter from the world of publication.
So let me give you a summary of the issues I felt strongly about this year with regard to publications.
In the incident that I wrote about earlier on, somebody plagarised content that was presented at a scientific conference, wrote a paper with that content using the name of a researcher who does not even exist, submitted it to a journal and had it published. While plagarism of articles or fabrication of data happens frequently, unfortunately, this case was peculiar in that a paper with correct contents was published without permission, under the name of a researcher who does not exist. It makes you wonder, who benefitted from such an act? This case was said to be the first of its kind but from a tweet from someone who had read the article, it was brought to my attention that in fact, a similar incident occurred in our country (Japan) just a few years ago.
I cannot help but feel that there’s some kind of connection between the two incidents because both involved the Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications journal. Moreover, I am shocked that there are multiple incidents with acts that show contempt for the original reasearchers.
In any case, I thank the person who tweeted me. We at Chem Station read through tweets (yes, we do) so please continue to give us your comments and feedback.
Moving on to the next issue, I would like to talk about Open Access Journals, a hot topic in recent times. You may already know this but the number of Open Access Journals has been increasing exponentially in recent years and shows no sign of slowing down. Usually, journal articles can only be read by subscribers. Publishers either make a business out of subscription, or by the participation fees they collect at conferences that they hold. On the other hand, for Open Access Journals, authors pay a fee to get their work published and readers get access to this work for free.
Some argue that since part of most research is funded by tax payers’ money, tax-paying citizens have a right to know about the results of these research, and limiting such information to the small circle of researchers who pay a subscription fee to publishers seems to be an issue from the viewpoint of public welfare. Recently, if a research has obtained support/grants from the NIH in the US, it is mandatory for articles related to that research to be made open access after one year from publication.
It may not be very common in the field of Chemistry but it is apparently the norm to pay to get your papers published in the field of Biology. Therefore, the business model of Open Access Journals came from the field of Biology. A representative of this model is PLoS ONE, which had apparently published 23,464 papers last year.
Publishers of Open Access Journals will profit more if they publish more so it is only natural that the acceptance rate is high. It is said that PLoS ONE‘s acceptance rate is approximately 70%. As long as the fundamental scientific methods are followed, the paper is accepted. Results are not a deciding factor. On the other end of the spectrum, we have Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. with an acceptance rate of 21% last year. I think it is obvious that there is a huge difference between the two acceptance rates.
With such a high acceptance rate, one wonders whether the quality of the papers will be compromised. While there is no direct relation between impact factor and quality, PLoS ONE’s impact factor is around 4, which seems reasonable for a journal with so many papers published.
So to find out more, I submitted a paper with real content to PLoS ONE. Unfortunately, it was not about Chemistry but objectively speaking, it was a paper that would be accepted by a journal of moderate standards. I thought it would be accepted readily but the reviewers had some rather strong comments and I was slightly perplexed. I complained to a person I was collaborating with that if such strong comments were warranted, then what’s the point of making the journal one with open access? In the end, I added extra data based on the comments received and the paper was accepted without problems.
The publication fee for authors from developed countries is $1350 and after spliting the bill with my collaborator, it was not an amount that I could not afford to pay. In fact, some journals get you to pay for copies of the paper and if you take that into consideration, the amount I had to pay for publication in PLoS ONE was not that all expensive.
In a nutshell, the peer review process is in place even for this journal that is open access. However, the same cannot be said for all Open Access Journals. There was an investigation report on Science that was of great interest.
Who's Afraid of Peer Review?
John Bohannon
Science 342, 60-65 (2013). doi: 10.1126/science.342.6154.60
The aim of the investigation was to reveal the fact that many Open Access Journals do not have a proper peer review process.
In order to do this, first, a fake paper was prepared. What’s impressive about this investigation was that they did not just prepare one fake paper but prepared various fake papers that all had the same gist. The paper was about a chemical compound that was effective against cancer but with data that even high school students can understand showing otherwise. It would be obvious that it was not the chemical compound that was effective against cancer cells but the unbelievable concentrations of ethanol used in the study that was causing the cytotoxic effect.
To make the study more questionable (with no intention of being discriminatory), African author names and institution names were used. In addition, Google Translate was used to first translate the English text into French and then back into English to make it look like it was written by a non-native English speaker.
Then, 304 Open Access Journals that seemed to have even the slightest connection to each other were picked and the fake papers were submitted to them. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a website, was used in choosing the journals.
There is another list known as Beall’s list that was created by Jeffrey Beall of Colorado University. It is a list of suspicious Open Access Journals that for example, do not list the fee required to publish, do not state clearly their policy for editing, and have unclear English. Journals that do not meet a certain requirement set by Beall will end up in this list. It is best not to get involved with journals in this list. It may be wise to even reject any requests for peer reviews from these journals. This is because if you accept a request, they may put you on the editorial board without prior permission and even if you tried to get them to remove your name from the board, they may not do so.
Figure obtained from the Science article
The investigation results from Science are represented using pie charts shown in the figure. From January to August, 10 fake papers were submitted each week, and 157 Journals accepted the papers after an average of just 40 days. Only 98 journals rejected the papers (after an average of 24 days). Close to 30 out of the remaining 50-odd journals had sites that seemed to be abandoned. Shockingly, about 60% of papers submitted appeared to be not subjected to the peer review process. This figure is higher than expected because most Open Access Journals claim to have a peer review process. Only 36 papers had proper reviews (in other words, the scientific errors in the fake paper was pointed out) but in spite of these comments, 16 out of the 36 were accepted by the editor.
While the results of the investigation were kind of expected, they cast a dark shadow on the future of Open Access Journals. I feel really sad that the world is rampant with malicious people, or rather, people who exploit science. It’s still forgivable if they had no bad intentions and were just ignorant about science but it is regrettable that this is a phenomenon that is not limited to India, China or Africa. The Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences, a journal published by Kobe University’s Medicine Faculty, was flagged in the Science investigation. This is indeed a “science-free” situation.
Everyone agrees that open access is a good thing. The question is how to achieve it.
David Roos, University of Pennsylvania
Nature recently published an article regarding the dark side of Open Access Journals. In it, there were some rules that we should follow when choosing a journal to submit to, and I would like to share them with you.
Buyer beware: A checklist to identify reputable publishers (Taken from Nature article)
Declan Butler
Nature 495, 433–435 (28 March 2013) doi:10.1038/495433a
How to perform due diligence before submitting to a journal or publisher.
Check that the publisher provides full, verifiable contact information, including address, on the journal site. Be cautious of those that provide only web contact forms.
Check that a journal’s editorial board lists recognized experts with full affiliations. Contact some of them and ask about their experience with the journal or publisher.
Check that the journal prominently displays its policy for author fees.
Be wary of e-mail invitations to submit to journals or to become editorial board members.
Read some of the journal’s published articles and assess their quality. Contact past authors to ask about their experience.
Check that a journal’s peer-review process is clearly described and try to confirm that a claimed impact factor is correct.
Find out whether the journal is a member of an industry association that vets its members, such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org) or the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (www.oaspa.org).
Use common sense, as you would when shopping online: if something looks fishy, proceed with caution.
Well then, who are the people who are submitting papers to these unreliable journals? What comes to mind are people who need to inflate their academic achievements or people who use the number of papers published as a way to get an acadmic degree. In other words, the motive is self-centred. They probably think of it as some kind of investment and think that as long as they pay some money, things will be all right.
Another reason for publishing in these non-credible journals would be to target the normal guy on the street (i.e., consumers). Anything that is even remotely scientific can get published in these Open Access Journals, so this is ideal for adding prestige to products that one wants to sell. In the world we live in, even products that are obviously strange become reliable if they have been presented at a (scientific) conference so if a product makes it into a published paper, the effects are even greater.
2012 was the year of the predatory publisher; that was when they really exploded.
It is a huge mistake to think that these shady Open Access Journals would exit the scene after a matter of time. They started making headlines only in recent years but the number of Open Access Journals has increased rapidly since 2012. It is said that more than 1000 are born each year. With so many of them appearing and disappearing all the time, it is difficult to drive them out of the scene completely. As long as the demand for them exists, they will continue to exist. There is nothing we can do by relying on just the morals of researchers.
There is no stopping the wave of open access. PLoS ONE accepted a chemistry paper so my dear readers, why don’t you consider submitting your next paper to them?
Finally, I would like to tell you what the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Randy W. Schekman had to say. The original article is here.
Schekman is undoubtedly a top-class scientist. In the past, he has published in Nature, Cell, and Science, what is also known as the NCS. However, he said that in recent years, researchers have been competing with each other to publish in journals with high impact factors and as a result, they falsify data or cut corners for many papers. Therefore, it is not uncommon for retractions due to fraud to occur on NCS. (DNA with Arsenic, anyone?)
He is of the opinion that scientific papers should be published as long as they are correct, just like they do at the eLife journal, for which Schekman is Editor-in-Chief. He has declared that he will never submit another paper to NCS again from now on.
His words should carry some weight and influence many because he is a Nobel Prize winner. But he can probably make such a declaration because he is a Nobel Prize Winner. Even if I were to imitate Schekman and declare, “I will not submit to NCS!”, it would be in vain. (By the way, I have submitted papers to two within the NCS before. The results of which are…)
The topics in this post have been heavy and it’s not going to do any of us any good to keep thinking about such stuff. Well then, let’s look forward to what topics for science and chemistry next year would bring. Let us welcome the new year with such anticipation. Have a good new year, everyone!
This post is an English translation of the original blog post written in Japanese. The original post can be found here.
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ENE Head Search Committee Announced
Dean Jamieson has formed a search committee with the charge of making recommendations to her regarding the next head of the School of Engineering Education. The members of the committee are as follows.
Anil Bajaj, Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering, Committee Chair
Sonja Adams, Undergraduate Student
Malachi Boyd, Undergraduate Student
Lynn Bryan, Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Jennifer DeBoer, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
Heidi Diefes-Dux, Professor of Engineering Education
Becky Fry, Director of Development
Howard Gobstein, BSENE '74, Executive Vice President, APLU
Steve Hoffmann, Assistant Head, Engineering Education
Morgan Hynes, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
Candee Krautkramer, BSChE '90, Research Technical Leader, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Michael Loui, Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor of Engineering Education
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Larry Nies, Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering
William Oakes, Professor of Engineering Education and Director of EPICS
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Innovation for International Development Laboratory Seminars
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New USDA Rules for Meals and Snacks in the Child and Adult Care Food Program Promote Healthy Eating Habits
Statement attributed to Jim Weill, president, Food Research & Action Center.
WASHINGTON, September 28, 2017 — Starting October 1, all child and adult care centers and child care homes receiving federal funds from the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) must implement new nutrition standards that include a greater variety of vegetables and fruit, more whole grains, and less added sugar and saturated fat. The new standards also encourage breastfeeding and better align with WIC and other child nutrition programs, such as school breakfast and lunch.
In 2016, CACFP provided meals to 4.3 million children and 130,000 elderly or disabled adults each day. While these numbers mean the new standards have impressive reach, the positive impact of the new standards goes beyond participating CACFP centers; at least 30 states require day cares to implement CACFP’s nutrition standards as part of their licensing requirements.
The new nutrition standards will make a good program even better by strengthening the role of CACFP in helping to prevent obesity in young children, reducing food insecurity, and promoting improved health among both our youngest and oldest populations.
FRAC will continue to work with national, state, and local policymakers, providers, and other partners to provide resources and best practices to support healthy, balanced meals and snacks in CACFP.
For additional information, visit frac.org and contact Geri Henchy at ghenchy@frac.org or 202-986-2200 ext. 3025.
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Free Summer Meals Help Reduce Hunger When School is Out, Report Finds
WASHINGTON, July 10, 2019 — Too many children across the country are missing out on the nutrition they need during the summer months when the school year — and access to school breakfast and lunch — ends, according to a new report from FRAC. Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report finds that only 1 in 7 of the low-income children who participated in school lunch during the 2017–2018 school year received a summer lunch on an average weekday in July 2018.
Food Research & Action Center Lauds Bills That Address Child Summer Hunger
The Food Research & Action Center strongly supports legislation that was introduced this week to ensure low-income children across the country have access to the nutrition they need during the summer months when they lose access to healthy school meals.
Food Research & Action Center Endorses the No Shame at School Act
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2019 — FRAC announced its support of the No Shame at School Act, introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar and Sen. Tina Smith, both Democrats from Minnesota. The bill would ban any kind of identification of students who cannot pay for lunch at school, like wristbands or hand stamps, and not allow schools to publish lists of students who owe money for school meals or use debt collectors to recoup meal fees.
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"How many versions of this game are out there?" - a brief look into the SEVEN official releases!
Maulclaw
October 2018 edited October 2018 in TERA PC - General Discussion
Hey everyone.
This might be an odd question, but I'm rather confused about all of this. As far as I was concerned there were only four official releases of this game, but after some research I couldn't help but find SEVEN official releases. It wouldn't surprise me if there's more out there.
So here's what I managed to dig up:
KOREA: https://tera.nexon.com/
TERA was developed by Bluehole Studio, a small company that had its origins in 2007. It managed to grow exponentially after TERA's release, leading to spin-offs and other major releases (alongside numerous other sub-companies and projects).
When it comes to publishers... now that's a tricky story. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it started off with Hangame and NHN Entertainment, which then jumped to Naver Corporation before Nexon took over the project. I could be wrong as I'm not exactly an expert with these kind of things.
https://tera.nexon.com/
The japanese release is also tricky, especially when there are two different websites and publishers claiming it. Even though both websites look extremely similar, there are some key changes. It seems that this version of TERA is either run by Hangame or Pmang Games. Is there a connection between those two?
http://members-tera.hangame.co.jp/
https://tera.pmang.jp/
RUSSIA:
RU-TERA is apparently published by a company known as Destiny.Games. There wasn't much I could find about them besides the fact that they're a big team that has translated and released several online games and products over to Russia.
https://www.tera-online.ru/
As some of you might know, the European publisher is none other than the infamous Gameforge AG, a comapny well-known for bringing numerous eastern Free-To-Play games over to Europe and abuse them until every penny has been squeezed out of their consumers' pockets. If the rumours are true, then it seems like Gameforge AG is indeed improving, but I'll still hold on to some my doubts as two of my favourite MMOs in the past have been butchered by this company's shade practices.
https://en.tera.gameforge.com/
The developers of TERA always planned to release this game on the western market, which is why Enmasse Entertainment was previously known as Bluehole Interactive, Inc., meaning that they are a daughter company to the original Bluehole Studio. They had a really strong start with this game, going as far as hiring familiar voice actors to voice their characters and worked hard behind the game's marketing. Unfortunately, they have lost touch with the fan-base over the years, which then accumulated to the mess that has happened recently...
http://tera.enmasse.com/
THAILAND:
This was actually a surprise, but it seems like there's an official Thai release of TERA that was published by Playwith Thailand. It seems like they have plans for a PS4 re-release as well. I can't really find anything worth mentioning about this company; not even a page in English.
http://tera.playwith.in.th
TAIWAN and CHINA:
This was a surprise. Just like with version mentioned previously, information regarding this eastern release is hard to come by, but it seems like both releases of the game went through major issues a few years ago.
From what I managed to find, the Chinese version of the game was run by Kunlun Games and the game was considered a commercial failure, resulting in the company shutting down its servers in 2016. However, another subsidiary company known as Bluehole Pnix worked on a mobile version of the game.
Taiwan is a completely different story, though. The team over at OMG Digial Entertainment had announced the game's closure in late 2015 before a sudden turn of events had Bluehole Studio shift the game to a different company, MangoT5 (which belongs to HappyTuk).
https://tera.mangot5.com
Each website is different from the other and it seems like each company tries to advertise their games differently:
- Enmasse used to take the game quite seriously and seemed to pay attention to the lore and characters. They then decided to take a more fun and entertaining approach to the game by making comical sketches and appealing trailers with bombastic music.
- Gameforge on the other hand, has decided to keep it simple. They tend to do direct translations of Korean trailers or rely on the in-game engine to record gameplay and show off the environment.
- Destiny.Games decided to make TERA look as edgy as possible by making dark, obscure and action-packed ads. Besides the typical Item Store trailers, they also produce videos connected to major releases and dungeons that keep that grim tone.
- Most of the eastern releases seem to follow a similar path. When it's time for a serious release they pour their heart on it, but most of their trailers and videos are seen as cute, with a huge focus on elin and other female characters.
If there is anything that you guys could share about this, please do let me know!
https://mmoculture.com/2015/09/tera-taiwan-server-scheduled-to-resume-operations-this-november/
https://mmoculture.com/2015/08/tera-publisher-announces-upcoming-closure-of-taiwan-server/
https://mmos.com/news/tera-is-shutting-down-in-china
https://mmoculture.com/2016/06/tera-kunlun-games-and-bluehole-confirms-closure-of-china-server/
https://mmos.com/news/nexon-takes-over-as-tera-koreas-publisher
http://destiny.games/games/
Maulclaw ✭✭✭
AxeI wrote: »
Thank you for the informative post.
You can add to the CHINA release, it was on 2014. Many people says the shutdown was because the game was too old to compete vs the MMOs that were already on China market.
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ElinUsagi wrote: »
tencent is working with a huge game company to come out with a new mmorpg soon. I cant wait to see it
I don't suppose you know the url of the chinese version of the game?
LordMurasama ✭✭
The Japan one is kind of a long story due to business changes and acquisitions.... Hangame (NHN Entertainment) was originally a huge PC game portal in Korea and they also had subsidiaries in other regions. Back in the 2014-2015 timeframe, Hangame decided to shift primary focus away from PC MMO's to mobile games (because that is where the venture capital and investment money was going to for development and portals); this is also why K-TERA shutdown for a short period since they were originally published by NHN Hangame in Korea (Nexon picked up the publishing rights).
J-TERA was published by the Japanese subsidiary of Hangame (which continued handling PC and mobile games). Hangame Japan is pretty much mostly a portal now so they continue to front-end J-TERA while the company actually servicing the game is Pmang (previously known as Game On which absorbed Neowiz Japan; a subsidiary of Neowiz Korea). Pmang is actually the name of Neowiz Korea's portal site (but is also used in Japan). Hangame runs other promos and associated portal related events (which is probably where differences are seen depending on which front end a player looks at).
tisnotme ✭✭✭✭
Maulclaw wrote: »
my understanding is to create an account in china , japan and korea you need to be their to authenticate/validate a tera account otherwise id be playing one (prob japans) from here in the west of Australia
from memory its like you need an active cell phone account registered in that area to receive an activation code for the game
tisnotme wrote: »
there are lists available with cellphone numbers for those that have moved away from china
LordMurasama wrote: »
That's exactly the kind of info I was looking for, thank you!
Sadly not, I dont know official sources for that matter.
https://technology.ihs.com/440043/kunlun-game-acquires-tera-debut-test-phase-in-october
Gatokatzen ✭✭✭
Seems like best Tera right now after Europe is Tera thailand .
But guess ping will be stratosferic.
evilbaobei ✭✭
I dont personally think Tera Thailand will be a problem for asians..
I personally am playing in Tera Thailand due to amazing 37ms ping..
Anything that is important in the game are all in english...
Eg. Skill & glyphs (excluding description as it is in thai..), dungeons list, materials and items..
For item rolls although it is in thai, but the location of the rolls are exactly the same, thus we did a screenshot and saved it up and just open it up to refer it.
But this would only happen often in the early stages of enchanting items.. since you wont be switching your gears that often in end game..
It feels typically the same as how you would be playing in KR..
But being able to search for items in english in the broker dont make you lose anything out..
The team currently for TH server listens to the players and made adjustments.. but who knows for how long.. we cant guarantee that
Best thing for now, they dont do [filtered] gacha for dyeable costumes..
Only certain costumes are up for gacha..
They even did a jackpot event for the latest innerwear for free as long as you can down AAHM..
Whats more to ask?!
Sadly the only problem is that they have low population in game😪
evilbaobei wrote: »
I would like to know more about TERA Thailand. How does one make an account there?
> @Maulclaw said:
> evilbaobei wrote: »
> I dont personally think Tera Thailand will be a problem for asians..
> I personally am playing in Tera Thailand due to amazing 37ms ping..
> Anything that is important in the game are all in english...
> Eg. Skill & glyphs (excluding description as it is in thai..), dungeons list, materials and items..
> For item rolls although it is in thai, but the location of the rolls are exactly the same, thus we did a screenshot and saved it up and just open it up to refer it.
> But this would only happen often in the early stages of enchanting items.. since you wont be switching your gears that often in end game..
> It feels typically the same as how you would be playing in KR..
> But being able to search for items in english in the broker dont make you lose anything out..
> The team currently for TH server listens to the players and made adjustments.. but who knows for how long.. we cant guarantee that
> Best thing for now, they dont do [filtered] gacha for dyeable costumes..
> Only certain costumes are up for gacha..
> They even did a jackpot event for the latest innerwear for free as long as you can down AAHM..
> Whats more to ask?!
> Sadly the only problem is that they have low population in game😪
> I would like to know more about TERA Thailand. How does one make an account there?
You can go https://www.playwith.in.th/th/Account/Agree
Anything that you are not sure can easily use google translate.. remember to click on the box for your login id ..as they will prompt an error if you didnt counter check the details
I'll look into it, thanks!
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Playing other Kickstarter funded games makes me nervous
keiichimorisato98 replied to Death Machine Miyagi's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Broken Age has the great story and memorable characters, for certain, but the puzzles are (mostly) pretty straightforward, particularly for the veteran adventure gamer. Definitely not bad mouthing it and I'm planning on playing it again soon. Urg, well I'll have to give it a shot soon. Bad puzzles can turn an adventure game into an interactive movie. I'm looking at you, Dreamfall. hey! interactive movies aren't a bad thing… though if that was not it's intent then i guess it's a bad thing… but it's all about the intent of the creator and how well the story is told.
keiichimorisato98 started following Has Anyone Watched Fringe?, Playing other Kickstarter funded games makes me nervous, Update #70: New Year Project Update and and 5 others January 26, 2014
Update #70: New Year Project Update
keiichimorisato98 replied to BAdler's topic in Pillars of Eternity: Announcements and News
Concentration is similar to Concentration in 3E/3.5 (somewhat similar to Poise in Dark Souls) but it is for everyone, not just spellcasters. Concentration prevents you from playing hit reactions when you take damage. If you cannot maintain Concentration, you will play a hit reaction and your attack/reload/spell is interrupted. We're still defining the system (in fact, I was messing around with the formulae before I sat down), but that's the general idea. In the new scheme, Might affects damage/healing whether it's a single application or over time. Penetration is something we may or may not use in conjunction with an inherent Penetration value on weapons and other attacks that cause damage. I'm leaning toward "not" right now. may i ask, can you make a auto level thing? you know, a system that automatically assigns stat points to base stats based on your class? i ask this because in MMORPG's i always manage to find a way to screw myself over by not properly allocating my stats in the proper places at the proper time to get the most out of the class that i am playing, this got so bad that i stopped play WRPG's altogether. think sort of like JRPG's, like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest (Dragon Warriors) i am not saying that people shouldn't be allowed to choose their own stat builds, but give the option for the computer to do it for the player who really doesn't understand a thing about stats, and doesn't want to pull a bunch of wiki's trying to learn all of the nuances for each class in order to do well in the game. i don't know if i am saying this right, and i know a lot of WRPG purists are going to get angry and the idea of this, but i really want to enjoy the game, and i won't be able to if i am constantly worrying if i allocated my points properly. skill points i don't need any help with, as i generally tend to know what i want in terms of skills.
Brandon Adler
Update #69: Pillars of Eternity
finally I have my backing order situated. I can't wait to see how this game progresses.
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Stretch Goals
i am looking forward to this.
Anime - the emotional rolercoaster.
keiichimorisato98 replied to TrashMan's topic in Way Off-Topic
i can't wait to see this film, although the plot is a little creepy... though the CGI used in his films (CG of which he pioneered with 5 centimeters per-second) it has to do with how the lighting interacts with the 2D animation (the 2D is also animation is made on the computer i believe)
while i refuse to watch 5-centimeters per second because it's an OVA, but i have seen the films made by the writer director of that OVA. the most emotional anime i have ever seen is Clannad, i have never cried more while watching an anime than what i had with that show. the only other show/film that has done that to me was Air the movie. though the show had better animation oddly enough.
What you did today
keiichimorisato98 replied to Rosbjerg's topic in Way Off-Topic
Dude whatever you are smoking I want some, it sounds great i think it was called... purple haze? i honestly can't remember. i just have this strange craving for chocolate chip ice-cream and hotdogs...
The Days March On.
i died today i now haunt my computer, it's not all bad though, i can still access the internet and play some games (as i am in a pretty crappy MacBookPro) i wish i could have haunted a high end gaming rig, at least then i could play skyrim, playing games while you are haunting a computer is kinda trippy because i can experience the game like interact and feel everything, well to an extent i can only interact with objects that are programmed to be intractable, needless to say why i would want to inhabit a high end PC to play skyrim. god i'm bored.
Has Anyone Watched Fringe?
keiichimorisato98 replied to keiichimorisato98's topic in Way Off-Topic
Walter literally was central to pretty much all of the major threads in the show including a lot of the human storylines like his relationship with his son. Fringe arguably was his story, not to detract from the other characters or actors though who were all wonderful. yeah, the story arcs where he is trying to repair the relationship with his son, and him trying to get over the pain and guilt for stealing peter and destroying the fabric of two dimensions. the actor is very expressionate in showing this pain, especially in the eyes.
Anyone looking forward to Tales of Xillia?
keiichimorisato98 posted a topic in Computer and Console
as the release date for Tales of Xillia draws closer, is there anyone here looking forward to this game besides me. JRPG haters please don't post if you don't have anything truly constructive.
if you give it a chance and watch all of season one, you might like it, and the show has been completed (thankfully it wasn't canceled with season 3) four twenty-three episode seasons is more than enough content to finish the story. hell most anime don't get past twelve/thirteen episodes these days.
yeah, the actor who plays as walter is fantastic. the subtle emotions he expresses, like when he is in emotional pain his expression looks like he really in pain. oh did you notice that the actor who plays as walter, played in Lord of the Rings as Denethor II the Steward of Gondor.
There is a Possibility of a Pen and Paper Project Eternity RPG
keiichimorisato98 posted a topic in Pen-and-Paper Gaming
I recently asked on the Project Eternity Kick Starters page at the possibility of a Pen and Paper RPG inspired by and set in the world of Project Eternity. what inspired me to ask is two fold, 1) i was watching a show on a youtube channel called Counter Monkey, which sparked my interest in the world of Pen and Paper RPG's. 2) Sine the guys at Obsidian are huge fans of Pen and Paper RPG's as well as CRPG's and WRPG's i thought there was a possibility of this happening. This is the response i received Hello Keichi, Thank you for your interest in Project Eternity. At the moment, we are unable to comment on your question but it is entirely possible. Thank you for your support, Maria What do you think? are you as excited for the possibility as i am?
keiichimorisato98 posted a topic in Way Off-Topic
i recently started watching a show called Fringe, and so far i am blown away by it. i am in the middle of season four, and it isn't as interesting season one, but that is because the secret was still in the "Box" as JJ Abrams put it. anyways i wanted to hear the communities thoughts on the show.
Update #56: Paladins and Wild Orlans
keiichimorisato98 replied to Darren Monahan's topic in Pillars of Eternity: Announcements and News
the more i hear about this game, the more i want it. i think i may play either a Cleric or a Paladin, i prefer being a support player.
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BRUNSWICK HILLS, Ohio--The Medina man accused of impersonating a missing Illinois boy is now behind bars.
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Brian Rini, 23, is currently being held in a Hamilton County Jail. He has not been charged, but is on hold there waiting for the FBI to move him.
Rini is no stranger to a jail cell. He was just released from prison on March 7 for a scheme he planned in Brunswick Hills. He spent 18 months behind bars for a destructive party he threw in a model home in August 2017.
Medina man who claimed to be missing Timmothy Pitzen booked into Hamilton County Jail
Police said he convinced the realtor he had $800,000 in his bank account to buy the $400,000 home. He then watched the realtor enter the garage code. Police said the next day he broke in, told the neighbors he bought the home and then threw a massive party causing thousands of dollars of damage.
Tim Sopkovich, the chief of police at Brunswick Hills Police Department, said he was not at all surprised when he heard Rini’s name announced Thursday.
“He’s a mastermind,” Chief Sopkovich said. “I don’t know if he has multiple personalities or what, but he had our realtor convinced he was buying the house, he had neighbors convinced he was living there.”
The chief added he’s not surprised by the lie he told police in Kentucky.
“I would not put it past him to make up this story,” he said. “During the investigation here, he was telling all different kinds of lies and coming up with different embellishments, but what he’s doing right now is terrible.”
DNA says ‘no’ in Timmothy Pitzen case: So why would someone claim to be a missing child?
Rini told police in Kentucky he was Timmothy Pitzen, a boy who has been missing for almost 8 years, and that he just escaped two kidnappers in Cincinnati.
“My first instinct was if we missed something,” Sopkovich said. “We don’t do DNA checks in a case like his, but all of a sudden I wondered if we had an individual in custody that we could have gotten back to a family who was missing him. How sad and pathetic that he’s making up this story just to get fame for himself. My heart goes out to the families.”
Rini has a long criminal history even before the model home incident.
A Brunswick Hills police report shows Rini came to the police station to report he was being harassed by his mother and threatened by his mother’s boyfriend. He told police they were telling him they were going to kill him and take away his trust fund.
‘He deserves more time behind bars’: Brother of Medina man accused of impersonating missing boy speaks out
Brunswick Police turned the case over to the Medina Police Department who followed-up to find out he made it up. His mother didn’t have a boyfriend and there was no trust fund. According to the police report, she told Medina police her son was mentally ill and had not been taking his medications.
Court records show Rini has had an adult criminal record dating back to 2013, which includes him being convicted of passing bad checks in 2015. Going from passing bad checks to impersonating a little boy is a big leap, and now a lot of police work is involved, but Chief Sopkovich says he’s not surprised because he said Rini doesn’t care.
“Brain Rini is the type of dirt bag who is going to go out and do whatever he feels and will do whatever he can get away,” Chief Sopkovich said. “We caught him in my town and prosecuted him and from there I don’t understand why he’s doing what he’s doing, it just doesn’t make sense.”
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Keegan claimed one prominent feminist sent a hurtful email stating that “only women get pregnant and anyone who’s pretending otherwise is deluded.” He said he fears the pussyhat symbolism reinforces those notions.
The author of the email uses specific word choice that communicates their tone as highly dismissive. Specifically, the word "pretending" characterizes the opposing view as irrational and on the basis of no fact. The author takes this a step further by flat out calling those possessing the opposing view "delusional".
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Here, the linguistic mode is employed by the author of that email and Keegan himself. By characterizing the email as hurtful prior to the audience reading what was said, Keegan influences the perspective they would have on the content of the email.
“A lot of the reasons [transgender women] are attacked is because they do not possess that piece of anatomy,” Keegan explained.
By linking transgender sexual assault to the anatomical possession of a vagina... after introducing statistics supporting the fact that transgender individuals have a higher rate of experiencing sexual violence than cisgender women, Compton emphasizes Keegan's argument.
“If people were really paying attention to reproductive rights they would know that in many, many states in the U.S., transgender people are required to become sterilized to change our [legal] genders,” Keegan said.
This highlights the rhetorical power word choice has in presenting a point of view. By making this an "if, then" statement, Keegan implies that those who support the pink 'pussyhat' in the name of "reproductive rights" aren't actually being sincere in their claim to inclusion of transgender individuals.
“But I don’t want to shy away from the fact that it does refer to the female reproductive organ,” Suh said. “That’s a huge issue right now. How can women’s rights supporters of any gender… protect these literal reproductive parts from unfair legislation?”
The placement of this quote directly after Suh's explanation that the hat is a metaphor for "any person or group who can relate to feeling marginalized" is an example of spatial mode. By doing this, Compton exposes the paradox in having an item that physically represents a pink vagina be a metaphor for "any person or group who can relate to feeling marginalized".
But controversy exploded around the hat online. Aside from getting criticized over its reference to genitalia, the knitters were accused of excluding women of color. Some of the hat’s critics believed the its pinkness was a reference to flesh tone.
The abruptness of the first sentence was intentional on Compton's part, contrasting the description of The Pussyhat Project's success at the Women's March and presence on the cover of Time Magazine.
“We want to reclaim that word,” Suh said.
Compton employs the spatial mode here by having this quotation stand alone. This was likely done in an effort to emphasize Suh's argument.
The Los Angeles screenwriter said the concept was inspired by outrage over President Trump’s “grab 'em by the pussy” comment captured in a 2005 Access Hollywood recording.
By using the word "captured", Compton implies that the president was caught doing something wrong by his comment being made public. One who believes the president was not in the wrong would find this to be problematic. This would be an example of linguistic mode through the means of word choice.
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I think ‘pussy’ refers to the female anatomical part, but it’s also a word that’s used to shame people who are feminine … whether they are men, women [or] genderqueer.
This quotation from the co-founder of the Pussyhat Project highlights the influence of the gestural mode on rhetoric. By pausing after the word 'feminine', the speaker is trying to build anticipation towards the next point she's about to make with the purpose of emphasizing it.
Many saw it as a symbol of female empowerment -- and still don the pink hat weeks after the event that catapulted it to fame. But others believed the pussyhat equated gender with biology, making some transgender people feel excluded from the movement.
This introduces the reader to the issue Compton will be tackling in this article. It is a clear example of the linguistic mode Arola/Ball describes. Specifically, Compton's delivery of both sides of the "pussyhat" argument help to develop the purpose of this article-- to inform readers of the recent critiques of the "pussyhat" and the reactions to it by supporters of the "pussyhat".
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This source offers an interview that Sheff conducted with Keith Haring in 1989.
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Sheff, David.
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I was left with many questions
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David Sheff is a journalist for the Rolling Stones.
make it "sound better" for extra points.
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The panel of Victor L. Laureano is simple, in essence, but has further meanings as well.
Overall, this panel sounds great! You really just need to build on the basics you have here and show what about the individual characteristics of the panel gives it a "further meaning".
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one can draw that Laureano was a of Puerto Rican & American culture
Instead of culture, the word 'heritage' may be clearer. A great research idea could be on the popular American and Puerto Rican culture while Laureano was alive. This is another opportunity for deeper research into the panel and material culture.
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The panel is makes up 6 x 3 feet, on a 12 x 12 feet block, this is the size of all of the panels, no more no less.
This is just a simple grammatical error. "The panel makes up 6 x 3 feet on a 12 x 12 feet block. This is the size of all of the panels--no more no less"
Monroe portrait depicts a sense of inspiration and time.
What would make Marilyn Monroe inspirational to Laureano? What cultural influence did she have at the time of his death? You could probably add some research on that in a separate section specific to that detail on the quilts.
On the panel sits various images including the American and Puerto Rican flags, a baby chick, a palm tree, and a portrait of Marilyn Monroe.
This would also be a great place to do some secondary research. Why is there a baby chick by the palm tree? Why is the American flag and Puerto Rican flag separate, since Puerto Rico is a part of America? (I'm Puerto Rican and there's definitely political information that would explain why.)
On the panel sits various images including the American and Puerto Rican flags, a baby chick, a palm tree, and a portrait of Marilyn Monroe
For each of these, you may want to cover them individually so that you can have more description.
The words on the panel are written in bold, gold lettering. The gold is of a light essence, giving a feel of elegance as well as humility.
I like how you touch of the effect the color/font of the words on the viewer. Maybe you should add a close up photo here to let the viewer see the lettering themselves.
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As the list of objects studied over the course of time in a single university seminar attests, the possibilities are virtually limitless-especially considering that no two individuals will read a given object in the same way.
Since the study of material culture involves interpreting the significance of an object's role in one's life, the resulting conclusion will vary from person to person. Though Woodward does not directly state this in Material Culture, it is a given considering the subjectivity involved with interpreting an object's cultural importance.
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The longer and harder one looks, the better one sees; the better one sees, the subtler the connections one finds oneself able to make. And, as a general rule, as many insights arise out of the process of writing as out of that of looking.
By following Prownian analysis, one would gain as much understanding through writing about a particular object as they would observing it. Woodward never mentions writing as a part of the process of understanding the cultural significance of an object. Because of this, I believe Haltman's approach would lead to a much more accurate interpretation of an item's significance.
Through careful looking, one comes to see an object as significant-as signifying; one comes to possess, to a greater or a lesser degree, a privileged historical knowledge and understanding
This suggests every object studied in material culture is significant, but in order to find its significance we must thoroughly understand the object at question. Aristotle's philosophical concept of teleology, the belief that every object in reality has its own nature and purpose in the world, is highly relevant here since the study of material culture rests on the presumption that teleology is true.
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It is now possible to entertain hypotheses concerning what your choSen object signifies, what it suggests about the world in which it circulates or circulated-a world which, in some sense, metonymically, it represents. What cultural work might it once have accomplished or accomplish still: Out of what matrix of contested meanings-tensions, ambiguities, and contradiction--is its broadest meaning generated?
This highlights the importance of contextualizing an object in order comprehend its significance entirely. Woodward agree's with this, emphasizing how the study of material culture combines the natural and social sciences-- allowing us to understand an object's influence within its historical and cultural context.
Having addressed an object intellectually, and experienced it actually or empathetically with our senses, one turns, generally not without a certain pleasure and relief, to matters more subjective. How does the object make one feel? Specifically, what in or about the object brings those feelings out? As these will be, to a certain extent at least, personal responses, the challenge-beyond recognizing and articulating-is to account for them materially. The point is to begin to recognize the ways in which the object has created its effect.
Through the concept of objectification, Woodward describes the relationship between people and objects as an interconnected, dialectic one. This description implies a kind of constant dialog between an object and person where an object has an equally influential role in its owner’s life as the owner does in the object’s metaphorical life.
When we study an object, formalizing our observations in language, we generate a set of carefully selected nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and verbs which effectively determine the bounds of possible interpretation. This is why the words we choose in saying what we see have such far reaching importance. It is out of our paraphrase of what we see that all interpretation grows.
Here, Haltman digs deeper into description and advises us on the critical role vocabulary and language has on our ability to accurately interpret an object. In Material Culture, Woodward does not mention the effects of our language on the interpretation of an object considered to be material culture. In fact, she never advises the reader on how to study material culture themselves. Instead, she explains the meaning and history of the study of material culture
I have tried to define, with only partial success, just what it is that tells me--often quite clearly-that an object is culturally potent. It seems to depend on a linkage-formal, iconographic, functional-between the object and some fundamental human experience, whether engagement with the physical world, interaction with other individuals, sense of self (often expressed anthropomorphically), common human emotions, or significant life events.
Woodward does not explore how/why we choose an object to study in Material Culture like Prown does here. Overall, Woodward does not offer her own opinions or theories regarding material culture, instead her piece reads as highly objective. This is unlike Prown, who offers his personal thoughts and attempts to define abstract concepts throughout the reading in companion to objective concepts as well. For this reason, I prefer the Haltman reading.
attention not just to whatthey might be said to signify but, as importantly, to how they might be said to signify; to their gerundial meaning (active verb form:to bring meaning into being), to the uay they mean, both phenomenologically and metaphorically
The study of material culture is centered upon analytically and methodologically exploring an object's physical properties and evaluating it in the context of the time and space it occupied to determine its cultural significance.
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It also challenges the assumption, perpetuated by disciplinary divisions and also philosophical trajectories, that the object and subject are separate, wherein the latter is assumed to be immaterial, and the former is assumed to be inert and passive.
This is evident in philosophy, as metaphysical doctrines after Aristotle leaned towards materialism. Material culture reminds me of teleology, Aristotle's' belief that every object in the universe has its own nature, place in the world, and purpose. Material Culture is similar to this in that it is concerned with how a specific object has influenced people in a certain cultural space and time.
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This is developed through the concept of objectification, which is central to many studies of material culture—albeit differently conceived dependent upon the disciplinary and theoretical stance taken—which explores the intertwined, and often dialectic, relationships between people and things.
Material culture studies, at its core, is concerned with the relationship between people and objects. This relationship can look differently from person to person, since every persons relationship with a particular object way be different.
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In seeing the material properties of things as central to the meanings an object might have, much work within material culture studies is critical of the idea that objects merely symbolize or represent aspects of a pre-existing culture or identity.
This shows how the characteristics of an item and its meaning are interconnected. Material culture studies are concerned with more than how an object was used within its cultural time period.
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What ‘Tales of the City’ Can Teach Desi Binge-Watchers About Queer Sexuality
By Tanzim Pardiwalla 3 weeks, 2 days
Every time a Film or a TV show about the LGBTQ+ community is released, we have a range of expectations (and apprehensions). Will the representation be authentic? Will I end up cringing at the makers’ ignorance? Is this rainbow capitalism?
With June 2019 marked as Pride Month, a month-long celebration of gender diversity and queer representation in film, TV, music and society at large ensued. Since the beginning of the month, we’ve been witnessing coming out stories, films directed and produced by the LGBTQ+ community, we also got an Indian pride anthem and then Taylor Swift’s single dropped. ‘You Need To Calm Down’ was parade of bright visuals and we wondered if this is queer commodification or a co-incidence that Taylor just woke up to being woke for the very first time during the pride month. Whatever the reason, pride awareness is all around, finding a substantial new space in mainstream entertainment. Netflix has its own version pride month specials with Tales of the City finding its way in the most hotly recommended originals section.
Based on Armistead Maupin’s book of the same name, Tales of the City starring Laura Linney and Ellen Page piqued my interest. The show is a modern re-imagination of the series that aired in 1993. Set in the 70s, the show is a celebration of San Francisco's diversity. It takes you inside 28 Barbary Lane, a property owned by Anna Madrigal, an elderly trans woman. Anna opens up her home to several marginalized characters who live in a happy harmony. This is a safe space where they grow up, explore their sexuality and discover themselves. Now, most TV shows, even those centering around queer characters end up othering their subjects, but not Tales of the City. Anyone who is about to log-in to Netflix to binge-watch the show is about to find that it effectively creates a wonderful place for queer identities. Here’s how the show found it’s way in my pride month watch list and some notes desi binge-watchers should be taking from it:
Notes on sexual transition and exploration: Jake and Margot
Jake and Margot are a trans couple who have been together for a while. Jake is a trans male who has recently transitioned and while he’s been going steady with Margot, the couple have a lot of issues to hash out. They love each other but Jake thinks he’s now attracted to men and needs to figure out what he wants. Meanwhile, Margot lets it slip that she still misses the pre-transition, female Jake. This brings up a lot of complex painful feelings and the dialogues around it are amazingly honest. I like how seriously every change in emotion is taken between this pair.
As a viewer you’ll realise that queer transitions are not linear or simple. You could be a trans male who wants to be with his girlfriend and you could just as easily be freshly attracted to men. Most Indian teens and adults have trouble defining queer relationships and the answer to the dillemas is that the couples themselves have trouble defining it some times.
The show also offers a solution that can be applied in the meantime:
Always ask a person’s preferred pronouns and do not talk of gender with finality. It can be very difficult for an individual going through changes to definite their sexuality, so they definitely don’t need others pressing on their personal space or spelling out their sexuality for them.
Don’t equate gender fluidity with contradictions. If someone decides that they identify with another gender role better even if it is the exact opposite of what they said yesterday, support their process. Margot gets amazing advice from Shawna (who also shares the house with them) who tells her that she needs to focus on the needs of her own body and the question “Are you even satisfied anymore?” is more important than switching labels!
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Notes on experimentation and safe sex: Michael and Ben
Michael is a survivor of the AIDs era and his partner Ben is a hot, younger gay man who’s head over heels for him. They are also probably the most adorable couple on the show. As a couple they are a merger two different generations. Michael belongs to the generation that fought for gay rights while Ben landed on a relatively easier plane. Disclaimer: You’re about to see lots of tasteful gay sex scene between the two. But, the premise is a lot more informative than you’ll presume. Michael through his medical appointments and the dilemma between protected and unprotected sex brings in a host of gay sex awareness that’s pivotal to viewers. As Indians we have a strict taboo against discussions about same-sex relations let alone, STDs.
Moreover, the couple is monogamous and even then, it’s important for them to take steps to prevent diseases. Luckily, they live in a world where they can talk about it and get the right kind of help. Thanks to the gay liberation movement!
Tales of the City very frankly discusses things most of us would keep mum about:
Safe sex is far too important a subject to be kept under wraps. Those experimenting in bed need better sources to find out how to best safeguard themselves from any health risks. We need to place bodily health above shame and taboo. AIDs is a rampant virus that hasn’t been eradicated after all. Prevention and curative methods can only be accessible if people are allowed to talk about them.
Always respect your partner’s comfort zone. If he/she wants you to use a condom, use a condom, even if you’re in a same sex relationship. You don’t just want to avoid unwanted pregnancies, you also want to avoid STDs.
Notes on IRL and online queer identities: The Twins
Ani and Raven are a delightful pair of twins who are all about self-expression. They are finding their own space in the spectrum of gender identities. They haven’t been tied down by labels yet and while they figure out their own sexuality, they are also figuring out how to project themselves to the outside world. They start an instagram account called ‘Twintertainment’ and at a co-hosted gala, they perform a very thought-provoking piece on the identity question.
As an Indian millennial, I love seeing diversity on my feed and supporting queer artists and influencers. And frankly, we need them to bless our feed with their content (and ultimately take down patriarchy) and rid us of restrictive gender binaries.
Here’s how it can improve your approach towards queer identities online and IRL:
When you see someone change their instagram handle to better suit their brand new personality, don’t make fun of it. Don’t look at it as a cry for attention or a petty marketing gimmick. Social media reflects society in more ways than you think. Support and celebrate fellow instagrammers, simple heart reacts go a very long way in helping them express themselves better.
Do not under any circumstances, use them for a cheerleader effect and show your support just to build traffic for your own account. They aren’t going through a tumultuous identity crisis for you to come across as an angel. Respect their boundaries and online space.
I loved how the show creates a beautiful community filled with warm stories of love, self-acceptance and connections. 28 Barbary Lane is mesmerising on screen with the house lit up for Anna’s birthday party in the first episode and from then on, it’s more flowers and vines. The mise en scene is populated with a fairytale-esque aesthetic, making it a welcoming home of an insider rather than an outcast. Tales of the City never lets it characters feel like outsiders.
SEE ALSO: It’s High Time Indians Chuck Their Underlying Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia Into the Bin
The main take-away is the focus on the LGBTQ+ characters. They consistently have more to offer than the straight characters. I realized half-way through the season that I wasn’t interested at all in the heterosexual relationships of Mary Ann or Brian. Their story arcs are rather dull in comparison to the same-sex, trans and bisexual relationships on the show. When Mary Ann cuts in with her marriage problems between an interesting exchange on a same-sex relationship, you’ll almost be bothered by it. The show makes you want to see more of the diversity, making it the main attraction. It is reverse tokenism in a way where you fill the cast up with diverse sexualilties rather than keep that one side character for token representation. And that for me, is how it should be. It only makes sense that pride month find a pop culture moment this accessible and groundbreaking at the same time.
“The truth must dazzle gradually. Or every man be blind” - Emily Dickinson
Tales of the City is a 10-episode long miniseries available now on Netflix. Check out the trailer here:
Cover artwork by Dhawal Bhanushali/Mashable India
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Proterra electric bus travels 1,100 miles without recharging
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A 40-foot (12.19-meter) electric bus from Proterra Inc traveled 1,101.2 miles (1,772.21 km) at low speed without recharging, cruising to a new electric vehicle range record, the California manufacturer said on Tuesday.
Bus and truck companies are beginning to launch electric models, typically for light- and medium-duty tasks. The new technology often carries a high price, though, and a major challenge is creating vehicles with acceptable range at a competitive price.
A typical Proterra bus costs around $750,000 compared with roughly $500,000 for a typical diesel bus, chief commercial officer Matt Horton said in an interview. Proterra has lower operating costs but must convince customers that the higher sticker price is worth paying.
“Heavy-duty electric transit vehicles now have the capabilities they need. We will be turning our focus even more so to driving the cost down,” he said.
While battery weight is seen as a problem for heavy-duty trucks, eating into cargo capacity, Horton said that a bus is much lighter than a loaded big rig, even with a full complement of passengers.
Proterra developed the battery for its bus with Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. The bus maker has begun assembling battery packs at a new factory in Burlingame, California. It sold 190 buses last year and is on track to “far exceed” that this year, Horton said.
Navistar Proving Ground confirmed the single-charge trip, at 15 miles per hour. Proterra said it set the record earlier this month and beat a previous record of 1,013 miles by a light-duty passenger vehicle.
Reporting by Peter Henderson; Editing by Leslie Adler
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